· December 11, 2005 at 2:55 am · Odds & Ends
I don’t want to fighten anybody, but yes, I merged what was MitchKeeler.com with what is Mitchelaneous (the Web site you find yourself on right now). Now why did I do such a thing? Well, MitchKeeler.com wasn’t much more than an ego-builder for me. Now I can kill two birds with one stone and build my ego here instead. As you can see by the navigation at the top, all the MitchKeeler.com pages have been moved over. So hopefully not too many will be lost in the transition, and we can keep on rockin’ the world one post at a time.
· December 10, 2005 at 5:42 pm · Odds & Ends
Why are there not any Web hosting-related holiday songs? The Web hosting world is just as festive as any other industry out there today. Well, here is a project that didn’t exactly work out the way I had seen it at first. At first I thought I would be able to sing this as a Web Hosting Show holiday special. Then I remembered, I can’t carry a tune to save my life. I didn’t want to trash all my efforts in writing the song though. So here you have it, the very first Web hosting related Christmas song, The Twelve Days of a Web Hosting Christmas!
On the first day of Christmas,
my Web host sent to me,
one hell of a hosting podcast.
On the second day of Christmas,
my Web host sent to me,
two gigs of disk space,
and one hell of a hosting podcast.
On the third day of Christmas,
my Web host sent to me,
three nerdy gurus,
two gigs of disk space,
and one hell of a hosting podcast.
On the fourth day of Christmas,
my Web host sent to me,
four domain registrations,
three nerdy gurus,
two gigs of disk space,
and one hell of a hosting podcast.
On the fifth day of Christmas,
my Web host sent to me,
*five mySQL databases,
four domain registrations,
three nerdy gurus,
two gigs of disk space,
and one hell of a hosting podcast.
On the sixth day of Christmas,
my Web host sent to me,
six server side includes,
five mySQL databases,
four domain registrations,
three nerdy gurus,
two gigs of disk space,
and one hell of a hosting podcast.
On the seventh day of Christmas,
my Web host sent to me,
seven sub-domains,
six server side includes,
five mySQL databases,
four domain registrations,
three nerdy gurus,
two gigs of disk space,
and one hell of a hosting podcast.
On the eighth day of Christmas,
my Web host sent to me,
eight forum flavors,
seven sub-domains,
six server side includes,
five mySQL databases,
four domain registrations,
three nerdy gurus,
two gigs of disk space,
and one hell of a hosting podcast.
On the ninth day of Christmas,
my Web host sent to me,
nine FTP logins,
eight forum flavors,
seven sub-domains,
six server side includes,
five mySQL databases,
four domain registrations,
three nerdy gurus,
two gigs of disk space,
and one hell of a hosting podcast.
On the tenth day of Christmas,
my Web host sent to me,
ten T1 connections,
nine FTP logins,
eight forum flavors,
seven sub-domains,
six server side includes,
five mySQL databases,
four domain registrations,
three nerdy gurus,
two gigs of disk space,
and one hell of a hosting podcast.
On the eleventh day of Christmas,
my Web host sent to me,
eleven virtual accounts,
ten T1 connections,
nine FTP logins,
eight forum flavors,
seven sub-domains,
six server side includes,
five mySQL databases,
four domain registrations,
three nerdy gurus,
two gigs of disk space,
and one hell of a hosting podcast.
On the twelfth day of Christmas,
my Web host sent to me,
twelve bandwidth tutorials,
eleven virtual accounts,
ten T1 connections,
nine FTP logins,
eight forum flavors,
seven sub-domains,
six server side includes,
five mySQL databases,
four domain registrations,
three nerdy gurus,
two gigs of disk space,
and one hell of a hosting podcast.
· December 9, 2005 at 11:00 am · Odds & Ends
Who ever knew that Firefox could be so handy when you are lost? Well, let us not get lost before we get good use out of this Firefox extension. MapIt! highlights an address and gets a map and driving directions using your favorite online mapping Web site.
What mapping Web sites are included? Currently this extension supports MapQuest, Maps.com, Yahoo!, and more! Currently only maps via the United States are supported with this extension as well.
Using the MapIt! extension could not be any more simple. After you install it, all you need to do is right-click on any Web site and scroll down to the “MapIt!” option.
From there you can show a map, get diving directions to a location, get driving directions from a location or configure the options for the extension itself. From the options, you can set the map or directions to come up in a new tab, a new window or the same window you are in right now. It is just that easy.
So never find yourself lost or looking for directions again. As long as you have Firefox and MapIt! you should never find yourself not knowing where you are at or where you want to go.
· December 8, 2005 at 1:20 pm · Odds & Ends
There is another Web Hosting Show Video Tutorial just waiting for you to watch! This time around I tackle the world of bandwidth and try to explain it in a way that everybody can understand it. Everybody from Web hosting newbies to Web hosting gurus are welcome to watch, so check it out and be sure to let me know what you think.
· December 8, 2005 at 11:00 am · Odds & Ends
I do a little Web design on the side for a few friend and a few of my own side projects here and there. Every so often, I visit a Web site that has a great color layout. All the colors are smooth and work so well with one another. Instead of hunting through a CSS file or trying to recreate the color myself, I use ColorZilla to point out the best colors that are inside my Firefox browser window.
Here is what the author of the Firefox extension has to say about it:
Advanced Eyedropper, ColorPicker, Page Zoomer and other colorful goodies. With ColorZilla you can get a color reading from any point in your browser, quickly adjust this color and paste it into another program. You can Zoom the page you are viewing and measure distances between any two points on the page.
If you are a Web site designer or work on graphics via your personal computer, this is the Firefox extension for you. The built-in palette browser allows choosing colors from pre-defined color sets and saving the most used colors in custom palettes. DOM spying features allow getting various information about DOM elements quickly and easily.
Some of the new features with ColorZilla 0.8.3.1 are: fully compatible with Firefox 1.5, addded %url-full%, %url-path% and %url-file% status bar fields (useful for frames), added RGB percentage status bar field, added ‘Export palette’ option to palette manager, and more.
There really isn’t a better right hand man when it comes to color selection on your computer. ColorZilla has everything you could ever want or need and the best part is, it is totally free.
· December 7, 2005 at 11:00 am · Odds & Ends
There should not be one writer out there today that doesn’t have this extension plugged into Firefox. ScrapBook is the perfect tool for any writers, both offline and online, who do a lot of research before they write. This extension isn’t just for the writers out there. Even non-writers will find this tool helpful and neat.
What does it do? The ScrapBook Firefox extension allows you to save Web pages in easily managed collections. So how is this diffrent from bookmarking a Web site? Well, when you bookmark something, you are saving the entire Web page. With ScrapBook, you are only saving the part of the Web page that you wanted to save.
Here is what the author of ScrapBook has to say about it:
ScrapBook is a Firefox extension, which helps you to save Web pages and easily manage collections. Key features are lightness, speed, accuracy and multi-language support.
Some of the features include: the ability to save Web page, save snippet of Web page, save Web site (In-depth capture), organize the collection in the same way as Bookmarks tree, highlighter, eraser and various page editing tools, full text search and quick filtering search, and text edit feature resembling Opera’s Notes.
Do you see why I love this extension yet? As I said before, this is the perfect companion when it comes to writing on the Web. It makes research for stories and ideas just that much easier. Try it out for yourself, and let me know what you think of it.
