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Gelaskin your MacBook Pro
Gelaskins have been scarce in South Africa for several months and even during my recent trip to New York, I was not able to find any. We eventually decided to order several skins from the Canadian...
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Show your support for our kitty
Our kitty, Damian is in trouble – read all about it here: Save Damian! If you have visited my blog before our personally know us, you will have established by now, that I operate within reason and on a...
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OS X Mountain Lion breaks everything
Perhaps a bit dramatic on the “breaking”-part – OS X Mountain Lion has some really awesome features, but only lasted 2 days on my laptop. I love being on the bleeding edge of technology, and boy did I...
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Spot the difference – barking mad
If you have not followed our cause to save our cat Damian, perhaps read this page first. First off, I must state that we love animals and have supported them as much as possible wherever it was...
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EasySketch – Drawing and Sketching Pad
EasySketch - Drawing and Sketching Pad Easy Sketch is a fun app for kids to sketch and play for hours while they express their creative genius – the application, available on both iPad and Android, was...
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Fixing file system corruption on Synology NAS
I recently recycled my hard-drives on my Synology DS1010+ as one of the drives started to fail. Migration of the drives was easy, but I did notice that I had file-system corruption when looking at...
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Change OS X update frequency
Mountain Lion checks for updates every 7 days – this is way too long for me and a quick fix is this: sudo defaults write /Library/Preferences/com.apple.SoftwareUpdate ScheduleFrequency 1
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bidorbuy – Snr. Mobile Developer (Sencha Touch / PhoneGap / HTML5 / JavaScript)
If creating blazing fast mobile HTML5 apps with Sencha Touch has been your day to day task for some time and you are interested in working for coolest eCommerce internet company in South Africa...
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James Gosling resigns from Sun
Perhaps the end of Java as we know it? James posted the following at his new blog: “…Yes, indeed, the rumors are true: I resigned from Oracle a week ago (April 2nd). I apologize to everyone in St...
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Performance-101: www.liveads.co.za
At bidorbuy we have worked very hard to optimise website-performance to achieve a relatively good user-experience. We believe that with good performance comes lots of link-love from Google and sofar we...
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Finally my migration from b2evolution to WordPress is complete and the transition was overly painful, as there was no direct importer available. Many 404′s (which I manually monitor with the WordPress...
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WordPress plugin – 404 Redirected
Anyone migrating from b2evolution or any other blogging software which does not fully support importing into WordPress will feel a world of pain to get the original blog’s content right. If you don’t...
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Who needs an iPhone 4s?
You gotta love New York for it’s shopping and free Wifi. Observed a “hectic” Skype video-conference session outside Apple’s flagship store on 5th avenue in September 2011:
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WordPress plugin – WPTouch Pro – turn your blog into an iOS app
Once you have designed a website, you will be faced with the challenge to “mobilize” your content. While RSS feeds allow you to provide content on a mobile device, there is nothing better than an...
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WordPress plugin – W3 Total Cache
Once your WordPress installation is up and running and you are satisfied with the plugins and themes you have installed, it’s time to optimize your installation for performance. I would leave this task...
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WordPress and CloudFlare
If you have decided to use W3 Total Cache as your caching mechanism, the next logical step is to use CloudFlare as an accelerator. Think of CloudFlare as your website accelerator (in simple terms it’s...
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Cloudflare in review
Cloudflare has been running on my blog now for a couple of days, and analytics have started to show on my (free) Cloudflare account. It’s quite interesting to see that over 50% of my traffic and hits...
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Review – Mercury EXTREME Pro 6G SSD in MacBook Pro
There are very compelling reasons to upgrade your current MacBook Pro. While my MacBook Pro is still a 2011 model with 8GB of RAM I always felt that it could be a bit faster. Even with the 7200RPM...
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