Today, a friend and a colleague of mine called me and questioned me why she can’t send emails using her mail client which is Incredimail which is one cool mail client because of the effects and animation.  It really bothered me a lot because I can’t solve the problem without being there in the situation and it is hard to explain things using a phone. So I went over to her place and to find out that PLDT changed their SMTP port to 587 which is not the usual port of SMTP.  But this is not only the solution, outgoing mail server should also be changed to smtpdsl4.pldtdsl.net instead of using your own outgoing mail server(mail.icpep.org).

This has become an issue but still PLDT has no action for this.  This is really one problem especially to those people who are not that techie.  Hope PLDT will change it back to the usual port and find other ways on how to solve the spamming issues.

To summarize it, you can configure your mail clients using the following information:

Outgoing mail server SMTP: smtpdsl4.pldtdsl.net
UNCHECK – My outgoing server (SMTP) requires authentication
USE Port: 587

Hope this helps in solving your problem.

Filezilla is an FTP Client used for transferring files from one host to the other or is used to exchange and manipulate files over a TCP/IP based network.  It is a free software downloadable on their official website filezilla-project.org.  Filezilla is one secure FTP client and so far the best FTP Client I have used.  I already have tried several software before like SmartFTP.  SmartFTP is easy to use but it is not a free software, you need to buy it so you can use it.

Filezilla has a simple user interface and for the first time I used it,  it feels like I have been using the software for a while.

You can store and manage your Websites using Filezilla with their site manager.  When we have a lot of sites to manage and forget the password we tend to search our mails again and look for the password because as what they say that you can not view your password in filezilla.   We’ll you’re wrong, passwords in filezilla can be viewed. If you have saved the login information on the site manager the here are some simple steps on how to view them .  First open filezilla and on the file menu Click Export and you will be prompted with 3 options, you can click the 3 options if you needed them.  But for now you can check the option Export Site Manager Entries.  Go to the directory where you saved the file FileZilla.xml.  Open the file using notepad or wordpad and there you can view your saved passwords.

I hope I saved your day and always remember not to let anyone access your private files, Stay Secured!

Broadband Internet Connection means a wide range of frequencies that are available to transmit information. This ultimately means that the wider the range of frequencies available, the high the amount of information that can be sent at one given time.   This type of connections is much faster than Dial-up connections which are limited to 56Kbs internet speed which also requires a telephone to work.

Internet is vastly growing and dial up is almost not in use today.  And one good thing about this is that most internet technologies already support Broadband connections.

Before choosing you broadband internet connection here are several tips for you to consider.  First thing is you need to have a broadband speed test so that you will know how fast your Internet Service Provider(ISP) is.  This is the first thing that one should do before deciding which ISP to select.  Failure to check will surely give a lot of pain along the way. 

Another thing to consider is the technical support, make sure technical support is always present.  Like what I have  technical support is always there, they provided me a hotline and I can also contact them on their site for minor problems.  If you are not a techie person I suggest that you should consider this option.

How reliable are they?  Reliability is always in the list when it comes to ISP services.  Reliability should be checked especially when we are use it in business.  They should be consistent with their services and downtime should be almost zero.

Lastly, cost is also considered.  There are a lot of  ISP’s who give all this services and cost me low.

When I was searching for the best broadband reviews, I made several choices and and one of the best was for o2 broadband review.  They have excellent performance among the considerations to take before having you Internet connection.  They provide excellent and reliable services.

By Default phpmyadmin can import data on your mysql database up to 2MB of data and beyond that will be an error.  This has been a big problem  by most webmasters and sometimes this can be a barrier to stop improving the sites.  Before I kept on searching what to use to import a large data on my MySQL database and all I can see is BigDump.  It is a software used for large and very large MySQL Dumps which is also an option to import large data on your database.

If you find BigDump a pain in the head then another way to solve the problem is to edit your php.ini file.  All you need to do is open your php.ini file and edit the line

Setting 2M to a larger size will fix the problem.  One problem with this is that it will affect the web server’s runtime limit and could throw an error if you dump a very large data.

