Having had access to Microsoft Outlook for many years, and having had the misfortune to use IBM’s Lotus Notes, I like many have been faced with archiving and how to convert Lotus Notes messages to Microsoft Outlook. For years, there has been the convent Microsoft Outlook Connector that has worked, albeit intermittently and under strict conditions. This connector, however, is not supported under Microsoft Outlook 2003 (with SP3, or certain critical updates), Microsoft Outlook 2007, and Lotus Notes (newer than I believe 6.5.4).

After hours of research, I have concluded that there is no FREE, OpenSource, or hack that is a viable solution for multiple messages. Certainly, there seems to be several long work-a-rounds useful to the conversion of a single message at a time, however, I found a solution that not only successfully converted all of my Lotus Notes messages to Microsoft Outlook, but did so without a glitch. Continue reading ‘Convert Lotus Notes to Microsoft Outlook with Address Magic Personal PLUS’

On more than one occassion, I have read through an article that seamed relevant until I realized that the date of the article maybe years old. In many cases, the authors have made changes to the article, but the reader really isn’t sure about the content of the article because of the age, so they simply pass over the article, regardless of the likelyhood that the content is up-to-date and relevant.

I have modified a piece of code that I use, currently on my megocollector site, to alert the reader of the last time the article has been modified. Continue reading ‘Wordpress Tip: Add modified dates to posts’

The original Wordpress PayPal Donate is a plugin written by Mikhail Esteves in 2006. This plugin allows for the easy inclusion of Paypal Donate buttons in Wordpress posts and pages. On the option page the generated donate button code provided by PayPal can be saved to a form and the pre-defined tag may be applied to individual posts or pages.

Although this plugin is still in circulation and functional, I rewrote portions of the plugin to take advantage of the more modern functions that Wordpress offers including shortcodes. Continue reading ‘Wordpress Plugin: Paypal Donate (Version 1.1)’

There are many great Wordpress plugins that every site owner should consider using. Of the plugins, wp-print and Nextgen Gallery will greatly enhance any site. However, wp-print does not display the Nextgen Gallery the way that I would like it to. Instead of displaying the images in a row as displayed on the site, the printable version is a long column of images. This makes for a very long printable document that really does not look good at all. After many hours of frustration, I figured out a resolution to this. Continue reading ‘How to get wp-print to display Nextgen nicely!’

BigDump performs a staggered import of large and very large MySQL dumps similar to those of the phpMyAdmin 2.x dumps into a new or an existing MySQL database. Other reasons for using this script is if in the even access to the server shell is not possible or for what ever the reason the import fails using phpMyAdmin due to memory and runtime limits. Continue reading ‘BigDump for large MySQL Databases’

cPanel has become a standard for turning standalone servers into automated hosting platforms. Tasks are replaced by web interfaces and API-based calls. cPanel is designed with multiple levels of administration and provide multiple levels provide security, ease of use, and flexibility for everyone from the server administrator to the email account user.

One of cPanel’s features is under the Security section, called Hotlink Protection. Hotlink Protection is a tool that can deny access to specific files to prevent “leeching”. However, when enabled, the fancy URLs known as permalinks get destroyed. The results could be 403 and 404 errors. The reason is simple and so is the solution. Continue reading ‘Activate cPanel Hotlink Protection and get 403 and 404 errors.’

cPanel has become a standard for turning standalone servers into automated hosting platforms. Tasks are replaced by web interfaces and API-based calls. cPanel is designed with multiple levels of administration and provide multiple levels provide security, ease of use, and flexibility for everyone from the server administrator to the email account user.

cPanel powers web hosting companies and organizations that have a need to automate and offer competitive hosting services. cPanel can generally be run on port 2082 and webmail services generally provided through cPanel at port 2095. Many organizations, educational and learning facilities, and places of business have blocked these ports from use. However, there is a work-a-round through a proxy that does work. Continue reading ‘Access cPanel through Proxy when behind a firewall’

A client suspected their computer of being infected with a virus, trojan, or malware. There was the inability of using Internet Explorer without being redirected. Antivirus and anti-malware applications either did not identify any infection or did an claimed to remove the infection. The systems persisted. In desperation the computer’s hard drive was brought to me to identify the problem and correct it. Continue reading ‘Zlob Virus Removal’