NetEvolution.co.uk Blog http://www.netevolution.co.uk/blog Thu, 16 Jul 2009 10:28:51 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 en hourly 1 Netevolutionhttp://feedburner.google.com BT brings jobs back from India http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Netevolution/~3/dGRjIppYIdE/ http://www.netevolution.co.uk/blog/?p=482#comments Thu, 16 Jul 2009 10:28:22 +0000 Brad http://www.netevolution.co.uk/blog/?p=482 Perhaps the tide of sending work off to the other side of the world is turning, no doubt due to the poor quality of the calls and difficulties caused by strong accents and a lack of local knowledge. An article in The Register today indicates that although there have been a terrible amount of redundancies and [...]<p>Post from: <a href="http://www.netevolution.co.uk">Make money online</a></p> <p><a href="http://www.netevolution.co.uk/blog/?p=482">BT brings jobs back from India</a></p> Perhaps the tide of sending work off to the other side of the world is turning, no doubt due to the poor quality of the calls and difficulties caused by strong accents and a lack of local knowledge.

An article in The Register today indicates that although there have been a terrible amount of redundancies and sabbaticals going on at BT this year due to pressure from shareholders at their AGM, BT are closing call centres in India and moving the seats back home to the UK.

Hopefully the trend will continue and companies will move to support British workers with a view to long term prosperity here, rather than cutting service quality to save on costs in the short term.

Many visitors to this site are from India, programmers looking for help with basic Javascript, or SEO salespeople trying to partner up and offer grey-hat spamming techniques under the guise of whitehat template emails mentioning the same set of acronyms as all others like them. Makes you wonder…..

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]]> http://www.netevolution.co.uk/blog/?feed=rss2&p=482 0 http://www.netevolution.co.uk/blog/?p=482 Can a dog ride a bicycle? http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Netevolution/~3/IQ3F9UOz7ts/ http://www.netevolution.co.uk/blog/?p=383#comments Thu, 16 Jul 2009 08:19:40 +0000 Brad http://www.netevolution.co.uk/blog/?p=383 The answer is yes! Evolution @ work. Post from: Make money online Can a dog ride a bicycle? <p>Post from: <a href="http://www.netevolution.co.uk">Make money online</a></p> <p><a href="http://www.netevolution.co.uk/blog/?p=383">Can a dog ride a bicycle?</a></p> The answer is yes!

Evolution @ work.

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]]> http://www.netevolution.co.uk/blog/?feed=rss2&p=383 0 http://www.netevolution.co.uk/blog/?p=383 How to transpose columns to rows or rows to columns in Excel http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Netevolution/~3/GxJ0ABVtTm4/ http://www.netevolution.co.uk/blog/?p=380#comments Thu, 09 Jul 2009 09:41:21 +0000 Brad http://www.netevolution.co.uk/blog/?p=380 I need to populate a lookup table today with shifts that relate to dates through the year, the lookup table needs the reference data in columns, but the data was kindly provided in rows&#8230; how inconvenient.  Years ago I would solve this in Excel with a macro, but today I find that Excel is more [...]<p>Post from: <a href="http://www.netevolution.co.uk">Make money online</a></p> <p><a href="http://www.netevolution.co.uk/blog/?p=380">How to transpose columns to rows or rows to columns in Excel</a></p> I need to populate a lookup table today with shifts that relate to dates through the year, the lookup table needs the reference data in columns, but the data was kindly provided in rows… how inconvenient.  Years ago I would solve this in Excel with a macro, but today I find that Excel is more than capable of handling this transposition problem itself..

Say you have a column of data:

Dairy
Meat
Beverages
Produce

That you want to change into a row, like so:

Dairy Meat Beverages Produce

Or maybe you have a row of data that you want to change into a column.

Moving the data manually, one item at a time, would be a tedious process. To save time, you can use the Paste Special command to quickly transpose a column of data to a row of data, or vice versa.

Move data between rows and columns

  1. Copy the data in one or more columns or rows.
  2. Before you paste the copied data, right-click your first destination cell (the first cell of the row or column into which you want to paste your data), and then click Paste Special.
  3. In the Paste Special dialog box, select Transpose, and then click OK.You’ll find theTranspose check box in the lower-right corner of the dialog box:

    The Paste Special dialog box

    Starting with your first cell, Excel pastes the data into a row or column.

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]]> http://www.netevolution.co.uk/blog/?feed=rss2&p=380 0 http://www.netevolution.co.uk/blog/?p=380 New Firefox error message http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Netevolution/~3/SdTzuJ00iYo/ http://www.netevolution.co.uk/blog/?p=278#comments Mon, 06 Jul 2009 07:55:45 +0000 Brad http://www.netevolution.co.uk/blog/?p=278 I do love how the firefox team deal with displaying errors and warnings, so much more friendly than your average software. Post from: Make money online New Firefox error message <p>Post from: <a href="http://www.netevolution.co.uk">Make money online</a></p> <p><a href="http://www.netevolution.co.uk/blog/?p=278">New Firefox error message</a></p> I do love how the firefox team deal with displaying errors and warnings, so much more friendly than your average software.
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Apples latest iPhone offers the following:

- Vivid 3.5 inch Touchscreen display with Multi-touch technology!
- Improved processor for faster browsing and applications!
- 3.0 Megapixel camera with autofocus and touch focus!
- Video recording – Trim your videos and upload them straight to YouTube!
- Built in digital compass – Get Tom Tom Sat Nav on your iPhone!
- Voice control – make calls and play music just using the sound of your voice!
- Choose from either 16GB or 32GB internal memory!
- 7.2 Mbps HSDPA mobile broadband, Wi-Fi and built-in GPS!
- App store - Download from over 50,000 different apps!

