The Techie Mom

WordPress Migration Consultant | Techie Troubleshooter

How to make gmail load faster

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Did you know that Gmail has been existing for 10 years now?  But only 2 years ago did it surpass Hotmail and Yahoo as the most popular webmail and rightfully so. (Hotmail has since been bought by Microsoft and Yahoo is still continuing to be riddled with security risks and hack attempts). But it is, by far, not perfect.  As Google kept on tweaking and adding (useful AND useless features), it keeps getting slower and slower to load. Let this infographic help you make your gmail load faster: … [Read more...]

Why flushing DNS is important

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After every migration that I do, I tell my clients that they need to flush their DNS before logging in to their "new" website. Domain names are alphabetic, therefore it is easier to remember.  But the internet uses IP addresses to "call" that site and bring it up.  Example, www.migrationtowordpress.com might translate to 198.54.23.101 .  Our browsers and servers put this into their "memory bank" so that the next time you go to that site, they will use this DNS to load that … [Read more...]

How to fix that annoying “oops, google chrome cannot find” error

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A lot of people ask  my help to troubleshoot one particular annoying error that appears on Google Chrome: "Oops, Google Chrome cannot find <insert URL here>".  It doesn't pop up in every site that you surf though, so a lot of users would think that there is a problem with that specific site they're browsing.  Chances are, there isn't. The culprit?  Your Google Chrome browser. Google Chrome has been getting a lot of unsatisfactory feedback for "unexplained" errors, and this is one of … [Read more...]