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Google Search plus Your World

2012-01-12T20:55:00.001-05:00

Google has some interesting changes you should be seeing shortly. See the article on Google Search plus Your World.

Be Happy, Healthy and Prosperous,
Andrew

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Quotes:

- Two is not enough. You need back up. ~ Nicholas Hoult as Marcus in About A Boy

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Article: Google Search plus Your World

Google is adding a new capability to search, which they call Search plus Your World.

Google is adding three new search features.

The first is Personal Results, which will include information that only you will see. This will include photos and other information you personally posted or that others shared with you.

The second is Profiles, which will let you find people and connect with them.

The third is called People and Pages which will help you find communities that you can follow.

Google will be depending on Google+ to help figure out what belongs to you. Google+ is Google's version of Facebook.

Google says they are building privacy in and you should not be nervous that others can research you more easily than ever, but I suppose they can anyway.

Google is attempting to personalize search to your local community where you spend your time. Most of the people and places you know are where you live, so your search results are going to reflect that.

Your Facebook news feed already does that.

In a way, Google is chasing Facebook.

If you do not like your unique search results, Google is providng a button you can click which will show the normal results without Your World.

See Google's blog post.

http://insidesearch.blogspot.com/2012/01/search-plus-your-world.html

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Throw out your laptop, the desk top is back

2010-11-09T23:31:00.000-05:00

Hello Business Website Customers, Associates and Friends,

Throw out your laptop. The desk top is back. See the article No More Laptops.

Back in March 2010 I wrote to you about dominating the keywords "Israeli Partner Dancing". See the follow up article on Dominating Google.

Be Happy, Healthy and Prosperous,
Andrew

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Article: No More Laptops Use Remote Desktop Control and Online Storage

Article: Dominating Google for Niche Keywords Partnership Dancing

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Links to Other Articles

Article: How to Change Apple iPhone Camera Setting from Negative to Regular

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Programming Articles

Article: DotNetNuke Is Loading Slow How to Speed Up DNN

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Article: Chamber of Horrors Cross Browser Programming

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Quotes:

- Keep your fears to yourself, but share your inspiration with others. ~ Robert Louis Stevenson

- Before you build a better mousetrap, it helps to know if there are any mice out there. ~ Mortimer B. Zuckerman

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Article: No More Laptops Use Remote Desktop Control and Online Storage

Throw Out Your Laptop. The Desk Top is Back.

Free of a burdensome laptop. I love it.

I threw out my laptop and changed my mobile computing strategy to OPC (Other People's Computers) using this approach:

1. Remote desk top control software for my computer

2. Windows Live Mesh for automated, synchronized online storage of my active files

3. External hard drive for media files, archived data, offsite remote backup

Used a nice laptop for a few years. Could not have had a nicer one for me. Am so glad I am back to using desk tops.

Hated lugging that laptop around, especially at airports.

The pain in my right wrist, from the laptop mouse pad and keyboard, is subsiding after nine months.

Love the big desk top big screen, two if you like, wide full keyboard, external mouse, huge hard drive, expandable options and super fast speed.

A laptop costs twice as much for half as much. Make that three times for a third.

Have been using a remote desk top control program to get on my computer when I am away from my office.

See this list of free and pro remote desktop access control programs you can use.

Great to have access to my computer when visiting friends or business associates.

Great to be able to travel and not have to bring a laptop.

I also use Windows Live Mesh for automated real time back up storage of my active files.

The only thing I sometimes bring now is an external hard drive. The drive is so small it fits in my camera bag and I do not even feel like I have brought anything extra.

The drive has a full copy of my data, so it functions as an offsite backup of what I have at home, fast local access to my data and a place to save files, if I need to, especially photos and videos.

New and changed files, I save in a new location on the portable hard drive, so I know when I get home I have to update them.

When I use other people's computers for an extended stay, I set up my own account on their computer, with a clean desk top and short cuts to what I like to use.

I use their computer for anything I can do locally, like Internet stuff and writing documents.

I use my computer for anything I need that is on my computer, like email, Quicken and Quickbooks and software development.

Sweet.

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Article: Dominating Google for Niche Keywords Partnership Dancing

In March 2010, I wrote an article about Dominating Google for the niche keyword phrase "Israeli Partner Dancing".

The point of that article, and this one, is that you can likely dominate Google's first page for a set of keywords important to your market.

More visitors to your website solves a lot of problems. If you had ten times as many visitors, you would likely have ten times as many sales.

When you get to the first page of Google, you get a lot more visitors.

To report back on searches for "Israeli Partner Dancing", seven months later, the first four results on Google are all my websites, as are nine of the twelve entries on the first page, out of 2.8 million results.

If you do an exact match search, all ten entries on the first page are mine, out of 1,800 results.

Everyone searching for Israeli Partner Dancing is going to end up at one of my websites.

That was no fluke.

I have written a book on dancing about how to dance with a partner called Partnership Dancing™.

As of today, a search for "Partnership Dancing" on Google has the first four entries and seven of the eleven entries on the first page are mine, out of 5.3 million.

An exact match search has ten of the eleven entries on the first page as mine, out of 6,680.

What do you need to do to dominate the first page of Google?

Post a lot of stuff in a lot of places. That is pretty much it. Here are some more details.

1. Google needs to understand your website content. Use Google webmasters tools to check how Google sees the keywords on your website. Make sure your important keywords are at the top.

2. Post items everywhere you can, all over the Internet, with links back to your website. The more the better. Use keywords in your linking text.

You can do this yourself. You will need to spend at least a few hours a week. There are a lot of tricks, which you will figure out if you put in the time.

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Ustream Live Video, Trust, Embed Facebook Video, Ebook Marketing

2010-09-16T21:43:00.000-04:00

Hello Business Website Customers, Associates and Friends,

A customer of mine runs an educational workshop over a number of days. This year he offered the workshop via a webcast in addition to live attendance. See the article.

Sometimes other people know best, even we you think you know best. See the article on trust.

Facebook is big. If you are on Facebook, you know. If you are not on Facebook, get on.

On Facebook, you can create a page for your business. This is a good idea. See the article.

If you find a video on Facebook that you like, you can embed that video on your website, but Facebook does not provide the embed code. See the article for how to get the embed code.

Interested in publishing an eBook or being a guest on radio. See the article contributed by Francine Silverman.

Be Happy, Healthy and Prosperous,

Andrew

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Article: Live Webcast Using Ustream

Article: Trust Other People

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Article: How to Create a Fan Page on Facebook

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Article: How to Embed a Facebook Video on Your Website

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Article: Science and Technology and Business Ebooks Contain Everything a Potential Radio Guest Needs to Know

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Programming Articles

Article: How to Parse an Xml Document in Asp.net Grabbing Attributes Values and InnerText from ChildNodes

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Article: HtmlTextWriterTag.Div Downgrades to Table on Lower Level Browser in Asp.net

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Quotes:

- An association of men who will not quarrel with one another is a thing which has never yet existed, from the greatest confederacy of nations down to a town meeting or a vestry. ~ Thomas Jefferson

- An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes. ~ Thomas Jefferson

- An injured friend is the bitterest of foes. ~ Thomas Jefferson

- But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine. ~ Thomas Jefferson

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Article: Live Webcast Using Ustream

A customer of mine runs an educational workshop over a number of days. This year he offered the workshop via a webcast in addition to live attendance.

One website you can use to broadcast video for free is www.Ustream.tv.

The instructions are simple and you can have your own TV channel on the web in no time.

Ustream automatically archives your broadcasts, so people can watch them later.

You will probably want to embed your live show and archived videos on your website. Embedding your live show is easy. Ustream provides an embed link which you can copy and paste into your webpage.

You can do the same for the archived video, but you have code each one by hand. If you are programmer, you can automatically extract your archived videos and display then on your website.

See this article for an example of the code.

www.programmer.bz/Home/tabid/115/asp_net_sql/225/UstreamTv-Get-Archived-Videos-for-a-User.aspx

If you are charging for your videos, you need to protect them.

Ustream lets you make your videos private, but then you need to specify which Ustream users have access to your video.

Another choice is to pay the $50 a month and customize your own Ustream channel via your website. That way you can place the security on your website and only your website visitors can get to your channel.

www.internethandholding.com/Articles/tabid/153/Internet_Marketing/230/Live-Webcast-Using-Ustream.aspx

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Article: Trust Other People

Sometimes my dad would tell me to do things. There might be some family related event or some other thing and he might say, "You don't have to go to this," or he might say, "You should do this."

Whatever it was, if he said I should do it, I would do it. I fought with my dad a lot, but never over things like this.

You cannot trust your own decision making. We are all biased and influenced by our emotions that are often not in our best interest. We tend to make decisions based on laziness, fear and avoiding uncomfortableness.

That is one of the reasons we need trainers and teachers, to challenge us and force us to do things we would not do otherwise. Get us out of our comfort zone.

A friend of mine, Rick called me up late one night to go on a sailboat from Miami to the Bahamas. They needed a fourth guy to share the expenses. I agreed, but as soon as Rick hung up the phone, I changed my mind.

