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After a quick go on a friends Wii yesterday I decided to get one myself and spent a while looking for the most cracking deal I could find Also I want to drop a bit of weight and pretty much every review of the Wii Fit Plus thing says it’s shithot for dropping a stone or two so I wanted a bundle deal of the two with a couple of decent controllers for fun games. Play have the limited edition black wii with the fit plus and a few sports games too for £240 with free delivery just need to wait a week or two for stock.

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.

We decided last week that the Maxi-Cosi Axiss was the one to get, but it was out of stock everywhere that had a remotely decent price on it (generally retails  around £210). So today we popped into Mothercare to order one for delivery, turns out you can’t even do that!

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

If you are looking at the title tags on my blog from today you will notice they look utterly friggin’ beautiful. There is a javascript include called cufon that you upload a font to their site, select a couple of easy options, their site then generates a text file that converts your TTF fonts into a mumbo jumbo code their javascript understands.

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.

Like most people, at first I thought twitter was a load of rubbish – then people started developing applications around the concept and you can go crazy with it now – I am quite heavily into twitter nowadays.

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.

Usual cost £149.99

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