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Updating your Firefox Plugins

May 19, 2015

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To keep your browser running smoothly, you should always run the most up-to-date versions of your browser and plugins (plus patches to your operating system, but that’s a different post entirely)… and that means you need to check if your browser has the most recent versions of your plugins every so often. For firefox, this…

Some quick and easy tips to speed up Firefox

May 18, 2015

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A Social Animal

in Browsers + Plugins, Other, Windows

Is Your Firefox installation running slowly? Ours was – and after checking that all our plugins + addons were up to date, we decided to start trimming some of the fat in the configuration. Firefox is installed with some very lenient settings – and those settings means that the browser can grab a lot of…

How to hide the message Comments are disabled in WordPress

May 16, 2015

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A Social Animal

in WordPress

If you build a site in WordPress and use pages, and then disable comments, you may see the message ‘Comments are disabled’ on every page or post with disabled comments. This is somewhat annoying and you might consider updating your theme to hide the comments It’s actually much quicker and easier to do – you…

How to Turn Off Comments for all pages in WordPress

May 16, 2015

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A Social Animal

in the rest, WordPress

If you’re building your website in WordPress, you might want to consider turning off the comments for all your pages – if you have a blog, it’s OK to allow comments on posts, but pages tend to be YOUR CONTENT, and most often comments are not welcomed on pages.

Happy St. George’s Day!

Apr 23, 2015

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A Social Animal

in The Present

St. George’s Day is today – the 23rd of April and it’s a day when many an English man or woman will celebrate their English heritage. However, St George wasn’t anywhere close to being English. Revered as a slayer of dragons and venerated as a saint, the details of his life are even suggested as…

new malware spreading via web based ads

Apr 20, 2015

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A Social Animal

in Social Media, The Present

a new malware is spreading via ads found on popular sites such as HuffPo and more… new malware spreads via ads – #CyberSecurity Posted by Computer Security Solutions on Saturday, April 18, 2015 Read our article on Computer Security Solutions Facebook page (link is above).

How to save money flying – using Skiplagged.com

Apr 14, 2015

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A Social Animal

in Deals and Bargains, Technology

Have you heard about the website ‘skiplagged.com‘? If not, you should learn about it now! This is a website where you can learn about flights which can save you some money flying… and sometimes those savings are a little, other times they can be a LOT of money. So what? I hear you ask… well…

The Broker – Denver – LivingSocial Deal

Mar 23, 2015

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A Social Animal

in Deals and Bargains

The Broker in Denver is a great restaurant that Dianne and I have been dining at for more than 13 years. We were introduced to this fine restaurant by a friend from Fort Collins, Jim Chudd – and ever since, this place has been a firm favorite. They have the best peel+eat gulf shrimp and…

Branson on the Maldives – Pt:2

Mar 22, 2015

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A Social Animal

in the rest, Twitter

Well said Sir Richard: UN questions unfair President Nasheed trial in #Maldives. Urge Highest Court to throw out Criminal Court judgement http://t.co/37eghY2pgA — Richard Branson (@richardbranson) March 21, 2015

Sir Richard Branson urges a boycott of the Maldives

Mar 19, 2015

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Thank you Sir Richard: Urge everyone worldwide who believes in freedom to boycott the Maldives until true democracy is restored http://t.co/MCcRmL0TlK — Richard Branson (@richardbranson) March 13, 2015 The friends of Mohamed Nasheed thank you… #freeMohamedNasheed Update: Mohamed Nasheed has returned to the Maldives after a forced exile on November 1st, 2018

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