George Files

If you need to send an SMS or text message from your email client to a cell phone in the US, here are a list of domain that some phone companies use.

Alltel – cellnumber@message.alltel.com
AT&T – cellnumber@txt.att.net
Boost – cellnumber@myboostmobile.com
Nextel – cellnumber@messaging.nextel.com
Sprint PCS – cellnumber@messaging.sprintpcs.com
T-Mobile – cellnumber@tmomail.net
US Cellular – cellnumber@email.uscc.net
Verizon – cellnumber@vtext.com
Virgin Mobile – cellnumber@vmobl.com

SeoBook.com has a spider tool that gives you a glimpse of what the search engine spider will see on your page when it crawls your site. You can check it out here: http://tools.seobook.com/general/spider-test/

The nice thing about this tool is that it also provides a breakdown of the keywords that it reads and estimate its density.

Here is an article that I caught while browsing. If your site has been penalized or its traffic has gone down, or the site does not get indexed by the Google spiders, there is a way to appeal Google and request the site to be indexed again.

Read here.

I was trying to experiment on adding a Google Maps on one of my web pages. I came across this wonderful article on how to create them.

Article courtesy of Michael Miller: http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=679546

Now, there are times, when the specific location does not give you the longitude and lattitude values. This article gives you a way to reveal the long/lat values of the area.

http://www.tech-recipes.com/rx/2403/google_maps_get_latitude_longitude_values/
http://itouchmap.com/latlong.html

Someone send you a document that was written in Office 2007 but unfortunatedly it has a docx or xlsx extension.  Doyng!  What to do?  Buy Office 2007, no?

Good thing Microsoft gave us Office 2007 Compatibility Pack that you can download.

Once you install this, you could now open Office 2007 documents from previous version of Office.

I found this Javascript that you can use to embed swf movies on your html page.  http://blog.deconcept.com/swfobject/#howitworks

The nice addon is the ability to detect flash player versions and allows you to update the player.

This is a great plugin to use to create favicon in PhotoShop.

http://www.telegraphics.com.au/sw/

Or, if you just want to convert an image to a favicon, you could use Dagon Design’s tool: http://www.dagondesign.com/tools/favicon-generator-tool/

Most legacy MS DOS apps prints to the traditional LPT port, ie LPT1.  Unfortunately, the newer printers dump the parallel printer port in lieu of the easier and cost effective USB.

If you have to maintain an MS DOS program but the program can only print to the LPT port, you can use this DOS to USB printer driver program – DOS2USB. 

Essentially, it diverts all the parallel print commands to the USB port seamlessly.  Give it a try.

Here is a mod for OSCommerce to create a discount for products that you want to promote with a Buy [X] get [n] Free.

Get it here: http://addons.oscommerce.com/info/4990

Want to have a website but you don’t know where to start?

Maybe you’re afraid that web design firms are going to charge you prices that is way above your budget if there’s any at all.

Well, this particular post presents a good background before you select your web designer for your web site.  It presents it from the view of a person who’s been through the process of dealing and negotiating with a web designer.

Read it here: Web Design Project Do’s & Don’ts