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Tech Talk: How to move a Live Site to a new Host

Posted on December 9, 2011 by Michael

In this week Tech Talk I am going to focus on the proper way to transfer a live website from one host to another.  I hear horror stories all the where even “hosting companies” do not do it properly.  I am going to assume you do not have access to, or want to use a Control Panel migration like cPanel or Interworx,  If you have those system see their instructions for moving, referring here for DNS changes and Register Changes only.

The first thing you should be aware of is that moving a site is a multiple day process in order to ensure proper and limited or no service interruption. Continue reading →

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Delay

Posted on November 23, 2011 by Michael

Sorry for the Delay,  I ended up comming down with Strep Throat so I have not been able to post any more Tech Talks.

I will pick back up the weekly posting on 12/2/2011.

Until then have a Great Thanksgiving

 

 

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Teck Talk 1: How to install Office 2007 on Linux Mint 10

Posted on November 4, 2011 by Michael

Welcome to the first tech talk here at MP Technology Group.  Orginally I had planned to show you how to use FuelPHP, FFmpegPHP2 and FFmpeg to automate transcoding large media library’s.  That tach talk has been pushed because we gotten alot of requests lately from small business wanting to shed the Windows operating system, and move to something else, but want to keep their Office Applications.  Now alot of people say just use Libre Office, Open office, or some other free office suite.  For the Home user the open source office suites are just fine, but when you have used Word and Excel for years and years the training and lost productivity often prevents business from switching, also the User Interface of the open source systems are stuck in the 90′s and most people do not find them “attractive” or “sexy” and while it may not impact the performance of the applications it does effect people’s PERCEPTIONS of them, and as they say PERCEPTION is REALITY.

So with out further ado
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Internet Explorer Drops below 50% market share

Posted on November 2, 2011 by Michael

The month see Internet Explorer continued slide in market shares.  For years internet explorer has resisting web standards and has been the bane of Designers and developers like myself,  while it is true the last 2 versions of Internet Explorer as been a massive improvement over years past, but for most of us it is far far too little and far far too late.

According to Favbrowser.com Internet Explorer is down to  49.58%, Firefox is up to 21.2% and Chrome is coming on very strong and poised to take out Firefox from the #2 spot at 16.59%.

If your sill using Internet Explorer,  do yourself a favor and click on a banner below below and get yourself a real web browser…..

Opera, the fastest and most secure web browser

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Welcome to Tech Talk

Posted on November 1, 2011 by Michael

MP Technology Group is proud to Announce the Tech Talk Blog, where at least once every week we will feature a new tutorial, tip, or story about the world of technology, Android programming or Web Development.

The week will be featuring how to Use phpFFMpeg2 + FuelPHP + ffMpeg to automate transcoding your media collection.

I will post this Tutorial on 11/5/2011 so check back then……

 

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