http://www.esrun.co.uk/blog Self-proclaimed web spammer Thu, 24 Dec 2009 18:37:16 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I bought a slingbox early this year. Watch and control your sky/cable box over the internet from anywhere in the world. Great! After a couple months of using it, it started to play up, not connecting to the network and such like. Usually a reset would fix this. About 9 months on ... http://www.esrun.co.uk/blog/slingbox-sucks/ For the last 6 months or so, I've run into the same problem across a range of different mac computers. I go to change an application or open a finder window and it just wont work. I have a second window changer installed which is called witch. I highly recommend using ... http://www.esrun.co.uk/blog/restart-os-x-dock/ I've been wanting to play wifi king for a long time. Providing free wireless internet access to a reasonable sized area. Finally I got to have a play. The basic idea is to have a server which shares the internet from a standard connection (e.g DSL) to anyone who connects wirelessly. ... http://www.esrun.co.uk/blog/ubuntu-gateway-access-point-server/ If you're lucky enough to have an iPhone (yes, you're a lucky guy if you have one) then I hope you've jail broken it. I know there's a lot of arguments over jail breaking your iPhone. Most are worried that it's going to affect their warranty if it breaks but after ... http://www.esrun.co.uk/blog/spamming-with-php-and-the-iphone/ I just found out about a Paypal feature that I never knew existed! I really can't believe I'd never known about this before.. You can download a plugin for firefox/IE which allows you to generate a temporary mastercard (mastercard gift card). Basically you want to pay for something which cost $50 ... http://www.esrun.co.uk/blog/paypal-temporary-mastercard-gift-card/ I'm absolutely gobsmacked at McAfee SiteAdvisor. I was checking the feedback for one of my sites recently on there and noticed it has a 'Email tests' section. After reading about it, I realised that what they basically do is send a bot to your website and auto fill any form they ... http://www.esrun.co.uk/blog/mcafee-siteadvisor-equals-spammers/ Its a depressing time when your countries government website has a "beta" label on it and shows a 404 on the homepage - http://www.number10.gov.uk/ http://www.esrun.co.uk/blog/number10-number-404/ Woooo! Well It looks like I'll be doing another drive across mainland Europe in January :D The first time I did a drive across Europe I didn't even bother taking a camera but the second time I did a little post on it with some pics. I actually found an old MP3 ... http://www.esrun.co.uk/blog/another-euro-drive/ Well I finally got around to building a quad core mac! >> SCREENSHOT (kalyway 10.5.2) << >> SCREENSHOT (ideneb 10.5.5) << I followed the OSx86 hardware compatibility list (HCL) to ensure the parts I bought were compatible with the mac operating system. The motherboard of my macbook pro died a few months back and ... http://www.esrun.co.uk/blog/quad-core-mac/ Myself, I'm a fan of Paypal. I don't think much of their ebay monopoly schemes and don't feel confident as a seller but as a buyer its great.. widely accepted, easy to use and good buyer protection. However sometimes you have to pay people who live in the middle of a ... http://www.esrun.co.uk/blog/moneybookers-mayhem/