Archive for August, 2010

Site of the day:sampsonmay.com

sampsonmay.com – Came across this site today, it belongs to a London based design consultancy – I love the simple layout! Very effective.

Website best practices

Lesson of the day: ALWAYS test and double test structural changes to a website – our best advertising space on Shareworld (top of page above menu and below logo) has been performing exceptionally bad for the last month – about 0.1%ctr – today we found out why: a link had pushed the adverts behind the [...]

.NET Magazine

Don’t think I’m going to renew my subscription to .NET Mag next time around – I know they’re probably very busy and I’m inconsequential, but they have NEVER answered any email I’ve sent them – I don’t think thats too great:(

Spam Prevention gone mad

Posted on Experts-Exchange – 17th August 2010, awaiting response!! Can someone explain a few things about spam prevention, blacklists and exchange RBLs… Basically, as I understood it, if you are running an exchange server then it is of primary importance that you keep your public IP(s) off of blacklists – otherwise when your sending email [...]

Google Caffeine – Wow!

Google Caffeine has been live for some time now. Google made a big thing of their new index saying it would provide 50% fresher results, and also that it would index the internet in a more efficient way, and at a much faster rate. They weren’t joking! I tried a little experiment this morning to [...]

turning off predictive text on the iphone

Took me ages to find out how to turn off predictive text on the iphone, so I thought Id post it here: Settings>General>keyboard> Auto-correction=off.

Twitter down

Can’t beleive it -twitters down this evening ! Apparently they Have engineers working on the problem as we speak – would love to see twitters servers and how they go about trouble shooting and fixing a problem with the service!!

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