Author Archives: Michael

Get a Free Custom Site and Free Hosting

Posted on December 9, 2011 by Michael

MP Technology Group is offering all small Charity organisations in need of a web face lift or in need of their first website, our Brand Site services absolutely free of charge. Any organisation that pays out 80% or more of its revenue to programs qualifies for our free program. Contact us today to get started. There is no Time Limit for this program, We will offer it for as long as we are in business.

What about my business??

For a limited time we are offering FREE design services to the first 100 business to contact us about this program, you will be given an option of hosting packages, to qualify for the free design you must prepay 1 year of hosting services, this ranges from $99 to $259 depending on the plan. You get a FREE mobile and desktop web design and a 20% off any print design services (brochure, business card, letter head, etc)

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Tech Talk: How to move a Live Site to a new Host

Posted on December 9, 2011 by Michael

In this week Tech Talk I am going to focus on the proper way to transfer a live website from one host to another. I hear horror stories all the where even “hosting companies” do not do it properly. I am going to assume you do not have access to, or want to use a Control Panel migration like cPanel or Interworx, If you have those system see their instructions for moving, referring here for DNS changes and Register Changes only.

The first thing you should be aware of is that moving a site is a multiple day process in order to ensure proper and limited or no service interruption. Continue reading →

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Release GBTV.com XBMC Plugin v0.0.4

Posted on November 25, 2011 by Michael

Version: 0.0.4
For: XBMC Eden-pre, Dharma
Download: Zip
Source Code: Git on BitBucket
Found a Bug?: Report it on BitBucket
Change Log:

GBTV.com XBMC Video Plug-in
Original Code: by DrivingMule  -- http://forum.xbmc.org/member.php?u=37373
Modified by: MP Technology Group -- http://www.mptechnologygroup.com
Stay up with the current Releases at http://mptechnology.bitbucket.org/xbmcaddons/
+-------------------ChangeLog------------------------------+

[2011-11-23] Version 0.0.4
- Fixed Live Show Links
- Moved Show logos to Websever
    No Longer distributed with Addon,
- New Custom Logos for Radio Show and TV Show
- Add Show Descriptions for Views that show Descriptions
- Added "Todays Archived Shows" to isolate all shows broadcasts that day
- Moved Inactive Shows Off Main Page
    Inactive shows are Making of, GBInsider,Documentaries,Beck U, Specials, Restoring Courage
- Main Show listing only show last 3 Episodes, Archived List moved to Subdir
- Changed Query URL to only pull Premium Content on Premium content pages
- Moved to git version control
- removed releases from source
- releases can now be found at http://mptechnology.bitbucket.org/xbmcaddons/

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Delay

Posted on November 23, 2011 by Michael

Sorry for the Delay, I ended up comming down with Strep Throat so I have not been able to post any more Tech Talks.

I will pick back up the weekly posting on 12/2/2011.

Until then have a Great Thanksgiving

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Release: XBMC Add-on – Glenn Beck, GBTV

Posted on November 23, 2011 by Michael

First I would like to thank XBMC User divingmule, who released the first 2 versions of this Addon, I simply expanded on it.

Download

If you want the source code, or if you use git Here is the Git Code Repository on BitBucket

Changes:

Premium Content Separated from Free Content

Only Episodes are now listed in the main directory of the show, Highlight, clips and free content is displayed in a subfolder

For non-subscribers only the shows with free content are listed and it works like the current plug-in.

Show Logos

More of the actual show logos are included

I also cleaned up the code a little to make adding new shows easiers
ToDo:

Add Todays Shows, Yesterdays Shows, and so forth back 1 week
Move Shows that are not active to an Archive Dir
Paginate the listing to speed up the plugin

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Year End Special

Posted on November 4, 2011 by Michael

MP Technology Group offers small business’ many options for technology upgrades. Today we announce one of the best deals for our small office customers. Now until Jan 1st 2012 you office can upgrade to our small business system which includes the latest Class N Wireless Technology, 3 dual core Typhoon workstations, 1 Terrabyte Wireless attached office drive. We will install, and setup all of the components at your office. You get all of this for only $999.95
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Teck Talk 1: How to install Office 2007 on Linux Mint 10

Posted on November 4, 2011 by Michael

Welcome to the first tech talk here at MP Technology Group. Orginally I had planned to show you how to use FuelPHP, FFmpegPHP2 and FFmpeg to automate transcoding large media library’s. That tach talk has been pushed because we gotten alot of requests lately from small business wanting to shed the Windows operating system, and move to something else, but want to keep their Office Applications. Now alot of people say just use Libre Office, Open office, or some other free office suite. For the Home user the open source office suites are just fine, but when you have used Word and Excel for years and years the training and lost productivity often prevents business from switching, also the User Interface of the open source systems are stuck in the 90′s and most people do not find them “attractive” or “sexy” and while it may not impact the performance of the applications it does effect people’s PERCEPTIONS of them, and as they say PERCEPTION is REALITY.

So with out further ado
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Internet Explorer Drops below 50% market share

Posted on November 2, 2011 by Michael

The month see Internet Explorer continued slide in market shares. For years internet explorer has resisting web standards and has been the bane of Designers and developers like myself, while it is true the last 2 versions of Internet Explorer as been a massive improvement over years past, but for most of us it is far far too little and far far too late.

According to Favbrowser.com Internet Explorer is down to 49.58%, Firefox is up to 21.2% and Chrome is coming on very strong and poised to take out Firefox from the #2 spot at 16.59%.

If your sill using Internet Explorer, do yourself a favor and click on a banner below below and get yourself a real web browser…..

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MP Technology Groups selects BitBucket Repository

Posted on November 2, 2011 by Michael

MP Technology Group is proud to announce that all of our projects will now be developed utilizing the mercurial distributed version control system and the master repository for all projects will be hosted at BitBucket.com

You can find our code library at http://bitbucket.org/MPTechnologyGroup

Our BitBucket account will also host all Code posted on our Tech Talk Blog so be sure to follow that Repository closely.

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Welcome to Tech Talk

Posted on November 1, 2011 by Michael

MP Technology Group is proud to Announce the Tech Talk Blog, where at least once every week we will feature a new tutorial, tip, or story about the world of technology, Android programming or Web Development.

The week will be featuring how to Use phpFFMpeg2 + FuelPHP + ffMpeg to automate transcoding your media collection.

I will post this Tutorial on 11/5/2011 so check back then……