This tutorial describes how to download and use Skype without a Microsoft Account – something the version of Skype pre-installed on later copies of Microsoft…
Skype Forces Microsoft Account on Windows 8 (8.1) – How to Sign in Without One!
Sell Tickets Online without Merchant Transaction Fees
We’re always reviewing and recommending various digital products to our clients, and one service which we are in the habit of recommending to venue and…
Summit Retreats Website Nominated for AWWWARDS
The fresh new website for Summit Retreats (luxury alpine getaways) has been nominated for an AWWWARDS. Created by Silicon Dales, the responsive, full-screen design took…
18th Century Web Fonts
We have been looking for some really fancy 19th Century web fonts as part of a project to put some information from 1800’s history books…
How to Do a Screenshot
Sometimes, people ask us how we’ve done things on the Silicon Dales website itself, as they’d like to take a technique and put it into…
How to Italicise Text in Skype / Make Skype Text Display in Italics
This tutorial describes how to make your text display in italics using Skype. For example of italics at work, this paragraph is in italics. It…
How to Prevent Skype from Linking Phone Numbers in Internet Explorer
We were asked if we could remove the Skype link from a website we recently launched. These links are added by Skype + Internet Explorer,…
Tutorial: Fix Magento upgrade fails with “Unknown cipher in list: TLSv1”
Have you tried to upgrade Magento from the command line (or some other way) and discovered the delicious error message: Unknown cipher in list: TLSv1…
Adding a User to AWS with CloudFront permissions
If you want to allow someone else (like a contractor, or Silicon Dales) to access your AWS account to add CloudFront to act as a…