First of all, IMAP is not a webmail service like Gmail. It is a protocol (or method) for retrieving emails. You can use IMAP method with your current email client. In other words, if you love Outlook, you don’t have to switch to something else to connect to your mailbox using IMAP. Here’s why it [...]

Sparkplugging is starting a new tradition called ‘Spark an Idea Thursday’. Each week we’ll be sharing some great ideas for a topic of interest to our readers. We invite you to grab our image and carry the tradition through to your own blog! If you do, please link back to this post so we know [...]

Sometimes when you decide to visit your own web site, you may find the dreaded “Site cannot be found” or it’s taking too long to respond. One of the first things you would do is probably to check your Internet connection, maybe even clear your browser cache and cookies, restart it to see if it’s [...]

Even if you do not have your very own podcast (I don’t), telephone interviews make great content for your web site. You can further re-purpose it to be added into products or member exclusive downloads. Thankfully recording telephone interviews today is a whole lot easier than it used to be. There’s often little expensive [...]

Last week, I asked the question, how much time do you spend trying to solve a technical problem. This week, I’ll follow up with a few places and people whom you can go do to find that help after you’ve decided you have spent enough time on it.
Moi of course! I’m going for some shameless [...]

This is a guest blog post by Joe Pawlikowsk.
When asked what aspect of working at home they enjoy most, many will say the freedom. The freedom to start work at any time. The freedom to work at one’s own individual pace. The freedom to take a walk to the coffee shop and not feel [...]

This is a week I am focused on expanding my fellow bloggers and guest authors’ posts here at Sparkplugging. Today, I read guest author’s reasons for redirecting her affiliate links. Those are the exact reasons I r
edirect mine too. If you don’t know why, read her post. Alice does give a simple way of making [...]

Sparkplugging is starting a new tradition called ‘Spark an Idea Thursday’. Each week we’ll be sharing some great ideas for a topic of interest to our readers. We invite you to grab our image and carry the tradition through to your own blog! If you do, please link back to this post so we know [...]

Since I’m not an eBay seller, not for business anyhow, I don’t normally cover or dive into eBay technologies. But my friend and fellow Sparkplugging blogger does. I was reading her post today. She gives you clear step-by-step instructions how to make your eBay listings appear in your Facebook stream.
My only question is, I wonder [...]

There are two types of software. Huge, gangly bloated ones that claim to do everything under the sun – and also suck up your disk space and resources and those that are small, does the job sufficiently well for the few times you need it and only costs you very little in resources and disk [...]