Utilizing GZip with WordPress, Finally a Fast Blog...

The first half of this arti­cle will be taken directly from our pre­vi­ous post, as the need for a sin­gle default php.ini is nec­es­sary to con­fig­ure gzip. If read­ing our Magento post is what brought you to the site, and you’ve already con­fig­ured your default php.ini, than skip to the .htac­cess por­tion of the post. Oth­er­wise, were off...

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Nov 30, 2009 | Magento, Web Design, Wordpress | Leave A Comment »

The Correct Way To Set Up gzip with Magento

We wrote this arti­cle in response to post­ings offer­ing advice to users of Magento, an open source ecom­merce sys­tem. The advice is being given with good inten­tions, and the intent is only to assist their fel­low Magento users. But the advice being give may actu­ally have the poten­tial cause harm to the users site, or at the least a good deal of down time. The advice being offered is to help speed up Magento by enabling a server side caching sys­tem called gzip. What peo­ple don’t real­ize is that their being told to enable two sep­a­rate caching sys­tems. These two sys­tems tend not to play well together, and could cause harm to your install. While most peo­ple see pos­i­tive results, there are a rare few see­ing server side errors, data­base errors, and are stumped as to why.

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Nov 30, 2009 | Magento, Server 2003, Wordpress | 2 Comments »

I can’t Find My Firefox Bookmarks After a Recovery

Fire­fox has changed the default loca­tion of its book­mark store in Fire­fox 3. It used to be that you could find your book­marks located at

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Documents and Settings\ (name of the user) \Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\ (name of the profile) bookmarks.html

This has now been changed to

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Documents and Settings\ (name of the user) \Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\ (name of the profile) places.sqlite

Jul 06, 2009 | Computer Repair and Networks, Web Browsers | Leave A Comment »

How Can I Make Office 2007 Save in The Older Format by Default?

To change default file save options in Office Excel 2007

1. Double-click Microsoft Office Excel 2007, double-click Excel Options, and click Save.
2. In the right pane, right-click Save Excel files as, and select Prop­er­ties.
3. In Save files in this for­mat, select Enabled.
4. In the drop-down box, select a default file save for­mat.
5. Click Apply to save the settings.

To change default file save options in Office Pow­er­Point 2007

1. Double-click Microsoft Office Pow­er­Point 2007, double-click Pow­er­Point Options, and click Save.
2. In the right pane, right-click Save files in this for­mat, and select Prop­er­ties.
3. In Save files in this for­mat, select Enabled.
4. In the drop-down box, select a default file save for­mat.
5. Click Apply to save the settings.

To change default file save options in Office Word 2007

1. Double-click Microsoft Office Word 2007, double-click Word Options, and click Save.
2. In the right pane, right-click Save files in this for­mat, and select Prop­er­ties.
3. In Save files in this for­mat, select Enabled.
4. In the drop-down box, select a default file save for­mat.
5. Click Apply to save the settings.

Nov 22, 2008 | Computer Repair and Networks | Leave A Comment »