Thinking outside the box!

Projects

Google Voice

I have had a Grand Central number for about 2 years but I will confess that I never did much with it. I was always too afraid that the service might fail and I would loose my number. Well, with Google taking over I figured that it was now safe. I will continue to test and mark any tips or issues that I face with the service. Read more

eSign Laws and Regulations

Introduction to Electronic Signature Laws and Regulations

On June 30, 2000 President Clinton signed the "Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act" (ESIGN) using his electronic signature ID, and thereby established the validity of electronic signatures for interstate and international commerce. Read more

I See Double People - Google Contact Sync Has Issues

Posted Sat, 01/24/2009 - 19:00 by Isaac

Nothing short of seeing Dead People brings chills like an address book full of duplicate entries. It was so exciting to see that Google had added address boook / contact list sync to their existing mobile calendar sync tool for the Blackberry. But as this title suggests, I have had some issues.

My Google to Blackberry Contact Sync Issues: Read more

My Favorite Mobile Software

I have listed below some of my favorite tools. The best part is that they are all free! Sure there are plenty of expensive tools that do amazing things, but when I find a free piece of software that makes my life easier, that is truly something that I cherish.

 

Mobile Devices Read more

Backing Up and Restoring 1and1 SQL Database for Drupal

Posted Wed, 09/10/2008 - 19:07 by Isaac

I am sure there are tons of you out there that know exactly how this works but I had to figure it out and unfortunately there wasn't one single article on how this would work with Drupal, SQL and 1and1.

As a subplot the reason I had to do this, other then needing to have database backups, was because I wanted to upgrade to the lastest version of Drupal and it requires MySQl 5.0 and higher. So that means exporting/backingup the original MySQl 4 database and then importing it into the newly created 5.0 database. Read more

Installing a multi-site system on Drupal in less than 10 minutes

Posted Mon, 07/24/2006 - 16:27 by Isaac

Someone had posted a comment on my Setting Up Drupal in 10 minutes. This is the response to that reader's questions. Hi Isaac, Great job with the install post! I can't wait for the Testing, Site Structure and Creating Content episodes. You had mentioned previously that you had setup two installs running a total of 10 sites. The multi-site funcionalty sounds amazing! Can you walk me through how you implemented those multi-func setups? Read more

301 Redirects on the Drupal .htaccess file for non-www to www

Posted Thu, 05/11/2006 - 15:51 by Isaac

How to redirect non-www requests to the www.site to reduce risk of SEO penalty

Numerous posts regarding SEO mention that search engines may punish
sites for having 'duplicat content' even if that apperant copy is on
your own site. Read more

VOIP Example Layouts

Posted Wed, 04/05/2006 - 15:29 by Isaac

About 6 months ago I was working with a client that was interested
in using VOIP to reduce the telco costs of his hotels. He had several
locations spread between two states and he also managed an IT business
in India.

I created a series of example layouts in MS Visio so he told
understand the various methods of implementation. First let's look at
the simple layout:

voip simple overview Read more