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Testing your SPAM filters

I’ve just upgraded the BetterWebSpace SPAM scanners – if you want to test your spam filters are working, put the string below into an email and it should trigger most SPAM filters!...

Yahoo Messenger Competition

I would have thought Yahoo Messenger had given up by now based on the popularity of MSN (and AIM’s popularity in the US), but it would appear not! They’ve launched a competition with a top prize of a new years eve party in a castle with your mates, a meal,...

Telnet into a POP3 Box

POP stands for Post Office Protocol. It is one of the protocols used to check non-web-based Email accounts (the other being IMAP). You may want to access your POP3 mailbox via telnet at times… So here is a quick and dirty guide to doing so.. Telnet into your...

New Scanner – And it works on it’s side!!!

I recently bought the Canon LIDE 20… Actually to tell the truth I got back off holiday and wanted to send the photos to family and my old scanner is over 7 years old – so I decided the business could afford to buy a new one! Both Dabs and Amazon are both...

Wi-Fi Hotspots

You’d be surprised how many hotspots there are in pubs, bars and restaurants! Check out TotalHotSpots to find a map of all your nearest ones…. If you are out and about you can send the word hotspot to 84140 from your mobile. For £1 you’ll receive the...

Using 127.0.0.1 in your resolv.conf?

If you have recently upgraded cPanel you may be seeing this: Security Warning, your resolver configuration contains 127.0.0.1 (localhost). For security reasons, we recommend that you use a non-local dns resolver. Click here to change your configuration. So...