www.i-wax.co.uk – Home of valeting and detailing good offers

About www.i-wax.co.uk
www.i-wax.co.uk was founded in January 2009 as a place for consumers to freely share deals for valeting and detailing products while saving you and others money. The purpose of the site is to escape from the marketing messages and ads and collate all the best that the web has to offer and get us [...]

Free access…is it always free?

Something should be thought through before being put online.
This was on a webcam site from someone who added me on Twitter.

HTPC software configuration using MediaPortal

For my HTPC, I now have configured most things up, so it is all working just like it should be. It took a few OS reinstalls to get it exactly where I wanted it, but I more or less have it, just have to sort out Blu-ray & HDDVD playback sorted first.
Here is a [...]

AVG and OpenDNS bring up some bad suggestions on searches

On a computer with IE7 and the AVG toolbar I tried to go to mail.google.co.uk, which it turns out doesn’t exist. So as no DNS record is found, the address is sent off to Yahoo. AVGs partner, then it gives some suggested results of what I may be looking for, but the results it gave [...]

Some people shouldn’t drink alcohol

Video shot from an in car camera from the police in USA.
httpv://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=Bd4_zINaC44

Frontpage Slideshow for Drupal

I have begun coding a module to allow the Frontpage Slideshow to be displayed within a block or a panel.
Frontpage slideshow is a script by Joomlaworks.
The module requires that the script is purchased from Joomlaworks as it contains important files for it to work.
The module which is currently in development can be found at http://code.google.com/p/fpss-drupal/.
The [...]

Google Chrome annoyances

It has been over a month now since Google released Chrome to the world and quite a few annoyances have appeared over that time.
Closing multiple tabs

The huge flaw that is extremely irritating is no warning of closing multiple tabs.
If you have 10 tabs open and accidentally close the main window at the top right rather [...]

UK Counties & Countries data files (CSV + MySQL)

The following files are data files that can be used in projects that require a list of UK Counties and/or all of the Countries in the world.
The following files are useful for web developers to use for their select drop downs or a lookup table in a database.