I called Rick back and told him, "I'm not going. I will be throwing up for four days." Rick talked me back into going, but again, as soon as he hung up, I changed my mind again.

I am embarrassed to say, this happened at least five more times that same night and has to be the most absurd phone calls I have ever made. I did go on that trip. I did not throw up and it was one of the most memorable four days I have spent.

A couple years later, when Rick told me I should go on a camping canoe trip down the Colorado river, I went, even though I was sure I was not going to sleep for a week.

This Labor Day weekend I was responsible for the evenings' main entertainment at Mosaic Outdoor Club's International Event.

We were at a kids camp in the mountains north of Montreal. The first night I led a folk dance program for a couple of hours.

The camp fire and night hike got rained out, so I had to improvise some other dancing to keep people entertained. Most people participated, but a few sat and watched.

The last night, I was leading another dance program. Again there were some people sitting out, so I said, "I know some of you are uncomfortable about getting up and dancing."

"You have to trust me. I have done this hundreds and hundreds of times. I picked these dances for you, for people who do not dance regularly. I promise, you are going to like it."

That got them up dancing, at least a little anyway.

Sometimes you have to trust other people. You have to figure, when you have a difference of opinion, at least half the time you are wrong, and probably a lot more than that if the other person knows something you do not know.

www.gainesvilledance.com/Articles/tabid/79/Gainesville-Dance/109/Trust-Other-People-in-Dancing-and-in-Life.aspx

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September 27-29 Miami Beach Affiliate Marketing and Social Media Conference

2010-08-31T11:22:00.000-04:00

Affiliate Marketing and Social Media conference in Miami Beach, September 27 to 29, the Performance Marketing Expo.

www.iirusa.com/performancemarketingexpo/event-overview.xml?registration=VIP395

Google Places Local Search Service Area Display Services

2010-08-17T17:02:00.000-04:00

Hello Business Website Customers, Associates and Friends,

Got an email today from Google Places and wanted to forward the information on to you.

If you do business in your local area, registering with Google Places is one of the most important things you can do for your online
marketing. See the article.

Be Happy, Healthy and Prosperous,
Andrew

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Article: Google Places Local Search Service Area Display Services

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Quotes:

- If you look good and dress well, you don't need a purpose in life. ~ Robert Pante

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Article: Google Places Local Search Service Area Display Services

If you do business in your local area and you have not already registered your business with Google places, do so now here.
www.google.com/places

Registering your address with Google will get your more business, because you will be found on more searches.

Google automatically detects where a person's computer is and gives search results for that area using the information you provide
in Google places.

If someone in Miami searches for "architect" and you registered yoru architecture business in South Florida, you have a much better
chance of getting shown than your competitor who did not bother to register with Google.

Spending 30 minutes filling out some web forms, is time well spent that will keep marketing for you indefinitely.

Google has made some enhancements to their local business search. Here are some of the features in Google's own words.

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Don't have a brick-and-mortar storefront, or prefer not to give customers your home address? Show customers your Service Area.

Check out this video
www.youtube.com/user/GooglePlaces

Read on to Learn more.
www.google.com/support/places/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=177103

You can link directly to your restaurant's menu. Not a restaurant? Link to a list of services you offer.

To add your link, on your business's Dashboard, go to "Your business info" on the right and click "Edit." Scroll down to "Additional
Details." Add a row and type Menu in the left column. In the corresponding right column, add the link to the Menu page of your
website (not your homepage).

Check out some examples.
www.google.com/support/places/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=182238

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2010-08-17T16:56:00.000-04:00

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Intuit Payment Network, Windows Live Mail, Acai Scam, CSS Tables

2010-08-09T13:22:00.000-04:00

Hello Business Website Customers, Associates and Friends,

If you have been using Paypal, or another payment processor to collect payments, you have been paying $20 to $30 to cash a $1,000 check. There is a new option that is a lot less costly. See the article on Intuit Payment Network.

If you have a number of email addresses, it is convenient to forward them all to the same mailbox for reading. However, you may want to send out from those email addresses without picking up mail. See the article for instructions on how to set up a send-only email account in Windows Live Mail.

Watch out for fake websites, impersonating other websites. See the Acai Berry scam article.

If you write your own Html code, see the article for how to use CSS to to make tables without using the Html CellPadding and CellSpacing attributes.

Be Happy, Healthy and Prosperous,

Andrew

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Article: Intuit Payment Network (IPN) Verses Paypal

Article: How to Set Up a Send Only Email Account with Windows Live Mail

Article: Acai Berry Diet Exposed is a Fake News Website

Article: How to Use CSS to Make Tables without Html CellPadding and CellSpacing

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Quotes:

- Whatever you are by nature, keep to it; never desert your line of talent. Be what nature intended you for and you will succeed. ~ Sydney Smith

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Article: Intuit Payment Network (IPN) Verses Paypal

Intuit is the publisher of Quicken, Quickbooks and Turbo Tax.

Intuit has an online payment processing service that can save you a substantial amount of money over Paypal.

Paypal charges about 2.9% plus $0.30 to receive a payment. Could be more or less depending on your circumstances.

This fee is understandable for credit cards, because that is the standard rate for credit card processing.

However, Paypal charges this fee even when the transaction is bank to bank. Bank to bank is like writing a check. There are no fees normally.

With Paypal, to receive a $1,000 payment, your cost is $29. That is a lot of money to cash a check.

Intuit Payment Network (IPN) charges $0.50 per payment received.

That is a big savings.

The drawbacks are:

1. Your customer must register with Intuit Payment Network, if they are not registered already. (This is true of Paypal too.)

2. Intuit Payment Network is for bank to bank transactions only. If your customer wants to pay by credit card, you do not save anything.

Go to http://paymentnetwork.intuit.com to register.

www.internethandholding.com/Articles/tabid/153/Internet_Marketing/211/Intuit-Payment-Network-IPN-Verses-Paypal.aspx

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Article: How to Set Up a Send Only Email Account with Windows Live Mail

Outlook has a feature that lets you set up email accounts to use as the from email for sending mail only, without picking up email.

Under Outlook, Tools, Send/Receive options, you can specify which email accounts you only want to send and not receive.

This is handy if you support many websites.

You can set up mail from all your websites to forward to one email box.

You can set up from email addresses for each website to send outgoing mail.

That way customers can send to and receive email from each of your websites individually. While you only need to check one mailbox to receive all your mail.

Windows Live Mail makes this even easier.

In Windows Live Mail, after you create your email account, go back in to Change the email account you just created.

At the bottom of the General tab page, uncheck the box "Include this account when receiving mail or synchronizing".

Now you can send with that email address and Windows Live will not try to receive email.

Windows Live does make you include the outgoing email information even though you are not going to use it, so you can make up anything for the POP server and password.

If you have a mail program that requires an incoming mail server, you can set up a dummy email account called empty@mydomain.com.

Give it the minimum quota. Do not tell anyone about this email address so it will not get any email.

Use this as your incoming email account for all your From Only email addresses. This will let you fill out your account set up page and avoid you getting any mail on the email addresses you only want to send out from.

www.internethandholding.com/Articles/tabid/153/Internet_Marketing/208/Windows-Live-Mail-Send-Outgoing-Only-From-Accounts-without-Receiving-Incoming-Email.aspx

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Article: Acai Berry Diet Exposed is a Fake News Website

I do not know if Acai Berry can help you lose weight, but I do know sometimes when someone is misleading you.

Take a look at www.NewYorkChronicle.org.

There are many websites that look similar to this one. They are fakes.

The website is made up to look like a news website and professes to have tested the claims of the Acai Berry diet.

The test results are better than the original claims and appear to be completely outrageous in support of the product.

If you click on the links at the top of the page to News, Weather and so on, you will see that all the links stay on the same page trying to get you to sign up for the free Acai Berry trials.

This person appears to be an affiliate and probably gets paid each time someone signs up for a free trial.

The product owner may not even know what the affiliate is doing.

The product may be a good one.

This marketing page is deceptive.

www.internethandholding.com/Articles/tabid/153/Internet_Marketing/206/Acai-Berry-Diet-Exposed-Scam-Fake-News-Website.aspx

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Article: How to Use CSS to Make Tables without Html CellPadding and CellSpacing

To have a thin line as a border around the cells in your tables, using HTML, you need to use the BORDER, CELLPADDING and CELLSPACING attributes on your TABLE tag. By specifying 0 for CELLSPACING, you can avoid gaps between the cells.

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Here is CSS to create a table with a thin black border, padding and a background. This CSS also aligns the table heading with the text. I like this table for displaying general text information in columns.

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table.infotable
{
background-color:#DDDDDD;
border:solid 1pt black;
border-collapse:collapse;
}

table.infotable td
{
border:solid 1pt black;
padding:.5em;
}

table.infotable th
{
border:solid 1pt black;
padding:.75em;
text-align:left;
}

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Here is how you use this class in your web page.

