Windows Folder Coloured in Green – Encrypted Folders
I recently downloaded a WordPress theme I’d bought and unzipped/extracted in the usual manner on my Windows 7 machine only to notice that some of the folders were coloured green. I didn’t ...
Author Archives: Bob McKay
Queens Gambit Accepted Trap
As an appalling chess player and someone with very little spare time, I have only a handful of tricks up my chess playing sleeve and this is my favourite – it’s a simple trap played from t ...
Windows 8.1 Preview Expiry Problems
Be warned, this isn’t so much a tech article as a rant about the inadequacies of the Windows 8 update process and the the Windows 8 App store. A few days ago I turned on my laptop and was prompt ...
Treehouse Review (Learning/Training Platform)
I signed up to Treehouse around a year ago to try and expand on my skill set, formalize some of my self-taught skills and gain certifications. Now that I’ve been using it – and using it h ...
Cryptolocker ‘infects 250,000 PCs’
Ransomware is becoming more and more sophisticated. The problem is, unlike typical virus infections, once your machine is infected, its already too late to do anything about it as your data is inacce ...
Duplicate Headers Received in Chrome
I recent started receiving errors when downloading files stored in a database and sent to the browser on a Classic ASP page (although the problem may occur in other languages as it appears to be a Chr ...
The Lie of Five Star Ratings
A bit of a bug bear of mine if the five star rating system used by many websites such as Amazon for rating products. While I admit I use the rating all the time when deciding which products to purcha ...
DatePicker Object has no method datepicker on WordPress and Gravity Forms
I recently designed a website using WordPress and the Paradise Hotel theme but when it came to creating the reservations form, datepicker would not work with either Contact Form 7, we immediately trie ...
Simple Bloatware Removal Batch Script
In a newsletter from Spiceworks I recently spotted a fantastic script for removing common bloatware from PCs using nothing more than a batch script. The beauty of this script is how easy it is to cus ...
Enabling PHP Extensions (FileInfo, etc) on Plesk for Windows
I was recently working on a PHP project that was hosting on a Windows server within the Plesk environment. Despite the FileInfo PHP extension supposedly enabled by default from PHP version 5.3 onwards ...