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• WordPress iPhone Plugin
• 1 Step to Uninstall IE8 on Windows XP
• The Membership Site Masterplan From Yaro Starak
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Office 2007 SP2 has been released! Written on May 8, 2009, by Bryan.

Microsoft have released Service Pack 2 for Office 2007. 

It seems they have fixed a lot of the bugs that have been raised over the past couple of years, so this is certainly a worthy download. You can see a list of the main fixes and changes here.

Outlook has been updated to improve the start-up and shutdown performance which I’m sure we’ll all enjoy!

Click here to download Office 2007 Service Pack 2.

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WordPress iPhone Plugin Written on May 6, 2009, by Bryan.

Do you want your WordPress blog to look fantastic on an iPhone? What if I could show you a Plugin that did just that!

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wptouch/

The WPTouch iPhone Theme completely changes the look and feel of your site to be more native to iPhone users. It doesn’t try to fit your current theme down to the smaller screen, it simply replaces it with slick iPhone style graphics.

 

It also allows your users to revert back to your standard theme if they wish to.

I think this is one of the best plugins I have ever come across!! Extremely easy to use, and very effective…

Go and download it now!

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1 Step to Uninstall IE8 on Windows XP Written on May 4, 2009, by Bryan.

Had enough of IE8? Do you want to rollback to Internet Explorer 7? 

I frequently use a web application that throws Javascript errors in IE8 - even with the IE7 compatibility mode turned on… It actually locks up my machine to the point that I have to reboot it!

After a quick google on “How to uninstall IE8″, I found there were some intersting ways people are trying to get rid of it!

But, there is just one thing that you need to do to un-install it; just run this program:

c:\WINDOWS\ie8\spuninst\spuninst.exe

It will remove IE8 completely, and revert you back to IE7.

Remember, I have only tried this for Windows XP. If you have any luck with this on Vista, please let me know!

Good Luck!

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The Membership Site Masterplan From Yaro Starak Written on April 29, 2009, by Bryan.

If you’ve ever wanted to setup a membership site and just weren’t sure where to start, then now is the time! Because Yaro Starak, the guy that made $250,000 with his first membership site, has just released an excellent free report called The Membership Site Masterplan.  

Yaro Starak is a professional blogger/entrepreneur who created, managed and sold several different Internet businesses since 1998 and currently teaches people how to make a full time income from blogging part time through his Blog Mastermind coaching program.  So if your looking for pointers on how to make a membership site Yaro is certainly one to learn from!

The Membership Site Masterplan is full of excellent information and is certainly a great place to start when setting up your membership site. The free report is well worth a look, as it covers many aspects of membership sites.

Some of the things covered are:

• How To Build Your Preeminence
• Marketing Through Communication Channels
• Technology (putting it all together) - Membership Site Software, WordPress, Taking Payments, PayPal, Audio/Video & Forums, Affiliate Management
• Pre Launch & Launch
• Set Your Membership Site On Autopilot
• Selling Your Membership Site

I highly recommend you read Yaro’s free report as there is a wealth of information in it and it will certainly get you started on your next membership site.

Then if that’s not enough, Yaro is also starting up a coaching programme called Membership Site Mastermind. The course runs for 6 weeks and Yaro will provide you with more training and resources and also help you on a more personal level to build your membership site. Yaro launches his course in 1 week, opening the doors to take on new members but you’ll have to be quick because registration is for only 1 week. After that he will close the doors and start teaching!

Good Luck with your membership site!

Bryan

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Google Similar Image Search Written on April 23, 2009, by Bryan.

Google have created a new way of searching for images using pictures rather that words.  It’s called “Similar Images”.  The traditional Google Images Search is a great tool for finding pictures on the web, but can be frustrating when you’re searching for a term that has many meanings. For example “Paris”; you could be searching for Paris the city or Paris Hilton.

With the new Google Similar Images Search that has been added to Google Labs they are hoping that image search will now improve.  

When searching for an image, “Similar Images” will appear as a link underneath the thumbnail images of your search results.  By clicking on “similar images” below the image you like, it will return all images that look visually similar to the one you selected.  Using visual similarity, you don’t have to refine the text/keyword of your search, instead, you can just click on the similar images link of an image you like.

A very cool tool for finding many images in a particular category with a similar look, it will narrow down the results to exactly what your trying to find!

To try it for yourself go to: Google Similar Images Search

Happy Searching!

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How to upgrade a WordPress blog Written on April 22, 2009, by Bryan.

Once logged into the dashboard administration area of your website there will be a link towards the top of the page telling you there is a new version of WordPress available. The link asks you to “Please update now”. However, there are a few precautions you should take first before upgrading.

