Finally Solve Win 8 No Screen Saver Problem
How to once and for all make your screensaver work in Win 8 1.) Open a command prompt with Administrative access. Type the following. powercfg -requests
Magento SMTP Pro SES SignatureDoesNotMatch
Recently, we had a client that needed to setup their Magento cart to send out emails through Amazon SES. They installed the free SMTP Pro Magento SMTP Email plugin from AScrhoder and tried to configure it to use their Amazon SES account. When they ran the self-test within Magento Admin, they kept getting an error […]
Magento Quick Product Ship Cost Tool
Recently, Google has started to require that shipping costs be consistent between what is estimated for the product and the final shipping cost. When you setup your Google Merchant Feed you have to setup your shipping costs to adequately reflect what you charge on your site. Debugging issues between your costs and what Google sees […]
5th Annual St. Patty’s Day 5k ShockRun
Stacy and I ran in the 5th annual St. Patty’s Day 5k ShockRun at The Village Tavern. The Run/Walk raises money to donate defibrillators to groups, organizations, companies or individuals that are in need of an AED in Montgomery County. Its a tough run, but a very fun time and excellent cause they we are […]
A Brave New Connected World
Having read an article by Yashar Sahaleh on LinkedIn about Google’s bids for a fully connected world, it made me feel positive that we are in for a pretty interesting near-future. Google’s bid is a two-prong attack with a lot of social upside. The bottom line is that they want all the eyeballs they can […]
JetPack and Google+ Default Setup Steps
Just a quick tip. When you setup Jetpack with WordPress, and then connect to Google+, make sure you do a test run and ensure your post to Google+ is actually shared publicly.
XenServer Upgrading Ubuntu Issue
After ugrading an Ubuntu instance in Xenserver, I received the following error message. The bootloader for this VM returned an error – did the VM installation succeed? Unable to find partition containing kernel Thankfully after some quick Googling, J Finley had the answer (Article) From his site… Disclaimer: Make a backup of the file you’re […]
Google Trusted Feed Massive Changes
We’ve reported on Google Trusted Feeds in the past (here and here). For the past several years we have noticed that it had been extremely difficult to integrate into Magento stores and some folks had simply given up.
Magento Google Custom Search Integration
We have a lot of experience setting up Google Custom Search engines for both CE and EE versions of Magento. Before making the jump to outright purchasing the Google CSE (Custom Search Engine), we recommend installing the free/ad-supported version on a site to see how relevant the results are with the site. Below is a […]
WordPress Upgrade Causing Admin Issues
Recently after the latest round of updates to several client sites, we noticed that we started seeing a bunch of weird wp-admin issues. Some issues occurred in the widget section where we couldn’t move or edit widgets and others happened in the WYSIWYG section of the post editor, where the “link” button wouldn’t popup.