Category: General IT

Adjusting Google Chromes default search to English

Go to google.com, click on “Google in English”. Only after doing this will your cookie be saved. Google Chrome will respect the homepage setting, and should use whatever base URL for Google you get when you visit google.com. After doing the above change, restart the browser and wait ten seconds. [...]

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Checking Java version and installing via batch file/command line

Unusual situation the other day. I got asked to add an Intranet page with a guide to explain how end users can check the version (or versions) of Java they have installed. I thought to myself there has to be a better and more efficient way of doing this, and [...]

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The Facebook Problem

Facebook is a really useful service which I use a lot to keep up with friends that have moved away, I even have my dad added on it. There is a huge privacy conundrum in its current state due to the way applications are given free reign with data.
If [...]

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How to waste time and money, when trying to save both

I’m a Web Developer, if you didn’t know (what? You knew that already? Ahh, that’ll be because it’s written on most pages…) and as part of that lucky role I have to make square pegs fit round holes. Most of that task is focused on making sure that new web [...]

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