Recently I discussed Facebook in my Tech Talk feature in the Goole Times. Facebook is an extremely popular website and it is a great way of keeping in touch with friends and family. It has its problems though, as in order to keep the website free, Facebook have opened it up to advertisers and to application developers. These adverts and games aren’t all that innocent and you should be careful what you accept and what you agree to install within Facebook.

Here are some tips for safe browsing on Facebook

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Windows 7 is now out and many of our customers are upgrading to take advantage of some of its new features. We have already upgraded a number of our office machines and those users who have upgraded really like Microsoft’s new operating system. Reading around the web I found this article explaining some of the design decisions the Microsoft team made whilst working on Windows 7. This from MSDN;

The taskbar has undergone a facelift. We’ve enabled large icons by default (as seen in Windows 1.0 and also an option of Quick Launch since Windows 95 with IE 4). This affords a richer icon language, improves identification of programs and improves targeting for both the mouse and touch. Yet, one of the most important advantages large icons provide is a means to promote the taskbar as the central place to launch everyday tasks. We joke that the new taskbar is the “beachfront property of the Windows OS” and in turn, we are already seeing many people populating the UI with their commonly used programs. Somewhat if a visual trick, the taskbar is only 10 pixels (at 96 DPI) higher than its Vista counterpart (when used as a single row, since multiple rows are still supported, along with positioning around the screen edges).

If you are thinking about upgrading to Windows 7 then give us a call.

Announcing our next workshop focussed on helping local businesses get more business out of the internet. Meet us at The Courtyard in Goole, for a 7:45 to 8 AM start, and see what you can learn to help you get the most out of your web activities.

Our Next Executive Briefing will be focussing on Increasing Sales from your Website. The venue is The Courtyard, Goole and we start at 7:45, aiming to finish about 9:30 am, on Thursday, 2nd April.

Like other network meetings you’ve been to recently, we’ll have set aside a slot for exchanging cards and networking. The event consists of an informal workshop cum presentation, focuussing on how your business can make the most from internet marketing and your website. This is the 4th in our series and we are focussing this time on sales.

We’ll talk about 4 key ways you can improve the sales from your website

1. How to create a website customers will trust.

2. How to get that first sale, subscription, or enquiry

3. Creating successful product listings and pages which increase sales

4. How testing can improve your sales performance

Now I’m really looking forward to this workshop as there’s a lot of material here which we share with our clients and I am sure you will find something of interest for your own business. And some surprises I am sure.

The error message is something like

The process can not access the file because it is being used by another process. (Exception from HRESULT: 0 x 80070020)

The answer in my case was Skype. By shutting Skype down and then starting the default site successfully, I then restarted Skype and all was well.

Skype uses the same port 80 as the default site needed, so if this error occurs with you then check which applications might be using port 80 and close them, then try and start your default site.