Windows Vista Sp1 Beta – Broken My PC
So I thought ‘why not install the new SP for Windows Vista… It says you should uninstall it to install the legitimate release so whats the harm?’ Quite a lot, as it turns out. I can no longer surf in Firefox, IE or Safari (tho Opera works?) I cant get email using Thunderbird I cant [...]
Elf Yourself
Want to send your clients something a little bit special? well, Elf Yourself is pretty neat and worth a try. If you saw the wedding crashers promo site this won’t be new to you but hopefully there’s some of you out there who don’t surf the Internet quite as much as I do. kthxbai
Firefox 3 Beta First Look
Just spied on Digg that there’s a new official version of Firefox out (Firefox 3 Beta). Get Firefox 3 Beta Here are a few of my first impressions and some issues I’ve found. The tab scrolling is nice and smooth with some acceleration When you open multiple tabs in Firefox 2.x you could quickly jump [...]
Moo Cards Just Arrived
Ordered some Moo Cards a few weeks ago in the vain hope that I’d have something to hand out at BarCamp Leeds. However, it seems that most people got there before me which kind of killed the exclusive first find of them as I thought I was being totally original in finding a new product [...]
Barcamp Leeds 2007 – My SEO Talk
I was really nervous about yesterdays Barcamp in Leeds as I’d been called out by The Hodge after slating his SEO presentation at a previous GeekUp and asked to co-present an SEO critique session with him. In addition it wasnt until around 8:30 yesterday morning that i realised that the event was an all day [...]
Query String SEO – The Truth
Just reading a transcript of a recent talk by Matt Cutts the well known Google PR spin-doctor and noticed he mentions that Google doesn’t have a problem indexing URL’s that use query strings. This confirms what I’ve always suspected as i’ve had lots of success with dynamically created content using ASP without any form of [...]
Meta Description Now Showing in Google (again)
Looks like Google has stopped using DMOZ for its description as part of the main search listings. Which is a good thing because now you can actually add in a sales message as part of your entry. Make sure to get phone numbers and email addresses dropped in as soon as you can guys n [...]