Computer Corner

Real-world Computer and Internet Access issues are addressed here.

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Options for escaping Google Workspace

28 Jan 2022

Google initially offered free accounts with custom domains many, many years ago, and kept these "legacy" accounts free when they started charging ...

Live Script Run Times for Swinny.net

Web Hosting 04 Nov 2021

Here is a summary of the time it takes the Swinny.net server to run a PHP script to deliver a web page, over the last few weeks. The site was ...

Using the Mac Migration Assistant

Web Programming 08 Aug 2019

Upon ordering a new Macbook, I decided that the simplest option for migrating my apps and data would be a Time Machine backup (using a USB ...

Screenshot browser element in Javascript

Web Programming 19 Dec 2018

This is an example of how to take a client-side screenshot of a portion of a web page. It's trivial to display this screenshot on-screen, ...

Developer notes for MacOS Mojave

31 Oct 2018

Apple's new, freely-downloadable OS for the Mac is v10.14 and is called Mojave. As with every major release from the company, custom applications ...

Fixing the charger connector on an HP Elitebook

HP Elitebook 26 Aug 2018

After weeks of erratic charging on my HP Elitebook 8440p, I decided to open up the plug that goes into the laptop. In doing so all of the ...

CSS method for adding "new window" icon to external links

Web Programming 06 Dec 2017

Use this CSS to add the "opens in a new window" icon to all external links: a[href^="http://"]:after, a[href^="https://"]:after, a[href ...

NorDevCon 2016

Web Hosting 28 Feb 2016

Lots of interesting topics covered at this year's main tech conference for Norfolk. More topics could be covered as it was spread over two ...

Running Windows 10 on an HP Elitebook

HP Elitebook 16 Dec 2015

This post is basically a confirmation that Windows 10 installs and runs on the HP Elitebook 8440p. Having said that, on the base configuration ...

Inspiring talks on "Digital Creativity"

Web Hosting 10 Dec 2015

Hot Source Norwich provided a wide diversity of speakers at the NUA (Norwich University of the Arts), on the topic of "Transforming our worlds ...

Sending email in a secure, IPv6 world

Web Hosting 23 Oct 2015

This is a guide to updating your Linux server for SSL-enabled, IPv6-happy email transmission using sendmail! Here are the things you need ...

PHP-MySQL webserver, post El Capitan

Web Hosting 23 Oct 2015

Apple is very supportive with the buying public by releasing free upgrades for its operating systems. These upgrades usually go through without ...

Setting up email sending/receiving on Mac OS X

20 Oct 2015

postfix is the MTA (mail transfer agent) that takes email requests and forwards them on, eg to local mailbox or external MTA. dovecot is a ...

Windows 10 wants to upload all your data

31 Jul 2015

During the installation of Windows 10, I was presented with the "Customise settings" screen that explains what sort of data it wants to upload ...

Windows 10 Preview

25 Apr 2015

The Windows 10 preview edition has been out for a while now, and its performance is important because Windows 10 will rapidly become the dominant ...