Category: Web

I can’t begin to tell you how frustrating this one was. So, local WAMP install on Vista 32bit. Using XpertMailer plugin to use Gmail as SMTP host for outgoing WordPress emails. Something I’ve done with no problem on my VPS. On my local machine, I just couldn’t get the XpertMailer plugin past the submission ‘Loading…’ […]

I would love an app that let me use Smugmug as a Twitter photo service. Or, an iPhone->Smugmug photo uploader that automatically posts a link to Twitter. Posterous – I’m looking at you. Smugmug – I’m keeping a hopeful eye open.

I did say… *Disclaimer: I’m not (and don’t claim to be) an expert. This could break things, upset your granny or otherwise not do what you want. I’m happy to receive corrections or improvements – or thanks if it works for you!* Turns out I was overcomplicating things a bit. I assumed that something in […]

I have my own Virtual Private Server (VPS) on which I use the excellent Virtual Multiblog (d’oh – still haven’t finished that post) to host multiple Wordpress sites on one server. I then wanted to consolidate some other sites I’m responsible for onto this VPS and save some hosting fees. I didn’t want to rewrite them as Wordpress blogs though, and that left me trying to figure out how to host both types of site on one server using WAMP.

Whilst browsing around on Twitter last night when I should really have been browsing the inside of my eyelids, I saw an interesting question from @euan: Wondering if shortened url’s count towards Google page rank …. http://twitter.com/euan/status/3982135076 Now my immediate thoughts were (1) no of course they can’t, because otherwise nearly every website in the […]