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And You Thought Your Email Address Was Long…
Nov 25th
Many moons ago, right around the time I started blogging on Bauer-Power, I worked for a company called Newland Communities. Simple enough name, but when you cram that name into a URL, it now becomes a pretty long domain name. Now add that to the end of your user name, and you have a really long email address. Try calling support with that email address, and the technician asks you to spell out your address phonetically. Needless to say, it sucked!
Well, I found a place that puts the long-ass email address I had at Newland Communities to shame. Oh, and by the way, you can get an email address with them if you like for free! The site is, and I’m not kidding here, abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz.com, and they are giving away free mailboxes so you too can have one of the worlds largest email addresses!
Take a look at their selling points from their home page:
With each account, you not only get an obnoxious email address that is sure to piss you friends off, but also you get 25MB of storage. True, you’re better off with Gmail, but then again, you won’t have an email address that won’t fit into some web forms. Your call I guess.
-=El Di Pablo=-
How to Lead a Greener Life with the Internet
Aug 24th
Going green can give some people the blues. Trying to make the world a better place often involves some serious life changes, and this can take a lot of people out of their comfort zones, making the entire going green process a counterproductive activity. In this day and age, however, creating a greener environment is as simple as the click of a mouse. You may already be helping your environment without even knowing it. Here are a few ways we can all use the internet to lead a greener life.
Download Music
Arguably the easiest step is one that is already being done by millions: get your music online. Whether it is through iTunes, Pandora, or others, listening and grabbing music from the internet means that there’s no need for packaging, handling, transportation, or warehouses. Instead, the music gets transferred right to your computer. What could be greener than that? It’s pretty convenient too.
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Jul 4th
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Traffic surge takes AskTheAdmin offline. We use a caching plugin to bring it back…
Feb 7th
A little traffic surge of about 20,000 hits took our favorite tech support WordPress site – AskTheAdmin.com. It was my fault for not updating our caching plugin and it was not running properly. So after recieving several emails and phone calls I called our hosting company. As I was waiting on hold I got an email detailing the issue. They disabled the front end of WordPress but the backend was still up.
I was able to get into the wp-admin interface and uninstall the old caching plugin and install W3 Total cache the traffic was not as heavy when Gator reinstated the site but the 7,500 hits did not bring the server down. Learn a lesson from us no caching eats up server resources – enable a caching plugin like W3 today so it is running when you need it.
Thanks everyone for sticking with us!
“Young Geek”
Jan 29th
We have covered awesome free games for the little one’s like baby smash but as they get older you do have to pay for games for them. My little one now has a severe addiction to her iPad and YouTube. She also has me buying apps left and right so when I find a game that entertains her for hours I need to tell you guys out there with 3-5 year olds as well. The game is called Dora’s Big Birthday Adventure if you follow that link it is $14.99. My Kayla loves Dora and this amazes her on a touch screen Touch Smart desktop and on a Touch Screen Laptop.
Just a friendly reminder… BACKUP YOUR FILES!
Jan 29th
I see it time and time again – someone losing all of their personal documents, pictures or music to a bad hard drive a virus infection or even worse having a machine or drive stolen. So make sure you backup everything to the cloud or a server away from where the data is. This way if a disaster strikes you can recover. I love dropbox and I love Windows Home Servers for automatic backups.
Do you guys have backup routines? We want to hear about all your bat scripts running xxcopy scripts and all that good stuff. Hit us up in the comments guys. Let’s all benifit from the groups knowledge.
_TheBackedUpAdmiN_
