This is the weblog of Brian Curd. A lot of it is written on the spur of the moment and any benefit you gain from it is worth exactly what you paid!
A couple of years ago I bought a Humax Foxsat HD box for my father-in-law. Not a luxury, as he lives in Ventnor here on the Island and satellite is pretty much the only way to get additional channels there. It’s worked brilliantly until recently when he reported a problem – the display just showed [...]
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Filed under: Family, Hardware, Isle of Wight, Search Engines, Techie
Ever wondered how long it would take to upload some data? Well of course it depends on at least a couple of things – namely how much data and how fast the connection is. Obviously you know how much data needs to be moved, and the speed for your broadband connection can be found by [...]
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Filed under: Search Engines, Techie
Garan has beaten me to it with a recent posting on his blog. He writes about some very important news for the majority of UK internet users. If you want the internet to remain the relatively open and free place it is today and you want your browsing habits to remain personal, I suggest you [...]
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Filed under: Hardware, Hosting, Scams, Search Engines, Software, Spam, Techie
I had a call this morning from one of my web customers; they have been contacted by a company called something like “First Found” offering to make sure their website appears at the number one position in various search engines. This is an old ploy which, I suppose, may work in some cases. Unfortunately the [...]
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Filed under: Scams, Search Engines
Smashing Magazine explains the inner workings of Google Page Rank. It’s a fairly long read but well worth the effort.
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Filed under: Search Engines, Techie
Ever wondered what a website looked like or contained a few years ago? Well there’s no need to as WayBack Machine offers a way to do it. Just enter the domain name in the search box and click the button. Click on the relevant date and travel back in time – be warned though, some [...]
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Filed under: Search Engines, Software, Techie
Steve sent me this little tip today. Go to www.google.com Click on “maps” Click on “get directions” Type “New York” in the first box (the “from” box) Type “London” in the second box (the “to” box) Hit get directions Scroll down to and check, step #24 Good luck
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Filed under: Funny, Search Engines
Google have added a, long-awaited, charting function to their spreadsheet facility. I have taken a stab at using it in my Spam Count audit.
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Google Notebooks are a new Google feature which makes it very easy to collect information snippets from your surfing. This is great for all sorts of applications but in my case, a real boon for genealogy bits and pieces. A nice little Firefox add-in completes the application. Note: You’ll need to setup a Google account [...]
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Filed under: Search Engines, Software, Techie
