Google Apps Help

If your domain is using Google Apps for your Domain, which acts as the email server system, it receives all your mail (inbound and outbound) and processes it for spam, viruses, and phishing. This is done by pointing certain parts of your domain name (CNAME and MX records) to Google’s services. If you are an admin with Google’s services, you …

WP-DBManager and MediaTemple Hosting

Ok – I ran into an odd issue while migrating my entire smartergeek.com site over to MediaTemple hosting – running WordPress and Thesis. Why did I move my site? I ran into a performance issue with GoDaddy’s hosting of WordPress and mySQL. My page times were taking between 3-49 seconds!.That’s crazy even for shared servers. There are lots of posts …

JungleDisk iPhone App

JungleDisk recently released their iPhone app. It allows you to directly access your cloud backup storage – which is really cool for several reasons. First, I can access my backup files (sent to the cloud every 24 hours) and attach files to an email if necessary. There have been several times that I’ve needed to send a file to a …

Dell Inspiron 1525 Windows 7 Install

I installed Windows 7 on a Dell Inspiron 1525 this weekend. It took less than 30 minutes with a brand new 640GB drive. Everything went nearly perfect – the only drivers that Win7 didn’t install was for a “Base System Device”, which was the Ricoh card reader. Here’s a direct link to the correct driver: http://ftp.us.dell.com/chipset/Ricoh_R5C833_A00_R240788.exe Update: Per Brandon – …

Wii and Netflix are cool

Well I just got my Netflix Streaming Disc for the Wii. Let me just say – it works really really well. The boys have watched it nearly non-stop. The movies stream in within a few seconds and just start playing. We have experienced only 1 instance of buffering for maybe a 1/4 second. You just put the disc in choose …