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See this article for compatible CSS for highlighting inline text and using an information box to go along with your table.

www.programmer.bz/Articles/tabid/159/asp_net_sql/210/CSS-for-Information-Highlights-Boxes-and-Tables.aspx

You can find the W3 CSS table definitions here.

www.w3.org/TR/CSS2/tables.html

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Beware of USB Drives, Article Writing Update, Ebook marketing

2010-06-08T22:57:00.000-04:00

Hello Business Website Customers, Associates and Friends,

You should be writing articles to market your website. It works and is fun. Despite my urgings, some of my customers still do not do this and yet complain they are not getting visitors to their websites. In November 2009, I created a few DotNetNuke websites and started posting articles. See the article below for a eight-month review of the effectiveness of this approach.

Beware of viruses on external media. See the article for a disturbing case.

Do you have an Ebook in you? In one of my other careers, I am a dance instructor and have written a book. See the article for how to market your Ebook online.

Be Happy, Healthy and Prosperous,
Andrew

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Article: Update on the Effectiveness of Article Writing
Article: Beware of USB, External and CD Drives Carrying Viruses
Article: Self Publishing an Ebook

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Other Items of Interest

Microsoft Video of Future Applications
www.microsoft.com/showcase/en/us/details/e7728af1-3fe4-4e25-a907-3dbf689fe11a

"70 per cent of Microsoft engineers are working on something to do with the cloud," added Elop, saying it would rise to 90 per cent in a couple of years. "We're all in," he said.
www.techradar.com/news/internet/microsoft-we-won-t-use-search-engines-in-2020-692234

Artificial life created
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science_and_environment/10132762.stm

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Quotes:

All of life is peaks and valleys. Do not let the peaks get too high and the valleys too low. ~ John Wooden

Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something. - Henry David Thoreau

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Article: Update on the Effectiveness of Article Writing

In September of 2009, I created some DotNetNuke websites and started posting articles.

Go to these three websites. Next to each article is the number of visitors.
- www.DotNetNuke.bz
- www.InternetHandholding.com
- www.Programmer.bz

The articles are in order of newest first. Notice as the articles age, they get increasingly more visitors.

I have done nothing to promote these articles. I only posted them on my website. DotNetNuke automatically pings Weblogs.com when the article is posted.

You can see the newest articles have around 30 or 40 visits. Older articles typically have 100 to 300 visitors, with one article over 1,000 visitors.

These are the number of visitors per article, not per website.

The number of visitors tells some interesting tales, like what people are searching for the most and which articles are the highest ranked.

www.InternetHandholding.com has about 80 articles in eight months, which is a little less than two articles per week. You can write an article in as little as fifteen minutes, though I usually take longer. Still, in only an hour so a week, you can build up a nice accumulation of articles that work to market your website without additional effort from you.

I have not done this yet, but you can give your articles a boost by submitting them to article directories. You can find a bunch of article directories here.

www.internethandholding.com/Member/LinkBuildingandWebsiteTraffic/LinksArticles.aspx

Follow my planned upcoming article series on marketing an Ebook to see the effectiveness of article directories.

www.internethandholding.com/Articles/tabid/153/Internet_Marketing/198/Self-Publishing-an-Ebook.aspx

You have specialized knowledge that can help or entertain others. Take an hour out of your week to share your thoughts and help yourself and others.

www.internethandholding.com/Articles/tabid/153/Internet_Marketing/199/Update-on-the-Effectiveness-of-Article-Writing.aspx

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Article: Beware of USB, External and CD Drives Carrying Viruses

One of my customers got a virus from a shrink wrapped USB drive from Costco.

Think about that. Imagine you buy a package of brand new USB drives from a store and there is a virus on one. You use the USB drive to transfer some files from your home PC to your laptop and then to your computer at work.

Suddenly you have infected all three of your computers.

You can read about the MIRC virus that infected my customer here.

www.internethandholding.com/Articles/tabid/153/Internet_Marketing/197/MIRC-Virus-on-Sandisk-USB-Drive-from-Costco-on-Windows-XP.aspx

I had written a couple of articles on:

How to Not Get a Virus
www.internethandholding.com/Articles/tabid/153/Internet_Marketing/12/How-to-Not-Get-a-Virus.aspx

Get Rid of Anti-Virus Programs
www.internethandholding.com/Articles/tabid/153/Internet_Marketing/14/Get-Rid-of-Anti-Virus-Programs.aspx

The information in those articles is still true, provided companies you trust and depend upon, like Costco, do their job and make sure they are not selling you drives with viruses packaged on them.

That particular drive was made in China, what a surprise.

I cannot prove that the drive came shrink wrapped with the virus, because my customer used the drive to transfer data, so it is possible he got the virus some other way. However, all he does with those USB drives is transfer a database file from work to his desktop and laptop at home. There was nothing else on the drive besides the database file and the virus. The drive was not formatted with the typical CD virtual drive, that is usually on that USB drive. I believe the drive came infected from China.

Anytime you put in a CD, DVD, USB Drive, SD Card or some other data device that automatically starts, you could be at risk of getting a virus.

There is a good article here about Autorun attacks and how to disable AutoRun. I have not tried it.

www.windowssecrets.com/2007/11/08/02-One-quick-trick-prevents-Autorun-attacks

Before putting any removable data media into your computer, be sure you trust the source. Remember, even shrink wrapped packages from reliable companies can have virus. If you have any doubts, check the removable data first.

To check the media, download and make a bootable CD of Ubuntu from Ubuntu.com. Follow the instructions on the website.

This is a Linux operating system with a user interface a look like Windows and the Mac.

An Ubuntu bootable CD is handy to have around. See the article on Ubuntu to the Rescue.

www.internethandholding.com/Articles/tabid/153/Internet_Marketing/190/Ubuntu-to-the-Rescue--Boot-from-CD-to-Save-Hard-Drive-Data.aspx

Once you boot up Ubuntu, you can put in your removable media. Ubuntu will not autorun, since the autorun is for Windows, not Linux. You can then browse the removable media. Ubuntu will show you all the files, including system and hidden files.

If you see anything suspicious, rename it and move it to an out-of-the-way folder.

You can then use the removable media in Windows.

www.internethandholding.com/Articles/tabid/153/Internet_Marketing/200/Beware-of-USB-External-and-CD-Drives-Carrying-Viruses.aspx

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Article: Self Publishing an Ebook

If you have some knowledge that is useful to other people, you might have an Ebook in you.

An Ebook has many advantages over a printed book, one of which is you can publish the Ebook yourself and another is you can sell an Ebook for a lot more.

In one of my other careers, I am a social dance instructor. In the course of trying to teach folk dancers how to dance with a partner, I figure out that you only need to know three rules to communicate every step in every dance unambiguously.

This is amazing if you think about it.

This is also original and I have written a book about how to communicate in social dancing called Partnership Dancing(tm).

You can see the website I am building around this product here.

www.PartnershipDancing.com

If you are interested in the process of developing and marketing an Ebook, stay tuned. I intend to publish a series of articles to help you learn from my mistakes.

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

2010-04-30T16:25:00.000-04:00

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

On www.InternetHandholding.com:

Article: Oy Vey, Not Indian Support Again

Article: How to Include Multiple Forms on One Asp.net Web Page
Article: How to Dynamically Resize an Iframe to Fit Contents

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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.

www.internethandholding.com/Articles/tabid/153/Internet_Marketing/189/Get-Your-Website-Found-by-Google.aspx

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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.

www.internethandholding.com/Articles/tabid/153/Internet_Marketing/187/Write-Articles-on-Your-Website-using-DotNetNuke-Ventrian-Articles-Module.aspx

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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.

www.internethandholding.com/Articles/tabid/153/Internet_Marketing/188/Blogger-is-My-Favorite-Place-to-Post-Links.aspx

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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.

http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=13287

Add the gmail account to your mail program so you can send emails via your email program using gmail's smtp service.

www.internethandholding.com/Articles/tabid/153/Internet_Marketing/185/Cox-Horrible-Spam-Control--This-Message-Could-Not-Be-Sent-Because-Its-Size-Exceeded-the-Servers-Limit.aspx

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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.

www.internethandholding.com/Newsletter/tabid/154/internet_marketing/192/Death-of-Another-Hard-Drive.aspx

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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.

www.internethandholding.com/Articles/tabid/153/Internet_Marketing/191/Windows-Live-Mesh-for-Automated-Real-Time-Backup-and-Synchronization.aspx

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

2010-04-08T19:34:00.000-04:00

Hello Business Website Customers, Associates and Friends,

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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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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- 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.

www.internethandholding.com/Articles/tabid/153/articleType/CategoryView/categoryId/3/Internet-Marketing.aspx

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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.

www.internethandholding.com/Articles/tabid/153/Internet_Marketing/171/Windows-7-and-Windows-Live.aspx

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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.

www.internethandholding.com/Articles/tabid/153/Internet_Marketing/172/Windows-7-and-3D-PhotoSynth.aspx

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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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Death of a Hard Drive

2010-03-19T03:12:00.001-04:00

Hello Business Website Customers, Associates and Friends,

A perfect storm hit my computer, which has already taken a week of my life to recover, and I have many more days to go.

Some good news, my Cox cable speed is crazy fast.

Bought a new computer with Windows 7.

