Archive for February, 2007

The bug stops here

By brendan at 28 February, 2007, 5:08 am

The other week I was at my brother-in-law’s house, looking at a problem with his computer. A fascinating thing about being an IT guy; it seems that I have a neon sign over my head that says “free support available to friends and family”. I suppose it’s the same for plumbers and doctors. Actually, my [...]

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What price a domain name

By brendan at 21 February, 2007, 5:09 am

Yesterday my friend Ray wanted to register a domain name (a com.au name) and asked me who we should do it with.
I looked up the auDa website to find out who the authorised resellers are and was surprised to find that the wholesale price for a com.au domain is published at $22.55 for two years, [...]

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Getting though to people, it’s a snap

By brendan at 14 February, 2007, 5:10 am

I wish I had a better way of getting inspired. Mostly I just sit around and stare at objects until a good idea pops into my head. Sometimes I talk to things. I recently posed a question to my digital camera: “How can you increase sales?” For me, sales was the number of people buying [...]

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Why FreeCRM makes me happy

By brendan at 7 February, 2007, 5:11 am

I got an email from FreeCRM today. Free means that it costs nothing (but if you want the really good bits you have to pay $US14.95 per month per user!).
CRM means customer relationship management or, in plain English, a database of customer details, records and contacts that does cool stuff such as remind you to [...]

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