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Did Tax-Payers Money Pay For This?

Posted in: General,Marketing,Standards,WebDev by Richard Hearne on November 15, 2006

What you do with your private website is entirely up to you.

But what happens when it’s a public website we’re talking about?

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If Anything Seems A Bit Strange…

Posted in: General by Richard Hearne on November 14, 2006

I just moved servers to a nice dual failover clustered set-up. Should be nice and quick (I hope). So if anything breaks or just seems a bit weird that’s probably the cause

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Mozilla Thunderbird 1.5.0.8 Critical Bug

Posted in: General,Security by Richard Hearne on November 13, 2006

It appears that there may be a critical bug in the latest version 1.5.0.8 of Mozilla Thunderbird.

This bug could result in the permanent lose of data.

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Euro Business Guide Spam and Scam Warning

Posted in: General,Security by Richard Hearne on November 10, 2006

Beware the Euro Business Directory spam and scam emails.

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Bad Technology Day

Posted in: General,Technology by Richard Hearne on

I’ve had some problems with both email and voice mail *sigh* so if you tried to get me and didn’t hear back I promise I’m not ignoring you.

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Did Someone Say That Internet Scams Were Becoming More Sophisticated

Posted in: Browsers,General,Security,Technology by Richard Hearne on November 1, 2006

Using some reverse psychology to sell your phishing scam. Now if you could just get a decent English speaking copywriter you’ll be emptying those PermanentTSB accounts in no time.

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Irish Road Safety

Posted in: General by Richard Hearne on October 26, 2006

The Internet can become a means for change when enough of the community want that change. And so Damien Blake, a Donegal councillor has set out on a campaign to leverage the power of the Internet to make our roads a safer place.

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Sometimes A Spell Checker Wont Save You :-)

Posted in: Blogs,General,Search Engines by Richard Hearne on October 24, 2006

I’d really hate to be the guy or gal who gave Ireland this first.

If you want a good laugh…

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Want Loyal Customers? Give Them What They Want How They Want It.

Posted in: General,Marketing,RSS,Technology,WebDev by Richard Hearne on October 23, 2006

Don’t you just love it when you can have it your own way? Getting things on your terms is the best way, isn’t it?

Well that’s the beauty of RSS – giving your readers the content they want when and how they want it benefits you and benefits your audience.

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SEO Spam From Cork

Posted in: General,Search Engine Optimisation,Statistics by Richard Hearne on October 17, 2006

E-mail spam is a scourge. SEO e-mail spam makes me particularly nauseous.

And when it’s Irish born? Thank you but www.amitan.ie does quite nicely without your kind offer.

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Bertie, Google and the Lie Detector

Posted in: General,Google by Richard Hearne on October 4, 2006

Could Google be able to listen to a politician talking and predict with accuracy whether they are telling porkies?

You better believe it!

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Text Links Can Bring You Joy….

Posted in: General,Google,Link Building,Search Engine Optimisation,SEO by Richard Hearne on September 28, 2006

Link count is one of the most valuable currencies in Search Engine Optimisation. Trusted links are the most valuable by far.

Sometimes links can be your friend, but sometimes they can be your enemy…

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How About Some Serious Irish Viral Marketing

Posted in: General,Marketing by Richard Hearne on September 22, 2006

By far and away the best example of viral marketing I have seen come out of Ireland recently, The Dublin Coastal Development is a very slick on-line marketing campaign that is being talked about quite a bit on Irish blogs.

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Wow, I forgot just how much I hate IE

Posted in: Browsers,General by Richard Hearne on September 12, 2006

Hanging around in Internet cafes in Asia has reminded me just how much I hate MS Internet Explorer .

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It’s Official – Aliens Prefer Firefox

Posted in: Browsers,General by Richard Hearne on August 15, 2006

I just have to post this – so cool! Via Threadwatch.org: Check it out! What better endorsement could Mozilla want?

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IrishWebmasterForum.com

Posted in: General,Marketing,Search Engine Optimisation,WebDev by Richard Hearne on August 12, 2006

I frequent many webmaster and SE forums which are great places to keep in touch with and learn about the ever changing SEO world. While the largest and best known forums provide exceptional information, the biggest problem I have is getting information specific to the Irish web market. The work I do (which, yes I […]

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YourCar.ie ‘Silly Stuff’ – More Like ‘Incredibly Offensive Stuff’

Posted in: General,Marketing by Richard Hearne on August 8, 2006

You may have heard recent stories about a number of Merrill Lynch employees being fired for transmitting offensive material over the corporate E-mail system. Well a thread over at Irish Webmaster Forum contains a link to a page on the website of YourCar.ie [please note that the page contains offensive material], an Irish on-line car […]

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Link Baiting to a Job Vacancy

Posted in: General,Link Bait,Marketing by Richard Hearne on August 4, 2006

Via Ajaxian: I noticed that in the original post, as well as including a neat article about AJAX, the author makes reference to job vacancies at the company he works for. While he probably didn’t write the guide specifically as link bait for those positions (but who knows?), it very certainly has helped create free […]

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Estate Agents sell MyHome.ie

Posted in: General by Richard Hearne on July 28, 2006

MyHome.ie, one of Ireland’s leading online property websites was sold for €50m to The Irish Times, owner of Ireland.com.

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How To Block IE7 in Windows Update (if you’re not too late!)

Posted in: Browsers,General,Security by Richard Hearne on July 27, 2006

How to block Windows Update from automatically installing Internet Explorer 7.

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TLD for Country Specific Searches – What Domain Extension (ccTLD) Should You Choose?

Posted in: General,Google,Search Engine Optimisation by Richard Hearne on July 22, 2006

I often see questions related to getting your website into country specific SERPs. There have been some urban myths regarding where your IP address resolves to, where you server is located and the TLD used.

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Keeping your PC safe

Posted in: General,Security by Richard Hearne on July 19, 2006

I recently had to investigate an issue with a client’s website reported by a customer who was unable to use the website’s navigation….. Guess what? In 2006 they were still using Internet Explorer 5.0….. Here’s an outline of some of the practices and software available that will help keep your PC safe and clean.

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Finally I get a website!

Posted in: General by Richard Hearne on July 18, 2006

Well I finally found the time to put up a site of some description. I decided on a blog so that I could easily publish my ideas, rants and news. Now comes the hard part, getting the site ranked well for my chosen keyphrases. Technorati Profile

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