I have a limited number of O2 mobile phone sim cards that I am giving away free to my readers. These sim cards use the O2 Pay As You Go Favourite Place tariff. They come with 500 free UK minutes to O2 mobiles and standard UK landlines from your chosen postcode. Simply activate the sim [...]

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I came across this interesting Google Ad on my web site. It looks like a video. I didn’t click on the advert but I thought it was a clever idea. It certainly catches your eye more than the traditional text link ads. Here is a screenshot I took. Anyone else seen these types of ad [...]

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Back in February I installed the Math Comment Spam Protection WordPress Plugin on this site. The results were very effective. For the last few months it has proved a superb defense again spam. But in recent weeks it seems the spambots have got smarter. I am now getting a steady stream of spam messages getting [...]

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Would you like me to write a free review of your blog or web site and post it on this web site? If you’re interested all you have to do is comment on any of the posts in this blog (excluding trackbacks). Posting one comment after another is not allowed. I currently have over 200 [...]

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It’s now been a month since I started using Google AdSense on this site. I’ve read that the Google AdSense terms and conditions state you cannot mention your exact earnings. It wasn’t a huge amount, under $50. The question is, can I keep the momentum going and will revenue increase from month to month? How [...]

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Flickr announced improvments to it’s slide show feature. It now supports full screen slideshows like Google Picasa web albums.

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During my current series on Webmaster and SEO tools I made reference to Clicky Web Analytics which is competing with the likes of Google Analytics. Clicky is still under development and new features are appearing on a regular basis. The latest one which I like is Feedburner integration. Using the FeedBurner API it enables Clicky to hook into your FeedBurner stats and display them in your Clicky home page.

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With the release of Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn now less than a week away, the next release of Ubuntu 7.10 has been announced, dubbed The Gutsy Gibbon. The Gutsy Gibbon release schedule shows a release date of 18th October 2007.

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