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PLDT Home Fibr router admin and access point (AP) isolation

11 Aug 2019 in Hardware, Networking, Philippines, Servers by Andy

This post is clearly not our normal fare – it’s not about WordPress or ClassicPress, or Mac computers. We’ve written this in order to help out fellow users of PLDT… More »

Detecting https in PHP – the definitive guide

02 Apr 2019 in Development, Hosting, PHP & MySQL, Servers, Software, WordPress by Andy

Detecting whether your PHP code is running on https or http is useful in a number of situations, particularly if you’re building a URL to set a form action or… More »

GIMP annoyances on Mac High Sierra

27 Mar 2018 in Design, Graphics, Macintosh, Software by Andy

THIS POST HAS BEEN RE-PUBLISHED WITHOUT MY PERMISSION ON A WEBSITE CALLED WIRED GORILLA. I AM CURRENTLY PURSUNG LEGAL ACTION TO GET IT TAKEN DOWN FROM THAT SITE. Following the… More »

Resolving permissions issues in XAMPP on Mac High Sierra

19 Mar 2018 in Macintosh, Platforms, Servers, Software by Andy

THIS POST HAS BEEN RE-PUBLISHED WITHOUT MY PERMISSION ON A WEBSITE CALLED WIRED GORILLA. I AM CURRENTLY PURSUNG LEGAL ACTION TO GET IT TAKEN DOWN FROM THAT SITE. As a… More »

JavaScript toFixed() does not work in number fields on Firefox

05 Dec 2016 in Browsers, HTML & CSS, JavaScript & jQuery by Andy

Here’s a very short, quick post, detailing a Firefox scripting frustration that I discovered today. Let’s say you have a JavaScript function that calculates a value. The value represents a… More »

Speed up your browsing with help from your hosts file

06 Aug 2016 in Macintosh, Privacy, Security, Software by Andy

Web pages these days are so full of advertisements, trackers, counters, hidden pixels, it’s a wonder they load at all. And who knows what information you’re revealing about your browsing… More »

Connecting to Let’s Encrypt SSL sites via cURL from MAMP

20 Apr 2016 in Hosting, Macintosh, PHP & MySQL, Security, Software, WordPress by Andy Towler

This is a brief lesson in diagnostics that some may find helpful. The Scenario I develop websites on a Mac running MAMP. On my Mac I have an installation of… More »

Folders on top with El Capitan

01 Apr 2016 in Macintosh, Software, Usability by Andy Towler

For the last three years I’ve been happily seeing folders at the top of all file lists in my Mac’s Finder windows, thanks to a wonderful little free utility called… More »

Why I’m ditching Evernote for Simplenote

28 Nov 2015 in Android, Macintosh, Opinion, Software by Andy Towler

For the last three years (ever since I switched from PC to Mac in fact) I’ve used Evernote as my personal notes repository, using mainly the Mac application and Android… More »

Tip for Calibre Companion and FBReader

31 Mar 2015 in Android, Macintosh, Software by Andy Towler

This isn’t a WordPress related post, or even a Mac or web development post – but it’s something I’ve been wrestling with for hours and hopefully by the magic of… More »

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