GameCity 2011 My Thoughts: The Legend of Zelda Take Over Day

GameCity 2011 took place in Nottingham between the 26th and 29th of September, and is a festival looking at many different aspects of computer gaming old and new. Whilst there were many activities that took place during the festival, I wanted to only comment about my personal experiences, both good and bad, of the events …

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GameCity 2011 My Thoughts: The Wild Rumpus

GameCity 2011 took place in Nottingham between the 26th and 29th of September, and is a festival looking at many different aspects of computer gaming old and new. Whilst there were many activities that took place during the festival, I wanted to only comment about my personal experiences, both good and bad, of the events …

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GameCity 2011 My Thoughts: Retro Gaming at the HomeMade Cafe

GameCity 2011 took place in Nottingham between the 26th and 29th of September, and is a festival looking at many different aspects of computer gaming old and new. Whilst there were many activities that took place during the festival, I wanted to only comment about my personal experiences, both good and bad, of the events …

How to Change your Twitter Profile Picture

One of my Twitter Followers has asked for help with changing their Profile Picture on Twitter so I thought I would produce a quick guide and post it on here. How to change your Twitter Profile Picture: 1) Log into your Twitter Account at http://www.twitter.com and click on your account name in the top right …

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Placing a value on your readers

The word ‘value’ means different things to different people and you could argue that every one of your readers is priceless, but for the purposes of this article ‘value’ will refer to a monetary amount. For a blogger placing a value on their readers is difficult but for the purposes of setting targets and goals …

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Problems moving the Bridlington Ghost Train

Whilst out on a  brief evening stroll in Bridlington, we came across staff of the Bayside Leisure Park in Bridlington trying to remove the Ghost Train from site. The ride had been folded away for transit and attached to the back of a lorry, unfortunately the exercise was more problematic then anticipated, due to the …

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How Effective are Facebook Adverts

In this previous post I looked at the the effectiveness of Microsoft Ad campaigns using a free voucher I received, and I thought that I would compare a number of pay per click advert systems (where you only pay when an advert gets clicked) to see how they compare, and I’ve been testing Facebook PPC …

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How Effective are Microsoft Adverts

I recently received an email from Microsoft Ad Centre inviting me to trial their service with a $50 free voucher. I had difficulty using the voucher as I’m based in the UK, but Microsoft Customer Services were excellent is finding me a voucher code for the equivalent amount for UK based Website owners. So with …

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The use of Technology with Dementia sufferers

The Evidence for proven benefits through Telehealth for Dementia sufferers isn’t as clear as it is for other conditions, instead It’s more important to have person centred and adaptable services available. Generally the Carers of Dementia sufferers tend to emphasise the requirment for patient safety, whereas suffers typically want to focus on their daily structure …

How Tweeting Links can Improve Traffic

In this article I wrote about an experiment I was running with Twitter about scheduling Tweets to tie in with when the majority of your Followers are online, and here are the results. Twitter sent 21 visitors to the article, which from a potential pool of about 4.5k followers is a little disappointing as that …

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How to See when your Twitter Followers are Online

Twitter is a great tool for sharing a message with many followers at the same time, however how do you know when the best time to Tweet is. Given that most Twitter Users have busy timelines where older tweets can be missed, to reach a maximum number of followers it’s best to post when most …

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Tombstoning in Bridlington

Tombstoning is the act of jumping into the sea  from a high platform with your arms and legs straight so that you resemble a tombstone, and it’s an activity which remains popular with the teenagers in Bridlington. It’s a very dangerous activity as it’s impossible to tell how deep the water is where you are …

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When Tech Fights Back

Connected Technology is fantastic, it can link data sources all over the world, and when cyber criminals strike it can turn the tables. Greg Martin a Web Security Pro, and self proclaimed hacker, had his Apple MacBook Pro Stolen during the recent riots in London. Unfortunately for the thief Greg had installed the Prey Security …

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Is £10.99 too expensive for a Mobile Game?

This is an editorial article by John, the founder and a contributor to http://iphone-experience.com. You can follow me on twitter @john_in_scunny. I wanted to write an article about a recent release Yesterday (05/08/11) after a few delays Final Fantasy Tactics was released for the iPhone and iPod Touch. Many (including myself) had been waiting for …

Quick Twitter Followers Update (29/07/11) (end of first month)

In this post I discussed how I was testing TweetAttacks on Twitter Accounts that I created to see how quickly you could build up a large relatively targeted Twitter Audience. Each time I make a post on iphone-experience.com I re-tweet on these other accounts to increase the number of people who are aware of my …