Friday, March 12, 2010

Warranty Schmarranty

January 7, 2010 by Robert Owen  
Filed under Apple, Internet, Rant

Here’s an interesting read about Apple’s wonderful customer service. Note my sarcasm?Â
Anyway, here’s a short clip of the article.

The Apple Retail Store Hates You  -
I recently visited the Apple store to exchange a defective power adapter which was still under warranty.  I still have the defective adapter, as it has now cost more [...]

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Google Wave Invites

December 4, 2009 by Robert Owen  
Filed under Internet, Support

Hello peoples !! Want an Invite to Google Wave?  Well, as It so happens, I have a few to pass out. I’ve still not figured out how I am going to make use of this new service but, I log in from time to time and give it a go.  When I logged into my [...]

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Remove Words from Firefox Custom Dictionary

August 25, 2009 by Robert Owen  
Filed under Internet, Support

Ever type a word you know to be correct yet Firefox says is misspelled?  Say something like snigglefritz…  Thinking there could be numerous spellings for snigglefritz,  I know that mine is the correct one.  What I really hate is Firefox telling me it’s wrong every time I type it.

One way to get around that is [...]

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Set-up an FTP Server on Windows 2003 Server

August 19, 2009 by Robert Owen  
Filed under IIS 6, Internet, MicroSoft, Support, Web Design

Setting up an FTP server on Windows 2003 Server is a pretty simple process.  Why would you need an FTP server?  Well, if you are hosting websites you might want to allow designers and customers access to their webfolders  (not me… no one accesses my server but me but you can.. ) and [...]

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IIS 6: Adding Footers to Web Pages

July 16, 2009 by Robert Owen  
Filed under IIS 6, MicroSoft

Did you know you can configure the Microsoft IIS 6 web server to automatically insert an HTML-formatted file to the bottom of every web page sent out by your Web Server?  Well, you can.
For example, you host several sites and want to add a link back to your company for advertisement.  You could create a [...]

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Export Dreamweaver CS4 Site Info

July 7, 2009 by Robert Owen  
Filed under Web Design

Ninety-nine percent of the time I work on websites for myself and others from the comfort of my home office. I can kick back relax and generally get a lot of work done.  Sometimes, however, I need a “Change of local”… The office gets a little confining.  Instead of copying the site (or sites) I’m [...]

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CSS – Long URL

June 10, 2009 by Robert Owen  
Filed under Coldfusion, Web Design

This is an older post that did not make it through to the new site when I converted to WordPress. Hopefully this will still be relevant to someone out there.
CSS and the Long URL:
I was working on a webmail client a while back and had been having a few design problems. Sometimes when you subscribe [...]

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