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Yesterday I attended the Remembrance ceremonits here in Nanaimo and I took some pictures I wanted to share with you. You can see the rest on my Flickr page for Remembrance Day. Read Full Post

Live Messenger has now forced everyone to upgrade to the most recent version. A couple people in our office needed to do the update. One of them had a major issue after the upgrade and could not sign in. No error message, just a redirection back to the sign in screen. After much pain I found this blog on Windows Live Messenger Sign in Fails but no Error Message and it fixed my issue. Basically he says to change the Compatibility mode settings for the sign in exe to Windows 95. This should not... Read Full Post

If you have a large lead database there are a few things to remember to help keep you (and us) off the Spam Blacklists when sending email to your whole list. These things will improve the number of your emails that make it to peoples inboxes. Keep your list clean. If someone replys to your mail asking to be removed, unsubscribe them (under Edit in the lead manager). If an email bounces, unsubscribe or delete them. In 2.5 all emails now contain an Unsubscribe link which is good to keep those t... Read Full Post

This weekend was Bathtub weekend in Nanaimo. I went down to get some pictures of the fireworks show on Saturday and there was a lighting storm across the water on the mainland. Read Full Post

Changing your DNS can take a few hours to 2 days. Sometimes you just want to see the new site NOW. Here are some things to try to get you to the new site sooner. Step 1: Flush your DNS On your computer go to Start -> Run and type in CMD and click OK. Then type in ipconfig /flushdns You should get something like this Windows IP Configuration Successfully flushed the DNS Resolver Cache. Now close and reopen your browser. If you have multiple windows or tabs open you will need to close them a... Read Full Post

Friday - March 13, 2009 12 AM Pacific / 3 AM Eastern All REW servers will be offline for an estimated 2 hours 30 min so that they may be moved to a larger area in the Datacenter at RackSpace. This move is needed due to the purchase of some new servers including the Premium Hosting servers. http://www.realestatewebmasters.com/...rey/7367/show/ Read Full Post

Hello Everyone Here are some frequently asked questions about email hosted with REW on our servers at Rackspace. If you are still hosted on the old Planet servers your settings will be slightly different. What is my incoming mail server? Your incoming mail server is mail.yourdomain.com and you should connect with POP3 to port 110 (the default). What is my outgoing mail server? Your outgoing mail server is mail.yourdomain.com and you should connect with SMTP on port 25 or 587. The reason there... Read Full Post

For the security of the servers and your mail we have some rules about email passwords. Please keep these in mind when requesting a new password. Any password for an email account must meet ALL of these requirements. 1) must be 6 - 14 characters long 2) must contain at least 1 lower case letter (a - z) 3) must contain at least 1 upper case letter (A - Z) 4) must contain at least 1 number (0-9) 5) must contain at least 1 symbol !@#$%^&* or bracket () Please keep these rules in mind when re... Read Full Post

The eternal question, How do I get less spam? Well let’s talk about how spammers get your email address. Simple email names on well SEO’d domains. For example having info@myhighrankingdomain.com will get you a ton of spam. Bots user dictionary lists and will just sent spam to every name in the dictionary list at a domain. Having a well SEO’d domain will just get you found faster by bots. So try to avoid using simple words like info or webmaster and first names like joe or mike or bob. A... Read Full Post

A very important concept in programing a system that will be used by people is Input Validation. When programmers miss this it can make life difficult for others trying to deal with the data. As I deal with IDX Data I come across this a lot. I recently had a feed with 32 different spellings of a city name. Many of them were just typos like a semicolon (;) instead of an l ( the keys are next to each other on most keyboards ). Other cases were misspellings or variations of a name. An example wo... Read Full Post