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We’re sitting here right now in San Francisco at the Paypal X Developer’s conference waiting for the opening keynote scheduled to start in a half hour.  Stay tuned… we will keep you updated.

What is it?

• Google Apps allows businesses to have free Email, Calendar, and Documents online.
• Google has created the most secure and fast way to get your business running effectively online.

Is it the same as GMail?

• What people usually mean when asking this question is “Will my email be  xxxxx@gmail.com”
• The answer to that is no.  Google Apps Email allows companies to have email addresses that are branded with their website address like xxxxx@mywebsite.com
• On the other hand, using Google Apps Email does still use the powerful GMail web based email, it is just customized to the email address that you want.

How to sign up?

• Google Apps Standard Edition is free for 100 users.
• For those who feel up to it, you can signup here:  http://www.google.com/apps/intl/en/group/index.html

Will you guys do it for me?

• We also offer Google Apps Setup for a nominal fee.  If you would like to save your time and have us do it for you, give us a call at (805) 628-2030

- The team @ Thrive Line

Terms:
Site1 = http://site1.com/
Site2 = http://site2.com/

Site1Path = /home/user1045/domains/site1.com/html
Site2Path = /home/user9938/domains/site2.com/html

STEPS:
1) ssh into site1
- ssh serveradmin@site1.com
- enter password
- “cd domains/site1.com”
- “tar czf filesbackup.tar.gz html”
- “mv filesbackup.tar.gz html”

2) ssh into site2 and download files from site1
- ssh serveradmin@site2.com
- enter password
- “cd domains/site2.com”
- “rm -r html”
- “wget http://site1.com/filesbackup.tar.gz”
- “tar xvfz filesbackup.tar.gz”

A great article on simplicity in UI design. Some key points I took away from it:

• The “blank state” is the first impression. Make it useful.
• “When deciding whether a feature is necessary, the default answer should be ‘No.’”
• “80% of users use only 20% of software features.”
• White space is a good thing!

Read the article: http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/10/07/minimizing-complexity-in-user-interfaces/

As jazz musician Charles Mingus said, “Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that’s creativity.”

1. Login to the Network Solutions file manager
2. navigate to the /cgi-bin folder
3. create /cgi-bin/php.ini file
4. type the following:
register_globals = off
5. Save file

NOTE: Network solutions setup makes no sense.  Traditionally you would create the php.ini file in the path that you installed your php scripts.  For whatever reason there servers look here and effect your entire site inside htdocs folder.