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I wanted to start using a Wordpress plugin that posted my blogs to my LinkedIn account automatically. To do so I needed to enter my LinkedIn ID into the plugin. Usually your LinkedIn ID is embedded in the URL of your LinkedIn profile, but this wasn’t working, so I emailed LinkedIn to ask them what [...]

Back in 1982 I arrived in Porthcurno, Cornwall, fresh out of college and wet behind the ears. The attraction of Porthcurno? Apart from the fantastic beach, gorgeous blue water and weather, it was a remote Cable & Wireless out-station were people from all around the world came to learn about all sorts of communication equipment.
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Purchased from Martin Lynch & Sons recently was their new WX-831 weather station. On paper, this seems to be an excellent deal as it is priced at just £99 and includes a cup-style anenometer for measuring wind speed, as opposed to the propeller driven device on my current W2300 station which appears to have seized [...]

Imagine not being able to go to your best friends wedding but having the great fortune to watch it live over the Internet. Technology is moving on apace these days – it’s quite frightening what you can do today that was impossible a few years ago.
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I’ve installed a few servers to-date, most running Windows 2003 Server Small Business Edition (SBE) and, whilst they’ve been relatively easy to set up, the process has been quite long, drawn out and not without a few niggles along the line. Granted, I’m not a Windows networking guru, but I have managed the odd Novell [...]

In an article published on PC Pro’s magazine web site, Firefox developer said about the new upcoming verion 3.2 of Firefox…

“We’re looking for more pure innovation than just incrementally getting better. It’s nice to try stuff where we don’t know if it’s going to work.”

I’d rather that future versions of Firefox did work please – I’m fed [...]