When my business was still very young, I did just about everything myself. This is pretty typical as in the beginning, you have more time than money to spend. Being a geek, I would often turn my nose up on paying a monthly fee for anything, particularly web based software. These days, SaaS (software [...]

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 [...]

In the recent months, I’ve noticed a question that keeps popping up within my ‘tribe’ or network. A lot of people want to know how or where to host their video other than Youtube. The requirements are pretty clear.

Must be able to control access to the video
Have a sharp looking player – Youtube is a [...]

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 [...]

Do you ever hate having to take your hands off your keyboard because you need to do something with your mouse? I do. It’s a distraction which is why I try to use as many keyboard shortcuts or hotkeys as possible. Ctrl+C (copy) and Ctrl+V (paste) are my two favorite ones. It’s more accurate than [...]

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 [...]

When you have a big site that’s a good thing because it usually means you have a lot of content, users, comments and traffic. But that can be a nightmare if you want to move your site. Thankfully, some web hosts will help you move your sites. If they do, go that route because it [...]

Most FTP program these days have an automatic setting that is default by nature so many of us don’t need to pay attention to this at all. But in case you didn’t know, there are two ways or modes to upload a file. ASCII and Binary. Typically, ASCII should be used to transfer CGI, PHP, [...]

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, you just need to have a video converted into another format. My must-have tool for converting is Super. It is 100% free to download and use. If you do a search for video converter, you’d get a ton of results. I have actually purchased one of those but in the end, I still come [...]