My Favourite Technology0

August 18th, 2010 by Jon Newman posted in Personal, Technology

Well the top of the list would be: 42″ LCD HD TV, BluRay player, surround sound, Quad-Core PC, iPhone 4.
My favourite of these would be my iPhone 4.  It is an amazing phone and makes so many things possible while on “the go”.  However my favourite piece of technology which I use isn’t hardware, it’s [...]

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Choosing the right Broadband0

July 12th, 2010 by Jon Newman posted in Personal, Technology

With the majority of the UK web-surfing population now using broadband to surf the internet, more and more non-techy people are signing up to broadband.  The easiest option is to go for a company you are familiar with (E.g. BT) or a company you already have an existing service with (E.g. Virgin TV) or even [...]

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Google Docs0

April 13th, 2010 by Jon Newman posted in Technology

Let me first start by saying that Google Apps is amazing, the Email and Calendar applications are brilliant which offer huge advantages. But there is one area of Google Docs that is slowly becoming fantastic – Google Docs.
In summary Google Docs gives you the ability to create and edit Documents, Spreadsheets, Presentations, Forms and Drawings [...]

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ASP Round Function Error1

March 24th, 2010 by Jon Newman posted in Development

I have been programming in classic ASP for over 6 years now.  When building checkout facilities it is necessary to round prices to 2 decimal places (for instance when adding VAT to a basket total). Sadly during testing of the inbuilt ASP function “Round” I have noticed that in certain circumstances it returns an incorrect [...]

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Actinic vs. Magento4

March 11th, 2010 by Jon Newman posted in Development, E-commerce, Technology

As a quick overview, Actinic and Magento are both e-commerce website engines.  With either of them you can have a fully-functioning e-commerce website in no time at all.  They both come with an inbuilt template (Magento has 1, Actinic has loads but none of them are very good as they [...]

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