Posted on July 3, 2009 - by John

Remembering: Are You Being Served?

Mollie Sugden & Wendy Richard

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Remembering

Posted on July 1, 2009 - by John

Wordpress advertising plugin – OIO Publisher

Money off voucher for OIO Published

If anyone is interested in a really great advertising system which can be fully integrated with wordpress, or used on its own, will handle payments and would like it for a discounted price. Read on…

I have been offered 8 USD off the retail price for OIO Publisher for anyone who wishes to use it.I have used OIO Publisher before on my Mobile Phone blog, with success, and I got a good few advertisers using it, it has a paypal module so it can also manage payments.

I wrote some info on this product below:

OIP Publisher allows you to organise and manage all your advertising requirements from one central location. If you use wordpress, great, you can manage OIO Publisher from the admin panel. If you do not use wordpress, it also works as a stand alone product!

Why use it?

You can sell ad space on your blog or website using OIO Publisher or even use it to manage digital sales. The process of selling ad space, inserting the adverts, and processing the payments is all managed by OIO Publisher.

Visitors to your website can place adverts directly on your website or blog using OIO Publisher, make a payment and their advert can go live instantly, or if you prefer you can approve them first!

You can use as many ad sizes as you wish, and it even works with google AdSense! Got more than one website? No problem, you can use this across all your websites.

If you have not sold any ad space, you can configure OIO Publisher to instead show a banner until the space is ready to be sold.

The most recent edition of OIO Publisher also has a built in theme system. This means your customers get a nice designed system in which to purchase adverts and make payments on the OIO system.

Sorry, I have been unable to find a down side to OIO Publisher, managing your own ad system gets rid of the middle man, meaning the profits are all yours. The price is not bad at all at 47 USD, I can also offer a 8 USD discount to johnmryan.com readers for the month of July 2009.

If you are interested in OIO Publisher click here, and if it is still July 2009, please use the following discount code! Quote “RAINMAN-JOHNRYAN” for your discount.

OIO PUBLISHER

install OIOpublisher as a Wordpress plugin or a standalone platform

sell all forms of text ads, banner ads, and paid reviews

custom purchases also allow you to sell digital products

display ads on any website you like using php or javascript

installation is simple using the web installer, no more manual file uploading

entirely automated, all ad purchases and expiration’s handled automatically

click and impression tracking, plus weekly ad reports emailed to advertisers

If you want to use this offer click here

Please note the discount is only valid for the month of July 2009

Posted on June 30, 2009 - by John

iPhone 3Gs review

iPhone 3Gs

O2 Ireland recently launched the new iPhone 3Gs (and no… I did not get one), I have to say some of the changes to the hardware and software – version 3.0 – are an exciting step forward for the device.

However I really was expecting something special this year in terms of device design. But Apple like to take it slow.

It is no secret that the success of the iPhone is down to excellent touch screen which is unique to the iPhone. However, features which have been on mobile devices for years now are only now happening on the iPhone, and yet it is selling very well indeed. There have been many missing features users expect from their mobile device. Take for example  MMS  which is has only recently been officially supported on the iPhone.

Recent updates has meant the  iPhone is getting closer to having a backpack full of features to keep every geek and business person connected to their virtual lives.

What is new, under the hood? There is of course the much needed better ram , graphics and more, let us boil all that hu-ha down and say the ’s’ in iPhone3Gs means SPEED, the iPhone 3Gs is a much faster creature. In terms of extra features, below is what has peaked my interest, if I miss anything that has you excited please add your comment, and I will try and keep the list of features updated.

Push Notifications

Push Notifications

 Push notifications are used by applications to alert you of new information, even when the application isn’t running.

What was requested for a long time on the iPhone was the ability to run applications in the background on the iPhone. For those of us with no idea what this means, allow me to explain, when you close a 3rd party application on the iPhone, it is closed completely, so say for example some sends you an IM message, you will not know about it until you reopen the application again.And while you still cannot run background applications because it would slow down the device (apparently). Apple have invented push notifications for the iPhone which is the next best thing (again apparently).

What this really means is that, for example even if you exit an application you can still receive notifications when you get an update or a message for that application. You can then relaunch that application and view the message. As per the image, the notification can be a small message or a number badge showing the number of updates for the application; it may also be an alert sound to draw you attention to an update.

Camera

 

iPhone 3Gs Camera

The new 3-megapixel camera takes great still photos, too, thanks to built-in autofocus and a handy new feature that lets you tap the display to focus on anything (or anyone) you want.

Everyone is excited about this 3-mega-pixel…

If you want to take a great photo then use a camera, but you won’t always have your camera with you when a great shot comes your way,  and chances are you will have your iPhone 3Gs clutched in your right hand. 

