Compass Computing

Worried you might be infected by the Conficker virus?

Jon — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 08:02:23 +0000

Just click here:

http://www.confickerworkinggroup.org/infection_test/cfeyechart.html

Owen Pine – new site launched

Jon — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 20:32:05 +0000

Late yesterday the new site for Owen Pine was finished. If you’re in the area why don’t you pop down and see what they have to sell. My visits to the company to sort out the site for them opened my eyes to the great range of Oak and Pine furniture they have available.

Validate twitter code

Jon — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 22:24:38 +0000

I needed to add twitter code into some of our web site, but then they failed to validate as HTML compliant.

I changed:


Twitter Update

 

To:


Twitter Update

And all is well and it validates fine now.

Jon — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 23:30:05 +0000

Technorati Profile

HouseRefer.com is improved

Jon — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 19:43:46 +0000

A few improvements made over the last week or so include the new version optimised for PDA’s and Mobile phones:

http://www.houserefer.com/pda/

And the new zoom in/zoom out feature on the property images – check it out!!

Feedback apreciated.

Internet Access – away from home

Jon — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 13:34:52 +0000

I’ve recently starting using T-Mobile’s Web’n'Walk USB Stick, a fantastic device on it’s own allowing [up to] 4.5Mb/s speed [realistically slower, but still great] anywhere you can get a mobile phone signal – and in the UK that’ll be most places you want it, although speed drops depending on the data connection type [GPRS;3G or HSDPA which should, in theory, get up to 7.2 Mb/s before too long].

The other great thing about Web’n'walk is that it comes with free HotSpot access [as does BT Home Broadband if you read carefully]. To get your password just text OPEN to 9526 within the web’n'walk program and you’ll then receive your HotSpot username and password.

T-Mobile have partnered with a whole host of other companies so you can get access at McDonalds, Starbucks, airports and so on. I’m typing this from Munster Airport in Germany – as it works across Europe as well.

So if you invest in the T-Mobile web’n'walk and like me have BT Broadband at home then maybe anywhere you are with your laptop so will the Internet be!

If there’s no hotspot overseas then it’s not the end of the world as in many contries Internet access is only £1.50 per minute. I would also recommend PopPeeper as a tiny email program that will allow you to access as many mailboxes as you like, but only download a small amount of the email (5k is normally enough to see if it’s worth your pennies to download the rest of just press delete).

The other thing regarding email away from home is that you will need to ensure you have outgoing [SMTP] access. If you are connected via t-mobile web’n'walk this can be set to “smtp.t-email.co.uk”.

Don’t forget that all Compass Computing and OxheyNet provide you with web mail for use when away from home. Just go to http://webmail.[yourdomainname.co.uk] enter your username and password and it’s all there waiting for you!

Well that’s all for now.

Surfing away from home….. it’s very handy

Jon

Porfolio of design updated

Jon — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 15:03:11 +0000

I thought it was about time I updated our portfolio of recent web sites.

You can view the page here.

We’ve created many more sites, but they’re not all listed!

New blog

admin — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 00:01:48 +0000

Having installed blogs on three other sites I thought it was about time I had my own.

They were at:

I’ll be back soon, hopefully with some useful information!