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What are Adobe up to?
Sometime ago I reviewed Adobe Reader against Foxit. Many people often direct PC users to Foxit when they find older versions of Adobe to be slow and bloated. My conclusion was that Adobe Reader is a lot better now and it’s many benefits outway the little speed improvement you get with Foxit. You’d have thought…
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Decoding a WordPress Post Title
By default, get_the_title and the_title will return the title of the current post. It’s stored in the database in plain text, however, when returned using the aforementioned functions if appears to be encoded. This means that characters such as ampersands and apostrophes will be converted to equivalents that are more HTML friendly. Unfortunately, passing, say,…
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Which Android?
No, not the name of a new publication related to robots 😉 Of course I’m referring to Google’s rather excellent mobile operating system. My current phone contract expires soon and I’m seriously interested in getting an Android handset. But which to have. I was excited by the Samsung Galaxy but reviews have generally not been…
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The truth behind Micro Men
I cut my teeth on 8 bit home micros back in the 80’s and was more than chuffed to be able to catch BBC’s Micro Men programme last night. Here is the official BBC description… Affectionately comic drama about the British home computer boom of the early 1980s. Legendary inventor Clive Sinclair battles it out…
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Samsung NC10 – beware of cheaper versions!
The Samsung NC10 Netbook has received many positive reviews since it’s release and many believe it to the best Netbook on the market. A colleague of mine has recently purchased one at, what he thought, was a bargain price from Comet (I’d provide the link but the site was strangely “under maintenance” when I tried).…