Outlook – 451 Temporary local problem – please try later [solved]

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Recently while using Bluehost with Microsoft Outlook 2007 and trying to send / receive mail, I got an error 451 – “Temporary local problem”

Sending’ reported error (0x800CCC6A) : ‘Your outgoing (SMTP) e-mail
server has reported an internal error. If you continue to receive
this message, contact your server administrator or Internet service
provider (ISP). The server responded: 451 Temporary local problem
– please try later’.

Outlook – 451 Temporary local problem – please try later [solved]

The solution to this problem is related to the DNS records in the Bluehost control panel. I had changed the MX records to point to Google Apps and had not changed them bac.

To get around this error with Bluehost (and maybe other hosting providers too) make sure that you highest priority MX record (lower numbers are higher priority) points to something like mail.yourdomain.com

This will also ensure that all e-mail sent to your domain is handled by Bluehost (take note of that in case you’re trying to use that and google apps).

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Java – 3 Billion Devices Run Java

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Java promptes itself as I install the latest version – Java Version 7 update 9.

Java – 3 Billion Devices Run Java

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Dropbox Free Storage for Students

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Recently Dropbox has added a new bonus for Students: Double your space by verifying your `.edu` e-mail address

Dropbox Doubles Storage Space for Students

The promotion is called:

###Join the Great Space Race

And Dropbox boasts: Earn free space for your school for two years

Dropbox will give you 3GB for free for verifying your school e-mail address, and then as your school collects points for people verifying their `.edu` email addresses, it’s possible to get up to an extra 25GB of space form the educational “space race”

From Dropbox:

> Earn free Dropbox space for everyone at your school! Join Space Race to get an extra 3 GB for two years, plus the space your school earns!

They have a few terms that go along with it, stating:

> Term. Individuals may participate in the Dropbox Space Race Program (“Program”) from October 15, 2012 at 10:00 a.m. Pacific Time (“PT”) to December 10, 2012 at 10:00 a.m. PT (the “Sign-Up Period”). Participants are required to determine the appropriate beginning and ending times in the Sign-Up Period for their respective jurisdictions. The Sponsor’s computer is the official time keeping device for the Program.

Dropbox Doubles Storage Space for Students

Here is a graph showing the progress chart for Universities:

Dropbox Free Storage for Students

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Typinator has a funny icon with two dots and is not working

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On Mac OS X I use Typinator (Text Expander alternative) and lately it has been showing a weird icon in the menu bar (pictured below) and it is not working. The expansion is not paused, and I don’t see any options which would prevent it from working, but it is not working.

Typinator has a funny icon with two dots and is not working

Quitting and restarting the application does not help, but restarting the computer does fix the issue until it goes into this mode again.

## Solution for Typinator in Secure Keyboard Mode

What does this mean?

###Typinator has detected “secure keyboard mode”.

The icon with two black dots appears when Typinator cannot see what you are typing because your computer is operating in “secure keyboard mode”.

Typinator uses an “event monitor” to watch you typing. For security reasons, Mac OS X disables the monitor when you are typing in a password field. However, there are a few programs that turn secure keyboard mode on and do not turn it back off when there no longer is any security risk. In this particular situation, secure keyboard mode was turned on by Typinator.

If you do not know which application is causing the problem, try quitting applications one by one and watch Typinator’s icon in the menu bar. When the icon goes back to normal, you know that you have found the culprit.

If you have further questions, please see our FAQ page for more information.

Typinator has a funny icon with two dots and is not working

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How to allow java in the firewall on OS X Mountain Lion

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I was getting a message when using Amazon EC2 command line tools:

> Do you want the application “java” to accept incoming network connections?

How to allow java in the firewall on OS X Mountain Lion

You can open your firewall and security settings preference pane and click on “Firewall Options”:

How to allow java in the firewall on OS X Mountain Lion

You might be tempted to add `/usr/bin/java` to the list of acceptions, but that actually won’t cut it. You’ll still get the firewall warning when running Amazon Web Services Command Line Tools.

If you open terminal and run `echo $JAVA_HOME` it should show you the path of the java it’s using.

