This is a video that shows how to be a little bit more secure using Microsoft Windows based web development tools by using them on a Mac (using OSX Leopard) which is much more secure than Windows. Windows has many more vulnerabilities than UNIX based operating systems such as Apple’s OS X and Linux. The security level of Linux and OSX is far superior to Windows and we can add a layer of security by running the Windows OS within VMware.
The Windows based web development tools can still be used (such as Adobe Dreamweaver, Flash, Fireworks, Photoshop, etc.) to build the website files but then instead of transmitting the files using the less secure Windows (and possibly having key logger malware spying on every key that is typed in the Windows environment such as user logins and passwords), we can drag and drop the files from the virtual machine (using VMware Tools) directly to the Mac.
You may get some other ideas as well after watching this video. On another note, you should notice the quality of these videos getting better as I figure out better ways to encode them.
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Yahoo launched the ymail.com and rocketmail.com domains for email accounts. Yahoo is one of the largest email account providers in the world with both free account and pay accounts. The free accounts have an ajax based web portal for reading and writing emails. For years, Yahoo has used the yahoo.com domain for email addresses. It is very simple to sign up for a new account. Just go to ymail.com and sign up. You can even chat with your friends within Yahoo mail.
Since these new domains just opened up, you may have a chance at getting your real name before someone else takes it. I had some friends of mine get their first name (like name@ymail.com). As long as it is more than four letters, you might have a shot. But don’t wait too long or you may miss your chance and end up with something like name1234@ymail.com. It is just not the same.
If you do sign up for a free account. Be sure to login to it regularly or you may lose your account. Or, you can purchase the “plus” package to add more features, more disk space, more spam filters, pop3 access, and much more.
So, go sign up for an account at ymail.com or rocketmail.com.
Mozilla launched Firefox 3, one of the most popular internet browsers. The highly anticipated launch and attempted download record clogged internet servers hosting the open source package which is available on all major platforms. Users trying to download firefox 3 were greeted with timeouts and other “server too busy” type messages as they attempted to set a record for most downloads in a day.
After the initial hours of the launch, things seemed to settle down a bit and users could download Mozilla’s firefox browser without issue. I downloaded the Mac OSX version and installed it. I recorded a video as I downloaded and installed it. There are many nice new features and it does seem to be a bit more snappy than prefious firefox versions. I don’t get into too many details in the video but thought I would post one so you could get a little idea about the process.
Keep in mind that if you install the newest version and you already have a lot of plugins (or add-ons) that you use in your current version of firefox, they plugins may not work if the developer has not yet released a version for firefox 3. You may want to wait a bit or at least keep a copy of your older version so you can continue using your plugins.
I hope everyone had a great Father’s day. I sure did. I always enjoy spending time with my family. My family is the primary reason I build my internet businesses. It gives me the freedom to control my own success. A job will not allow you to control your own success (or freedom). A job will keep you enslaved to your employer. Your employer will dictate how much money you make, when you have to work, and how long you have to work. If you think about it in a different way, you employer tells you how little money you make (just enough to get by - if even that much). They tell you when you can’t be spending time with your family and they tell you how much time you can spend with your family. On top of that, they can lay you off at any moment regardless of your situation.
I recently had some friends of mine told that they were no longer needed at their place of employment. They had worked hard (and did an excellent job) for many years and made the business what it was for their employer. They made many sacrifices along the way for the sake of their jobs and in the end, they were just let go. This seems to happen more and more these days.
The best way to be successful and in control of your own freedom is to have a business of your own that you control. An internet business is an ideal way to accomplish these goals. All you need to do is find out what people want and are willing to pay for, create the product, and sell it. It’s really pretty simple. It may not be easy, but it is a simple formula.
What are you interested in? Do you have a hobby? What do you know a lot about? You are an expert about something. If you know more about something than a majority of other people, you are an expert to them. They will want to know what you know. Just think about how many times someone asked you advice about something. You were an expert to them about whatever they were asking about. There are MANY more people that would ask you the same type of questions if they knew you could help them and a percentage of those people will pay you for your information.
So, get started and set up a blog or some other internet presence about yourself and your “expertise” and let people know about you. This is just the beginning of a successful business that can help you can gain financial freedom and success.
Here we go with the geeky info……I uploaded my first video to YouTube so it may not be perfect but it is a start. The video gives a little bit of information about virtual machines.I boot up a Windows XP virtual machine using VMware fusion on my Mac Pro and show you how to run Internet Explorer on a Mac (sort of).
This is one of the tools I use to do my website development for my internet businesses. It allows me to test my websites on multiple configurations with different operating systems and in different browsers. By using the VMware virtual machine software, I can do all of my testing on my Mac Pro system without having to physically have several different computers to test with.I can run multiple versions of Windows (XP, Vista, etc.) and I can run multiple versions of Linux while running on my host Mac OSX system. It gives me the best of all worlds and a lot of flexibility.
