tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-53474622009-07-07T16:42:05.536+12:00A roundup of tech tips for your website <br/><br/>published by <a href="http://sfsw.net">sfsw.net</a>Nicholashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17113426316236474278art@sfsw.netBlogger67125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5347462.post-64336840705009992832009-06-28T19:18:00.003+12:002009-06-28T19:22:45.439+12:00

Hunch.comA new type of search engine pretends to be able to advise you when you need to make a choice and do not know what you want to do, in fact fairly aggressively surveys your inner opinions more randomly and coercively than a call centre on amphetamines.Or it is an incredibly useful conversational thinking tool that helps you identify products that align with what they can sell you according

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Social Media SafetyA recent media article points out the inherent danger in using social media sites explaining "what am I doing" as it may tell burglars when you are away from home, if they are tech saavy enough to monitor you, and stupid enough to want to burgle you. Tech saavy burglars are also aware that the forces of detection - although maybe a little behind their own level of criminal

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Questions to focus on what is important for a customer website.1. publishing articles or notices2. publishing surveys/polls and presenting results3. making and publishing video4. online face to face consultation via webcam5. encrypted email services, mailing list6. cutting edge design 7. social networking8. guaranteed complete privacy 9. technical cutting edge advancement10. market exposure11.

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Extremely wise words by my old accountant - Bruce Shepherd. Could not agree more.

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Microsoft Internet Explorer Users Exposed to FlawIt's official. Do not use Microsoft Internet Explorer as your machine can be "taken over" by people who certainly do not have your interests at heart.

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Basics of Computers - The elements of decisionComputers, at their very essential, are machines that have to make a decision. A choice between one logical path, item or object and another. Or none. If you have invented ways to store values and even letters of the alphabet, there has to be a way to access it, a system of repeatable addresses. Addresses must be based on a number system and when

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The Dr Horrible effectBy linking to videos like this and it's website - and writing something about it in my blog, in this case sfsw-tips. Dr Horrible is an example of what I see becoming a new stream and an important platform for all sorts of well branded web art delivery. The DivX format has completely come of age. This tip sheet is saying the new format is a superior web delivery mechanism

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Achieving growth in site visitsThere are several proven methods of increasing site visit growth. The most important of which is to get the branding clear and clean. To make the site work in a way that people expect it to work then natural feel of the interface does not interupt their own work flow. The website must be clear and concise. It must say something well, not a whole lot of things

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RHEL 5 linksRecently had an issue with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 - installing the php language modules. Got into a right old mess which ended up with a broken php on a webserver. It was only a development server, so did not stay up all night - but sometimes the light of day brings about more clarity.In this case it did. These links helped find the solution and like most solutions it was the

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503 valid RCPT command must precede DATA.A router in between your mail client (Outlook, Thunderbird) can not see who is sending. This is usually as the mail client does not have your credentials loaded correctly, a connected router device propbably objects because it wants to say who the email is sending from. One solution is to receive mail before you send it - this usually lets connected

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List of Microsoft codenames - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaNot really useful dept. unless you are a geek.A list of all the codenames of Microsoft software projects. Some of their names are very funny, indeed. The never released .Net module "Hailstorm" sounds interesting. But unpublished code is not usually interesting, but damaged or incomplete.Good code is generally written quite quickly

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Online PrivacyThere are more than one class of "privacy".Software "privacy" - i.e. the ability of software to securely recognize where you normally login in from - denying this defeats much progress. It is not just marketing collection or accumulation, but workability that may be derived from IP addresses. In fact, as a "measure" of validation, software may prevent phishing, violation and ad

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Open SocialGoogle have released an API for Open Social. We are now integrating social functionality into applications using this API.

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Net Writing | Writing and SEO tips for BloggersGreat blog with some hot tips for you to burn your keyboard fingers on... but before you send another email and burn with embarrassment when you realise some of the classic mistakes we all make could affect - even your future. Read it here - click will open a fresh window . Whereas the web has its own history site (the wayback engine at

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StopBadware.org maintain a list of 230,000 (today's count) sites that contain or have been reported to distribute "badware" (spyware, phishing attempts, etc). If you really need to check a site to see if it is known to spread viruses, you can at the clearing house.

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Faster mailIf you want near instant mail delivery, host a domain with sfsw.net We will give you a free POP mail box for the name info@ for you to use on your website, e.g. info@yourdoman.com - while the domain is kept renewed with us, we will host it for you. If you set it up correctly it can normally provide very fast email services in the UK and Europe, and of course the USA. Sometimes your

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SEO linkshttp://www.smithfam.com/ts.htmlhttp://www.startranking.com/?PageId=10018http://www.smithfam.com/news/may00f.html

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Web Marketing and Web Promotion: "# Does your website have text? Some sites are simply pretty pictures and snazzy graphics, but without text 'GoogleFood' you're SUNK. Put the right text in there so your customers will find you! # What is your Link Popularity? Do other websites point to you? How can you learn what your link popularity is? How can you improve it? Why is it important to Google? #

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Check out the pricing for leading SEO campaignsWebpromotion - Search Engine Optimization, Pay For Performance, Top Listings

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Google page rankings width="468" height="500">

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An Ad Upstart Challenges Google - New York Times

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HTML Character Codes (TnTLuoma.com) VERY useful Dept

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Free SMS service over the nethttp://www.reporo.com/international_internet_settings.jsp

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http://www.milliondollarhomepage.com/

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Adding more disk space to a Logical Volume setPros and consIn Fedora Core 2 (and some other distributions) disks are split into partitions and spindles, so if you have two disks you will have (at least) two partitions with mount points - maybe one on /home, one on /. So installing onto two identical 40Gb disks gives me a /home filesystem of 40Gb, and a / (everything else) filesystem of 40Gb.And

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