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I must admit that as developers our arch-enemy is IE. Not so much  because MS force it down our throat but because  60% of internet users think its the best browser ever and will simply not use any other, argh!!!

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Assumption to most would be that Zimbabwe’s postal system would be worse off than the almost 1st world South Africa; but ALAS, the SA postal system is the worst I have ever dealt with. More specifically if you’re receiving an international package.

I will spare you my ordeal; suffice to say; next time I will have my package sent to Zimbabwe its much more reliable and perhaps cheaper.

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Google AdWords can be very competitive many industries sectors have high first page bids that make advertisers a bit wary but there are some ways to beat these costs the common ways are ensuring you have a high quality score by insuring your landing page is relevant to your keyword and adtext in essence it is kind of like reverse engineering S.E.O. But there is another trick you can use to in addition to the above to lower your CPC bids and this is increasing your maximum CPC bid and writing more catchy and interesting text and experimenting with capitalization. Only at the initial stage of the AdWords campaign should you do this and you should test which ads are successful i.e. The ads that get high click through rates and disable the ones that do not, you will then see that the average CPC will go down lets say you increase it for a day and optimize the campaign by removing keywords, adgroups and ads that do not perform. So in essence you are rewarded with a lower CPC if your ad is more relevant to the search query, landing page and adtext.

1. The changing business environment

With most businesses venturing into the internet realm there has been a great pressure for most businesses to start to engage in internet marketing, with the success with this type of marketing the businesses have decided to embrace new forms of marketing. Read the rest of this entry »

With the increasing number of people that are searching the internet using their mobiles bloggers cannot overlook the importance of making their blogs available for these mobile users, this is beneficial because it also creates an additional revenue stream that’s if you also interested in monetizing your blog. There are two wordpress plugins you can use to render your blog for the mobile user. Read the rest of this entry »

HTC Has launched yet another smart phone the HTC Touch Pro 2 this phone is packed full of interesting features coupled with its elegant design making it the ideal phone for the business user. The HTC Touch Pro 2 Comes with Straight Talk™ and  this makes communication with a HTC Touch Pro 2 more innovative and effective, making easy to switch between the phones many communication channels. Read the rest of this entry »

Wordpress is arguably today’s most used CMS / Blogging platform. The number 1 reason is the simplicity that it gives to end users. Adding posts and pages is intuitive and effortless. Anyone can use it, literally.

For some of us, Wordpress lacks and limps in extending the available fields for more complex functionality. Assuming that I did not want to just use the default fields, and wanted to add my own of different types.
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Have you ever traveled to somewhere far away and remembered that you have left a crucial document on your computer? Now there is no need to panic because with the WebPoint VPN you can access these documents remotely anywhere in the world as long as you have an internet connection you will be able to access it. Remote computer access is also good for backing up documents as well just in case you want to make sure you won’t have to start from scratch if you lose of damage your data. Read the rest of this entry »

Are you looking for a powerful and robust broswer for your Symbian or Windows Mobile mobile phone that will allow you to either choose between viewing a high quality full version of a website or a scaled down compact  mobile version? Well look no further because there is Opera Mobile 10 BETA! Read the rest of this entry »

Adding an XML sitemap to your blog will increase the speed at which your new content is indexed by search engines, sitemaps make it easier for search engine crawlers to find your new content and it gives them a rough idea of when to come look for new content. If you are not using a XML sitemap on your blog I suggest you download Read the rest of this entry »