YVOD Support

You can make YVOD payments online or by mail at:

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

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

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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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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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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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 =)

Most folks who connect you to the internet (called Internet Service Providers or ISP’s) allow you to send and receive mail at will. YVOD offers a simple set up for all email accounts:

Username: <full email address> (eg: ulan@yvod.com)
Password: <password>

POP3 Server: mail.yourdomain (eg: mail.yvod.com)
SMTP Server: mail.yourdomain (eg: mail.yvod.com)

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The internet is still a wild place and this set-up will not always work. Unfortunately, some folks choose to limit what email servers you can use to SEND your email. Why? I have heard that it is to better monitor what folks send (scary). Another argument is that they place filters on your account to cut down on spam. This is bogus since that is our job if you use our mail
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Apple includes a free email application called “Mail” with every new Macintosh computer they sell. it is quite easy to set up and use. Below you will find instructions along with screenshots on how to set up Apple Mail.

These instructions can be used as a general guide to setting up any email application including Eudora,

I forget where we found this, but YVOD has been using this “Slider” javascript slideshow code for years now. We made a few modifications (like randomizing the display), but it is pretty much as we found it.

What does this do?

Just load one of my blog posts for more than 30 seconds and you will see. It randomly slides through a group of pictures.

How to use it?

Put the Javascript stuff up in the header (before the <body> tag). Put the “action!” code anywhere you want your slide show to work.

How does it work?

1) It populates an array of images to choose from
2) It randomly picks one
3) It writes that image to the page
4) It reloads itself every 30 seconds

Will work with
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Spammers use fake “From” addresses in the spam they send. Forging the “From“” field give spammers anonymity along with something else they crave:

Spammers do not want emails bounced back to them!

Forged Email

When a spam message does not have a valid address (eg: unknown@yvod.com), that message is supposed to be returned (bounced) to the sender notifying them that the message was undeliverable.

However, if the sender “From” address is forged, the message will be bounced to the forged email address allowing the spammer gets away clean. Unfortunately, the person who had their email forged gets all the non-delivered junk. Yuck!

Reverse DNS Lookup

As a means of avoiding this behavior YVOD has installed a Reverse DNS Lookup filter for all email to stop spam
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