Category Archives: Tips and Tricks
tweet2txt? tweet2dns? ok, why not….
Not even sure why we did this other than "because we could", but try this: Setup a txt record in your domain like this: host IN TXT ""v=twitterstatus1 txthost twitterid" And basically what happens is the last tweet from "twitterid" will be placed into the contents of a TXT record for "txthost" under your domain [...]
An iPhone hack for dynamic DNS updates with easyDNS
File under neat. Gavin Brock posted a way to dynamically update your DNS for your (jailbroken) iPhone. This is the same Gavin Brock who wrote the DNS::EasyDNS Perl Module many years ago.
MobileMe and easyDNS…
A number of customers have been registering domains to point to their new websites published via iWeb on their MobileMe accounts. Unfortunately, while MobileMe instructs how to point "www.yourdomain.com" to their services, they don't have a way to easily point just "yourdomain.com" to their services. This is especially important as not everyone on the internet [...]
How to explain "URLs" so anybody can understand them
One of our tech support guys just had a conversation with somebody who wanted "to register the URL http://example.com/something.html", where example.com was already registered, the person couldn't understand why he couldn't have that URL with "something.html" after it. We've heard variations of this one a lot. Like somebody who knows "xyz.zz" is taken "but can [...]
Running an affiliate program? Don't pay for sales you already had in the bag
People have tried this on us so many times I figure it must still work in many cases so after the last one I decided to post a brief note about this. We run an affiliate program via Commission Junction, it pays $20 per new customer acquisition. We also come up first in all major [...]
How to use your own domain name with Google Apps
Many Ayromlou does it again, publishing another step-by-step tutorial, complete with screen shots on how to use your own domain name on easyDNS with Google Apps..
How to use your domain name with blogger
Title says it all, easyDNS member Many Ayromlou wrote a clear step-by-step mini-howto today explaining the procedure to get your domain name registered through us working with your blogger.com blog: http://www.nerdlogger.com/2007/05/how-to-use-custom-dns-name-with-blogger.html My only comment is Step 6 shouldn't be a few hours' wait, not unless you've already typed your domain name into your browser before [...]
Four essential components of Search Engine Optimization
I've been helping a longtime customer debug getting his website setup with a google sitemap and stealth redirection and he asked me in more general terms if I had any advice for him around search engine optimization. Here are four essential "must have's" for SEO. Three you can do right now, the fourth is not [...]
Want to reduce email spam to your mail server? Stop using backup spooling
It is with regret that we have come to the following conclusion, but here it is: Offsite backup SMTP spoolers and backup mail exchangers have become worse than useless The problem is spam and the software that delivers it exploiting the weak authentication schemes inherent in the SMTP protocol itself. It used to be an [...]