VMware can be run on Windows, Linux, and Mac OS. It is a valuable tool in many ways for many people. You can find it at http://vmware.com .
OK. All of the comments I got back were very positive about getting more geeky on this site and posting more of the technical information I would like to post. So, I’m going to start putting together some technical posts and hopefully videos I can start posting on this blog. I will also need to make some changes to this blog such as adding categories and deciding if I need to change the design around to better accommodate videos and so forth.
Thanks to everyone for their comments and if you have any suggestions on geeky material to post, post a comment.
OK. I’ve really been itching to add more blog posting about a lot of things I like. A lot of them are not so much business related as much as they are technical. Since they are more technical, I have been a bit hesitant to post them on this blog and possibly alienate some of my visitors. However, I am an absolute geek and LOVE talking about technical things. The technical things are what eventually made me successful since they are my passion and all of my businesses spawned from my technical knowledge.
So, here’s what I am thinking….. I am thinking about adding some more categories (and possibly sub-categories) that are more specific such as “Linux”, “Mac OS”, “Web Design”, “Video Production”, etc. With them being different categories, I could set up subscriptions/RSS feeds specific to each category so visitors could subscribe to just the info they want. They could still subscribe to the main list and get all categories if they so desire.
What are your thoughts? Please leave me some comments on this post. I will keep your posts private unless you specifically say I can make them public. Let me know what you think…..
Well, it’s been a long while since I posted to this blog. That’s one of the nice things about having your own blog is that you are in total control of when you want to post an entry.
It has been very interesting watching the traffic and other activity to this blog without any updates. I have been updating posts to some of my other blogs and doing many updates to a lot of my other sites.
So I spent about 30 minutes the other day writing a new blog entry. I did all of the normal things I do for each. I quickly wrote it without losing my train of thought just to get the content down before I forgot it. Then, I previewed it by clicking on the preview link (in another tab of my Firefox browser). I saw a few spelling errors and a couple of things I wanted to explain a little better so I clicked on the edit button to go back to the Wordpress administration area of my blog and made the changes. After checking a few more things and updating the entry to my liking, I posted the blog article. Everything looked good on the blog and I was ready to move on. I started browsing around other sites and doing my normal routine. Then, I came back to my blog and found my new blog entry was GONE! What in the world happened? I knew I had posted it. Where did it go? Did I accidentally delete it? Did I save it instead of publishing it? What went wrong?
I went back to my blog admin area and found the article still there but in a “saved” state and not published. Was I going crazy? I knew I had published it. Well, it was pretty late at night (actually early in the morning) so I guess I could have made a mistake. So, I published it again and everything looked fine. Until…… A few minutes later, my post vanished again. Now I’m getting really confused. I went back to the admin area and the same thing had happened. So, I went to my saved entries and then republished it once again. Then, I realized what was happening…..
It turned out that I had one of my browser tabs still opened on my Wordpress blog in the admin area (for writing) on the new blog entry. One of the features of Wordpress is an autosave feature that automatically saves your blog entry at regular intervals as you are writing it so if something happens while you are writing your entry, you will not lose all of your work. This is what was causing the problem. Even though I published my article (in another browser tab), when the refresh cycle came around in the other tab, it would “autosave” the article back to a saved state instead of a published state. Also, if I had made any edits to the article in another tab, the could have gotten lost when this browser tab autosaved.
So, be sure you do not do the same thing with your blog. It can really be mind boggling and frustrating when it happens if you don’t realize what is going on when your blog entries mysteriously start vanishing. Do all of your work in one browser and with just one tab without opening other ones. Or, if you like using multiple browser windows and tabs, be sure to keep track of them and don’t fall into the same trap.
I live in Central Florida and we had the massive power outage all over the central and southern part of the state. The outage made national news. About 8 power plants were down for a few hours. One of the biggest issues with the power outage was the loss of power to many traffic lights. There were many accidents due to the powerless traffic lights. There was also a lot of traffic congestion causing many commute delays.
One thing I realized even more in this situation was how people feel about their passion or their J.O.B. Without fail, everyone that I talked to about the power outages with a JOB was either glad the power was out at their job so they didn’t have to work any more the rest of the day. Or, if the power was on where they worked, they wished it would go out for them so they didn’t have to work.
On the other hand, everyone that I talked to about the power outages that ran their own business and had a passion for what they do were glad they didn’t lose power so their work was not interrupted and they could continue to improve their business. Or, if their power was out, they couldn’t wait for it to come back on so they could get back to running their business that they loved. In fact, many of them that lost power were still working their business in ways that they didn’t need power.
You can really see the difference between those with JOB mentality and those with a freedom mentality. You can also see how people’s passions drive them to have a better business in times like this. It is really fascinating to see what really comes out of people when faced with challenges.
What do you do when the power goes out? Do you use it as an excuse to be lazy or do you look for ways to make the most of the time and still get things done?
