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How to View Email Headers

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In my day job, I work a lot with email. Many of the people I deal with, do not know how to view email headers correctly. So, I figured I would post a few ways to do so. I will be adding to the list as I encounter / resolve issues. I feel it best to separate these posts as to not to cause too much confusion in one long post.

How to View Email Headers

1. How to View Email Headers in Apple Mail
2. How to View Email Headers in Entourage
3. How to View Email Headers in Thunderbird
4. How to View Email Headers in Gmail
5. How to View Email Headers in Yahoo
6. How to View Email Headers in Hotmail
7. How to View Email Headers in Outlook Express
8. How to View Email Headers in Outlook 2000, 2002, 2003, XP
9. How to View Email Headers in Outlook 2007
10. How to View Email Headers in Horde Webmail
11. How to View Email Headers in SquirrelMail
12. How to View Email Headers in Windows Live
13. How to View Email Headers in AOL Webmail

How to Dynamically Change the Copyright Date on Your Website

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I was recently asked to change the copyright date on a handful of websites. The websites all were using a CMS system, but when the person who built them set them up, they inserted a static year. So, every year someone has to go in and change them. Thankfully, there are only about 10 or so page templates that are used so it is a pretty quick change. However, it would have been much easier if — the person who built the site… added a line or two of code 😉 to pull the year off the server time. This way, every year the date will automatically change… making life easier for someone!

Here are a couple methods that will produce the result we are looking for:

Using PHP
<?php
echo date("Y");
?>Using ASP
<% Response.Write Year(now) %>

Using JAVASCRIPT
Technically JS is client side, so this option doesn't really pull the date off the server... It pulls it from the clients computer. So, if their date isn't correct this wont be either. But it should work most of the time.
<script type="text/javascript">
var d = new Date();
document.write(d.getFullYear());
</script>

How to Install CUPS-PDF Virtual PDF Printer in Snow Leopard

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CUPS-PDF is a really cool virtual PDF printer. Macs have been able to print to PDF for awhile now, but the process takes more clicks that it should. Enter CUPS-PDF, this is a little backend app, that installs a virtual PDF Printer on your Mac. Why would you want to do this? Well, if you are like me and you print to PDF more than you print to paper – you can save a number of clicks. Another nice thing, is that all the PDFs are saved in a common location.

How to Install CUPS-PDF in Snow Leopard
1. Download CUPS-PDF here [http://www.codepoetry.net/projects/cups-pdf-for-mosx]
2. Install CUPS-PDF
3. Open Terminal run the following command:
sudo chmod 0700 /usr/libexec/cups/backend/cups-pdf

Next we have to setup the Virtual PDF Printer
1. Open up Print & Fax Pref.pane
2. Add a new Printer by clicking the + button
3. Select: Default (The printers should start to propagate)
4. Select: CUPS-PDF
5. Select: Print Using – Generic Postscript Driver
6. Click: Add

Since Snow Leopard arrived there were some enhancements to security, so we have to run some commands to get everything to work…
1. In The finder select: GO > GO TO FOLDER
2. Enter: /etc/cups/
3. Click: GO
4. Open the file: cups-pdf.conf
5. Find: a line that starts with OUT and place a # before it (thus commenting the line out)
6. Find: a line that starts with AnonDirName and place an # before that as well.
7. Save the file, rewriting the original. Your Mac will require you to enter your password to commit the changes.
8. Open Terminal
9. Run the following command:
sudo ln -s /var/spool/cups-pdf/username /Users/username/cups-pdf
(replacing “username” with your username)

Now anytime you print to PDF via the CUPS-PDF Virtual printer, all the PDFs that are generated will be in your Home folder inside a folder called: CUPS-PDF. You can also, set the printed as default so you can just type: ?+P then hit Return to generate a PDF 😉

Fountain Pen + Twitter User List

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Are you a fountain pen user? Do you love inks or paper? Are you also a Twitter user? If so, add your user name to the form below. I promise not to spam you, I am collecting this data to make it available to people interested in fountain pens. Please use the form below to submit your user name.

Once I compile a user list I will make it available to people who are both Fountain Pen + Twitter Users.

If you would like me to remove your user name from this list, please contact me.

Use jQuery to Replace target=”_blank”

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This is just one reason more people need to embrace jQuery.

Here is an easy way to replace target=”_blank” in external links on your site. jQuery makes this a cinch! This is required if you choose to write strict XHTML.

I’m personally starting to clean much of my site up, this one of those easy fixes that is very easy to implement. 😉

Make certain this all goes in the head of your page or template…

This first part calls the jQuery resources on Google’s servers THX Google! – note you don’t have to do this part if you have the jQuery files hosted locally :

http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.3.2/jquery.min.js" type="text/javascript"

This second part is the nitty gritty:

$(function() {
$('a[rel*=external]').click( function() {
window.open(this.href);
return false;
});
});

The last thing you will need to do is… tag the links you want to open in a new window with:

rel="external"

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