Until now using the iPhone to capture any moment was pretty pointless due to the awful picture it would take. So Apple  in there infinite wisdom have tweaked the iPhone to make it an almost useful camera substitute.

Basically the camera on the 3Gs is a 3-mega pixel auto-focus camera. Meaning you can now focus on subjects simply by tapping them on the screen. More interesting than all this is you can now use the camera to take and edit video footage. You can then forward this directly to youtube… not bad really! This will do doubt increase the popularity of this device no end!

Copy & erm.. Paste?

Cut, copy, and paste words and photos, even between applications. Copy and paste images and content from the web, too.

It is interesting that it has taken this long for a simple function like copy and paste to make it to the iPhone, but apparently it required allot of time…
For me that is the most interesting elements that comes with the new iPhone 3Gs device, but if you would like to discuss the iPhone 3Gs head to this website for a discussion.  

For accuracy purposes here are the specs of the device.
iphone 3Gs Specs

Posted on June 28, 2009 - by John

John’s Tweets on 2009-06-28

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Posted on June 25, 2009 - by John

What happened when Hitler got 3 Mobile broadband!

This had me in stitches, he has a point thought – Broadband my arse!

Posted on June 24, 2009 - by John

Dear Wordpress – Thank you!

I remember a good few months back an Irish blogger wrote about an Irish airline and a glitch he found on their website, some of the comments in relation to this particular post on his website were discovered to be from the Irish airline staff themselves and they had – shall we say some negative comments to make.

What shocked me most about this incident was one of these comments criticised the blogger for using the wordpress blogging platform which was running his website, using some phrasing along the lines that it was amateurish.

Perhaps it is an irrelevant comment by a person who was making the comment out of anger and ignorance, but I thought to myself, name something better? Seriously! Describe to me blog management software that is flexible, adoptable, user friendly – used by millions from the likes of myself to British billionaires and Prime Ministers, and did I mention that all this is FREE!

Thank you – wordpress people, for bringing information to millions of people and providing the authors of this information with a wonderful platform for doing this!

Despite my wonderful words of gratitude in the above statement, I decided to shoot myself in the foot and try another platform. Mostly so I had a relevant basis of comparison for this post, and because I am geeky like that, ok the geeky thing was the main reason…

Having installed Movable Type blogging platform last week on my server, which I did also use 5-6 years ago and had terrible problems with rebuilding posts and such, I found myself lost – back to wordpress it was. I came at it with an open mind, but could not find any reason to switch platforms, for me it offered no wow factor which would make me interested in using it.

I am not going to make this a post about which platform is better – of course this is a huge can of worms and a preference for the individual, but rather I am going to briefly outline why wordpress is the blogging platform of choice for so many people!

From the one click install technique, (and yes I know you need to set up the SQL database and config file first, but after you ace that – you’re well on the way), to easy to install plugins and themes, your blog is ready for its content. So perfect for any beginner who wants a self hosted solution.

To boil all the features down into one short paragraph, you can make wordpress into your own baby.

The design and features you can use are endless, and the amount of people on hand that offer their services when you can’t figure it out is endless* (* sometimes at a price – like anything else), the amount of free designs and plugins to extend functionality that is on offer is so great you really don’t have to splash out on often expensive designs if you don’t want to or cant afford it. I wrote a post outlining some great plugins which compliment your installation greatly, you can find it here. Having mentioned support I being to think of a somewhat negative point, there has to be one, right?

Support! Wordpress should offer a support package, which would undoubtedly be in great demand. I understand wordpress does offer premium services on there hosted wordpress.com site, but for self hosted blogs paid support would be great.

To have someone on hand when something goes wrong, or when you have been trying to get something right for hours and it is just not working. Wordpress does offer support forums, which are of course not the same as dedicated support, don’t get me wrong there are some great people on wordpress willing to help, but a paid support service, would mean dedicated and fast responses where required.

Wordpress is easy to use, and it continues to evolve with the internet into a simple but extendable blogging platform. Dear Wordpress – Thank you!

Posted on June 22, 2009 - by John

‘Need a Laugh Monday!’

We all need a good laugh of a Monday! Jokes Supplied by my other website Funn.ie

hee! hee!

• 400 Euro a day for a car park attendant
• A woman decides to have a facelift for her 50th birthday
• Before and after – a few drinks
• Had a bad day?

Posted on June 20, 2009 - by John

How to send emails securely on gmail

Did you know by default Gmail does not send e-mails over https , although, it does of course use it to log you on to the system.

But you can turn this on, here’s how you do it.

1. Click on settings at the top of your Gmail inbox.

2. Under the general tab scroll to the bottom of the screen to browser connection options.

3. Select https, and click on save.

4. Did it work? You should now always see https in your URL bar!

I know this is simple but you can now securely send emails!