Joomla blank screen – how to show errors

by | Nov 2, 2011 | Technical

If you ever have a blank screen in Joomla, it is quite likely due to some errors, perhaps PHP errors. Errors are turned off by default so in order to display your errors, add the following to your configuration.php file at the bottom, before the closing PHP tag, and...

Mac Documents Folder Clutter Fix

by | Nov 2, 2011 | Technical

For some reason Apple and App developers, one or the other or both, decided to dump a tonne of software data files and folders into what should be your nicely organised, personal documents folder. If you like to be organised like me this probably annoys you some. I...

Using ffmpeg on a Mac the easy way!

by | Sep 8, 2011 | Technical

There are various complicated posts online about installing ffmpeg on a mac so you can use it from the command line. I never quite have the patience for command line installations and often things did not work. But then I stumbled upon a much easier way… First install...

Allowing IE8 to render websites like IE7

by | Sep 7, 2011 | Technical

It is well known all Internet Explorer browsers render content differently, and we used to have different stylesheets for different versions. With IE8 you can add in a META tag to tell IE8 to render websites like IE7. So this means no need to have yet another...

Extract Files from an iPhone Backup

by | Sep 6, 2011 | Technical

Due to downgrading an iPhone 3G from iOS 4 to iOS3, I needed to then extract all the media/images files from the iOS 4 backup so I can put back onto the iOS 3. The iPhone/iPod Touch Backup Extractor program works like a charm:...