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Tuesday, March 30, 2004

Fraudulent bank drafts and transfers from Nigeria 

Yesterday we received another bank draft from Nigeria that seems to be suspect. This brings the total to three within a month, two bank drafts and one electronic transfer that originated from a fraudulent cheque. How does an honest Nigerian business overcome the suspicion with which it will be treated by everyone because of the activities of so many fraudsters.

Sunday, March 28, 2004

Phase converters in Canada 

Our Canadian associates are
K2C Industrial Automation
They produce a range of Boosters similar to ours.

Saturday, March 27, 2004

Currency conversion 

The subject of web-based currency converters has been raised again in the IEE consultants chat line. I am pleased to say the our favourite OANDA.com was highly recommended.

Wednesday, March 17, 2004

Google versus Yahoo comparison tool 

This morning I tried a great tool for comparing rankings on Google and Yahoo. Just enter the key word and a schematic diagram of the results appears. This is much faster than trying each search engine separately.
See yahoo-vs-google

Saturday, March 13, 2004

Protecting one's E-mail address from spammers/porn merchants 

Mark Fisher wrote:
My QSF address long ago became a spam target, so when I designed my photography website, I used JavaScript and a JPEG image to protect my email address. So far it seems to be working - I am not getting any spam to this address after 5 months, whereas other addresses (used much less prominently) I set up at the same time are starting to get spammed.

Here is my page:
Mark's photography page

I got the idea (and slightly modified it) from Joe Maller.

If a non Javascript browser accesses the page, instead of the mailto link it sees a JPEG image of my address.

Tuesday, March 09, 2004

MS Word incompatibility 

I am contributing to an interesting chat line thread regarding incompatibility between MS Word's different versions, on different platforms, with different computer settings, etc.

My conclusion is that one should try not to E-mail attached files (except PDF) as one never knows how they look to the recipient. A better methodology is to point to a web site or FTP site from where the files can be downloaded.

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