Because of the way that SmartDD delivers files securely, it takes up a memory buffer on the web server equivalent to the size of the file. If you're delivering an ebook, it isn't a problem as the zip files involved are only about 3-5MB. The delay while creating the memory buffer is almost unnoticeable.
But if you're delivering a video or an MP3, or any other large file, then it can take several seconds to create the memory buffer.
This became a problem when the file was very large and the time went over 30 seconds. Many servers are now configured to time out after 30 seconds without a "keep alive" signal from the application.
Another problem was that an increasing amount of servers are being configured to only allow 8MB of memory to be allocated to an application. Again this is a problem for people who want to deliver large file sizes securely.
Well, we fixed that in version 2.
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It’s starting at $5.02 and the faster you get there, the cheaper it will be.
http://www.gimpvideos.com/NickelSale/
(By the way, with any luck there will be a new version of the Nickel Script released on Monday.)
-Frank Haywood
Okay, just a quick post to say that everything looks ready for the nickel sale for a set of 12 videos from Stan Craigie showing you how to use The GIMP, and ultimately putting together your own mini-sites.
In case you didn't know, The GIMP is a free graphics tool that with each release gets closer to rivalling the enormously expensive Photoshop. You can even load most Photoshop format PSD files into The GIMP.
This means you can take advantage of the huge number of existing PSD files out there on the web and use them in your own creations. In fact I just checked my hard drive and I have resale rights for 40 graphics headers in PSD format.
I really want this sale to succeed for Stan, so I tell you what…
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The other day Stan Craigie contacted me to let me know that he'd finally finished putting together a set of videos on how to create your own sales page graphics using a free graphics tool called The GIMP.
So I took a look at what he'd done, I was impressed (I didn't know you could do that with The GIMP), and then I suggested he top it off by creating an additional video showing how to create your own sales page, which he's now added to the set.
I won't go through all the details, but the videos will show you how to create ebook covers and software boxes WITH reflections and shadows. He'll also show you how to create sales page objects such as order buttons.
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It's a bit of a surprise for me, but after backing away from email I've found that I really don't need it that much. In fact it looks like email needs me more than I need it.
In case you missed it, I'm doing a bit of an experiment in low-information "diets", and I thought the first to go would be email. I know I can't do away with it completely, but I certainly don't need to check it every day, and definitely not multiple times a day.
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I've been considering for a while now about releasing Private Label Rights (PLR) for SmartDD LITE. I had a chat with Paul Freedman (the developer) about it and he's agreed.
His provisos are that we only sell 10 PLR licences and that they're $300 each.
I've got some additional provisos to the two I agreed with Paul:-
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If you've looked at the activation method for IPN, you'll know that it's by entering a default IPN URL into your PayPal profile. PayPal's logic must be that if you want to use IPN, then you must have at least one site with a script that uses it.
I think this then is why the confusion arises, and I too was confused a few years ago when I first used an IPN script and wanted to accept PayPal payments on several sites. I thought that if there was only one IPN URL, then I could only use PayPal with one site.
Seemed logical to me, and I think to most other people too judging by the questions asked.
The truth is, as I mentioned above, it's just a default URL and not the only one you can use.
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Some fun and games but it's all working now. Better still, because of the PayPal IPN mess, we've added a new feature today.
Testing proved it worked for us, fingers crossed it continues to work in battle. 
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Don't worry folks, it's going to happen today regardless.
David is adding an extra feature which will allow you to switch on a workaround any time PayPal mess up IPN like they have today.
He's working on it right now, so let's say it's a 5.00pm GMT launch to give him time to finish it and me give it a quick test.
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It seems that PayPal have just yesterday broken IPN.
http://www.paypaldeveloper.com/pdn/board/message?board.id=ipn&thread.id=10795
From what it says in that thread, it's not affecting everyone, and it seems clear that PayPal don't even know what's causing the problem themselves.
Can you believe that?
Worse still, I checked the Nickel Script and every single transaction is going straight into the error file. David took a look, set it into sandbox mode and it works perfectly. He then put it back into live mode and it failed.
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