Archive for the 'Tech Tips' Category

Alert: “CNN Daily” spam

Thursday, August 7th, 2008

Here’s a great article explaining what’s behind the “Daily Top 10″ spams going around. The basic bits of the article are that if you click on anything, it will try to load a fake Flash player. It is Windows-only, but will invade and “phone home” to install more malware from the originating server.
Massive faux-CNN spam [...]

The iPhone is great for photographers

Tuesday, July 1st, 2008

It’s been a year since the iPhone hit the market, and now there’s a new iphone getting ready to be available. The iPhone 3G will make it quite a bit easier for everyone to get their hands on one of these fantastic mobile computers/phones. Given that Dogbark is a creative community, there are a bunch [...]

I’m Hit! Spam E-Mail Bomb Explodes.

Tuesday, June 10th, 2008

This morning I fell victim to what has become a very common spam technique. I open my Mail this morning and have 248 message coming my way with subjects like “mail delivery failed” or “return mail: see transcript” or “undelivered: free porn”.
Yes, somehow, somewhere, someone used my email address …

Googling for form spam

Wednesday, April 16th, 2008

Google, in their effort to index the universe, is currently experimenting with breaking past forms to get deeper content.

My Website is down!!!

Monday, March 17th, 2008

“My website is down!”
If you’ve had a website for any amount of time, no doubt you’ve heard those words echo through your head numerous times. So, who do you call when your website is not responding? Most likely, Dogbark is first up on your list (which it should be, by the way). But what [...]

Dan Benjamin Strikes Again!

Thursday, February 28th, 2008

Hivelogic: Installing Ruby, Rubygems, Rails, and Mongrel on Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Yes, I’m a geek. And I like exploring new technologies - so much that I often feel like a jack-of-all-trades, master-of-none. I’m not good at settling down and learning all of the deep subtleties of a given technology.

Paradise or Inferno?

Thursday, February 28th, 2008

I live in a world where anything other than Mac is likely from the Devil. So, around here, Christmas comes at different times of the year … when the UPS guys shows up with a lovely box from Apple. This week, Christmas came on Tuesday.

Podcasting with iChat and GarageBand

Friday, February 22nd, 2008

If you’re like me, you subscribe to half-a-dozen podcasts. I love it - like my own personal NPR station, with just the content I want. But have you wanted to make your own podcasts?

Comcast Email Forwarding

Monday, December 10th, 2007

We have found a problem with relaying mail to Comcast’s mail system.If you have an address @comcast.net that we are forwarding your hosted email accounts to… say for example adam@dogbark.com forwards off to adam@comcast.net, you may not be able to receive your emails.Early last week Comcast had a mail server issue and started swallowing all [...]

Leopard: Screen Sharing

Monday, November 12th, 2007

One new tool in the Leopard Utility Belt is Screen Sharing. It’s built into iChat, but it’s also accessible through the Finder and directly through an app. Here’s how it’s important to our customers. If you’re running Leopard, and having trouble configuring something, call us with your current IP address and we’ll be able to take a [...]