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Issues with Windows 7 on Acer Aspire 6920G Solved
I have spent the last few hours wiping Vista off my laptop and installing Windows 7 on it. I’ve run into a number of issues while re-setting everything up on Windows 7 and I have decided to share the solutions here in the hope that is will save someone some time! Luckily after installing Windows [...]
Continue reading...My top 14 favourite iPhone apps
8. December 2009
A few months ago, I decided to get the new iPhone 3G S. Having upgraded to it from the original iPhone 2G, you can really see the difference in performance in applications between the two phones. Some of the games which didn’t run too well on the old iPhone work really well on the new [...]
Continue reading...Google Wave
8. December 2009
I’ve been playing around with Google wave for the past few weeks, and I just thought that I would share my thoughts on it. I guess my first impression of it was something along the lines of.. well.. total utter confusion really, its such a mashup of so many different things that it’s really quite [...]
Continue reading...Sending authenticated mail with PHP
3. September 2009
Over the past few years, I have seen many hosting companies greatly improve their security from a mail sending perspective. The technique which I see used most commonly; and seems to cause the most problems is the host preventing the “nobody” user from sending mail to remote addresses. This tends to cause issues with users [...]
Continue reading...Gmail Webmail Down!
1. September 2009
Is it just me or has anyone else realised that they cannot access their Gmail WebMail?
Continue reading...Tracking down spamming scripts (CGI)
31. August 2009
Over the past week I have taken on the task of tracking down and stopping the source of a large number of SPAM emails which had been sent from a server that I was working on. I had gone through the usual notions of going through a few of the SPAM mail headers to no [...]
Continue reading...Use your own SMTP server with Gmail and Custom From Address’s
28. August 2009
I have just discovered that you can use your own SMTP server for individual custom from addresses in Gmail. I guess the main question is why would you want to do it?
Continue reading...Tilt-Shift Photography – Cheating with Photoshop
21. July 2009
I was reading a cool blog post about Tilt-Shift Photography where you make the content of a photo look tiny like a toy for example. As I get it, to achieve the effect you are supposed to use a few specialist pieces of equipment, but you can achieve a very similar effect using good old [...]
Continue reading...Microsoft Supports Symlinks (kind of)
4. July 2009
So my PC has been going a little on the slow side over the past few weeks, as such I did the usual OS re-install. This time though, rather than just putting what I wanted to keep on an external drive then deleting everything and re-installing, I took a different approach. Firstly I ordered a [...]
Continue reading...WHMCS Mod: Top Knowledgebase Articles On Any Page
1. July 2009
While browsing the WHMCS Forums, I found this post. It seemed like quite a simple tasks, and the overall issue was the same problem I had bumped into when I was writing another mod for the system. The issue with WHMCS is that some variables are only available on specific pages; since all of the [...]
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3. January 2010
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