Category: Web
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Medium Wont Add Canonical Links Despite Broken Import Tool
Medium has to be one of the most disjointed platforms I’ve ever used. Their import tool recently stopped working, inexplicably, simply throwing this error, with no further explanation: Without the import tool, it’s impossible to set a canonical link back to the original source of the content (which should definitely be your own blog) –…
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Phishing with internationalised domains
While on a train this morning, one of my close friends sent me this WhatsApp message: The person who sent it to me is not usually someone to send out scams or spam, but, to me at least, this message, did not look legit. It smelled strongly of a phishing scam. However, it was a…
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Lack of Godaddy email support prompts me to move
I’ve been a customer of GoDaddy for several years. Recently, I’ve required to use their support service. Unusually, they don’t offer email support – just phone, or live-chat On more than one occasion, live-chat has been unavailable, and making a call hasn’t been convenient. Secondly, live-chat only works with a persistent connection. Working on a…
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Clearing Chrome Internal DNS cache
Visiting a url, but getting the (old dns) version of a page? I was too. Turns out that Chrome keeps an internal DNS cache. You can view it by visiting the following ‘url’ (enter this in your address bar in Chrome) chrome://net-internals/#dns
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Launching cohoda.com – the commercial website to our Camberley based web design and software development consultancy
Today I launched our commercial website – https://www.cohoda.com Cohoda is a Camberley based web design agency and software consultancy. I’ve been contracting through Cohoda LTD since I made the leap into being self employed in 2012, but have only just got round to creating our own website. It’s a bit sparse at the moment but I’ll…
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Charged £0.50p to print my own Farnborough Air Show 2014 tickets!
Today, I purchased tickets for the Farnborough Air Show 2014, at a cost of £48 each. As if that wasn’t bad enough, there was a £0.50p charge to print my tickets at home! The charge was the same for collecting from the Box Office. For convenience, I printed the tickets at home, but feel this…
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Link buying spam from Discover Media
I received a spam email earlier this week from a guy claiming to be John from Discover Media, asking to place an article on my blog, with a link to his ‘client’ site.His email address was john@discovermedia.co.uk Hi,I work for a company called Discover Media, acting on behalf of a casino client who like to…
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Download emails from GMail in a specific label with GMVault
I recently wanted to download around 20,000 emails from a specific label in my gmail account. To do this, I used GMVault. I’m not going to talk through the basics of setup / using this as it’s already talked about at length on the GMVault site. However, in order to get it to download only…
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Gmail reply all graduated from Labs– ‘r’ shortcut doesn’t reply all
I recently noticed that while replying to an email in google apps (or gmail for that matter) it wasn’t defaulting to Reply All – despite me enabling this lab. Upon further inspection, I noticed this was no longer an option in the Labs.Fearing that it had been removed altogether, I had a look over the…
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Online hotel booking sites & credit card reservations – beware!
Recently, I was working on a project with a similar business model to hotel booking websites such as LateRooms.com and Booking.com: The customer reserves a “room” from a third party. The customer pays at the hotel. Failure to show, results in customers card being charged. I was intrigued about how the others got this process…
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Review of nightmare with Elance provider (WebHouse)
I’ve used eLance for various outsourcing projects for a number of years. (Great for small tasks, and an extra pair of hands until the 25th hour in a day is discovered!) Sure, I’ve had my fair share of problems, however, all have been amicably resolved, talking with eLance and the contractor. WebHouse (Md. Zakir Hossain…
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Create a Google Chrome Extension
I’ve been meaning to look into creating a Google Chrome extension for a while. Earlier this week, I successfully RickRoll’d Rob Ashton on twitter, which in turn, after a RT, RickRoll’d several others. Many of whom replied with tweets like @alexjamesbrown @RobAshton You bastards! 😉 — Anders Ljusberg (@CodingInsomnia) March 24, 2011 @alexjamesbrown @RobAshton Damn…
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Amazon DDOS attack – hardware failure cover-up
I’m a great fan of Amazon. I admire what they have done for technology, especially with their AWS Platform. However, when the company decided to blame a “hardware failure” for their outages yesterday evening, I felt they were trying to pull the wool over our eyes. An Amazon spokesman said: ‘The brief interruption to our…
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H&M Online Store – Usability Issues
I don’t normally do this. But I’m so appalled by the apparent lack of usability testing on H&M’s sparkly new online store, I thought I’d share some of the issues, in a hope someone in their web team picks it up, and does something about it. Product Information – modal window? Firstly, this is a…
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How to block Facebook event invites
Sick of all the event invitations from various promoters / clubs you happen to be friends with on Facebook? Here’s how to block them: Step 1 Click on “Privacy Settings” under the “Account” drop down menu (top right hand corner) Step 2 Click on Edit your lists, under Block lists Step 3 You can…
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100 new followers on twitter, bought for a Fiverr
After signing up to Fiverr, I decided to give it a try. Someone with a somewhat copyright infringing username of Twitter offers: Twitter: I will sell you 100 real Twitter Followers for $5 (http://www.fiverr.com/users/Twitter/gigs/sell-you-100-real-twitter-followers) There were plenty of others offering the same, if not more followers, but they required your username and password, and would…
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What can you get for a Fiverr? – A quick review on Fiverr Marketplace
New marketplace Fiverr allows you to outsource those small tasks you may have, for a fixed fee of $5 (aprox. £3.30 depending on how the exchange rate is behaving) Fiverr allows people to list things they would do, for $5. In return, Fiverr takes $1 from the value of the order, leaving the person providing…