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Yep, after all these years our ezine and newsletter hosting service has not been blacklisted!!!

Why?

Because we made our rules for publishers hard, we lost a few members when we did this, but we wrote the software specificly to not let ANY spammers use our service. This is a service for real publishers only! There is simply no way for a spammer to get in and use our service. All of our members are REAL CONTENT publishers.

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Check out our blacklisting status here

Anyway, good for us… you can look forward to much more of this great quality of service from us.

Enjoy,

Jopa

I just got done with the task of adding movies from my digital camera to one of my blogs lake-atitlan.com.

After trying many different linux apps that convert video formats I settled with the command line app ffmpeg to convert the files from avi to flv (shockwave flash). First I had to install ffmpeg with mp3 support. Then I got good conversion quality and size with this command.

ffmpeg -i movie.avi -ar 22050 -acodec mp3 movie.flv

Now I have the movie but how do I get my flv into my wordpress blog? I decided to go with the Anarchy Media Player, which is a plugin for wordpress that lets you embed many different kinds of movies and multi-media into your posts.

That did the trick, I am sure there are other good ways to do this but after looking around at my options this was the system that looked best to me as I may be adding other types of multi-media in the future.

mytechsolutions.com is way overdue for a facelift. I have finally taken on the task of bringing this site up to date. I have converted it from the old SSI includes system to php includes like all our other sites, fixed some messy old CSS syntax in the style sheet. I will be adding resources section and updated services list in the next week.

Here is a short off the top of my head list of my favorite and most commonly used web programmer resources on the web.

groups.google.com though not as good as it used to be, google groups is still a great place to ask questions and get answers.

php.net homepage and docs for the PHP language.

cpan.org perl modules repository, its all here.

mysql.com homepage and docs for the Mysql database server.

freebsd.org As all my web servers are running FreeBSD keeping up with the OS is a must.

ubuntu.com I recently have switched to ubuntu for my desktop computers because I like there dedication to making desktop linux and there are plenty of apps.