Re-Building Jobs In The UK

Any time you call an 0800 number (for a credit card, banking etc) and you find that you're talking to a foreign customer service representative, please consider doing the following:

After you connect and you realize that the customer service representative is not from the UK you can always ask if you are not sure about the accent), please, very politely (this is not about trashing other cultures) say, "I'd like to speak to a customer service representative in the United Kingdom."

The rep might suggest talking to his/her manager, but, again, politely say, "Thank you, but I'd like to speak to a customer service representative in the United Kingdom."

YOU WILL BE IMMEDIATELY CONNECTED TO A REP IN THE UK.
That's the rule and the LAW.

It takes less than one minute to have your call re-directed to the United Kingdom. Tonight when I got redirected to a UK rep, I asked again to make sure - and yes, she was from NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE.

Imagine what would happen if every United Kingdom citizen insisted on talking to only UK phone reps from this day on.

Imagine how that would ultimately impact the number of UK jobs that would need to be created ASAP...

If I tell 10 people to consider this and you tell 10 people to consider doing this - see what I mean...it becomes an exercise in viral marketing 101.

Remember - the goal here is to restore jobs back here at home - not to be abrupt or rude to a foreign phone rep. You may even get correct answers, good advice, and solutions to your problem - in real English.

If you agree, please tell 10 people you know, and ask them to tell 10 people they know.....etc...Etc

My Blackberry Is Not Working! - The One Ronnie, Preview - BBC One

Ford Focus 1.6 Petrol Zetec £990

(2001 Y Reg Ford Focus - Currently On Private Plate) 5 Door Hatchback, Aqua Frost, Petrol, Manual, Privacy Glass, Steering wheel reach/rake adjustment, Front electric windows, Sports seats, Space saver spare wheel, Radio/CD + MP3 USB and iPod Kit, PAS. Original Alloy Wheels, MOT-11-2011, Remote central locking, Front and Rear Fog Lights, Immobiliser, Driver & Passenger Airbag, Mats All Round, Insurance Group 5, Tax 30-11-11, Service History (Full Service and timing belt Just Completed), Spare Key, Child locks, Body coloured bumpers.

Drives well and has no unusual knocks or wobbles, well looked after and in great condition. I have owned it for 3 years and a month, questions are very welcome!

Getting a company car is reason for this sale, have done 40,000 miles in this car with no breakdowns or problems, only general servicing and maintenance, 2 previous owners, non-smoking.

·         Year: 2001

·         Mileage: 100k

·         Manual 5 Speed Gearbox

·         Petrol 1.6 Zetec 16v

Windows Live Mail "Message is no longer available on the server" Error

So you open up Windows Live Mail and it has been working no problem for you, until, you are greeted with a message "Message is no longer available on the server" that gives you no solutions to the problem.

As you are here, I assume you used a search engine to find this helpful article.

The fix is very simple and easy with no fear of losing any emails you may have particularly the important ones you may have providing you are using IMAP as a protocol . If you are using POP then be sure to check that your settings are set to leave messages on the server until deleted from your trash folder.

1) Open up Windows Live Mail

2) Wait for everything to sync with servers etc.

3) Right click on the inbox button of the troubled account and select properties

4) Select the "Local File" tab and then click the "Delete" option (This is only deleting local copies of your emails and will then after download all your messages once again fresh)

I hope you find this a great help and please feel free to leave a comment which I will answer ASAP should you feel concerned or nervous about doing anything in this quick tip.

Lost Password MD5 Hash Solution

This may be useful to know if you ever need to reset a lost password when you still have direct access to the database.

Simply enter this MD5 hash code in to the password field of your database.

Password: 123456
MD5: e10adc3949ba59abbe56e057f20f883e

I have myself used this in the past for scripts such as the PHPBB community forum

I hope this helps anyway!

Competetive Insurance Quote Tips

THE TRUTH ABOUT CHEAPER MOTOR INSURANCE


WHAT ARE DRIVERS LOOKING FOR?

