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Mystery Shopper Scams – Advance Fee Scams Read MoreSmart Tech Keeps the Shelves Full, Whatever England’s Fortunes The World Cup has a strange effect on a whole number of businesses, causing unusual demand patterns. But AI can take …
AI Helps Retailers Respond Faster to World Cup Demands Read MoreOK, it seems that I have a problem with permissions now (I initially thought that my .htaccess file is missing, which has code in to allow php to be parsed …
Problem with permissions Read MoreBy Mark Ward, Technology correspondent, BBC News website “Jakob Nielsen, Nielsen/Norman Group Dr Nielsen has strong opinions about what works… The web looks very different today than it did 10 …
A decade of good website design Read MoreAs I have mentioned before I run several WordPress sites, and on them I have a firewall that reports any odd goings ons. Today a bunch of sites had this …
WordPress Password Hijkack? pwd = W1seb0x50 Read MoreMicrosoft is giving a $50 discount for the Xbox 360 gaming console, lowering the price in direct competition with what is thought to be the first price cut by Nintendo …
Microsoft Knocks $50 Off The Xbox 360 Console to Compete with Wii Read MoreToday there were quite a few changes in the Google search pages, with many sites dancing a jolly little jig while Google was making an important update to its search …
Google Search Engine Update 31 October 2008 – OCR Update for PDF’s Read MoreAdsense Now Report Invalid Clicks – The Remove Intra-Day Jun 3, 2011 Another Adsense thing that I only recently became aware of, which may be newer, is that they have …
Adsense Archive – bunch of blog posts about Adsense …. Read MoreThe following research paper was written by a team of Google search scientists. It was published in Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment and released under the Creative Commons AttributionNonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported …
Knowledge-Based Trust: Estimating the Trustworthiness of Web Sources Read MoreCTV.ca reports that eCommerce tax evaders could soon be sniffed out by computer programs known called Xenon which spiders / crawls the internet gathering information from websites to help catch …
‘Spider’ crawls Internet for tax evaders Read MoreIf you are having internet connection problems in Vista Home then one possible solution is to disable IPv6. Here’s how to do it: Start > Control Panel > View Network …
How to Disable IPv6 in Windows Vista Home to Improve Internet Connection Read MoreOriginal Hawker P.1127, predecessor of the Harrier Today, 15th December 2010, marks the end of the life of the British airforce’s most innovative fighter jet, the Harrier “Jump Jet”. The …
The Last Flight Of The Harrier Read MoretitleTesting Postbot for Googlels Android phone/title category300/category Due to the limitations of wpToGo I am now testing Postbot. I actually contacted the author of wpToGo with suggestions for improvments, and …
PostBot for Android Does Not Work – No Page Header or Category Read MoreTweet Axl Rose, frontman of Guns ‘n’ Roses, updated his Twtter page late last night with the following: “All upcoming Guns N’ Roses dates are officially cancelled. Please contact your …
Axl Rose’s Cheeky Tweet or Serious Problem? Read MoreThe world’s largest mobile phone company has declared that it is interested in taking over the German cell phone company, T-Mobile. T-Mobile has been losing market share recently, and even …
Vodafone Are Looking To Takeover T-Mobile Read MoreThe computer virus scammers are getting nearer! They used to only call from India but this morning I received a call from London. The caller was from the Indian sub-continent, …
Call from “Microsoft”: 020 7097 6517 – a London number! Read MoreI just got an email and the person sending it was promoting (spamming) a product but I was curious about what it was. After my recent virus after opening a …
Preview Short URLs Before Clicking – Works with TinyUrl and the Rest! Read MoreThe day has finally come that the iconic camera maker, Canon, has decided to stop making film cameras. This news has always been expected, but nevertheless, to hear that we …
Canon Stops Making Film Cameras Read MoreI guess this is a new feature, at least, I had not noticed before. Just logged in to Google Adwords and saw a new announcement: “New! Reach people based on …
Target Surfers by Age and Gender with Adwords Read MoreI just came across something odd on Pinterest. The BBC page is full of images that although intially link to the BBC, they are then redirected off to another website. …
How Spammers used Pinterest and the BBC Read MoreTweet While we are all working hard to improve our sites, maybe we could share some Panda stories. There has been a lot in the press about how the Google …
What Is Your Google Panda Story? Read MoreHalfords.com is currently offline, and Halfords.co.uk is redirecting to Halfords.com. They forgot to renew their domain, and are now having to work hard with the domain registrar to get it …
Halfords.com Forget To Renew Their Domain! Read MoreTweet Was just looking through the latest plugins for WordPress out of sheer boredom I guess. Cannot believe how many Google +1 plugins there are already. I tried installing the …
A Million Google +1 Plugins For WordPress Read MoreI guess this is where I find out if it is working…… Apache restarting with sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart I have only ever done this through the control panel of my …
Apache Restart: sudo /etc/ init.d/ apache2 restart Read More