Category: Work/Technical

Multiple Gmail Accounts on HTC Hero

I’ve recently got myself a HTC Hero through work, as I’m sick of blackberry’s not working right and constantly failing. Before i got the HTC I was really unsure whether or not me and my fat fingers would get on with it – so far so good however!

If it wasn’t for the HTC auto-correct stuff I’d have sent it back already!

The only other two things i was unsure about, was the lack of multiple Gmail account support and the lack of blackberry messenger. I still miss BBM but I’ve managed to sort out the issue with having more then one gmail account on it.

After some extensive google searching i stumbled upon a forum post on an android forum discussing this very issue – and one of the form posters mentioned a beta program that ticks all the boxes.

Its called the SEVEN Beta program, and you can download the software you need (for now) for free here; http://community.seven.com/main.php

I had to get the version for the G1 as there was no entry for HTC hero but it works VERY well – supports as many yahoo, gmail and hotmail accounts as you want to add and it is integrates into your Hero very well – notifying you of new mail via the top drop down notification window.

All in all, its put anther gold star against the HTC Hero, and that new blackberry they offered me is looking more and more like its never going to happen

26 March 2010
Carnfield Hall is gonna be on the Telly!

We were approached by James Cartland when he needed a website to advertise his 15th Century country house called Carnfield Hall. Mr Cartland was a pleasure to deal with from start to finish, and we were pretty pleased with the overall look and feel of the site too.

The content is now looked after by their events company – so unfortunately we don’t get to deal with Mr Cartland much any more – but we did get a call the other day stating he was appearing on Channel 4’s Country House Rescue on the 18th of March 2010. We’re definitely going to hit record and save that! Once we get a copy we’ll post it online for sure!

Go Carnfield Hall!

25 February 2010
Commercial Property in the Midlands

We’ve been debating whether or not to move our operations to another office within the Midlands, or to move everything we do to a store-front type setup and open a shop selling cool shit too?

Where do you start when looking to relocate your entire business?

We have scoured the Internet and found quite a few decent website that show us our available options, one of which is Alliance North Midlands – their job is to highlight the available commercial office space within the North Midlands area. It lists the large business centres, and the smaller incubation units for start-up’s – but unfortunately it didn’t show us any store fronts – for that our search had to expand.

We checked websites like Rightmove.co.uk to view commercial properties available, then literally walked to them in the town centre and viewed them for ourselves (photos never do them justice) and after checking some of the MANY available properties we’ve found a few that would suit our needs fairly well – but nothing that has really set our creative juices alight!

The search continues – if anyone knows of any Shops or Commercial Property, Midlands/the surrounding areas, that would be a great place for us to expand our business then send me a comment. 🙂

22 February 2010
Moving Domains away from UK2.net

I wanted to move a load of domains away from UK2.net, as a client of ours wanted us to handle everything for them – and we dont use UK2 for domain name regestration.

I searched the web, trying to find a guide on how to do it but it seems as if they’ve changed their procedure recently. Even the 123-reg domain transfer guide is out dated!

So here’s what i got sent from UK2 – and i thought i’d share it with you guys!

“If a domain name is transferred within the first 2 years of registration, an administration fee of £12.99 excluding VAT will be charged. The transfer or change of handle / tags will not take place until payment has been received in full.

Please go to http://www.uk2.net and select Account Login.

Once logged in (to the new “Dashboard” control panel) … Please update the Nameserver settings for the relevant domain to the ones specified by your new host. (You will need to find out the names of both the “new” Primary & Secondary “Nameservers” from your new hosting organisation).

From the Dashboard main menu select Domains, then select the specific Domain, then select the Change Nameservers option – and action this change.

Then in order to transfer your domain to another host please go to http://www.uk2.net/move_away/ Please fill out the move away screen – until the point where the screen shows your “cyber travel out” Order Number.

ONCE YOU HAVE ACTIONED THE “MOVE AWAY” PROCESS ABOVE – PLEASE REPLY TO THIS EMAIL QUOTING YOUR DOMAIN NAME(s) AND YOUR “CYBER TRAVEL OUT ORDER NUMBER(s).

UK2 require this confirmation from you before we can process your order(s).

Once UK2 have received your confirmation email reply we will usually process your cyber travel out order(s) within 2 working days.

Once this process has been fully completed the domain “Registrar IPS Tag” will be changed to that of your new hosts, and they can manage the domain themselves

ADDITIONALLY, IF YOU HAVE WEBSPACE WITH UK2 FOR THIS DOMAIN – Please go to www.uk2.net > Support > Submit a Ticket, and submit a Ticket to the Cancellations department.

In the Ticket please state – your Domain Name your cyber travel Order Number and state “Please CANCEL my Webspace for this Domain”.

What a stupid process!

4 February 2010