Recent Articles on Apple, Apple Mac, Tech, Web Design, PHP Coding, Search Engine Optimisation and More ... http://www.delamainit.com A quick how-to on marketing a book online. Ideas on improving yoru website, leveraging your unique content, giving away free content, creating a buzz, reaching out to yoru audience and on advertising and the results you can expect from it. http://www.delamainit.com/articles_how-tos/web_design_seo/book-author-seo-online-marketing-tips.html A quick how-to on Setting up a site-wide web site search engine for static pages using Sphider, the spider and search engine based on MySQL and PHP. http://www.delamainit.com/articles_how-tos/web_design_seo/website-search-with-php-mysql-sphider.html A quick how-to on taking advantage of the user profile, artist, album, track, tag, group and country aware data from last.fm in xml, rss, xpsf, ical and csv based feeds with PHP. http://www.delamainit.com/articles_how-tos/code/using-lastfm-feeds-php-script-xml.html Setting up a sender policy framework (SPF) for your domain with CPanel-WHM or Namecheap. Introducing SPF as an anti-spam measure. http://www.delamainit.com/articles_how-tos/cpanel_whm/cpanel-namecheap-SPF-records-anti-spam.html Web-based file transfer made easy: A quick how-to on getting up and running with Uber Uploader the AJAX-style file upload script with progress bars that take the stress out of web-based transfers. http://www.delamainit.com/articles_how-tos/web_design_seo/ajax-file-uploader-script.html Just released into beta, Listen a new app for the iPhone allows you to recognize the music you hear. It is very early days and the team of 1, Erica Sadun (of TUAW fame), is running a beta, but it is a great new addition to the music armoury of your iPhone. http://www.delamainit.com/articles_how-tos/review/listen-app-apple-iphone-audio-recognition.html Developed and released over the last few days, MobileScrobbler is the first AudioScrobbler and Last.FM client that brings decent scrobbling capabilities to the Apple iPhone and iPod Touch. http://www.delamainit.com/articles_how-tos/review/last-fm-mobile-scrobbler-iphone-ipod-touch.html When trying to publish your web site online with Apple's iWeb website design software and .Mac their online website host offering, you are already fighting an uphill struggle to get your web site into search engines like Google. That being said many people still make iWeb and .Mac their software and host of choice and for that reason alone its worth looking at the prospect of trying to make such web sites visible. http://www.delamainit.com/articles_how-tos/web_design_seo/seo-guide-iweb-and-dot-mac-.mac.html AppZapper proclaims itself as the application uninstaller that Apple forgot about when it was creating Mac OSX. And the truth is that they are probably right! http://delamainit.com/articles_how-tos/review/appzapper-uninstaller-for-osx-apple-forgot.html How many layers of Mac security can you have? Well according to SubRosaSoft, who this week (12 Nov '07) announced the release of FileDefense, you can have more! http://www.delamainit.com/articles_how-tos/apple-mac-osx/filedefense-file-access-protection-in-mac-osx.html Having recently read the following blog entry 'Halloween Special: Secure Erase' about how easy it is to secure erase files in Apple's latest version of the Mac operating System, codenamed Leopard, I thought I would write a quick review of ways to secure erase, files and entire hard drives for those of us using not just Leopard but also using earlier versions of the Mac OS. http://www.delamainit.com/articles_how-tos/apple-mac-osx/secure-erase-hard-drive.html Ever wanted to have super spiffy, quick and easy web form checking, web 2.0 style with AJAX? Well now, with Live Validation, you can set up form validation in 3 quick and VERY simple steps. Here is how ... http://www.delamainit.com/articles_how-tos/web_design_seo/live-form-validation-ajax-web-2.0.html With so many domain name registration firms popping up left, right and centre, and with many providing at least semi-decent interfaces for updating the domain details yourself, it is extremely cheap and easy to set up a domain and then setup a dotmac account for your web site, whilst at the same time using your own personal email with that domain. http://www.delamainit.com/articles_how-tos/web_design_seo/host-your-own-domain-on-dot-.mac.html With the advent of iLife 08, and in particular the newest version of iWeb, it has become a lot easier to build an ecommerce site. Until now you had to use tools such as iWebMore