If there’s one thing that all drivers have in common, it is that they are all looking for cheaper motor insurance. Motor insurance is something that drivers are required by law to purchase and cannot drive on a public road without. It is not something that they necessarily want to buy, and a large number of drivers would not bother with motor insurance if it was not compulsory. However, it does have its benefits. Motor insurance protects victims of accidents by providing necessary funds to compensate them when they are involved in a car accident that is caused by someone else. Motor insurance also protects the person causing the accident as they will not be personally liable for all the costs involved. Added to this is the fact that your own car will be insured so any damage to it, or injury to you or your passengers will be paid for by the motor insurance company.

However, no matter how good an idea motor insurance is, and how necessary it is to protect road users and passengers, it is a simple fact of life that spending money on car insurance is a lot less fun than buying a new car, and all of us have other things that we would rather spend our money on. While motor insurance is necessary, there is a definite consensus among drivers of all ages and groups, that the cheaper the insurance, the better.

Can You Read This?

Can you read this?

This may really fascinate you, have a read of this below and you will be amazed at the fact it is actually still very readable.

I cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdanieg. The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid, aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it dseno't mtaetr in waht oerdr the ltteres in a wrod are, the olny iproamtnt tihng is taht the frsit and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae.

The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it whotuit a pboerlm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Azanmig huh? yaeh and I awlyas tghuhot slpeling was ipmorantt! if you can raed tihs rpsoet it.

Very weird, interesting how the human mind works though.

How To Treat A Girl (44 Ways)

I found this a little while back and thought I would share it, I am not sure I really agree with it all, I think some of it is just ridiculously corny and will actually make some girls cringe even.


I would love to see what people really think of these kind of things that tend to do the rounds in your email.


Have a read, I am fascinated to hear back!

Learning PHP and MySQL

Working on learning some new PHP and MySQL today and finding it not too bad!

Webiste Promotion Guide

I am often asked by people how they can promote their website and start getting the traffic all websites and businesses need, there are various methods you can begin to get you kickstarted on developing a popular website.

1) Search Engines Traffic.
Natural (or organic) traffic is type of traffic coming from all major search engines. If any visitor searches for some kind of information and finds your site in results, you get organic traffic! Unfortunately, it can be really hard (depending on your niche) to get website listed in the top of search engines. So one of things you may want to do – submit your URL to all major search engines manually. Usually just visit any search engine (where you want URL to be submitted) and type something like “submit URL” into search box. Engine will surely return a page where you may submit your URL for indexing. If your sites contains sitemap file (like sitemap.html or sitemap.xml), be sure to submit sitemap file as well - it will speed up whole indexing process.

Professional Website Design

Looking for website design services?

Website design is available at great prices for anyone interested, I would be glad to hear from you!

If you are looking for professional website design services then I offer a wide range of services to you or your company for great prices starting from just £99 ($150 USD) for a complete website.

I can also provide you with online marketing solutions to make sure your website works for you, after all, a website without traffic is like a vehicle without fuel, it wont be going anywhere.

Being a freelancer I can offer you the flexibility you may need when creating your perfect website, I can work around the times that are most convenient including evenings and weekends which you obviously don't get with a company.

If you are interested then please feel free to contact me to find out more and see if I can suit your needs.

Freelance Web Designer

Flash Vs HTML Search Engine Optimization

Only a short post here but I would love to get feedback from other web developers on this topic.

As a lot of web developers may know, when it comes to search engine optimization and Flash they are far from friend's, there is no way that search engine bots can read a Flash file. This leaves any kind of SEO non-existent.

I have to wonder, if somehow search engine bots were actually able to read Flash files, would this tempt you to get straight to learning or using Flash much more on websites than you do currently or do you prefer the physical feeling a hard coded website gives you along with knowing it will display on many more devices such as mobile phones etc?

