I’m happy to announce a new resource for you on LicensedReseller.com. This is my site where I’m making many licensed products available, such as resell rights software, scripts, ebooks, and more (I’m still adding stuff to the site, so check it often — and of course I’ll announce it here).

In addition to Big Mike’s Incansoft Products, I just finished uploading software products from Alan Reece’s Software Gold Club. There are a few “freebies” in the mix, along with a few products that come with resale rights.

There’s a wide variety of software and scripts available there that can help your business save time and money. I encourage you to take a few minutes to click on those links to see if there’s something there that can help you.

As usual, all of the Software Gold Club products purchased through LicensedReseller.com come with a 30 day refund policy. You can buy with confidence from LicensedReseller.com — you’re not going to get “stuck” with a piece of software that doesn’t work right for you.

As always, I thank you for your business.

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No Website Backup? This Might Help

by Administrator on March 2, 2010

If you ever needed a website backup but didn’t have one available, I’ve discovered a tool that MIGHT help you get some of your files back. No promises, but even a partial recovery is better than no recovery.

Before I talk about the tool, though, web site backups are pretty easy if you use cPanel:

  • First, use the “Backup Wizard” in cPanel to back up the files on your website. Do this as often as needed (i.e. if you change files, do a new backup). It only takes a couple of minutes to launch the wizard (it could take a while to actually back up and archive the files, depending on server load and the size of the files). I recommend downloading the files to your local computer, then make a copy of the backup on a portable drive and store it somewhere outside your primary office location (just make sure it’s secure).
  • Next, back up your databases. In cPanel, click on the “phpMyAdmin” link. A new window will appear with your databases listed on the left side. Click on each database (in turn), then click on the “Export” tab. Just leave everything as it is (one exception; if it’s a large database, you might want to click on the “gzipped” radio button in the “Compression” field), then click on the “Go” button at the bottom right of the window. Your database dump (in SQL format) will appear; simply copy and paste this into a text document and save it. To restore it, just click on the “Import” tab instead of the “Export” tab.

That should take care of the backup needs for most businesses. Takes a few minutes, but it’s a lot better than losing your web site (and it can, and will, happen, so please do this regularly).

But if you’ve lost a web site, you might be able to get part of it back by using the Warrick Recovery Tool. Warrick attempts to piece your website back together by visiting various sites that might have recent copies of files on your website, such as archive.org and various search engines.

As you can probably tell, it’s an “iffy” proposition. For example, archive.org doesn’t display the content it archives for six months after it scrapes it. Search engines might not know that your site exists or may not archive every page on it. Still, it will probably be better than nothing, and should you run into this problem, it may help.

One other suggestion: As you write content for your website, do it in a text editor of some type, then copy and paste it into your HTML document or content management system (like WordPress). Then save that file, using the date created and a good description in the file name. It’s easy enough to do and gives you one more possible backup source.

You’ve put a lot of effort into building your website. In some cases, you rely on your website to pay the mortgage/rent and to put food on the table. Why not give just a bit more effort to ensure that your website is protected?

P.S. — If you don’t have a good cPanel-based web hosting company, I recommend Dathorn Internet Services. They only offer reseller hosting accounts, but you can just use them for yourself; you don’t have to resell anything — and their rates are competitive and their service superb. Almost all of my sites are hosted there, including this one.

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Watch Who You Follow On Google Buzz

February 12, 2010

The security team over at Websense has released an alert dealing with spam on Google Buzz (and “thanks” to Websense for pointing this out).
Basically, this spammer has followed a couple hundred people and has used Google Buzz to send them to a page about smoking.
While this one may or may not be harmful, other links [...]

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TrueTwit — Do I Look Like One?

February 5, 2010

I’ve been noticing that some of my Twitter follow requests have received direct messages asking me to validate my profile via a service called TrueTwit.
Some quick research showed me that I won’t be doing so any time soon.
Just a quick check on the domain name shows that it is registered via “Direct Privacy ID xxxxxx” [...]

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Another Spammer Deflection Tactic: HR 1910

February 5, 2010

I just received another spam email, this one with the following disclaimer:

REMOVAL OPTION:
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Under Bill HR 1910 passed by the 106th US Congress on May 24, 1999, This message cannot be considered Spam as long as we include the way to be remove.Reply to youremoval@gmail.com and type “Unsubscribe”. All removal requests are handled immediately once received.Thank [...]

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New Data Protection Regulations And Affiliates – Are You Ready?

February 1, 2010

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts is about to begin enforcing some rather comprehensive data protection regulations on March 1, 2010. If you have customers in Massachusetts, then there are some things you will need to do.
The full document is available at http://www.mass.gov/Eoca/docs/idtheft/201CMR1700reg.pdf. I am most definitely not licensed to provide specific legal counsel to you, but [...]

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“You Want What Would You Be Good?”

January 28, 2010

As is my habit, I was cruising through my Gmail “spam” folder today when I came across this message:
Hello my dear. Hey, want to marry a Russian beauty? I want you, my good man. Come to my profile – you’ll get a surprise! You want what would you be good? Come to me.
(The link has [...]

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Fire Extinguishers: What You Need To Know

January 28, 2010

I’m doing an internal teleconference / training session this week for my company on various aspects of computer security. One of the topics I was assigned for my presentation was fire detection and suppression techniques. Much of what I’ll be presenting deals with systems for large computer rooms and server farms, but there’s also a [...]

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Your Business Isn’t Legal If The Bill Never Became A Law

January 22, 2010

Did you ever receive an email that contains language similar to the following:
This message is sent in full compliance of the new U.S. Federal e-mail bill S. 1618 Title III, Section 301, Paragraph (a)(2)(C)
This message cannot be considered SPAM as long as it includes:
1) Contact information, and
2) a way to be removed from future [...]

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Why PayPal / Gmail “Blasters” Are A Colossally Stupid Idea

January 21, 2010

In this post, I’m going to be just a bit more direct than normal (as can be deduced from reading the word “stupid” in the title). It amazes me that people actually believe the outright lies that are written in some spam emails.
Here’s the text of a spam email that hit my Inbox today:
Dear Website [...]

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