Written by Tom Kulzer (AWeber Communications CEO)
In 1936, long before the rise of the personal computer, Hormel Foods created SPAM. In 2002, the company will produce it’s six billionth can of the processed food product. But that mark was passed long ago in the world of Internet spam. Read more…
Now using the Cross Registration Integration plugin with MailChimp is just a matter of setting a few simple options and before you know it, users registering on your blog will be seamlessly added to your MailChimp mailing list. If you have not done so already, you will need to install the Cross Registration Integration plugin on your WordPress blog. You can get the plugin by following the WordPress link from the plugin page. For those of you who do have the plugin installed already, I am going to assume you have also already signed up for MailChimp. Read more…
I don’t know about any of you out there, but when I signed on as an avid Firefox supporter I haven’t had any reason to look back for several years now. One thing I have noticed though is that with each new Firefox release the memory (RAM) usage seems to keep increasing. At first I simply assumed it was because I was beating my poor browser to death with all the different tabs and plug-ins I use all at once.
Since my laptop came with 3 GB (yes I know that isn’t much anymore) it never really hurt anything else and I could still run my full Adobe suite, Outlook Express, iTunes, and McAfee AV program (another RAM hog) without much problem. Sure there would be some lag here and there, processor performance would peak for a few seconds when switching windows, but for the most part this little HP laptop has been an unstoppable beast. The problem seemed to come around when I finally upgraded to Firefox 3.6. Read more…
So I was poking around on AttackPrevention’s website the other day and I came across this nifty little video segment about how you can build your own firewall for free just using some of the old computer parts you have laying around the house. Of course at this point I am sure you are thinking to yourself, “how can this really be free? Quit saying it is free when we all know it won’t be!” Well this wonderful company called SmoothWall did in fact make their software based firewall completely open source and free. Read more…
Ok so I promised myself I would make some extra time throughout 2010 to write a few more posts than I have been and get the word out there on some of the great technologies and resources available. With that being said, I am just going to write a brief post today as I am currently in the middle of a few projects and really am just slightly procrastinating right now. But enough with the excuses, on to the real meaning behind this. Read more…
Well after a much awaited released the time has finally come upon us where WordPress version 2.9, nicknamed Carmen, is available for download! For those of you who have been following this release it is pretty stinkin’ exciting! I won’t ramble on forever here about how excited I am so I will just cut to the chase, point out a few highlights, and encourage you to check out the WordPress blog for the full details and to watch the new release video they made. Read more…
Over the holiday I released a new plugin called WP Feature Disable. This new plugin is designed to help put a little more control in the hands of the user to disable certain features of the WordPress platform that may be unnecessary or undesirable for a specific installation. While it currently only provides 5 options, more will be added as the plugin continues to evolve. Read more…
Update:
AWeber Registration Integration version 1.2.8 was released tonight fixing a few concerns with the unique function naming methods to help avoid conflict with other plugins which might use similar functions. Also addressed were some of the issues surrounding the Opt-In display feature.
A big thanks goes out to Jim G. and Roger E. for their help identifying some bugs and wonderful suggestions! Read more…
Well it seems to be that time again to update your WordPress blog to fix two security vulnerabilities that were found in the previous 2.8.5 version. Most of you out there who use WordPress as your own personal blog and do not allow any of your registered users to post are not really affected by this. It seems that the vulnerabilities can only be exploited by registered and logged in users with posting privileges. Like usual though, no one says it better than the fine folks over at WordPress… Read more…
Update for November 2nd, 2009:
Well after a receiving a note from James C. today mentioning BlueHost has again changed their policy on the domain privacy offerings, I decided to stop over at the BlueHost website and check it out for myself. After looking at the product breakdown I noticed that domain privacy was yet again marked as included, as it previously was before my July 21st post below. Seeing this certainly put a smile on my face but I was still unsure just how far this carried over since the domains on my account did not reflect this same change. Opening up a quick Live Chat window had my questions answered in less than 2 minutes (unheard of with my experience elsewhere). The response I got as to what domains the free privacy did, and did not, apply to was this: Read more…