cobian backup software

My hard drive failed so it’s set me back a bit.  I’ve installed the cobian backup software to help me make backups automatically in the future you can get it for free at www.cobian.se .

2 comments November 25th, 2007

Testing your site with lots of browsers

Testing your website with lots of different browsers can be a pain.  I usually just test my sites in Firefox and IE 6.0 but I’ve Recently found a site www.browsershots.org that allows you to take screen shots in lots of different browsers. Check it out.

Add comment November 3rd, 2007

Warren Buffet business videos

Great talk by warren buffet (2nd or 3rd richest man in the world) giving business and finance advice.

Add comment October 21st, 2007

mysql and php on your pc

I use  http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp-windows.html for a local (on my pc) php and mysql server. The great thing about doing it this way is there is no configuration you need to do, its basically a normal install, it also has all the extras like smarty installed.

Here’s a video off youtube, showing you how to set it up:
 

2 comments September 23rd, 2007

How to get youtube on your wordpress blog

I had been trying to get youtube videos on my wordpress blog for ages. Eventually I found out how by asking matt on msn (http://www.takemorerisks.com) basically this plugin http://www.paulbain.co.uk/simple-youtube-plugin-for-wordpress-easytube/ works great and its easy to use. The only thing to note is that when you go into your post editor/writing thing you need to change it to code when you put the url in the square brackets or it will try to stick the html code in for the link. I have a video example below.

Add comment September 2nd, 2007

Social bookmarking buttons code traffic

visit http://www.addthis.com and add the bookmarking button to your website. It will help users to bookmark your pages in delicious and quite a few of the other social media sites.

1 comment September 2nd, 2007

Widgetbox steals bandwidth

widgetbox dot com (not giving them a link) stole a load of my bandwidth by putting one of the games on my arcade site into there widget and then distributing it via there site to loads of people costing me bandwidth. 

This is known as hotlinking when someone steals your bandwidth. You can stop this via .htacces. The problem is if you want to block a specific person from using the but not others it can get tricky. 

Add comment August 19th, 2007

The art of PR (public relations)

Public relations (pr) should be built into your website business plan from the start.
Public relation is both an art (persuasion) and science (social, linguistic and economic) which builds bridges between an organization/company and its key publics.  

A PR professional has to be able to understand its clients goals, the skills to handle the media relations, the capacity to charm the audience, gain its understanding and acceptance, the ability to practice “a craft that calls for the deft mix of human behavioral skills and communication techniques.” Some of the PR professionals functions can be: to analyze problems and opportunities, to define goals, to identify the audience, to plan activities, to cultivate useful relationships (with the media, with financial organization, legislatives etc), to writes news releases, brochures, speeches, reports, to organize special events, deliver public speeches.   

Usually public relation didn’t have a positive imagine in a person’s mind for various reasons: there was not an ethic standard for this profession, no special requirements to entry into the field,  was believed that everybody can do the job. But according to The Fall of Advertising and the Rise of PR (HarperBusiness) its importance is growing rapidly. People seem to finally understand that public relations means more than advertising a company’s products or services; it means influencing people’s decisions, building reputation and creating brands (the Body Shop or Harry Potter cases for example).   

Public relation is an important part of the marketing (it brings the company messages, products, services to the targeted audience) but it is also well connected to the management (because the techniques used to get public attention and acceptance).  

What actually does a public relation do? It helps the management of a company know what to do regarding policies, relationships and communications, determines the attitude and the behavior of the public regarding a product/service and finds the way to favorable change it, informs and motivates the employees or retirees of an organization and their families, helps company to adapt to public expectations (it is also called “public affair”), communicates with different  regulatory agencies or legislatures to sustain an organization interest (also called “lobbing”); develops relation with the financial community on behalf of an organization (also called investor or shareholder relations).  

Today public relation is a must to any company/organization that seeks for success.

Add comment August 7th, 2007

Godaddy .info and .com renewal codes

There is no .info renewal code at this point in time but you can use this code ‘OYH1′ 10% off anything.  UPDATE aug 2007 on the .info you can renew with ‘lol73′ code for $5.99 a year for .infos at this current moment.

www.GoDaddy.com .  For .com you can use ‘OYH3′ for 6.95$ .Com domains.

Add comment August 4th, 2007

Roboform coupon code

Roboform rembers your passwords for various sites and automatically takes you to the sites login page and logs you in when you click a button for that site. It saves loads of time and only costs $30.   You can reduce the cost by $10 by entering ‘SNC’  into the roboform coupon discount code box and clicking update.  

Add comment July 10th, 2007