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I have been looking for a method to introduce video to a customer site which is not from a third party site like Google / Youtube. They wish to upload the files to their site and present files hosted on their server.

I have decided that the Video Module is just not there, however I discover there is a weight of effort in the form of Media Mover and Asset modules which sounds really fantastic.

Using the Filefield and jQuery Media modules you can build a recipe which allows Drupal to automatically present video media in the right player automatically. This screencast explains how.

Updating a hosts file on a mac in OS X Leopard is a little more difficult than a PC.http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/internet_utilities/hostal.htmlIt is possible to edit the hosts file direct but it is a bit techie on OS X. You need to do EXACTLY the followingYou must have access to log in as the root user - http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1528?viewlocale=en_US

Everyone knows you can use phpmyadmin to import and export data to and from Mysql. I needed to be able to do this programaitcally and fast. I use Drupal so could have written a module to read the data from the table and then write out to a file line by line, this would be slow and my tables are large. So I found this method which is native MYSQL and is really efficent.

In some situations the google maps api is not suitable, if you cannot guarantee that users can use javascript for example. A fall back is available, you could use Google Static Maps which take url based parameters to serve an image based map. You can add multiple points so it is acutally quite useful. It may have use in mobile phones since the overhead is likely to be less?

Google static maps. 

We have some spurious orders on our google analytics account and I wanted to remove them. It iseems this is possible but you will have to do this programatically.

Google Analytics - removing transactions 

This extensive guide will get you started with learning how to theme in Drupal 6.x. It covers most aspects including overriding standard output, blocks and editable regions.