By Shamly, on December 6th, 2010
Introduction
I have been using PHPMailer to send emails for some time now. PHPMailer is a fully featured email transfer class for PHP and its popularity has grown rapidly over the years. Recently I had to send e-mail messages using the GMail SMTP server for one of my clients.
Up to now I had only sent email messages using SMTP servers provided by the hosting company. The difference here is that I had to use SSL encryption to send emails. Using hosting company SMTP server has its drawbacks as there is a chance that your website IP address is already on a blacklist simply because someone else had abused the service before you.
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By Shamly, on October 24th, 2010
ESET smart security or anti-virus program will automatically scan programs and memory at start-up. This is set by default and in most cases it is an essential part in protecting your computer. But it may come at a price as your system start-up may get bogged down due to this scanning process. There are many reasons for this happening, such as you may have conflicting programs set to run at start up or have limited amount of memory.
You cannot cancel the start-up scan once it has started in the background, but there is a solution to stop the start-up scan from running in the first place by disabling the scan. Below are the steps you need to follow in order to stop the scan process:
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By Shamly, on October 1st, 2010
Page Speed is an open-source Firefox Add-on integrated with Firebug developed by Google. Webmasters and web developers can use it to evaluate the performance of their web site and to get suggestions on how to improve them.
This tool performs several tests on a site’s web server configuration and front-end code. These tests are based on a set of best practices known to enhance web page performance and can be used to get a set of scores for each page, as well as helpful suggestions on how to improve the web site’s overall performance.
By using this information, you can:
- Make your web site faster.
- Keep Internet users engaged with your site.
- Reduce your bandwidth and hosting costs.
SDK for developers
Developers can use the SDK to generate scores and suggestions in environments other than the Page Speed Firefox browser Add-on. Learn more.
By Shamly, on September 28th, 2010
Xmarks, the bookmark syncing service formerly known as Foxmarks, announced on the 27th of September that it will be shutting down the free bookmark synchronization service and will be deleting its users’ data on January 10, 2011. This was announced by Todd Agulnick (Co-Founder and CTO). The free, cross-browser syncing service couldn’t find a viable business model that support the free bookmark service and enable it to remain afloat. With money running tight and options fading, they have been looking for potential buyers for the past few months, but unfortunately they were unable to find one.
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