Use .htaccess to Stop Semalt

If Semalt is hammering your WORDPRESS site with unwanted rubbish traffic and distorting your stats, here is what I did to stop it. !important CAVEAT- do this at your own risk. Don’t do this if you are unsure about .htaccess coding. Make a backup of your existing...

How to Fix an iPad with a Frozen Safari App

Just found this out the hard way – Safari froze on my iPad2 and I was stumped for a while, but it’s all sorted now. Open the Safari frozen page. Hold the On/Off button till the Power Off Slide bar shows up. Note: Do not power off though. Press and hold the...

iPad2 – using magic markers to fix a few things

When I first got my iPad2 (it’s now 4 days old), the excitement wore off quite quickly. Is it really only a big iPhone? I have now commenced an endeavour to make this baby useful!  It must pay it’s way! As the only alderman (councillor) on Alice Springs...

Apple iPad2 Customer Review

I have had my Apple iPad2 3G for 3 days now.  If you want to skim this, please read the last paragraph first – it’s very important. On day 1 I was impressed that it arrived on exactly the day Apple said it would – good service. Apple certainly gets...

iPad2 and Fanny Wang Cans -Reviewed

Reviewing the technology I use for work as a web developer. I’m currently awaiting the arrival of two items iPad 2 – It will be put through it’s paces and given hell in central australia.  Does that iPad know what it’s in for?  Firstly I have...