DJ Software

Moved this website

Dave Porter — Sun, 29 Aug 2010 06:11:24 +0000

Hi everyone,

Moved dj-software to my Australian server today – all seems to be OK.

There should be some speed improvements!

I had a small issue with some of the WordPress database content storing absolute paths, which did not match the new server, but once I manually fixed them, it all worked fine.

WordPress page

Dave Porter — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 05:03:54 +0000

A new page on wordpress has just been added to the site, giving details of this brilliant content management system & our hosting details.

You can access it here… or from the Web Hosting menu!

Easy and safe remote support for clients.

Dave Porter — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 01:49:53 +0000

I recently purchased a program called TeamViewer.

This is a very impressive remote access program, allowing support sessions to clients computers and servers very efficiently. It is a relatively small 2-Meg download and is totally safe, as the end user initiates a support session and ends it when finished – no software is permanently installed on a clients computer.

Previously I have used combinations of Hamachi & VNC clients like UltraVNC and TightVNC. These have worked reasonably well, but TeamViewer works so much better. Particularly with Windows-7.

Please visit the support page for further details…

WordPress 3 released

Dave Porter — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 02:30:52 +0000

Hi everyone,

Great news that WordPress 3 has been released.

It is named ‘Thelonius‘ & comes with a great new default theme called ‘Twenty Ten‘ ( as in the year ! )

Read the full post over at WordPress.com

See the Codex page detailing all the new features

Windows and terminology

Dave Porter — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 04:43:55 +0000

During a support session, one of the things someone on the other end of the phone needs to know is what program the person is currently using.

If they are browsing the web, this might be Internet Explorer, or Firefox or Google’s new Chrome browser.

Or perhaps if they are Wordprocessing they may be using Word or Open Office or many other Word-Processing options

But often people are unable to tell what it is they are using.

There is a a simple way to tell !

Each Window that you have open is a running program and the ‘Title Bar’ that runs across the top displays the name of the program and may additionally have the name of the document or web page you are viewing…

As they say a picture is worth a 1000 words, so here are a couple of examples.
(Note: Â To preserve space only the top left of the two windows are shows )

The orange arrows indicate the Title Bar and the name of the program

The Firefox example also indicates that the abc web site is the current page being displayed.

So this is where to look when you are asked what program are you running…

Domain Registration

Dave Porter — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 16:35:30 +0000

A new facility is now available to register domains.

Simply go to the Web-Hosting page (main menu link, top of page !) & fill in the form.

To choose multiple Domain Types, hold down the control key while clicking with the mouse.

We will then get back to you with a quote for the registration and hosting costs.

Very Late April Fools…

Dave Porter — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 12:16:30 +0000

The IT community really embraces April Fools Day.

This video purporting to be from the alternative browser Opera is very funny…

Opera Face Gestures…