Be Happy, Healthy and Prosperous,
Andrew

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Article: Death of a Hard Drive

Article: Crazy Fast Cox Cable

Article: Getting a New Computer with Windows 7

Article: Outlook 2003 Edit Html Source

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Quotes:

- One kind word can save a life. ~ Dr. Ed Weinschelbaum

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Article: Death of a Hard Drive

I back up my critical data every day to three different websites.

The rest of my data, like photos and music, I backup regularly to two external hard drives in my office. I have three other external hard drives stashed at other people's houses.

For the last ten years, the program I use to backup my data is called Handybackup, which you can get from Handybackup.net.

On November 6, 2009 Handybackup stopped working. I reported the problem to the russians and they have been giving me fixes, none of which worked.

In the meantime, I have been backed up only some of my data by hand. I meant to do more, but time goes fast.

Last weekend I got an error I would not wish on my worse enemy, "read seek failure on drive". All my data was gone and none of the dozen recovery programs could find a single file.

I suspect Handybackup did not work because there were errors on the drive.

Let that be a warning to you. Automate your backup. Backup daily. If your automated program breaks, be suspicious. You need to backup more frequently, not less.

www.internethandholding.com/Articles/tabid/153/Internet_Marketing/161/Death-of-a-Hard-Drive.aspx

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Article: Crazy Fast Cox Cable

All of a sudden, last Thursday, my Cox cable speed dropped to 0.14 mbps, both up and down. The advertised speed is 3 mbps.

My Cox cable modem was ten years old. Cox upgraded their network last week and the old modems were not supported. Cox gave me a new modem, Motorola SB5101U for free. They cost about $80 in the store. Cox will sell you one for $50 if they are at your house and have one in their truck.

Ran a few speed tests. Download speeds were 16 to 28 mbps. Upload speeds 4 to 5.5 mbps. That is fast.

If Cox made an upgrade in your neighborhood, you may be able to get much faster speeds with the new cable modem.

You can check your speed at www.Broadband.gov.

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Article: Getting a New Computer with Windows 7

If you are in the market for a new computer, consider this.

Bought a new computer. Sam's and Best Buy had about the same deal. Here are the specs of what I got.

Dell Inspiron 560
Intel e7500 64 bit
8 megabytes of memory
1 terabyte hard drive
21.5" monitor
Windows 7 Home Premium

$750

This is double what you get for a laptop at a lower price.

The wide screen is great. Do not need a second monitor. This monitor is wide enough for two windows and a little more.

Windows 7 is fine. No need to be afraid of it. It is easier to use than Vista.

Windows 7 comes with Windows Live Email, which I am using in place of Outlook.

I installed my old version of Microsoft Office 2003, for Excel, Access and Powerpoint.

Also installed Quicken, Quickbooks, iTunes and Visual Studio 2010 Express Beta. All were 64 bit and seem to work fine.

Downloaded a couple of free image editing programs.

The point being, you can buy a new system, with tax for under $850 and you do not need to buy any additional software.

If you are a professional software developer, you will need to upgrade to Windows 7 Professional for $90 to get IIS Web Server.

You do not need Windows 7 Ultimate, unless your IT department at corporate headquarters told you to get it.

www.internethandholding.com/Articles/tabid/153/Internet_Marketing/163/Getting-a-New-Computer-with-Windows-7.aspx

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Article: Outlook 2003 Edit Html Source

In Outlook 2003 you can view the Html source, but you cannot edit the html source.

Found a brilliant post with a macro to edit the html source in Outlook 2003 on Windows XP. I made a small change. Would credit the original poster, but the item was posted annonymously.

Here is my version, using my naming conventions, but I have to admit the original poster's was more readable and the instructions were simpler. Darn, someone smarter than me.

Instructions:

1. In Outlook, go to Tools, Marco, Visual Basic Editor.

2. In the Visual Basic Editor

2.A Create a new Module (not a Class module) like Edit_Html.

2.B Copy in the code below.

2.C In the Visual Basic Editor go to Tools, References. Add references to Microsoft Scripting Runtime and Windows Scripting Host Object Model.

2.D. Save

3. In Outlook, while editing an html message, press Alt + F8, select the macro Edit_Html.

Here is the code. Nice and simple.

'----------------------------------------------------
Public Sub Edit_Html()
Dim filename As String
Dim filesystem As New Scripting.FileSystemObject
Dim item As mailitem
Dim shell As New WshShell
Dim filestream As TextStream
'----------------------------------------------------
' Put html body in a file
'----------------------------------------------------
Set item = ActiveInspector.CurrentItem
filename = filesystem.GetSpecialFolder(TemporaryFolder) & "\" & filesystem.GetTempName
Set filestream = filesystem.CreateTextFile(filename, True, True)
filestream.Write filename & item.HTMLBody
filestream.Close
'----------------------------------------------------
' Read file into wordpad
'----------------------------------------------------
Set filestream = Nothing
shell.Run "wordpad.exe """ & filename & """", , True
'----------------------------------------------------
' After exiting wordpad, read file into htmlbody
'----------------------------------------------------
Set filestream = filesystem.OpenTextFile(filename, ForReading, False, TristateTrue)
item.HTMLBody = filestream.ReadAll
filestream.Close
Set filestream = Nothing
'----------------------------------------------------
' Clean up, delete temp file
'----------------------------------------------------
filesystem.DeleteFile filename
Set filesystem = Nothing
End Sub
'----------------------------------------------------

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Windows 7 Home Premium verse Professional verse Ultimate

2010-03-17T00:57:00.000-04:00

Wrote a short article about Windows 7 Home Premium verse Professional verse Ultimate

http://www.internethandholding.com/Articles/tabid/153/Internet_Marketing/159/Windows-7-Home-Premium-vs-Professional-vs-Ultimate.aspx

Testing to see how blogger links back to facebook

2010-03-09T17:26:00.000-05:00

Posted this story on Facebook.
Wondering if blogger will link back.

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20100309 Dominating Google, Html tags, Favorites Icon, English, Facebook

2010-03-09T15:19:00.001-05:00

Hello Business Website Customers, Associates and Friends,

See www.EnglishCentral.com to check your pronunciation. This website helps non-native English speakers check their accent. I tried
it and got 58 out of 100. Sad. The website lets you practice and you can improve your score.

Saw this quote on a travel website. "According to nearly all marketing experts, consumers need to see marketing/advertising 7-10
times before they buy something. Plan your campaign from all angles accordingly and follow up with interested people and watch the
excitement build."

There is a lot of talk that Facebook is bigger than Google, or will be. I do not know if this is true, but Facebook is big, with
100s of millions of views daily. You need to make Facebook part of your marketing plans.

Here is an interesting article on the other side of the active marketing coin. This guy says you need to make a great product and
people will tell each other. The product will market itself. Based on my experience with www.JewishNetwork.com, you need to do both.
People do tell each other and marketing does work.
www.fastcompany.com/articles/2008/05/interview-bjfogg-on-facebook.html

When you post online, sometimes it is good to know some html. The WYSIWYG editors are not always reliable. Sometimes you need to go
into the html source. See the article on html tags.

When you go to a website, in the address bar, next to the website name is an icon. You can customize that icon for your website and
make it look as pretty as anyone else makes theirs. You have a 16 by 16 square with which to work. See this article for details.
http://www.programmer.bz/Articles/tabid/159/asp_net_sql/132/How-to-Create-a-Favorites-Icon-and-Put-on-Your-Website.aspx

Be Happy, Healthy and Prosperous,
Andrew

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Article: Html common tags in posting editors
Article: Dominating Google for search keyword terms

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Quotes:

- I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is God's business. - Michael J.
Fox

- As an engineer, if you want to advance something, you have to keep your eyes open, because what you are taught in textbooks has
limitations. When you have an open mind, you will discover there are more things out there than what has been understood so far. ~
Wolfgang Sigmund, Professor of Materials Sceince and Engineering, University of Florida, on research team discovering water proof
material based on spider hairs

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Article: Html common tags in posting editors

When you post online, the editor usually has an option that lets you view the html source. If you are having trouble with the
WYSIWYG editor, try viewing the html source.

Here are some html tags that are good to know if you view the html source. Feel free to edit the source.

To be safe and not waste your work, open up Wordpad on your computer and copy the original source to your Wordpad file. Make another
copy and make your changes in Wordpad. Then copy your changes back to the online editor. That way, if anything goes wrong you still
have your work.

If you are cutting and pasting from other documents, paste into Wordpad and then save the file as plain text. Then load another
document and reload the document you just saved to clear out all the formatting. This is the cleanest and fastest way I know to
clean out the formatting. You can use this keyboard short cut to do this in a second.

Alt-f a enter - to save file without the formatting
Alt-f 2 - to load whatever was the last file you had in Wordpad
Alt-f 2 - again to reload the file you were working on without the formatting

Html useful tags

<a href="url"></a> - link to another page
<br /> - break to a new line
<div></div> - division of your page, sometimes used in place of p tag
<h1></h1> - heading level 1, also for levels 2-6
<img src="url" /> - images
<li></li> - list items between the ol and ul tags
<ol></ol> - ordered list
<p></p> - paragraph
<table></table> - table
<tr></tr> - table row, between the table tags
<td></td> - table cells between the table row tags
<ul></ul> - unordered list

There is often a lot of junk the editors put in that you can delete, such as these tags.

