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Creating your own desktop power supply using a standard PC ATX PSU

In this post, I will show you how to convert a computer power supply into a regular DC power supply with 12, 5 and 3.3 volt outputs. Why use a computer (ATX) power supply? Well, they’re available everywhere, and they can output tremendous amounts of power in a small form factor. They have overload protection […]

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Coding Technology

How to re-enable JSP support in Dreamweaver and add the latest MySQL Connector/J.

Although I don’t really use Adobe Dreamweaver for web development (although if i’m doing interface design where I need a quick way to alter and view CSS changes fast I do) a friend of mine the other day (who uses Dreamweaver heavily) wanted to know how to re-enable the old JSP (Java Server Page) support […]

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OK so thats ZPanelX Beta7 released!

So after two weeks of bug fixing by myself and Rustus and the guys from the ‘Support Team’, this evening I’ve released Beta7, this includes the very last major changes for ZPX (the bandwidth calculation, disk usage stats etc.) and also fixes an issue with the webmail client (Roundcube) So I’m pleased to say that […]

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Apps & OS's Coding Technology

ZPanelX ‘internal’ beta going well so far!

Well we released ZPanelX internal beta to the rest of the team for a two week ‘testathon’ prior to opening it up to the community members who donated to our vBulletin drive 🙂 Although so far we’ve seen 15 bugs logged, pretty much all of which I’ve already squashed, I’ll be looking at releasing a […]

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Got myself an iPhone 4S – The MacBook Pro is next!

Just a ramble really… I’ve not posted much recently so…. This weekend I took out my first ever mobile phone contract, fancy mobile phones don’t really interest me all that much and up until now I’ve not cared for a ‘contract’ phone. – I’ve been happy with my hand-me-down phones that I’ve been given by […]

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How to install Gnome classic in Ubuntu 11.10

You may want to install and use Classic Gnome on your Ubuntu PC, unlike Ubuntu 11.04 the classic gnome desktop is no longer installed as an alternative to the new Unity desktop. I thought I’d quickly share how installed it on my Ubuntu 11.10 development machine, which now enables me to use either Unity or […]

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I’ve been a busy bee, ZPanelX development update!

Ok well I’ve not posted on here for a while, mainly due to the fact that life has been so hecktic and I’ve been getting myself far too involved in too many different things.. So thought I’d better update you all with some info etc. Well the last week I’ve managed to do a whole […]

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Google updates it’s web-mail (Gmail) GUI

It looks very nice too! Recently we have all seen Google change its web user interface from the old very basic buttons  and text  (which it carried for years) to a more fluid design which I think is great (although I will miss the simple controls that Google used to use :)) So for historical purposes […]

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Technology

Steve Jobs… A technology guru!

Today is a sad day for many people, it is today that the world lost a true technology guru and an icon. I have spent a short amount of time reading many of the nice words that many other big technology people have said about him over at wired.com. Up until about 4 months ago […]

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Installing a Git server on Ubuntu Server 11.04

Well I know there are a lot of tutorials on the internet regarding the installation of Git server on Ubuntu but I thought I’d try to ‘KISS’ (Keep it simple stupid!), most of the tutorials are full of non-nessacery information and quite often don’t go into detail (or at least explain in an easy to […]