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Monthly Archives: November 2010

Fixing Problems sending emails via iPhone and Orange

I was with a customer in Bradford on Avon installing their new iMac and they happened to mention to me that they couldn’t send email through their iPhone. They were on Orange. Orange tech support had failed to resolve it, … Continue reading

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Fixing problems with Magento creating empty invoice PDFs

I recently had a problem where Magento was producing the PDF invoice, but no text was visible. After some investigation it turned out it was an issue with the hosting configuration, rather than a problem with Magento at all. Fortunately … Continue reading

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Apple brings the “Black Friday” sales to the UK

America has a tradition of massive sales on the Friday around Thanksgiving, called “Black Friday”. It’s frequently a bigger present buying period that Christmas, and Apple typically knock off around 7% of the standard retail price. Well the good news … Continue reading

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New e-commerce website launched for vintage cognac retailer

We’ve just wrapped up our latest Magento e-commerce website for Brandyclassics, a retailer of vintage and rare cognac, armagnac and calvados. Whilst they are located in Bradford on Avon, near Bath, they ship their premium brandies to countries across the … Continue reading

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Creating shipping rules for Magento

Shopping costs are one of those areas that people tend to ignore a little bit when developing an ecommerce store. Now Magento has some brilliant integrations with the major couriers to let the store calculate costs based on destination, but … Continue reading

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Repairing iMacs with faulty video cards

I’ve just finished repairing an iMac which started to display the dreaded “vertical lines” – a surprisingly common symptom seen on a wide range of Macs that indicates a faulty video card. Typically that means replacing the entire logic board, … Continue reading

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Importing Magento product data from .csv files

Magento is a fantastic ecommerce tool, packed full of just about every feature you might possible need – but some tasks are just painful. Importing product data into the catalog is one such thing. Typically you do this via .csv … Continue reading

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Apple cancels the XServe

Over the years at Sweet-Apple we’ve been responsible for installing, managing and remotely supporting a number of OS X Server installations for clients in and around Bath and Bristol. A good number of those were running on XServe, Apple’s rack-mounted … Continue reading

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Disable Java in OS X browsers to avoid Koobface infection

As you may know, there’s been a lot of hot air created recently about the ‘port’ of the Koobface worm so that it can now infect Macs. Whilst it is possible that you might get the malware downloaded onto your … Continue reading

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Sweet-Apple wins new website development for Bristol Copywriters

We were recently appointed to redevelop the website of top copywriting agency S!M. Based in Bristol, they specialise in editorial for the Men’s market. We got Indesign files, fonts and a smattering of images and turned the job around in … Continue reading

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