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Saturday, July 30th, 2011

How to Upgrade Magento from 1.4 to 1.5 using SSH

Having trouble upgrading your Magento web store from version 1.4 to the latest 1.5? Dont worry your not the only one!

Follow these steps to upgrade Magento with SSH, using a helpful step by step written Magento forum user Veracious, the original post can be found here on the official Magento forum.

Sunday, June 26th, 2011

Lunar Eclipse Doodle

Google artists mark a lunar eclipse with a doodle

Tuesday, April 12th, 2011

Google Celebrates 50 years of space flight

50 years of manned space flight is honored with a Google Doodle, Russian Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first person to fly into space on 12th April 1961 orbiting the Earth for 108 minutes.

Wednesday, March 9th, 2011

Discovery Lands for the last time

The space shuttled Discovery returned home for the last time after spending 14 days in space completing 365 days in space over 27 years.

Monday, March 7th, 2011

Captain Kirk wakes up the Space Shuttle

Captain Kirk and Star Trek give the Discovery a very special early morning wake up call

Friday, February 11th, 2011

Another Google Doodle this time for Thomas Edison

Another Google doodle today, this time in honor of Thomas Edison’s 164th birthday who of course invented the light bulb and has patents in his name of over a thousand other inventions including telecommunications and electricity generation and distribution.

Tuesday, February 8th, 2011

Google goes Jules Verne for the day

Today the Google Search Engine has gone Jules Verne’s 1000 Leagues Under the Sea for what would have been the authors 183rd birthday.

Sunday, January 23rd, 2011

W3C reveals HTML5 logo

The W3C unveiled their new logo for HTML recently which they hope web users will display on their websites which either user or support the HTML5 standard. They have also built a bold website to showcase the logo which includes some nifty CSS3 techniques and @font-face

Saturday, January 1st, 2011

Happy New Year

Happy New Year to all, hope you had a good one, arent suffering too much and keep to your resolutions for longer than a couple weeks.

Friday, March 5th, 2010

Microsoft sends flowers to the wake for IE6

So I read a couple of days ago that a Web Design company from Denver in the States was planning to hold a funeral for the long lived and much despised Internet Explorer 6. It was a funny news story and some would say a bit on the strange side, what made the story more interesting and even funnier is that it seems Microsoft’s Internet Explorer Dev team got wind of their plans and sent a bouquet of flowers!