Yiruma - Kiss The Rain/River Flows In You (Piano Medley)

I found this randomly on YouTube while browsing and really found it a great piece of music.




A really well done to the YouTuber playing this music!

Free Web Builders Devalue Web Designers Work

It can be slightly frustrating for any professional web designer out there when you are questioned regarding your work and how it is worth what they are paying due to the mass amount of advertisements of applications that suggest you can have a your own website up and running at just the click of a button.

Sure, it is very true that you can indeed have a website of your own live within minutes but those kind of services are far from professional, client's may not always realise that and the fact they will assume that is how websites are built can be a little annoying to say the least.

From Freewebs to the entire social networking community such as MySpace and Bebo etc, a lot of the popular websites you visit today now let you alter the way your page looks such as layout and colours or in the case of Freewebs you can completely create a site without a single line of code in sight and without paying a penny.

The difference that really matters when it comes to having a site designed professionally is that you get a lot more than just a better looking and better coded website.

Some of the advantages of having a website coded well as opposed to using any kind of visual site builder.



Accessibility - When a site is created, accessibility is often neglected and you are instantly ignoring a certain percentage of your visitors and quite possibly losing yourself potential leads and sales not to mention that it is actually a legal requirement to make sure your website is accessible to all including blind, deaf partially sighted and any other common disabilities.

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) - This would be one of your major sources of traffic should you have a well made site, search engines crawl websites with bots than scan the code of your pages to look for keywords and tons of other information to rank you in search result pages, a poorly coded web page just makes the life of those little bots that little bit harder, the term is known as "Code to Content" and you want to keep your code as clean as possible.

Cross Browser Compatibility - Ok, so most of you probably stick to using one browser and any bugs you find you may get fixed and make sure it looks good but only in the browser your using, coding a site so they validate with W3C can help you achieve cross browser compatibility much better than ignoring validation. There are still some minor differences between browsers and how they render your code but for the most part coding well will make sure the majority of possible issues never occur.

Page Load Times - I can't think of anything more tedious than a page that takes a while to fully load, a lot of load time can be reduced simply by creating pages correctly by which I mean validating and and not having useless code dotted around the place. Many visitors to your website may even hit their back button due to slow page load times so it is something to consider.

Those are a few of the most important aspects of having a professionally made website to consider.

So to sum up this article, you can indeed have yourself a website setup after just a few clicks of your mouse but is that going to give you a website that really works for you? How much do you really care about your visitors experience during their time on your website?

Most importantly, how serious do you want your visitors to take you?

So remember, when you pay good money for web design there is a reason behind it and it is not done in the "Drag Drop" environment that is often assumed.

Top Adsense Earners

Are your curious to know who some of the biggest Google Adsense earners are? I know that I was interested to know who the best are so I could check out their websites and see how I could possibly earn as much money as these people do. I realized from most of these sites that sites with user generated content usually ranked pretty highly for Google Adsense earners. It seems that these “community” type sites do tend to get a lot of traffic and we all know that traffic = money. So without any more delay here are a list of the top 8 Google Adsense earners as collected from online resources. Please note that this list might be a bit outdated but it has lots of useful information still.

Latest Nvidia Drivers

This is a cool driver widget I think was something interesting I could add to my blog so feel free to check for the latest Nvidia drivers here.

Combat Arms Open Beta

Hey, I was just having a look for something new to try game wise and came across Combat Arms, it really looks nice and as it is open beta it means you can all get your hands on it without it costing you anything.

I am downloading the open beta right now so if you are reading this why not come and join me in this sweet looking online FPS.

vBulletin 3.7.0 Released!

Today, the vBulletin team is proud to declare version 3.7.0 to be our stable, supported release.

vBulletin 3.7.0 is available immediately from the Members' Area to all customers with active vBulletin licenses, and will be offered as the primary choice to those making new purchases.