#160; - non-breaking space
  - another version of a non-breaking space
<font></font> - to create a different style within another tag. Generally you can delete this. It is usually mistaken formatting.
<span></span> - to create a different style within another tag. Generally you can delete this. It is usually mistaken formatting.

Attributes - with the tag you can specify attributes appropriate for that tag. These are the two attributes you use to specify
styles.

class="stylename" - add this to any tag to specify a style name
style="font-size:120%; margin-right:.5em;" - use the style attribute to specify the style characteristics. In this example the
margin-right:.5em means to set the right margin to half the width of the letter "m".

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Article: Dominating Google for search keyword terms

If you go to google and search for "Israeli partner dancing", the first three entries and eight of the top ten are mine, out of 2
million plus hits. Number one is my website www.IsraeliPartnerDancing.com

I am preparing to publish a book about Israeli partner dancing and have been laying the groundwork to market the book.

Can you dominate for your keywords?

Chances are you can. Maybe not to this degree, but you could get listings on the first, second and third pages.

Search on google for your keywords and check your competition. Look at the bottom of the page. Those are the people you need to beat
out to get on page one.

How can you dominate google for your keywords?

First, pick your keywords. If you have a local business, include the various areas you service.

If you go to google and search for just "partner dancing", I have a couple of entries on the first three pages. This is good, but
not dominating. You have to do more to dominate more competitive keywords. I have no competition when adding the keyword "Israeli",
but for just "partner dancing" there is competition. Will report back to you on that when I target those keywords.

To get to the first page and stay on the first page you must do much more than you have been doing. The amount is doable without
killing yourself, but you do have to keep at it.

You need multiple places on the Internet to post information about your keywords. How many places are enough? Keep posting in new
places until you are on page one and stay there. The number of pages depends on your competition.

Create blogs on blogger. Post entries on Facebook and make sure they are publicly visible. Join groups and post links. Submit
articles.

See the links on the left side of this page for a huge number of places to post to.
www.internethandholding.com/Member/LinkWebsiteTrafficviaLinkBuilding.aspx

Be relentless. Keep posting every chance you get. Will send you posting tips on how to do this efficiently.

For now, the idea you should take with you is to never miss a chance to post a link to your pages. Cross link. Link to the pages
that link to your website. Make it messy. This is what search engines like.

Take this article as an example.

It is posted on my website www.InternetHandholding.com here
www.internethandholding.com/Articles/tabid/153/Internet_Marketing/153/Dominating-Google-for-Search-Keyword-Terms.aspx

It is posted on one of my blogs here
http://internethandholding.blogspot.com

A link is posted on one of my Facebook accounts.

If you look back through this article, you will see links to other pages of mine.

Get to posting.

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20100303 Search Engine Tasks for Your Website

2010-03-02T14:49:00.001-05:00

Hello Business Website Customers, Associates and Friends,

The article in this issue introduces you to some of google's tools to help you get a handle on your website.

Be Happy, Healthy and Prosperous,
Andrew

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In This Email:

Article: Basic Search Engine Tasks for Your Website Using Google Webmasters Tools

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Quotes:

- If you're going to do something tonight that you'll be sorry for tomorrow, sleep late. ~ Henny Youngman

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Article: Basic Search Engine Tasks for Your Website Using Google Webmasters Tools

Here are some basic search engine optimization and webmaster tasks you need to do for your website.

1. Go to Google's business center and register your business and address.

- Go to http://maps.google.com
- Click the link Add A Site.
- Register your business.

2. Track your visitors.

- Go to http://www.google.com/analytics
- Regsiter your website.
- Get your analytic tracking code and add to your website.
- If you are using DotNetNuke go to Admin, Google Analytics to enter.
- Otherwise, follow google's instructions for adding to your website

3. See how google sees your website.

You will need to register in google webmaster tools first.
Google has a lot of different places to register.

- Go to http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools
- Register your website.
- Go to verify your website and follow the instructions.
- Go to Site Configuraton, SiteMaps and submit your site.
- If you are using DotNetNuke your sitemap file is: SiteMap.aspx
- Otherwise you will need a sitemap for your website.

After google indexes your website you can check to see how google sees your website. You may have to check back after some time.

- Go to http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools
- Go to Your Site on the Web, Keywords

You can also go to www.Bing.com and www.Yahoo.com and use their webmaster tools.

4. Change your website to maximize your keywords

It is eye opening to see how google views your keywords. You will likely see a bunch of useless keywords at the top of your rankings
and you will know where they come from.

Change the wording on your website to maximize your keywords for what people search for. When you see how google sees your website,
you will know what to change.

1. Think keywords, keywords, keywords. Keywords are things people search for. Anything that is not a keyword in a title hurts you.

2. Remove "Us" from your menu items and titles in things like About Us and Contact Us.

3. Put your menu items in alphabetical order, not the order you want people to click on. The brain likes order, alphabetical order.
This is for people, not search engines.

If you have a book or online course, then put things in the order they are to be seen. Otherwise, alphabetize.

4. Your submenu items can be long and filled with keywords.

5. Post Pages, Articles and Forum items on your website.

Fill the titles of your entries with keywords only. In the body of the items, include your keywords as much as possible. Any word
that is not a keyword hurts you instead of helping you.

Pages are formal.
Articles are semi-formal.
Forum entries are informal.

Generally, multiple short items are better than one long item. Both people and search engines can get lost as to what exactly is the
topic.

Space out your items over time. You must continually update your website to keep search engines coming back.

You can find this article online here
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20100205 Internet Handholding Newsletter DotNetNuke Store Survey Twitter Aweber Email

2010-02-05T02:33:00.001-05:00

www.internethandholding.com/Articles/tabid/153/Internet_Marketing/138/DotNetNuke-Store-and-Survey.aspx

New Internet Handholding newsletter posted at above link.

DotNetNuke Store
DotNetNuke Survey
Twitter
Aweber Email

20100204 Internet Handholding, Local Search, Twitter, Store, Survey, Aweber

2010-02-05T02:23:00.001-05:00

Hello Andrew, and other Business Website Customers, Associates and Friends,

Two short articles to keep you up-to-date.

Bill Gates talks Twitter with Jon Stewart, short and funny.
http://ccinsider.comedycentral.com/2010/01/26/jon-stewart-talks-twitter-with-bill-gates

This is a twitter photo feed. Has to be seen to be believed.
www.PicFog.com

Post your photos for use with Twitter.
www.TwitPic.com

Be Happy, Healthy and Prosperous,
Andrew

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In This Email:

1. Local Search Maps.Google.Com

2. Twitter Signup

3. DotNetNuke Store and Survey

4. Aweber Email Marketing List

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Quotes:

- Avoid conflict by minimizing confrontations.
~ Shlomo Ressler

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1. Local Search Maps.Google.Com

If you do business in your local market, you want to make sure your business shows up in local search results.

For example, go to Google and search for: Gainesville Dance

Near the top of the search results on the left side is a listing of local dance businesses.

To get your business listed here, you need to let Google know where your business is located.

Go to http://maps.google.com

On the left side, click the link to add your business and follow the instructions.

That will get you in the game, at least.

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2. Twitter Signup

You probably have heard of Twitter, but you may not be using Twitter yet.

Twitter lets you send messages of 140 characters.

This is not much, but it is enough to post a link.

Twitter is called a micro blogging service and there are plenty of copycats.

You might wonder what good is Twitter? Well people are finding all kinds of uses for it. See this page for some websites.

www.internethandholding.com/Member/LinksWebsitesReference/LinksTwitter.aspx

I do not know what you are going to use Twitter for, but I suggest you get a good account name (while you still can) and start checking it out.

While you are at it, follow Internet Handholding by going to this link and clicking the follow icon.

www.twitter.com/internethandhol

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3. DotNetNuke Store and Survey

DotNetNuke comes with both Store and Survey modules. I installed them on a couple of customers and they look good.

Take a look at the DotNetNuke Survey here. This customer created the survey himself with no help from me.

www.dgaffney.com/Home/Survey.aspx

You can see the DotNetNuke Store here. I set this up for the customer, but it was easy enough for anyone to add products.

www.verajoffe.com/Store/tabid/479/CategoryID/1/Default.aspx

Also take a look at here Articles page. She posted these herself. Somehow she figured out how to get the images in there also. Congratulations. You can she is already getting visitors without any other publicity.

www.verajoffe.com/Articles.aspx

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4. Aweber Email Marketing List

I have switched my email service to Aweber and like it a lot.

They have a nice wizard for setting up Subscribe Forms. This has a lot of uses, but too technical for this article.

You can set up a series of messages to automatically go to new subscribers. These are called autoresponders.

If you subscribe to this Internet Handholding newsletter, you will automatically receive one short tip every week or so in addition to the newsletter. This is a great way to catch people up who missed earlier newsletters.

Click here to check out Aweber.

Constant Contact is also good, but does not have autoresponders.

