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How to Use the Twitter API

Here is a PHP class to push Twitter updates from your own web app: (more)

How to Use the SMA Sunny Boy Inverter

SMA is a German company that makes some of the best solar pv inverters around. These are the bits of kit that are fed the DC electrical output from your solar panels and converts it to AC suitable for exporting to the national grid (through ... (more)

House and Home

Information and Advice on Housing and Living With the essentials costing more and more each year, it is no longer good enough just to buy fuel and home furnishings without any thought. Here is some information and advice we have collected ... (more)

Know How Much Electricity Your Appliances Use

The Kill-a-Watt is available from the REUK.co.uk shop, for £19.99 plus £1.95 UK mainland postage. You plug it into a mains socket, then plug an appliance into it, turn it on and it tells you the voltage, current and power consumption ... (more)

Free-to-use Strava Tools

Tools for the Strava Athlete (more)

Guide to Home Heating Oil

Guide to Home Heating Oil Oil is the primary source of warmth for a significant proportion of the US and UK. It tends to be restricted to rural areas where pipelined heating (ie, natural gas) is uneconomical. Despite tending to be more ... (more)

How to Clean Solar Panels

Solar absorption is a critical factor in getting your solar panels working efficiently and producing lots of useful electricity. The last thing they need is to be caked in dirt or dust, but how much cleaning do they really need? The YouGen ... (more)

How to Flatten a PHP POST Array

The situation is this: You have a PHP script that takes POST data, and you need to pass that data on to a remote server. How do you do it? Well, there are three options: Use $_SERVER['HTTP_RAW_POST_DATA'] but only if php.ini has that enabled ... (more)

Government will continue to use IE6

In response to a petition, submitted in June with over 6000 signatures and calling for an end to IE6 use within Government departments, the Government is happy to continue using IE6 because it thinks it is suitably patched: There is no evidence ... (more)

Sending Emails: How to Remove the X-Authentication Warning

Here is the header that appears in emails that your web server has sent through sendmail or postfix: X-Authentication-Warning: serverx.mysite.com: apache set sender to webmaster@yoursite.com using -f The reason is that you haven't told ... (more)

Used to Alt-Tabbing? Good luck!

If you regularly use Alt-Tab to switch between Windows, you're in for a shock with Vista. The display of windows is actually much improved - you can see a mini version of each window in real-time - but the relative positions of these windows ... (more)

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