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Big Trousers online ticketing and support introduced today. It is designed for all customers who register  to report problems with content management, wordpress, computer hardware and software, email, photography and general IT.  Also available are articles in the knowledge base designed to assist your and your business. The web is no longer prohibited by desktop [...]

Over the last few months we have been testing various methods of achieving an effective method of speeding up page load times for WordPress for our client sites. Along with numerous site caching plugins and file optimisation we have found a Content Delivery Network (CDN) Amazon Web Services, is the best way to achieve fast [...]

With the current trend towards mobile devices like the iPhone, iPad and the slew of Android based systems to be released, most small businesses are struggling to find a workable solution to email. Using a regular POP3 account requires that you keep email on the POP email server as part of your web hosting account [...]

Bruce from benallaonline.com.au gets up to speed with HD video. Includes 24 inch iMac, Canon 7D DSLR shooting 1080p video, loaded to Aperture 3 and edited in iMovie. Export at 720p and embedded from Vimeo upload.

A very recent installation job nearly went pear shaped when a new “feature” in iWork 09 Keynote stopped us from scheduling a shutdown of a kiosk style big screen sideshow on 3 screens. The job is a display of news and coming events on 3 big screens for The West Footscray Neighborhood House. The screens [...]

Whilst trying to fix a WordPress install, I found some errant code in the footer.php for site files installed by a client. After a bit of sluething I discovered that the Premium Woo Theme used had come from a filesharing site or had come in via bit torrent and had been altered to subject the [...]

A lot of folks are getting this email to download an update to Adobe PDF Reader. It is Spam at least or a Trojan waiting if you click on the link. A big tip, if you are on a Mac and do not have Windows installed then an update to a Windows application is sure [...]

As of Monday 24 August we are lowering the price of the Student Subscription edition. For annual subscribers, the subscription will drop from $49 per month to $29 per month. And for students who subscribe on a month to month basis, the price will drop from $69 to $49. With now up to a further [...]

Due to MYOB’s current software licensing practices it is no longer possible to buy a new copy of MYOB Account Edge and upgrade your datafile unless you pay MYOB an extra $29 to remove the previous serial from your datafile. That is our current understanding at least, your experience may vary. To do this you [...]

We are currently experiencing a delay in upgrading the hardware of the web server. When all the bugs are ironed out we hope that an improvement to services will be evident but the change over has not gone as smoothly as we had hoped. Keep an eye on this page for up to date details. [...]

In a recent firmware upgrade for all Netgear ReadyNAS units a simple interface for configuring for network Time Machine backup under Mac OS X 10.5 has been revealed. Untill now only a complex 15 step solution was available for this unit. Many had opted for the Apple Time Capsule solution for network backups. This is [...]

So after 5 days or so of ongoing sales spam the guys at Instinct have released a fix. Good to hear. Here is a full list of changes: More fixes to stop the spamming of purchase logs New dashboard widget Donations widget now refreshes the cart when on the checkout page Fixes to remove backslashes [...]

From the 22nd of March wp-eCommerce plugin installations have been attacked by some zombie robot attack. The attack bombs an account with hundreds of false purchase’s with no product listed and $0.00 sale price. Not a huge dilemma in a security sense but the false entries would take a user all day to delete through [...]

Woopra is the world’s most comprehensive, information rich, easy to use, real-time Web tracking and analysis application. And it’s free! We will report back on how the system performs as we get approval for further sites we control. So here is the interface after a few days of tracking. The thing that is most impressive [...]

At Big Trousers we have been trialling the offline backup and storage solution provided by Amazon S3. Jungle Disk works very much like the iDisk, a service offered by Apple. A hard drive icon appears on your desktop with the server based files at your disposal from any Mac or PC. The backup application costs [...]