About James Larkin

I'm a web designer by day and by night I like to dabble in web design. At Blacknight I work on lots of different things templating this (Blacknight Blog) and that (Blacknight Store), creating this Dropped.ie and helping create that (Getting Business Online). Daily I get to work on lots of different things be they marketing, support, design or development related. My cat (Squishy) seems to turn up regularly in strange places and might betray my interest in photography.
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Altmail Blacknight

Changes to webmail

By on February 22, 2012 in Email

You may have gone to the Blacknight homepage today and clicked the Webmail link at the top of the page and see that it’s taking you to a slightly different subdomain. Normally it takes you to webmail.blacknight.com and now it’s taking you to altmail.blacknight.com. This was intentional as we’re trying to get more people using [...]

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Happy New Year again

Happy new year again

By on January 23, 2012 in General

One of the great things about being an international company is you get to celebrate lots more holidays. Of course it doesn’t generally mean you get to take time off for them. We’ve got customers in over 100 countries around the world So today (the 23rd of January 2012)  it’s the Chinese new year and [...]

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Wordpress 3.3 is here

WordPress 3.3 is out

By on December 13, 2011 in WordPress

These types of posts are quite common for us but they really are worth repeating. Please Note: This post applies to Shared Hosting Customers with self installs ( as well as VPS / Cloud customers with self installs ) of WordPress and NOT to Application Vault WordPress installs WordPress 3.3 was released last night and [...]

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Dot NET 4.0

.NET 4.0 is now available

By on December 13, 2011 in General

We’re happy to announce that from today the .NET 4.0 framework is available via the control panel on all Windows 2008 hosting subscriptions. We had previously manually enabled dot net 4.0 on a number of webspaces and these should now show .Net 4.0 via the control panel.

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BTW – This Thursday the 22nd

By on September 21, 2011 in Events

Once again Blacknight is sponsoring the BTW ( Blogger Twitter Whatever ) meetup that’s happening on Thursday the 22nd September in Rúta on King St North, Dublin. You can find more details over on Jason’s blog – Blogger Twitter Whatever September 22nd so why not sign up if you plan on attending. It’s a great [...]

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Dot XXX Enters the Sunrise Period

Register your .XXX domains now

By on September 8, 2011 in Domains, xxx

Yesterday saw the launch of the Dot XXX Sunrise period for domain registrations. The sunrise period consists of two sides; A and B. In the Sunrise A grouping Those companies with a trademark or an existing general Top Level Domain ( .com / .net and so on ) will be able to apply for theirdomain [...]

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KnightBuilder Gets an Update

By on September 5, 2011 in Blacknight, ecommerce, Hosting, News

Last week saw us making a pretty major upgrade to KnightBuilder for the Getting Irish Business Online Project. So rather than boring you with major technical details I’ll just dive right into the guts of what has changed. 1: The “about us” page and “News” pages have changed. They are now considered as Extra Pages [...]

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TimThumb security issue with WordPress

By on August 2, 2011 in Blogging, security

We’re seeing a fair bit of chatter this morning about a security exploit in TimThumb so if you run a WordPress blog and are using a third party theme that resizes images chances are good that it has TimThumb included in it. (TimThumb doesn’t come with WordPress by default) For more info about the exploit [...]

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WordPress 3.2 is here

By on July 5, 2011 in Blogging, Hosting, Tips

NOTE: This post applies to Shared Hosting Customers with self installs of WordPress NOT to Application Vault WordPress installs. So a lot of people will be waking up today and seeing that WordPress 3.2 is out.. I can hear you groaning “another upgrade?” Well as always when doing upgrades of software the first thing I’m [...]

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The Blacknight Link Roundup Week 1

By on April 18, 2011 in Tips

Every week I go through 10 .. 20 .. 100 links that I’d love to keep track of … a long time ago I stopped using bookmarks because … I’ve just got too many of them. I’ve used various tools like http://www.delicious.com/ and http://www.stumbleupon.com/ but you know what? … I keep on leaving tabs open [...]

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Hoster Stats Details for Domain

Looking for a good domain?

By on April 2, 2011 in Domains

It’s been a while since I’ve mentioned the Dropped.ie website. To be honest it’s been a while since I’ve done anything with the website. It has just been ticking along nicely with a nice stream of visitors every week looking for a great domain name suggestion or just people curious to see what has been [...]

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Facebook pages are getting an upgrade

By on February 10, 2011 in business, Marketing

If you’ve ever had a Facebook page one of the things that has no doubt really annoyed you big time is the fact that you never get notifications when someone likes something / comments on something or even just asks you a question on there. Unless you’re constantly monitoring the page, which I know I [...]

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