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Calculating How Much Tax Was Added When Only Knowing The Percentage.

Posted on September 9, 2011 by Peter

Recently I started work on an iPhone app and came across a small problem. As part of the application I needed to know how much tax was added to a value when I only knew the tax percentage and the … Continue reading →

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Secrets and Lies: Digital Security in a Networked World (Bruce Schneier)

Posted on August 19, 2011 by Peter

While doing my usual browsing of Amazon I came across Secrets and Lies by Bruce Schneier. I of course added this to my wish list and decided I would take another look at a later date. Some time later I … Continue reading →

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Registering .Fi Domain Names

Posted on August 19, 2011 by Peter

For those that are unaware .fi is the ccTLD for Finland. Unlike some ccTLD’s Ficora (they manage the fi regsitry, the site is available in Finnish, Swedish and English) have imposed many restrictions on who can and who cannot register … Continue reading →

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Mac Lion (10.7) Mouse Scroll Inverted

Posted on July 21, 2011 by Peter

Yesterday Apple officially released the final version of 10.7 of their OS named Lion. For those of you that have upgraded you will notice that when trying to scroll up a page you actually scroll down and vice versa. This … Continue reading →

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Base64 Encode in Objective-C

Posted on July 20, 2011 by Peter

I am currently playing about with objective-c and came across the need to base 64 encode some text. The following is what I came up with however it can obviously do with some improving (note to self must plan code … Continue reading →

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Securing Your Domain Name

Posted on December 27, 2010 by Peter

THIS WAS WRITTEN A FEW YEARS AGO AND WILL BE REWRITTEN SHORTLY Since the dot com bubble burst in the early 2000’s the value and profile of domain names has again been on the increase. Apart from recent financial turmoil … Continue reading →

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