Search Engine Optimization is one of the most difficult thing to do to get your site ranked in the top 3 search engines namely Google, Yahoo and MSN. Reaching the top is indeed a very big challenge for all web developers and internet marketers.

One of the strategies being used is article submission. As most of the “optimizers” know that the most important thing in a website/blogsites is the content, as they say “Content is King”. And I would totally agree to that, a site is nothing if we don’t find any good contents in it. But content is not all there is in optimizing your sites, you need also to promote you site by creating good articles and submit them to several Article Submission Sites. I was searching the net and even asked my friends and other web developers on what they think are the best sites for article submission. Well on my survey and based on their rankings, I also agreed in the sites that they suggested. Below are list of sites that worth submitting your articles:

• Ezine Articles – PR6
• GoArticles -  PR6
• A1Articles – PR5
• ArticleDashboard -  PR5
• ArticleBiz -  PR5
• SeachWarp -  PR5

These sites has increased my blog’s and site’s traffic to almost 4O% of what I have currently.  Writing to this sites are extremely effective and helpful.

If you are a web developer and having problems on Installing PHP Curl on Apache with PHP installed on Windows Operating System, below is my version of tonyspecer’s “cURL with PHP and Apache on Windows“.  The steps are simple and direct to the point.

I have windows apache version 2.2.14 and PHP Version 5.2.10 installed on my Laptop using the installers provided on the respective sites.

1.  Install APACHE and PHP (I installed my APACHE on C:\apache and PHP on C:\php directories )
2.  Edit the php.ini file found in the PHP directory.

• Near line  546 set the extension directory extension_dir = “C:\php\ext”.  In my case I have my extensions files inside the ext folder. You can use any folder name as long as you set it in the php.ini file.
• Near line 472 set register_globals = On
• Near line 630 set session.save_path=”C:\WINDOWS\Temp” or you can set any directory

3.  On the PHP folder (in my case C:\php\) copy the php5ts.dll file to the bin folder of your Apache (C:\apache\bin\)
4.  On the PHP folder (C:\php\) copy libeay32.dll and ssleay32.dll to ” C:\WINDOWS\system32″  folder
5.  Download CURL for Windows found at http://curl.haxx.se/download.html and put it on the PHP folder (C:\php\curl)
6.  Download OpenSSL for Windows found at http://www.shininglightpro.com/products/Win32OpenSSL.html, for me I downloaded 7MB OpenSSL v0.9.8k Installer

• To some Windows Visual c++ Redistributable is recommended before OpenSSL is installed.  The windows Visual c++ Redistributable can be downloaded at Microsoft website in the link:  http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/thankyou.aspx?familyId=9b2da534-3e03-4391-8a4d-074b9f2bc1bf&displayLang=en

7.  Check to see if you have the following file: c:\windows\system32\msvcr70.dll. If not, search for it in Google and download it to system32.  If you can’t find it in that directory click this link to download the file from www.dllfiles.com.  Extract the zipped file and put it in the “c:\windows\system32\”  folder.
8.  Uncomment the curl line in your php.ini file to enable curl:  extension=php_curl.dll but in my case I just added the line because it is not found in my php.ini file

9.  Edit the Apache httpd.conf file to enable php:

• For newer version of Apache add at the bottom
  • LoadModule php5_module “C:/php/php5apache2_2.dll”
• Then below add Line: AddType application/x-httpd-php .php

10.  Restart Apache and your curl should be working now.

Google has provided web developers foreign language translation api. Web content translation is not a problem anymore, with google’s Google Translate, research from different countries is now made possible.

This is a big help especially for researchers on the net, we can now easily understand web contents and even text from outside sources which also serves as a document translation services. Google allows us to copy and paste phrases, sentences and paragraphs from outside sources to their google translate and by selecting the language you desire we can now get translation to it.

