Posted by Paul Ogier on 28/07/2010
Outsource House was established in 2000 to provide professional support services to micro, small and medium sized companies. Providing our clients with essential support services allows our clients to focus on their core competencies. We believe in meeting clients’ needs and not over servicing clients. We supply services when required and our clients are able to choose whether they require all or some of our services.
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Posted by Paul Ogier on 01/09/2010
This was tweeted by @aplusk and then retweeted by google. This Html5 demo, shows the power that html5 has in store for us. This works best in Google Chrome.
Basically goto this address : http://thewildernessdowntown.com/
Then you fill in the town that you grew up in.
Then there is a video of a man running, and then in a new window after a couple of seconds, there is a shadow of a man running through the town that you grew up in.
The soundtrack to this video is also very cool.
If you run it in Firefox Beta 4, it runs, but seems to take quite a while to start.
In Internet Explorer 8, gets to this page, and then no further.
Please check it out.
Posted by Paul Ogier on 30/08/2010
We have times when we need to start a Website from scratch and we normally start with some kind of layout. This is the first in a series of layouts that you can use for your own designs for free.
This is part 1 and it contains a Header, Main Content and a Footer. All of these are centred on the page.
All you have to do, is click on the above picture and then look at the source code. It is commented nicely. Then you can use it for your own coding.
I hope that helps.
Posted by Paul Ogier on 30/08/2010
If you search Twitter here for the #TwitterEditButton hashtag, you will see that there are a lot of people who what to be able to edit their tweets. Should you be able to? Should Twitter change the way it has been doing this?
I am sure that it is possible. As a web developer, I understand the implications of editing a record. However, there are numerous apps out there that download tweets “instantly”. Would they have to change the way they work to pull down a new tweet if it has been edited? That might really irritate the developers of those apps. If you really want to edit your Tweet, can you not delete it and then repost a new Tweet? Some people might find that tiresome. People who might have downloaded your tweet already would click on this link to Twitter and then would see this.
My suggestion is that Twitter does allow you to edit your tweets, but you have a time limit. Say 1 minute. After that the apps can download your tweet, and no-one will be the wiser.
What are your thoughts? Do you have an idea on what Twitter can do? Or do you think people are just being stupid?
Posted by Paul Ogier on 30/08/2010
Do you want your asp table that you are displaying to have different colours on each line so that it makes it easier to read?
Here is the code:
<table>
<% Dim intRow
intRow = 0 %>
<tr bgcolor=”#FFFFFF”> <% ‘ this line makes the whole table white %>
<% While ((Repeat1__numRows <> 0) AND (NOT rsRecordset.EOF)) %>
<% If intRow = 0 Then %>
<tr bgcolor=”#CCCCCC”> <% ‘ this line says, that the first time round make the bgcolor cccccc %>
<% intRow = 1
Else %>
<tr bgcolor=”#FFFFFF”><% ‘ this line says that the second time round make the bgcolor ffffff %>
<% intRow = 0
End If %>
<td><%=(rsRecordset.Fields.Item(“company_name”).Value)%></td>
</tr>
<%
Repeat1__index=Repeat1__index+1
Repeat1__numRows=Repeat1__numRows-1
rsRecordset.MoveNext()
Wend
%>
</table>
I hope this helps you.
Posted by Paul Ogier on 27/08/2010
I can’t wait until this is available in South Africa.
Here is a bit of info from the official Google Blog.
Google Voice lets you manage all your phone communications and seamlessly make and receive calls on any of your existing phones. But what if you don’t have your phone with you? Or what if you’re in a place with poor cell phone reception, or you’re travelling internationally and don’t want to incur expensive roaming charges? Wouldn’t it be great if you could use your computer to make or receive calls?
Starting today you can use Gmail to receive or place Google Voice calls.
To get started, check the box next to Google Chat in your list of forwarding phones and the next time someone calls your Google Voice number, Gmail will notify you of an incoming call. You can take the call or even listen in as the caller leaves a message, in a single step right from your computer.
To make a call, just click the Call phone link in Gmail and enter any number or name from your address book.
All calls made from Gmail will display your Google Voice phone number as the outbound caller ID and all international calls will use your Google Voice calling credit and are offered at the same low Google Voice rates. We took great care to make sure that our rates are as low as possible. For those of you not as familiar with international calling rates, check out our comparison table.
And check out the full blog here : http://googlevoiceblog.blogspot.com/2010/08/make-and-receive-calls-in-gmail.html
