Disclaimer: I’m going to brag a bit. You know, just to get it out of my system. And then I promise to move on to what I’m really trying to say. So if you don’t like bragging farts, stop reading here and feel free to skip down to the next section if it pleases you. [...]
Recently, we’ve been experiencing some network issues at our house. And I thought, “Learning to do check-ups your home network is a must; just like how we all learn how to do check-ups on our car’s oil by using the dip-stick.” On Windows 7, its very easy to see if your network is performing normally…
This month we hit our sixth lunarversary of life without cable and Comcast. I first started on this effort to get rid of Comcast because I discovered that they were drastically reducing the speed for streaming videos from Hulu and Netflix. The throttling of our bandwidth continued to affect my work as a web developer,…
Online sweepstakes or giveaway sponsors must be cautious of foreign laws governing sweepstakes, as users in virtually every country in the world may have access to your Web site. In many foreign countries, sweepstakes are either prohibited, while other countries require complex registration and approval. To avoid the consequences of violating these laws, sponsors often…
Why? When your mobile device syncs with Gmail it uses IMAP or Internet Message Access Protocol. Oh it can use POP too, but its primary advantage over POP is that you can be disconnected from the server and still work with your email, calendar, and contact list. You can also have connections from multiple devices…
Gmail’s Mail Fetcher can download messages from up to five other email accounts, centralizing all my email in Gmail. This makes life much more easy for me since I have multiple domains to keep track of now! To set up Mail Fetcher: Click Settings at the top of any Gmail page, and open the Accounts…
