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Technology, Web, Programming, Computers and Gadgets
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November 15, 2009 - 8:38 pm
Tags: google index sky news, murdoch attacks google, rupert murdoch, sky news subscription, sky news website
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Rupert Murdoch who is the face of Sky has announced that he no longer wants Google to index his web pages in its search engine results. Murdoch spoke about his anger towards Google as well as his intentions for the Sky news website to become a subscription website during an interview last week.
Murdoch made it [...]
November 15, 2009 - 7:38 pm
Tags: Blackberry, blackberry battery drain, blackberry battery life, maximise blackberry battery, update blackberry software
Posted in Mobile | No comments
Blackberry’s are constantly been updated due to bugs been found in the software which they were originally released with. Its important your Blackberry has the most up to date software in order to get the most out of your Blackberry.
There has been a common problem with Blackberry’s draining the battery even when its not in [...]
November 8, 2009 - 9:50 pm
Tags: game development, mmorpg, online games, Online Gaming, rpg, web games, web gaming
Posted in Gaming, Web Development | No comments
With what is an ever increasing demand for games, online gaming is constantly growing with new languages allowing a wider variety of games to be made. The constantly evolving web development world has seen online games change the way we see the web. Previously the www was just seen as a place to gain information [...]
November 7, 2009 - 12:52 am
Tags: Mac OS X Startup, mac startup, msconfig, start program on start
Posted in Mac | No comments
If you have a program which you use frequently on your Mac you can set it open on startup just like msconfig on a windows machine.
Load program from startup:
Navigate to “System Preferences” from your Applications.
Click “Accounts”.
Select the account you wish to change the programs on start up for.
Click the tab at the top of the [...]
November 7, 2009 - 12:24 am
Tags: 360 Gaming, NAT type, Online Gaming, Xbox 360, Xbox Live
Posted in Gaming | No comments
In order to get the best out of Xbox Live you may need to open your NAT. Network Address Translation (NAT) is the process of modifying network address information in datagram packet headers while in transit across a traffic routing device for the purpose of remapping a given address space into another.
Xbox Live has 3 stages of NAT: Strict, [...]
May 29, 2009 - 12:39 pm
Tags: creating a website, how to create a website, learning css, learning html, website development, website help
Posted in Web Development | No comments
Fancy a career change? Bored of your current day job? Wish you new how to make a website? Looking for a new hobby?
Website development maybe a huge market at the moment with nearly all businesses having their own websites and those that don’t wanting one. However those that have them want to make them better [...]
May 14, 2009 - 8:51 pm
Tags: County Cricket, Essex Cricket Club, Friends Provident, James Foster, Varun Chopra, video
Posted in Sport | No comments
A new cricket season has been underway just over a month now and already Essex Cricket Clubs domination of the one day game looks to be continuing.
So far in the Friends Provident they have played 5 and won 4, losing after scoring near on 300! Essex are placed in Group D which is by far [...]
May 14, 2009 - 8:34 pm
Tags: County Championship, County Cricket, Cricket Talent, ECB, Friends Provident, Young Cricket Talent
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New Cricket Season:
With the new Cricket season having just begun everyone always debates who’s going to win the County Championship, Friends Provident and the Twenty 20 cup. I think the new season is going to be more competitive than ever with the ever increase of kolpak and overseas players dominating the county scene.
Division 1 County Championship Champions: Lancashire CCC
Division 1 [...]
May 14, 2009 - 8:06 pm
Tags: Cricket, ECB, England Cricket, Essex Cricket Club, Ravi Bopara
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Ravi Bopara of Essex Cricket Club has been included into the England Cricket Squad to face the West Indies in the 2 match test series.
Bopara scored a century in his last test against the West Indies in Barbados and now looks set to fill the number 3 position which has proved troublesome for the England [...]
March 20, 2009 - 10:58 am
Tags: ie transparent, internet explorer, png images, png in ie
Posted in Web Development | No comments
There are lots of “fixes” for transparent png images in Internet Explorer which remove the “white block” bug in lower versions of Internet Explorer however some dont work as well as others.
Flaws:
Some flaws I have found with some methods:
You cant repeat the image on the background
You cant have links within the text as they become [...]