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Sometimes the need arises when you need to get a prototype site online for client viewing, but what if you only want that client to see the site?

The easiest way by far is using the following technique from the blog of Mr. David Walsh.

You’ll need 2 important files in the webroot and they are .htaccess and .htpasswd

This is how they should look

.htaccess

.htpasswd

Some user name is where the username goes followed by a colon and then the password which here you may recognise as a MD5 encrypted. You can generate one such hash with this

Google voice is great but a lot of people are having problems with installing it. This problem is that when you press the little green phone icon the keypad prompts you to install the voice plugin over and over again.

Here is a fix that is difficult to find but works for alot of people, if it doesn’t work for you then your problem lays elsewhere so please don’t comment.

1. Uninstall the plugin if you already have it.

2. Install vcredist from Microsoft.

32-bit http://download.microsoft.com/download/9/7/7/977B481A-7BA6-4E30-AC40-ED51EB2028F2/vcredist_x86.exe

64-bit  http://download.microsoft.com/download/9/7/7/977B481A-7BA6-4E30-AC40-ED51EB2028F2/vcredist_x64.exe

3. Reinstall Google voice plugin.

4. Log out of your Gmail and any other voice clients you have.

5. Log in and test, the message should have now vanished, yay!

I hope this help as it wound me up for about 40 minutes.

If you use 1and1 eventually you will be sending emails like this.

Can you explain what you’re doing? I’ve had an invoice from you for domain renewal. However in the past I have been utterly disgusted with your service and have had problems with billing and therefore canceled everything.

I contacted you people who assured me that all renewals on my account were deactivated and I will no longer need pay any money to your company.

I’ve logged in and seen that all my domains are set to return to NIC which I was told over the phone would cancel them. I have now gone and done it again.

Is it actually possible to cancel a service with you people as it seems not to be.Can you please cancel the invoice you have sent me as I NO LONGER WANT ANY MORE SERVICES, still. I do not want to renew any services with you again ever. If the information I was given by you last time I contacted you to confirm that I want no more services from you ever is incorrect, could you please explain exactly how I do get through to you that I want no more services ever.

Many thanks
Karl Jacobs

If you go with 1and1 you will never be able to get rid of them. Originally I ordered a VPS from them and then lost all my data. Luckily I had a backup but it was too late as this shouldn’t happen so I had lost faith and cancelled the contract. However I couldn’t get rid of them completely as I had some domains with them. I contacted them and had all my domains set to expire and not renew as I wanted no more to do with them. A year or so later I had a letter posted to me from a debt collection company so it was too late to deal with 1and1, this cost me £30. I then contacted them again to explain that I really do mean that I don’t want to deal with them ever again and six months later they have sent me another fucking invoice for a canceled service. No doubt this will take more time and effort to sort out all though from past experience it doesn’t get sorted out.

Avoid 1and1 like the plague they will never stop billing you ever, I’ve been trying for two years.

Been spending most of today researching responsive grid frameworks, yep dull. I came across a site called gild.com which is kinda a bragging rights site for geeks.

The Idea is that you take various test and challenges based around general skills like maths and English and then technology specific ones. You earn badges and certificates a bit like gamerpoints for grown ups or no so but should be grownups .

If you’ve got half an hour to spare check it out.

http://gild.com