http://www.davemccomb.com Dave McComb's blog on life and everything in between. Tue, 22 Jul 2008 03:54:41 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Just discovered M83 today. They've had a few singles on the alternative stations and I finally got around to checking them out.  Definitely will have to pick up their album... http://www.davemccomb.com/2008/music/just-discovered-m83 This site has long been forgotten about. Yet another good idea that never quite materialized. I have just discovered that I do enjoy blogging though. Please be sure and check out my new site. Hopefully it will not go the way that this one did. But, who knows, maybe this ... http://www.davemccomb.com/2008/misc/yow Xenu is a great "free" program to check your web site for broken links. Check it out at http://home.snafu.de/tilman/xenulink.html http://www.davemccomb.com/2007/tech/xenu-link-checker Ok, so I just found out that the latest version of Adobe Reader has a PDF previewer for Outlook 2007 built in. The Foxit solution I mentioned below loads much faster, but only works on Vista. http://www.davemccomb.com/2007/tech/update-ms-office-2007-pdf-previewer So, I've now discovered that blogs quickly get out of date. I've posted some tech articles, but I just realized I haven't updated my main page in over a year! Maybe I just don't have anything that interesting to say... nah, that can't be it. Well, one site that I ... http://www.davemccomb.com/2007/misc/wow-blogs-get-out-of-date-quickly Like many others, I have not been very happy with my Microsoft Vista upgrade. Vista is just not ready for prime time yet. I have frequent crashes, programs that do not work, devices that do not work, etc. In fact I just ordered a new home PC from Dell (with ... http://www.davemccomb.com/2007/tech/ms-office-2007-pdf-previewer Having that annoying problem with IE automatically opening zip files instead of saving them?  Follow these steps to correct this behavior: Open Windows Explorer. Go to Tools | Folder Options | File Types. Scroll down to ZIP and select it. Click Restore to restore the default settings. This sets the file type zip back to "Confirm open ... http://www.davemccomb.com/2006/tech/internet-explorer-automatically-opening-zip-files Ever need to check the status code that your server is returning for a certain web page?  Check out this link then:  http://www.seoconsultants.com/tools/headers.asp   http://www.davemccomb.com/2006/tech/check-server-headers-tool Here is a quick list of URLs to whitelist your permission based email lists: Yahoo: http://add.yahoo.com/fast/help/us/mail/cgi_bulkmail AOL: http://postmaster.aol.com/ More soon... http://www.davemccomb.com/2006/tech/list-of-ways-to-whitelist-your-email-to-the-major-isps Here is a great site to check if your web server is sending pages in compressed format: http://www.gidnetwork.com/tools/gzip-test.php This is definitely something you want to have turned on as it saves on bandwidth and download times. http://www.davemccomb.com/2006/tech/check-if-your-web-site-is-compressing-pages