I absolutely love this time of year because of the season yes, but also because of the great deals I can get for my business. From this week onwards, I’m on the lookout for tools and services I’ve wanted to get all year. I save a bunch and just in time to claim it all in this tax year. While there have always been offers, this year I’m noticing a LOT of new deals from more online businesses. Maybe I’m just paying more attention but wow have those deals been pouring in this week. Of course, I can’t keep all the good stuff to myself so here’s a list of what’s been coming through my inbox. Look through it, if it’s something you’ve been wanting, nab it quickly as you know these are extremely time sensitive. If there are more, this list will be updated so check back throughout the weekend and Cyber Monday of course. Tools StudioPress – YES! The original paid theme but stronger than ever, very versatile system if you work on WordPress you must get this. 25% off entire purchase. Coupon code: THANKS Availability: Tuesday, November 22, 2011 till 7pm Pacific time on Monday, November 21, 2011 iThemes

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Maybe it is a little overused by now, but I just can’t seem to get this particular quote from Steve Jobs out of my mind. “Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of other’s opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.” While I’ve read that many, many times over the years since his commencement address at Stanford, this time – this year – this particular advice became very real for me. I don’t know what changed or what happened. It wasn’t like there was a big rude awakening one day – few things in life work out like that. I think it was more of a gradual realization which became crystal clear. The great revelation? Not As Fulfilling As I Thought I don’t enjoy teaching as much as I initially thought. Well, actually I take that back. What I don’t enjoy is creating info products. In February of this

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For those of you on a Virtual Private Server (VPS) or dedicated server, you may receive a notice like the one below once in a while. httpd failed @ Day Mth Date 13:16:26 20XX. A restart was attempted automagically. Service Check Method: [tcp connect] Failure Reason: Timeout while trying to get data from service: Died at /usr/local/cpanel/etc./etc/ line 459. Number of Restart Attempts: 1 Like most server messages the email you get it’s kinda cryptic isn’t it? Good thing you don’t have to decipher what it all means at that point. What it means is something went wrong and the server has attempted to restart itself. At the time of restart, the server will be down for a few minutes that means your sites will go offline. Pay close attention to the date and in particular time mentioned in the email then go check your sites. If they are up and running after that time, there’s a good chance the server righted itself and all is good. Do continue checking if the sites are up for the next few hours but other than that. If you checked and they are down long past the time in the email, there’s a

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If you have not been paying attention, Google is on a huge mobile push. From Places to having live workshops in selected cities targeted at local businesses to get online. Recently, they announced that changes have been made since last year to limit ad-serving to landing pages with heavy flash content. Now, they will take into account whether your landing page or web site has been optimized for mobile or not. In a nutshell, if your page is mobile optimized, your ads will perform better on AdWords and they will… …generally drive more mobile traffic at a lower cost Looks a lot like a not so subtle ‘bribe’ to get you to optimize your site for mobile devices. How to you get a mobile optimized landing page? Google does provide a free mobile site creator. Great, easy to use tool. Personally, I like to have things all managed neatly under WordPress. For several reasons: So you don’t have to remember where or what tool you published content with Mess with Google Accounts and access control Not to have to worry about technical CNAME stuff just to have the mobile page under your own domain You or your staff are familiar

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  This would not be a tech blog if I didn’t at least acknowledge and pay tribute to Steve Jobs. This is going to be simple. There’s no “what we can learn from Steve” as we all know there’s plenty we can learn. Just somehow lots of memories. I keep thinking back to how the very first computer I ever touched was an Apple. We didn’t call it cool names like ‘Mac’ back then. It was Apple or Macintosh. Thank you Mr. Jobs. For introducing me to computing and taking all of us on such an unbelievable ride. May you rest in peace. via  

It is unfortunate we have to deal with spam daily. They are everywhere too, from email to blogs, social networks to faxes. Oh yes, we receive spam faxes. Those irk me most even though the volume is low because there are tangible costs involved like ink, toner and paper. Here and now, I’d just like to focus on email spam and a few simple things you can put in place so you aren’t making yourself a beacon for spammers and their detestable bots. Don’t Wear A Target On Your Back Spammers tend to seek common address affiliate@, affiliatemanager@, sales@, paypal@, webmaster@, orders@, editor@, info@ etc. They’ll try sending to these addresses no matter whether the address exists or not. As a matter of fact, you could already be getting spam to these addresses even if you have not set up the account. As a result, you’ll receive spam the moment you create it. It is not just these. Most of us know any dictionary word in an address are already a natural target for spam. Same goes to names. One way you could start clean is to make your address a phrase like AskLynetteChandler, or JustLynette, ReachOutToLynette and so on. Quit Displaying

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