wade womersley – york based software engineer
In a move that will increase users of Microsoft’s newest browser, Edge, by around the population of the ISS; you can now place voice and video calls from your browser without plugins. From the Skype blog Today, we’re excited to announce that Skype for Web, Outlook.com, Office Online and OneDrive now support real-time, plugin free … Read More “Skype comes to Edge without plugins – internet remains unchanged” »
I love my Pi2 and my Pi3, they’re amazing pieces of cheap kit I can do anything with – although to be honest I don’t use them anywhere near as much as I should. So here is a compilation of things I found useful this last week when I finally got around to building my … Read More “Useful tidbits for Raspberry pi users on Raspian – aka things I wish I knew quicker/easier” »
I’m sure a lot of you have heard our sorely out-of-the-times member of parliament Theresa May wants to give UK police to request users internet history + search queries without a warrant at any time. I for one am not a fan of a nanny state and especially not one that believes this is somehow … Read More “How to make the governments attempts to view your search history that bit harder (in Chrome)” »
Dotdeb.org have the PHP 5.4 series available for installation on Debian based OS’s, you can either do it manually or use my installation script I wrote to make the process easier. All you need to do is run: curl https://wade.one/blog/wp-content/uploads/php54.sh | sudo bash And it’ll do the rest for you! Feel free to just download … Read More “PHP5.4.3 Available on Dotdeb.org (Installs fine on Ubuntu)” »
The VPS provider this site runs on, and that we use rather extensively in the office, is currently running a neat little promotion which is very simple. Send them a postcard and you’ll get $10 off your next bill plus you’ll be entered into a competition to win an iPad! I’d love to win an … Read More “VPS.net – Send a postcard, win an iPad + $10 off your next bill” »
Google has recently launched their own version of public DNS servers, much like OpenDNS. After trying them out briefly this morning, the response time does seem to be very quick from an actual user point of view (browser seems to start downloading sooner than it used to do.) Google even provides a quote to help … Read More “Google Launches new Public DNS – Seems Fast!” »
I was just Googling trying to find out if anyone had wrote an application that wraps PuTTY enabling it to support stored sessions in its taskbar icon right click menu when I came across this extremely useful program instead: PuTTY Connection Manager. It’s a very simple application for Windows that sits over PuTTY but provides … Read More “For PuTTY Users – PuTTY Connection Manager” »
Today is officially the launch of Windows 7 to the general public, people are no doubt throwing their Windows 7 parties everywhere, it’s a day of rejoicing and celebrations, a day to remember those that came before it and hastily forget them again, etc. etc. The Japanese have decided the only way to celebrate the … Read More “Windows 7 is here, Japan becomes America” »
It occured to me when I posted about Peerblock that I neglected to post about a very useful site in regards to it’s use; that site is I-BlockList. It’s a really simple site with some of the most popular services IP ranges there so you can be sure you’re blocking (or allowing) specific things through. … Read More “Peerblock (or Peerguardian) – Block Lists” »
One of those little things that help make Windows 7 one of the most user oriented OS’s to come out of Redmond yet – the logon screen can be changed without any 3rd party software allowing more customisation straight out of the box. It’s small, but it’s nice to know Microsoft added it in. 1. … Read More “Windows 7 Allows Changing on Logon UI Background” »
