Farewell freelancing

Farewell freelancing

Jul 27

My circumstances have changed somewhat in the past month.
My son is growing up quickly and getting a temper like daddies, I have recently been employed by a local webdesign agency called ElevateLocal, and I have scaled down my hosting business to a bare minimum as a result.

As my free time is very limited at the...

Domain Deals

Domain Deals

Jan 27

If you want a website you need a domain name… Unless you want people to enter something like 255.255.255.255 to visit your site.

I’ll keep this short and sweet.
Get free Positive SSL and free Whois Guard with every domain name you register!
With the added bonus of the cheapest rates about, you can’t complain!

I have used many different...

Inspiron 1545 Flash Crash Bug

Inspiron 1545 Flash Crash Bug

Aug 22

I recently bought a Dell Inspiron 1545 which came with a 64bit edition of Windows 7 and a bunch of default software installed.
After playing around and getting use to the new laptop, I started to notice that nearly every flash file viewed in any browser caused serious lag and usually a total browser crash!

It took me a while to figure out what caused the problem, so I thought...

Website Updated

Website Updated

Aug 01

The Abeon Tech blog has been updated, cleaned up, optimized and re-styled!

The old template was starting to look a little out of date so I decided to make some changes. Most of the changes were cosmetic but all the changes are listed below…

  • Complete style overhaul
  • Forum removed for security reasons
  • Articles reviewed and several updated
  • Easy...

Install Windows 7 from USB device

Install Windows 7 from USB device

Jun 23

The Windows 7 downloaded image that many online software retailers supply is simple too large to install from a single CD, being about 2.2Gb
This short guide has step-by-step instructions on how to install Windows 7 from any USB device with more than 2.3Gb free space.

You will obviously need an original Windows 7 DVD or image file.
If using an image file it will need to be...

slash me – a social media revolution

slash me – a social media revolution

Jun 27

With the explosion of online media and social network sites a need has come to keep a list of contact points, sometimes under many different aliases.

The average person now has several points of online contact ranging from Email addresses, Facebook, Twitter, personal website or blog and usually a few others.

I believe a service for consolidating these contact points is just a...

Google. A Power Users Guide

Google. A Power Users Guide

Nov 04

Google’s search engine is used everyday by many people. But a high percentage of those people use it ineffectively!

The geeks at Google have included some great search operators to make the immense task of searching every site in their cache a little easier.

In this tutorial I hope to teach some quick techniques to make...

PHP Easter Egg

PHP Easter Egg

Oct 23

It’s nice to see the developers of PHP had some fun while they worked.
If you add the code…

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