“A kind of weblogged almanac of assorted interests to keep my hand in with writing, SEO, design, ads, analytics, Gen’ AI and other technologies…”
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Pure360 salesforce integration
I haven’t blogged much recently but I thought I’d try and collect some information for other users in order to try and start a discussion.. as a salesforce admin I have been looking in recent…
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OS X Mavericks & Vodafone Mobile Connect k3565 rev. 2
After updating my mac to mavericks I had an issue with my Vodafone mobile connect K3565 (rev.2) usb dongle not working. It wasn’t straight forward to get it up and running either, so I thought…
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Easily convert MKV to MP4 (or M4V) for Apple TV
I have posted about this before here but I have recently found a better way to do this involving a little mac application called ‘subler’. It doesn’t convert the mkv, but just converts non-standard audio…
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Building a Wake On LAN REST service in PHP to remotely start machines on your network.
Newer update: a much better script over at GitHub can be used on a local web server, such as a Raspberry Pi. It uses a local file as simple storage so that you can add…
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Contact Form Spam
Not seen that before: This morning I received some spam through a web page. However, this was contact form spam that was promoting software to spam contact forms. ffs… I suppose at least I’m convinced…
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Mobile Friendly Sites = User Unfriendly?
Many agencies love mobile ‘friendly’ sites because it’s another item to bill a client for. Personally, I can’t stand mobile versions of websites. Very few are done well and consumers don’t buy modern smartphones (with…
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Muxing MKV to MP4 file container without converting the video (for Apple / Samsung TV)
I was trying to find a way to easily get MKV’s on to my TV, either by converting them to MP4/M4v and putting them in iTunes and out via the Apple TV or by streaming…
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Mod Rewrite – Redirect a request URI from subfolder to a higher folder on the webserver
I googled this for ages but I could not find the answer – all the posts I found were about how to just re-write how urls were displayed, because you would usually use the redirect…
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Configuring SSL in MAMP 2.0.5 (the free version)
I’ve been trying to configure my MAMP installation (NOT the paid version) to accept SSL for a recent project that I am working on. A lot of MAMP SSL tutorials are out dated and do…
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