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The Mac OS X 10.5.3 Update is recommended for Mac OS X 10.5, 10.5.1, and 10.5.2 Leopard. (more…)

Powerset Launches as Wikipedia Tool

Powerset says it can deliver on a promise originally made by Ask Jeeves namely if you ask it a simple question it will answer. This trick calls for software with the ability to understand the meaning of words something even Google s engineers find challenging to create. With Powerset s technology in open beta though we can see for ourselves how well it works….

See how easy remote support can be. Try WebEx free! Deliver Support More Efficiently. Remotely Control Applications. Leap Securely through Firewalls! (more…)

Making the Most of Your Content for Blended Search

In the first part of this article I talked about the ways in which Google s Universal Search and other search engines blended search changes the equation for SEO. I tried to get you thinking about what you re currently doing with your content and the changes you can make. In this part I ll cover that subject in more detail and talk about using social media to promote your site….

Take Control of Remote Computers. Support, configure and install applications and updates remotely for greater efficiency. (more…)

Trying to build table with headings, subheadings and items that belong in each (9 replies)

Hi all! I think this post will be kinda lengthy, but I need it to be to explain what’s going on.

Every quarter I receive an Excel file with lots of rows regarding ordering information for some products. This excel file is formatted as such:

actual_id, product_family, s_line, product_line, s_category, product_category, s_series, product_series, detail_sort, wp_identifier, wp_description

So, the way it works is this:

The product_line column is the most general of fields to organize records by. Following that comes product_category, and the (more…)

AES_DECRYPT Problems - Please help! (1 reply)

I’ve got a large database that I need to periodically pull data out of and creaete PDF files with (figured that out), but one of my fields is encrypted with AES_ENCRYPT. I can’t figure out what I’m doing wrong here…

I bought a book that dealt with it a little. I managed to get the decryption to work if I write it like this:

$sql = ‘SELECT id, AES_DECRYPT(ssn, \’my key\’) AS nssn FROM my table WHERE pdfsend = 5′;
$res = mysqli_query($mysqli, $sql);

But, when I try to add any of the other fields from the database, it just doesn’t wor (more…)