Archive for the ‘Technology’ Category

EFTPOS Fee Change Thoughts

October 2, 2011Matt No Comments »

According to news articles I’ve seen cropping up this week, it looks like EFTPOS has implemented a new fee schedule. According to their press releases, these were actually first mentioned back in March and clarified in early September, so I’m not sure why there wasn’t more mention of it back then. Maybe I just didn’t [...]

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Helpful Magento Theming Links

July 24, 2011Matt 1 Comment »

I’ve been teaching myself Magento themes as I’m planning on setting up my new websites, MJB PhotoArt and U-Scrap using Magento as the e-commerce CMS. So far, I’ve got the following handy links in no particular order. These are pretty much all that I’ve read so far and have helped me get my head around [...]

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Telstra Pre-Paid Wi-Fi Next G Modem

July 12, 2011Matt No Comments »

I picked up a new Telstra Pre-Paid Wi-Fi Next G Modem last week as unfortunately, even though Vodafone has full 3G reception in Kempsey, data services are practically non-existent, so I couldn’t use the internet with my laptop tethered to my Blackberry as I normally would (I might get data services on for long enough [...]

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Adding a Drupal Cron Job with cPanel

June 27, 2011Matt No Comments »

This is as much for my reference for each time I setup a Drupal site as it is for anyone wondering how to setup a cron job to automatically run cron on a Drupal site through cPanel. Log into cPanel Click “Cron Jobs” In the “Add new cron job” section, select “Once an hour” from [...]

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Adding Facebook Like and Open Graph to Drupal Quickly

June 24, 2011Matt 2 Comments »

If you want to quickly and easily add a Facebook Like button and Open Graph meta tags to a Drupal website as I recently setup to trial, there are two modules that allow you to do this, OpenGraph_Meta and Facebook Like Button. These two modules certainly don’t offer the advanced functionality of the heavyweight Drupal [...]

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A-HSV: Australian High Speed Vehicle

June 16, 2011Matt No Comments »

I saw this video the other day in a news.com.au article, it’s great to see someone besides the Citizen’s Electoral Council pushing for high speed rail in Australia. With such long distances to cross and existing air and rail travel as expensive as it is, it only makes sense for us to have something like [...]

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WordPress.com – Web 2.0 Case Study – INB347 Assessment 3

June 15, 2011Matt No Comments »

Note: This case study was completed for assessment item 3, INB347 Semester 1, 2011. WordPress.com is a hosted blogging platform based on the open source WordPress system. It is designed to allow users to sign up and create their own blog. Users can choose from a completely free version, or pay for upgrades to add [...]

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Lightweight Models & Cost-Effective Scalability – WordPress.com

May 20, 2011Matt 3 Comments »

Overview WordPress.com is a hosted blogging platform based on the open source WordPress platform. It is designed to allow users to sign up and create their own blog. Users can choose from free or paid versions, with added functionality available on the paid platform, including the ability to use custom designs and to register and [...]

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Leveraging the Long Tail – Shoeboxed

May 20, 2011Matt No Comments »

Overview Shoeboxed is a service and application that leverages the long tail to target a niche section of a broad market. Shoeboxed targets personal and business customers that are looking for a tool to simplify their expense data entry without the need for a dedicated data entry person and at a cheaper cost than paying [...]

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The Perpetual Beta – SourceForge

May 11, 2011Matt 1 Comment »

Overview Founded in 1999 (n.d.) SourceForge was one of the first hosted solutions providing a collaborative software development management system that incorporates version control through a web based interface. It is a fantastic example of a web application that makes use of the perpetual beta concept because of the irony behind it. SourceForge is a [...]

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