Author Archives: Clive Sweeting

Creating shipping rules for Magento

Posted on November 19, 2010

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

Posted on November 19, 2010

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

Posted on November 10, 2010

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

Posted on November 7, 2010

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

Posted on November 5, 2010

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

Posted on November 3, 2010

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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Faster web development with Textmate

Posted on October 29, 2010

When you’re a freelance web developer it’s important to be able to work quickly and accurately. If you’re working to a fixed price quote there’s a great motivation to get work done as efficiently as possible. Because of this I’m … Continue reading →

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Refurb 21″ iMac for 749 pounds – saving 22%

Posted on October 23, 2010

Just a quick heads up – the Apple Refurb Store has a very nice deal on 21.5″ iMacs for £749 inc VAT. Please remember this is for the previous generation model, so you have a Core2 chip rather than the … Continue reading →

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iPhone repairs in Bath and Bristol

Posted on October 18, 2010

Over the last couple of months we’ve been having an increasing number of people contacting us about repairing their damaged iPhone. The most common problem is unsurprisingly a shattered screen. Unfortunately this is one of the most time consuming repairs … Continue reading →

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Configuring APC correctly to optimise Magento performance

Posted on October 10, 2010

Magento is a wonderful way of quickly and inexpensively creating an ecommerce website, but it does have some major downsides. The complexity of theming it is well know, as is the extremely mediocre performance on typically web hosting. There are … Continue reading →

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