The 2010 Fashion at Bath website has gone live today!

Fashion at Bath is an event where boutiques and designer shops can exhibit their finest spring/summer collections. The event, being held in Bath on the 17th of March is in support of Sue Ryder Care.

We’d encourage you all to surf on over and see what it’s all about. If you are in the Bath area, why not grab some tickets and come along to the show.

As a show sponsor for the second year running, it’s our pleasure to continue working with the fantastic organizing team who make Fashion at Bath possible.

Just a quick one. We’ve got a very exciting new website being launched in March. So keep an eye on http://www.cornishdreamart.co.uk

A quick warning to any of you Parallels Desktop users out there. If you have an account with parallels, you may want to use a different password to your normal every-dayer because Parallels are more than happy to send you a plain text reminder on demand.

Here is the process which lead to my plain text password being sent (we’ve verified this by checking with a second account in the office now, so this isn’t a one off fluke!)

1) I was an old P4 users upgrading to P5.
2) I used the upgrade path link from the UK store. At the checkout phase requested the password from my P4 account.
3) The password reset page displays an error (Shown below)
4) Your plain text password arrives! (Email below)

We’ve contacted Parallels regarding this issue and will update you with any comment they make on the matter.

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element 5 order number: **REMOVED**
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This e-mail was generated by a mail handling system. Please do not reply
to the address listed in the “From” field.
Please read the CUSTOMER SERVICE section for answers to your questions.
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Dear Valued Customer,

Thank you for placing an order with element 5.

We are sending you the data for your customer account at element 5 as per
your request.

User name: ****@storm-consultancy.com
Password: **!!REMOVED!!**

Please use your user ID and password for future orders as well.
https://ccc.element5.com/ccc/my_account.html?languageid=1&pid=**REMOVED**

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CUSTOMER SERVICE

Questions about your order, payment, or delivery?

Answers to the most frequently asked questions / Contact:
http://ccc.element5.com/ccc/?languageid=1&pid=**REMOVED**

Your order data:
https://ccc.element5.com/ccc/my_account.html?languageid=1&pid=**REMOVED**

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General terms and conditions of business:
http://esd.element5.com/termsconditions.html?p=**REMOVED**

Best regards,
Your element 5 team
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element 5 – a service of digital river – www.element5.com
Digital River GmbH
Vogelsanger Str. 78, D-50823 Cologne, Germany
CEO: John Strosahl
Corporate Headquarters: Cologne / HRB 56188 / Cologne Local Court
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Web developer? Want to turn off or disable the cache in Firefox for testing?  Well, by default you can’t – but there is an easy solution!

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Trying to print from Windows using Parallels 4.0 under Mac OS X Snow Leopard and getting the error message “pstopdffilter/pstocupsraster failed with err number -31000″?

I spent a fair while Googling for a solution to this before stumbling across the answer: turn your printer off and back on. That’s it. No reinstalling drivers, adding or removing printers or playing with settings – just a good old fashioned power cycle. It’s nice to know some things never change

Hat tip to Walt-O-Matic for the answer.

I was printing from Microsoft Office Word, via a networked HP C4480 printer on Windows Server 2008 via an Airport Extreme.

Here are my top 11 reasons for buying an iPhone.

We’re big iPhone fans here at Storm – hopefully the list below will show you why!

#1 – iPod

One of my favourite iPhone features is the iPod functionality. Essentially your phone comes with an iPod touch, with all the features and performance you can expect from the Touch. The large majority of people who are put off from buying the iPhone cite higher cost as their reason, yet are happy to shell out for an iPod (or equivalent music player). With the new iPhone rumored to have a 32Gb hard drive, the potential to put all of your music and video on one device is a big iPhone plus.
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This Airbrush and Touch-Up tutorial covers one of my favorite Photoshop tools; the Heal tool. We are about to demonstrate the power of the healing brush using a photo of an old cracked statue, but you can gain the same effect on a human face, covering spots, blemishes, lines and wrinkles.

Often under used, it is one of the most powerful tools available to you in Photoshop and has been getting better and better with every new Photoshop release. Not only is it extraordinarily powerful, its extremely simple to use (as you are about to find out).

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This tutorial shows you how to create amazing photography lighting effects using a maglite torch and your camera.

I’m about to show you one of the simplest – but most fun techniques for creating amazing photographic effect.

There isn’t even any need for computer editing!

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A selection of our favourite, classic programming quotes from the some of the industries biggest names.

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By default, Google Analytics shows you the statistics for a 30 day period up to the previous complete day. For example, today is the 14th of May and Analytics is showing me stats for 14th April -> 13th May. Now, I don’t know about you, but I’m a bit of a stats junky. I like to know what’s going on. As a result, the first thing I do when I load up Google Analytics, is to open the date range picker and change it so that today’s stats are included. This is a somewhat tiresome and repetitive task. Currently, Google offers no way to set a custom date range, so I have developed a Greasemonkey script to automatically change the date range to include today.

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