Download all your tagged facebook photos

January 11, 2010
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This has been on the minds of my collegues and I for a while now – To develop a peice of software to search through and automatically download all of your tagged photos from facebook onto your PC hard-drive.
Export Photo’s Too does this brilliantly. Install the application to your facebook profile and hit ‘Download Tagged [...]

Yelp! For iPhone

January 10, 2010
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I’ve just downloaded ‘Yelp!’ for the iPhone, a simple app which let’s you search the local (and not so local) directories for business’ and people.
I’m currently sitting in costa coffee, writing this on my phone. I searched for nearby coffee shops and costa came up as 0.0miles away, with a photo, contact details and reviews. [...]

Stopping IE6 Optimization

December 24, 2009
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For those of you in the know, you will understand the burden which is IE6. It’s far less efficient, and awkward to boot, at designing websites to look both good and work well. Amongst the problems are;
Images can’t be wider than 800px
Images can’t be .PNG
Padding is calculated differently
IE in general is a nuisance; things in [...]

Automatic Photo Uploads!

December 11, 2009
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I was watching ‘The Gadget Show’ last night, and a particular gadget took my eye. It’s the Eye-Fi. A wireless SD card which automatically uploads any photos on it to either a PC or the internet (such as TweetPic or Flickr).
It’s a great idea – with one minor issue: Naughty photos (such as drunk office [...]

Google Wave and Twitter Marketing!

December 8, 2009
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I recently read the blog ‘Is Twitter The Main Force Behind The Wave?‘, which was wrote by Alex Sleat (a personal friend of mine) and discussed the use of Twitter to not only market Google Wave but also spread invites. In response, here are my thoughts on the first three points raised in his article, [...]

Google XML-Sitemap ‘www.’ Prefix error!

December 3, 2009
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I have had the ‘Google XML-Sitemap’ plug-in for Wordpress installed for a time now, and everything was working perfectly.
However, after the plug-in was updated some time last week it started showing errors in Google’s Webmaster Tools. The error was the following.
“Paths don’t match we’ve detected that you submitted your Sitemap using a URL path that [...]

Google Developments!

December 2, 2009
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Google have recently announced some new features, demonstrating again its dominance over the World Wide Web!
Google’s latest feature is the integration of ‘real-time result’s (RTR’s) including Twitter, Facebook and Myspace updates to be shown for relevant search results. Although the feature is currently limited to a minority of key words it will be built upon [...]

Car Technology

November 26, 2009
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There has been technology in cars for years; ABS, Electric Mirrors, Traction Control etc, but I want to talk about the more obvious, yet somewhat less featured tech in modern cars.
I have recently brought a new car – the Ford Fiesta Titanium. I added on the ‘Technology Pack’, which included some nifty features.
Keyless entry is [...]

Google Wave: First Impressions

November 6, 2009
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So I got my invite yesterday and started having a brief play with the much-anticipated Google wave!
There isn’t that much to rave about as of yet, simply a basic GUI which has a similar layout to Gmail and that’s about it. You log into your Google account and you’re away. I posted a message to [...]

Analytics: Page views go through the roof!

November 3, 2009
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Yesterday was the first day that I delved into the realm of online marketing; with the soul purpose of getting more visitors to my website (which I am clearly succeeding at if your reading this!).
To aid my task of ramping up my page hits I have used a selection of SEO techniques (keywords, Metadata etc) [...]