I have been using Gmail since it first came out when I got an invite from a friend  who also had an invite from an invite before the doors were fully open, in the days when google was always in “beta” mode

In general I find it very good and as a secondary account it ticks all the boxes and over the years it’s evolved and the latest display layouts have grown on me.

What really hit me was how the following got through the spam filters and made me wonder how many people would have fallen for it.

I never thought I would say it but this is one amazing little children’s IPAD toy and deserves it’s recommendation as one of the TOP 10 toys of 2011 from the list that those evil marketing people produce each year and release the media who then tell the parents they are not good parents unless they buy these top 10 toys for children who do not really need or appreciate them.

Anyway the Leappad Explorer from leap frog is brilliant, my daughter can now take her own pictures and video just like on a ipad so my stuff is no longer being used and let’s face it if an iphone or an ipad gets dropped by little hands and smashed it’s an expensive headache we don’t need!

One of her Grandparents bought it for one of her many Christmas presents, she even arranged to buy leappad online which was another plus!  Now when traveling in the car she can be kept busy with a range of learning activities, art studio, e books and great software which teaches through playing.  Even this week I had to take her into work for a few hours and she sat in my office painting some pictures on the art studio package whilst I sorted a quick issue.

Like a real ipad you connect it up to the internet via a computer and you can download new Leappad Apps to add to the leappad explorer tablet which are not badly priced at £7.50 each.

one thing that worried me was a dog app where you had to wash and feed your puppy and ran out of the food and shampoo quite quickly, I was thinking here we go I will be buying packs online but was presently surprised that you dont have to buy more.  You simply connect up and refresh them via the PC.

Some of the apps like build your own story book with the option to record audio, video and pictures to add to the story are quite amazing for the type of product it is.

So with all the naff junk out in the shops you would not be disappointed in buying this for your child

Ok so the majority of people clock on and clock off and basically go through the motions when they are at work, you can spot them a mile away the ones that hang around the kitchen or water cooler, the ones that spout on about reading a self improvement book but don’t take the action required!

All talk no action or Atna for short!

Then you meet Mike Philbin who makes Stonecare and Granite Counter Cleaning sound interesting, watching his videos you can see the passion come through as he speaks about getting the best results and delivering great service that leave a great impression with you, hence today I writing this

And getting my granite worktops cleaned on Friday!!

Due to an upgrade I have a 2009 FIM (Ford Isuzu Mahindra) 254 Mahindra Tractor for sale, 322 hours on the clock and well maintained

Specifications

• 25HP
• Power Steering
• Switchable between 2wd and 4wd
• Shuttle gear box
• turf tyres
• Standard CAT 1 Hydraulic 3 point linkage 772kgs test list
• Diff lock
• Adjustable Tow Hitch
• Hydraulic Tipping Valve Spool Connection
• Electric Trailer Socket
• Road Legal Lighting
• Foldable Roll Over Protection Structure

See the full pictures here http://www.flickr.com/photos/67473264@N04/sets/72157627532348173/show/

Front End Loader

• Factory Designed and Manufactured
• Quick Release Front End Loader
• Self Leveling parallel linkage
• 4 in 1 style bucket enabling “grab” or “bite” function

Based in Cheshire just off the m6 at junction 18, buyer would need to arrange collection and looking for £8500 no VAT (Or nearest offer)

There is a local haulage company I deal with who have advised me they can ship it across the UK, so if you need it delivered I can put you in touch with them to arrange a cost for the unit delivered to your door etc

Either call me on +44 7979 058670  during the day or complete the quick form below and I will get back to you

Totally forgot about how good this plugin from Mike Mindell and his amazing team, since I picked up a new laptop the other week I quickly synced my firefox bookmarks, history, passwords etc but it does not pull across plugins and for some strange reason I missed this off my list apologies Mike !!

So if you are blogging on wordpress or any blogging platform and want to do some nifty keyword research then go download this now providing you have firefox first !!!

SEO Blogger

No I am not going crazy, just finally found 5 minutes to move this site into the clouds so it runs faster and is more reliable than it was previous, now if I get 3 visitors or 3000 the server will call on resources to handle the load!

