Printfriendly.com offers a free widget that will add a printer friendly icon to any type of website or blog.

If a visitor wishes to print a page and clicks the icon, it will open a dialogue where they can add or remove paragraphs and images from the information before it is printed. (You can click the printer friendly icon at the top of this post to see how it works.)

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It’s easy to install, only requiring a couple minutes to setup. Works in Drupal, WordPress, Joomla, zen cart, oscommerce, etc. Read more

This is a list of various fixes to stop Adobe Photoshop from permanently staying on the Hand Tool.

I have listed seven fixes, ranging from the easiest to do, to more in depth. The last fix is the most extreme, but it does work about 90% of the time.

Fix 1 – Simplest Fix, Open Adobe Photoshop, open an image, and Press Space bar.

Fix 2 – Quick Mask Mode or Revert

Open an image and Press Q to turn on Quick Mask mode, and press Q again to turn it off. This sometimes fixes the problem

Go to file, then Revert. Or press F12 to Revert.

Fix 3 – Select Your Workspace or Go back to a Default Workspace Read more

Looking around the blog-o-sphere and found two great blog article with links to free stock photos and free vector images. Great resources for marketing material, website design, etc.

25 Places to Find Stock Photos — Free and Cheap!

10 Website For Free Vector Images

Three websites not on these links that I use for design projects…

Zentextures.com – Free Large textures for whatever you are looking for. Stone, metal wood, paint, rust, plants, and more.

Istockphoto.com – I miss the days when images were a dollar on this website. But still a good place to find high quality stock photos.

bazaardesigns.com – Free Icon Sets, Vector images, stock photos, fonts, logos, website templates; the list goes on, but check it out, nice website big selection.

If you are looking for Clean Paypal, Visa, Master Card, Discover, American Express (Amex), or ACH – eCheck logos, then I recommend visiting these two websites

http://www.credit-card-logos.com/

http://www.fastcharge.com/html/card_logos.html

They offer several different image sizes or layouts for whatever style you are looking for. They have images with just a single credit card to images with a Paypal wrapper around Credit card images.

**You can also find Free Shipping and Anti-Spam logos on the second link.

I have had this very annoying problem happening with Firefox for the last couple weeks. Whenever I did a search using Google, I would have some links that would redirect me to clickcheck.ru and then I would be redirected to an Advertising website.

Permanent Fix for Clickcheck.ru – Thanks to EefJe

You can click on the link below to go to GeeksToGo Forum that has the Fix posted. Just remember to flush out your DNS entries after you have fixed the problem. Read more

I currently maintain two E-commerce website and I am in the process of building two more e-commerce website. This is a combination of my knowledge and experiences with the use of website badges for traffic conversion.

**In this article I am already assuming you have traffic via SEO techniques, Paid advertising, or whatever sources you prefer to use for traffic and you are trying to improve the traffic conversion rate.

One of the major problems people have with an E-Commerce website is getting visitors to buy their products or services.

Web gurus consider traffic conversion to be a science, but I like to think of it as an Art Form tied to a dynamic uphill battle. By dynamic uphill battle, I am referring to the fact that you will have to change your e-commerce website several times until you find the right combination of trust building and website style that works for your store. Once you reach the top of the hill and start getting customers on a consistent basis, then it gets progressively easier and from there all you need to do is make small changes that you can monitor with the intent of increasing conversion rates.

In my experience, the reason people are not buying your products is typically something small and easy to fix. The problem with being the owner of a website is that you can’t see the website as a new visitor would see with a fresh pair eyes. You most likely have looked at your websites hundreds of thousands of times, and a as result, you are near sighted and unable to see what is broken on your website that is hindering conversion. Sometimes this small issue can feel like finding a needle in a haystack.
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This is a round up of free programs I highly recommend using, on top of your typical protection and clean up programs such as Ccleaner, Nortons, Mcafee, AVG, Ad-Aware, Spybot etc.

MalwareBytes Anti-Spyware & Anti-Malware – This little program is really powerful, it has found malware on my system that Ad-aware had missed and it was able to remove some of the harder to get rid of malware programs such as Coolwebsearch without the need of an additional removal program. The only con to MalwareBytes, is that it does not do schedule scans, you need to manually go into the program to update and run the scan.  On the plus side though, the scan runs fast and is quite thorough.

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Dr Web CureIT – About a month ago I was having problems with a backup hard drive and I couldn’t figure out what was wrong with it. I kept having random boot errors and I knew the hard drive was not going bad, so I was suspecting some type of virus had gotten into the Master boot record and was causing havoc. I did a thorough scan with AVG and Nortons and they both said the drive was virus free. So on a whim I decided to look around and see what new programs were out and I found this little gem of a program called Dr Web CureIT. I ran this program on my backup hard Read more

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The most common issue that I run into with Godaddy is their email system. For the lowest service you are only allowed to send out 250 emails a day, each email is considered a "Relay SMTP sent email". Once you go past that, well you can’t send out email again until it resets sometime in the evening. Another common issue is not being able to receive emails, and various pop3 and imap issues.

So to summarize what this article is about, it’s how to switch over to a much better email server, which is Google Apps Standard which is free to use and easy to setup, effectively getting rid of Godaddys email relay problem and various issues with email receiving problems. I promise this fix does not mess with with php email script, such as WordPress sending out user confirmation emails.

Here is the walk through – Complete with pictures. This is very easy to do just takes a small amount of time.

Note – If you have a problem Seeing the images you can download this guide in Adobe PDF through this link.

So lets start from the beginning. Registration

1. Sign up for Google Apps Free Standard Addition – Link Updated on 5-29-09
   
2. Put in your domain Name – No you are not transferring your domain, this is just branding your email address to your website example – you@yourwebsite.com. You don’t have to fill in the organization info unless you really want to

Time To start with the Tutorial

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