It has become apparent that some people are landing on a post I made about WeTransfer looking for a download link to grab a copy of PuTTY. Ever eager to please, the link below is where you would download PuTTy for your system, whatever particular flavour of system that may be! Download PuTTy from here. …
The thoroughly excellent WooCommerce extension WooCommerce Bookings may be further extended with the addition of WooCommerce Accommodation Bookings to swap over days for nights, and to add a checkin and checkout time (i.e. to make the extension useful for hotels, bed and breakfasts and other “overnight” accommodation provider style bookings. We have a client using …
This is an update of an old post, which people still visit regularly, where I described how to get the Facebook / Gmail / email and other sync to be enabled – or disabled – in one button click across your whole phone. But the User Interface (UI) (really this is a nerdy way to …
There is a Linux vulnerability known as Dirty COW which surfaced a week or so ago, for which there have been frequent warnings around the Linux community pretty much as soon as the vulnerability was uncovered, as it is a particularly nasty one which can, in some circumstances, allow malevolent forces to gain control of …
I know, right, why would you want to do that?! Whatever your reasons, if you wanted to delete a Linkedin profile ever, you might have found its not exactly the super-easy joyful process we expected. So below is a description of where you’ll be able to get this done. How to delete a Linkedin profile …
If you’re ever using PuTTy or another terminal window to SSH into your server and you want to know “how old is that file” (or, at least, what date was it last modified) then the command below will allow you to find out just that information! How to find file creation date using Unix ls …
MailMerges can save an awful lot of time when it comes to writing down and printing addresses, but there is often an issue in the way addresses were collected that make the way we have them written down quite tricky to work with. If you have a list, or spreadsheet, of addresses, often you’ll have …
If you have email accessible via IMAP, for example, with a Silicon Dales business web hosting account, or an email account provided by another web host, and you would like to access this email through your iPhone (or other Apple device, such as an iPad, iPad mini or similar), then the video above will help …
Avoid that embarrassing robot voice from interrupting your day! Awkward… a text read out loud! At Silicon Dales, we use the Samsung Galaxy SII smartphone for our business mobile, currently, and somehow recently we managed to get the phone to read out the name of whoever has sent a text message to us, or to …
The tutorial below describes how to remove the PayPal logo that shows up by default in Magento‘s standard themes, in the bottom right-hand side. We’re working on another Magento installation for a client this week, and, as often happens, the latest version of Magento Community has moved a few things around. We wanted that logo… …
