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WooCommerce Download Permissions For Newly Added Files

The version 2 of WooCommerce had a function where when you added new files to existing products all the existing purchasers received access to the new files as well. That was good when you wanted to give everyone access to the new files. One problem though was that if the downloads were limited in number or time the new files would receive the full access as of the adding.
So if the download was limited to for example 365 days and a purchase was two years ago then the new file was available to this purchaser for a full year after the new file has been added. Not really the desired outcome in this case.
And adding to the issue was that if you edited a file line in the product WooCommerce handled it the same as deleting the old file and adding a new one with the new permissions.
So if you had limited downloads the only choice was to link to a file that never changed its name. Like an archive without version number.

So in version 3 WooCommerce changed the system to not grant access to newly added files at all. Depending on how you like to sell your digital products that may not work well either. And this change may have created issues in the way you sold software. If you always wanted to give access to everyone that wasn’t working any more all of a sudden.
Editing file lines now works by replacing the name and download link and keeping all permissions from the file (line) being edited.
There is a plugin available at Github that emulates the original v2 way of adding permissions that you can add to your site if you want to have the old way of working.

In our business we had the problem that neither solution was satisfactory. We had some unlimited download products and some limited time products. And then we also wanted be able to maybe just generate download permissions for orders placed after a certain date. So the question was – how do we grant new download permissions for new files on old, existing orders?
For this we created a new plugin, MAK WooCommerce Download Permissions, to take care of that for us. With it, after you add files, you can decide to copy existing permissions from another file of the product or you can create new permissions (with download times calculated for the purchase date if applicable). You can do this for all orders, orders after a certain date or not grant any access for old orders at all. The choice is yours for each file you add to a product.

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IE7Pro

If you are still using Internet Explorer 7 and haven’t upgraded to IE8 yet, you may want to have a look at IE7Pro.
I am running it since a while and it is so great that I haven’t upgraded to IE8 yet just because it’s not available for IE8 at this point. IE7Pro extends your Internet Explorer 7 and is not a separate browser.
The features I like best about it: Crash Recovery, Session Save/Load and Mouse Gestures. A Reopen Last Closed Tab function and a general tab history are also very useful.
It also has some other features you may find useful in your daily work – or just that once when you really need it.
Just go to www.ie7pro.com and check it out.

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Move Buttons In The Windows Taskbar

Some people like the order of the programs in the taskbar to be, shall we say, predictable. I am one of them.

Usually I achive this by opening the programs after a reboot in a certain order, but every once in a while I need a different program (urgently) first – or Explorer crashes – and then I am out of luck.
My hand still guides the mouse to the spot where I usually have the item, but then I need to spend extra time finding out where it is now.
I came across programs a while ago that would re-shuffle the items, but I didn’t want to spend the memory to have that feature. But I gave up now.
I just installed one, and I should have done so a long time ago.

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How To Get An Image Out Of A Microsoft Word Document In The Original Quality

There are a few ways to try to get an image out of a Microsoft Word document.
You can try the copy and paste method or even go as far as taking a screenshot of it.
It seems that the best method to get at the originally embedded image is to save the document as a webpage – html. Don’t use the .mht option in the save as dialog, but make sure to select the htm/html.
This will create the document as an html with a sub-folder that contains the image(s). The subfolder will often have other files and maybe even the image(s) in multiple sizes, but just pick the largest one and that seems to do the trick pretty well.

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Free Fonts Licensed For Commercial Use

Font Squirrel is collecting free fonts which you can use in your business and for commercial print work.
On other free font sites you always have to read the font license agreements after downloading to make sure they are not just free for personal use, but also for business use, but not on this site.

This is what they have to say:

Free fonts have met their match. We know how hard it is to find quality freeware that is licensed for commercial work. We’ve done the hard work, hand-selecting these typefaces and presenting them in an easy-to-use format. Please help us by submitting your own free fonts or showing us where to find more. Thanks and enjoy!

So, head over there for your free fonts and help them find more.

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“Out of Memory” error message when printing in Works 7, 2003 and 2004

When trying to preview and print in Microsoft Works 7, I just got the dreaded “Out of Memory” error message. I am really upset about it because I only use Works two or three times a year and keep forgetting about this issue when printing spreadsheets and databases; you may be upset because you have to deal with it more frequently.
If you deal with it more frequently, you know the issue and have probably a work-around – or dealt with it by buying a new version of Works. If you don’t – here’s the problem and the solution:

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Startup Delayer Speeds Up Windows Startup

Recently, I came across Startup Delayer by r2 Studios, which is a great startup manager.
Before starting with Windows Vista, I used to use Mike Lin’s Startup Control Panel to manage which programs I wanted to have started on boot and which ones to ignore.
On his recommendation, once I switched to Vista, I used the Vista built-in function:
“Windows Vista, after all these years, finally has a very good startup manager built-in; go to Control Panel > Performance Information and Tools, and then click on Manage Startup Programs on the left.”
I may fully switch to Startup Delayer now though, which not only allows me to disable some items, but to make others wait a bit before starting up.

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Internet Explorer Opens In A Small Window

And it happened again. Somehow Internet Explorer kept opening in a teeny tiny little window instead of about 76% of the screen like I like it. And it didn’t remember the size when I changed it for the next time.

So I went to Google again and it took five or so pages until I found the real solution. Not the “I think” or “try this” or “this should work”.

Here is the way of doing it that I found works:

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