We are delighted to welcome Chris Smith into the Web Design team at Virya Technologies. ...

Sticky notes are frowned upon .... excel spreadsheets can be compromised ... and my memory is about as good as a leaky sieve!  Mozilla appears to have come to the rescue with a suggestion of a future alternative to the hundreds of username/password combinations we have to remember if we're keen users of websites. ...

It's a bit concerning when a search engine decides to drop ALL domains from its records because they end in a suffix which is commonly used by spammers .. but that's exactly what Google has just done. ...

Google recently unveiled their next batch of new services, including a technique called pre-rendering. The idea being that when a Chrome user runs a websearch on Google, the first few links will be automatically loaded in the background for instant display should the user choose to view it. For those operating websites, this has a number of huge ...

Recently Twitter moved over to its Web Intents Platform which may well have passed you by - it certainly did me, until I had a few calls from clients saying that their 'Tweet This' links - particularly in K2 and AdsFactory in Joomla! but I assume this is the case in a huge range of web-based applications - had stopped working. ...

Google's search engine is a fantastic tool, and there still seem to be no effective competitors. Unfortunately, however, Google have been making quite a few changes which have hugely affected the relevance of results, and often leads to needing to enter a second search. This post details some of the tips users can use to try and reduce this, inclu ...

We received a call just after midnight from a server administrator who was having difficulties with his mail server - to the point that his international clients were unable to receive email at the middle of their peak period.  Nobody else picked up the phone ... we did! ...

A while ago I posted about our in-house challenge to try and adopt each other's specialities in an exercise of broadening our knowledge and trying out new technologies .. my side of the bargain was to try out Linux as my main Operating System (OS).  Here's how I'm getting on so far! ...

Many people call me a geek, but my geekiness pales in comparison to Ben, our IT Manager.  For too long he has been pestering me to get used to using Linux and for too long I've been giving excuses .... and unfortunately I've just about exhausted them all!  So, in an exchange of roles, Ben is trying Joomla! out to design some websites, ...

A computer worm is a computer program which self-replicates using a network or internet connection to send copies of itself to other computers, without any user intevention.  It does not need to attach itself to an existing program - as a virus does - and hence can, and does, cause havok on networks by using massive amounts of bandwidth r ...

We had a client report that their attachments on K2 articles would not download - giving an error message in the source code initially, and then subsequently a 404 error. On investigating we identified that the latest version of K2 handles attachments slightly differently. ...

We came across a problem getting a Joomla! 1.7.1 vanilla install to work on a Windows server at one of our clients - during the installation process it was not able to create the _menu table - everything else seemed to work OK! ...

I came across an interesting problem with a module in Joomla! 1.7 which appeared to have available settings in the parameters of the module, but they were not showing in the back end of Joomla's administration portal. ...

This weekend we attended Joomla!Day UK 2011 in London, a fantastic event for all things Joomla! and a great opportunity to network with other Joomla! users. One of the popular keynote speakers was Chris Davenport, who is part of the Joomla! Leadership Team and responsible for documentation in the Joomla! project. ...

We came across a problem when updating one of our Joomla! 1.6 sites to 1.7, which relates to Joomlart templates. Thanks to John47 for his post on the Joomla! forums which identified a fix for this issue: ...

You may be excused for not noticing the latest additions to Google Places - I don't often visit my Places page but each time I do recently I've noticed additional features popping in without much song and dance! ...

So just a few moments ago, Google announced that they were opening up Google+ pages for businesses - one might say a direct competitor for Facebook Pages. ...

Today I came across something interesting when I was checking out how our Google Places entry was performing (Google Places, for those who aren't aware, is how companies appear in Google Maps and can be accessed at google.co.uk/places) and noticed a new feature - Adwords Express - had appeared on my toolbar. ...

It doesn't matter whether you are designing a new piece of software, a business process or even your end product, the importance of applying common sense and considering real-life scenarios simply cannot be understated. A mistake can be very costly both in terms of time and reputation. If that mistake affects the way your customers interact with ...

A recently published issue with a Security Auditor has highlighted just how much potential there is for the worst to happen when information is requested by someone with a level of authority. In this particular case, the person being asked for the information had the sense to challenge the request, but it's easy to believe that many others would ha ...

The Internet Security landscape is littered with the metaphorical bodies of those who routinely fall for the popular ruses perpetrated by malware authors, phishing scams and 419'ers. Much of the badware out there is reliant on convincing the target (or mark) to undertake some type of action, education is therefore a very important weapon in the ...

The 411 scam is generally known to most of the world as Advance-fee fraud, or a 419 Scam. Traditionally 419 scams originate from Nigeria, and the name refers to the section under the Nigerian criminal code that such a crime applies to. Quite when the term 411 scam became popular is unclear, but the American Dialect society has traced the term ' ...

Do you find networking meetings daunting?  Are you fed up with having sales pitches hurled at you, and would rather a relaxed chat in pleasant surroundings?  Join us at Suffolk Business Net-walking on the first Wednesday of each month, from 12 noon at the Orwell Country Park. ...