Category Archives: Internet

New life for a (very) old laptop

Posted on April 13, 2012 by Christian

Yesterday I was given a battered 14 year old Laptop: 196Mb RAM, 5GB hard disk and a Pentium II CPU. This hadn’t even been powered up for the last five years, but actually started fine and booted into Windows 98. … Continue reading →

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WordPress android app

Posted on April 2, 2012 by Christian

Thought it would be useful to try out this android app for updating the website on the fly.  Question is, has it worked?

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Firefox 11 – 3D page inspection

Posted on March 15, 2012 by Christian

Firefox 11 has just been released, and includes this amazing new tool for viewing a webpage DOM tree in 3D! A great tool to enable web developers or designers get a quick pictorial overview of a page construction without having … Continue reading →

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Telnet in Windows 7

Posted on October 6, 2011 by Christian

Telnet IS available in Windows 7, just not by default. To enable it: Start > Control Panel > Programs > Programs and Features > Turn Windows features on or off Select “Telnet Client” and wait for it to install.  Easy … Continue reading →

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Accessing your home PC from the Internet

Posted on July 5, 2011 by Christian

When I’m setting up websites for people, I usually develop on my laptop which has a webserver installed.  When I’m happy with the site I upload it to the internet for the world to access.  This speeds up development as … Continue reading →

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