Paul Maunders | Web log

I’ve seen a lot of different measures from today’s budget quoted in the media, so I thought I’d try to summarise some of the key points in one place for quick reference! Headline Figures By 2015/2016…. Spending cuts will have reached £99 billion per year. Taxes to rise by £29 billion per year. Total consolidation [...]

I like to use the keyboard wherever possible, but by default tabbing to certain fields in OSX is disabled. For example, if you try to access a password protected website in Safari, and it pops up with the name and password box, you can’t tab to the “Remember this password in my keychain field”. However, [...]

My iPad arrived on May 27th, a day before it’s official release and I’ve been using it pretty intensively since then. Here are some of my initial observations… The iPad works really well as a web browsing device, since the high res screen makes web pages look beautiful and the low power ARM based processor [...]

We use Google Apps Premier to host Fubra’s e-mails, and on the whole I love it – I get a massively reduced level of spam into my inbox, and searching out old mails is incredibly fast. However, it does lack some of the flexibility of our old internal postfix based system, and this became apparent [...]

Tonight it was announced that Facebook chat now supports XMPP (also known as Jabber). This means that it will work with a host of chat clients, including my personal favourite iChat. To get it working with iChat you simply follow these steps: Navigate to iChat > Preferences > Accounts Click the plus icon in the [...]

There will be an election in the UK within the next 6 months, so I thought I would take some time to compile a list of the major issues that will influence my vote. So here’s my wish list for our next government: All government spending and contracts should be published openly, and available for [...]

A new companies act was introduced in 2006, that has been gradually phased in over the last 3 years, becoming fully operational on the 1st October 2009. The full act of parliament is over 700 pages long (in PDF form), so I’ve decided to try to highlight some of the key points / changes in [...]

It may have been a long time coming, but I have to say the UK Government has now made pretty good progress when it comes to making their services available online – and we have taken advantage of this with our online accounting system, Clear Books. Clear Books integrates with a number of Government APIs, [...]

Here’s some instructions on how to get Askozia PBX running on a virtual machine with VirtualBox on OSX. 1)  If you haven’t already, download and install VirtualBox. 2) Download the Askozia disk image that you want to use. I’m using the latest Linux port release at the time of writing (r1161) 3) Uncompress the image, [...]

There have been a number of vulnerabilities discovered in WordPress since it started, including one earlier this month. They all have pretty much the same objective: to try to get access to your blog in order to post links to their own sites. In this post I am going to look at ways you can [...]