Category: Technology
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HubSpot: Integrating other cookie scripts into the HubSpot Cookie consent tool
The new 🍪 consent tool in HubSpot will only prevent HubSpot cookies from being set by default. I couldn’t find a good ‘cookie control’ solution that would work well with HubSpot and 3rd party cookies, so I had to evolve the default HubSpot cookie tool so that it would make it work for my situation. Hopefully…
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Fix: Why can’t I order Fibre to the Home broadband? (FTTP / FTTH)
Fibre had been laid in the street, my neighbour could order FTTH (also known as FTTP), but Openreach weren’t allowing orders for my address. This is how I contacted Openreach and resolved the issue and I now have Fibre-To-The-Home (FTTH) broadband – hopefully this blog might also help you get your FTTH connection sorted.
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BT, Openreach – consistently incompetent?
So, after my last blog on super fast broadband a little while ago I did eventually get somewhere with BT. Hoards of Openreach vans descended on us from September to November 2017 to lay fibre to all the BT manholes around the housing development – FTTH was coming to this part of the North Cotswolds…
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Solved: Batch convert PDF to PPT & DOC files in Acrobat X Pro
This guide will help you to setup an Acrobat X action to easily batch convert PDFs in a folder. Once configured, you can run the action by simply selecting it from within Adobe X Pro. The action batch converts PDF files in to office PPTX or DOCX format files. Once you have this action configured,…
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G2Crowd – compare software and services
If you’re looking at investing in software or services then you might find this a useful tool. G2Crowd helps you find, review and compare options/vendors for many different applications/needs. Get the right software & services for your business with 370,200+ validated user reviews to help you make smarter decisions. Perhaps the best way to describe…
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4K HDR TV Format: iPlayer 4K device support
Update: The upcoming Amazon 4K Fire TV Stick will now support HLG – find out more | buy here. The plethora of 4K UHD formats looks like the format wars of Betamax vs VHS, BluRay Vs … well, whatever the other HD media disc thing was, MP4 and er, OGG(?) all over again.TLDR: your iPlayer…
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Guide: How to change the Rel=Canonical Link on Hubspot pages and posts
HubSpot offers no official way of changing this important SEO parameter. However, if you do need to change it there is a way! It’s very simple and just involves a snippet of jQuery code. Just edit the code snippet below with the address of your original content and then place it within your post or…
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Scream if you want to go faster…
AKA: Where is our superfast broadband? An open letter to Fastershire, Openreach, Gigaclear, Gloucestershire CC, Moreton-in-Marsh Town Council and Geoffrey Clifton-Brown MP For 4 years now the our development (comprising >300 new build homes in Moreton-in-Marsh) has been promised broadband as part of the ‘Fastershire’ roll out plan. As far back as 2013 the Fastershire status for…
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Guide: Hardening your server’s HTTP Headers on Apache / LAMP / MAMP
1. Why harden your sever? If you have a website then you have a role to play in making sure that the web is a safe place. Poorly configured headers can leave visitors, sites and servers vulnerable to malicious attacks. If you want to read more on the attacks that are possible start here. A…