This blog post tells you how to create multiple profiles in Thunderbird the email client. The ability to open different profiles in Mozilla Thunderbird serves many purposes. From desk sharing in the workplace to families…
I thought I would tell you all about my ‘current’ five favourite Microsoft Windows applications that I use most weeks. June 2020 update: I’ve updated this blog post over nine years after first publishing it.…
I’m using the fantastic xampp package on Windows 7 and one day the apache service stopped working. Turned out a microsoft windows process was now hogging the port 80. After investigation I believe it is…
This blog post is about how I solved the Windows Media Player ‘encountered a problem while playing the file’ error message. I saw this error message too many times trying to resolve an issue playing…
The unfortunate happens, your MySQL database tables are corrupted and you need to repair them. How do we know they are corrupt? Error messages typically, but good house keeping to check every so often anyway.…
Giveaway of the Day are giving away a free version of iCare Data Recovery for personal use. As GotD’s name suggests you need to download and importantly activate the software on the same day. There…
When did you last perform a backup and what did you backup? There is much to backup and so often we delay it, forget data and then one day….. Automation and variety are your adorable…
Yesterday afternoon a self hosted wordpress blog I maintain died. It just wouldn’t load and then the site would timeout. The database had decided to pack it’s bags and vanish, not even a dear john…