Looking for a sub-£300 branded laptop – look no further than this!

Posted on March 10, 2012 by admin
Fujitsu Lifebook AH530 Laptop

This is the option with 500GB Hard Disk and 4GB RAM

Fujitsu Lifebook AH530 Laptop

This is certainly one to keep in mind!

Fujitsu have been in the Laptop business for a very long time and although have regularly been overlooked due to other bigger brands being in the spotlight they are certainly not one to overlook.

This is currently available on eBuyer – http://www.ebuyer.com/341124-fujitsu-lifebook-ah530-laptop-vfy-ah530mp503gb for £299.

They also do the cheaper model with 350GB Hard Disk and 2GB RAM for £279.99 – http://www.ebuyer.com/341123-fujitsu-ah530-lifebook-laptop-vfy-ah530mp502gb

So, if you’re looking for a full size laptop, not a netbook, this is definitely one to consider and isn’t a great deal more expensive!

Please leave a comment if you have one of these, be good to hear some feedback!

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Twitter – key to higher follower numbers?

Posted on August 2, 2011 by admin

Twitter LogoThe basic answer is that you have to engage with your audience. Think of Twitter as an extension to your presence in real life.

Talk about things you’re doing, hobbies, jobs, where you are can help by attracting followers from the areas you’re visiting – FourSquare can really help here – check it out!

You should start using ‘#’ tags – this enables your tweets to show up more easily in searches on Twitter. For example, if you’re looking for help fixing your broken Vauxhall motorcar you would add #Vauxhall to your tweet. Anyone then searching for this will see your tweet – and don’t be surprised if you have a Vauxhall dealership or mechanic somewhere reply!

And most importantly do engage – that is the key word. If you have a BlackBerry, iPhone, Android phone there are apps for Twitter available. Otherwise you can access the site at mobile.twitter.com (data charges will apply, so if you don’t want to be charged check with your mobile provider first!)

And post often!

If you would like any further advice and tips just comment below and I’ll be happy to assist!

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Implementing Facebook’s ‘Like’ Button to your site

Posted on April 10, 2011 by admin

Adding the ‘Like’ button to a web site is fairly simple. Facebook actually have quite a good Developer web site which tells you how to do this.

There are a few steps you need to follow to do this successfully.

  1. Visit the following web site: http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/plugins/like/
  2. Scroll down to ‘Step 1 – Get Like Button Code‘
  3. Add the web address for your site to the ‘URL to Like’ field
  4. Leave the rest as it is and click on ‘Get Code’
  5. Copy the code from ‘iframe’ and paste it somewhere in the <body> section of your page
  6. Next – scroll down to ‘Step 2 – Get Opn Graph Tags‘
  7. In ‘Title’ add something like ‘My site’
  8. In ‘URL’ add the address of your site
  9. If you want an image to appear next to the ‘Like’ on Facebook add a web link to it in the ‘Image’ field
  10. In ‘Site name’ add the actual name that you want people to see so ‘Toby White’s web site
  11. Click on ‘Get Tags’ and again copy the code from the ‘iframe’ section to the <head> section of your site – anywhere before </head>

Upload your site and test it out, when you click on ‘Like’ it should pop up and ask you to log in to Facebook if you haven’t already and update saying you ‘Like’ that page. This will update and be reflected on your Profile as well if it’s worked successfully.

To add the button to Tumblr follow the steps above and continue with the following:

  1. Make sure you’re logged into Tumblr
  2. Click on Customize -> Theme -> It should say something like ‘Use custom HTML’
  3. Now that you can see the code you can search using your web browser (Ctrl + F on Windows or Option + F on Mac) to find the specified <head> and </body> tags.
  4. Depending where you want the ‘Like’ button on your layout will depend on what theme you have installed, look for the ‘header’ section in the code

Please leave feedback if you have any questions…

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Need a free text editor? – Check out Notepad ++

Posted on April 10, 2011 by admin

Okay so it’s only available on Windows but then there are plenty of great editors already available for Linux and Mac so – what’s so great about this one you may ask.

Well – it’s free and what you get for the number of features available is tonnes of power and capability.

I know most dedicated web devs or programmers won’t necessarily be using Windows but for those who do try this out and let me know what you think.

I really do like it!

You can find it here: www.notepad-plus-plus.org

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Microsoft Security Essentials – I recommend it over others!

Posted on March 13, 2011 by admin

The first advantage of MSE is that it’s 100% free, and I would think most likely always will be… as it’s in Microsoft’s own interest to ensure that it’s client’s and customers are safe and secure whilst using their operating system!

The second advantage of it is that it’s going to be honed to the exact architecture and specific requirements of the OS.

Other things to mention are that it’s integrated directly with Windows/Microsoft update so virus definitions are updated automatically.

Basically the whole piece of software integrates beautifully with the Windows OS (Server versions also available!), it doesn’t slow the computer down unnecessarily and it doesn’t affect usage.

I’ve always said ‘why should you pay for software to protect you from viruses and malware, Microsoft should provide you with this protection’ and now they are finally doing that.

For personal, home and small business users this is perfect!

You can find the download link & more information here: http://www.microsoft.com/security_essentials/

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