English Language Courses in UK

I would like to recommend one college located in Portsmouth (106km from London) where you could take english language cources in UK for as low as 95GBP a week? Only in Spinnaker College!
Their language cources are various:
General english cources – it is just for those who just start learn english
Business English Courses – to learn English for Business Communications
and other cources you can find on their website.

I’m not affiliated with them, simply I’ve been creating their site design, and while working I found out the cost of cources are cheap enoug. Some people who under tight budget might be interested in this college for themselves or their friends.

Today.az and Day.az Stopped and Closed

Since yesterday, ceased to exist the most popular azerbaijani news portal in the entire Caucasus day.az and its english version today.az

At first there were informations in different media resources that site “stopped” due to technical problems, but today, “19.02.2009″ on the main pages of both sites hanged alert saying “Project is closed. Contact editor@dayaz.com ”

It is doubt that there might be financial motivation for the closure of sites as they have been very successful and profitable projects for their owners.

At only one advertising day.az not bad earning, I am still not talking about other potential revenue such as the PR interviews, anounces for banks, companies, etc.

There is reason to suspect that the political articles in the forum, which is to become aroused indignation of the authorities is difficult to predict. Most likely this is due to the upcoming referendum which is scheduled for March 18, , what the coincidence exactly one month before! And if you still remember that a political forum on day.az also was stopped exactly a month before the presidential elections in Azerbaijan, it creates a certain suspection that the cause of the closure of the site day.az are nothing else like the blocking of a resource which could affect the mass discontent of citizens (users portal) of Azerbaijan with a referendum held on changes article of law in the constitution to allow re elect the same person to president more than twice.

Note that this is not the first time in Azerbaijan, where the authorities do a pressure on the media, thereby creating a shadow on the freedom of speech in the republic.

Perhaps day.az returns as well as the ANS TV channel after a brief closure of its back.

The strange fact is the founder of s day.az and today.az (english version day.az) is the deputy of Milli Majlis Anar Mamedhanov (formerly сapitan of team “Parni iz Baku”), is a friend of president. Also, for a variety of interviews, statements on the forums that you can accurately define A. Mamedhanov is government man, and his views are not inconsistent with the state.

Here the logic of losing its meaning, as it is the most famous sites in Azerbaijan, which belong to the people elect, pet president at the wrong things is not like this now cease to exist?

Versions of many may be one I already wrote above, another version – may be the fate of these projects was originally so planned in advance? In order to gain popularity, to collect a constant readers, at the same time obscure other azerbaijani news site, and then abruptly shut down like this here.

Let ’s discuss the subject in comment below, what was the reason of the closure of day.az and today.az

Закрыт самый популярный азербайджанский сайт Day.az

Со вчерашнего дня прекратил свое существование самый популярный азербайджанский новостной портал на всем кавказе day.az и его английская версия today.az

Сначала в СМИ прошла инфа о том что сайт “остановился” из-за технических проблем, но сегодня “19.02.2009″ на главных страницах обеих сайтов повешена информация о том что “Проект прекратил свое существование. Контактный адрес editor@dayaz.com”

Сразу отпадают какие либо финансовые мотивы по закрытию сайтов так как они были весьма успешные и прибыльные проекты.

На одной только рекламе day.az не плохо зарабатывал, я еще не говорю о других возможных доходов таких как ПР интервью, Анонсы банков, компаний и.т.д

Остается подозревать что причины в политических статьях и в форуме, какая именно статья вызвало негодование у властей трудно предсказать. Скорее всего это связанно с референдумом который намечается на 18 Марта, какое совпадение, ровно через месяц! А если еще припомнить что политический форум на day.az был приостановлен тоже ровно месяц назад до президентских выборов в Азербайджане, то создается некое подозрение что причиной закрытие сайта day.az есть не что иное как блокирование ресурса в котором могло отразится массовое недовольство граждан(пользователей портала) Азербайджана с проводимым референдумом об изменение в конституции закона об избрание президента более двух раз.