But how do we add google translate on our website? I have provided 3 different ways on how to achieve google translate on your website. The easiest is for wordpress users, you can add a web content translation by downloading the plugin Global Translator . Follow the steps carefully and you can provide your users translation of different languages according to your choice as set on the administration panel.

The second way of adding a web content translation software by google is by adding a snippet of codes which they have provided on their site Google Translate or just copy and paste the code below and add it on your website. This is also the code I used in this blog.

If you want to have your own design and style you can still add translation to your site below is an example of the code. Make sure you have images of the flags as what I used in the code.

An example of the snippet can be found in this link.

Are you a great fan of joining social networking sites?  Do you like to socialize online? If you have lots of sites to socialize and feel so tired logging on and off and typing on the browser over and over again, then I guess you need an organizer for all of your online socializing sites.  One good thing of this is that you can switch from one site to the other by just click the social networking site you wanted.

The software I want to introduce and I am using is Orsiso.  Orsiso is a social networking tool that brings a rich browsing experience direct to your desktop and mobile.

Why was it named Orsiso? Orsiso stands for ORganize, SImplify and SOcialize, which was exactly intended to help you achieve with your social life on the net.

What is in Orsiso that will help you organize all your social networking sites?  Whats with this online networking software? With Orsiso you can manage your presence across different social networks, you can also Display Photos from several networks in one place, control your Friend Feed, easy install and upgrade to the latest releases and the coolest thing with this software besides the different feature it offers is that it can be downloaded on their official site for free.  No Popups and you don’t need to wait for the download link to appear.  All you need to do is download Adobe AIR which is free for download then you can now download Orsiso.  Install it then create an account and you can now manage the sites. The download is available for Mac, Linux and windows Operating system users.  Its one small software yet bringing ease and simplicity to our online social life.   Start by following them with their twitter account and facebook account.

To summarize  Orsiso is not just any software that allows you to view your social networking sites but helps you can interact with your friends on their respective social networks, send chats, make comments on their updates and photos directly from one unique interface.

In the past few months I was into gaming online and one of the famous site today is facebook wherein I am playing games.  Facebook has become popular because it is an interactive site unlike other sites.  Facebook is a Social Networking Site that comes in a package.  It has almost everything that is needed in a Social Networking Site.

One of the mostly played game in Facebook is Farmville.  It is mostly preferred by  facebook users because the images are of good quality, pleasant to the eye and navigation is very easy.  It is updated most of the time and it excites the gamers.  every now and then there is an update like new farmville homes and other stuff.  It has also been categorized well giving the users the ease to navigate the items they want to buy.

Lately, I was bored playing the game because harvesting and planting takes a lot of my time.  So I made an experiment on the farm, thinking of Richie Rich the famous rich young cartoon character or the Harry Potter movie, the “mazed” field came into my mind.  I was thinking to clone their “mazed” yard.  After creating the maze, I had a flash of a genius wherein I realized that when you trap your character it will speed up the process.  The time when the character is walking from one field to the other is saved.

This really helped me a lot in taking care of my farm and saves a lot of my time.  I hope this will also help my Farmville neighbors and everyone who is on the game.  Enjoy the trick and build those great looking farmville homes.

Surfing on the net has been trouble some now a days because there are a lot phishing, fraud, syware, malware, trojans on line. I have been using this free online anti virus scanner for a while now and it has been a good help to me. I am sharing this to everyone so that you will also have some ideas on how to make sure the site you are visiting is safe and you can also help contribute in reviewing some site.

The first tool I am using the McAfee Site Advisor which can be downloaded on their site. Below is a better look on how to use the tool.

The image is a sample result in searching search engines. below the result is the status bar where the green McAfee site advisor icon turns green if the site is clean and turns red if the site has a virus. The site advisor also gives warning and the icon turns to orange. So whenever you encounter a site that turns the icon to red that means that the site is harmful and contains bad links that can harm your computer.

Another tool I am using is the Dr. Web on line virus scanner all you need to do is right click on the link and it will scan the selected link then gives the result.

Above all there is one great thing to this on line virus scan, it cost nothing which means we can use it for free.