If you are hooked on Apple, then get the latest iPhone

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]]> http://www.netevolution.co.uk/blog/?feed=rss2&p=275 5 http://www.netevolution.co.uk/blog/?p=275 Wordpress mail bug with Google Apps http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Netevolution/~3/EBMUwY5rcPE/ http://www.netevolution.co.uk/blog/?p=270#comments Wed, 03 Jun 2009 08:27:26 +0000 Brad http://www.netevolution.co.uk/blog/?p=270 After much playing around with the internals of wordpress to get some workable SMTP settings to send wordpress mails to my google apps setup and trying several plugins to help do the same, I am pleased to say I finally found one that does the trick. Whats the problem?, well essentially once you elect to have [...]<p>Post from: <a href="http://www.netevolution.co.uk">Make money online</a></p> <p><a href="http://www.netevolution.co.uk/blog/?p=270">Wordpress mail bug with Google Apps</a></p> After much playing around with the internals of wordpress to get some workable SMTP settings to send wordpress mails to my google apps setup and trying several plugins to help do the same, I am pleased to say I finally found one that does the trick.

Whats the problem?, well essentially once you elect to have Google Apps handle email for your domain(s) and you update the mx records to route email through Google Apps instead of your local mail server, the phpmail function within wordpress can start to fail.

Mail notifications such as new users, new comments etc all fail because the from address in my case was being malformed by wordpress so by the time it reached Google Apps it was rejected due to format.

The solution?, send by a defined SMTP server rather than let phpmail do it’s thing, below you will find the link to the plugin that’s completely self explanatory, just install it and it will fix the problem. Other extensions I tried required me to still play around with other parts of PHP that I didnt think was necessary just to send wordpress emails, fortunately this plugin has everything it needs contained within.

http://www.marcocimmino.net/cimy-wordpress-plugins/cimy-swift-smtp/

The only other thing I had to do was uncommentthe openSSL module in php.ini so PHP was able to use  TLS to send as required by gmail.

Find the file called php.ini on your server (you may have more than one so just do them all to be sure)

Change

;extension=php_openssl.dll

To

extension=php_openssl.dll

This was bugging me for ages, hopefully this definitive fix will help you out along with my other bugfixes mentioned on this blog.

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35mm Film Scanner
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Full HD 1080p Camcorder
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ProNav – Sat Nav for HGVs and LCVs
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]]> http://www.netevolution.co.uk/blog/?feed=rss2&p=267 1 http://www.netevolution.co.uk/blog/?p=267 This is the future of email http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Netevolution/~3/MFKr8q0cdE8/ http://www.netevolution.co.uk/blog/?p=264#comments Fri, 29 May 2009 21:58:57 +0000 Brad http://www.netevolution.co.uk/blog/?p=264 A new Google product due to be released later this year by the guys who came up with Google Maps has an innovative and highly collaborative new approach to emailing, photo sharing, and organising. The product will be known as Google Wave and here is a lengthy but interesting presentation on how it will work. If [...]<p>Post from: <a href="http://www.netevolution.co.uk">Make money online</a></p> <p><a href="http://www.netevolution.co.uk/blog/?p=264">This is the future of email</a></p> A new Google product due to be released later this year by the guys who came up with Google Maps has an innovative and highly collaborative new approach to emailing, photo sharing, and organising. The product will be known as Google Wave and here is a lengthy but interesting presentation on how it will work.

If you are interested in being able to communicate better then watch the video.


The system uses masses of HTML 5 and AJAX to come up with the most comprehensive centralised discussion tool I have seen, I’m looking forward to it’s release.

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]]> http://www.netevolution.co.uk/blog/?feed=rss2&p=262 0 http://www.netevolution.co.uk/blog/?p=262 The Internet as Imagined in 1969 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Netevolution/~3/ZUVVzkxKGfM/ http://www.netevolution.co.uk/blog/?p=254#comments Wed, 13 May 2009 10:28:56 +0000 Brad http://www.netevolution.co.uk/blog/?p=254 Some vaguely recognisable concepts, even way back in 1969 Post from: Make money online The Internet as Imagined in 1969 <p>Post from: <a href="http://www.netevolution.co.uk">Make money online</a></p> <p><a href="http://www.netevolution.co.uk/blog/?p=254">The Internet as Imagined in 1969</a></p> Some vaguely recognisable concepts, even way back in 1969

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