Printer Envelope Feeder

Hi Sue -

Many printer manufacturers make special envelope feeders that work in conjunction with the printer’s manual feed tray. The most common ones that we support are made by HP. If you tell me what printer(s) you current use, I can check to see if an envelope feeder is available for that model.

The HP 4000 series printers are probably the best suited for printing large volumes of envelopes & letters. The networked version of the 4350, eg, with an envelope feeder, extra paper tray & network capabilities is going to run over $1600, however.

hunter greene Brainspiral Technologies, Inc.

Windows XP as Remote Desktop Server

This definitely works:

http://sig9.com/articles/concurrent-remote-desktop

We’ve used it many times.

hunter greene Brainspiral Technologies, Inc. hunter@brainspiral.com http://brainspiral.com w: 413-458-5755 c: 413-281-4918

Microsoft .Net Mozilla Firefox Plugin

To add insult to serious injury, Microsoft has released a ‘.Net Security Update’ that covertly installs a Firefox plugin. The full article is available here:

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/2009/05/microsoft_update_quietly_insta.html?wprss=securityfix

This is straight from our security experts at Williams College.

What frightens us the most is that Firefox, an inherently secure browser, is being injected with Microsoft plugins, the developer of inherently insecure software.

Nice work, Microsoft.

hunter greene Brainspiral Technologies, Inc. hunter@brainspiral.com http://brainspiral.com w: 413-458-5755 c: 413-281-4918

Web Self Publishing

Hi John -

Sure thing.

All the sites we’ve been developing lately (some of them available on our portfolio @ brainspiral.com) are based on a Content Management System (http://brainspiral.com/2009/03/content-management-systems/) called Wordpress. Wordpress was originally developed as a blogging package but has been heavily re-developed to accommodate for general web publishing. It would probably be ideal for you as it provides a easy yet powerful method of editing & managing your website content.

Some of the features of Wordpress can be found here: http://wordpress.org

Brainspiral does offer web hosting (though we usually do so in conjunction with a web design/development) on our very reliable servers co-located in facilities in two different states.

If you’re willing to do the content portion of it yourself, then we can set you up for about $25/year (to cover the cost of a domain subscription). Just choose a domain (I checked johnleahy.com – it was taken, but john-leahy.com & johnleahy.org are both available) & a basic theme (which we can tweak some, http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/) & I can get everything else configured & functional & send you some instructions on how to start publishing content.

hunter

On May 31, 2009, at 12:44 PM, John wrote:

> > Hi Hunter > As I was telling you, I would like to make my web page and do some > self publishing. You were saying it is pretty easy? I read a bit > about it. I got the impression that finding a reliable server was > the first step. Do you have any recommendations. > > Thanks > > John > > >