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How to Enable or Disable Quick Launch in Windows 7

By default Quick Launch is disabled in Windows 7. This will show you how to enable or disable Quick Launch on the taskbar in Windows 7 as a toolbar with small or large icons.

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iPhone 3Gs slow wifi connection and disconnecting

I got a replacement iphone last month and all was good apart from it being really slow on my home wifi, my laptops on the same wireless network were fine. The connection was slow on everything, safari, mail, twitter, youtube or any other internet service, if it connected at all.

I did a Google search and found some info (full copy of info pasted below), from the info I changed my routers wireless standard band to 802.11b. The iPhone is proven to work better in 802.11b.

What do you know it now works spot on, thank you Google :-)

The other info I found, it may be usefull if the above does not work for you.

If you have access to your router, you can try these settings. But before you do, I strongly suggest that you backup your router configuration so that you can revert to your original settings anytime.

- iphone is proven to work better in 802.11b, so set your router to B only, not G or B+G.
- set beacon interval to 50 (works best for me), 100 is the default and it’s fine, you can leave that unchanged.
- set fragment threshold to 2304
- set RTS to 2305
- if you have access to DTIM, set it to a value of 1
- reboot your router and close your browser (for some reason, occasionally it’s a must)
- and finally, reconnect.

optional: reset your iphone’s network settings.

As a review, we made changes to these properties:
Band (802.11b)
Beacon interval (50)
Fragment threshold (2304)
CTS or RTS (2305)
DTIM (1)

Thanks to “Nat Julian Belza” and the “http://getsatisfaction.com/apple/topics/iphone_3g_unbearably_slow_und_unstable_wifi” website.

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Article Marketing Tips – How to Drive More Traffic to Your Websites With Your Articles

If you’re an online business owner you probably already know about the various types of marketing methods to drive traffic to your websites. What you may not have discovered is that article marketing ranks as one of the best ways to drive visitors (traffic) to your website, bring those same visitors back as repeat traffic while simultaneously improving your organic search engine rankings.

As an article marketer, if you regularly submit articles to the top performing article directories you will generate more exposure and traffic to your websites and increase your amount of generated affiliate sales as well as sales of your own products.

Unfortunately, many novice and beginner article marketers fail to truly capitalize on the outstanding returns a properly performed article marketing campaign can produce. For this reason, when writing your articles you need to make sure to consider the following tips in order to achieve the best results.

A Proper Article Title Is the Key to Success

Before writing your article, always make sure your take some time to work on creating a solid article title or headline. This will be your first opportunity to attract a reader for the rest of your article and it is also one of the top components to getting your article ranked high in the organic search engine listing. You need your title to target long tail keyword phrases, match the content of your article and if possible be a subtle tie-in to the product or service you plan to promote in your author’s resource box.

The keyword usage in your title is particularly important because the right combination of long-tail keyword phrases (low hanging fruit) will help position your article within the search engines and create additional exposure and traffic for your articles.

Article Content Still Reigns Supreme

Without question, the notion that content is king still rings true but a more accurate tag-line would be quality content is the king of kings. The fact is, you need your articles to offer your intended target audience (readers) useful information that is of reputable quality. This focus on creating engaging and quality content within your article body will entice your readers to feel compelled to clink on any links within your resource box once they get to the end of your article. Good content that is properly written will have your readers curious and wanting more of what you have to offer.

As with your article title, long tail keywords sprinkled throughout your article will serve as good search engine spider food. A good rule of thumb is to use your targeted keyword phrase as close to the front of your first paragraph as possible, somewhere in the middle of your article, in the closing paragraph of your article and within the resource box.

A well written article also includes a properly formatted article conforming to grammatical standards and without any misspellings. Always make sure to read your article over several times in order to find any errors and don’t be too quick to rely solely on the efforts of the editorial staff for the article directory you plan to submit your article to.

The Article Submission Process

After you have spent the necessary time to craft an article you need to make sure you leverage its potential by submitting it to as many of the top quality article directories as possible. This can be a time consuming task and there are many products and services that can automate this process for you. Don’t get too caught up in trying to submit to every article directory. Instead focus on the top performing directories and you will soon see the traffic flowing to your website(s). Don’t let the duplicate content scare prevent you from submitting the same article. I’ve personally submitted the same article to many directories and never had any issues.

Consistency is the Key to Long Term Article Marketing Success

Without a doubt, it has become much harder to drive traffic with a handful of articles now than it was 3-5 years ago but by working towards writing as many articles as you can and submitting them every day you will see a huge difference in your generated traffic and website rankings. Even if you only manage to submit one new article a week you will still have at the end of a year 52 new articles working to provide thousands of visitors and potential one-way links back to your website.

Finally revealed, the top article marketing tips I use to leverage all of my articles to get 29,000 new visitors a month to click my affiliate links, generate profits and achieve top website rankings using the methods revealed in http://www.articlemarketingsoldiers.com, a complete article marketing strategy guide that for the first time uncovers how the top article marketers really make money using nothing but articles to generate thousands of visitors to their websites.

