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Spanning Sync Blog Headsmacking Tip #1: Link Requests in Order Confirmation Emails Tonight I made an online purchase at a store called Widgetco.com (no, I'm not kidding, and I'm not using "widget" as an example, the site is actually www.widgetco.com). Sixty seconds later, this email shows up in my inbox: When I read the second-to-last line of the message, I realized that SEOmoz needs a "headsmacking tips" series on the blog, and that this was a perfect candidate. It's unreal that in all the link building tips, all the blog posts and Whiteboard Fridays, not once have I brought up what a terrific idea it is to leverage your customers for link building. Why Should I Have My Customers Build Links For Me? They already like you They have a relationship with you, so the link request is more like "If you liked our barbershop, please refer your friend." But, There's Downsides, Right? Maybe one - most of your customers probably won't do it, and many of them who might don't even have sites/pages where they could link (unless you provide website services). How Do I Do It? Oh. Yep.
Lynx Information OS X Daily » What happens in the Mac OS X boot process? - Mac OS Long gone are the days of OS 9, watching our Macs boot up with a series of extensions and control panels that we could always identify. Today with the Unix underpinnings of OS X, many users are entirely unaware of what is going on behind the scenes. So what exactly happens during the Mac OS X boot process? A segment at KernelThread carefully lists the sequence of events, from start to finish. It is fairly thorough and worth a read. It is repeated below for the inquisitive Mac OS X users out there. Note: As a reader pointed out, PPC uses OF, i386 uses EFI You turn on your Mac, and this is what happens: Power is turned on.OF or EFI code is executed.Hardware information is collected and hardware is initialized.Something (usually the OS, but also things like the Apple Hardware Test, etc.) is selected to boot. From here on, the startup becomes user-level: rc.boot figures out the type of boot (Multi-User, Safe, CD-ROM, Network etc.). /etc/rc.netboot handles various aspects of network booting.
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Fluid - Free Site Specific Browser for Mac OS X Leopard Scripts to automate the Mail.app Env Thursday’s tip about trimming the fat out of Mail’s Envelope Index for a leaner, faster Mail.app got a fair bit of coverage. Two readers liked it so much that they have produced applescripts to do the job. Sebastian Morsch has written a script that quits Mail, runs the sqlite commands and then relaunches Mail at the end of the process. You can get the script from his web site. “pmbuko” has written another, which does the same thing (modified as suggested in the comments below by Romulo — Thanks!) tell application “Mail” to quit set sizeBefore to do shell script “ls -lah ~/Library/Mail | grep -E ‘Envelope Index$’ | awk {‘print $5′}” do shell script “/usr/bin/sqlite3 ~/Library/Mail/’Envelope Index’ vacuum” set sizeAfter to do shell script “ls -lah ~/Library/Mail | grep -E ‘Envelope Index$’ | awk {‘print $5′}” display dialog (“Mail index before: ” & sizeBefore & return & “Mail index after: ” & sizeAfter & return & return & “Enjoy the new speed!”) tell application “Mail” to activate Similar Posts: