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Archive for May, 2010
3D videos on Youtube
May 31st
I have a sneaking suspicion that Youtube will soon start showing 3D videos especially when 3D televisions are becoming more popular and affordable. What do you think?
Loading ...BlackBerry Storm battery pull consumes 1/5 of battery
May 26th
Just recently I noticed my blackberry storm consuming almost 1/5 of the battery after performing a battery pull or even using the application Quickpull. Is this normal or is my battery going flat?
I’ve had this Blackberry Storm for over a year now and I expected the life of the battery to last longer than this. In any case I purchased two new batteries from eBay for about $4.00 each. I also decided to purchase a Bluetooth keyboard so I can quickly and easily type these posts on my Blackberry Storm.
Export Gmail emails to pst?
May 24th
Does anyone know whether it’s possible to export Gmail emails to a pst file? I would like to archive some emails from my Gmail account. I understand there’s a offline feature within Gmail which uses gears but I believe that you won’t be able to save this into a file. Any advice will be greatly appreciated.
Using Social Networking Websites to Advertise Your Business
May 21st
Using social networking websites such as twitter and facebook are now becoming the norm for advertising and marketing your business products or services. Quite a number of business all over the world are using twitter and facebook to connect and promote their businesses using viral marketing techniques. Creating an account for twitter and facebook is an easy task, but then how do you start promoting these two useful tools and start building a loyal fan or follower?
I believe the trick is to cross promote your business using these tool and give your fans and followers something that no other business is providing – maybe it’s humour, maybe it’s honesty, or it could even be the fact that your business is listening to what they are saying. To be honest we haven’t had a change to get around to setting up a facebook page for our company. We do have one for our Squeak brand – here’s our facebook page feel free to become a fan. We do intend to set up a facebook page in the next couple of months so what this space (that’s if we get around to it).
With twitter, we actually have almost 300 followers – here’s our twitter profile. now I’m not too sure how many of these followers are actually legit but for those that are thanks for following us. If it’s done correctly you can actually integrate twitter into your facebook account and vice versa. So potentially you can reach both your fans and followers.
Does anyone have any good strategies for using twitter and facebook?
Digital Signage Blog – number of posts on homepage
May 14th
Many of us use a blog to advertise our business to the online community and for this month I decided to make a few tweaks on our digital signage blog to determine whether the number of blog post on the homepage affects pagerank, search ranking etc. I will track the progress and update you all on how this impacts the webiste ranking and so forth
2/05/2010 – decreased the number of posts on the homepage to 5 – to improve load times and also for SEO purposes. Lets see if this makes a difference.
14/7/2010 – it’s been over two months and we noticed that changing the number of posts to 5 has had an effect on our website. We’ll change this back to 30 and see what it does.
ANZ Mobile Banking on the Blackberry
May 7th
Today, I had to process an urgent invoice so I thought to myself why not use my Blackberry to make the payment via the ANZ website.
I thought it was going to be a very simple process, login, enter the bank details and then make the payment. This wasn’t the case.
So this is what happened: I logged in to the ANZ Internet Banking website using the built in Blackberry browser. It was then stuck on the Welcome to the ANZ Internet Banking screen and couldn’t click (press) on the “Proceed to Internet Banking”. Maybe there’s a trick to do this? More >
Advertise Me Planning Session
May 1st
Yesterday, we took the time out of a busy week and spent the whole day to plan for advertise me‘s future goals and objectives.
We generally do this every year because as a business you need to spend the time to understand and determine whether your business is heading in the right direction and prioritise resources for current and future projects.
