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News and projects I’m up to over the next few months
Over the next few months I’m getting involved with a few projects, sites and trickery to keep me entertained and out of mischief. Overhaul of martinglover.co.uk I think the front page and look of martinglover.co.uk needs a bit of work, as its been a bit left behind on the back burner for too many months now and it deserves better! Launch of a forums section for the site I am going to implement some user forums and would like ideas and suggestions for categories on what you’d like to see in there. Please use the contact form to suggest anything you would like to see. Great offers from andthenhost.com Up until the end of the year, andthenhost.com are offer buy one get one free on their Gold hosting package. At only £4.99 per month this is one … Read entire article »
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Easy ways to become a Web developer
If you’re an newbie in web development and if you want to “enter” on the ground, then PHP programming is the best language to learn. There are several ways to learn to become a web developer, but, I think this approach is more logical. First, as a web developer we need to learn HTML. It is easy to learn through websites which will make you to learn from the basics. My clear advice is to work first on notepad before you enter into the coding environment such as Dreamweaver. Encryption in notepad will make you to learn languages which are for essential level. It is known that anyone can make use of WYSIWYG application. Second, it is essential for all web developers to configure the development environment. Most of PHP development is … Read entire article »
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Do You Need a Bespoke Website Design Service?
Because of the recession and heavy job losses all over world, there are large number of people unemployed. Finding your new job is difficult in these days, but there are many skilled unemployed people have decided no more sitting ideal. They have now took control of their lives. They have decided to find some unique ways to earn by using the web to sell their skills. To say honestly, the burgeoning industry of online marketing has a big boom with web applications and as a result, more small businesses at home has been entered into the market. There are some common things among these entrepreneurs. They are usually spending on something. They are the leaders of their own business, but to help you and ask for someone to help avoid additional costs. … Read entire article »
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The Benefits of Article Submission Service
Article submission is a fast and effective way to get back links in your website to achieve high ranks. Now-a-days this has become very popular in SEO. Although you write articles with good content but they should be printed in good publishing resources. So, then your articles will be posted with good hyperlinks included in them. Using automatic directory submission software or service can greatly improve the speed of submitting articles to hundreds of websites. You can get a lot of information through internet. With just a click you could get the entire information available with few seconds related to anything. As a result of this it is possible to collect data from different sources very easily. Hence, you can compare in every respect and decide about your betterment. Article syndication understands … Read entire article »
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More traffic to your site for only $19?
Yep! Add your site to the Premium listings of addyoursitefreesubmit. A premium listing gets you: > A link on our PR4 directory > A link on our high traffic homepage and the top listing of your related category > An exclusive listing on the partner page. > Active URL link to your site > You may also submit up to 4 additional sub-links to go along with your listing. > Google Adsense Revenue Sharing > RSS Feeds for premium listings > Twitter Feed update > No link back is required All these features mean a lot more visitors to your site, an increase in SEO, and an indicator displaying that your site is considered a premium choice in the search engine friendly link directory. No risk – We will give you a full refund if your site is not accepted All this … Read entire article »
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Unknown device ACPI\TOS620A after Toshiba re-install
If you are receiving an error on your device manager after a fresh install of a Toshiba laptop and the unknown device shows only the information Unknown device ACPI\TOS620A then you need to install the HDD Protection Utility from the toshiba downloads relevant to your system. This is part of the ACPI interface. Further Reading Advanced Configuration and Power Interface: Open standard, Operating system, Power management, Cross- platform, Intel Corporation, Microsoft, Toshiba, … Sleep mode, Hibernate (OS … Read entire article »
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Setting up and installing phpBB3
phpBB version 3 is one of the most configurable and functional – yet more importantly free – pieces of forum software on the market today. It is a highly efficient forum board which can be suited and styled to fit the themes of any website out there today. I’m going to discuss the easy way to get one of these forums installed and underway. Deciding the location Where you install your forum is entirely up to you. … Read entire article »
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Free JP2 JPEG 2000 plugin converter for Adobe Photoshop
If you need a converter for JP2 JPEG-2000 then you can get one from this site: http://www.fnordware.com/j2k/ They offer a free plugin for photoshop and adobe after effects. … Read entire article »
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Linux file permissions explained
People who can access Linux files and folders if allowed, can fall into 3 specific categories: Owner – User who created the file/folder Group – Specific Group of Users Public – Anyone else They can have none, some or all of the permissions below: r – Read permission. Whether the file may be read. w – Write permission. Whether the file may be written to or modified. x – Execute permission. Whether the file may be executed. Permissions are given in groups of … Read entire article »
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Where is the start menu folder in Windows Server 2008?