For me this was located at:

/System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Home/

What you’ll find in that folder is a `bin` directory and a `java` file inside that:

/System/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/1.6.0.jdk/Contents/Home/bin/java

If you then add that file to the list of exceptions you’ll stop receiving this flash of a popup that is prompting you to accept:

> Do you want the application “java” to accept incoming network connections?

Do you want the application “java” to accept incoming network connections?

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Google’s I’m Feeling Lucky Search is Broken

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Google’s I’m Feeling Lucky Search is BrokenGoogle’s I’m Feeling Lucky Search is Broken… at least if you’re using some type of browser shortcut for it.

I had a custom search set up in Firefox and Chrome to allow me to “lucky search” any keyword and jump to the result.

Now Google is checking the referrer for lucky searches and it will take you to a results page unless you do the lucky search from the Google Website.

One small note: It still seems to work for queries without a space in them. Try replacing your spaces with underscores or just searching for a single word.

Is this affecting you? Do you have a solution? Leave a comment below.

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PayPal – Notice of Policy Updates

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Dear PayPal Customer,

PayPal recently posted a new Policy Update which includes changes to the PayPal User Agreement. The update to the User Agreement is effective November 1, 2012 and contains several changes, including changes that affect how claims you and PayPal have against each other are resolved. You will, with limited exception, be required to submit claims you have against PayPal to binding and final arbitration, unless you opt out of the Agreement to Arbitrate (Section 14.3) by December 1, 2012. Unless you opt out: (1) you will only be permitted to pursue claims against PayPal on an individual basis, not as a plaintiff or class member in any class or representative action or proceeding and (2) you will only be permitted to seek relief (including monetary, injunctive, and declaratory relief) on an individual basis.

You can view this Policy Update by logging in to your PayPal account. To log in to your account, go to https://www.paypal.com and enter your member log in information. Once you are logged in, look at the Notifications section on the top right side of the page for the latest Policy Updates. We encourage you to review the Policy Update to familiarize yourself with all of the changes that have been made.

If you need help logging in, go to our Help Center by clicking the Help link located in the upper right-hand corner of any PayPal page.

Sincerely,

PayPal

Notice of Policy Updates

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Use JSBeautifier from the command line on Mac OS X

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Recently I read a post about how to use JSBeautify in Textmate via the filter selection command.

It was also nice in that it gave an example of how to install JSBeautify on your system – I think it will work for any linux machine, but I was using OS X.

The jsbeautifier.org has a nice interface, good results, and lots of options:

Use JSBeautifier from the command line on Mac OS X

To install on Mac OSX, to install JSBeautify, you can use the following commands:

cd /tmp
git clone https://github.com/einars/js-beautify.git
cd js-beautify/python
python setup.py install

Then you can simply use `js-beautify /path/to/filename.js` to have it run.

All the power of `jsbeautifier.org` right at your fingertips as a command-line tool!

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How can I parse a .torrent file with PHP? [solved]

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How can I parse a .torrent file with PHP? [solved]

There are some similar questions, but most of them want to download a torrent using PHP or something like that. What I’d like to do is parse a `.torrent` file, add trackers to it, and then re-save it as a `.torrent` file.

– I saw Snark which looks to be for Java only.

Can I do this with PHP? If so, how?

##Solution

To parse a `.torrent` file with PHP you can use a standalone function, as demonstrated here or you can use a library, like the one included with php-bittorrent

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What is Google’s Adwords Re-Targeting?

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The Google Adwords algorithm is a theory that often the first impression won’t yield a conversion, and so they offer Adwords re-targeting.

What that means is when a user is searching for something, they’ll be shown ads. Perhaps they’ll even click one of those ads – but it doesn’t mean the advertiser (payer) will get a conversion.

If there is no conversion, Adwords knows that the user is probably interested and perhaps just needs to be “impressioned” a few more times.

They use cookie tracking and lots of other good methods to follow you around to their affiliate sites (think Youtube video ads, ads on websites, etc) and will show you what they think you’re interested in.

I recently took a look at the design of the SquareUp site and ever since then I’ve been seeing so many ads for their product.

What is Google’s Adwords Re-Targeting?

Amazon.com does a similar thing – if you visit their site you’ll start seeing things that you looked at show up on other websites.

In short, that’s what Google’s Adwords’ Re-Targeting is all about.

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