• Internet Download Manager supports all popular browsers including IE, AOL, MSN, Opera, Firefox, Avant Browser, and it can be integrated into any Internet application to take over downloads using unique ‘Advanced Browser Integration’ feature.
• Dynamic Segmentation and Performance.
• Easy downloading with one click. When you click on a download link in a browser, IDM will take over the download and accelerate it. IDM supports HTTP, FTP, HTTPS and MMS protocols.
• Download Speed Acceleration. IDM can accelerate downloads by up to 5 times due to its intelligent dynamic file segmentation technology.
• Download Resume. IDM will resume unfinished download from the place where they left off.
• YouTube grabber. IDM can grab FLV videos from popular sites like YouTube, MySpaceTV, and Google Video.
• Drag and Drop. You may simply drag and drop links to IDM, and drag and drop downloaded files out of Internet Download Manager.
• Automatic Antivirus checking. Antivirus checking makes your downloads free from viruses and trojans.
• Advanced Browser Integration. When enabled, the feature can be used to catch any download from any application.
• Built-in Scheduler. IDM can connect to the Internet at a set time, download the files you want, disconnect, or shut down your computer when it’s done.
• IDM includes web site spider and grabber. IDM downloads all required files that are specified with filters from web sites, for example all pictures from a web site, or subsets of web sites, or complete web sites for offline browsing. It’s possible to schedule multiple grabber projects to run them once at a specified time, stop them at a specified time, or run periodically to synchronize changes.
• IDM supports many types of proxy servers. For example, IDM works with Microsoft ISA, and FTP proxy servers.
• IDM supports main authentication protocols: Basic, Negotiate, NTLM, and Keberos. Thus IDM can access many Internet and proxy servers using login name and password.
• Download All feature. IDM can add all downloads linked to the current page. It’s easy to download multiple files with this feature.
• Download Categories. IDM can be used to organize downloads automatically using defined download categories.
• Download limits. Progressive downloading with quotas feature. The feature is useful for connections that use some kind of fair access policy (or FAP) like Direcway, Direct PC, Hughes, etc.
• IDM is multilingual.

• Added support for Firefox 32 and SeaMonkey 2.28
• Fixed video recognition problems in Google Chrom
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The Four Most Common Ways To Attract Leads

1. Buy leads for $1.00 – $25.00 a pop with small knowledge of If the prospect of performing the 4 requirements of a good lead (coming up in a second). I’ll remember you. Bye bye money.
2. Cold call businesses and get shut down 99% of the time. Bye bye with that confidence, I’ll remember you too.
3. Attend local events for small and medium business owners. You’ll be able to reach approximately 1/100.000%=0.00001% of your market this way, if you’re lucky.
4. Dig up their website on the 2nd page of Google, send them one of 39 e-mails they’re probably going to receive today or tomorrow, hope and wait and twiddle your thumbs and keep hoping for the best which rarely, if ever, comes.

It’s certainly not news to me that setting up any technology on Windows that’s typically associated with the LAMP stack can be a bit tricky. Today, I found myself wanting to run a Twitter Bootstrap site that was built in PHP. I use Windows 7 and IIS 7.5 on my laptop, so I had to get through a few minor setup considerations. Here are some of them—hopefully, this will help others get going quickly.

Essentially, you need to download PHP (http://windows.php.net/download or http://php.iis.net/), configure it to work with IIS. Download Twitter bootstrap, configure it to work with IIS… etc. etc. etc. Here are some quick tips for getting going. The PHP.net article on Enabling FastCGI support in IIS was helpful. There are some steps that are optional, so you might want to first check whether the handler mapping is already in IIS, but for the most part, it’s a useful page to follow. For example, installing the CGI component for IIS is required. Without that feature, you won’t be able to run any PHP code in IIS.

If you want to use the short form of the PHP server-side tag (“” instead of “” ), you’ll need to turn the option on in your php.ini configuration file. Since this file is typically being used, you can’t just open it and save change. The easiest way to edit it is to search for the php.ini file, copy it to some other location, then open the file and search for the “short_open_tag =” line. Change it to On to use the short form and then copy the PHP.ini file back to it’s original location and restart IIS.

; This directive determines whether or not PHP will recognize code between
; tags as PHP source which should be processed as such. It's been
; recommended for several years that you not use the short tag "short cut" and
; instead to use the full tag combination. With the wide spread use
; of XML and use of these tags by other languages, the server can become easily
; confused and end up parsing the wrong code in the wrong context. But because
; this short cut has been a feature for such a long time, it's currently still
; supported for backwards compatibility, but we recommend you don't use them.
; Default Value: On
; Development Value: Off
; Production Value: Off
; http://php.net/short-open-tag
short_open_tag = On

To test whether PHP is working, you can run or in a .php file under wwwroot. Call it whatever you want .php. Then open the page (e.g., http://localhost/phpinfo.php) and see what’s displayed. If everything is working, you’ll see a page that shows verbose information about your environment (see screen below). If you try to run the command with the short form notation, and you haven’t enabled that option, the page will be completely blank.

