This is the weblog of Brian Curd. A lot of it is written on the spur of the moment and any benefit you gain from it is worth exactly what you paid!
Now, Sue’s iPhone 3GS has a very strange problem. It’s been there since day one we think and even the recent iOS4 update didn’t cure it. Symptoms: The homepage icons don’t go into edit or wobble mode when they are held down. It works fine on mine but try as I might holding any of [...]
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Although I only use an iPhone 3G the suggestion from Apple this week was to upgrade to the latest operating system iOS4. iTunes sync made the whole operation pretty straightforward, if longwinded. After about 20mins-half an hour of data thrashing between the phone and the Mac, I was able to use a few of the [...]
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Well that again was very painless….. The latest WP upgrade has been installed and, as I managed to post this, there doesn’t appear to have been a problem. If you do notice anything odd when visiting, feel free to let me know.
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Looking back on this blog a recurring theme has been email spam and my attempts to clear my inbox of this plague. This blog uses built in WordPress tools to ensure that I don’t see any spam posted in the comments but keeping control of my mail client’s filters isn’t quite so easy – I [...]
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Filed under: Isle of Wight, Scams, Software, Spam, Techie
This last Tuesday, Microsoft released a bunch of patches and updates for Windows. Normally, I recommend everyone should update but on this occassion I don’t! Why? Well take a look here, the list of people with problems after this update is growing by the hour and they are having serious problems. My own machine(s) updated [...]
Anyone who’s been following me moaning on about the lack of Remote Desktop hosting in the Home Premium versions of Vista and Windows 7 will be pleased to know that those very clever folk over at The Green Button seem to have cracked the problem. Take a look at this post, the discussion there is [...]
The single thing which causes most problems for the WordPress users I know is uploading and positioning images in their posts. Hopefully I have found a solution which will make things quite a bit easier – it’s called “Freebie Images” and is a WP plugin – you can get it here. I just installed it [...]
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Filed under: Cars, Hobbies, Isle of Wight, Photography, Software, Techie
Out here in the sticks I have often moaned about the speed of my BT connection. Now I have proof thanks to the survey I have been helping with. About a year ago I applied to help with a UK broadband speed survey at SamKnows, I now have access to the results and can see [...]
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Filed under: Hardware, Home, Isle of Wight, Software, Techie
