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Friday Crazy Design

I was looking for an adjustable 4 hole punch today so I thought I'd quickly pop onto Staples' website thinking they might have one I can buy and then I was faced with this monstrosity: I know they've got a large product catalogue to share

New Google Feature

I've been sitting on this for a few weeks now -mainly due to my own laziness but I thought I'd finally pad it out a little. It would appear that Google have release a new method of ranking your own results for certain terms: Once you&

Settling with "it'll do"

Do you really want what you do to be classed as "it'll do"? At the moment it would appear that a lot of businesses are happy to say "It'll do" rather than put that extra mile to "It's excellent&

Microsoft Office Accounting Professional crashes with custom invoice

We've had an irritating issue recently with our accounting system, when creating the custom invoices. Basically, every time we tried to create a custom invoice with Microsoft Office Accounting the entire application would crash for no obvious reason. Checking the exception's stack trace it would talk

A new email domain scam to watch out for

This came through to one of our clients today, I thought I'd share it as I've not seen it before and it made me chuckle. Note the placeholder: <Online since> Thought you might like to share it with your clients :) Hi,We've

Keeping people happy

Sometimes it's the little things that keep workers happy so when I saw the little surprise that online conference callers Powwownow do with their cards I thought I'd share. When you sign up at www.powwownow.co.uk you get the option of being sent your

Knowing what to say in meetings -Part 1

It's important when going into any meeting with a client that you prepare (everyone know's the old motto "Failing to prepare is preparing to fail") but how can you do that? First of all, consider what sort of meeting it is, find out who&

Do you yell dot com?

We've recently (and somewhat oddly) had a lot of dealings with Yellow Pages. In the past when asked, I've suggested people shouldn't bother with paying to be listed within the Yellow Pages -especially if you're an IT related company. This was purely

Is buying online better than in the store?

I've been an advocate of buying goods online for quite some time now but have been astounded at the level of service received recently that leads me to believe that buying online is slowly removing the benefits of buying in a store. A little background: My camera broke

Market rates -can I have the same hourly rate for all clients?

This started out as a response to a comment and then I thought it might be better as a post in it's own right. In his commentDavid Conlisk said: First off Tim very well done on providing some excellent information on the site. I've just spent