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Entries from August 2007

Find your IP and Mac Address

August 31st, 2007 by dcouper · No Comments

Want to find your IP and Mac (nothing to do with Apple) address on a PC or Apple- this is the place to be.
On a PC you need to go to start and then run and then type cmd and press enter. Then a black box will open and you type ipconfig /all and press [...]

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Tags: quick & easy tips



Legal threats halt iPhone crack

August 30th, 2007 by Alex Costa · No Comments

A British firm’s plan to sell software that could open the iPhone to non-US networks has been put on hold following legal threats.
Last week, Belfast-based UniquePhones joined several others in claiming it had cracked the code which locked iPhone into AT&T’s network. But a middle-of-the-night phone call from AT&T’s lawyers has forced the firm to [...]

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Tags: Applications · Mobile · Technology

WordPress to MySpace Crossposting

August 29th, 2007 by Mark5 · 9 Comments

For those of us who maintain several blogs, crossposting – or the ability to write one blog and then publish it to multiple blogs – is a very handy function!
MySpace has traditionally been one of the hardest to crosspost to, but if you are a WordPress user, then enter some funky php courtesy of Roderick [...]

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Tags: Lifestyle · Mark's Bits · Tutorials / Training · Web Browsers



Gmail doesn’t open & live bookmarks stop

August 28th, 2007 by dcouper · No Comments

When I went in to the office after lunch, expecting a relatively quiet afternoon – with all the people off for the summer – I could not have been more mistaken. With a website problem that has been doing my head in and a couple of laptops to fix it turned out to be a [...]

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Tags: Web Browsers

“Internal GDS Software Consistency Check” Error in FeedReader

August 27th, 2007 by Bill Hutchison · No Comments

This morning my computer had problems on bootup and shut down. After starting the computer back up again I have the following error when trying to run FeedReader:

Internal GDS Software Consistency Check

When I had a look in feedreader most of my feeds were gone and all the feeds that were still there were empty of [...]

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Tags: Applications

Using Windows built in Wireless Management

August 23rd, 2007 by dcouper · 3 Comments

If you buy a new laptop today – more often than not it will come with a wireless management program from the company you purchased the laptop from. This (in theory) should work efficiently with the computers hardware giving you no problems with setting up access to different wireless access points and networks. I have [...]

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Tags: Networking · quick & easy tips