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Incorrect Time on Diary Entries on iTouch

February 11th, 2009 by chevvy · No Comments

All my calendar entries on my iTouch were coming up about 7 hours incorrectly, the events themselves were correct just wrong time. After checking my computer and Touch had the correct settings I found one other place to change…
I went to Settings -> Mail, Contacts, Calendars -> Time Zone Support (Near the bottom) -> and [...]

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Console and PC Game Skills Training

September 6th, 2008 by Bill Hutchison · No Comments

If you have ever had your but whipped by your 5-year old son, or some young punk online, you might want to have a look at Gamertrainer.com.
Gametrainer.com provides training for anyone wanting to improve their gaming skills. They will work with anyone from first time “newbies”, to “professional” gamers. They provide training for these games:

Battlefield: [...]

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Serving inhouse ads with Google Ad Manager

September 3rd, 2008 by nickv · 1 Comment

Introduction
Last week Google released Ad Manager. We’ve been using Adspeed to host all of our inhouse ads on the reeftooutback.com website. Adspeed served us well for a while but I found the administrative interface poorly designed and very difficult to use. I’m a huge fan of intuitive user interfaces and Google provides that for the [...]

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Tags: Applications · Site News · Tutorials / Training



Comments now working

April 2nd, 2008 by dcouper · 1 Comment

We have had some problems with the comments on the site - but after finally narrowing down the problem we have found the solution. Please feel free to post comments!!
Thanks
Techontour Team

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Web Page to Image Conversion

March 21st, 2008 by drpratten · 3 Comments

Got a project that needs a bunch of images of web pages or web page thumbnails? Trying to batch convert html to jpeg or png?
I have just such a project underway and my preference was to be able to use a command similar to wget on a linux VPS (it might be called imagewget) [...]

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Research Using Google Notebook

March 21st, 2008 by drpratten · No Comments

I don’t know about you, but I am often checking out new ideas on the web and trying to write a report or essay that that makes sense to someone else. Until I discovered Google Notebook I kept notes in Word or a text editor. That works OK, but recording the URL, a quote [...]

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