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Somebody recently posted a complaint in a forum, whining about the fact that services like GMail, Yahoo Mail, HotMail, and others apparently either won’t accept emails with big attachments, or they strip them off.  That’s like complaining that you can’t fit your entire wedding party into your Volkswagon Beatle for a cross-country trip.  It’s the wrong solution to the problem!

Email attachments get encoded into a form that roughly doubles their size, called Base64.  So a 10k attachment makes the email around 20k.  I had someone try to “forward” me an email to which she attached a 40MB zip file.  She was confounded that her email service wouldn’t accept it.  DUH!  Even if it would have, my mail server is configured to reject any emails with attachments over 2MB.  I just don’t want ‘em!

Most viruses and trojans are sent as attachments to emails.  And most of THEM tend to be files with extensions like .exe, .com, .dll, and .js.  Google even rejects emails with zip files attached to them that contain files with these extensions.  I think that’s smart.

Here’s the solution:

If you have a hosting account ANYWHERE that gives you FTP access, all you need to do is upload the file to your hosting account via FTP and send the person a URL to it in the email.  It’s that simple. This is a great use for those free hosting accounts your ISP gives you with your internet service.

There’s absolutely no need to send big file attachments on emails to anybody, EVER.

Things have been quiet for me lately, but they’re about
to take off.  I wanted to share this with you.  It’s
kinda long, but I hope you’ll stick with me.  It might not
interest you immediately, but it’s something to think
about.

There are a couple of things to buy here, but they’re
awfully affordable.  More than that, this is the first
in what I expect to be several messages along a new
theme that could be VERY PROFITABLE for all of us. 
So stay tuned.

BTW, you can also now follow me on Twitter:

http://www.twitter.com/thetoolwiz

Now that all the noise has settled down about John Reese’s
new Traffic Secrets launch, I have a little tip about one
“traffic secret” that I seriously doubt JR will be telling
you about.  This one is from my friend and reluctant mentor,
WillieCrawford:
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I just got done restoring the previous version of someone who asked me to upgrade their Wordpress blog.

The good folks at Wordpress.org released V2.6 “over a month early”.  But it has a problem if you’re upgrading from an earlier blog: the Categories get messed up.

So if you’re going to upgrade, do NOT move to 2.6 yet.

And always remember to do a backup of you database before you run the upgrade!

BTW, I’m available to do installs and upgrades for Wordpress, Rapid Action Profits, and other scripts at $50/hr.

Today is July 11, 2008. It’s the day the iPhone 3G was released into the market. WOW! I’d love to get one of these puppies.

I have a friend who thinks it’s just a bunch of hullaballoo about nothing. He’s missing the point. And maybe the boat.  The truth is, the iPhone finally delivers what Bill Gates has been talking about for 10 years, saying how Windows will revolutionize mobile computing.  Only Bill never envisioned what Apple has actually accomplished!

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I just stumbled into this:

http://www.law.com/jsp/legaltechnology/pubArticleLT.jsp?id=1202422768997

It’s about a free site where you can search for legal briefs and whatnot.

You might think, “so what?”

How about this:

Check out the blog the article refers to. You’ll find it contains some surprisingly interesting articles!

What are your thoughts?

-David

Well, I’m finally getting around to posting something here after a long silence.  Something went wonky with my blog and I couldn’t access anything on the plugins page and some other stuff.  So I just stopped posting things.

I don’t really have more to say at the moment.  But I’ll be posting a little more regularly again shortly.

Hello

I just wanted to take a couple of minutes to wish all of my
clients and customers a really Happy Easter!

I’ve been hanging out today at the “Mile High Grill” in
Jerome, Arizona. It has a wonderful east-facing view over
the Verde Valley. At the other side of the valley are the
Red Rocks of Sedona, about 15 miles away. It looks an awful
lot like the view from the South Rim of the Grand Canyon.
Only in this case you get to see the setting sun making the
Sedona area take on a wonderful shimmering red glow as it
goes down behind us here. It’s truly humbling and inspiring!

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Hello!

I wanted to drop you a quick note to let you know I’m about
to release a really cool new tool. This time I’ve partnered
with Willie Crawford, who’s handling the marketing.

The name of this new tool is the “Viral Document Toolkit”.

It’s used to create branded viral documents.

However, unlike most “PDF Branders”, VDT will allow you to
brand ANYTHING within the document! What that means is you
can identify any text in the document to be replaceable.
You can add embedded links to any text AND IMAGES! And the
best part is you don’t have to worry about these changes
causing problems with the “flow” of the document. So you
can change blocks of text, biographical data, etc., at
will.

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