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3 times as many Apple Apps Developed than Android

Even though Android is the most popular operating system for smartphones, it's still not as popular as Apple for new applications - and Android is get...

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iOS 5 apps can be submitted now ready for the 12th October release

Apple has already been approving iOS 5 apps, but is asking developers to submit apps that have been written specifically for iOS5 now prior to the 12t...

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HTC Android Major Security Vulnerability

It looks like some HTC devices have a "massive” security flaw, as documented in a report from security specialist site Android Po...

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Apps for designers & developers

There's a really useful collection of apps if you're a developer at Smashing magazine.  Network Utility is great for checking if your server's u...

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Low Cost Apps for your Business

Would you like an app for your business, but want to make sure you keep development costs under control? Solvd are now offering a very low cost app s...

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How to make an app

Read our article all about how to make an iPhone app in the latest edition of How It Works magazine - Issue 20 is on sale now!  In the article we...

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Adding Company Information to your Website

Displaying company information is only necessary on one page, such as about us or contact us.  We recommend the about us page.  The followin...

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Page Speed - What can be done to improve your site's speed?

Page Speed and Page Ranking With Google placing a more and more higher emphasis on page load speed in it's ranking algorithms, it's time to start thi...

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Is Google ranking your frequent searches higher because of your IP address?

It's common knowledge that Google knows what you're up to.  One of the things it knows about is what you've searched for - a history of ever...

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Football Club Website for a Premier League South African Football Club

Free State Stars General Manager Rantsi Mokoena has welcomed the launch of the new club website www.freestatestars.co.za as a much-needed breath of fr...

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Band Website with CMS

Eat The Rich wanted a grungey site with a CMS that allows them to put music samples, a gig guide, gallery, booking form as they do a lot of weddi...

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LSF Brickwork site goes live

Lee, the owner of a local bricklaying company, wanted a portfolio site that could demonstrate the versatility of the team and some of the range of pro...

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How to rid Google of the background image

How to remove the background image from google - a few options: Install Greasemonkey for FireFox (Chrome has it built in) and add the following scrip...

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Getting the DNN Telerik Editor working in UK English

It seems there is a problem with non en-US installation of the Telerik RadEditor on DNN. There is a problem that has been lodged but an off...

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You work.. for Google

You've probably already done a fair bit of work for Google.  If you've used reCaptcha (on sites like Twitter, Facebook and CheckMyRoute then you ...

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Windows 7 Image Resizer Powertoy

If you've just upgraded to Windows 7 and you're missing the Image Resizer Powertoy, we found a 32 or 64 bit version here: http://imageresizer.codeple...

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Hate being stuck in traffic? get alerts when there's a traffic jam on your route

Checkmyroute checks your regular journey for traffic problems.  All you have to do is tell checkmyroute where you're travelling from, where you'r...

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Photography e-commerce and CMS website goes live!

Flash, e-commerce and CMS website goes live! Flash and e-commerce website for a Hampshire/Wiltshire/Surrey based professional photographer. This...

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Exhibiting at Connecting for Business - Portsmouth

We are exhibiting today at the Connecting for Business event in Portsmouth. It is billed as an event to promote Networking for business, with a Keyno...

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Help when you need it!

It's totally secure and works really well.  The next time you need any form of IT support, whether it's with Microsoft Word, your email...

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Dress Designer site gone live

We've just completed the first release of our latest site, www.marshaswanzy.co.uk, which features a catalogue of Marsha's designs.  The next...

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Google DNS

Google has just announced it's public DNS service with some easy to remember IP addresses: 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4.  Google think by using ...

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Updated the site

New look for the Solvd website! We hope you like the colour scheme.
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What is an IPS TAG?

An IPS TAG (sometimes called an IPSTAG) is a unique identifier given to each Domain name company (Tag-Holder) with Nominet, the registry for all UK do...

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Google Caff Vs DeCaff comparison

The new Google Caffine engine may well spell changes for SEO and website design work as the new search algorithms take more note of social networking ...

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Testing new SEO friendly blog

Just testing out a new more SEO friendly blog that should push our website design and system development news out to twitter and facebook in a mo...

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Breeze Websites - What we've done so far

Breeze is a Content Management Web site tool we've developed to produce quality websites for people very quickly which can then be easily maintained b...

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Grants for CMS Website Design and Hosting

Grants for websites Depending on your location & circumstances you may be able to get a grant that could cover the cost of your Breeze CMS websit...

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BeInspired - Excellent Basingstoke and North Hampshire Event for business

BeInspired09 - Well done Business Link! I thoroughly enjoyed it and not just for the free gifts that were lavished out. This was excellent for local ...

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JavaScript precompression

Once you have a stable code base you could consider compressing JS files so that your new customers get your site downloaded even quicker. Our CMS&nbs...

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BeInspired 09 - Basingstoke mega business event

The local Business-Link have pulled out all the stops to get local business meeting and collaborating. Massive number should be turning up for the eve...

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Microsoft release webmaster and SEO guide for Bing!

The catchy title "Bing: New Features Relevant to Webmasters white paper" can be downloaded from the MS download center. I think people will ...

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Top 5 FireFox addins for web developers

We use FireFox everyday here at Solvd when doing our multi-browser testing of web based systems and super value Breeze CMS websites. Here is our Top 5...

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Vista SP2 Upgrade

Now that Vista SP2 is being pushed out via automatic updates I will share some lessons to avoid 0xc0190036  error: Don't let it install automati...

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40 years since man landed on the moon

A great day! Shame they erased the videos :(
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hot or not? – new iPhone 3GS = toasty

The reports remind me of my beloved (but hot-blooded) Dell XPS M1330 laptop which once got so hot that I had to leave opened and lying on its side in ...

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Dlink DNS 323

We found this great little device which now acts as a file server on one of our networks.  It’s not just a networked USB disk though. ...

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annoying hostfile quirk – 9 entries per line

So for example: hosts 1-9 will work and resolve correctly but host10 will be be ignored. It will then it will try and resolve by DNS and fail. My adv...

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free MS training for Hyper-V which includes modules on HA and failover clustering

Goto http://www.microsoft.com/learning/access and enter the promo code: 9350-Y2W6-3676
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ie 8.0 broken sites fixed via compatibility mode

Luckily the IE8.0 team has put in workaround to allow website developers time to fix their code or view historic sites. With IE8.0 now being rolled ou...

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convert VB to C#

When you get faced with some VB code and need to convert it quickly without having to put your VB head on try this converter from telerik (who make ex...

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skyfire browser for E71/S60 phones

Apparently it supports Flash and Windows Media videos, including Flash 10 and Silverlight 2.0 which is no mean feat and renders the whole page very fa...

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