- PHPINFO() shown in Internet Explorer

If you have any issues getting Less or Bootstrap files to load, open up your site in Chrome or IE and use the developer tools to inspect what’s going on with the scripts.

- Chrome developer tools showing Resources (scripts)

For example, I had to add an IIS mime type for “.less” files to get Less to work on my machine (IIS 7.5). Without setting the mime type, I was getting a 404.3 error for the file bootstrap.less. This isn’t difficult to do, just open Internet Information Services (IIS) Manager and find the “Mime Types” feature under “HTTP Features.” Make sure you’ve selected the website in the left panel before you look for this option on the right side. I just add a new mime type for .less files and set it to “text/plain” and everything worked.

Several years ago, Microsoft released a small utility to query for open network ports.  The portqry application can be found at http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=17148.  A KB article describing the application can be found at http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;310099.

Below are some examples of using the utility.  The –n parameter is for the IP address or DNS host name.  The –e parameter is for the destination port to query for on the remote host.

TCP is the default protocol.  The –p parameter can specify TCP, UDP, or BOTH.

The –o parameter allows multiple port values to be queried.

The –r parameter allows a range of port values to be queried.

While working with some XML documents, I ran into this cryptic error: “There is an error in XML document (2, 2).” The problem turned out to be a surprising case sensitivity in the C# code. When I was trying to deserialize from XML to an object, the XML elements didn’t match the case of the class properties.

Here is my original XML file:

  stephen

Test class:

public class Test
{
  public string Name { get; set; }
}

And the code that I was using to deserialize the XML into the Test class object.

string xmlFile = String.Concat(HttpContext.Current.Request.PhysicalApplicationPath, "test.xml"); System.IO.StreamReader reader = System.IO.File.OpenText(xmlFile);
XmlSerializer xs = new XmlSerializer(typeof(ReportTemplate));
Test testData = (ReportTemplate)xs.Deserialize(reader);

The solution was quite simple. The case of the XML tags did not match the case of the class properties. By changing them to match, I resolved the error. Here is the working XML:

   stephen

BTW – If the root element case matches, but one of the sub-elements does not, you will see the beloved error “Object reference not set to an instance of an object.”

Last year, I posted a message about Windows Live Writer for blog Authoring and I mentioned that I had heard a rumour that Live Writer would soon have the Office ribbon UI. Well the future is now.

The Windows Live Writer 2011 Beta is out and it does indeed have the ribbon interface.

I’ve only written one post so far (this one), but I really am happy to see that ribbon. I have to say though that a couple of things seem to be missing in this Beta. For example, pasting in a picture from the clipboard isn’t working for me (I use that all the time), so I had to use the ribbon Insert option. Also, I don’t see the Format Painter. I dig the Format Painter.

You can read my original Live Writer post if you’re curious why I choose to use this great app. But the short list is: access to multiple blog accounts, easy editing and image handling with my FTP server and having the power of a rich-client.

So I finally got around to adding some quick steps in Outlook 2010 and I’m glad that I took the time to discover the value of this feature. I work at Metalogix Software and anyone who works in a technology company will get a lot of e-mail. I previously posted about how I use Outlook Quick Parts, Outlook Safe Senders and how I manage my inbox (Don’t be an E-Mail Hoarder).

Quick steps allow you to create an action that contains a number of other actions. For example, you might want to move a message to a particular folder and mark it as done at the same time. The quick steps saves you the time of having to complete each action individually. In this way, you could say that Quick Steps are like macros.

I didn’t jump right on this feature because I didn’t initially appreciate that it could save me time. However, when playing around with it, I discovered that I can associate a keyboard shortcut with a Quick Step. Now, that’s interesting to me. Perhaps I only want to perform one action, such as moving messages to a folder, but now I can do it with a keyboard shortcut. That will save me time.

To create a Quick Step, you can go up to the ribbon, or you can right-click a message and find the option in the context menu.

With the context menu open, choose Create New to bring up the Edit Quick Step dialog. In this window, you can give your new Quick Step a name and choose the actions that you’d like to apply. Some of the options include moving, copying, deleting, marking as read or unread, setting the message importance, flagging the message, etc.

Once you have your Quick Step defined, you can go to the bottom of the dialog and choose a shortcut key and you can even add a tooltip to remind you how this Quick Step is meant to be used.

That’s it! You’re all sort to start streamlining your Outlook mail management.