Friday, April 30, 2010

Death of Another Hard Drive, DotNetNuke Article Writing, Windows Live Mesh, Cox Spam Control, Delete Comments on Blogger

Hello Andrew and Business Website Customers, Associates and Friends,
 
A number of my customers are starting to get itchy about getting their websites found on the Internet. For years I have been encouraging them, but they are busy and marketing their website online was an after thought. See the article on getting your website found.
 
If you use Cox cable, and I imagine any number of ISPs, you may have had some of your legitimate outgoing email blocked as spam. That is horrible. No ISP should ever block legitimate email. See the article about Cox for a work around.
 
Bought a new computer last month to replace my 5 year old laptop because the hard drive had failed. I spent the last month reinstalling all my software and trying to recover my data from one place or another with acceptable, but time-consuming, results. The day after I finished, the hard drive on my new computer crashed. See Death of Another Hard Drive.
 
Microsoft Windows Live Mesh synchronizes folders between your computer and an online desktop. This can be a good solution for backing up your critical, current data. See the Live Mesh article.
Be Happy, Healthy and Prosperous,
Andrew
 
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In This Email:
 
Article: Get Your Website Found
Article: Write Articles on Your Website using DotNetNuke Ventrian Articles Module
Article: Blogger is My Favorite Place to Post Links
Article: Delete Comments on Blogger Blogs
Article: Cox Spam Control Blocking Legitimate Outgoing Emails
Article: Death of Another Hard Drive
Article: Windows Live Mesh for Automated Real Time Backup and Synchronization
 
 
 
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Quotes:
 
- Don't ever not change. ~ Richard Porter
 
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Article: Get Your Website Found
 
How to get your website found is no secret. The formula is simple. Spend some time marketing online.
 
Google loves original content updated regularly. Google is not fond of stale websites. Old information is fine as long as you also have new information.
 
The formula is this:
 
1. Know your keywords and use them correctly so google knows that your website is relevant to the search.
 
2. Update your website regularly so google knows your content is fresh.
 
3. Create links back to your website so google rates your website higher.
 
Some of my favorite tools in attacking this problem are:
 
A. DotNetNuke as a content management system for your website, takes care of #1 and #2. See the article on writing articles.
 
B. Blogger.com is my favorite place to post links back to websites. See the blogger article.
 
You should be posting at a minimum once per week to either your website or blogger.
 
The more you post, the better.
 
Always keep in mind quality for your visitors. Provide a useful service.
 
 
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Article: Write Articles on Your Website using DotNetNuke Ventrian Articles Module
 
DotNetNuke as a content management system for your website lets you keep your website up-to-date and optimize your keywords.
 
My favorite DotNetNuke tool is the Ventrian Articles module, because it is so easy to use, automatically pings Weblogs to let search engines know your website is updated. It also puts your title in the url to increase your search engine ranking.
 
Posting short articles whenever an idea pops into your head, is a great way to get visitors to your website.
 
Take a look at the home page of www.InternetHandholding.com or www.DotNetNuke.bz. Scroll down. At the end of each article is a number that tells you how many times that article was viewed. As you scroll down, you will see older articles with more views. You can see, that posting articles with good keywords is an excellent way to get visitors.
 
You can take the extra step of submitting your articles to article marketing websites to get even more visitors.
 
 
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Article: Blogger is My Favorite Place to Post Links
 
Blogger.com is my favorite place to post links back to websites.
 
You create your own blog. You do not have to ask anyone permission to post a link to your website.
 
Blogger is owned by google, so google loves blogger.
 
You can create as many blogs as you want.
 
You can email updates so you can post efficiently.
 
When you update Blogger, make sure you put links back to your website, preferably deep links back to individual pages.
 
One problem though is spammers like to add comments to your blogs. See the article for How to Delete Comments from Blogger Blogs.
 
 
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Article: Cox Spam Control Blocking Legitimate Outgoing Emails
 
Cox Cable Internet outgoing spam blocker is a horrible service and makes me mad.
 
Cox blocked one of my outgoing emails today. They have done so in the past.
 
Cox should not be blocking outgoing emails.
 
Think it is just a ploy to get people to pay for their business service.
 
It cannot serve any useful purpose in reducing spam. Almost all spam is caused by illegal spammers sending out thousands to millions of messages. Not by individuals replying to messages.
 
This difference is easily detectable.
 
Blocking the emails might be illegal in terms of free speech anyway.
 
Plus the spam blocker is simply a bad program. My message was not spam. So it is blocking a legitimate message. I have even seen the program block messages that I sent to myself, between my own mail accounts.
 
It is not like I have a choice. Cox is the only cable provider in my area.
 
