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matbic — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 23:38:38 +0000

This is ok

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Please help me – Dash for the International Dyslexia Association

matbic — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 22:14:18 +0000

Please help me support a very worthy cause, The International Dyslexia Association.

About 1 in 10 people are Dyslexic and there is a lot we need to do, around the world, to help them get the support they need.

I am going to take part in a DyslexiaDash and need motivation, please consider helping me by donating.

Filed under: Dyslexia

Some of my photographs

matbic — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 00:42:16 +0000

Click to view slideshow.
Filed under: Photography

Dyslexia Dash please give me the motivation to run!

matbic — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 15:57:04 +0000

I am going to run for the first time since school! I want to raise money for the International Dyslexia Association, they suport people with Dyslexia all over the world and are a very worthy cause.

All around the world there are children and adults going through hell at the moment. About 10 in a 100 children are Dyslexic. They have to face a life of frustration and failure, if they don’t get the correct help.

The International Dyslexia Association is trying to do something about this. With the right assessment and education these children/adults can have wonderfull lives and contribute enormously to their families and society.

I have made a video have a look …

Filed under: Dyslexia

British Dyslexia Association Mentoring Programme

matbic — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 15:42:48 +0000

I am taking part in a wonderful scheme.

An informal mentoring scheme, run in conjunction with the British Dyslexia association, Cass Business School, City University London, and Dyslexia Scotland, will link adults with dyslexia with successful dyslexic people who will share the benefit of their experience and knowledge. Find out more at the British Dyslexia Association web site.

Filed under: Dyslexia

Canon Pro9500 Mark II – How to disable Color Management on Mac OSX

matbic — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 23:51:44 +0000

On a Mac, to print with no colour management (which is especially useful when profiling the printer).

Chose “ColorSync” and then select the “GenericRGB” profile.

Also have a look at this if you use Snow Leopard and Photoshop CS4 it is vital if you want to print a profile target without any color management.

Posted in Mac, Photography

Great new broadband speedtest and ISP selector for the UK

matbic — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 12:18:03 +0000

This is great, it shows you what speed and which broadband provider ISP your neighbours have on a map.

Finally we might be able to start making some educated guesses as to exactly how fast our service will go when we pay for it!

Please have a go and make this a really great tool.

http://www.top10-broadband.co.uk/speedtest/

Posted in Web

PHP Command Line can use different php.ini

matbic — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 14:40:03 +0000

If you want to have different setup for php on the command line: add a file called php-cli.ini This will be used by php from the command line, if it is not present it will use php.ini.

Posted in Mac, Web Server

Snow Leopard and HP All-in-one print, scan, fax machines

matbic — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 13:24:09 +0000

This foxed me for a while, HP scan software is not uninstalled on update to Snow Leopard, it just stops working. Have a look at:

http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?lc=en&dlc=en&cc=us&docname=c01846935

Posted in Mac

Mac XAMPP php throwing mysql_connect() errors

matbic — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 16:59:12 +0000

If you are getting

mysql_connect() http://function.mysql-connect: 2002 No such file or directory (trying to connect via unix:///tmp/mysql.sock)"

Then you probably need to modify the “mysql.default_socket” value in your /etc/php.

With Mac XAMPP I set it to:

mysql.default_socket = /Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/var/mysql/mysql.sock

in /Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/etc/php.ini.

This might be a good time to check the correct php is going to run from the command line, by default it will run the Apple supplied php not the XAMPP one. So I put:

 /Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/bin

at the top of the /etc/paths file

Posted in Mac, Web Server