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Recently I was introduced to a website that offers a wide variety of training on not only Microsoft office, but Microsoft operating systems as well. They have 3 separate levels of memberships to choose from, each one offering something a little bit better than the last. Today, I will briefly walk you through what is offered, and show you just how easy it is to use the lessons. First things first are the three membership … Read more
Even as a WordPress blogger images are very important to making an impression with readers, choosing the right images for your WordPress blog theme, images and logos for your site banners or even social media icons can help draw attention and clicks. I was experimenting with Vector.me a free vector search engine which allows you to find and download free vector and free logo files that you can use for your own websites or blogs. … Read more
Are you bored with routine work, having a dull day in the office, or have some leisure time? Then check out the following game site ToomkyGames.com! Toomkygames.com is a free full version games site which features online as well as desktop games. Kids and adults can spend hours beating each others high scores in their favorite games. Games on this site are unique and as addictive as any other online game portal. Without a doubt Toomkygames.com … Read more
There literally is online insurance for anything these days and it should come as no surprise that you can actually find a few rare insurance companies that offer website insurance which can also include e-commerce insurance, cyber liability insurance, and more. Basically there are ways to insure your online business to help protect assets, in the event of hacking, outages, legal liability for IP infringement, data protection, defamation…etc. Now your typical online marketing or affiliate … Read more
Let’s say you have a few images on your site that you want in articles, but don’t want to show up in Google Image search. There are a few steps you should follow to remove images from Google Search one that makes an immediate removal request and the other which permanently makes it so the image won’t be indexed and show up on Google Image Search. To remove an image from Google Search this actually … Read more
Dream Spark is a great resource for students because it allows you to download developer tools for free if you can prove that you are a student. This novel initiative by Microsoft has been highly praised by everyone. However, it is quite annoying to download Visual Studio 2012 or other large files from Dream Spark because of it’s crappy Secure Download manager or SDM. SDM or Secure Download Manager is a piece of software that … Read more
Got bored of Facebook’s timeline visual? Here’s something new which will be introduced very soon. Facebook always tried to give new features to their users whether they wanted them or not, and the biggest social networking site Facebook is currently rolling out new changes for the users once again. This feature which already exists for some users includes a reply button on comments, and news feed features. News Feed: A few weeks ago Facebook announced that they were bringing a new … Read more
The .htaccess file is the standardized Apache specific configuration file and is leveraged by most hosting providers that support WordPress blogs. Unless you are running on a Windows hosted environment with IIS servers and therefore you wouldn’t have a .htaccess file chances are your WordPress blog is using a .htaccess file to handle everything from how the site content is structured, URL’s are rewritten to any custom redirects you may have put in or leveraged … Read more
This was the year where DragonBlogger.com was to transition to a new leaner theme and perhaps transition to cloud hosting platform which is more scalable and capable of handling more concurrent SQL connections than my current hosting situation. I particularly only find this an issue because I am a multi author site and when more than one author is logged into WordPress at the same time the 2 concurrent SQL connections limitation causes intermittent 500 … Read more
Years ago, even before my time, there were the rotary dial phones and households would share their phones with other households in a party line (where do you think the “town gossip” got her information?). We have come a long way since those days, with touch tone, cell phones, digital calls, video calls, and conference video calling (by choice and not necessity). There is a new app that allows you to use your Facebook (or … Read more
Yesterday, Incapsula made their Backdoor Protect feature open up to public beta. This feature adds an additional layer of protection for your site by performing on-execution request monitoring and combining it with HTTP signature detection methods to detect any inappropriate shell environments that may be opening and being used on your web host. If a backdoor is detected by Incapsula Backdoor Protect it will notify the admin and send a preview link identifying the file … Read more
When browsing to see what Kickstarter projects were floated around and reached full funding it was curious when I saw that VLC had a fully funded Kickstarter Project to create a true VLC for Windows 8 integrated app so users can open media files quickly and easily from the Windows 8 start screen. VLC Viewer is a very popular and arguably one of the best media viewers for Windows and Linux that allows you to … Read more
I run a lot of giveaways and often work with co-sponsors and co-hosts who want to write a blog post to share the contest. Rather than send the entire HTML code via social media or email which sometimes can get broken or modified with script code elements removed or damaged there is an easier way to share script code that you may want to share with others. This service is called Pastebin Watch a Quick … Read more
I have had most of my blogs protected by Incapsula for the past several weeks and have seen improvement in both performance, reduced downtime and benefited from the increased security of using Incapsula to protect my sites over the past few weeks. What is Incapsula Incapsula is a web application firewall, CDN and website optimizer all rolled into one package. It is a cloud based service that sits in front of your websites or blogs, … Read more
Small Businesses often lack the IT talent that large scale organizations have the resources to employ but if you are a business with between ten and a hundred employees you may still want the enterprise level service and stability of a Microsoft Exchange email system. This can be equally important if you want to leverage Microsoft Office Cloud, SharePoint and other Microsoft products where it is easier to have an Exchange integration for keeping everything … Read more
In this weeks episode of The Dragoncast the guys discuss Batman and since the new Christopher Nolan Batman trilogy has been released Brian, Bryce and Andrew talk about each of the films (WARNING there are some movie spoilers!) and even rate them from best to worst, but let’s be honest here all of the movies were great…right? Also Andrew and Brian give a review of the newly released game in the Far Cry series “Far … Read more
Since I started the switch to running my contests from Rafflecopter to PunchTab primarily I have worked with the PunchTab team to help get 3 new features implemented into the PunchTab contest service. These additional features just added recently are: Punchtab Updates Export to CSV Now you can export the entries to a CSV file which you can open in Excel and filter your entries to get the total counts you need for various entry … Read more
Welcome to another week of The Dragoncast. November 18th 2012 marked a very special day in the history of video games as Nintendo officially started the eighth generation of home video game consoles. The Dragoncast’s very own Brian was one of the few that was able to pick up a Wii U this past weekend and on this episode he provides us his own review of the Wii U. Also be sure to join Brian, … Read more
It is no surprise that I have been contacted by a lot of web hosting companies over the past few weeks and have worked with several myself over the past few months. While my site is reaching the limits in traffic and connections I can get from a shared hosting solution I have managed to optimize my site as best as possible leveraging both a CDN(Content Delivery Network) like MaxCDN as well as using an … Read more
If you want to optimize your blog so that you can leverage the latest trends when your posts show up in the Google Search results you will want to use the Google Structured Data Testing tool frequently until you get your posts to show up the way you want them to. The Structured Data Testing Tool Google has a Structured Data Testing Tool that analyzes the microdata on your page and display what information Google … Read more