Blake Imeson *Innovatrepreneur

Use Dropbox to Intake Client Files on Your WordPress Site

I recently had a client who needed to send me a lot of pictures and misc. files for a website build. It would have been cumbersome to email them all and thankfully I came across this marvelous solution from this post:  Allow Anyone To Upload Files To a Folder in Your Dropbox Account. Major props [...] Tags: Dropbox, intake form, upload files, WordPress

How to install incompatible addons in Firefox 4 Beta

I just got the newest Firefox flavor, 4.0b2. If you want to enable using incompatible extensions, plugins, addons, etc... then you can just download this plugin for checking/reporting compatibility which will let you run addons that have yet to be updated. Enjoy! Tags: addons, Firefox

Invoicing Sites - Best way to invoice clients?

Since we started our web development and web strategy company, LimeCuda, we have been trying out different ways of invoicing clients and doing accounting online. I have tried at least a dozen and am getting close to finding the perfect solution. I decided to throw them out to you all and see if there are any [...] Tags: apps, invoice, invoicing

WordPress Redirection Plugin - Home Page Redirect Problem / Bug

I came across a bug in WordPress 3.0 with the wonderful Redirection plugin. When you create a new post/page it will somehow add a redirect that makes the home page redirect to the new post/page. What happens is that it creates a redirect automatically in the Modified posts group. Tools>>Redirection>>Groups>>Modified posts Just delete the redirect that has been [...] Tags: bug, plugin, redirection, WordPress, WordPress 3.0

Enable WordPress Multisite with Subdomains (HostGator)

After a bit of tinkering I have gotten WordPress multisite to work on a HostGator server setup. I am running WordPress 3.0 RC3. After some simple editing on the wp-config.php file and the .htaccess file I added a wildcard DNS by adding a subdomain with just an asterix * and that allows WordPress to create the [...] Tags: DNS, multisite, subdomains, WordPress

Thanksgiving Apps Special

Taking a cue from Lifehacker's list I have pulled together a quick list of applications that I use often for which I am thankful. Yeah, I know being thankful for a program is cheesy but these programs make my life easier and give me more time in the day. [...] Tags: applications, apps, Firefox, Google, opensource

21 LinkedIn Hacks, Tricks and Ways to Make Your Profile Better

At PodCamp3 I co-presented on LinkedIn and we only had 45 minutes to share ways to use LinkedIn better and how to make your profile stronger. Here are some tips we shared and some we didn't have time to share. Use this list to take your usage of LinkedIn up a couple levels. [...] Tags: LinkedIn, profile, tips

Technology I can't "live" without...

Inspired by the venerable Mike Arrington of TechCrunch and his post, 2009: Products I Can’t Live Without I decided it would be fun to just jot down a short list of the types of technology I depend on daily to be efficient. I don’t usually like to do too many of these kinds of posts [...] Tags: 2008, applications, efficiency, plugins, technology, tools