Where have my Outlook Settings Gone?
Do you need to change a port number in Outlook for your email? Looking for some other mail account settings that you were sure were there before? Join plenty of others who seem to be having the same issue. If you are running the latest version ...
A Different Way To Build Websites
Technical stuff that is only technical because I like doing the creative arty stuff for our Word Press website builds: We have just finished Phase 1 of a website using Elementor as the page Builder inside a template called Phlox. It took me a good ...
Access Denied Error in Dropbox
We use Dropbox as a backup solution enabling a sync of our data into the cloud. One of the limitations of Dropbox is it is all under a single folder, which is all fine if you start from that, but in our situation we had legacy locations for data o ...
Great Productivity Tools – Todoist
Everyone has their own set of tools to help them in their working day. I have always struggled to find a to do list program/app that helps me in my day. I have tried a number of them, tempted by their features and claims of increasing productivity ...
Instructions for Adding an Email Account
I get lots of requests for setting up an email account in different email programs, so I thought I would provide a list of the best instructions I have found that I pass on to my clients. All thanks to those that have provided these resources, it se ...
Shopify and Payment Express
I have been doing some work for a client in Shopify. First time I have worked with it and so far it's not too bad. However, some things have had me scratching my head. One in particular was trying to test the payment gateway to DPS's Payment Expres ...
WordPress 3.2 Now Released
Wordpress has released it's next semi-major release with version 3.2. You can read the official announcement here Significant in this release is the breaking away of support for old technologies including older versions of MySQL, PHP and even old I ...
Tips for Choosing a Content Management System (CMS)
I frequently get asked by my clients (and prospective ones) about wanting to update their website. I had a rant about this a while back, where a journalist accused web designers of ripping their clients off if they didn't provide the ability to upda ...
Firefox is an Abomination – Unfortunately
Well I suppose it had to happen. It was all going so well, good memory management, it was fast and had great addons. It was a no brainer to use Firefox as my default browser. Version 3 was better than Version 2, this is how software evolution was s ...
Avast Antivirus – Wow!
I have used a number of Antivirus programs over the years. I was a big fan of Mcafee back in the DOS days, moved onto Nortons when it came with my PC (Threw it away when it got too bloated). Tried a number of others and then settled on AVG. AVG was ...