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Use Dropbox? 5Gb Free Storage for BETA Testers
I was passed this from one of the chaps I play games with. If you watch the video and also check the link here, its an official thread as part of their beta program and while I’ve not personally verified this (which I am doing right now I hasten to add), 2 colleagues have. If you’ve not heard of DropBox before, see an earlier article where I covered this tool … [Full Article >> ]
Creating Your Very First iMacro – Web Browser Automation
Following on from my earlier article on How to Install Firefox & The iMacros Addon which also included some performance tips, this video shows you how to create your very first iMacro and also a more complicated macro, that performs a useful action. In the video I add an extra command called “WAIT”. The wait command allows iMacro’s to pause for a period of time for an action to be performed and as … [Full Article >> ]
Installing Firefox & The iMacros Addon + Speed Tip’s
The video below takes you through downloading FireFox and the iMacro’s extension, plus some speed tips to improve the performance of your macros in FireFox. Installing Firefox & The iMacros Addon Video Helpful Links Get FireFox iMacros Firefox Addon
Dealing With “Odd” Data Delimiters In Microsoft Excel
In this video I cover the following topics: What are CSV files What data inside a CSV files look like Why the standard comma separator can sometimes not work An example of a different separator How to open such files in Microsoft Excel (at 4:00 minutes in)
Website Data Extraction/Scraping & Form Filling Expert
Web scraping can be hugely advantageous to businesses, allowing them to function more effectively and keep up-to-date with information that is on specific websites more frequently and accurately. This is especially true when you consider the applications that can be created can be run by numerous members of staff on an ad-hoc basis or even automated everyday at certain times or that they allow the access to complex data from … [Full Article >> ]
Removing Old Email from Hotmail
If like me, you’ve had a hotmail account for years, there is a high chance that its probably clogged up with, hundreds if not thousands of emails that you’ll never read and I was finally bugged by logging into Windows each time and it telling me I had in excess over 24,000 unread emails. Not funny. I Googled a bit and the only helpful post was to contact their customer … [Full Article >> ]
Amazon IS Human – They Make Mistakes Too!
Relish in this one, its the first time I have ever spotted a mistake by Amazon. While checking to see where one of the books I ordered on the 5th was too, I noticed in my email an email relating to the new Jeans Store they are promoting. After taking little look around, mainly to see if they were promoting anyone else other than their own stocked products, I spotted … [Full Article >> ]
Dealing with WordPress Spam Comments – Two Viable Solutions
Ignoring Askami from the conversion which will capture almost all comment spam, you may feel that there is little you can do to stop the wades of WordPress spam comments from being left. Yes, you could add a captua to the comments box, there are several wordpress plugins that do this, but me being a geek prefer more server based options, here are two of my favourites both with the same … [Full Article >> ]
Part 2: Using the Split Keyword to Break up Your Data
This article is a continuation of a previous article called Part 1: Comma Separated Keyword/Tag Blocks in Your eBay Listings? if you’ve not read this article then nip back and read through it, as we’ll need to know the original steps to where we are now. So we left off with me saying that we should not process further keywords unless we have qualified the custom field so that we actually … [Full Article >> ]
Part 1: Comma Separated Keyword/Tag Blocks in Your eBay Listings?
Clearing out my old files earlier and I came across some old keywords I used on numerous occasions. Instead of just detailing one, I’m actually going to join a few together here to make a example anyone using eSellerpro could use with a little thought. Lets Make a Real-Life Example Lets assume that you have two customfields the first with ‘Other Colours’ and another with ‘Sizes’, both in the custom fields group … [Full Article >> ]
PHP: Search for String in a String Using strpos
This is more for my own reference than anything else, working on a recent project where specific terms and stock numbers needed to be excluded, the below function quickly allowed me to action the excluded items to ensure their exclusion. Its different to the other options out there because of the use of ‘!==’, there is an issue when using strpos, that is if finds the string at position 0, … [Full Article >> ]
Yoast WordPress Breadcrumbs Plugin
Taking the advice from yesterdays post ‘Google SEO Starter Guide Updated’ on adding a breadcrumb to the sites theme, I remembered seeing a plugin from Yoast.com a few days back. Installation was done in seconds, almost like every other WordPress plugin, unfortunately the auto insert option did not work, however within a few pastes in the files page.php, search.php and single.php it was in and working. If you’re an avid blogger and … [Full Article >> ]
