Thursday, June 30, 2011

Dr. Detail - All Weather Detailing

Dr. Detail - All Weather Detailing • Hand Washing • Low to High End Vehicles: "A thorough cleaning of the entire automobile, including COMPOUND, POLISH and HAND WAX, then a FULL INTERIOR CLEANING: extract/shampoo all carpets and mats, clean all seats and door panels, and dress the dash."

Find out which persona looks where on your site & increase conversion

Find out which persona looks where on your site & increase conversion: "The persona approach has proven its worth in practice. No personality type can be overlooked while writing and designing (online) communications. The methodology, as described by the Eisenberg brothers in their bestseller books “Call To Action” and “Waiting For Your Cat To Bark?” provides useful ways for adapting the tone of voice to a particular persona."

Monday, June 27, 2011

Crazy Euro Regulations on Pay Phones and Cookies

EUR-Lex - - EN: "Third parties may wish to store information on the equipment of a user, or gain access to information already stored, for a number of purposes, ranging from the legitimate (such as certain types of cookies) to those involving unwarranted intrusion into the private sphere (such as spyware or viruses). It is therefore of paramount importance that users be provided with clear and comprehensive information when engaging in any activity which could result in such storage or gaining of access. The methods of providing information and offering the right to refuse should be as user-friendly as possible. Exceptions to the obligation to provide information and offer the right to refuse should be limited to those situations where the technical storage or access is strictly necessary for the legitimate purpose of enabling the use of a specific service explicitly requested by the subscriber or user. Where it is technically possible and effective, in accordance with the relevant provisions of Directive 95/46/EC, the user’s consent to processing may be expressed by using the appropriate settings of a browser or other application. The enforcement of these requirements should be made more effective by way of enhanced powers granted to the relevant national authorities."

Cookie law makes most UK websites illegal: what you need to know

Cookie law makes most UK websites illegal: what you need to know: "So far I’ve not found a single person with anything good to say about this new law, with most web developers confused about what they actually need to do to, and jokes about how to implement the recommendations. There’s a huge backlash against the regulations, and quite a lot of scaremongering about the implications."

EU e-Privacy Cookie Rules Will Impact Non-European Web Companies

EU e-Privacy Cookie Rules Will Impact Non-European Web Companies - eWeek.com: "The European Union’s new data privacy rules requiring companies to obtain explicit customer consent before displaying targeted Internet advertisements will impact any Web enterprise that has customers within the EU."

EU Directive and Cookie Law Q&A

Official Webtrends Company Blog – EU Directive and Cookie Law Q&A: "The deadline has passed and we’re not anywhere closer to understanding the EU nations’ regulatory framework for cookies. Besides frustrations, this uncertainty provides a silver lining: businesses now have more time (the UK ICO gives website owners one year to comply with cookies law) to figure out what’s expected from them and come up with solutions. Here are some bits and pieces to get you started."

Sunday, June 26, 2011

EU companies have a year to standardise cookie opt outs, says EU Commissioner

EU companies have a year to standardise cookie opt outs, says EU Commissioner: "'I urge all interested parties to come to the standardisation table. And I challenge you to agree a 'do not track' standard by June 2012,' Kroes said in a speech at privacy workshop."

Monday, June 20, 2011

Comparison tables - Money Advice Service

Comparison tables - Money Advice Service

Some annuity providers offer higher annuity rates to smokers because they are not expected to live as long as non-smokers. If you say you are a smoker, we show rates on the basis of someone smoking 10 cigarettes a day.

Friday, June 17, 2011

Cancer Incidence per 100,000 - Kaiser State Health Facts

Cancer Incidence per 100,000 - Kaiser State Health Facts: "Data are from selected statewide and metropolitan area cancer registries that meet the data quality criteria for all invasive cancer sites combined. See registry-specific data quality information. 2007 rates cover approximately 99% of the U.S. population."

Mac OS X v10.5, 10.6: How to capture a packet trace

Mac OS X v10.5, 10.6: How to capture a packet trace: "In this advanced article, learn how to capture a packet trace; for example, you may be asked to do this when troubleshooting a network connectivity issue. These steps use Terminal and the the tcpdump command; if you are not familiar with using the Terminal, you may want to use for third-party software that can perform a packet trace instead."

Tuffcode - Support

Tuffcode - Support: "HTTP Scoop is an HTTP protocol analyser (sometimes called an HTTP sniffer) for Mac OS X. It captures packets from the network and reassembles them into complete HTTP requests/responses and displays the results in real-time. You can view all different aspects of the conversation: request URLs and parameters, request/response headers and POST data. You can also view the returned files as text (syntax highlighted for HTML and XML) or as a hex dump, as well as saving them to disk."

Technical Q&A QA1176: Technical Q&A QA1176

Technical Q&A QA1176: Technical Q&A QA1176

I'm trying to debug a network problem. How do I take a packet trace?

There are a variety of tools to do this. They are listed below...

Wednesday, June 8, 2011

arl, with a k » Wild Green Life

arl, with a k » Wild Green Life: "There ya are.. available for download here (mp3 V0) or at http://what.cd/torrents.php?id=71987489. Physical copies are scheduled for late-June/early-July. Thanks everybody."

Friday, June 3, 2011

Online tool measures state and county compliance with national broadband goals -- Government Computer News

Online tool measures state and county compliance with national broadband goals -- Government Computer News: "The Broadband Readiness Index looks at the broadband infrastructure for the entire United States down to the county level and overseas territories such as Puerto Rico and American Samoa. The tool is intended to support state, local and regional broadband planning initiatives."

ID Insight Analysis Reveals Significant Differences Between National Broadband Map and BroadBand Scout Data

ID Insight Analysis Reveals Significant Differences Between National Broadband Map and BroadBand Scout Data: "When considering broadband speeds being delivered, BroadBand Scout observed that only 50 percent of the most rural counties had actual broadband speeds above 5 mbps combined versus 100 percent reported"

Calibre eBook Library Manager

calibre User Manual: "calibre is an e-book library manager. It can view, convert and catalog e-books in most of the major e-book formats. It can also talk to a few e-book reader devices. It can go out to the internet and fetch metadata for your books. It can download newspapers and convert them into e-books for convenient reading. It is cross platform, running on Linux, Windows and OS X."