Just a note to say we have updated the following one click install products for our web hosting customers: WordPress 3.2.1, Joomla 1.7.1, Drupal 7.8, AWStats 7.0, Open Web Analytics V1.4.1, OpenCart 1.5.1.3, Concrete 5.4.2.1, Prestashop 1.4.4.1, phpBB 3.0.9. We hope you enjoy using them!…[Read on]
One click installs updated
Universal Name Finder added
For true consistency it’s best if you can choose a domain name that is also available across social media sites. Ideally you want consistency – the same memorable name used in each case. But do you really want to be running multiple searches? Probably not. That’s why we have just introduced the Universal Name Finder to our hosting site. Simply enter the name you’d like to use…[Read on]
New 2.93GHz dedicated server added
When you have a dedicated server it means you have your own entire computer with a 10Mb connection connection to the Internet, which no-one else uses. We offer three different speeds and disk sizes for dedicated servers. The latest addition is a super-fast Quad Core Xeon 2.93GHz machine boasting a massive 1Tb hard disk. On a server this size you could potentially host…[Read on]
First class service
At Orland Media, we promote “first class service” as one of our unique selling points. It might as well be unique, it’s so rarely encountered. In this post we give some examples of what we mean by this. When phoning many companies you find yourself confronted with a computerised menu system: “If you would like option A, press 1. If you would like option B, press 2.” Usually the…[Read on]
Now running PHP 5.35
For security and stability reasons, we don’t usually run the latest versions of important software releases on our hosting platform. We do however keep a close eye on when releases are made and we have just updated the PHP version on our Linux platform to version 5.35 (this is just one version behind the latest release). In order to use run this version of PHP on your site…[Read on]
Premium mailbox capacity doubled
If you are a web hosting customer of ours you’ll probably know that a standard mailbox is 400Mb in capacity. This means that your online mailbox can hold anything up to 400Mb of mail at any given time before you use a client such as Microsoft Outlook to download some, or all of, the mail. If you receive very large attachments (or just a lot of mail) you may find this is not enough…[Read on]
Pop star Taylor Swift plays our game
We were commissioned to create a “Love Calculator” for the BBC back in 2001. The algorithm inside the game accurately mimics a children’s playground game by sorting through the letters in names. The Love Calculator still pulls in traffic to the BBC’s site a whole decade later, and here you can see none other than country/pop star Taylor Swift playing it live on air…[Read on]
addFrameScript method of MovieClip class
Many animations can now be coded, so do not need frames. This means we do not have to associate “pre-filled” symbols in the Library with MovieClips, but can instead associate them with the Sprite class or with our own custom subclasses which extend that class. Sometimes, however, we do need to use the timeline, so must export assets extending the MovieClip class. We can still avoid…[Read on]
Free preloader
In this post we release a Flash preloader component (an SWC file) which is suitable to be dropped on the first frame of any Flash movie and it’ll preload that timeline with precision. There are a few notable things about this preloader which make it worth using. It waits .2 of a second then checks whether more than 95% of the movie has already loaded. If it has, the loader aborts – you…[Read on]
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