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CS-Cart, A Very Excellent E-Commerce Engine

I’ve been in the Web Development Business now for more years than I care to remember. In that time I’ve worked with plenty of E-Commerce engines, some of which were entirely bespoke before ‘off the shelf’ solutions such as osCommerce or Magento existed.
In more recent years I’ve been using osCommerce. I took a look at [...]

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MacBook Pro Performance running Parallels

Or VirtualBox, and probably VMWare too.
Its been some months now since I made the switch from PC to Mac, using OSX Snow Leopard. Initially I was really pleased with the performance of the MBP, it was considerably quicker on lesser hardware than Vista had ever been. But there was a niggling slowdown on occasions.
It’s fair [...]

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Telstra iPhone Tethering ‘Call Telstra on 125 111 to enable tethering’

If you’re an iPhone user on Telstra’s NextG network you may have been disappointed when iPhone tethering suddenly stopped working back in July or sometime there about, when a new set of ‘Carrier Settings’ were downloaded from iTunes onto your iPhone. The good news is that this weekend just gone, Telstra issued a new set [...]

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Eclipse hangs on SVN commit

If you have a big project you try to check in to a subversion repository, eclipse can get part of the way through and then just hang. The only solution is to end task (or force quit on OSX).
But there is a solution!
This one eluded me (and google) for some time, but I am pleased [...]

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Regular OSX SBBOD (Spinning Beachball of Death) :: FIXED

Over the past few days I had begun to think that my MacBook Pro was developing a problem. Every so often – and I can’t put my finger on how long, but possibly every 10 minutes or so – no matter what application I was using I would get a Spinning Beachball of Death, [...]