Review of TP-LINK’s TL-WR1043ND Wireless Router, Power Packed and Feature Rich

After writ­ing a review on Newegg.com regard­ing this router, we fig­ured it was worth men­tion­ing in our blog. It’s rare that a prod­uct catches the eye of the Guru’s. But this router stands out from the pack. With a com­bi­na­tion of low price, unmatched fea­tures, and all around func­tion­al­ity, make TP-LINK’s TL-WR1043ND wire­less router a stand­out from the pack. [...]

PNRPsvc Failed To Start, HomeGroup and Peer Name Resolution service Problems

We recently con­fig­ured a cus­tom sys­tem for a client using Win­dows 7 Home Pre­mium. Every­thing was run­ning great until recently when our client said they were receiv­ing blue screen errors, and hav­ing net­work prob­lems. A quick review of the error logs showed that the prob­lems were all stem­ming from Peer Net­work­ing Ser­vice, PNRPsvc, and other depen­dent ser­vices and there [...]

Having Strange Errors Utilizing Gzip in WordPress 2.9 and 2.9.1?

For­tu­nately your not alone. A recent bug fix was just released which addresses an error which is received while updat­ing the Word­Press core, as well as Word­Press plu­g­ins. This error typ­i­cally effects http.php, located at wp-includes/http.php, and looks sim­i­lar to the code listed below.

We Hate Spam, So Here’s A Fresh List of Spam Bots For Your Blocking Pleasure...

We main­tain a vari­ety of web­sites, blogs, con­tent por­tals, mail servers, and other online resources. We’re forced to deal with a daily task of Spam removal and pre­ven­tion. Be it spam-bots, human spam­mers, com­ment spam­mers, and on and on. The major­ity of the time its no more than a nui­sance, and a sim­ple admin­is­tra­tive task. The num­ber one goal [...]

Disable Microsoft Software Wavetable Synthesizer, My Music’s Cutting Out...

Speaker-Properties-Sounds

We recently encoun­tered a sys­tem that had an inter­mit­tent sound prob­lem. After run­ning for a few days, any music played would fade and recover repeat­edly. After research­ing the prob­lem, we started with a typ­i­cal round of updates to the usual sus­pects. Those being sound card dri­vers, codec’s, any media player soft­ware being uti­lized for play­back. At first this [...]

Force Nextgen Gallery To Crop Thumbnails From The Top Of The Image... **Updated**

In our orig­i­nal post, we sim­ply deleted a line to change the start­ing posi­tion of NextGEN’s thumb­nail crop. With the most recent ver­sion of NextGEN Gallery,1.4.3 as of this post­ings date, this was gen­er­at­ing errors. So we dug around in the code a bit, and here’s our fix.

Utilizing GZip with WordPress, Finally a Fast Blog...

The first half of this arti­cle will be taken directly from our pre­vi­ous post, as the need for a sin­gle default php.ini is nec­es­sary to con­fig­ure gzip. If read­ing our Magento post is what brought you to the site, and you’ve already con­fig­ured your default php.ini, than skip to the .htac­cess por­tion of the post. Otherwise, [...]

The Correct Way To Set Up gzip with Magento

We wrote this arti­cle in response to post­ings offer­ing advice to users of Magento, an open source ecom­merce sys­tem. The advice is being given with good inten­tions, and the intent is only to assist their fel­low Magento users. But the advice being give may actu­ally have the poten­tial cause harm to the users site, or [...]

Protect Magento Pages

We recently built a site with a whole­sale area, uti­liz­ing the “Login Only Cat­a­log Exten­sion” and the “Cus­tomer Acti­va­tion Exten­sion”. While this did pro­tect our whole­sale inven­tory from pry­ing eyes, it still left a few pages vis­i­ble to the gen­eral pub­lic. For­tu­nately we found a fix that addressed this issue, and allowed us to secure the rest of the [...]

Magento Terms and Conditions Missing

This was an inter­est­ing issue we ran into recently while build­ing an E-commerce site for one of our clients. Typ­i­cally “Terms and Con­di­tions” is eas­ily enable in the admin­is­tra­tive sec­tion by first going to Con­fig­u­ra­tion -> Sys­tem -> Check­out ->Check­out Options and choos­ing yes to enable “Terms and Con­di­tions”. Then going to Sales -> Terms [...]