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Howto: Install Slingplayer on Acer Aspire One Running Linux4One

It struck me that it would be really great to be able to use my Slingbox from my Acer Aspire One when on the road. Slingplayer on Linux has been covered quite comprehensively in other places at this...

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Linux4One - Adding Custom Launchers

At first it wasn't obvious to me how to add icons for custom applications (ones that don't automatically install their own launchers) to the excellent Linux4One launcher interface on my Acer Aspire...

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Setting Up a Linux NAS in a Vista Workgroup - Things Worth Remembering

Why is a freelance web developer setting up a NAS in the course of his work you might ask? Well, basically because I am freelance and my SME clients frequently mistake me for their goto I.T. tech...

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The Cost of Confusing Print & Web Design

I've been trying hard today to explain to a client in non-techy terms why it is less than ideal to have someone who mainly does print design work on the look & feel for their website update.Now...

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Register365 - First Outage of 2009

Well, once again Register365 (now Namesco) were experiencing difficulties again this morning, this time with one of the machines providing MySQL services. This outage basically brought down any site...

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Apache Mod_Rewrite & Shortcodes

I'm a big fan of Apache's Mod_Rewrite module. One of its benefits is that it allows me to take quite complex, user and search engine unfriendly URL's and have them mapped to ones which are easier to...

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No Shared PEAR Library on Blacknight Minimus :(

UpdateI've just got a mail from the Technical Director at Blacknight pointing me to a post regarding PEAR availability on their shared hosting packages. However, it seems I am still having issues with...

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GMail Out Sick

So this morning I logged into my iGoogle page only to discover that, as written about it several blogs the past few days that the GMail gadget no longer works as I have the 'use https' setting switched...

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Irish Broadcasting Bill 2009

There is an interesting article and discussion going on at Slashdot on the current Broadcasting Bill wending its way through the system here. Essentially it would seem that under the new legislation,...

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TinyMCE & Tables The Easy Way

I am a big fan of the open source CMS ModX which uses the rich text editor TinyMCE by default. While, like most developers, I have moved away for table based layouts for my sites, there are times when...

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3 Roam Like Home - R.I.P.?

Reading on Boards.ie that the telco 3 is to axe its 3 like home service which basically meant that a 3 customer was charged abroad exactly as they would be at home for voice and data as long as they...

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Irish Email Marketing - What Not to Do

I have just been spammed at my personal email address by the popular Irish insurance website, 123.ie. I really have to wonder what goes through the minds of those involved in the production of these...

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.htaccess and PHP4 Vs. PHP5 on Blacknight Shared Hosting

Ah, another weekend and another foray into troubleshooting issues with my recently acquired Blacknight hosting. For the past few weeks I had been using PHP4 but decided today that I should really move...

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JQuery Plugin nyroModal and Base HREF

I've been using JQuery on my new pet project (excuse the pun) and having tried a few of the modal content plugins available, I have settled on NyroModal, a very compact, flexible and elegant...

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New Site Launched | BeesWax Europe Multilingual Recruitment Agency

New Site Launched | BeesWax Europe Multilingual Recruitment AgencyPosted using ShareThis

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Tip for Irish Companies & Professionals on Twitter - Brand it!

Anyone who has taken the time to look at Twitter can not fail to be struck by its potential for humanising business and the marketing opportunities inherent therein - (FreelanceWebDev).One thing that...

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PHP & IIS - INI File Location

OK, so normally I wouldn't be seen dead running PHP on Windows but I'm currently doing some odds and ends for MiCandidate and one of the things they needed was to run some PHP code in their otherwise...

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3 Ireland Finally Gets Webtexts

I've had a pretty rocky relationship with telco 3 Ireland over the past couple of years. Their customer service is appalling so even getting the simplest things done can be a nightmare but their data...

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Google Toolbar Hijacking Style and Tooltip

Quick update on this. The tooltip stealing behaviour I have observed seems to happen in Firefox 3 on Vista, in IE 7 on XP and IE 8 on Vista, the tooltips are left intact. Those who have checked other...

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Bing Webmaster Central - Broken?

Having very strange issues with Bing Webmaster Central today.Some of my sites are reported as failing authentication even though they were previously via the XML file and I have checked that the...

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