Category Archives: Web and Tech

Tech stuff and entries about other places on the web.

A Fuss About Nothing

Published July 7, 2010

Or, in this case, a fuss about the captilization of WordPress.  In case you’re running WordPress and haven’t yet noticed this gem, you can’t spell WordPress with a capital W and small p any more, as version 3 filters this behaviour.  This filter crept into the release practically unnoticed, but the subsequent issues and community [...]

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Tech support cold call scam

Published July 7, 2010

PC Pro website has an article on a scam that’s currently targeting UK residents.  The scammers cold-call unsuspecting marks and claim that “Microsoft” has found a virus on their PC, and they’ll help to fix it.  Mark is told to download some software.  At this point the article is a little hazy, but it would [...]

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WordPress 3 released

Published June 19, 2010

For those of you running WordPress as your blog software, you’ll most likely have noticed the automatic update bar suggesting that you click and update your software to version 3.0.  You should grab the new version now.  There’s many new features in this release, including a new standard theme and easy to use menus.  If [...]

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Do you know what your smartphone is doing?

Published March 20, 2010

Well do you? Which have issued an advisory against overseas smart phone usage, stating that you can run up huge bills unknowingly through data roaming. Now at first, I thought, well, anyone with such a phone surely knows enough about it not to do anything so stupid as overseas data roaming, but then I did [...]

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Installing TwonkyMedia 5 on TS101

Published February 7, 2010

So here we have a Qnap TS101 NAS device. It’s quite a neat little thing, does a number of different sharing tasks from one hard-drive sized case. It shipped with TwonkyMedia 4, and as we’re getting more involved with media sharing in our household and our TV came with 3 TwonkyMedia 5 licences, I wanted [...]

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