Currently (September 2009) one of the best bargains for a Gigabit switch is this D-Link 8-port unmanaged switch. For under $50, you get fantastic performance and power savings.

Remember, this is just a switch. You would still need a router for the network.

In Front End Drupal: Designing, Theming, Scripting, two expert Drupal developers cover everything you need to know to create great visual designs and state-of-the-art interactivity with Drupal’s behaviors, themes, and templates.

When you copy (encoding) your videos to the Windows Home Server, (on HP's Media Smart Server), the system will try to CONVERT the video to HQ (high quality) and MQ (mobile quality) versions. You can turn the "HPVideo Converter" off in the settings, to stop the system from automatically convert these videos.

However, the video upload will STILL be very slow. You will need to do the following;

- Download and install "Advance Admin Console" ad-in
- Access the ad-in (top-row icon)
- pick Administrative Tools
- Pick "Services" (local)

- Scroll down and find" HP Transcoding Service"

If you're utilizing memory intensive modules which requires the php to access more memory than standard installations, change the value in the php.ini file (some hosts require system administrators to make this change).

For your local MAMP setup edit this file:
/Applications/MAMP/conf/php5/php.ini

Look for the following line and change accordingly...

memory_limit = 96M ; Maximum amount of memory a script may consume (8MB)

For Drupal installation you may change...

You may edit the root .htaccess:

If you can not edit your hosts file located in "private/etc" directory, it's because;

The whole directory has "admin" permissions, and your text editor maybe running with your current user permissions. You can either move the Hosts file to desktop and edit it, and put it back, or use Terminal and edit the file.

Open Terminal.

Type cd /etc

Type sudo nano hosts

Type your password

Edit File

Hit Ctrl + O to save

Hit Ctrl + X to quit

Here is a great blog post about the future of blogging. Om Malik describes his vision of the future of this space...

Finally... Gmail's custom 'From:' feature lets you use Gmail to send messages with another of your email addresses listed as the sender in place of your Gmail address. This way, it's easier to manage multiple accounts from the Gmail interface.

From Official Gmail Blog.

This will help if you use one mail account as an aggragator for all your other email accounts.

Integrated Twitter with TechDust Blog.

http://drupal.org/project/twitter

Have your ever wondered how effective your Google Ads are? How much your competition spends on their Google Ads?

It's very hard to tell exactly how much a competitor is spending and what keywords they use because gaining access to this type of data is nearly impossible.

The closest we can get is with a tool called SpyFu.com