Previously On Server 2003 the Shared start menu folder was here: C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu Now In Windows Server 2008 is now resides here: C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs User profiles The User profile directories are now here: C:\Users With the shared one being here: C:\Users\Public Hope this helps you find it. … Read entire article »
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Webmasterserve – UK webmaster forum
I had to post a blog about this site I am a recently a member of as I’m a big fan of this site for hints, tips and discussions on all things web master related. For search engine optimisation and discussions about running a website it is one of the first places I go to for assistance. The people on this site are very friendly and helpful and is a gem amongst some of the … Read entire article »
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Clickheat heatmap to see where visitors click most on your site
We all want to get more clicks on our ads to gain revenue for the site but what is the best way to find out where to place the adverts so they perform their best? One simple way to do this is to use a Heatmap. Heatmaps are a piece of code that reports where people are clicking on your pages and much like a thermal camera, displays darker red colours in the hot spots … Read entire article »
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Arfooo – Free directory script
While doing some investigation about setting up a directory I found this really useful and best of all free directory script. It’s a product called Arfooo – three ooo’s – and does all the relevant basic tools that I can think of for a directory script. It features advertising plugins so that you can place banner ads, and adverts in between your classifieds. It features a payment gateway able to handle paypal and subscription features. As for … Read entire article »
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25% off voucher for Web Hosting – Expires Thursday – be quick!
andthenhost.com offer cheap WordPress, Joomla and phpBB hosting starting from £1.49 per month. Packages feature: Windows or Linux hosting 20Gb webspace and 100Gb bandwidth for £4.99 per month. iPhone on the move control panel – Manage your domain while out and about! Better still – with voucher code APRIL25 you get a further 25% off the Linux Gold and Windows Gold Package Offer expires April 1st so hurry!!! … Read entire article »
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99p web hosting at andthenhost.com
http://andthenhost.com/99phosting.html WOW! 99p hosting at andthenhost.com – Great value. Supports WordPress, Joomla, php, perl and MySQL. For 99p a month its a bargain. Stick a flake on it and go for a 99! http://andthenhost.com/99phosting.html … Read entire article »
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Install Webmin on Ubuntu server 9.10
SSH onto your server Get the latest version (1.510 to date) wget http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/webadmin/webmin_1.510_all.deb Extract and install the package dpkg –install webmin_1.510_all.deb It may error on a few dependencies so to overcome those install these apt-get install perl libnet-ssleay-perl openssl libauthen-pam-perl libpam-runtime libio-pty-perl libmd5-perl … Read entire article »
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25% off WordPress Hosting
andthenhost.com offer cheap WordPress, Joomla and phpBB hosting starting from £1.49 pr month. Packages feature: Windows or Linux hosting Unlimited webspace and bandwidth for £4.99 per month. iPhone on the move control panel – Manage your domain while out and about! Better still – with voucher code APRIL25 you get a further 25% off the Linux Gold and Windows Gold Package Offer expires April 1st so hurry!!! … Read entire article »
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How to turn off Data Execution Prevention DEP in Windows Server 2008
The way to turn off DEP in Windows 2008 is to go to Start > Run > cmd and in the command prompt type bcdedit.exe /set {current} nx AlwaysOff and then reboot the server. To turn it back on go to Start > Run > cmd and in the command prompt type bcdedit.exe /set {current} nx AlwaysOn and then reboot the server. … Read entire article »
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Importing Outlook 2007 contacts into Nokia PC Suite for X6
PLEASE NOTE – THIS WORKS WITH THE IPHONE AND OTHER NOKIA AND SAMSUNG DEVICES The Problem If you have numerous Outlook contacts they don’t easily export in a format from Outlook 2007 to be able to import into Nokia PC Suite. The PC suite only accepts txt, csv and vcf (v card). If you have loads of contacts you can’t export the contacts in one go by doing select all and exporting to vcard, the only option you … Read entire article »
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How to add ITV HD channel to Sky+ HD
By default, Sky+ HD does not have ITV HD avaialble in its list of channels so you have to add it manually. Go into Settings > Sky+ Setup > Add Channels Enter the channel details as below: Frequency (GHz): 11.427 Polarisation: H Symbol Rate (Mbaud): 27.5 FEC: 2/3 Then press the Yellow button to search for channels. It will do a scan and then display a list of channels it has found. ITV1HD is named 10510 Highlight it and then choose store channels. when you want to watch it you’ll need to go into the Other Channels section and press select. You can repeat the process for the other channels it finds in the list when searching such as Freesat etc. … Read entire article »
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