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One way to avoid spam

Dave — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 10:39:45 +0000

We all get our fair share of Spam. One way to avoid spammers automated software that crawls the net is to disguise your address. The easiest thing to do is leave out the @ symbol and the full stop and enter your address like this “yourname AT yourdomain DOT com”.

You can also make the “@” an image or use JavaScript to make your address a clickable link.

Photo by Mulad (CC)

Adding free pictures to a blog post

Dave — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 16:50:25 +0000

Photo by royskeane (CC)

To make a blog post more appealing it always helps to add a picture. A great way to pretty up posts is to use Creative Commons. People add photos to Flickr and allow people use them, all they want in return is Attribution.

Photo by royskeane (CC) This is attribution.

To search for a photo Goto http://www.flickr.com/creativecommons/by-2.0

Search for a photo you like. I like Bridges in Cork so I entered Bridge Cork and the beautiful picture above came up.

iTouch post

Dave — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 21:28:12 +0000

Test post published from my iTouch. There are some great applications available for download on iTunes. RememberThe Milk is a very useful list application. This post was published using a WordPress plugin. Its great for updating your blogs when you…

Review of Charleville Park Hotel

Dave — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 16:25:52 +0000

Charleville Park Hotel,
limerick road,
charleville,
cork,
ireland

Funnily enough I haven’t been here yet! However The Charleville Park Hotel gets 5 stars for being so helpful during the week. I emailed the hotel to see if there was wireless available and the kind lady on reception told me that it was only available for guests and people who rent to conference rooms. I was neither of these but as she said, since I was good enough to ask, she said I could use their wireless.

I was delighted for 2 reasons, A) to get offered something that I didn’t ask for, and B) to get a reply to my email so quickly.

Well done. When I get there next week I’ll review the Cappuccino!!

Rated 5/5 on Nov 07 2008
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Review Tags: hotel, cork

Nokia shortcut

Dave — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 10:14:47 +0000

Here is a handy shortcut for everyone with a Nokia phone. If you are going into a meeting, going into Chapel or heading into the cinema, instead of finding your way through the menu to select the silent profile, simply hold the “#” for a few seconds and the phone will automatically change to your silent profile. Simple.

I found this using Twitter. Twitter is a micro-blogging service that allows its users to send and read other users’ updates. These updates are limited to 140 characters of text, the same limit that is on an SMS text message. I’ll blog about it more in the future.

Really Simple Syndication (RSS)

Dave — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 10:54:43 +0000

RSS is great. There is a perception that it’s complicated and its only used by techies but really it can be understood by the masses. Have a look at this video, RSS in Plain English; it explains it in a simple, fun, and unique way, using diagrams!!

I explained the RSS basics last week to 4…..let’s call them punters, and after watching the video they could understand the concept, and see why it was so useful. I’m now hoping that this will be the first blog they will subscribe to!

Of course it’s not just for blogs, most, if not all news sits now have RSS feeds. For example on the Irish Times site you can subscribe to a number of feeds: Sport, Technology, Finance etc. Have a look on their RSS page.

Broadband in your area

Dave — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 20:57:42 +0000

Here is a great resource, provided by the government to list all the broadband providers in your local area. Use the arrows on the map to pan to your location in Ireland and click the “Identify Providers” button to get a comprehensive list of DSL, mobile and satellite broadband providers in your area.

Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya.

Dave — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 10:58:13 +0000

Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father prepare to die

Here are some clips from my favourite movie, The Princess Bride.

Going to head out this weekend to get an autumnal picture for my banner above. Some people don’t appreciate the seniors holding hands in the picture up top……….