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  • Virus Removal in Abergavenny (Cybersecurity)

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    Prevention (Cybersecurity) We can help reduce the chances of viruses infecting your devices, by installing antivirus software, enabling and configuring firewalls. The number one cause of getting a computer virus on your system is human error. This can happen to anyone, including experts, although it’s less likely to happen to experienced users. Once your system…

  • Debugging CSS in Drupal 8 (Why aren’t my CSS files being loaded?)

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    Recently I was trying to style the output from views (in this case, an example property rental search). However, it was confusing to me because although most CSS was working as expected, some was not propagating to the elements themselves. When I did a ‘view source’ of the page I saw four cryptic looking CSS files,…

  • Google Embedded Map Mouse Scroll Fix

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    The Problem If you have an embedded Google map on your site, and somebody uses the mouse wheel to scroll the page; if the mouse pointer happens to enter the Google map, the map will grab the mouse events and start zooming the map. This is not an intuitive behaviour. The page instantly stops scrolling…

  • Fix For: Your Local “Offline” License Key Is Invalid

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    If your website is seeing the following error message: Your Local “Offline” License Key Is Invalid   The program has been halted because it is not possible to validate your license. The program uses a Local “Offline” License Key to validate your license when the main licensing servers are unreachable. (ie: When you do not…

  • Coding Solution: Using ‘an’ or ‘a’ before a word

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    I needed some code which could work out whether the word ‘an’ or ‘a’ (the indefinite article) should go before a specific word. I needed this in order to create automated headings and sentences in certain useful contexts. At first I thought this was an easy problem to solve. Surely I just needed to check…

  • Comparison of Tags versus Folders

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    We will be discussing which of these methods of organisation works best: Folders (sometimes known as directories) Tags (sometimes known as categories) Tags versus Folders Folders are places to store particular types of information. Some common examples are: Documents Photos (digital) MP3 (or other music files) Videos Emails Let’s use the examples of photos to…

  • Organising Your Emails

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    This article is for people who: Are overwhelmed by too many emails (spam or otherwise – what is spam?) Want to be more organised with their emails A common request I get is to help people organise their emails. There are two main ways to organise emails. The first one, which I call Zero Game, is for…

  • Easy Fix: Briefly unavailable for scheduled maintenance. Check back in a minute.

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    Problem (Unavailable for Scheduled Maintenance) Sometimes when you update plugins on your WordPress.org based site you might get the following error: Briefly unavailable for scheduled maintenance. Check back in a minute. Or you might have visited your website dashboard and seen the same error message. This can cause panic when you first see it, however…

  • Enabling Root Access in OSX (via Terminal command ‘su’)

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    Learn how to enable root access in OSX 10.9 (Mavericks) but hopefully it should work in other variants). After you complete the steps listed you will be able to use the su command at the Terminal (command line). I have found this most useful when installing tools that can only be installed via the command…

  • Automatically Check for PHP Syntax Errors

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    I was developing some PHP code the other day for a WordPress website and got interrupted. I left halfway through editing a PHP file. When I came back I had lost my train of thought and left a simple syntax error in the file. In a momentary lapse of reason I FTP’ed the file back…