Why You Should NOT use FREE ANTIVIRUS
Right now it’s buy 2 years, get one free. That works out to $15/year per computer. If you need protection, you can’t go wrong with Kaspersky Pure 2.0. Recently there have been a few viruses I’ve...
View ArticleAdd Shortcodes to Your WordPress Sidebar Widgets
By default, shortcodes don’t work in WordPress sidebars. But with one little addition to your functions.php file, they will! Add this code to the beginning or end of your functions.php (always back the...
View ArticleTrouble Logging into WordPress?
The WordPress Codex contains some great troubleshooting, try this first. http://codex.wordpress.org/Login_Trouble The post Trouble Logging into WordPress? appeared first on 916 Networks.
View ArticleYou Probably Are Sharing Info with Google You Don’t Even Know
I was digging through some Google Analytics settings and came across this setting. What’s troubling is that the language seems to say you are sharing “anonymously”, but look closely. The first setting...
View ArticleWhat Screen Resolutions are Most Common?
I took a small sample of data and thought I’d share. Clearly 1024px – 1280px wide is the dominant resolution, beating the widescreen 1920×1080 resolution 470 visits to 104 visits. This means web...
View ArticleEditing WordPress Plugins So Your Edits Are Update-Proof
We all know the problem – you edit a WordPress plugin, maybe a small formatting change to fit your site, and the edits disappear when you update the site. There’s the “Back it all up regularly, and if...
View ArticleGetting rid of IE7 one computer at a time
I was very happy to see the following bar appear when I went into IE8 Compatibility mode to test a webpage. IE7 is wrong in so many ways. From security vulnerabilities to terrible lack of web...
View ArticleHow to Troubleshoot IE7 CSS Problems
One of the greatest features of modern web browsers is the ability to view the CSS and make changes live. Firebug is by far my favorite way to edit live CSS to debug and test code. In fact, I do most...
View ArticleFBI Warning Your Computer is Blocked for Violation of Federal Law [SOLVED]
Ran across an interesting virus today. The user reported slowness on the computer and a strange sound over her streaming music, in a computerized voice “FBI Warning Your Computer is Blocked for...
View Article“The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another...
Today I ran into an issue with Outlook 2007 and a single POP3 email account. Outlook began locking up, and we’re unable to access the outlook.pst file associated with the account. The file is 19GB,...
View Article[SOLVED] – Virus Turns All Network Share Files Into Exectuble .exe files
Two separate servers in one day – file shares infected with a virus from a fake email from the Better Business Bureau and another from a fake American Express email. Remember – the rule is don’t click...
View ArticleCPU Locker – Series 1
Availability: In Stock Ships: 1-2 Business Days Could not load product information Available in six different sizes, the CPU Locker Series provides computer and server protection. These Computer...
View ArticleCPU Locker – Series 2
Availability: In Stock Ships: 1-2 Business Days Available in six different sizes, the CPU Locker Series provides computer and server protection. These Computer Enclosures protect your hardware, along...
View ArticleMoodle – Removing Country field from New User Registration Page
We needed to customize the New User Registration form on our Moodle installation to remove the Country field. This process below can be used for any of the default fields on the new user signup form....
View ArticleMoodle – Changing Form Field Labels (New User Registration Form)
We wanted to customize our Moodle New User Registration form to make it more friendly for a specific set of users that will be signing up. One customization was simply changing the “Surname” field to...
View ArticleShoretel IP phone stuck in “Requesting Service Loop”
A Shoretel phone today got rebooted by accident, and then got stuck in a “Requesting Service” loop. Multiple reboots didn’t fix it. The phone was getting a DHCP address, and deleting the DHCP address...
View ArticleRemoving the hyperlink in Category Icons WordPress Plugin
Category Icons is a really cool plugin to easily add icons to your categories in WordPress. In my case, I was trying to replicate some existing functionality and wanted the header for each Category...
View ArticleIncrease Maximum Upload Size – WordPress on Rackspace Cloud Sites
WordPress seems to have a built in 2MB limit for uploads. This is actually a web server config and has nothing to do with WordPress. To increase this limit you need to modify a variable in the PHP.ini...
View ArticleHow to Silently Deploy Java Updates
Recently we became aware of a major security issue with Java. This security issue was so severe it prompted the Department of Homeland Security to disable Java on all it’s internal systems! Patch...
View ArticleJQUERY Code to Remove a tags based on content
I recently had been requested to hack Joomla 1.0.15 to hide a navigation menu tree from logged in users. That is not possible with that version of Joomla – support was introduced with Joomla 1.6. I was...
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