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Microphone muff to reduce wind and breath noise in the microphone. Fits most electret microphones

Multiple Skype Accounts on one computer?
A few weeks ago a guy skyped me and I first thought, that he might wants to spam me with something to sell. Actually he is writing a book about Skype and was asking some questions, which I was only partly able to answer.

He seems to be much more familiar with all the little Skype tricks and he writes in his blog about these.

One trick I found extremly helpful: it lets you run multiple skypes on one machine – it is a dirty hack, but if you are the admin on your box, you might want to try it:

Create a new windows user with admin rights (e.g. “skype2″)
Create a link on your desktop with the following destination:

%windir%\system32\RUNAS.exe /profile “/user:skype2″ /savecred “C:\Program Files\Skype\Phone\Skype.exe”

A click on that link will open a second skype for the user “skype2″ with its own profile!

I have not tried to place 2 simultaneous calls, but that should not work, if they use the same resources… you might let me know!

Google Sitemaps allows the webmaster to help Google index their pages optimally. The GSiteCrawler will help you generate the best Google Sitemap file for your website. The GSiteCrawler uses different ways to find all the pages in your website and can generate all sorts of files, statistics and more. The sitemaps file format has lately been also adapted by Yahoo! – even MSN/Live.com is pledging it’s support.

http://gsitecrawler.com

Learn how to remove the open base dir restriction for a special directory that Plesk automatically creates for subdomains. Read more…

“Google XML Sitemaps is not multisite compatible”

I’ll be very happy when it’s available for WP 3.0 multi-user too!

I make changes for start it work:

1.Modification on wp-content/plugins/google-sitemap-generator/sitemap.php

//Check for 3.0 multisite, NOT supported yet! // if((defined(‘WP_ALLOW_MULTISITE’) && WP_ALLOW_MULTISITE) || (function_exists(‘is_multisite’) && is_multisite())) { // if(function_exists(‘is_super_admin’) && is_super_admin()) { // add_action(‘admin_notices’, array(‘GoogleSitemapGeneratorLoader’, ‘AddMultisiteWarning’)); // } // // return; // }

2. .htaccess

RewriteRule ^sitemap.xml sitemap-%{SERVER_NAME}.xml [L]
RewriteRule ^sitemap.xml.gz sitemap-%{SERVER_NAME}.xml.gz [L]

XML Sitemap Creator, sitemap xml

Free script for creating xml sitemap:
http://enarion.net/google/phpsitemapng/

Here’s a little trick you can use to lookup an MX record for a domain. MX records are the Mail Exchanger records in DNS – they specify what IP address email should be directed to for the domain. So open up the command prompt (Start – Run – cmd)

nslookup
> set type=mx
> example.com

Lets start with Apache:
1. Open the terminal (we will be using it through most of my guide) from Applications > Accessories > Terminal
2. Install apache2 using apt-get by typing the following Read more…

EasyVMX! creates virtual machines to run in VMware Player.

http://www.easyvmx.com/new-easyvmx.shtml

Sometimes on plesk servers http://webmail.domainname.com may give you a blank page. This usually occurs after upgrading the PHP to php 5. This is due to a bug in the version 5.2.5 of PHP that affects the functioning of Horde which is installed by default with the Plesk control panel 8.1.x or 8.2.x. Read more…