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June 14, 2019 Wordpress

My Favorite WordPress Plugins

This list represents my goto common plugins most sites will use. I don’t always install all of them, of course, but within their various categories I reach for these. The list is always changing as I test different plugins against each other and find issues and try new things etc.

August 23, 2016 IT Tech

How to Create a Bootable USB Drive Using Command Line

I use this technique all the time so I just stole the instructions for myself here. Insert the USB drive. Open a command prompt as administrator and type diskpart Type list disk Note the number of the USB drive. Type select disk <x> Where <x> is the disk number. Type clean << disk will

May 23, 2016 Cloud Services

How To Show Thumbnail Images in Advanced Typepad Template Excerpts

If you use advanced templates with Typepad, you might not be getting optimized images in your excerpt listings. In my case, the main index page was using “thumbnails” that were sized via CSS but in fact were the full size images. This slowed down the page load time for sure.

November 30, 2015 General

Scheduled Task Batch File Isn’t Working

There are a couple things to keep in mind when you use the Task Scheduler in Windows to run a batch file. Actually there are only two that get batch files working for me on most occasions. Proper File Permissions The first thing is that the batch file itself must

November 23, 2015 Cloud Services / Web Design

The Best Web Hosting for a Business

There are a million articles on the Internet about who is the best webhost, or who is the best web host for “some specific purpose here“. This is not an article about the best “free” host or the best “cheap” host or the best host for web developers. This is

August 4, 2015 Software

How to Monitor a Folder for Changes in Linux in Real Time

This is a handy little command I found recently. I was testing something on my CentOS server and needed to look at a particular folder to wait for a file to appear. I quickly tired of typing ll over and over to see if the folder changed. After a little

June 17, 2015 IT Tech

A Day in the Life of Small Business IT

8am – Look at scheduled tasks I have many repetitive tasks scheduled on the calendar in my business email. On a typical Monday morning usually a handful of tasks have become due. Most of these tasks don’t take much time and are related to maintenance chores, housekeeping, backups, etc. I

April 11, 2014 Cloud Services / Data / Programming

Convert Network Solutions CSV Product Exports to WooCommerce CSV Imports

This post will eventually detail everything you need to do to export Network Solutions products into WooCommerce formats for importing. I wanted to start this post now even though it’s unfinished, so I can collect some feedback if this sort of thing is something more people are needing. There are