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Microsoft’s Sneaky Forced-Upsell to 365 Users; If You Don’t Need/Want Copilot, Don’t Pay for It

On Friday, a judge ruled that a piece of art created by AI is not open for copyright protection.

Since March 2022, small businesses and individuals have been offered a new Australian domain name ending with just a short “.AU” This new domain type will be available to the general public after Sept 21 with No ABN or close contact needed – meaning a domain “free for all”  any member of the public will […]

The latest data on how quickly passwords can be hacked..

Check here to see if your details have been exposed..

Fast, reliable, not rental and ‘very close to photoshop’ image tool ? Affinity photo !

Being that Getty just bought Unsplash, we thought this would be useful ! https://allthefreestock.com/

Its not just EXIF that holds metadata…

The grid is one of the core assets of Bootstrap 4

Search 25 million publicly available datasets via Googles datasetsearch.

Here’ a short list of Joomla 4 key features and benefits they intend to implement:

Today is being called “Black Monday” in many information security circles.

A quick guide to setting up your email client when using our website hosting.

https://www.joomla.org/announcements/release-news/5654-joomla-3-5-is-here.html   Download system & environment information: gives users the option to download system/environment information for support purposes. Ability to add a user CSS file to Protostar: currently it is impossible to use a custom.css file when using the Protostar template. This update adds a check to see if the file user.css exists and loads […]

I use Mozilla Firefox at work and home. But it stopped loading websites at 1.10pm  Wed 28th Jan 2016, after an auto update to v44.0. Here is how I fixed it.. Interestingly a tell tale sign was that I could still load intranet and local websites – but nothing beyond the local network. nada – […]

Transform any HDMI monitor or TV into a computer with the Intel® Compute Stick complete with a quad-core Intel® Atom™ processor, Intel® HD Graphics, integrated WiFi and Bluetooth® technologies, 32 GB storage, 2 GB memory, a USB 2.0 port, and a Micro SD card reader. Intel Inside®―endless possibilities outside.

Facebook’s photo-sharing app Moments will not be made available in Europe due to concerns about its use of facial recognition, it has been revealed.

A camera powered by the light it uses to take pictures has been invented by American scientists. Theoretically the self-powered device could take a picture every second, forever. “We are in the middle of a digital imaging revolution,” said Prof Shree Nayar, director of the computer vision laboratory at Columbia University in New York who […]

Google is going to factor in Mobile Responsive site templates in its search results from next week. Its probably a good time to check whether your website is mobile responsive, and it not?  -give us a call or drop us an email. We can help you with that.

Joomla 3.4 introduces new features – improved front end module editing, composer integration, Google new reCaptcha, Upload Security (UploadShield code which can detect most malicious uploads by examining their filenames and file contents). For more information visit: https://www.joomla.org/announcements/release-news/5586-joomla-3-4-is-here.html

“Two days after reports of yet another zero day vulnerability surfacing in Adobe’s Flash Player software, the company has issued a patch set to address several flaws. The latest patch collection addresses CVEs 2015-0313 to 0330, plugging a total of 18 vulnerabilities. Of these, 15 vulnerabilities could be used by attackers to execute arbitrary code on […]

I discovered this website today via a music artist who I think is an excellent young composer and performer… Patreon allows fans to fund content produced, i.e. pledge $2 to the artist per video produced..   I think its a great concept and one I think will have a great positive impact on young creativity ongoing.  […]

We converted our iPhone app to the Google Play Store format, for android users, and it has just been accepted for distribution. Congrats to Tim D who made the tech happen.. Open West End Mazda Google App

The latest version of Opencart has been released and is looking Good – fully Responsive default template, and easier to use admin, faster and with extra customisation possibilities.. Fully responsive design OCmod – virtual file modification Redesigned admin area and front end More payment gateways included in the standard download Event notification system Custom form […]

Shell Shock: Bash bug is  labelled the largest ever to hit the internet. However, our Helpwise web servers are patched and secure from this bug. It does however affect a large number of household items and embedded software, and also Apple computers running OSX ! View Full Story here

Thanks to the hard work of our volunteer contributors, 9 bugs have been resolved with the 3.3.6 release. See the Joomla! 3.3.5 Milestone on GitHub for details of the items fixed. Additionally, the following items were addressed based on user reports after yesterday’s release: [#4403] – Password reset don’t work in Joomla 3.3.5 [#4394] – […]

Not a huge release, but fixes some issues that came with .2 and .3 releases. 1.5.6.3 added  measures to detect viruses in uploaded images, but the code was stopping many legitimate images being uploaded too – fixed!

The Joomla! Project and the Production Leadership Team are proud to announce the release of Joomla! 3.2.4 and 3.3, the latest releases of the 3.x release series.

Technically, Heartbleed is a security bug in the open-source OpenSSL cryptography library, which is widely used to implement the Internet’s Transport Layer Security (TLS) protocol. This vulnerability, classified as a buffer over-read, results from a missing bounds check in the handling of the Transport Layer Security (TLS) heartbeat extension,[3] the heartbeat being behind the bug’s […]