and iWeb Enhancer to add snippets of HTML code, which even then had to be post-processed after generating the site and publishing it to a folder, before then finally pushing it up to yor web server. Now, thankfully, Apple has built some major enhancements that enables users to easily drop HTML code straight into the page and provide the additional functionality required to allow web site visitors to find what they want or to buy directly off of your iWeb created site. http://www.delamainit.com/articles_how-tos/web_design_seo/ecommerce-affiliates-made-easy-iweb-08.html We take a loock at MacLockPick and some general security measures to lock down your Apple Mac and Mac OSX itself. http://www.delamainit.com/articles_how-tos/review/mac-lock-pick-review-locking-down.html A look at iMoreWeb, a free utility that enhance Apples iWeb by allowing users to inject HTML code into iWeb generated web pages. http://www.delamainit.com/articles_how-tos/web_design_seo/iwebmore-insert-html-into-iweb-pages.html I was recently asked by a friend and Apple Creative Genius to write an article about Apple's idiot-proof web design software, iWeb, and the field of search engine optimisation; more specifically, how to make iWeb more search engine friendly. Given my current interest in SEO, I was certainly excited about looking at iWeb and similar programs such as RapidWeaver and considering ways in which to improve your chances, as a general user, to get your web site well ranked in Google, Yahoo, MSN or any other major search engine. http://www.delamainit.com/articles_how-tos/web_design_seo/make-iweb-more-search-engine-friendly.html MacLockPick is a USB flash key based application designed to take advantage of a Mac keychains default open status and other clear text data on a host computer to perform a quick and data collection for further analysis offsite. The primary aim of the device is to operate in as fast a time as possible with as minimal trace of activity as possible, gathering a suspect's critical information as it does so. To go a little deeper into detail, MacLockPick will gather such information from the suspect's computer as: keychain held passwords, file and folders information and history, details from instant messaging and internet chat clients, email and address book information and history, web history and preferences, and hardware preferences. A whole range of information that tells quite a detailed picture of the what, why, when and whom the computer's owner is. http://www.delamainit.com/articles_how-tos/review/mac-lock-pick-review-locking-down.html Have you ever just wanted to be able to drag and drop paypal buttons into a place on your web page and not have to worry about whether it will work or not, or whether you have missed out some hidden field or other in order for the buttons to work and make sure the money ends up at the right place instead of PayPal's back pocket? Well if you use Adobe Golive to create your web pages, now you can! http://www.delamainit.com/articles_how-tos/web_design_seo/golive-paypal-ecommerce-extension.html MacMP3Gain is an AppleScript Studio application which brings an Aqua GUI to the command line version of mp3gain, a utility that performs statistical analysis to determine how loud the MP3 file actually sounds to the human ear and performs lossless volume adjustments. And so if you want to make automatic equalizer adjustments to your mp3 sound files, but are not confident with using the command line interface, this is the tool for you. http://www.delamainit.com/articles_how-tos/apple-mac-osx/adjusting-volume-mac-mp3gain.html When you encounter troubles and you want to try and fix them, your first port of call is to reboot your mac off another device than your internal hard drive. This alternative device could be anything from your CD-ROM, DVD-ROM drive to an external hard drive or even your iPod. In this article we outline the key combinations, needs and requirements for rebooting your Apple Mac from a secondary device and how to go about troubleshooting your problems. http://www.delamainit.com/articles_how-tos/apple-mac-osx/boot-your-mac-troubleshoot-startup-problems.html Recently, whilst having to hard reset my Sony-Ericsson mobile phone - a w850i in fact - I have to quickly find a way to backup my sim and mobile contacts to my Apple, Mac OSX based machine to safeguard against their loss during the full restore. The solution I came up with to do the backup was to use a piece of software developed by a Salling Software. The software in question is called