Archive for June, 2007



Magical Macintosh Key Sequences by Dave Polaschek

Published on June 28, 2007

Keys to your Mac.

Magical Macintosh Key Sequences by Dave Polaschek


YVOD Payments

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You can make YVOD payments online or by mail at:

YVOD LLC
1223 Solano Ave
Albany, Ca. 94706
(800) 434-YVOD


Extras

Published on June 13, 2007

Here are a few nice things that people might want.

Information on Hotline

Magic key sequences to make your Mac do various things by Dave Polaschek

Neato (Free!) Javascript Stuff

The Day We Met NYCMW (Quicktime Video)

Complete City, State, Zip, County, and Area Code information for the State of California


The FTP You Need To Know

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1) What is FTP

The File Transfer Protocol (FTP) is a set of rules that computers use to transfer files from one computer to the next. It is by far the most common way for people to get their files from their local computer (the one they are working on) transferred to a remote computer (in this case our the YVOD Web Server). In order to communicate between computers, just like people, you need a common language. FTP is this common language.

2) What applications do I need to manipulate it?

Depending on your level of sophistication, you can use everything from a command line interface to a point and click Graphical User Interface (GUI) application. ALL FTP applications (called clients) must have
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The HTML You Need To Know

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1) What is HTML

Hyper Text Markup Language (HTML) is the programming language used to display “web pages”. In it’s simplest form, it is nothing more than a bunch of “tags” that are paired together to tell your browser what to do with text.

2) What applications do I need to manipulate it?

Any text editor can be used to write HTML code. Simpletext on the Macintosh or Notepad on Windows or Vim on UNIX all work fine. HTML is just text. You can use fancy editors like BBEdit, Dreamweaver, or GoLive but they are not needed. To manipulate pages created by yvod.com we suggest you use whatever word processor you currently use to create text files… and just save the pages as
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Order Fulfillment

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We have created this page for our e-commerce clients to use as a quick guide to fulfill orders placed through our e-commerce engine.Please email us if you have any difficulties.

YVOD can be reached via phone (additional charges may apply) at:

(800) 434-YVOD
(800) 434-9863
(510) 558-1009 (International callers)

1) Log into your website

Admin URL http://www.your_domain/admin
Username (sent via email)
Password (sent via email)
2) Select “Order Fulfillment”

Click the “Order Fulfillment” button (second from the top).

3) Review Orders

Our software will display the oldest (first) order that has not been marked as “filled”. All order information is presented on a single screen for your review. Please note: only “unfilled” orders will be displayed. You may skip forward as far as you like and “fulfill” orders out of chronological order.

4) Mark order
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Alex – How to make sexy buttons with CSS

Published on June 8, 2007

Sexy Buttons

I simply L-O-V-E stuff like this. Amazing in all the right ways. Simple. Standards compliant. Woirks in all browsers. Beautiful to behold.

What could be finer? Thank you Alex. (And Marisa for hooking me up =)