Chrome – Deleting Cookies
KB ID 0000756 Problem It took me twenty minutes to find out how to delete a cookie for a single site today. All the information I found was for older versions of Chrome, that had the ‘Under the bonnet’ section. Solution 1. As shown open the browser settings. 2. Show advanced settings. 3. Scroll down to the Privacy section > Content Settings. 4. All cookies and data. 5. Here you can simply “Remove All” to...
CentOS BIND DNS Not Responding To DNS Queries
KB ID 0000906 Problem While moving my DNS records from my old hosting company, I finally got round to pointing my domain name server records at my own server. I then saw my web traffic nose dive! Some troubleshooting steps later I realised I could not connect to my server on TCP port 53 (use an online port scanner to test yours). Solution Allow Access to DNS BIND From Remote Clients 1. Firstly let’s make sure that the firewall...
Apple Device Stopped Sending Email – “Cannot Send Mail – A copy has been placed in your Outbox. The Recipient {name} was rejected by the server.”
KB ID 0000654 Problem Yesterday I got a text message from my wife to say she could not sent me an email. When she tried this happened: At first I thought it was just me, until I asked her to try sending an email to someone else, then she got the same result. Trying over 3G, and on the wireless at home, the results were the same. It had been working fine, but had then suddenly stopped working. My own iPhone was happily talking to the...
Apple IOS 7 – Wallpaper Does Not ‘Size’ Correctly
KB ID 0000858 Problem I upgraded my iPhone 4S to IOS 7 last week. Since then the lock screen wallpaper has displayed as the wrong size. Solution This is caused by the IOS new feature called Parallax. If you didn’t already know, this moves the wallpaper slightly as you tilt your phone. You will notice the icons stay where they are, but the background wallpaper moves as you tilt the phone to give you a 3D effect. To Disable Apple...
Android – ‘Email sync is disabled’
KB ID 0000939 Problem My Galaxy Note 3 prompted me for an upgrade last week, it took me a while to notice (because I manually sync my Email) that I could no longer collect my email, every time I tried it said Email sync is disabled (account name). No amount of tweaking with my email or phone setings seemed to get it working. Solution 1. Open the notification screen (Swipe down from the top of the screen) > Select the icon shown...