Internet Explorer 6 is an old browser, in internet terms it is a dinosaur. Released in 2001, it has been the mainstay of peoples internet experience over the last 9 years. The masses are often reluctant to change unless something pushes them along. Firstly, Firefox gave users a good alternative browser to use (Better in […]
Is this the needed Push Out the Door for IE6? Read More »
Well as usual, the run up to Christmas was frenetic with lots of things to get done before the break. It has been quiet for the last few days as many clients in this part of the world are either on holiday, or are in the Tourism industry and are working hard during the peak
New Clients for the new year, Welcome! Read More »
Some of the more common recent spam comments posted on this blog and others are obvious spam, but have the added benefit of including jokes. Some are actually ok. Here are a few recent ones… Why did the dinosaur cross the road? Because there were no chickens in those times. What do you get when
Spam is a Great Source of Jokes! Read More »
I have recently moved a site over from an ASP content management system to Joomla. One of the tricky things was creating the redirects for the pages on the old site to the new. Normally this is easy enough when you are redirecting a static page to another static page. Unfortuntely the mod_rewrite in Apache
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Local NZ ISP Igrin is the latest to be targetted for a phishing scam. This one is quite crude as even the links look nothing like Igrin links This message is from the webmail IT service, you are to provide to us the below information to re-validate your account due to spam. What was the
Webpronews did a piece on Kevin Pollak using the internet as a medium to overcome censorship and time restrictions of mainstream media formats. Unlike Parkinson or other chatshows with 10-20 minute interviews, his internet only format has some interviews of over 2 hours. The additional scope this gives can provide for some compelling interviews He
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Kick it to the Kerb? That would be nice, as most web designers have come unstuck when a nice design fails spectacularly in IE6. But unfortunately, there are still lots of people (over 30% in most cases) that are still using it, that is too large a number to upset with messages about compatibility and
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There are plenty of domain name scams out there, I have spoken about SEDO branded ones, Chinese domain name scams and there are plenty of others. They are all generally trying to trick you into either registering a name similar to the one you own or trying to encourage you to renew with them as
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This is one cool app regarding Twitter, It really doesn\’t do anyhting but look cool, but aren\’t the best apps like that 🙂 Twistnest takes your profile ID and builds a pictorial view of the relationships between those people in your Twitter network. You can even highlight the connections for anyone on the page. Have
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These virus guys are busy, so soon after the DHL and Mail Server viruses, we now have a Facebook one. It will be interesting to see if people are getting wise to these forms of delivery, or whether the threat of losing access to Facebook will panic people into opening the attachment. Again it looks
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