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QR Code
Following the upgrade of Jonathan Whiting’s WordPress website, he has started using QR code graphics so people can find his contact details. The code takes you to his “Contact Us” page. The page above is the mobile version of the site – with the “clickable” phone number and email address..
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Take care with whom you share your personal information
BBC – Newsbeat – Warning over scam that charges users to receive texts. This article is full of great advice for anyone with a mobile phone – I am going to discuss this with my teenage son tonight. On the subject of sharing personal information Cory Doctorow has a thought-provoking article in the Guardian that is worth…
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Price Increases – other peoples | Jonathan Whiting Funeral Directors
Price Increases – other peoples | Jonathan Whiting Funeral Directors. Jonathan has commented today on price rises from both the British Medical Association and Lincoln City Council that his clients will have to pay in future.
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Jonathan Whiting Funeral Directors
We have been out today helping Jonathan Whiting, one of our long term clients, adapt his current WordPress website to work on various mobile devices. They wanted several key new options for the site. to make the website accessible to clients from their mobile phones to reuse the current content to use the same content on…
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iPhone Firmware Update | Clive’s Blog
iPhone Firmware Update | Clive’s Blog. Clive is hoping that the latest firmware update for his iPhone 4 will fix a long running, on and off problem, he has been having with the phone audio.
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Lincoln Skyline
Today we are working on the roof for a client, right in Lincoln city centre, starting to set up a wifi and a webcam for them.
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The Lincoln Brand Launch
Today I went to the Lincoln brand launch at the Visit Lincoln Partnership meeting at Bishop Grosseteste University College. Andy Clayton from Ruddocks detailed the story behind the logo and told us it had taken several staff seven months to do. For those people not of a creative bent, this might seem a very long…
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Mobile Data Usage Set to Soar with Release of BBC iPlayer for Mobiles
Mobile Data Usage Set to Soar with Release of BBC iPlayer for Mobiles. If you have a mobile phone and a capped data package (as most of us do!) then you should read this blog – written by Telco-op one of the businesses Octagon work with closely. Keith, from Telco-op has some important things to…
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WiFi at Lincoln City Football Club
Just about the last job we did before Christmas was to improve the quality of the wifi internet in the Business and Networking Centre (BANC) that Lincoln City Football Club run. The signal strength of the wifi connection they had, was not very strong and as we use the Centre a lot, we offered to…
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iPhone Camera Apps
First I’d like to wish all our clients and suppliers a Happy and Prosperous 2012. During the holiday period the support staff go onto “emergency and callout” support for our contract clients – they have had to go out and help some clients – but Clive also found time to write a post comparing the…
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Octagon Sets Up a Trans-Atlantic Presentation
Last week Martin set up a link for a trans-atlantic Skype call for Lincoln Short Wave Club. Bob Heil founder of Heil Sound (who has worked with such bands as The Who, Grateful Dead and Peter Frampton to produce their sound) gave a presentation to the club about sound and amateur radio. Bob gives many of…
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iPhone Apps for Work
So what are the top work/productivity apps available? This article is written from personal experience and unlike many “I love Apple” articles I have reviewed apps that I use on my iPhone and my engineers use on their Android phones. So let’s start with some of the essential built-in applications. Internet access and email These…
