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Windows Live Messenger: Error 80048820
Windows OS

Windows Live Messenger: Error 80048820

This is an issue relating to the Time Server Synchronization error. Basically you start up windows live messenger and get the following error: /images/screenshots/windows_live_error_80048820.png Basically you need to check that the time on your windows clock is accurate or close to real Internet time:

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Project Plan for Freelance Website
Web-Development

Project Plan for Freelance Website

I could apply the PRINCE2 (Projects in a controlled environment) methodology to website projects but most people find this overwhelming. It's in business techno babble and I get asked what does this mean in stage 1? And this in stage 2? (There are over 100 stages)... Below is my template project initiation plan (projec...

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Creating a Top 10 chart with less code
Personal Home Page

Creating a Top 10 chart with less code

I've decided to put something in here as it took me an age to find out how I could do it. This is when using a MySQL query within a PHP script. The process is used often to do a statistics table or top ten chart of your data (eg. movies, music, etc). My aim is to do the following: retrieve data from a table, count the...

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Outputting PHP files into different file formats
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Outputting PHP files into different file formats

I'm beginning a list as I've just spent an age trying to get PHP output to create a text file. Then my client showed me how she then opens the text file in Excel, so I said we could get the script to do that instead.PHP to TXT header('Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8'); header('Content-Disposition: attachment; f...

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Anti-Spam override for all submitted data
Joomla

Anti-Spam override for all submitted data

Are you getting a lot of spam, or junk messages sent via your Joomla site? I know certain components of Joomla let you put banned words but I know of even more that don't. If you find all your forms need extra plugins and captchas (such as JezRecaptcha), then the website security isn't amazing. I used to have Captcha o...

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Windows 7:  System Clock is constantly going out of sync
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Windows 7: System Clock is constantly going out of sync

The Issue People have reported that although they have manually set the date/time on their computer, this gets changed by the windows time server (time.windows.com) when connected to the Internet and for some reason it doesn't display the right date/time. The Quick Fix First off, check there aren't any Update for Windo...

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Write a Calendar in Autohotkey
AutoHotkey

Write a Calendar in Autohotkey

In this case, I want to display the current month with today highlighted. As I was trying to get my head round writing this in a program using the qHTM.dll (to include HTML in an autohotkey GUI), the calendar will be in a HTML-autohotkey mixed code. Obviously just omit the HTML rubbish if you want to create a calendar...

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Add Image Mouseover effect in AutoHotkey GUI
AutoHotkey

Add Image Mouseover effect in AutoHotkey GUI

Couldn't find this anywhere on the net and kinda needed it so am making a note of how to do it here. The issue is that I wanted to make my autohotkey program change the image that the mouse hovers over (within it's own GUI). No third-party...

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Uninstalling AEC Central and installing Community Builder
Joomla

Uninstalling AEC Central and installing Community Builder

The reason I did this is because AEC is now a commercial package and it is somewhat limited in terms of good customer service. It only really manages the payment side and the complicated tasks of invoicing, but Community Builder provides more options for your website members. If Joomlapolis ever complete the CB Subscri...

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