Отметим что это не первый случай в Азербайджане когда со стороны властей оказывалось давление на СМИ, этим самым ставя тень на свобода слова в республике.

Возможно day.az вернется также как и телеканал ANS после краткого своего закрытие вернулся.

Интересно то что учредителем сайтов day.az и today.az(англоязычная версия day.az) является депутат Милли Меджлиса господин Анар Мамедханов (бывший капитан команды “Парни из Баку” ) другом президента. Также по разным интервью, высказываний на форумах можно точно определить что А.Мамедханов по провительственный человек, и его взгляды не противоречат властям.

Вот здесь логика теряет свой смысл, как это получается самые знаменитые сайты в Азербайджане которые принадлежат народному избраннику, любимчику президента не с того не сего вот так вот прекращают свою деятельность?

Версий много может быть, одну я уже написал выше, другая версия – может судьба этих проектов изначально была так спланированна? Тоесть набрать популярность, собрать в себя постоянных читателей, одновременно затмить другие азербайджаснкие новостные сайты, а потом резко вот так вот закрыться.

Давайте пообсуждаем эту тему в коментариях, какие же всетаки причины могли быть закрытие сайтов day.az и today.az

Vulnerability in old Wordpress

Sometime ago I got an email notification from google with the following content:
“Dear site owner or webmaster of …,
While we were indexing your webpages, we detected that some of your pages were using techniques that are outside our quality guidelines, which can be found here: http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=35769&hl=en. This appears to be because your site has been modified by a third party. Typically, the offending party gains access to an insecure directory that has open permissions. Many times, they will upload files or modify existing ones, which then show up as spam in our index.”

I immediately checked html source of my blog, and couldn’t find any outgoing hidden links. Then I checked my page in google cache typing site:mysitename.com and found there a batch of spam links.

Ha ha, tricky spammers could inject special code which display links only to google, when usual user with browser check the page those links not shown.

Then I checked some other blogs of my customers and found the same. I promptly removed all files and updates wp on all sites.

I found that almost all sites with old wordpress versions had this.
So I highly recommend you to check your old version wp’s for this issue, or better immediately move to new version.

Mistery of the Skypefind Tab in Skype

I occasionally found a  tab "SkypeFind" on my Skype main window.
This is an interesting kind of search with interesting features, for example, you can add it to services and in finding Your data goes + phone number.

But the most interesting is that you can charge money for calls to your Skype account, ie when to call your number from another account withdraw money on the price you set.

The people have become over there to provide consulting services on a fee skype, very comfortable the way

Difficult customers

Sometime I got inquiry with about following text:

"hello I need a website".

And here arise a question, why a person who submit a contact form doesn’t think that his message is not concrete.

For a quick quote web site designer need to know what kind of website, how many pages, any media elements, static or dynamic site etc… The problem is that most of clients run small business and not skilled with average internet understanding.

That’s why I’m thinking to create detailed questionary application from in my contact form, so that to save both mine and customer’s time. Hopefully sooner I will find a time to create it.

Cool Cars Blog

There many  autos blogs, but this one I lunched recently going to be a special Cool Cars Blog publish news about superior and luxury cars. Keep your eyes on the blog to being informed of world car leaders industry.

gTranslate nice translation tool for firefox.

I found very good firefox plugin, which saved my time in translation some stuff. You can download it from here https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/918

The plugin is easy to use, you just highlight text then right click in popup window you see select Translation and see translated text. Besides, additional faeture is to insert text directly from textfield and texbox.

Available languages:

English to German / German to English
English to Spanish / Spanish to English
English to French / French to English
English to Italian / Italian to English
English to Portuguese / Portuguese to English
English to Japanese / Japanese to English
English to Korean / Korean to English
English to Chinese (Simplified and Traditional) /
Chinese (Simplified and Traditional) to English
English to Dutch / Dutch to English
English to Greek / Greek to English
English to Russian / Russian to English
Chinese (Simplified to Traditional) / Chinese (Traditional to Simplified)
German to French / French to German

An overview of PC troubleshooting

All of us have experienced the frustrating moments when our PCs decide to crash exactly at the point when we are about to put finishing touches to a really important assignment. No matter how much you heave and sign, the problem remains undetected and therefore, impossible to be corrected. What seems like an impossible situation to you is not really one. So, don’t lose heart next time you face a PC error; most of the problems that lead to a PC crash are not only easily diagnosed, with a little experience and help, but also can be easily corrected. The most encouraging part is that you can solve most of the problems yourself. All you need is a little help.

