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Code and Development
Jenny O'Brien

Is your website software up to date?

Firstly, it's important to understand that the reason hackers and cyber criminals want to exploit vulnerabilities in content management systems and websites isn't necessarily just to steal all your user account, contact form, and other data, but also to infect your website visitors and users with malware.

Once the unsuspecting user is infected with malware they are quickly added to a botnet (which is essentially a large group of thousends of infected computers and devices) to be exploited at the malware operators will. This usually includes things like credit card theft, extracting private information or being activated to take part in a DDoS attack, spam attack or other malicious activity.

Jenny O'Brien 8th September 2017 10:22 pm
Code and Development
Chris O'Brien

What are your options for professional website hosting?

Most businesses today require an online presence and to get that online presence, one needs to create a website and host it. Website hosting refers to the term where your website is hosted on a server so that it can be viewed by people world over. To get people to come your website you need to get it hosted.

Chris O'Brien 23rd August 2017 5:04 am
Code and Development
Chris O'Brien

The benefits of bespoke software and web applications for your business

A bespoke software solution is a piece of tailor made software created specifically for your business, in this article we're going to discuss the benefits of bespoke software applications. A well planned and developed custom application can make running your business easier, increase the efficiency of you and your staff and open up workflows that can be sometimes be restricted by utilising an off-the-shelf product

Chris O'Brien 28th July 2017 11:32 pm
Code and Development
Chris O'Brien

Webmail is getting a fresh new mobile-friendly look and some great new features

In the early hours of Saturday 17th June we'll be performing an upgrade to our Webmail system. We're upgrading to the latest version of Roundcube Webmail, which powers our system, and have been working over the past month to ensure that our address book and task list enhancements will work correctly after the upgrade. 

Following a final round of testing we're ready to go live with a fresh new look, including full support for smartphones and tablets so that you can easily access Webmail while you're away from your desk.

We've also added some additional features including a set of sidebar widgets that enable you to view local weather information and add RSS feeds from popular news websites, we hope these features will make Webmail more useful for users.

Chris O'Brien 15th June 2017 2:22 pm
Code and Development
Chris O'Brien

Fixing photo orientation on images uploaded via PHP from iOS devices

Below is a great function (created by Wes over on Stack Overflow) that can be used to automatically correct the image orientation when uploading images (the main culprit for weird orientation related glitches being iOS based devices) – simple call the correctImageOrientation() function after uploading the image and voilla the rotation/orientation of the image is corrected!

Chris O'Brien 6th July 2016 2:50 pm