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  sSMTP vs Sendmail   Linux distributions have relied on the venerable Sendmail package since the early days of Slackware. But Sendmail’s rich mail server features aren’t an ideal solution for the typical desktop user whose primary mail support is delivered through a remote ISP. That’s the perfect place for a simpler solution: sSMTP. Many years ago, before the Internet standardized [...]

  10 months on
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  Design Tips for a Successful Website   I like to develop and enable good websites.  I do it simply, cost effective, but with a sense of solid quality, using the tools and capabilities that are making the web so exciting, but sensibly so…. I urge you to think about what constitutes a good website and use those thoughts to help you in your [...]

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  Domain Names 101 If you want to look professional, you need your own appropriate domain name. If you are going to use my webservices, I can arrange the domain name or names for you. If you want to know more, or you’d like to buy your own domain names, read further: Subdomains It is possible sometimes to piggyback off another domain [...]

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  Tips for Choosing a Domain Name   There are many websites with articles giving different aspects of advice about how to choose a domain name. This is a very important step and should be done early in your business development cycle. It will give you portability of your site should you need to change hosts; avoiding the loss of links and search [...]

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  Tips for a more popular blog 1. Write posts that is hot to be read right now.2. Bookmark your site to social bookmarking websites, i.e. digg, del.icio.us, reddit3. Be among the first with a great blog on your topic, then encourage others to blog on the same topic.4. Break news.5. Post regularly.6. Make groups like Google and Yahoo groups, and then [...]

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  What Microsoft doesn’t tell you about Windows 7   OVERVIEW * Cannot "upgrade" from Windows XP– only from Vista. XP users will have to do a full-package clean install * To upgrade from Windows XP to Windows 7 with XP-compatibility will cost users $299 * Significant incompatibility with Windows XP * Only the pricier versions offer [...]

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  Neatx: A new NX server from Google On July 7, internet search giant Google not only announced its operating system Google Chrome OS with much fanfare, it also quietly released Neatx, an open source NX server. According to the announcement, Google has been looking at remote desktop technologies for quite a while. While the X Window System has issues with network latency [...]

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  Extending Gnome’s Nautilus File Manager Nautilus-actions is an extension for nautilus which allows you to add an arbitrary program to launch from the nautilus popup menu of selected files. Each time you right-click on one or several selected files in nautilus, nautilus-actions will look at its configuration to see if a program has been setup for this selection. If so, [...]

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  Best Cross-Platform Email Apps   Linux comes with various GUI based email client to stay in touch with your friends and family, and share information in newsgroups with other users. The following software is similar to Outlook Express or Windows Live Mail and is used by both home and office user. Webmail interfaces allow users to access their mail with any [...]

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  Tweet this!   (From Mashable)   Twitter has become an integral part of our social media lives, marketing strategies, and business objectives. We have multiple accounts, hundreds of followers to watch, Twitter trends to track, hashtags to follow, and a frequent need for continuously updating search results. As such, getting by on the limited feature set available via Twitter.com is difficult [...]

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