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The Fantastic Apple Store in Meadowhall, Sheffield

Last evening I was watching YouTube videos on my iPhone when I noticed a small dot on the screen, I gave the screen a wipe but it didn’t go, I peeled off the screen protector and still the dot stayed, noooooo, it was under the screen :-(

Today I’ve been to the Apple store in Meadowhall, Sheffield, I’d already called them and booked a “Genius Appointment” for 5pm. They looked at the iPhone and said no problem we’ll fit a new screen :-)

Five minutes later my iPhone was back in my hand :-) . There’s a but!, as I was leaving the shop it popped up on the screen ‘No SIM’ and I noticed a small crack on the back of the case near the data socket, which I’m 99.9% sure was not there when I entered the shop :-(

I went back to the girl that had served me earlier and again she said no problem we will exchange the iPhone. Five minutes later I’ve got another (looks brand new) iPhone in my hand, its sat on my desk as I type this restoring :-)

What can I say, the customer support was second to none, thank you Apple :-)

This is what you can look forward to with the new iPhone OS 4.0

iPhone OS 4.0

The iPhone OS 4.0 event just wrapped up and the faithful are filing out of the Apple venue with a slightly shell-shocked look. What happened? Oh nothing, just multi-tasking, iAd, a huge Mail update and a bunch of other stuff. Yes, the long-awaited OS update for the iPhone has just been run down and we’ve got all the details.

Here, in handy bullet point form, are all the things you need to know about iPhone OS 4.0……

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iPhone Contacts Groups with the free app Groupy

Groupy App IconI can’t  fault my iPhone, best gadget I have ever bought, but, I wish the ‘Contacts’ had an option to group certain contacts together e.g. Family, Friends, Business, etc rather than all of your contacts being dumped into one area.

I did find a few Apps that helped but non of them were perfect, until I found the free app ‘Groupy’.

Groupy provides a simple interface to create and manage groups of your contacts from your iPhone or iPod Touch. It allows you to create, delete, rename groups as well as to add and remove contacts from your groups. Groups created in Groupy will be recognized by the Contacts App and will by synchronized back to your Mac or PC.

Visit the Groupy website or find it on itunes.

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Advanced Paving Rotherham

Advanced Paving Rotherham
The Advanced Paving Rotherham website was created for a friend of mine. It all went really well, I tried a few new ideas out on the project but it probably took me a little to long to complete, sorry mate :-)

Advanced Paving Rotherham are a family run business based in Maltby, Rotherham. They specialise in the paving of driveways and patios but also carry out other work such as fencing, turfing, grass cutting and landscaping.

Advanced Paving cover Rotherham, Sheffield, Doncaster, Worksop, Dinnington, Maltby and surrounding areas.

Please visit the new Advanced Paving Rotherham Website and if you do contact them say John sent ya! ;-)

3 Reasons Why You MUST Use Twitter For Small Business

Business tips for Twitter

Business tips for Twitter

I’m proof positive that Twitter is a great marketing tool for a home based business. There are 3 reasons why it’s powerful to use Twitter for small business. It takes literally about 15 minutes daily and provides a steady stream of leads for my business. It costs nothing but time.

Think of it this way: Twitter is an ongoing conversation from people all over the planet about what they’re doing, what they’re reading, what they’re watching, what they’re thinking – you get the idea.

There are 3 Reasons to Tweet:

#1 – It’s the easiest, fastest education on the planet

Follow people that you respect: gurus in your industry or authors of books you read. Soon, you’ll get immersed in exactly what they do, read, watch and think on a daily basis.

If you want to be like them, do what they do. You’d never get the chance to know so much about a person of stature as you do on Twitter.

People to follow in the home based business industry: Perry Belcher (web 2.0), Frank Kern (Copywriting), Mike Dillard (Strategy), Anthony Robbins (Mindset). Me, Steph Robey – if you want to see how a baby boomer, old school marketer uses Twitter. (pivot_positive@twittter.com)

Emulate them and get better results in your life.

#2 – It’s the easiest, fastest way to gain exposure in your industry

Facebook, YouTube, eZines, WordPress, Ping – all offer tools that allow you to automatically tweet when you upload a new video or blog or write a new article. So, as you’re building a following, look for people who have similar interests, people within your industry that can benefit from your content.

A link can be automatically sent out via Twitter to your followers each time you upload content. This helps to establish you as an expert and build credibility and trust with your followers.

Eventually, people make it back to your site(s), check out your business and become a prospect. Be careful not to sell. Build relationships first. Eventually, they’ll want to know what you do for a living and then tell them you do marketing and occasionally you teach people.

They’ll want to be part of the occasion so have a way for them to opt-in to your list and become part of your “tribe.”

#3 – It’s so fun, it’s addicting

Twitter’s like high school. You can hang out on the “mall” with the cool kids (see reason #1). You may not directly be a part of their “tribe” but you can listen in on what they’re doing reading, seeing, thinking and be in the “know”.

Then, you get to tweet to them about the things that you’re doing, reading, seeing, thinking and they retweet – send your message out to their own personal “tribe.” (See reason #2).

Supply value, have fun and build a following using Twitter for small business. Seth Godin wrote an excellent book on this called “Tribes.” Your list is basically your tribe and your goal should be to grow your tribe and it’s really easy to do with Twitter.

Be Big! Pass it on…

Steph Robey, Internet and Home Based Business Entrepreneur

Stephanie Robey has 20 years experience in graphic design and 10 years experience in online marketing. She’s started and sold 2 companies and remains on the board of directors of the third, PhotoSpin.com. You can meet her at http://www.MeetStephAndDave.com – her current Internet venture.

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