Tech Exposures

Entries for the ‘Internet Tips & Tricks’ Category

How to Play Windows Media Files on your iMac Macbook Pro

Want to play Windows Media files (wmv, mms, wma, asx) on your Macintosh Safari and Chrome browser? You’ll need to install a free plugin that will give your Mac Quicktime player the extensions it needs to play Microsoft Windows content. Here are the steps to install the required plugin: 1. Download the free flip4mac plugin [...]

Top 5 Trends and Key Learnings at Affiliate Summit West 2011 Las Vegas

The Affiliate Summit West was held last week in Las Vegas at the Wynn Resort and had nearly 5,000 attendees. This is _the_ place where affiliate internet marketers meet to learn about the latest industry trends and to meet with new and existing marketing partners. The conference included an expo and “meet market” where dozens [...]

Fix for Skype problems connecting in Windows 7

Recently, I’ve had problems connecting to Skype lately on my Dell Studio laptop on Windows 7. My Linux box has no problem connecting on the same internet connection so I ruled out network and account problems. I read about one hundred blog posts and Skype recommendations but nothing worked. I really need Skype as I [...]

Get Adsense Stats Even when Google Site is Down for Maintenance

Q. I have a Google Adsense account. Google occasionally shuts down for maintenance. During this time, usually four hours, all access reports if off. I’m left with no way of knowing how my website is performing. What do I do? A. Google continues tallying ad clicks on your website, even if you can’t see them [...]

PHP Script – Show Google Search Term That Brought Visitor to Your Website

Find the Google Search Term Keywords That Landed the Visitor on Your Website I always wanted to know when displaying the webpage what search brought the user to this page.  You can always look at Google Analytics, or whatever statistics package you have on your server (Urchin, Webalizer, etc…), but that is after the fact.  [...]

Easiest Way to Have a USA IP Address

Free and Legal Method for Acquiring a Reliable USA IP Address For Testing and Surfing While Outside the USA. Q. You’re located outside the USA and need to test what your website looks like to your USA visitors.  What’s the easiest way to accomplish this for free an without pesky and unstable ip cloaks and [...]

Top 5 Must Have WordPress Plugins

If you are starting or already are maintaining a Wordpress blog, you must have these plugins mentioned here.  There are hundreds, if not thousands of plugins by now.  But eye-candy isn’t going to make your blog popular.  You need the right tools. If I was the distro manager for Wordpress,  I would include all five [...]

Wordpress 2.8 Bug – Visual Editor is Missing Menu

Wordpress 2.8 Bug For those of you who have upgraded your blog to version 2.8 of Wordpress, which was released last week, there is a bug that is being reported in the forums.  The visual editor WYSIWYG menu is lost.  Users are reporting this problem in Firefox 3 and in IE8.  I have experienced the [...]

Ubuntu Server – Configure and Run Multiple Websites on One Server

Here’s a simple tutorial to get many websites running on one ubuntu server Let’s say you have root access to your own server and want to run many websites on it. If you have Ubuntu Server running with Apache, I will show you in a few easy steps how to configure and run as many [...]

Ping Your Blog – The Essential Free Traffic Tool.

Every time you post a new story to your blog you should have a ritual of actions you take to ‘guerrilla market’ your blog.  Without letting the world know you exist, it is nearly impossible to grow your reading population. Your post-blog ritual may include, Twitter, Digg, Propeller, & StumbleUpon.  You should also be automatically [...]