This release supercedes the 3.6.x branch as our primary product. vBulletin 3.6.x will continue to be maintained for a limited time, as outlined in the end-of-life announcement posted today. We recommend that all customers with active licenses upgrade to vBulletin 3.7.0.

There are many new features and improvements to existing functionality in vBulletin 3.7.0 over vBulletin 3.6.x, most of which have already been described in the release announcements for the various pre-release versions, and in the First Look thread that was posted at the beginning of the beta process, but here is a brief list of just a few of the highlights.

• Inline spam management & prevention
• Thread tagging
• Search cloud / tag cloud
• Thread prefixes
• Reciprocal friendships between users
• Public visitor messaging on profile pages with 'conversation' feature
• User picture galleries with user comment facility
• User-created social groups with invite only and moderated membership options
• Extended member profile pages
• Customizable member profile pages with admin-controlled styling abilities
• Inline editing of custom user profile fields
• Lightbox viewer for attached images
• Viewable and comparable history maintained for post edits
• Extended re-authentication for inline moderation actions
• Notices system for navigation bar
• Multiple human-verification systems including reCAPTCHA, image verification and Q/A
• User change history
• Social bookmarking integration

PHP and MySQL Requirements

vBulletin 3.7.0 requires at least PHP 4.3.3 and MySQL 4.0.16 (These are the same requirements as vBulletin 3.6), but we strongly recommend that all customers run PHP 5.2.5 with APC and MySQL 5.0.51 or later. Major performance benefits can be had by taking the recommended route rather than simply satisfying the required versions.

What is a 'Gold' Version?

When talking about software, the term 'gold' is not related to the color of the application. Rather, it refers to the practise of burning the final version of a software product to a CD-R so that it can be sent to a large scale CD press for large-scale distribution. It is used to indicate that the code is ready for deployment to customers. The official name of this new version is vBulletin 3.7.0.

Installing or Upgrading vBulletin

Anyone who has installed or upgraded any version of vBulletin 3 before will be familiar with the process, but for those who are new to the system, the vBulletin manual has all the details for installing and upgrading.

Template Changes

A large number of templates have been changed when compared with vBulletin 3.6.x. It will be necessary to revert affected customized templates or otherwise carefully integrate the changes into your custom versions or new features and existing functionality will be adversely affected. A complete list of the templates you have customized whose original version has been changed by the 3.7.0 upgrade is available within your Admin Control Panel after the upgrade is complete.

Bug Reports

As with any software, bugs will appear. If you find a problem that you believe to be a bug, please don't post about it on the forums where the development team may never find your message, but instead use the dedicated bug tracker to make a report that can be tracked through to completion.

Before reporting a bug, please ensure you are able to reproduce the problem on a board using a default, uncustomized style with all plugins disabled.

Google Ad Manager: A New Tool that will Improve Revenue

A few days ago, Google launched a new tool called Google Ad Manager to help website publishers manage their direct ads selling more effective.

If you run a content based website or blog, probably your main source of online revenue will depend on selling ads directly to advertisers . Selling ads directly to advertisers does involve management work and sale process and when your ad space were fully sold out, some advertisers may request to reserve an ad space for them if there is an ad space becomes available in future. If you do all the things manually, it will be time consuming and can easily make a mistake. The Google Ad Manager is seem to be created specifically for helping you solve these problems.

It will help manage your direct ads selling more easier and effective; and most importantly provide fast service to your advertisers. The tool is right for you if you want to consistently make money online by selling ads.

Google Ad Manager

And the good news is, Google Ad Manager isn't just restricted to Google Adsense network only. You can choose to use any ad network you like.

Best Paid Web Jobs

I have been wondering for a while now, what are some of the better paying jobs related to the web?

I know that that it depends on how good you are at something and not just what you do so with taking that in to consideration, what are the better jobs when it comes to opportunities with the web.

I am going to do some research to see what pays well but if you are able to post some f your own knowledge that would be great.

I will post an update when I have some more information regarding my question.