I was having a bit of difficulty with a WordPress developed site recently. I had set up a members area which allowed users to retrieve messages and downloads, but users were finding that they would get a cached version of the page and would need to do a force refresh (e.g. Shift+F5 or Ctrl+Shift+R depending [...]
Twitter have recently revamped their website and are slowly switching users to the new interface. The redesign is supposedly aimed at giving companies a greater presence on the social network, but I think the biggest difference that users will see is on the home page where their Twitter stream is displayed. The Tweets column and [...]
As I get older, I’m having to write down things that I need to do, otherwise I’ll forget. Up until now I’ve been using post-it notes, but my desk is getting rather messy and I’m losing track of which post-it notes are more important than others! So I’ve started using Google Tasks to keep track [...]
I’ve recently started using the official WordPress for Android app, which is available for free on the Android Market. The app allows users to create new posts, moderate comments and update content all from an Android handset. The app is very good, but before using it I had to make a small change on my [...]
I use WAMP on my computer to simplify the process of installing and running Apache, PHP and MySQL. The three together effectively mimic the setup on my web host, allowing me to develop for the web with minimum effort. However, one thing that I had never done until now is to set up a virtual [...]
Thanks to the recent developments by AlphaRev X, I’ve finally been able to S-OFF and root my HTC Wildfire. This in turn means I can put custom ROMs on it, and the best available seems to be CyanogenMod, which is a customised version of Android 2.3 (Gingerbread). The Wildfire is now working better than ever, [...]
I’ve noticed recently that I’m getting a large amount of comment spam. This isn’t unusual, but what is strange is that most of it appears on the comments under images and attachments. Whilst this makes it easier to spot spam (because I know that anything left under an image is not going to be a [...]
I’ve recently noticed that when viewing pages with Flash content in Firefox 4 (such as YouTube or any page with a Flash advert) that my PC slows to a crawl. The Windows Task Manager shows that the culprit is plugin-container.exe. The idea behind plugin-container.exe is that Firefox runs all plugins in a separate container – [...]
I was recently asked to help fix a friend’s laptop. Unfortunately they’d been a victim of the Clean This virus. The virus works by tricking users into thinking that it is a legitimate anti-virus product, but upon installation it continuously gives fake virus reports in an attempt to persuade you to purchase the ‘full’ product. [...]
I’ve recently started using Outlook 2010 to handle my various email accounts, and so far I’ve found it to be an improvement on Mozilla Thunderbird in terms of resource usage. However, there were a few things that I needed to change to make using Outlook easier for me. First of all, Outlook would crash whenever [...]