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You’ve bought your secure certificate and successfully installed on Tomcat with the keytool but how do your force the entire site to go HTTPS and redirect any HTTP connection straight over to HTTPS. You need to edit the 2 Tomcat configuration files; server.xml and web.xml and then restart the tomcat service. Open server.xml typically found [...]

Importance of getting higher PageRank in Google All of a sudden my site jumped from a Google PageRank of  0 to 3 which I think is a fantastic thing especially for Google rankings. The site has broken the Top 10 in Bing and Yahoo for quite a while but it’s a tougher job to crack [...]

The first Adobe Indesign Document to print seems to take forever for the print dialog box to appear. Do you fire up your Mac, launch Indesign and go to print your first document, and just watch the spinning beach ball for over a minute? Then each subsequent print is just normal – bizarre. Quit Indesign [...]

Error 51: Unable to communicate with the VPN subsystem This is a nice little frustrating error message that displays on launch of the Cisco VPN client application for OS X in either 10.5 or 10.6. There is a couple of solutions to be found online, the first one is restart the VPN service via the [...]

A while ago I posted about the top 10 websites ranking for the keywords that average across the big three, the only tool I found to do it “for free” was the tool from Bruce Clays website. Now having got into the top 10 in both Yahoo and Bing and just sitting outside of Google, [...]

So is it now the artic guy on the planet competition, in a blast from nowhere a 5 year old web article made it into the top 10 for the keywords, “coolest guy on the planet” on Google – that guy is Alex Turner and is the lead singer of the Artic Monkeys (who incidentally [...]

Got listed in Bing yesterday, coming in at No.8 – which is very cool, I ended up posting a thread on their webmaster community forum, asking why the no listing when the other 2 are ranking for my keywords, their Program Manager Brett Yount said he could possibly get my site ranked for the keywords. [...]

Taking a break at the moment in Truckee, Lake Tahoe CA, went snowboarding at Soda Springs resort for the first time the other day. That’s what I call hard work, as a learner, strapping on a big board and walking that thing through the snow can be very physically demanding especially on your legs. I [...]

Ok so the site has been live for 2 months now and I’m wondering why is Bing taking so long to show results for my keywords. I have set up the site on the webmaster tools that Bing provides, it took a while but the first page that was indexed was the actual sitemap and [...]

My Netgear Router, DG834Gv4 failed after a recent upgrade to updated firmware V5.01.14. What a royal pain, I upgraded to the latest firmware for DG834Gv4, I did it while wirelessly connected to the network, downloaded the latest and greatest firmware and uploaded the patch via the Netgear admin web page via Firefox – it went [...]