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BBC News – Parents sue Apple over in-app game charges
BBC News – Parents sue Apple over in-app game charges. This is yet another news story that parents should be aware of where huge bills can be run up – note the person in the report whose child spent more than the family monthly mortgage payment in 2 hours!
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Lost Website! Backup… backup… backup…
We have been dealing with an issue for a client this morning where he has decided to add a WordPress plugin to his site, which when he activated it has apparently made the site unavailable. Not what he planned. We are now working with the hosting company to try and sort this out for the…
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Your Domain Name?
Ever got fed up with those ‘phishing’ emails which offer you your own domain name for renewal when you know you don’t normally deal with those people? Worse still, have you ever lost a domain name because you were not warned that the registration period was about to expire? Then you found that your main…
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QR Code
Following the upgrade of Jonathan Whiting’s WordPress website, he has started using QR code graphics so people can find his contact details. The code takes you to his “Contact Us” page. The page above is the mobile version of the site – with the “clickable” phone number and email address..
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Take care with whom you share your personal information
BBC – Newsbeat – Warning over scam that charges users to receive texts. This article is full of great advice for anyone with a mobile phone – I am going to discuss this with my teenage son tonight. On the subject of sharing personal information Cory Doctorow has a thought-provoking article in the Guardian that is worth…
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Price Increases – other peoples | Jonathan Whiting Funeral Directors
Price Increases – other peoples | Jonathan Whiting Funeral Directors. Jonathan has commented today on price rises from both the British Medical Association and Lincoln City Council that his clients will have to pay in future.
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Jonathan Whiting Funeral Directors
We have been out today helping Jonathan Whiting, one of our long term clients, adapt his current WordPress website to work on various mobile devices. They wanted several key new options for the site. to make the website accessible to clients from their mobile phones to reuse the current content to use the same content on…
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iPhone Firmware Update | Clive’s Blog
iPhone Firmware Update | Clive’s Blog. Clive is hoping that the latest firmware update for his iPhone 4 will fix a long running, on and off problem, he has been having with the phone audio.
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Lincoln Skyline
Today we are working on the roof for a client, right in Lincoln city centre, starting to set up a wifi and a webcam for them.
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The Lincoln Brand Launch
Today I went to the Lincoln brand launch at the Visit Lincoln Partnership meeting at Bishop Grosseteste University College. Andy Clayton from Ruddocks detailed the story behind the logo and told us it had taken several staff seven months to do. For those people not of a creative bent, this might seem a very long…
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Mobile Data Usage Set to Soar with Release of BBC iPlayer for Mobiles
Mobile Data Usage Set to Soar with Release of BBC iPlayer for Mobiles. If you have a mobile phone and a capped data package (as most of us do!) then you should read this blog – written by Telco-op one of the businesses Octagon work with closely. Keith, from Telco-op has some important things to…
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WiFi at Lincoln City Football Club
Just about the last job we did before Christmas was to improve the quality of the wifi internet in the Business and Networking Centre (BANC) that Lincoln City Football Club run. The signal strength of the wifi connection they had, was not very strong and as we use the Centre a lot, we offered to…
