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Running On A SliceHost 384 Meg Slice Under NGinX – Impressed!

his post is the first one for this blog running under SliceHost. It’s been quite a month. I’m fed up – frankly – with webhosts!!

Now, it’s no secret that shared hosting is a busted ass for anybody getting more than 5 visitors a week and a couple of HTML pages. But it seems to have gotten worse. Indeed I’d argue at this point that the vast majority of the hosting industry is an enormous joke perpetrated in a manner to create endless sign-ups of new fodder – but not designed for anybody to stick around.

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BoomerApp Promotion On A Brand New Product. 100% Rebate. Klik n’ Mix

A few weeks ago however a new service was launched from the people who brought the world Bits du Jour. That service is BoomerApp. While Bits du Jour hands our full licences daily BoomerApp is instead a rebate system where-by the customer purchases in the normal way and recieves a rebate form which they return to FastSpring Ecommerce or a local representive who…

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Why I have bothered with the Windows 7 logo program

Across on his blog Andy Bryce has written some very good reasons for why he won’t be bothering with the round of Windows 7 logos marketing Microsoft has launched. First I should point out that there is a difference between the “Compatible with Windows 7 logo” and associated marketing materials and the “Certified For” program run by Microsoft. The latter, I’m in full agreement with Andy. I saw no benefit in the Vista version and see no beneift in the Windows 7 version.
Rather we’re talking about the logo to the left of this article.

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Finally A Release – But Not MixAction *Yet* – PerforMixer Multi-Room Audio

Finally A Release – But Not MixAction *Yet* – PerforMixer Multi-Room Audio

It’s multi room audio. Basically aimed towards reception and convention centres, hotels, pubs, basically anywhere you need to be able to manage different audio into different rooms with the convenience and cost savings of using one computer as the source or “player”. To do it you need more than one soundcard (up to four supported) or a dedicated multi room soundcard.

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A Scorching Trail Following Steph And His Book Blog Blazers! A Review

A Scorching Trail Following Steph And His Book Blog Blazers! A Review

It’s an easy read, it really is, providing your local area doesn’t get hit by 47 degrees Centigrade heat-waves and 5,000 sq kilometre fire-storms you’ll finish it in a few days. ;-) You’ll come to understand why content truly is king, in case you’re one of those mISV’s who’s still resisting this reality, and some of the ways you can carve out a piece of that kingdom for your own Micro, or not so Micro, ISV.

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