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Comparison of Online Email Marketing Companies

If you work on commercial web-sites, eventually you find the need to add email marketing services such as newsletters and special advertisements. The article compares 4 services: Campaign Monitor vs. Constant Contact vs. Mail Chimp vs. Topica in several categories, primarily templating abilities, the usability, and the documentation. This review does not [...]

Writing Custom PHP Snippets for MODx (part VII)

This article and tutorial video takes on how to add custom PHP scripts (known as Snippets) to the MODx content management system. This covers MODx Evolution (version 1.0 and before), but many of these methods and principles are applicable to MODx Revolution (version 2.0) and PHP coding in general.

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Forgot your MODx Password? You can reset it...

I have *cough* never forgotten my password to anything because I followed Brian’s excellent advice about storing passwords, but just in case some of you have, I thought I’d help you out.

If you have access to your MySQL database, you can still log into the MODx manager.

First off, if you are locked out of [...]

TunesBag Stores and Shares Your Music Online – Free Invites

Currently in beta, tunesBag is a free browser-based media player that allows you to (legally) upload your music, play it online, and share with other people.

Think of tunesBag as an online version of iTunes that grants you access to your full audio library from any computer with an Internet connection. Since it’s entirely web [...]

iStat Pro is an Awesome Free System Monitoring Widget

Freeware/donationware iStat pro offers detailed system information, such as Temps, Uptime, plus CPU/Memory/Network information, all within a customizable Dashboard widget [...]

WinCDEmu Integrates Disk Image Mounting in Windows Explorer

We’ve written before about Virtual CloneDrive, software that can mount and run disk images as if they are physical disks. A similar free program is WinCDEmu.

WinCDEmu – Main site

WinCDEmu – SourceForge page

WinCDEmu is free and open-source, and makes mounting a disk image (*.ISO, *.CUE, *.BIN, *.RAW, and *.IMG) as easy as double-clicking.

In case you [...]

Enabling SEO Friendly URLs in MODx (part VI in the series)

Apache .htaccess Rewrites are Powerful

Many content management systems rely on URL parameters like ?page=3 to determine which page is displayed to the user. MODx (like many other CMS’s) can use Apache’s .htaccess file to rewrite URLs so they are easier to read, e.g. www.mydomain.com/modx/tutorial, and this usually results in higher SEO scores. [...]