I friend of mine, had long suffered to find an easy FTP client to use on his Mac. He tried several but didn’t really find an FTP client to work well. He kept on using the FTP connection via Dreamweaver which is also a bit…
Email Marketing with Lyris ListServer
Lyris is one of the biggest email marketing systems out there. I was very well impressed at a recent conference at the level of detail in testing, tracking and deliverability of Lyris. Email marketing has become a major marketing field and still a lot of…
WordPress 2.3 released
WordPress have just released version 2.3 and I have been playing with it on my personal blog. I decided to try a test and do the equivalent of ‘non-techie’ install and ignore all their warnings about deactivating plugins and what not before upgrading in an…
Easily insert email addresses in MS outlook
When composing a message in Microsoft Outlook there is an easy way to insert an email address in the to, cc or bc bar. Simply start writing a couple of letters of the email address or name of someone in your address book and then…
“Record 1 contained too many data fields” error when mail merging
When trying to mail merge a CSV file into Word (that had been exported from Civicrm) I kept running into the error code ‘Record 1 contained too many data fields‘. All I was doing was importing the file and mapping the fields, then once I…
Play DVD on SLED 10 (Suse Linux Enterprise Desktop)
For legal reasons Novell ships the SLED 10 with no DVD support so for my new laptop it was a disapointment. Well, Playing around with it I’ve now installed 3 programs that add DVD and Win32 support to SLED 10. You don’t need to install…