Brewsterware

December 26, 2007

How to get private registration free for your new domains

Filed under: Domains,Internet — Joe Brewer @ 2:39 pm

What is private registation?

When you register a domain, your personal details along with contact details for admin, technical and billing are stored in a global internet database. These details can be viewed by anyone by looking up their “whois” data at sites like www.domaintools.com. If you private register your domains, your personal details will not show up in the whois database. Instead, anyone looking up details of a domain will be presented with a screen like this:

whois data

Normally this would cost $8.99 per year with domains by proxy.

Why should you private register your domains?

Private registration helps to reduce spam, fraud, stalkers and worse by keeping your name, address, email and phone number private.

So how do I get this for free?

www.GoDaddy.com offer free private registration when you buy five or more new .COM, .NET, .INFO, .BIZ, .NAME, .MOBI, .ORG or .WS domains.

The quickest way to regsiter the domains is to choose bulk registration from the domains menu. Either type the chosen domain names into the text box with the extension, or type them without the extension and check one of the check boxes to choose com, net, info or biz extensions. Type in the four digit access code and press GO.

bulk register domains

If the names are currently free, then you will be offered standard, deluxe or protected plans. Choose standard as this is the cheapest – the other plans include private registration which we will be getting this free anyway. Select the option to checkout and click on the orange continue button.

standard registration

The next screen is where you add private registration. By each domain name there is an option to select private registration:

choose private registration

Select Private for all of the domains in your cart and click on the orange “Update Cart” button. This will add several more lines to your order for the private registration – all of the lines will be at zero cost. You can now check out with your free private registration on your domain names.

Click on the graphic below and get your free private registration now!

Go Daddy $1.99 Domains 125x125

December 14, 2007

Crap user experience with talktalk’s new webmail application

Filed under: Rants — Joe Brewer @ 7:42 pm

Having used talktalk’s new webmail application for a few weeks now, I can honestly say it gives a bad user experience.

Their old webmail application was very simple, straightforward and very fast. There was a choise of different interfaces you could choose from which where dependent on your choise of browser. I always choose the simple interface as it was easy to use and very fast, but there were options for slicker interfaces that used AJAX.

Now I don’t have a choise. I put in my username and password, and I am subjected to a splash screen – something that I hate seeing with web applications. I think this is probably because I expect web applications to be fine tuned so that they can run efficiently in different browsers.

When the splashscreen disappears, I get an irritating voice saying “You have mail!”, and then I get todays news. What the f*** do I want the news for?! I’ve just logged into my webmail account to get my mail… grrr. Usually, this screen takes a while to load as it contacts an ad server to display an advert which must take up about an 8th of the screen – yet more time wasted.

Only then can I click on “inbox” and read my mail. However, this isn’t the end! When I click on a mail that I want to read, I am once again presented with a page loading splash screen – what a load of s***.

Sorry talktalk, but your webmail service is the pits.

December 8, 2007

A tip for anyone that is planning to change blog software

Filed under: General — Joe Brewer @ 8:39 pm

A number of months ago I decided to change my blog software from Seredipity to WordPress, however I forgot to change my rss feed at Feedburner. This meant that I now have 0 subscribers to my blog via feedburner. Actually, I’m not sure how many I had before…. hmm, I’m sure it was more than 0 before!

So, here’s the thing. I am embarking on a new experiment to see if I can up my readership so that awstats reports 200 unique visitors a day by the end January. I guess it’s probably not going to be that hard… I’m currently around the 70 mark plus or minus 10. So, how am I going to up my visitors? Well, I think it’s going to come down to regular posting and pinging so that more people are aware of me. I think I probably need to take more of a direction with the blog as well, rather than meandering through different topics.

Let’s see what happens.

December 4, 2007

Is that really me?

Filed under: Hypnosis,Personal — Joe Brewer @ 8:33 pm

Yes, I’m sorry it really is… I just wanted to make a quick blog about a jam packed weekend several weeks ago that included a 70’s themed party to celebrate Sally’s 30th birthday party. It was so cool to meet up with old college/uni friends again. Congrats must goto Phil and Anjali on their upcoming partenthood thang which they announced at the party.

I would have made much more of an effort of dressing up for the weekend, however I was attending a course in indirect hypnosis given by the one and only Steve Brooks. For those of you not in the know, Steve Brooks is the only hypnosis trainer from the UK to be trained by the legendary therapists Milton Erickson and Virginia Satir. Steve Brooks is, to me, one of the few people that I can honestly say is one of my heros. His work with hypnosis is incredible. Even though I got the two weekend seminar for free (it usually costs £500), it is incredible value for money. I got so much from it, and have already started using some of the techniques on my clients.

The class size for the seminars was great – it can’t have been more the 25 people which meant that we all got to ask our fair share of questions. Check out these websites that Steve runs: Indirect Hypnosis and British Hypnosis Research

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