Cox blocks smtp service, so I cannot use another mail server or send directly from my computer. They force me to use their email service, then they block my legitimate emails.
 
Email is the single most important thing I do on the Internet.
 
So, I have to give Cox Internet service a grade of D.
 
They should never block a legitimate email, never.
 
I send out a newsletter once a week via Aweber. It is just text about 180 lines long, with announcements of events. Each line about 30 letters with a lot of blank lines for spacing.
 
Someone replied to my newsletter and I tried to reply back and got this error message from Cox Cable.
 
"The message could not be sent because its size exceeded the server's limit... Please visit http://coxagainstspam.cox.net for more information."
 
Following the link gets to a generic page with no instructions on what to do. It should go to a page with a detailed explanation of the error.
 
Here is a solution to the problem. Sign up for a gmail.com email account.
 
Many people only use their gmail account via the web using the gmail.com web browser interface.
 
However, gmail has an option that lets you send an receive emails directly from your mail program, like with any of your other email addresses, without going to gmail.com.
 
After you signup for you gmail account, logon to gmail, go into settings and enable pop and smtp.
 
Then go to your mail program, add your gmail account and set up the gmail pop, and most importantly smtp server.
 
Now, when you send using your mail program, if you need to, you can select your gmail account and send emails that would otherwise be blocked by the Cox spam filter.
 
Some instructions for setting up your gmail settings are here.
 
 
Add the gmail account to your mail program so you can send emails via your email program using gmail's smtp service.
 
 
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Article: Death of Another Hard Drive
 
Bought a new Dell computer last month to replace my 5 year old laptop because the hard drive had failed. See Death of a Hard Drive.
 
I spent the last month reinstalling all my software and trying to recover my data from one place or another with acceptable, but time-consuming, results.
 
The day after I finished, the hard drive on my new computer crashed. My computer was running impossibly slow and when I ran a hard drive self test, got error code 2000-0146.
 
Called Dell and they immediately said I had to replace the hard drive. They mailed a hard drive to a local technician. He came to my house and put it in my computer.
 
The hard drive was pre-loaded so it automatically reinstalled Windows when it started.
 
I have spent the last week reinstalling programs and data.
 
There were two cool, useful things that helped.
 
1. My computer would not reboot from the hard drive, so I downloaded Ubuntu, burned it to a CD and booted from the CD to be able to get some of my hard drive data. See the article on Ubuntu to the Rescue.
 
2. I had set up my computer to use Windows Live Mesh to synchronize some folders on my computer with the Mesh online desktop. It worked and I was able to recover some files that were no where else. See the article for Windows Live Mesh.
 
 
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Article: Windows Live Mesh for Automated Real Time Backup and Synchronization
 
Microsoft has an online offering called Windows Live Mesh at mesh.com.
 
This service provides a free, 5 gigabyte online desk top that will automatically synchronize with designated folders on your computer.
Mesh is not a backup service, but does serve that function, and I decided to use Mesh for backing up my critical data.
 
I considered using a number of the fee based online services that backup all your data, such as Mozy, Carbonite and Acronis, but I went with Mesh.
 
Mesh automatically synchronizes the folders on your computer whenever a file changes with the online desktop.
 
You can access your online desktop from any web browser on any computer, so your files are available to you wherever you go.
 
If you are away from computer and your computer is on, you can change your files online and you can have Mesh automatically copy the changes you made online back to your computer.
 
Since Mesh is limited to 5 gigabytes, I decide to look through my data and see what I really had.
 
Yikes, lots of stuff I never look at.
 
So, I decided to break my data into three groups.
 
1. Multimedia files, movies, pictures, music. I have hundreds of gigabytes of this stuff, too much to backup online. I copy to external hard drives for backup.
 
2. Old data that I have not looked at in a while. I moved all this under a folder I called Archive. This is all backed up on external hard drives and I do not need this on my Live Mesh desktop.
 
3. Current data. This is under a folder for my current documents and consists of all my data that I use and change, programs, finances, articles, notes, customer information and the like. This is the folder I synchronized with Live Mesh.
 
So, my current data is backed up in real time, automatically online.
My multimedia, old data and current data is backed up to external hard drives using a program I run on occassion. I have a number of external hard drives and store these in my office and stashed around at other locations.
 
 
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Thursday, April 8, 2010

From 0 to 25 Sales per Month, Windows 7, Live.com and 3D PhotoSynth

 
My favorite thing about my new computer is my wide screen and the wallpaper slide show. See the article to create your own slide show.
 
I have been using Windows 7 for a few weeks now and like it a lot. Windows 7 is integrated with Windows Live.com. See the articles for using Live.com with Windows 7.
 
