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Connect MacBook Pro to Costa O2 Wifi

I recently had issues connecting my Macbook to the free wifi in Costa. I tried wifi diags, rebooting and nothing worked. It connected but never bought up the validation page. I had custom DNS servers set up and by clearing…

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Moving from Garmin to Apple Watch

I've been using Garmin watches for triathlon and training for a number of years. I started with the Forerunner 735 which was great and had no issues at all. My issues started when I upgrade to a Forerunner 935, I…

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Backing up your Zwift custom workouts

Backing up and syncing your Zwift custom workouts on Windows Have you ever wished you could create your Zwift workouts on one computer, but have them available on another computer? Or perhaps you’re just wanting to make sure your painstakingly-created…

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Syncing OneDrive to an SD Card on Windows 10

My previous method stopped working with Windows 10, fortunately I found another workaround on the Microsoft Forums as follows: It looks like the OneDrive client in the RTM version of Windows 10 does not allow syncing OneDrive to an SD…

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How to UEFI boot a 32 bit Windows OS

I just got a HP Pavilion x2 and wanted to install the Windows 10 32 bit technical preview. Everywhere I searched said I could only UEFI boot a 64 bit OS. So I tried a different partition option in Rufus…

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Unknown Device driver Windows 8 and Folio 13

I just installed Windows 8 onto my HP Folio 13 and one unknown driver. After some trial and error I narrowed it down to the Intel Smart Connect Technology Driver. I downloaded the driver from here. Attached picture of the…

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Syncing Dropbox to an SD card on an HP Elitepad

I've now managed to get Dropbox syncing to the SD card on my HP Elitepad, following the same instructions I used for SkyDrive, namely: Format the MicroSD card as NTFS (otherwise this method will not work). Create a Folder C:Data…

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Using SMF SSI when your forum is in a subdomain

I’ve been battling to get SSI working for some time now when I had my forum in a subdomain, ie http://forum.smartphonesoft.com. Fortunately I came across this information, which fixed it for me. The actual fix from that site is as…

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Integrating twitter into my other sites using PHP

Ever since Twitter changed their authentication method I have been meaning to fix my software update scripts so that they automatically post new software to Twitter. Fortunately a quick Google search took me to this excellent HOW TO which had…