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How to Add an Aweber Form to DotNeNuke and Asp.Net Pages

2010-01-29T04:53:00.003-05:00

Wrote an article on how to add an Aweber.com form to DotNetNuke and Asp.net web pages.

www.dotnetnuke.bz/Articles/tabid/156/DotNetNuke/127/How-to-Add-an-Aweber-Form-to-You-DotNetNuke-and-Aspnet-Pages.aspx

How to Break out of an IFRAME from a FORM in a SCRIPT

2010-01-29T04:53:00.001-05:00

Wrote an article about how to break out of an IFRAME when using a script from someone else.

This gives you the javascript code to add the target="_blank" tag to the FORM in the other websites code.

Useful for DotNetNuke and Asp.net in particular.

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How to Delete Cookies for One Site

2010-01-26T14:09:00.001-05:00

Had an affiliate code in my browser that was not mine. I was signing people up for under someone else's affiliate code. That was not
good.

To get rid of their affiliate code, had to delete the cookie for that website.

See this article on How to Delete Cookies for One Site
http://www.internethandholding.com/Articles/tabid/153/Internet-Marketing/121/How-to-Delete-the-Cookie-for-One-Website.aspx

How to know what to do

2010-01-19T17:39:00.001-05:00

Great short article on how to layout principles for developing a philosophy to guide you.
http://www.programmer.bz/Articles/tabid/159/asp_net_sql/109/How-to-Know-What-to-Do.aspx

091111 Internet Handholding, DotNetNuke, Social Bookmarking

2009-11-11T20:08:00.001-05:00

Hello Business Website Customers, Associates and Friends,

If you are receiving this for the first time, I may have added you to
this list as way to stay in touch and because I thought you might find
something useful. If you do not want to receive this newsletter, reply
to this email with "dns" (do not send) in the subject.

Would like to help your website get found. Have added a new section to
the newsletter to feature your websites. If you would like your website
featured, let me know. This newsletter gets posted online in a couple
of places. By featuring your website, you get a couple of one-way links
back to your website that should help your search rankings.

Since this summer, I have been moving my websites and my customers
to DotNetNuke and I am more and more pleased with this product. We
recently implemented the forum module for a customer and it is great.
Have added a forum to the www.InternetHandholding.com website so you
can see how the module works. Feel free to post anything you like there.
When you post, always include a link back to your website to help your
search engine rankings.

You can see a couple of DotNetNuke websites I stumbled across here.
www.fortsmithmoms.com - Fort Smith Moms club
www.ocso.com - Orange County Sheriff's Office

If you need a website or want to switch to DotNetNuke, let me know.

Be Happy, Healthy and Prosperous,
Andrew

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In This Email:

1. Article: Write, Write, Write
2. Article: DotNetNuke Tip - Use the Articles Module and Categories
3. Article: Massive Link Building to Grow Traffic

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Quotes:

- I grew up on a farm. I know how to put my head down, work hard
and keep moving forward until the work is done.
~ Rulon Gardner, Olympic Gold Medalist

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Featured Websites:

- www.DGaffneyAssociates.com - Daniel Gaffney & Associates
advises businesses that want to improve internal controls and
enterprise risk management without the cost of engaging a large
accounting firm.

- www.HRProOnDemand.com - HR Pro on Demand offers small business
owners HR direction and support to navigate the tricky employment
law and compliance landscape.

- www.ImprovingLifestyles.com and www.SuctionGrabBars.com - mobility aids,
assistive technology, disability aids, canes, bath tub hand rails,
home health and safety products

- www.PoliticalAlternative.com - forums and discussions about
popular political personalities.

If you would like your website featured, contact us.

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1. Article: Write, Write, Write

There is no accounting for taste when it comes to Google.

When I was in high school and college, I avoided every class
that required my writing papers. Maybe it was only my aversion
to homework, because somewhere along the way I became a writer.

I found myself writing journals at home and procedure documents
at work, which has turned out to be a useful Internet skill.

Nobody bothered to read what I wrote, but that does not matter
to Google. Google is only interested in quantity of keywords.

Google will read everything you write, index every keyword and
possibly show a link to your page to applicable searches.

If you want to get found, write a lot of keywords.

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2. Article: DotNetNuke Tip - Use the Articles Module and Categories

The articles module in DotNetNuke is convenient for publishing
your writings on your website.

You can go into the Administrator Options and set up categories,
which should help with keywords for searches.

As frequently as you are able, write something. Use keywords in
the title, because the articles module is SEO friendly and will
use the keywords in the page url, which helps your page get found.

Write something useful for your audience. Share your expertise.
You can add value for your existing customers and maybe someone
new will come across your writings.

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3. Article: Massive Link Building to Grow Traffic

If you want to get more visitors to your website, your should
plan on link building. Ten or twenty links is not enough. You
should expect to get hundreds of incoming links.

First go to the Google keyword tool here.
https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordTool

Find a list of keywords that you want to target.
Use the Exact Match criteria.

It is best if the keywords are in your domain name.

You then need to create your page content around the keywords.

When you create links, include the keywords in your incoming
linking text.

You can read a little about getting incoming links through Social Bookmarking
and directories on this page.
www.internethandholding.com/Members/LinkBuildingandBookmarking.aspx

If you are a member in www.InternetHandholding.com you can
find there a list of many bookmarking websites and directories.
The more places you place links back to your website the better.

For starters, submit your website to these directories:
www.bing.com
www.dmoz.com
www.google.com
www.yahoo.com

Sign up for accounts and post bookmarks to your website at some of these:
www.delicious.com
www.digg.com
www.faves.com
www.stumbleupon.com

Exchange links with other websites that have a similar audience.
Below are two sample emails.

You can see, one of the nice things about having keywords in
the domain name is those keywords are automatically included
in the link.

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Sample 1 - Wait for them to reply before adding their link
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Subject: [other website] Link exchange

Hello [other website],

Would you like to exchange links?

Our websites are complimentary and of mutual
interest to both our audiences.

If you would like to exchange links, place a link to
www.xxxxxxx.com on your website.

You can copy and paste this html.

<a href="http://www.xxxxxxxxxx.com" target="_blank">Xxxxxx xxxxx.com
- key word, key word, key word, key word</a>

Email us your link information. Include:

1.The URL of your page to which you want us to link
2.The URL of your page which links back here
3.What you want our link to you to say
4.Your name and email

Thank you.

Regards,
[you]

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Sample 2 - Add their link first
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Subject: [other website] Link exchange

Hello [other website],

Would you like to exchange links?

Our websites are complimentary and of mutual
interest to both our audiences.

We have added a link to your website which you can find here.
www.xxxxxxxxxxx.com/info/links.

If you would like to exchange links, place a link to
www.xxxxxxxxxx.com on your website.

You can copy and paste this html.

<a href="http://www.xxxxxxxxxx.com" target="_blank">Xxxxxx xxxxx.com
- key word, key word, key word, key word</a>

Please let us know when you have added our link.

Thank you.

Regards,
[you]

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Print a bicycle

2009-10-18T16:10:00.001-04:00

Need to design and test a mechanical object.

Save yourself some trouble. Print your design on the WI 3D Printer and assemble the parts.

See
http://wi3dprinter.blogspot.com/2009/09/print-bicycle.html

Error logging for asp.net

2009-10-04T13:57:00.001-04:00

See http://code.google.com/p/elmah/

ELMAH (Error Logging Modules and Handlers) is an application-wide error logging facility that is completely pluggable. It can be
dynamically added to a running ASP.NET web application, or even all ASP.NET web applications on a machine, without any need for
re-compilation or re-deployment.
Once ELMAH has been dropped into a running web application and configured appropriately, you get the following facilities without
changing a single line of your code:

.Logging of nearly all unhandled exceptions.

.A web page to remotely view the entire log of recoded exceptions.

.A web page to remotely view the full details of any one logged exception.

.In many cases, you can review the original yellow screen of death that ASP.NET generated for a given exception, even with
customErrors mode turned off.

.An e-mail notification of each error at the time it occurs.

.An RSS feed of the last 15 errors from the log.

DotNetNuke 5.1.2 Missing HTML module

2009-10-01T14:48:00.001-04:00

After installing DotNetNuke 5, I went to add the HTML module to a page, but the HTML module was missing from the module drop down
list.

Do not know why this problem occurred.

To fix the problem, I went to:

1. Host, Module Definitions, Install Module at the bottom

2. Browsed to the folder Install, Module and uploaded HTML_Community_05.01.03_Install.zip

The module installed with no problem.

One time this happened, there was a HTML_Community_05.01.03_Install.resources file, but not .zip version. I renamed the .resources
to .zip and uploaded and everything was fine.

DotNetNuke Error: Site Settings is currently unavailable.

2009-09-30T04:29:00.001-04:00

After installing DotNetNuke 5.1.2, when updating site settings for the initial portal, got the error message below.

