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STG – often imitated, never equalled.
The following sites are unofficial imitations are are not connected with simonthegeek in any way:
http://simon-the-geek.blogspot.com/
http://twitter.com/simonthegeek
Please remember that the official STG info can ONLY be found here:
http://twitter.com/simonthegeekuk (I don’t know how he managed to get his Twitter address ahead of me!!)
Thank you xx
Some sites or apps (mainly badly written ones) really only like to open properly in Internet Explorer. However, anyone with half a brain would have ditched IE and set a better browser like FireFox, or my personal favourite, Chrome, as the default – which is great but can cause problems with your desktop shortcuts to web pages.
If you need to create a desktop shortcut to a web page that only works properly in Internet Explorer, More »
Don’t you just hate it when you see your photos or hand crafted graphics popping up on other people’s sites?
Well you can’t do much about people copying those kind of files and hosting them on their own site, but we certainly can stop them just lifting everything and using things that are hosted on your server – or ‘hotlinking’ as it’s called. More »
I like AVG, it’s free, quiet, small and keeps me safe. But sometimes it can be frustrating to install. If you ever had any problems upgrading from version 8 or 8.5 to the latest release (V9), then check this out: More »
At last! A fix for any or all of the following messages:
- Cannot delete folder: It is being used by another person or program.
- Cannot delete file: Access is denied.
- There has been a sharing violation.
- The source or destination file may be in use.
- The file is in use by another program or user.
- Make sure the disk is not full or write-protected and that the file is not currently in use. More »
Had a bit of an issue today with our old friend history.back(). This works fine in IE + FF:
<a href=”#” onclick=”history.back();”>Back</a>
But doesn’t seem to want to play in Chrome or Safari. So I tried to tidy up the code and be a little more strict:
<a href=”#” onclick=”window.history.back(-1);”>Back</a>
But still noy joy. In the end I went for this: More »
After upgrading from AVG free to AVG SBS Edition, I was having a little recurring problem with Vista’s security center telling me that AVG was turned off. On closer inspection (and rather worryingly) it was correct – the resident shield was not operational. A dig into the forums found this: More »
