Do you use a program that requires you to push the same seemingly pointless “are you sure you want to do this?” type buttons?, wouldn’t it be nice if they were pressed automatically so you could save your fingers and do something else?

Some computer programs pester you with their endless dialog boxes repeating the same questions. Would you like to do X? Are you sure you mean to do Y? If you know what you want and are tired of telling your PC the same things over and over, use PTFB (short for “Push the Freakin’ Button”), a button-pressing utility I have been using since 2005 and has saved me tens of thousands of pointless clicks.

When a dialog box asks the PC equivalent of “are we there yet?”, in a few seconds you can tell PTFB which button it should press, and the program will take care of that specific confirmation button forever afterwards. You can set the program to press the same button in similar dialogs as well as it’s quite flexible if you need it to be.

You can download the free version here, or buy the pro version so the guy can make some money for his great software – the free version has been all I need for this sort of stuff for the past 4 years though.

Give it a try, keep away the RSI. No those are no my fingers in the image, make sure they are not yours either.

Might start throwing tips into this blog from time to time, here’s a quicky…

In programs such as a web browser where you type something into a textbox and it lists all the things you have typed before, if you are like me and actually use those to save you typing what you are looking for in full this is for you.

To remove stored entries in almost any of them just highlight them using the arrow keys and press the delete key to remove them from the history of that individual textbox so you have less crap to scroll through as you use your computer efficiently.

This probably works on mac and linux computers too, logically it would but I only have time to use one PC OS.

It’s important when you are selling something online to secure the page where the customer gets the goods so that search engines dont index the page, many webmasters make this slip-up, heres a couple of quick queries you can tell your friends about – or just send them to this page where I will add more as in time…

http://www.google.com/search?q=%22CLICKBANK%2FKEYNETICS+will+appear%22&rls=com.microsoft:en-us&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&startIndex=&startPage=1

http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=inurl%3A%22cbreceipt%22+&sourceid=navclient-ff&ie=UTF-8&rlz=1B3GGGL_en___GB215

If you understand the principle – you are looking for pages indexed in google that confirm someone has paid for something and are now offering the links to the goods, you can start playing…. here are some queries to get you started:

Your credit card or bank statement will show a charge from CLKBANK*com
A charge from CLKBANK
A Charge from paypal
Paypal payment or paypal payment confirmed
Paypal Statement
CLKBANK save as
CLKBANK Download instructions
CLKBANK*com
cbreceipt or cbreceipt click
CLKBANK right click or CLKBANK click
Download the latest version of adobe acrobat reader
right click save target as
right click save
right click save file as
Click here to download
Save target as
Save file as
recieve future updates
username is password is
username: password:
Members or Members area
Thank you for your order
Thank you for your purchase
Thanks for your order
Thanks for your purchase
Thanks for purchasing……
Order Confirmation
Order Confirmed

First flight from Gatwick since I was around 7, and fronting started with  driving our car there so we could drop it off with the “meet and greet” service person who would stick it god knows where for the two weeks while we were away.

Then we had a fairly simple but slow journey through the processes of the airport starting with us being 12.5kg overweight on suitcases, one of which was 10kg over but that’s to be expected when you travel with a baby and have all the things required to do so.

We were charged for 9kg excess baggage which came to £36, around double what it would have been if we were able to pay in advance. I’m writing this first bit on the outbound flight, young couple next to me who seem scared by me holding a phone after the excessive pre-flight warning video obviously scared them sufficiently.

Today we are flying with “Kiss flights” who seem to be “freebird” some turkish airline and somehow this confusing setup is all linked to the owner of XL who liquidated last year taking our holiday to the canary islands with them. Fortunately I paid by credit card so didn’t have the refund headaches so many other people had.

In-flight meal was 0/10, couldn’t eat much of it but then the best I could determine beforehand there wasn’t even going to be any meal included so was a pleasant surprise anyway.

Its now Wednesday, we have been at club turban for 3 or 4 days now, starting to lose track of time as this place is so relaxing and has it all. This morning I had a bali massage straight after breakfast which has to be the best massage in a long time and beats Thai massage hands down..

Natasa had a health massage yesterday which she really enjoyed too. The food here is pretty good, there’s lots of variety and always easy to find something you like, my appetite died for 24 hours on Monday, bit of  a bad belly adjusting to new cooking but that always happens when I go on holiday to a new place.

our transfer bus was pretty small and crammed with Brits, we were the ultimate drop off and joked that the hotels looked better and better as each lot were dropped off. Our hotel I’m happy to say was no exception, impressive first impression with the massive lobby and gardens that are brilliantly laid out.

The first night here after the many hours of traveling Natasa and theory went to bed while I went to get wasted, the spirits are very generous measures and get to work quick!, I then set out to find the disco, via the sunset bar on the beach where I got more whiskey and coke, the disco was pretty much dedicated to me for the time I was there, a basic place with a mix CD, the “DJ” didn’t change it to techno when I drunken asked him ;)..

So here on Wednesday afternoon me and Theo are on the beach, him sleeping, Natasa in the sauna and Turkish baths until 3 when we have a late snack session at the Italian a-la carte.

Nationality wise its mostly Russians and British, quite a lot of Serbs, couple of dutch and have not heard and Germans!.