To fix the problem

1. Go to Admin, Languages, Edit Language
Select a language

2. Click Edit Language
Select enabled

------------------------
DotNetNuke Error Message
------------------------
Error: Site Settings is currently unavailable.
DotNetNuke.Services.Exceptions.ModuleLoadException: Cannot insert the value NULL into column 'DefaultLanguage', table
'bronze_bdn_bcal.dbo.dnn_Portals'; column does not allow nulls. UPDATE fails. The statement has been terminated. --->
System.Data.SqlClient.SqlException: Cannot insert the value NULL into column 'DefaultLanguage', table
'bronze_bdn_bcal.dbo.dnn_Portals'; column does not allow nulls. UPDATE fails. The statement has been terminated. at
System.Data.SqlClient.SqlConnection.OnError(SqlException exception, Boolean breakConnection) at
System.Data.SqlClient.SqlInternalConnection.OnError(SqlException exception, Boolean breakConnection) at
System.Data.SqlClient.TdsParser.ThrowExceptionAndWarning(TdsParserStateObject stateObj) at
System.Data.SqlClient.TdsParser.Run(RunBehavior runBehavior, SqlCommand cmdHandler, SqlDataReader dataStream,
BulkCopySimpleResultSet bulkCopyHandler, TdsParserStateObject stateObj) at
System.Data.SqlClient.SqlCommand.FinishExecuteReader(SqlDataReader ds, RunBehavior runBehavior, String resetOptionsString) at
System.Data.SqlClient.SqlCommand.RunExecuteReaderTds(CommandBehavior cmdBehavior, RunBehavior runBehavior, Boolean returnStream,
Boolean async) at System.Data.SqlClient.SqlCommand.RunExecuteReader(CommandBehavior cmdBehavior, RunBehavior runBehavior, Boolean
returnStream, String method, DbAsyncResult result) at System.Data.SqlClient.SqlCommand.InternalExecuteNonQuery(DbAsyncResult result,
String methodName, Boolean sendToPipe) at System.Data.SqlClient.SqlCommand.ExecuteNonQuery() at
Microsoft.ApplicationBlocks.Data.SqlHelper.ExecuteNonQuery(SqlConnection connection, CommandType commandType, String commandText,
SqlParameter[] commandParameters) at Microsoft.ApplicationBlocks.Data.SqlHelper.ExecuteNonQuery(String connectionString, CommandType
commandType, String commandText, SqlParameter[] commandParameters) at
Microsoft.ApplicationBlocks.Data.SqlHelper.ExecuteNonQuery(String connectionString, String spName, Object[] parameterValues) at
DotNetNuke.Data.SqlDataProvider.UpdatePortalInfo(Int32 PortalId, String PortalName, String LogoFile, String FooterText, DateTime
ExpiryDate, Int32 UserRegistration, Int32 BannerAdvertising, String Currency, Int32 AdministratorId, Double HostFee, Double
HostSpace, Int32 PageQuota, Int32 UserQuota, String PaymentProcessor, String ProcessorUserId, String ProcessorPassword, String
Description, String KeyWords, String BackgroundFile, Int32 SiteLogHistory, Int32 SplashTabId, Int32 HomeTabId, Int32 LoginTabId,
Int32 UserTabId, String DefaultLanguage, Int32 TimeZoneOffset, String HomeDirectory, Int32 lastModifiedByUserID) at
DotNetNuke.Entities.Portals.PortalController.UpdatePortalInfo(Int32 PortalId, String PortalName, String LogoFile, String FooterText,
DateTime ExpiryDate, Int32 UserRegistration, Int32 BannerAdvertising, String Currency, Int32 AdministratorId, Double HostFee, Double
HostSpace, Int32 PageQuota, Int32 UserQuota, String PaymentProcessor, String ProcessorUserId, String ProcessorPassword, String
Description, String KeyWords, String BackgroundFile, Int32 SiteLogHistory, Int32 SplashTabId, Int32 HomeTabId, Int32 LoginTabId,
Int32 UserTabId, String DefaultLanguage, Int32 TimeZoneOffset, String HomeDirectory) at
DotNetNuke.Modules.Admin.Portals.SiteSettings.cmdUpdate_Click(Object sender, EventArgs e) --- End of inner exception stack trace ---

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

DotNetNuke Free Skins

2009-09-25T02:49:00.001-04:00

I am only just starting to look at DotNetNuke skins.

This website looks like a good place to start for free skins.
www.dnnskins.com

Somewhere it says that Nina's first DotNetNuke skin, the first skin on this page, is still the most downloaded.
www.dnnskins.com/ninas-free-skins.aspx

If you click on the first DotNetNuke skin and you get to here
http://xdnewdesignaway.dnnskins.com/
where there seems to be a somewhat helpful explanation.

Virtual private servers

2009-09-24T18:17:00.000-04:00

See Cirtex for virtual private servers

http://www.hostv.com

090921 Internet Handholding, DotNetNuke Content Management, Audacity, Paint, Network Places, Copy Left to Right

2009-09-22T11:36:00.001-04:00

Hello Business Website Customers, Associates and Friends,

In the past, updating your website was a challenge.
Not any more. The phenomenal content management application DotNetNuke
makes updating your website yourself as simple as it could possibly be.

Celebrate the Year of Astronomy and the 400 anniversary of Galileo's invention
of the telescope. Look for events in your area. In Gainesville, see Astronaut
Captain Scott this Friday night at the Florida Museum of Natural History.
http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/starrynight/

Be Happy, Healthy and Prosperous,
Andrew

-----------------------------------------------------------
In This Email:

1. Article: DotNetNuke Content Management
2. Article: Free Tools Audacity and Paint
3. Article: Ftp Network Places
4. Article: Copy From Left to Right

-----------------------------------------------------------
Links:

- Computer Technical Support
www.ComputerGainesville.com

- Web Hosting
www.webhosting.vg

- Email Marketing
www.constantcontact.com/index.jsp?pn=bronzebp

- My Internet Blog
http://internethandholding.blogspot.com/

- Domain Names
www.evolve.name, www.domainnames.gs

-----------------------------------------------------------
Quotes:

- Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
~ James Joyce

- The wisest men follow their own direction.
~ Euripides

-----------------------------------------------------------
Featured Websites:

- www.ClassicalMusicRecords.biz - Buy vintage, classical
music, vinyl records

- www.PeacefulMind.com : Healing crystals, homestudy courses,
herbal supplements, hot stones, massage in New York

- www.VeraJoffe.com - Pyschologist Vera Joffe, PhD, PA,
writes, treats and runs groups for ADHD, Aspergers and
Selective Mutism in South Florida, Broward County

- www.ZimmermanTreeService.com - Professional, high quality
tree service, landscaping and outdoor property maintenance
in Palm Beach County, Florida

If you would like your website featured, contact us.

-----------------------------------------------------------
1. Article: DotNetNuke

DotNetNuke is a website content management application that lets
you update your websites yourself.

How easy is it.

With DotNetNuke, the next time you are looking at your website
and see something you want changed, all you need to do is click
on the little edit icon next to the entry and make your changes.

If you make a mistake, no problem, there is a recyle bin.

When Bill Gates stepped down from running the business of Microsoft
he made himself head of technology. He had a vision of how software
could work together, which he called Dot Net.

To showcase the power of Dot Net, Microsoft wrote the precursor to
DotNetNuke and gave it away for free. Other people since, with
Microsoft support, have taken over the project.

DotNetNuke is a phenomenal content management system that lets an
ordinary person's website have the power of the most sophisticated
websites.

Whether your website is one page that only changes occassionally
or a complex interactive website with lots of updaters, or anything
in between, DotNetNuke is by far the easiest way to manage your website.

Built on the Dot Net platform, DotNetNuke simplies management
both for the website owner and the technical support person.

DotNetNuke comes with a framework for your website, with menus,
user registration, logon, security, skins to change the appearance,
and many modules for different kinds of content.

There is a large add-on market of free and for-a-fee modules that
enhance DotNetNuke.

You can have announcements, blogs, events, forums, newsletters,
stores, wikis and much more, all with the latest website technology,
the equal of any of the most popular websites.

All of which is configurable to your tastes.

Built in are features that enhance your website for your visitors
with no work on your part. Visitors can search your entire website.
They can minimize sections of your page so they can more easily
see the content that they want.

DotNetNuke is search engine optimized. Plus, you can enable
comments, ratings and social bookmarking, to further help
your getting found on searches.

DotNetNuke is free. You can download and install DotNetNuke
yourself from www.DotNetNuke.com.

If you prefer, you can run your website on one of our DotNetNuke
installations. We take care of all the technical details. We buy
modules to enhance DotNetNuke and make them available to you. We
also train you and provide technical support. Contact us to get
running right away. See www.Webhosting.vg

-----------------------------------------------------------
2. Article: Free Tools Audacity and Paint

Microsoft has a lot of good programmers and they can write
a lot of software. As Windows was growing, Microsoft programmers
gobbled up more and more programs pulling them into Windows or
Office and giving them away for free with those products.

Many software companies that specialized in individual applications
went out of business as Microsoft swallowed up their fields.

After the lawsuits with Netscape and Quicken, Microsoft has
taken a different approach in certain instances, at least it
seems that way to me. One of these is with Paint.net.

Microsoft includes a weak graphics program called Paint with Windows.
Microsoft is capable of writing a graphics software package that could
put Photoshop and the rest out of business and give it away for free.
I imagine they might have one in-house, but I suppose to avoid more
lawsuits, they have avoided including one in Windows.

