Monthly Archive: January 2012

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MTN Insurance – get your iPhone fixed

I have never been a true fan of MTN (Most Terrible Network) and over the years experienced many unpleasant customer service issues. It came with great frustration that my 15 month old iPhone 4 started having issues with the power...

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Standard Bank Private Banking bliss

While First National Bank might be really innovative when it comes to banking, I honestly get annoyed with the frequent radio ads making FNB sound like a magical experience. Having consulted for both FNB and SBSA I can honestly say,...

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Synology DSM 4.0 beta is here – breaks IPKG

Synology has really outdone themselves with DSM 4.0: Although this is the first beta, it introduces a number of improvements with the most noticeable a completely revamped user interface which includes widgets and vast UI improvements over the desktop-style dashboard...

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Cloudflare in review

Cloudflare has been running on my blog now for a couple of days, and analytics have started to show on my (free) Cloudflare account. It’s quite interesting to see that over 50% of my traffic and hits have been cached through...

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WordPress and CloudFlare

If you have decided to use W3 Total Cache as your caching mechanism, the next logical step is to use CloudFlare as an accelerator. Think of CloudFlare as your website accelerator (in simple terms it’s a distributed hosted nginx server). Enabling...

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WordPress plugin – W3 Total Cache

Once your WordPress installation is up and running and you are satisfied with the plugins and themes you have installed, it’s time to optimize your installation for performance. I would leave this task as the last step in any blog-installation,...

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Fixing Skyrim issues with the Seagate Hybrid SSD

My previous Skyrim crashes and lag-problems seem to have “temporarily” disappeared. Considering that many other Playstation users experience the same lag- and crash issues, one can assume that aside from the blatant bugs in Skyrim, the bugs themselves are related to...

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WordPress plugin – Shareaholic

Social engagement is a crucial and vital aspect for any website and should be considered by every webmaster. Among my favorite WordPress plugins is Shareaholic which makes the integration of social sharing into a WordPress blog easy. Once the plugin...

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WordPress plugin – Google Analytics

The Google Analytics for WordPress plugin, is one of my must-have-plugins in my collection of plugins and is an essential tool for every serious blogger and webmaster. The configuration itself is quite comprehensive and includes basic as well as advanced options: