Manchester Fashion Week 2012

#MCRFW 2012 The Week is finally upon us, Manchester Fashion Week 2012! Manchester is the 2nd city in comparison to London in terms of Fashion, with it’s independent  styles and quirks.MCRFSHN WEEK is going to bring together major retailers and students, not only to see what the next season has to offer, but to show off the much loved theatrics of …

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Keeping your name secure in a modern world

With the recording industry and filming industry trying to crack down on piracy, you might be wondering why there is such a huge effort into stopping distribution of these files when copyright laws already exist to cover copyrighted material. It is only when you start to analyze the situation that you begin to realize the difficulties that companies face in …

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Differences Between Mobile Websites and Mobile Apps

Mobile Websites Pros Can be viewed using your phone web browser directly which means it’s accessible by all smartphones with web browsing capabilities. Faster and less expensive to develop than a mobile application Can be found by using search engines Can be linked from websites and blogs Can be edited using a Content Management System (CMS) No download or installation …

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Evolution of Google Search Timeline

Google released a timeline on the evolution of search since they began all the way back in 1997. Looking back on all the changes makes you realise how much work the major search engines carry out in order to improve user experience. Google and other major search engines makes hundreds of changes to their search algorithm every year to improve …

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Junior Web Developer Job in Manchester

We are looking for Web Developer with PHP skills to get stuck into some new and existing projects. We are a fun and established digital agency based in Manchester city centre who work on a range of innovative projects for start-up and well known companies. Essentials Good knowledge/experience of using PHP, MySQL, HTML, CSS, JQuery and JavaScript. Knowledge of PHP …

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Understanding Google Product Search Changes

In an effort to improve the way searchers find products whilst shopping online, Google has made crucial changes to their product feed specification and policies which will affect all merchants. Changes comes into effect from September 22nd 2011 and will affect merchant in the UK, US, Germany and France. Merchants who do not comply with the new requirements might be …

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iOS, iPhone, iPad Developers Needed Manchester

We are seeking experienced iOS, iPhone, iPad Application Developers to join our existing development team in Manchester city centre. We are expanding our offices due to our winning of some major new clients. Responsibilities: Implement new iPhone User Interfaces Support existing applications and improve with new features. Debug, test, maintain and estimate activities on current infrastructure. Participate in the architectural …

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Manchester riots

We have been monitoring twitter, facebook etc all day and have seen many posts which have all been blown out of proportion. The BBC is linking to its own site with Riots in Manchester as the subject, when there is no content whatsoever about the page…. in our opinion that is completely out of order and is abuse of social …

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How to Spot SEO Sharks and Cowboys

Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) is the technique of pimping your website to increase visitor numbers on the major search engines like Google, Bing and Yahoo. SEO can be an excellent marketing technique to increase sales and generate leads to your website. SEO can be complicated at times but it isn’t rocket science, the basics can be learned if you put …

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The importance of HTTPS Pt2 – Twitter Security

Twitter Security has been the subject of recent news from the 4th of July, and the hacking of the Fox News network Twitter account, I thought it would be a good idea to continue on Raj’s article, and produce a short series for everyone, just to show the true importance of HTTPS.  After the very informative article on how ‘hackers’ …

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The Importance of HTTPS – Especially on Facebook

Nowadays people are becoming more and more comfortable with putting their personal information on the internet on services such as Facebook and Google and we trust in its privacy settings to prevent the wrong people from accessing this information. This gives us the confidence to put more information about ourselves onto the internet. But are you actually fully protected on …

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Security: How to secure your network from intrusion.

Network Security: How to secure your network from external intrusion. Network Security Review You should consider your network security to be at least as important as securing your wallet and credit card from theft. If I were to ask you where your credit card was, I imagine you would respond with something like ‘in my wallet’. Knowing that it is …

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Google plus invites us to experience a whole new look

Google plus launch! If your a fan of Google (or user, who somehow although not particularly liking them finds themelves on it everyday) youwill probably have noticed a fare amount of changes to the whole Google experience over the past couple of weeks.  Yes that’s right, Google have launched their new social network, The Google Plus Project; and with it come …

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