However, they supported the Paint.net project, which is a powerful,
free graphics program, which you can find here.
www.getpaint.net

Or if you prefer, you can try this free image editing program
www.gimp.org

For audio editing see the excellent and free Audacity
www.audacity.sourceforge.net

You can record and edit audio with no restrictions on length.

-----------------------------------------------------------
3. Article: Ftp Network Places

Are you using an Ftp program to update files on websites?

They are useful and I use them frequently, but another
convenient way to update online folders is using Windows
network places.

In the address bar of any Windows or Internet Explorer window,
type ftp:// followed by your website, like:

ftp://www.computergainesville.com

The first time, Windows will prompt you for your username
and password. You will then have opened another Windows
folder that works like any of your other Windows folders,
mostly.

-----------------------------------------------------------
4. Article: Copy From Left to Right

Developing good habits can save you time and avoid errors.
This is true in life and in your use of computers.

You can be more efficient and accurate by establishing
good procedures for yourself.

One I use is this.

Whenever I need to copy information from one place to another,
I put the window I am copying from on the left side of my
monitor. I put the window I am copying to on the right side
of my monitor.

I take a lot of photos and video. I copy them from my SD
card to an external hard drive. After I copy them I erase
them from my SD card.

This procedure helps me to keep everything straight so I
do not inadvertantly erase the files from the wrong place.

-----------------------------------------------------------
Write to publish@bronz.com to add your email or have
it taken off (I will not be offended).

Andrew Weitzen
publish@bronz.com
352-327-3672
Gainesville, FL

www.Bronz.com
- Internet hosting, programming and handholding
www.ComputerGainesville.com
www.InternetHandholding.com
www.Programmer.bz
www.Software.vg
www.WebHosting.vg

You may forward, print, post or use any part of this email
as long as you include this copyright notice.
-----------------------------------------------------------

090921 Internet Handholding, DotNetNuke Content Management, Audacity,

2009-09-21T15:26:00.000-04:00

Hello Business Website Customers, Associates and Friends,

In the past, updating your website was a challenge.
Not any more. The phenomenal content management application DotNetNuke
makes updating your website yourself as simple as it could possibly be.

Be Happy, Healthy and Prosperous,
Andrew

-----------------------------------------------------------
In This Email:

1. Article: DotNetNuke Content Management
2. Article: Free Tools Audacity and Paint
3. Article: Ftp Network Places
4. Article: Copy From Left to Right

-----------------------------------------------------------
Links:

- Computer Technical Support
www.ComputerGainesville.com

- Web Hosting
www.webhosting.vg

- Email Marketing
www.constantcontact.com/index.jsp?pn=bronzebp

- My Internet Blog
http://internethandholding.blogspot.com/

- Domain Names
www.evolve.name, www.domainnames.gs

-----------------------------------------------------------
Quotes:

- Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
~ James Joyce

- The wisest men follow their own direction.
~ Euripides

-----------------------------------------------------------
Featured Websites:

- www.ClassicalMusicRecords.biz - Buy vintage, classical
music, vinyl records

- www.PeacefulMind.com : Healing crystals, homestudy courses,
herbal supplements, hot stones, massage in New York

- www.VeraJoffe.com - Pyschologist Vera Joffe, PhD, PA,
writes, treats and runs groups for ADHD, Aspergers and
Selective Mutism in South Florida, Broward County

- www.ZimmermanTreeService.com - Professional, high quality
tree service, landscaping and outdoor property maintenance
in Palm Beach County, Florida

If you would like your website featured, contact us.

-----------------------------------------------------------
1. Article: DotNetNuke

DotNetNuke is a website content management application that lets
you update your websites yourself.

How easy is it.

With DotNetNuke, the next time you are looking at your website
and see something you want changed, all you need to do is click
on the little edit icon next to the entry and make your changes.

If you make a mistake, no problem, there is a recyle bin.

When Bill Gates stepped down from running the business of Microsoft
he made himself head of technology. He had a vision of how software
could work together, which he called Dot Net.

To showcase the power of Dot Net, Microsoft wrote the precursor to
DotNetNuke and gave it away for free. Other people since, with
Microsoft support, have taken over the project.

DotNetNuke is a phenomenal content management system that lets an
ordinary person's website have the power of the most sophisticated
websites.

Built on the Dot Net platform, DotNetNuke simplies management
both for the website owner and the technical support person.

DotNetNuke comes with a framework for your website, with menus,
user registration, logon, security, skins to change the appearance,
and many modules for different kinds of content.

There is a large add-on market of free and for-a-fee modules that
enhance DotNetNuke.

You can have announcements, blogs, events, forums, newsletters,
stores, wikis and much more, all with the latest website technology,
the equal of any of the most popular websites.

All of which is configurable to your tastes.

DotNetNuke is search engine optimized. Plus, you can enable
comments, ratings and social bookmarking, to further help
your getting found on searches.

DotNetNuke is free. You can download and install DotNetNuke
yourself from www.DotNetNuke.com.

-----------------------------------------------------------
2. Article: Free Tools Audacity and Paint

Many software companies that specialized in individual applications
went out of business as Microsoft swallowed up their fields.

After the lawsuits with Netscape and Quicken, Microsoft has
taken a different approach in certain instances, at least it
seems that way to me. One of these is with Paint.net.

However, they supported the Paint.net project, which is a powerful,
free graphics program, which you can find here.
www.getpaint.net

Or if you prefer, you can try this free image editing program
www.gimp.org

For audio editing see the excellent and free Audacity
www.audacity.sourceforge.net

You can record and edit audio with no restrictions on length.

-----------------------------------------------------------
3. Article: Ftp Network Places

Are you using an Ftp program to update files on websites?

They are useful and I use them frequently, but another
convenient way to update online folders is using Windows
network places.

In the address bar of any Windows on Internet Explorer window,
type ftp:// followed by your website, like:

ftp://www.computergainesville.com

The first time, Windows will prompt you for your username
and password. You will then have opened another Windows
folder that works like any of your other Windows folders,
mostly.

-----------------------------------------------------------
4. Article: Copy From Left to Right

Developing good habits can save you time and avoid errors.
This is true in life and in your use of computer.

You can be much more efficient and accurate by establishing
good procedures for yourself.

One I use is this.

Whenever I need to copy information from one place to another,
I put the window I am copying from on the left side of my
monitor. I put the window I am copying to on the right side
of my monitor.

I take a lot of photos and video. I copy them from my SD
card to an external hard drive. After I copy them I erase
them from my SD card.

This procedure helps me to keep everything straight so I
do not inadvertantly erase the files from the wrong place.

-----------------------------------------------------------
Write to publish@bronz.com to add your email or have
it taken off (I will not be offended).

Andrew Weitzen
publish@bronz.com
352-327-3672
Gainesville, FL

www.Bronz.com
- Internet hosting, programming and handholding
www.ComputerGainesville.com
www.InternetHandholding.com
www.Programmer.bz
www.Software.vg
www.WebHosting.vg

You may forward, print, post or use any part of this email
as long as you include this copyright notice.
-----------------------------------------------------------

Short cut keys to move a window using the keyboard

2009-09-05T01:09:00.001-04:00

Two-thirds of my Dell Inspiron 9200 17 inch wide, beautiful monitor is kaput. There was a manufacturing defect that caused many of
these laptop monitors to fail.

When I first noticed the problem, I checked with Dell, but I was out of the one-year warranty and they would not replace the screen.

The following year, they acknowledged the manufacturing defect and agreed to replace the monitors for free, within three years of
purchase. By the time I found out, my three years were up.

At first I had only lost the right two inches, so I was down to a 15 inch monitor. Still useable.

A couple of months ago, lost the left half of the screen, so now I am down to about a third strip on the right side, with some
vertical lines.

To buy a new monitor is about $300. Might as well buy a netbook.

Plugged an external monitor into the back and made the external monitor my primary display.

Most of the time this is fine, but if I happen to have the external monitor off when I turn on my computer, the laptop screen comes
up as the primary display.

I can right click and select properties in the working area, but the desktop settings open in the area of my screen that does not
work.

To move the window to the visible area, I need to move the window to the right using the keyboard. Here is how.

1. After opening the window, if no other windows are open and nothing else was done, the focus should be on the newly opened window.

2. Alt-spacebar should open the windows navigation drop down menu.

3. The m key should select the move function.

4. The arrow keys should move the window to the visible area, in my case, the right arrow.

The taskbar appears on the wrong monitor after you change the primary monitor in Windows XP

2009-09-04T14:13:00.002-04:00

To resolve this problem, follow these steps:

1. Click Start, click Run, type desk.cpl in the Open box, and then click OK.

2. Click the Settings tab, and then click the monitor that you want to use as the primary monitor.

3. Click to select the Use this device as the primary monitor check box if it is not already selected.

Note: The Use this device as the primary monitor check box is unavailable if you click the monitor that is currently set as your
primary monitor.

4. Click the monitor that you want to use as the secondary monitor.

5. Click to clear the Extend my Windows desktop onto this monitor check box, and then click Apply.

6. Click to select the Extend my Windows desktop onto this monitor check box, and then click Apply.

From: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/905776

Short cut keys to move a window using the keyboard

2009-09-04T14:13:00.001-04:00