kieranbarnes

HomeSeer helps you automate things around the home directly from your PC or even when you are away via phone, the Internet and email. It allows you to create events that the package will respond to and make something happen. This goes beyond simply turning on the lights at 6pm everyday.
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Every once in a while you stumble upon some really useful Firefox extensions that make you wonder what you did before!

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This modification is for CubeCart 3.
It will show all the products belong to the subcategories on the main category page. Confused? Check out the image, it explains all!
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I’ve just spent a few days diagnosing a strange Exchange 2003 issue for a client.
The client had several users who were not able to connect their Outlook to Exchange, out of several hundred users, only a small percentage had this problem, they had nothing in common.

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I get daily emails from a supplier which Thunderbird kindly slaps a ““Thunderbird thinks this message might be an email scam.” message on the top - of every one.
Whilst not a problem it’s annoying and takes up valuable TV real estate. (more…)

My new Dell computer came with one of those 1,600 in 1 internal memory card readers. The 1,600 drives in ‘My Computer’ really irritated me.

OK, so I exaggerated slightly. But the extra 3 drives did irritate me. My cameras use SD cards so I can safely disable the ones I don’t use. (more…)

I was tearing what little hair I have trying to solve a very strange bug on Windows with Apache 2 & JungleDisk.
(Yes I use Amazon’s Simple Storage Service for all my backups).

I was getting the following errors in Event Log, for what appeared to be no reason.

The Apache service named reported the following error:
>>> (OS 10048)Only one usage of each socket address (protocol/network address/port) is normally permitted. : make_sock: could not bind to address 0.0.0.0:80 .

The Apache service named reported the following error:
>>> Unable to open logs (more…)

I’ve got several Firefox extensions that I simply cannot live without these days.
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