The primary help in PC troubleshooting is provided by Microsoft help. Most PC errors can be easily solved by us with the help of instructions found in the Microsoft help. Depending on the kind of problem you are facing with your PC, open your Microsoft help and support center and browse through the relevant topics. Microsoft help contains all information on problems that may be related to printing, faxing, performance & maintenance, w8ndows basic, customizing your computer, accessibility, networking, hardware etc. along with details on how to fix a particular problem. So, next time you encounter a PC error, don’t rush to your computer manufacturer. Instead, try to solve the problem on your own with Microsoft help. Once you get used to solving little problems on your own, you will gain experience in PC troubleshooting over a period of time. This will mean that you will not lose your cool easily over the numerous PC errors that you are likely to face in times to come.

Another reliable resource for finding information on troubleshooting is the internet. There is a plethora of troubleshooting guides available on the net. They will help you in finding a quick solution for the common problems related to PCs. These guide address all the common problems related to PCs along with the possible solutions. There are also a number of articles posted on the web that should help you a great deal in fixing your computer.

One of the sites, http://www.pcguide.com, offers a diagnostic tool that provides you crucial information known as the Troubleshooting expert. This diagnostic tool is based on expert system concepts. The working of this tool is based on the principle of acquainting you to the troubleshooting that other PC users have experienced. This helps one to resolve the common PC problems. With this tool, one is guided by exhaustive instructions that help one in narrowing down one’s problem. One is provided access to many varied detailed explanations for the systems one is observing. The instructions are complemented by ideas to help one in correcting the situation. This is just one of the online tools that will help immensely in PC troubleshooting. So, next time your PC crashes, don’t blame it on the devil. For every devil who hatches a conspiracy to disrupt your work, there is an angel in the form of Microsoft help or online tools to fight the devilish problem. 

Paypal account for non paypal countries.

PayPal seems like a dream if you live outside the USA. I understand perfectly, I myself need PayPal to receive money from my own customers. My customers dislike using Western Union or wire transfers. PayPal is simply the fastest way to perform online money transactions.

I was in danger of losing some customers, so I was forced to come up with a way to get a PayPal account. I finally came up with the idea to open an account at PayPal UK. PayPal UK does not require you to have a banking account or major credit card. The only thing they require is a UK address– Even if you have never been there!

Once I registered, I began receiving money from various people for differing amounts of money. After you receive your first payment, PayPal sends you an e-mail to upgrade your account to Premium. You can easily move up to Premium account status, and most importantly– you are not asked to provide bank or credit card details.

But, there are two problems. First, you are limited to a maximum of 500GBP per month. To raise the maximum limit above 500GBP, you must verify your bank
account and provide other personal identification. The second problem, and it is a big one– is that you are not able to withdraw the money you have received. You are only able to receive money into your PayPal account.

Like all good things that must end some day, the party was over for me. When I logged on to my account I discovered the following message:

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What can I do while my account access is limited? add funds by an electronic funds transfer place logos into your auction listings or on your website update your account information What can’t I do while my account access is limited? receive payments send or request money close your account

I emailed them 3 times, stating:

Oh my goodness, what happened? Yes, the party was clearly over. The worst of it was, that I discovered that my last payment transaction to another party was placed on hold! How could that be? I had no clue. If someone had sent me money that money had been properly credited to my account, why was my transaction to a third party held up? Was there an explanation? I e-mailed PayPal three times for an answer. There must be a logical explanation, and a way to retrieve my money. Even if I had actually lived in the UK and have since moved away, how could I possibly verify banking details at this time?

My advice: Never register with PayPal if you have any doubts about receiving your funds.