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Hackers, Port Scanners and other miscreants

Here’s everyone that was picked up by our firewall last night, portscanning. The command to generate this on RouterOS is /ip firewall address-list print file=filename where list=”Banned” and https://www.infobyip.com/ipbulklookup.phpResolves the list to a country and ISP IP Country ISP 141.98.81.100 Panama Hostkey B.v. 109.126.9.94 Russia Vladivostokskaya Set LTD 170.247.0.30 Colombia 42.61.24.202 Singapore SingNet 218.92.0.176 China …

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WordPress Plugins

Custom Development Need custom application development, but your website is on WordPress? A plugin is the solution. Plugins are enhancements that extend what WordPress can do. Staying up to day with updates and patches is a GDPR requirement, and no where is it harder than on the web, where the the whole online world can …

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Version 2 of Book Serve Plugin Released

Now compatible with WPML Multilingual Plugin. See it in action on our case studyhttps://www.residencedutemple.com/ Download now from the WordPress Plugin Directory.

Protected: Questions to ask when building a WordPress Website

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Delegator Payments and Jonas Club Management

HYC, one of Ireland’s Premier Yacht Clubs, has adopted Delegator Events Payments as their online payments solution. This microservice accepts transaction information in, providing an endpoint for payments and a place for users to store and manage cards, reporting for accounts, and a payment receipt for the client. It follows the GDPR requirement of making …

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100% score on Google PageSpeed Insights using WordPress

Site speed is important for SEO, but can be hard to achieve in WordPress. One of my favourite tools for site is the Google PageSpeed Insights tool – who better to tell you what your site needs to be SEOed? So let’s take a look at our client’s brand new WordPress site: It’s not the …

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Howth Yacht Club AIS reciever

We worked with HYC and to bring HYC into the Marinetraffic.com AIS network – with coverage and availability on the station giving some cause for celebration. The manager at HYC, Paddy Judge is a former pilot and aircrash investigator – knows where to site an antenna and working with the IOT team in Vinyl Matt Media to …

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Editing images for use online with GIMP

How to get an image into the right ‘aspect ratio’ and image size in GIMP. The aspect ratio of an image describes the relationship between its width and its height. We choose an example that starts out portrait, but that we get a landscape graphic. We also show how to upsize the image. Resizing …

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Testing out the Delegator WordPress plugin

Need the beta plugin get it here. Here you see some tickets from a demo site of ours on delegator. Register with any stripe testing cards to try it out. Delegator works by segmenting your market…this means there are many ticket variations. We make those easy to display in the right place in WordPress. …

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Don’t get tagged as spam – make an SPF record

BookServe, the online reservation software, does a great job of keeping you in touch with your customers. But to do that you need to make sure your guests’ email systems know to expect mail from YOUR domain ([email protected]) from the BookServe server. Want to make sure your emails are getting through from BookServe to your …

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