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Learned something new and made a T-Shirt about it

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Inspiration to get up off your arse and do something

Need to turn a password you can remember in your head into one that looks like you could never remember it – or the person looking over your shoulder?

Keep your usual password if you need to; just move your fingers over one  space on the keyboard to the left or right.

If you want a secure password without having to remember anything complex, try shifting your fingers one set of keys to the right. It will make your password look like gibberish, will often add in punctuation marks, and is quick and simple.

• password => [sddeptf
• letmein => ;ry,rom
• money => .pmru
• love => ;pbr

It’s not as good as going for a complex strong password but it’s probably stronger than what you have now.

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The brilliance of simplicity

You can now download free Apps (from 1st April) from the O2 App store (inc Google maps, You Tube, Google Calendar etc).

Offer ends 15th April

The OS kernel runs on Linux 2.6
The GUI is Flash based: Flash 10 and Action Script 3
Display
7 diagonal TFT LCD with 16.7M colors (24 bits)
800?80 resolution (WVGA), 225 dpi
Brightness: 350 cd/m2
Contrast: 300:1
Viewing angle: 130° horizontal, 110° vertical
Glass-surface touchscreen
Capacitive touch
No stylus

Get this for only £49.99 before 15th April here!

What others are saying about the Joggler

“Well the O/H was not impressed that I bought one as she said its just a useless gadget but now she listens to the internet radio through the aux input on her kitchen mini system. She has all her fav stations saved and as I type she is dancing around the kitchen and just said this thing is fantastic”"



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O2 Joggler – £49.99 Now with FREE App Store * still available instore & order online for delivery after 17/04*

For the extra controller I ordered a black wii remote with motion plus from Tesco and used plenty of clubcard vouchers taking the cost to 71p, sweet bargain hunting again…

This combined with the Dyson DC25 we picked up from Argos over christmas for £195 reduced from £285 and Todds Maxi Cosi Axiss car seat for £145 from £210 means we bagged a few bargains this new year.

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I finally decided to jump on the Wii Bandwagon

In the week the manager of that branch of Mothercare offered me 10% discount for the one on display which is in perfect condition – I told him I had a voucher for 10% off anyway – he wouldn’t go the extra mile and make it a 20% discount so we had no deal.

Today however we were more persuasive and he caved in – so with the £25 gift card our friend Anu gave us – and the £170 price the manager agreed to we got the seat we wanted there and then – fitted for us – for the far more reasonable cost of £145. It’s a great char too, the chair turns on the base when you pull a lever on either side so your child can face the door while you strap them in, then with a turn of the chair they are facing forward ready to go.

A very smart design they most likely have patented.

Kiddicare have them in stock for delivery, get your maxi-cosi axiss car seat now

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Theo upgraded to a Maxi-Cosi Axiss car seat today

Then the magic happens

Upload the generated file, the javascript framework file, and optionally a couple of extra customizations then wack code into your header and footer.

Add to header such as

<script src=”/js/cufon-yui.js” type=”text/javascript”></script>
<script src=”/js/bradfont3_700.font.js” type=”text/javascript”></script>

Add to footer such as

<script type=”text/javascript” src=”/js/cufon-config.js”></script>

Whats the point of all this?

Your regular text titles etc will be converted to super antialiased images on the fly in the browser for a super sleek custom font look, great for sites with a DB back end such as this wordpress blog!.

My cufon-config.js on day1 includes just this

Cufon.replace(‘h1′)(‘h2′)(‘h3′);
Cufon.now();

But that could change as I play with it more, but for now this is perfect.

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Found out how to dynamically create header text images!

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Caffeine drinks bad – sleep good

Foxes Chocolatey Shortcake Rounds

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These are the best biscuits ever

Windows Twitter Clients

The best of the bunch is TweetDeck, perhaps the most popular professional Adobe Air client for Twitter. Supports, searches, groups, multiple accounts

CRM
If you are serious about doing business through twitter, you will most probably use some kind of CRM tool for Customer Relationship Management.

• CureCRM – Twitter and Email bases CRM
• Salesforce Service Cloud supports Twitter
• IGOpeople Twitter CRM business suite
• Microsoft Dynamics CRM offers a Twitter “accelerator” integration

Twitter User Directories
If just searching for someone isn’t enough for you to find people you could always use one of the directories that have sprung up.

• Twellow – Twitter “Yellow Pages”
• JustTweetIt is a clean and web directory with many users
• Geofollow – Location based Twitter directory covering the whole planet
• Twibes find people based on what they are interested in!

Enhancements to Twitter
Twitter has only very basic features, even Twitter clients offer only a few more. Since the Twitter API was released so people could make their own software to interface with Twitter there are literally thousands of tools.

• TwitterLocal allows you to address local Twitter users
• Social Oomph (formerly Tweet Later) is a tool with multiple features, some of clients some of extra tools, scheduling and automating tweets are just two of them
• PingFM allows to submit links to Twitter, Facebook and many other services at once

Other favorite of mine is Twitter Fall which makes for interesting viewing.

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Twitter tools for business