This might help you if you encounter the same problem… When I last connected up my iPhone to my laptop it prompted me to install the latest updated to iOS – which I did, naturally. Unfortunately, when it tried to do a backup of the iPhone it complained that the phone insisted on encrypting the [...]
My First Couple of Weeks with Windows 8 Pro
After a couple of weeks using the newly released Windows 8 on my new Laptop I’m ready to pass on my experiences and offer a few tips. I briefly tried Windows 8 preview a few months ago – but there was nothing that got me excited and, running in a VM, it was painfully slow. [...]
Microsoft Word Stops Working on Opening or Saving a File
This week, I’ve had a problem with Microsoft Word 2010. Possibly, but not definitely related to having just installed Windows 8. Every time I tried to open an existing Word document a dialog popped up saying Word has Stopped Working. Again, Googled and found various bits of advice including a detailed article from Microsoft (which [...]
Black Blinking Cursor at Start-up on my New Dell Laptop
I’ve had a few problems with my new Laptop – the appear to have started when I upgraded from Windows 7 Home Premium to Windows 7 Ultimate. But, now I’ve fixed it so I’ll pass on my experiences. The install wasn’t quite smooth and said it had failed – but on a restart, everything seemed [...]
“Error establishing a database connection” With XAMP, MySQL and WordPress
Thought some people might find it useful to see how I managed to solve this… So, this week I determined to do a little more work on the code for this blog – a new plugin. However, as I have recently updated my laptop I needed to re-install all the tools – Eclipse, Ant, XAMPP [...]
Test Drive Apache Maven on Your Existing Projects
In this article I will describe how you can test drive Apache Maven by adding an Apache Maven project file (pom.xml) to your existing projects. Then we’ll try to solve some of the more common problems that sometimes occur. Finally, I’ll briefly introduce a few more features and benefits to help you decide if Apache [...]
“Unhide” Columns in a Microsoft Excel Spreadsheet
So, last week I received an Excel spreadsheet in an email and I needed to extract some data and make some changes. I created a new spreadsheet and copied the cells into it and started working on it. The following day I came back to it and noticed that the first column (A) wasn’t showing. [...]
Kaspersky Internet Security 2012 Activation Failed With Error code: 0x800000C2
Just a quick note for anyone who suffers the same problem when they update to Kaspersky Internet Security 2012 to say what solutions I tried and which one, with the help of the Kaspersky Support folks, finally worked. I saw the warnings (about to expire) and bought myself a 3 PC licence – but waited [...]
jQuery, nth-child selector and Chrome or Safari Browsers
I’m in the middle of adding new functionality to the Wicked Text jQuery plugin and, to keep the code standard high, I have created a simple Unit Test page. I had a problem with the nth-child selector in Chrome and Safari browsers and thought you might find my solution useful. But not before I’ve done [...]
Tags: Chrome, jQuery, nth-child, Safari
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Posted in JavaScript, Web Development, Wicked Text | 1 Comment »
jQuery Plugins Site Problem Led Me To Rename Wiki Text to Wicked Text
I actually spotted it first on a Twitter post – the jQuery Plugins site had been deleted (explained here). Crazy! So much for my Wiki Text jQuery Plugin. However, the jQuery blog posts explained that they were hoping to move to a new model for publishing jQuery Plugins to their site – using GitHub and [...]
Tags: JavaScript, jQuery, Wicked Text, WIKI
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Posted in Google, JavaScript, Wicked Text | No Comments »