In December a new customer needed help with getting visitors to his website. He did not want to be dependent solely on Amazon, which was where he was selling all his product. See the article to see how his sales went from 0 to 25 per month so far.
 
Be Happy, Healthy and Prosperous,
Andrew
 
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In This Email:
 
Article: From 0 to 25 Sales per Month and Growing
Article: Windows 7 and Windows Live
Article: Windows 7 and 3D PhotoSynth
Article: Windows 7 Wide Screen and Wallpaper
 
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Quotes:
 
- The one best precept - the golder rule - in dealing with a horse is never to approach him angrily. Anger is so devoid of forethought that it will often drive a man to do things which in a calmer mood he will regret. ~ Xenophon
 
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Article: From 0 to 25 Sales per Month and Growing
 
In December a new customer needed help with getting visitors to his website.
 
He did not want to be dependent solely on Amazon, which was where he was selling all his product.
 
For the prior six months he had been paying a well known Internet marketing company $500 per month. He was getting 0 to 5 visitors per day and was making no sales. He fired them.
 
We started on a simple plan to get more visitors to his website, which I have been writing to you about. Essentially it consists of regularly posting links back to his website.
 
Now he is getting 20 to 30 visitors per day with 25 sales per month.
 
The message is these techniques do work.
 
See the articles posted here on increasing visitors to your website.
 
 
 
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Article: Windows 7 and Windows Live
 
Web 1.0 was static and one-way websites, you getting information or ordering products from websites.
 
Web 2.0 was social media, with you interacting with others via websites.
 
Web 3.0 is the integration of websites with one another and programs on your computer, where the lines between your computer and the Internet fade.
 
Windows 7 and Live.com infiltrate Web 3.0 into your daily tasks without you taking notice.
 
I have been using Windows 7 for a few weeks now and like it a lot.
 
Windows 7 is integrated with Windows Live.com.
 
If you do not have a Hotmail.com or Live.com email address, go to Bing.com and register a Live.com email address before you do anything else.
 
Various programs will use your Live.com email address to blend the work you do on your computer with Microsoft's websites.
 
The first of these is Windows Live Mail.
 
Windows 7 comes with Windows Live Mail, which I am using instead of Outlook. When you configure your Windows Live Mail on your computer, it asks you for your Live.com email address and then uses the online system as needed.
 
For example, suppose you want to send your friend a dozen photos. If each photo is a megabyte, you would be sending your friend a 12 megabyte email, which would break a lot of mail programs.
 
Windows Mail will now ask you if you want to only send thumbnails. If you say yes, Windows mail will automatically upload your photos and send only the thumbnails to your friend. Your friend will then be able to click on thumbnails to see the photos.
 
There are lots of other ways Windows 7 intergrates with Live.com.
 
With Windows Live Writer, you can update all your blogs without leaving the comfort of Windows 7.
 
Let me know of anything cool you find out.
 
 
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Article: Windows 7 and 3D PhotoSynth
 
www.PhotoSynth.net is an incredible tool that combines your photos into a 3-D interactive walk-through.
 
You need a Windows Live.com email address and can check out the synth I made of the confluence of the Ichetucknee and Sante Fe Rivers.
www.photosynth.net/view.aspx?cid=57dd928f-a56e-4dce-b0fa-7a5aff8298cd
 
You download the free PhotoSynth program, drag over a bunch of photos, wait a long time and your photo synth is automatically uploaded and shared with the world.
 
If you look at my synth, point your mouse to the right of the question mark icon below the synth and then select 2D view. You will see the 40 or 50 photos in my synth. Click on any photo to view. Then double click on the photo to see the synth with that photo. Move your mouse around until you see another rectangular outline and click to change the view.
 
The problem with my synth is the synthesizer was not able to link all the photos into one synth, so I have a dozen little synths in one. Well this was my first try.
 
 
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Article: Windows 7 Wide Screen and Wallpaper
 
My favorite thing about my new computer and Windows 7 is my wide screen and the wallpaper slide show.
 
If you are going to get a new monitor, recommend you get this size, 21.5" and 1920 by 1080 resolution. This gives you enough room to comfortably see two windows side by side.
 
If you have Windows 7, to set up a wallpaper slide show, create a folder somewhere and put a bunch of your favorite photos in there. Right click on your Windows desktop, select Personalize. In the bottom row of options click Desktop Background. Select your folder with your photos. I have my slide set to change photos every 30 minutes.
 
To see your new wallpaper, point your mouse to the right corner of your monitor, at the rectangular button that ends your task bar. This will clear your open windows so you can see your desktop. You can also click this button to minimize all the windows.
 
 
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