Free or paid (just $7 p.m.)…. it’s your choice!
By johne | January 1, 2009
We have a huge amount of free content for you (no need to register), including tips, tricks, and free downloads of ebooks, software and templates, plus a free forum for chat and support, but if you join for only $7 per month you’ll get access to all the private members bits! This includes a $100 gift voucher every month to spend in our store, use of the forum for product requests, and for a limited time we’re throwing in a free hosted website. You’ll also receive an additional $100 "Welcome Gift Certificate" when you create your free store account….. so that’s $200 of spending money for starters, and with 100’s of products available from only $5 that’s a lot of buying power! Read the rest of this entry »
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Firefox Plugins - GSpace
By johne | May 1, 2009
If you ever need to back something up offsite, quickly and securely, then I recommend you install the GSpace plug-in right away. Like most Firefox plug-ins it installs quickly and easily, and appears in your "Tools" menu as, you guessed, "Gspace".
Click on it and a new tab opens with twin panes - your computer drives on the left and a blank pane on the right. Next you can click on manage accounts, and enter up the details of your GMail account - and if you haven’t got one then I suggest you go get one straight away! Click on the "Login" button and, assuming you’ve entered your details correctly (duh - I didn’t at first), you’ll find that it will tell in the lower right pane that you have been successfully logged in. Now all you have to do is select the file(s) to back up in the left hand pane and either drag or click on the arrow in the middle that points to the right hand pane and "Bob’s your uncle" - your file will be uploaded to your GMail space and stored as an email attachment would be, and you’ll actually get an email telling you it’s there.
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Q2. When unlimited broadband isn’t…
By johne | January 15, 2009
If, like me, you have thought about using your mobile phone to access the web or your email, or of changing to a mobile phone provider for your broadband, then you will probably be aware that the whole area is a minefield.
There are deals on offer from every company, all trying to either lure you in or get you to upgrade. But the most insidious of all is the "unlimited usage" tag applied to so many of them now…
The small print invariably says something like "fair usage policy applies" and then leaves you hanging, with no idea what the fair usage policy is, where it is, or what it stipulates.
And in some cases it’s downright diabolical. A recent national press campaign from e2save, an offshoot of Carphone Warehouse, offered "unlimited data" with a contract for a BlackBerry 9000 Bold. They took their information from network provider Orange, but investigation of the small print showed that the "fair usage policy" limited the user to 250mb of data transfer monthly. Read the rest of this entry »
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How to Create a WordPress Theme in 5 Minutes Flat - Not!
By johne | November 26, 2008
Update - sorry folks this site has disappeared without trace - I’ll be posting a review of Artisteer soon - I know it’s not free but it is excellent….
Make a WordPress theme? To my own design? In 5 minutes. It might just sound too good to be true, but I assure you it’s for real… I know, I’ve done it, and if I can do it anybody can do it! Admittedly the 5 minutes is only possible if you’re sticking to a fairly basic design and using their images, or you have your own graphics ready to go, but it is possible.
It’s equally possible (in fact considerably more likely) that you’ll spend ages there playing around, and end up reverting to something you knocked up in the first place (well, that’s what usually happens to me - the more I fiddle the worse it gets!) Read the rest of this entry »
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Signing out? Oh no you’re not…. My rant of the day!
By johne | November 19, 2008
If there’s one incredibly serious security flaw that I encounter all too often on very important and confidential sites, it’s the inexplicable and unforgiveable design feature wherein some idiot has programmed it so that when you click "sign out" or "log out", instead of doing it they come up with a "Please Confirm" box.
It doesn’t take much common sense to see that that is utterly stupid and nonsensical…
When I hit sign out I expect it to do it. No if’s no buts, just do it. Whether it’s a home machine, or worse still a work, or dare I say public - hotel or internet cafe - machine, this is a major security risk and a cardinal sin of programming. Read the rest of this entry »
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How To Make Free Phone Calls…
By johne | November 12, 2008
A new phone service that offers free calls from one phone to another has been launched. That’s right - we’re not talking cheap calls to a few places or using an internet phone, we’re talking free from your own handset. And not only are national and local phone calls free when calling from a landline, also included are free international calls to a landline phone in over 50 countries - and in a number of countries even the mobile calls will be free! This fantastic deal comes to you courtesy of Read the rest of this entry »
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Questions without Answers…
By johne | November 6, 2008
A few days ago, in a typically inattentive moment, I found myself at the site of WikiAnswers instead of Yahoo Answers. Ever eager to discover new territories, and knowing how often these "accidental" stumblings can be highly fortuitous I decided to join up and explore the site. I thought I’d answer a question or two and generally get the feel of the place, and seeing as I was rather short of time I decided I’d subscribe to get their email notification of new questions. Little did I know what I was letting myself in for! Read the rest of this entry »
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Q. When is a Source Code Goldmine not….
By johne | November 1, 2008
A. When you buy it from anyone other than Jeremy Burns.
Let me explain. I love my code. Not that I’m great coder, but I have a go. And I enjoy it. Ok, so my ideas usually outstrip my abilities - by several orders of magnitude actually - but I can usually mod packages and I like to make a few improvements, fix a few bugs etc. Read the rest of this entry »
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$100 of Free Adwords
By johne | October 31, 2008
Google have a special offer on of $100 of Adwords free with new Adwords accounts, available till the 30th November. Just head on over to ...
and open a new account and get promoting! The credit doesn’t have to be used straight away - as long as you open the account and get credited it will be there waiting for your next promotion.Topics: General | No Comments »
Microsoft Logic - not!
By johne | October 7, 2008
I’ve used Outlook Express for years - it’s always done its job well enough and although I’m no great fan of the big M (Big Mc perhaps but not MS) I’ve never bothered to change to anything else. I know, I know - there’s Thunderbird, Eudora, Pegasus etc etc, but I guess I’ve just been lazy - I’ve tried them but I just haven’t used any of them enough to really get to know them. However one thing has regularly driven me nuts about OE - the message rules. You know - the filters that put the messages straight into the folders you want, or perform some other action… except when they don’t….
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