The reviews all bitched about arrogant Russians pushing in at the restaurant and there not being enough Brits, well I have to say every nationality here is outstandingly well behaved except northern brits who are loud mouthed chavvy lancs. Through and through, I had to tell one of them to keep his voice down yesterday as he was being an embarrassment, the Russians not admiring seeing the northern family from he’ll spitting on each other…

The evening shows are pretty good, some sexy Russian dancers some nights, others have comedy shows.

Today is Wednesday of week two, on Sunday we did our a-la carte seafood dinner which was super tasty bream and bass after a few nice starters with an enjoyable bottle of wine. Made a nice change from the main restaurant although we did walk to Marmaris with the pushchair on Friday I think and had dinner there while admiring the yachts. The buses are cheap and more like a van than a bus, but a collapsed pushchair is no problem to take on.

Sunday I took Theo to see the hotel doctor as he started to get Natasa’s cold, long story short we paid 240 lira just to get a basic check then another 2003 for some basic medication that got delivered to the hotel.

Yesterday was really amazing as we went scuba diving for the first time. I had many chances to do this on my 4 trips to Thailand but never got round to it… So yesterday for 150 lira I had two dives and Natasa had 1, the instructor offer everyone the chance to upgrade the dive to a 12 metre deep start odds Discover SCUBA Diving which me and a guy from Russia did and we were both blown away by the experience, getting the pushchair onto the speedboat that took us to the lifeboat was a little unnerving but the people at paradise diving (www.paradisediving.net) handled every aspect of the day brilliantly, we saw another couple of boats around the second dive site that looked pretty shit but the paradise diving boat was 10/10.

Our room is 1115 so pretty near the lobby where you get free wifi, so with our Nokia E71 phones we have free WIFI from our room, you get the login details from reception.

To my surprise when we had a look around the boat I saw up top a load of topless Russian girls with some bloke taking photos of them that added an extra dimension to the day…

If you are looking for a place to stay in Marmaris-Icmeler I recommend club turban, we sneaked into the next hotel along (all three appear to be owned by the same company) called Mares, initially it looks great but we were told otherwise. The second sneak trip we tried to score a couple of free ice creams, as we walked away the guy asked for 10 lira, strange as there were no prices listed and inconvenient as we only had a total of 70 lira left thanks to the doctor and there being no cash machines within 5km (take lots of cash with you). we said to the ice cream guy that was too much and started to walk away, then he said we could pay tomorrow, so we took it, never to return.

If you are wondering which currency to take with you, believe it or not getting lira before you fly is not the best way – you get great prices here paying directly with pounds sterling, euro also works well, and the exchange rate here is better than back in the UK.

Everyone at club turban was amazing, friendly and helpful. We were there for the first two weeks in September and most days were 36 degrees C, only the afternoon on the last day did it rain and the staff rearranged the outside resources including the many dinner tables and brought them all in to the main hall while they were also preparing teo of the three MASSIVE exhibition halls for a wedding.

We found out from a lovely pensioners couple that they had been to each of the three a-la carte restaurants for free whereas our booking only entitled us to 1 so if you are booking then ask about that.

Also some of the tripadvisor reviews mentioned the overpriced freshly squeezed orange juice in the restaurant, Mick and Margaret told us you just need to tell the woman you want to pay the regular price of 4tl rather than the advertised 6.99tl and she will go with it.

Its our last night now, our transfer bus picks us up at 01:40 which is going to be a pain then we don’t fly until 07:20 I think so this is going to be a long night – then we fly to Gatwick for 3 hours or so after which I call our meet and greet car service who have had our car for the last 2 weeks… Hopefully it is still as we left it and not too many more miles on the clock. Finally after that I drive us all round the M25 semi conscious so we can sleep all day at home – I’m  sure we will all go back to turkey and wouldn’t mind at all going back to club turban.

A couple of years ago we had to change the driveway on our house as a delivery truck caused the original one to sink and crack a concrete path. So I had the unenjoyable task of searching for reliable block paving contractors and bricklayers as I wanted to get a partition wall built at the same time.

After getting 5 salesmen to come in and show me flashy brochures, I weighed up their costs and the impression I got from them about the company they represented and made my decision, the final result was a pretty good block paving replacement but a brick wall that started to literally fall apart after 3 months due to the fact the mortar was not well mixed and the coping stones were coming off the top and a row of bricks had partly collapsed.

So how can the internet help us to avoid cowboy builders and plumbers?, well I was looking for spare parts for an old car of mine once upon a time and came across a website that you could specify what you were looking for, supply your contact details, and shortly after that I had several quick and friendly phonecalls from breakers yards offering the exact part (an electric window motor for my Nissan Primera) all at least 75% cheaper than a brand new one from Nissan and they would all post it to me. I picked one and the next day had the part installed… fantastic!.

But back to cowboys and how to avoid them, I found recently a website where people who have hired a tradesman write up a review of how it went so you could instantly get references for previous jobs that a local tradesman had already carried out recently they seem to get 1000’s of jobs every week so it must be really working.

All you do is sign up – which is free and takes 30 seconds, then you post details of the job. e.g. “My tap won’t stop dripping!” and then literally within around 10 minutes you can have 3 calls from highly rated local tradesmen asking if they can come round and quote for the job. Best of all, it’s free to use as a customer (they make money from the tradesmen) and none of the tradesmen who rang when I tried the service wanted to charge me for coming out to quote.

It’s free for you to get quotes from tradesmen so get that job done with someone reliable!

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