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Add (custom) headers to MailMessage class

How to add custom headers to System.Net.Mail? When sending an email using the MailMessage class (System.Net.Mail namespace) in an ASP.NET website, certain email headers like Message-ID are not always set. When a Message-ID header is missing, email might be blocked by the recipients SMTP server like Gmail. Therefore it is necessary to set such headers.
23/04/2014Posted inCode base
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Clean-up WordPress spam comments and meta data

How to delete WordPress spam comments and meta data with phpMyAdmin. A lot of WordPress spam comments and meta data will keep your WordPress database huge, and slows down your site. It's best to delete spam comments regularly, but if you're facing hundreds of thousands spam comments, here is how to delete them all in bulk.
23/04/2014Posted inWordPress
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How to load google-code-prettify syntax highlighting without plugins

If you run a WordPress blog where you display (parts of) source code, syntax highlighting is a must! It prettifies the code which makes it easier to read and it distinguishes code from text. However, most syntax highlighting is made available through plugins, and we all know too many plugins bring a lot of overhead to your blog. So, conditional load in WordPress: Load javascript only on posts in WordPress.
23/04/2014Posted inWordPress
Posted inWordPress

Optimize images for the web in bulk

Optimizing and loss-less compressing images is one of those items that always pops up when analyzing your website with Google PageSpeed Insights. Images have to be loss-less compressed to save many bytes of data and thus bandwidth. This speeds up the download time of your website. But, how do we optimize images for the web? Or, what if I have hundreds of images that needs optimization? Let's optimize and loss-less compress images in bulk, read on.
12/01/2014Posted inWordPress
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Mount an Open-Xchange InfoStore on Linux

Open-Xchange is an all-in-one Groupware solution, providing not only email, but also a CalDAV calendar, tasks, file- or InfoStore and an online document editor. All shareable with other users. The InfoStore is used to save documents online, in the cloud. This article is about accessing and mounting your Open-Xchange remote WebDAV InfoStore file share, on Linux with mount.davfs or Dolphin GUI file manager.
06/01/2014Posted inGNU Linux
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Block WordPress comment spammers manually

Learn to block WordPress comment spammers manually. The less spammers hit your WordPress blog, the better your blog performs, is one of my opinions. A second is, the less unnecessary plugins you use on your WordPress blog, the better. So, a little while ago I decided to remove plugins like Stop Spammer Registration Plugin and do its work myself. Here is why & how.
30/11/2013Posted inWordPress
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Add websites and application pools to IIS with PowerShell, in a for loop

How to use PowerShell to create websites and application pools in IIS. How to use PowerShell to create websites and application pools in IIS... A client of the company I work for wanted to quickly add 60 sub-domains to his website. But, the sub-domains had to be created as self contained IIS websites, and running in their own application pools. Luckily, the client wanted 60 consecutive sub-domain names. This made our task a bit easier, because we could easily script this in PowerShell
11/11/2013Posted inPowerShell
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Windows Live Mail error 0x80041161 (Fix)

After not using Windows Live Mail for quite some time, it gave me an error code 0x80041161. This Windows Live Mail error can have several different reasons, like corrupt files or services that aren't started, not easing the task of identifying the cause. Read on to learn how to fix this Windows Live Mail error 0x80041161...
10/10/2013Posted inWindows Server
Posted inWindows Server

Create your own CDN using IIS Outbound Rules

Here's how to create a Content Delivery Network (CDN) using IIS outbound rewrite rules. Offload your static content and speed up your website with these tips. Offloading content is important for the performance of your website, because then content is downloaded in parallel and thus faster. A faster website attracts more visitors, is more user friendly, improves CTR and Google SEO.
29/09/2013Posted inWindows Server