21 December 2007
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Software
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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 [...]


5 December 2007
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My Life
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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


24 November 2007
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Apple MacBook Pro Review

I’ve been in a different part of the office for the last week working for the first time on a MacBook Pro. It’s the first time I’ve had to really work on a Mac for a number of years – since University in fact. I do own a Candy Mac G3 desktop which is fun [...]


20 November 2007
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SEO News
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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 [...]


20 November 2007
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My Life
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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 [...]


18 November 2007
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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 [...]


15 November 2007
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Designing for GWT (Google Web Toolkit)… in a word, DONT!

The new web development team here at Xrio are mad keen on GWT as a development platform and as someone who’s only ever worked in .NET and ASP and based on the hype I can see why. The only problem is that until I came along they never had to really bother about making an [...]


19 October 2007
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Tips To Get the Best When Hiring a Web Design Company

Having run my own agency and later worked in both the public and private sector I’d like to offer some simple advice that will enable you to get the best from your chosen web designer. This advice is based on my own experiences and may help you understand the inner workings of an agency. Take [...]


14 August 2007
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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 [...]


1 August 2007
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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 [...]