MobileSync and is designed specifically for Sony-Ericsson phones to synchronize with Microsoft Entourage. http://www.delamainit.com/articles_how-tos/apple-mac-osx/bluetooth-sync-sony-ericsson-osx.html Google PR Widget is a useful tool made by developer, Ran Aroussi, that helps Mac OSX users grab the PR number for any web site page straight from the OSX dashboard. http://www.delamainit.com/articles_how-tos/web_design_seo/google-pr-osx-dashboard-widget.html In Tiger, OSX 10.4, Apple changed the format of mailboxes in Apple Mail from the standard MBOX format to EMLX files. It’s plausible that in recovering data from a hard drive that both formats will be found. In recovering data using applications such as SubRosaSoft' FileSalvage and MacForensicsLab Apple Mail is particularly picky in the kind of files it will recognize and import, and the wrong text encoding is enough to cause problems. The trick is therefore to use a series of applications to import and convert the files so that they can finally be reimported to Apple Mail. http://www.delamainit.com/articles_how-tos/apple-mac-osx/recover-email-emlx-and-import.html One of the great features of last.fm user pages and widgets are the album and artist image quilts that they use in flash on the site and in embeddables. If you are anything like me, you will have thought how great it would be to be able to take such image quilts and actually place them on your very own Mac desktop. Well now you can! http://www.delamainit.com/articles_how-tos/apple-mac-osx/last.fm-album-cover-quilt-macdesktopgenerator.html Ambrosia Software's Snapz Pro X is the perfect tool and enhancement to Apple's Mac OSX built-in finder screen capture functions. Rather than trouncing the command + shift +3/4 key combination, Snapz Pro X supplements them by adding image capture and video capture combined with a whole slew of options. Whether you are switching from a PC to Mac, or you are a long time Mac user, this is the perfect tool for you to fulfill all your screen capture needs. In this article we outline Snapz Pro X, its functionality and the practical application of a number of its features. http://www.delamainit.com/articles_how-tos/apple-mac-osx/screen-capture-shot-on-the-mac.html Have you ever wondered how hard it might be to print a mailing list, in paper form, on envelopes or as mailing labels? Well, actually it isn't that hard, and in fact Apple's Address Book software takes a lot of the pain out of the process, and makes it possible to sideline Microsoft Word's Mail Merge process at the same time. http://www.delamainit.com/articles_how-tos/apple-mac-osx/easy-mailing-labels-in-osx.html Sooner or later, when you are processing, importing and ingesting data from large suppliers such as Amazon, iTunes Music Store and Virgin Megastore, to name but 3, you are likely to hit a scenario where you are need to handle, process, import and output XML files that are serveral hundred megabytes or even gigabytes in size. http://www.delamainit.com/articles_how-tos/code/how-to-handle-large-xml-files.html What Not To Do? As soon as you realise that you have lost your files, the worst thing you can do is continue on using the computer with the files on it. In fact, if you are looking up this exact topic right now using the computer you wish to recover the files from, you are already raising the chance of overwriting the exact same valuable data you wish to recover from your drive. http://www.delamainit.com/articles_how-tos/apple-mac-osx/recover-files-in-mac-osx.html Are you a recent PC to Mac switcher? Are you lost with the one button mouse? Confused as to how to find the contextual menus on the mac that are just one click away on the Windows PC? http://www.delamainit.com/articles_how-tos/apple-mac-osx/right-click-on-a-mac.html SEO expert and tipster, Eric Wolfram, recently had an interview with Eddie Codell on the LunchMeet #52 Video PodCast and had the following to say about his tips and tricks for people looking to perform Search Engine Optimization (SEO) on their web site and get it ranked higher in Google: http://www.delamainit.com/articles_how-tos/web_design_seo/seo_tips_eric_wolfram.html We, or rather I, Vincent, recently accepted the job of scanning and converting into Microsoft Word a huge library of bound documents totalling many thousands of A4 sheets of paper. Now you might think that this is a totally nutty proposition, but then I never was one to shy away from a decent challenge! http://www.delamainit.com/articles_how-tos/review/fujitsu-ScanSnap-S500M-S500-for-mac.html