Lake District Visit - February 2009

Some photos from my Lake District visit at the end of February 2009. Very relaxing...

Acuras on Facebook

We've setup a Facebook page for Acuras!

Check it out here: http://www.facebook.com/pages/High-Wycombe-United-Kingdom/Acuras/52116297916

Please become a fan or post some comments if you wish...

The Move To Linux, Hindered By Hardware

With news today of Windows 7 being made available in no less than six different versions, it is getting harder and harder to not move lock, stock, and PGP key to Linux on a full time basis. Except...

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ImageFlow - Javascript Cover Flow for Websites

Found this cool javascript solution which allows the “Cover Flow” technique to be used on websites...

 

ImageFlow is a picture gallery, which allows an intuitive image handling. The basic idea is to digitally animate the thumbing through a physical image stack. That intuitive handling is automatically caused by the metaphorical use of the well known process of thumbing through.

 

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Acuras Hosting Banner Design

New banner design for the Acuras Hosting website. Uses the new Acuras Hosting logo and the Hypatia Sans Pro typeface for the text. What do you think?

Setting up Outlook with SMTP server requiring authentication

Many SMTP mail servers require authentication in order to help ensure that only valid users send emails using the SMTP server. In order to send emails through an SMTP server that requires authentication, you need to setup your email client accordingly. The following instructions should help you do this...

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Norton Website Image Blocking - Blank Images Issue

Found a very insightful article along with equally helpful comments here. Recently had a problem where a client's website was missing images when they viewed it on their Windows machines.

After lots of digging, turned out it was Nortons blocking the images because they had the word "banner" in the filename.

Lesson learned... don't name images with "banner" anywhere in the name otherwise Nortons may block them! Highly annoying!

Ubuntu Server Linux is for business

Ubuntu isn't just for Linux fans and desktops anymore. Canonical and analyst firm RedMonk have just released survey results that show that there are thousands of business server users who already consider Ubuntu Server mission critical.

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Are Social Media Consultants Harming Social Media?

I don’t mean to sound cynical, but I do wonder what value a lot of social media consultants bring to their clients, and how long that value will last. Is social media marketing the next big thing or merely a blip in the growth of the Internet?

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Google Earth 5.0 with Ocean Bed Maps and Mars!

"Users can dive into the ocean, travel back in time and visit Mars in the newest version of Google Earth"

Looks pretty cool... Take a look here...

It's Snowing!!