iPhone 4 – Apple did it again

Apple’s iPhone 4 has recently launched in UK and it seems to be a hit, as it was in the US. In the first three days after release, Apple announced they sold over 1,7 million phones, making iPhone 4 the most successful launch in Apple’s history, as CE Steve Jobs stated. More than that, it seems that this latest smartphone has left behind the iPad’s recently success.

The iPhone 4 comes with a 3.5 inch Retina display, capable of a 960×640 pixels resolution, four times more pixels as previous iPhones featured. It comes in 16GB and 32GB versions, but both ones have a 5MP camera with LED flash and HD video recording at 30 fps – 720p video. The battery also seems to last 40% longer than in the previous models.

However, this model does not lack a « childhood disease », many people stating it has reception problems (which seem to get Apple into a huge lawsuit) and sometimes, the built-in camera crashes causing discomfort to users. Due to this reception problem, Apple could launch a software update for its iOS4 operating system, but official statement has never been released.

With all these pluses and minuses, it seems that along with the massive sales in US, UK market does not lack at all buyers for this smartphone. The interest for this device is enormous while UK retailers have run off iPhone 4 from their shelves, expecting new supplies from the producer. The biggest problems are with the white version while it is much more attractive among customers and Apple has stated that new models will ship at the end of July, while the iPhone 4 black model’s supply seems not to be affected by this shortage.

Essential Tweak for Turning Default WordPress Install to a Website or a Blog

Customise Default WordPress Install

WordPress is probably the most popular self hosted blog software online today (hosted version is also very popular). You can easily turn any web hosting space with MySQL and PHP to a fully functional website within a few minutes with the help of WordPress. Setting up a website or a blog this way can save you hundreds of pounds off the cost of having a website created for you by a web designer.
Many webmaster have created websites exactly the way I described above, one thing that put most visitors to such site off are lazy webmasters who do not bother to customise WordPress after install or take the time to tweak and fine tune it.  The list below show some of the items that can be quickly tweak or customise to turn a default WordPress install to a good looking, SEO optimised and customised website or blog.

1. Change the default skin – This is a must, there are hundreds of free and premium wordpress skins ou there, there is not excuse for keeping the default WordPress skin after install.
2. Remove the default about us page – It is amazing the number of webmasters who cannot even bother to add their own contents on the default “About” page on wordpress. Even if you do not want to write and about us page, delete the default WordPress about text.
3. In the tagline, change “This is just another wordpress to something relating to your contents.
4. Remove all the links on the blogroll and replace it with links you like or no link at all.
5. Set the time zone to your location
6. To make it more search engine friendly, change the permalink.

Protect your servers from unauthorized access

When it comes to online security and keeping privacy protection in standard limits, you can never be too safe, that is a true fact. Unauthorized persons breaking accounts and discovering FTP servers could cost a business not only loads of money, but also some unwanted bad publicity. No matter how many characters a password contains or how weird and « unbreakable » looks, it can be discovered with easiness if it is not highly protected.

Sending passwords from one team member to another to unprotected and unsecured connection is all that a hacker waits. From that point, he can use these private details to add javascript redirects, use customers’ accounts for spamming and so on. Here are some great tips to avoid unauthorized persons’ access on your accounts :

1. Do not use FTP, but only FTPS network protocols. Mail all your customers a tutorial/guide about how to use FTPS. In addition, a good free client that can be used is to be found here :  http://winscp.net/eng/index.php
2. Never send account details on clean, not encrypted mails. In order to solve this issue, use easy PGP for important mails encryption.
3. Never connect to a cpanel account without SSL.
4. Never save your password in a FTP or even FTPS client that saves the password in a plain file, such as Total Commander. This is an often mistake that hackers take advantage of.
5. Last, but not least, change the passwords to all servers with regularity and also keep its complex and hard to being discovered.

Are all these five tips an assurance that accounts will never be hacked again and sensible information will not leak ? Sure not, but these are some great ways to keep the odds of unauthorized access lower and deliver a better protection for customers’ privacy information.

Web Application Developer Wanted for Online Dating Application Development – PHP MySQL

Web Application Developer Wanted for Online Dating Application Development Project

PHP web application developer with 5 year or more commercial experience of developing web application using PHP scripting language, CSS and other web compliant programming/scripting languages wanted to develop an online dating application.
The online dating application you are required to code has a detail description document and some wireframes, you will be working with project manager who will guide you when you need guidance. You will be working with a graphic developer who will develop GUI for the application.
You must have developed a dating application or social networking application before for you to be able to do justice to this project. You must be able to give us at least 2 urls of similar application you have work on recently. The final application you are expected to deliver must be robust, secure with as few bugs as possible. The codes will be well commented and a documentation that make it easily for other programmer to work on your code in future must be written. The final application must run on Linux/PHP MySQL platform error free.
The application must comply with standards such as WC3 and other recognised standards. Code must be separated from design so that themes can be created and apply to the application easily.
In brief, core skills required are:
XHTML / CSS / JavaScript / AJAX / HTML5
• OO PHP, Smarty, & Zend Framework,
• MySQL
• Some Linux server knowledge
• Familiarity with XML

If you need additional information, clarification or to apply to work on this project please use the contact form to contact us. You could also call temi on +44 7939 276 451

London 020 Directory SEO Review

London 020 Search Engine Directory SEO Review

Unique contents and possibly unique website is the holy grail of online SEO success. Doing what many people are already doing online is not one of the best recipe for SEO success. This does not faze the creator of London 020 directory . Not only does a website with similar name already exists but there are dozens if not hundreds of website targeted at Londoners. The creator of London 020 argued that it is still alright to get into a saturated market, you just have to bring something completely new to the market to carve out your niche.

Some of the new things (which this author does not quite agree is so new) London 020 is bringing to the crowded London portal market is his own unique listing of small businesses in London in and easy to search and easy to browse format. Basic listing in London 020 directory will be free for all London businesses.

London 020 in addition to the directory also features blog, special features pages where spotlight is focused on a specific business or topic. The first topic to feature in the business spotlight section is Office Plants.

London 020 has some SEO feature that should help the site get indexed and rank well in leading search engines. All pages on the site are SEO friendly, a feat the webmaster said they achieved by using apache mod_rewrite.

If you are based in London, you may want to consider suggesting your site for listing in London 020 directory.

You can comment on this blogpost on this site or you can discuss it further at UK webmaster Forum.

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