When it comes to unusual and puzzling Christmas messages, why not send your friends and family season’s greetings in a high tech form this year.
You may have seen QR Codes on tickets at airlines, on packaging and parcels, but did you know they are dead easy to create yourself. And, industry experts reckon most modern camera phones are now compatible with the FREE downloadable software required to read the codes. So, there’s no excuse not to give it a try. In the tests I’ve done, there are certainly readers for all the common smartphone formats available such as the Apple iPhone, BlackBerry, Sony-Ericsson and Samsung mobiles in our household (and some of those are quite ancient models!).
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My now ageing Sony Ericsson W910i is not necessarily the most modern of mobile phones but does for me. One of the most useful features is it’s ability to occasionally connect to my web mail account and other sites such as BBC Sport and News. 
All was working fine until whenever I tried to access Planet 3 or the Internet and it wouldn’t do so and prompted me with the following error message ‘Data account does not exist. Check your settings’. The phone itself was fine for calls and text messages.
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I guess this is not something we all need to do on a daily basis, but many of us have been faced with the need to occasionally join pages from separate PDF files together or extract specific pages from multi-page PDF document. There are quite a few free pluggins out there that help with creating PDF files in the first place, my personal preference is CutePDF, but I’ve always struggled with the join and extract stuff - like many of you I don’t want to spend my hard earned cash on one of Adobe’s expensive professional products.
That’s why 
was really keen to share my recent discovery of the ILovePdf website – such a simple website, “does exactly what it says on the tin” as they say in that well known UK advert, and makes the job of combining PDF files or extracting one or more pages so simple.
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The strange thing about writing a WordPress blog is that the posts and the feedback your receive is never quite always what you expected. In my case, I couldn’t understand why I kept getting search hits for queries about Windows 7 users obviously looking for hint and tips on how to access there Plus.Net web mail. Turns out this blog has all the right words to trigger a high search engine ranking, but unfortunately for passing visitor not the right content.
Well the good news now is that thanks to this post, they will (hopefully) be able to find out what they are looking for.
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One of the main headaches for hard pressed Internet savy business professionals is finding available meetings slots with similarly hard pressed colleagues, as we all have packed agendas and little free time available. This is typically made even more difficult when trying to arrange meetings with business partners who may not be using the same email or corporate diary system – we’ve all been there with endless emails cyclying backwards and forwards to find the “right-slot”.
Thankfully there’s a relatively new Internet start-up on the scene, Tungle.Me, that offers a free solution to solve the frustration and efficiently allow meeting diaries to be shared. Surveys suggest that for some meetings, more time is actually spent arranging and scheduling the meeting than actually spent at the said meeting.
Tungle.me users can personalize their page by choosing days/times they want to make available, adding contact information, photo, links to other online profiles
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