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The following is a quick tutorial on how to create a hybrid CD under Mac OS X.
Using Toast, you can fairly easily create a hybrid CD with which the Mac OS will only see Mac specific files and the PC OS will only see the PC specific files. This preserves the Mac resource fork and icon data as well as the PC icon data.
Macromedia Studio 8 shipped with Macromedia FlashPaper 2.0, a pretty cool app that will take PDF and other documents and convert them into .swf files that you can load into other flash/swf applications.
The following is a quick tutorial on how to load FlashPaper swf files into Flash applications in ActionScript 2.0.
This tutorial assumes that you know the basics of FlashPaper 2.0 and have a usable FlashPaper .swf file.
Essentially, you will include an ActionScript file that will provide → Continue reading “Using FlashPaper .swf files in ActionScript 2.0”
That’s not to say that the proper care and feeding of a domain is overly complex. But before we get into the those details let’s go over some core domain related terminology:
Following is a list of top e-mail providers and a link to their mailserver whitelist application.
→ Continue reading “Mailserver Whitelist Applications”This month we welcome a guest contributor, Chip Cooper, a leading information technology, software, and Internet attorney with over 25+ years in practice. Chip operates http://digicontracts.com, a cost-effective, online contract drafting service for drafting website legal compliance contracts featuring “do-it-myself” and “do-it-for-me” options.
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The NullSoft Scriptable Installer System is a great open source package for building Windows installers. Recently I found an open source editor/IDE package that makes putting these things together a real snap!
First download the NSIS package and install. Then download and install HM NIS Edit and you should be all set.→ Continue reading “NSIS Installer Maker and the HM NIS Edit IDE”
I have finally been able to get the USB modem feature with the Windows Mobile 5, Verizon Treo working under Linux.
Following is a detailed how to on getting it set up and running. In this case, I was doing it with an IBM ThinkPad T42 running Kubuntu 8.04.
This how to should help you figure out how to get other mobile devices to work as well.
If you are creating aliases that contain a "." in qmail via the command line you need to make sure to replace any "."s with ":"s.
Otherwise, qmail will simply deliver the mail to the equivalent of /dev/null.
Such that the alias ryan.chapin@nbinteractive.com’s alias would be:
.qmail-ryan:chapin→ Continue reading “Creating Aliases with a “.” in them under qmail”
So you have a Contact Us form on your site, with which, customers and prospects can easily send you an e-mail. That’s all well and good, but if you don’t respond to those e-mails in a timely manner you could lose a potential new client.
This all ties into basic, human psychology. People want instant gratification and they want it on their terms. Which is one of the reasons why providing a contact form is so important. It enables a → Continue reading “Boost the Effectiveness of your Contact Form . . . Respond Promptly!”