I just hope the people who have set up www.riotcleanup.co.uk to handle the mess that the little shits have caused in London have moved themselves to the cloud servers as they were down earlier today thanks to ITV giving the full URL out

So if your a business that relies on online business make sure you have adequate server capacity and speak to your hosting company to check what package you are on

They are both dying ways of doing business!!

If you were around in the eighties you will know doubt remember Tomorrows World on BBC1 talking about the latest technology and fax machines and how they will be great for sending documents down the phone line.   Now email and file sharing services have virtually killed off the fax machine.

And if you look at the latest yellow pages dropping through the doors it’s getting that thin that some of the sunday magazine supplements will soon be thicker. I remember the days when Geoff capes strongman or someone like him would appear on a TV program and rip one of these in half  when they were 2 or 3 times thicker.  Now Mr Muscle could probably do it whilst cleaning his bathroom

Why is it dying?  Simple Google has been kicking it ass for the past 10 years!!

You want something you just search either on a computer or using a smart phone with internet access, you dont spend ages looking for a yellow pages and flicking through the pages and dropping a pin on the page with luck to find the right company to supply you.

Advertisers have picked up on the fact that business is online and instant and you only pay per click or you get free traffic from SEO (search engine optimisation) so gone have the days of spending a couple of thousand on a nice big advert to show what you do and sit back and hope the phone rings, hence the new light weight compact version (LOL)

Wouldn’t it be great if you could go to a website, select what programs you want download one piece of software that installs a wide range of software automatically and keeps it up to date

And not have all the extra toolbars and fluff that some of the software packages bundle in to the kit, DO WE REALLY NEED a yahoo toolbar, Ask toolbar after all it’s not the 1990′s!!

Thats why I love http://ninite.com/  As it can install multiple browsers, media players, FTP programs, Imaging software, document programs, Security and utilities in one easy click, no mess no hassle!!

Got a windows machine or an apple MAC, ninite works on both and believe me when I recently updated my laptop it saved me hours of searching for the software and installing one by one

I installed around 25 programs at the time and running it today it automatically updated 6 of them to the latest version, again no hassle!

So go and bookmark it or download the software now and save yourself hours the next time you replace a machine

Speaking to my father today and I mentioned Firefox his preferred web browser has a new version out. Why do they need to change it, it worked perfect for me?

The world moves forward at such a pace these days, new technology is constantly coming at us in all forms of shape and that includes the software to run a web browser, be it microsoft, Opera, firefox, chrome or safari

The web browsers of 1995 would be very terrible in showing the latest websites in 2011 and with web developers getting excited over HTML 5, wow you say HTML 5 what is that? And the hackers finding security holes in web browsers there is constant development and if we did not develop and move forward we would have no internet and a whole heap of stuff!.

But then new web browsers can force a site to look different than it previously did, so you need to test in a wide range of broswers, best to focus on the popular ones that you hear about such as chrome, IE, firefox, Opera, Safari

And you don’t really need to install multiple browsers and all the different versions on your own machine that could drive you mad. There are as most things online services that will test for you and show you your site as if it was viewed via a particular web browser such as http://browsershots.org/ which tests web browsers and screen resolutions at the same time.

So then there is no need to see messages like this I recieved when I landed on a site that specialises in email marketing and prides itself to be good and on the ball.

If you are in the know or have a few more brain cells than average you will know that the phone networks monitor and track your mobile phone.

Companies now offer a service where you can track a mobile phone and see where it is by just using the GPS signal, the latest smart phones if you loose them offer a service where you can track to within a few yards, send a message to them and if that fails remotely wipe all the data and lock it up so it’s no use to the delightful person who now has it.

So it makes complete sense that those simple text messages are scanned for appropriate keywords like “bomb” and voice calls are also monitored along with all the data you download on to your phones.

Don’t believe me?

Green party politician Malte Spitz sued to have German telecoms giant Deutsche Telekom hand over six months of his phone data that he then made available to ZEIT ONLINE. Who then combined this geolocation data with information relating to his life as a politician, such as Twitter feeds, blog entries and websites, all of which is all freely available on the internet.

Check out the interactive map of all his calls, data and activity and the full story here as it really brings it home how much a mobile phone can be used to track a person and show that they were at a place in time.

Then if you are still not sure about tracking and monitoring done on all the phones and your daft enough to try something then ring a friend and mention bomb quite a few times in a conversation, then search on your phone for the same phrase and a couple of text messages should prove the point!