If you upgrade WordPress through the dashboard area you will replace all of your source code, which is everything in the WordPress directory. So that’s all of the standard source code and all of the default themes, which means if you’ve changed or customised any of the default code, then that will be erased when you run the upgrade. But all of your custom things should still be in place if you’ve downloaded a custom theme and it’s not one of the default themes. Still be cautious though even if you think that you haven’t changed any code or have anything customised because anything could still go wrong and leave your website out of order and if you have no back-up then you will have lost it all.

So before you do anything you need to back-up your database and any customisation you’ve made to your website. To do that go to the back end of you website, either via the control panel or FTP, whichever you prefer to use.

For the purpose of this article I will be telling you how to do this via CPanel.

1. Go to the “File Manager” where your wordpress website is installed
2. Click the file you want to backup so it’s highlighted
3. Click “compress” in the tool bar
4. A new file will be created which is the back-up
5. Next you want to download that file onto your local computer, so click on “download” in the tool bar and download it to a location on your computer
6. Then delete the backed-up copy of the file from this area so no-one else can get to it by selecting it and clicking “delete” in the tool bar

The next thing to do (also from the CPanel) is back-up the database.

1. Go to “Databases”
2. Click on “Php My Admin” and back-up a copy of your database
3. Select the database from the left-hand side
4. Click on “Export” and make sure all the tables are selected
5. Make sure it’s a SQL file
6. Click “save file as” the click “Go”
7. Click “Save” and download it to a location on your computer and when that’s finished you have a copy of you’re database on your local computer

Now you should have your entire site directory backed-up and downloaded to your local computer and your complete database also downloaded to your computer. So now we can go back to the website dashboard of your WordPress site and use the link to upgrade your WordPress version and know that if anything happen to go wrong when upgrading to the new version we have the backed-up copies to revert to.

There is still one other precaution to take to help with a smooth upgrade so we’re going to go to the “plugins” area from the dashboard and deactivate all of the plugins.

1. Click on “plugins”
2. Select “all” then click “deactivate” and “apply”

So now we have the site backed-up the database backed-up and the plugins deactivated which means we’re now ready to come back and click “please update now”.

It will show a warning to backup your database and files which we’ve already done. So it’s safe to click “Upgrade Automatically”. It will tell you when it’s finished and if it was successful.

Now go back to the plugins area and reactivate the plugins that you turned off earlier. Once that’s done go back to your site to check everything is working fine by clicking around and making sure you are lead to the right places.

Hopefully everything should work if you’ve taken all these precautions, but if for some reason something goes wrong you have got all of your files and database backed-up which you can revert to if needed.

If you have any questions, please post them in the comments section below.

Happy blogging!

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Office 2007 PDF Add-on Written on April 9, 2009, by Bryan.

Do you need to create quality PDF documents in Office 2007? 

The best way to produce a PDF is to use the official Microsoft Office Add-in which you can download at:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=4d951911-3e7e-4ae6-b059-a2e79ed87041&displaylang=en

Now I need to uninstall all the dodgy ones I’ve used in the past!

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Free Mind-Mapping Software Written on March 31, 2009, by Bryan.

I have recently started to collect my thoughts and share them with my wife (Julie) by using Mind Maps. Never heard of them?

Click here to visit Wikipedia to learn all about them!

There are many different tools you can use to create them, and a lot of people will charge you for the privilege - until now!

I have found a great software package that you can download right now and start creating Mind Maps to organise all of the thoughts running around in your head…

Here’s the link: freemind.sourceforge.net/

 

I recommend you go and download this software now… It’s very easy to use, and won’t cost you a cent!

Til’ next time!

Bryan

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Welcome To Bryan-Wain.com Written on March 27, 2009, by Bryan.

Hi, thanks for stopping by my Blog.

My name is Bryan Wain, and I have a passion for helping others solve their technical problems on the Internet. I’ve made a career from the Internet since 1999, and have had exposure to almost all aspects of web development for the last 10 years.

For the past 5 years, I have designed and developed Internet Banking applications for some of Australia’s largest Credit Unions and Banks. As you can imagine there are some pretty huge hurdles to overcome when dealing with millions of dollars of transactions everyday, but I’ve always enjoyed it!

I’ve created this blog to allow Internet Marketers from all over the world to submit their problems to me and allow me to solve them! Everyone can learn from the experience of others and I’m sure I’ll learn even more in the process.

Thanks for visiting, I look forward to helping you!

Cheers,

Bryan Wain

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