Create a new PayPal account or upgrade an existing account to receive payments from your website. PayPal facilitates the secure purchase of products and to receive the online payments from a website. A PayPal account is required to accept PayPal as a payment method on your behalf. How to create a new PayPal account and […]
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AWStats Enable DNS Lookup
A new install of the popular website statistics program AWStats was not showing the resolved IP addresses for the visitors to the website. Looking at the list of website visitors each entry was shown as an IP address. AWStats has a configuration file awstats.conf, located at the root of the AWStats installation directory. Looking down […]
FireFox Disable CTRL Q Close Browser
Ever hit <CTRL> + Q by mistake in Firefox? This closes the browser! <CTRL> + <TAB> navigates to the next open browser tab. But <CTRL> + Q shuts down FireFox. The Q and TAB keys are located next to each other on a keyboard, making it easy to hit the wrong key with potentially horrifying […]
Dell XPS Keys for RAID and BIOS
Key combinations to select BIOS and RAID configuration of a Dell XPS computer. I found that when booting the computer the following key combinations could be used to access the BIOS and RAID configuration screens. Screen Keys BIOS <f2> RAID management <CTRL> + I Boot device <f12> […]
What are Website Cookies?
Cookies allow the browser to be tracked, associating data with the user, for example an eCommerce shopping basket, or to produce a browser viewing profile. Website cookies are small pieces of information stored on a computer by websites. Browsers are said to be stateless. Any information required between one view of the website and the […]
Email Configuration Options
Email configuration options allow emails to be collated and forwarded to one or more email accounts. Login to your domain control panel to see what email options you have available. A number of email configuration options maybe available to a domain. These enable Email configuration options allow s email to be Configuring a domains email […]
Wi-Fi Opting Out of Location Service Database
Mozilla recently published an article detailing how to stop the saving of a Wi-Fi access point’s location and details in their location service database. The article included details about preventing a wireless access point from being indexed. The suggestion was that to request for a wireless access point not to be included in location mapping […]
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Registering a Domain with 123-reg
123-reg offers domain registration and other web services. On the 123-reg website click on Domain Names on the menu, to begin the process for registering a new domain. In the text box, Search for you domain name, enter your chosen domain name and click on the search. Search Results A list of the possible extensions, […]
Ownership of Your Internet Domain is Business Critical
Maintaining ownership of your domain is business critical. Losing access and ownership of your domain will affect your business. Consider the time and effort which has been spent on publicising your website domain name, creating its presence on the Internet. Loss of your domain will affect the associated emails, documentation: company flyers, leaflets, business cards. […]
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Google Choose an Account Page Missing Remove
Show the missing Remove link on the Google Choose an account page. If you are associated with a number of domains, or managing a single domain you’ll have a number of accounts to manage. The accounts page is to be found here: https://accounts.google.com https://accounts.google.com As can be seen in the image above below the list […]
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