Hostmonster’s Getting Worse

While i was busy sorting and configuring my wordpress blogs, my site went down all of a sudden. I said to myself, “not again! what’s going to be the reason this time?”. Having a short downtime I don’t mind. But more than 10 minutes??? No way! I finally emailed them after an hour. They never said anything regarding what the problem was other than an admin was on it and fixing the issue. I tried to login to their control panel and see what the error may be. Would you believe, overload? What the … The only thing I did the previous day was upload pics. That would be a lame reason for an overload. 4 hours passed … nothing. I had to email them back, told them I’m new… Continue reading

Blogger or Wordpress?

These 2 are perhaps the most famous blog sites out in the open. You could ask the next question, which one is better? My answer, depends. If we talk about monetary purposes, and you have no plans to purchase your own hosting, go with Blogger. It allows you to place AdSense ads within your blog sites unlike the WordPress site. But hey, nothing’s free in this world anymore. Blogger gets a small percentage of the money that you earn whenever someone clicks on your ads. This is quite understandable as we are using Blogger resources for our blogs, it’s natural Blogger gets something in return. You can use WordPress with AdSense only if you have your own hosting and domain. In terms of ease of use and setting up, Blogger… Continue reading

hMailServer Email Server

If you are running Windows OS and are looking for a good, free email server, hMailServer is the best one out there. It is a free e-mail server for Microsoft Windows and supports all the common e-mail protocols (IMAP, SMTP and POP3) and comes with an easy-to-use COM library that can be used for integration with other software. It also has support for virtual domains, distribution lists, antivirus, antispam, aliases, distributed domains and much more. E-mail data is stored in a database server, MySQL or MS SQL, depending on your choice. It allows you to create email accounts for your domain. Everything that you need to do to setup a running email server, hMailServer provides them.

I was sure that I did not want to use IIS’ as an email server… Continue reading

PHP How To Send HTML Email with SMTP Authentication

Here’s a code snippet on how to send HTML email with SMTP authentication using PHP. You would have to download a library called PHPMailer as the mail() function of PHP does not support SMTP authentication. There is also other class that must be in the same location as class.phpmailer.php in order for the mail sending to work, smtp.phpmailer.php.

require_once(”class.phpmailer.php”);
$mail = new PHPMailer();
$mail->IsSMTP(); // telling the class to use SMTP
$mail->IsHTML(true);
$mail->SMTPAuth = true;
$mail->Username = “username”; // your SMTP username
$mail->Password = “password”; // your SMTP password
$mail->Host = “smtp.host.url”; // SMTP server
$mail->From = $from;
$mail->AddAddress($to);

$mail->Subject = $subject;
$mail->Body = $body;

if(!$mail->Send()) {
  echo ‘Message was not sent.’;
  echo ‘Mailer error: ‘ . $mail->ErrorInfo;
} else {
  echo ‘Message has been sent.’;
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Stupid Reply From A Hosting Provider’s Customer Support

Recently, I just bought my own domain. While doing some configurations to my blog, I was surprised that suddenly my domain was not working anymore. I ping’ed it and it was not responding, so there was something wrong. I kept surfing the web if there may be downtime issues with our clients. It took me some time to decide on checking out my host provider’s website and find out that they were doing system maintenance. I emailed customer support to inform them that they should have emailed the customers so that I, for one would know in the first place what was really happening in case I would check out my site. Here was the reply.
It would take longer for the issue to be resolved if we were to do… Continue reading

The 500,000 GB MP3 Player

If this will be out on the market in time, it’s going to be a blast! Scientists at the University of Glasgow have created a nanotechnology breakthrough that could increase storage capacity by 150,000 times. This is going to be a whopper! Having soooo many songs without worrying about disc capacity limits. Videos won’t be a problem too, since they usually occupy a large chunk of the storage in our player. This would be even better if iPods are going to have capacities like these … let’s keep our fingers crossed and hope that soon … we will see them on our hands

Facebook Privacy

A friend sent me an article regarding Facebook accounts. Once you have an account, there is no way to wipe your details inside their servers. Their system archives your information and keeps them and there is no way to wipe off everything in case you want to cancel your Facebook account. Not unless, maybe keep pestering customer service about it. This resulted in lots of users complaining about privacy as there is a tendency that your account with details could still be seen. Facebook’s reason was to give users the option to have everything back in place if they want to re-activate their account. The article mentioned other social bookmarking sites like Friendster having a delete button to wipe off everything in case the user wants it. I don’t believe… Continue reading