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Be careful when geotagging your photos

admin — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 12:17:25 +0000

How many of you are geotagging your photos without even realising it. Geotagging basically means using a GPS (Global Positioning System) to work out the exact location you took the photo. People are using this to showcase where they’ve taken pictures of their favourite location but there’s something you need to be careful of. If you don’t switch off geotagging on your mobile phone for private pictures (ie like your home, food you’ve eaten for dinner, your favourite pets) you’re actually giving away your location – where you live.
Cyberstalking is growing dramatically due to the increase usage of social networking tools + GPS enabled phones and by uploading or sending your images, you’re actually revealing your location. So we just want you to be careful and before uploading any pictures to any website on the Internet or sending photos to friends, make sure you’ve disabled geotagging unless you specifically want to use it.
I’ve done some testing and it’s quite scary – most websites like facebook strip this information from the file before publishing it so you’re quite safe. But sending emails with images from the iphone is a different story.

As an example, I picked up my friends Iphone4 and showed them this issue. I went to their photos and selected places… then I showed them on the map where they lived and they freaked out. Imagine losing your phone or if someone borrowed your phone without you realising… there goes your identity which I find very scary.
Still don’t believe me? You can download a software tool called ExifTool that read meta information in files (this will include GPS co-ordinates) and open up a photo you took on your iphone.
If you want to disable geotag on your iphone these are the steps I have found on the Internet (I don’t have an iphone so don’t know whether they work):

- On your iPhone, and select “Settings” from the menu screen.
- Press “General,” and then select “Reset”
- Select the “Reset Location Warnings” option
- Press “Reset Warnings”
- Press and open your camera application on the menu screen. Select “Don’t Allow” when prompted.

So be careful and don’t ADVERTISE your location! You might be leaving footprints without you even realising.

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wordpress for blackberry cannot add custom blogs after 1.4.2

admin — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 07:25:16 +0000

Has anyone noticed that you can no longer add your own custom blog, it just has the wordpress.com or wordpress.org?

Seems to have happened after the upgrade to 1.4.2. Is this a bug or do they just want to lock it down to those two sites?

I feel so frustrated!!!

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Post tags: Anyone Noticed That, Blackberry, Blog, Blogs, Wordpress

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wordpress for blackberry cant upload images after 1.4.2

admin — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 09:28:56 +0000

Is anyone having problems with adding photos, images or videos from their media library after upgrading their blackberry for wordpress to version 1.4.2

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Post tags: Blackberry, Media Library, Photos Images, Upload Images, Videos, Wordpress

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Error message with Facebook I like plugin

admin — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 07:32:07 +0000

We recently installed the Facebook I like plugin and noticed the following error message:

After searching on the Internet for a while I couldn’t figure out what the issue was. I used a bit of logic and applied the trial and error method and found the solution. The solution is quite simple. All you have to do is go into the Like Button settings page and click iFrame for the Type.

error message facebook i like

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Post tags: Error Message, Error Method, Facebook, Logic, Trial And Error

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Integrating Facebook with our blogs

admin — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 08:58:15 +0000

I decided to start doing a bit more social with our blogs and signed up for the facebook api integration. In our blog posts you’ll notice the I Like Facebook buttons and the ability to login using your facebook account. One of the additional features we’ve included is the ability to comment using your facebook account.

There were two plugins we used: WP-FacebookConnect and Facebook Like. The idea of using these plugins and integrating our blogs to facebook is to generate more traffic and make it easier for our readers to comment on blog posts. We hope you like these features.

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Post tags: Api, Blog, Blogs, Buttons, Facebook, Integration, Plugins, Traffic

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advertising blackberry ads on the iphone4

admin — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 03:22:42 +0000

I found it amusing that the iphone4 app was showing ads for the blackberry and decided to take a photo.

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iphone4 or BlackBerry

admin — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 00:00:14 +0000

With the launch of the iphone4 in Australia our team has been in a heated debate as to which phone our company should be using and promoting. The majority of us have used the blackberry storm but have been having several issues with it since we initially purchased them almost two years ago. There has been version upgrades which have dramatically fixed some of these major issues but at the same time one of my collegues has complained about missed calls. The problem may be related to memory I.e the more applications you have in the background the more memory it consumed. I’ve noticed that as soon as the memory reaches 4Mb the phone just slows down. You can reboot the phone or use quickpull to fix the issue but during this memory leak you might end missing important phone calls. I don’t know whether this will be the same case as the iphones but one of the main reasons why we went with the blackberry was because of the unlimited data download. There is a disclamer about the fair use policy but I ended up watching a full series of an anime and wasn’t charged at all.

So the iphone4 is very appealing because of the new apps like facetime and the speed. The blackberry is quite slow because of it 600 or so hertz processor.

Now I also use the blackberry as a storage device, just plug the usb cable to any pc and it will be mounted as a drive. Apparently you can’t do that with the iphone.. You need itunes.

In terms of apps, the iphone has too many and the blackberry is very limited. But we don’t play games so unlikely our decision will be based on this factor.

So which one should we go for?

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Post tags: Anime, Apps, Australia, Blackberry, Collegues, Disclamer, Facetime, Hertz, Iphone, Iphones, Launch, Limited, Memory Leak, Play Games, Reboot, Storage Device, Time One, Usb Cable, Version Upgrades

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Advertise Your Business: Simple steps to building a website

admin — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 07:16:28 +0000

Sometimes building your own website can be a very daunting experience – pretty much it’s like building your dream house. We know this because we’ve built several of our own websites and also some for our clients. They came to us because they didn’t know where to begin which is quite understandable for those that don’t know the process. So we thought we’d provide our readers with some simple steps in building websites from start to finish. This doesn’t include creating content or images. Here are the steps:

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Link exchange

admin — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 23:48:09 +0000

In the last two weeks we’ve received quite a number of emails asking to exchange links with our websites.
We generally avoid actioning any of the email and are quite selective with the one we actually choose. I think most people who send us an email forget to read our auto response message which says to visit our website http://www.digitalsignagee.com to exchange links.

Exchanging links is good for both SEO (search engine optimisation) and pagerank. The more people are linking to your website the better but the catch is to make sure the content on the website linking to your website is relevant.

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Post tags: Auto Response Message, Email, Emails, Exchanging Links, Link Exchange, Search Engine Optimisation

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Gmail emails being grouped on the Blackberry

admin — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 08:01:11 +0000

I just noticed that on my blackberry, gmail emails are being grouped. So what has changed? Does anyone know? I did notice that I have to accept some new T&C’s from Gmail but it would be good to know what features are available. Does it mean that the calendar is being synched as well?

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Post tags: Blackberry, Calendar, Emails, Gmail

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