Upgrading an iPhone 3GS to iPhone 5
by Ash Nallawalla on 22 September 2012 · 2 comments
I have had an Apple iPhone 3GS for nearly three years and its chief annoyance to me was the camera. Any excuse to upgrade to the iPhone 5. I missed the earliest order date so I was happy to wait the estimated two weeks. As luck would have it, Optus sent me an SMS to say I could collect it on the launch date of 21 September 2012.
I got to the store around 5 pm and there were about four people ahead of me, including people who hadn’t pre-ordered. So, at least in this store there wasn’t a shortage of some models. By contrast, the Millenia Mall in Orlando had hundreds of people waiting to buy their iPhone 4 on its launch date. We just happened to be watching the spectacle, content with our 3GS.
Only four people were ahead of me at Optus World, Werribee Plaza on 21 September 2012.
Much longer queue for the Apple 4 at The Millenia Mall, Orlando, FL Apple store on 24 June 2010.
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SEO and what Kogan is doing right
by Ash Nallawalla on 2 June 2012 · 1 comment
If you haven’t heard of the Kogan brand or its founder, Ruslan Kogan, you will, sooner or later. Ruslan describes himself as coming from a Housing Commission flat in Melbourne (welfare housing scheme). He is totally street smart and has made a name for himself in Australia and UK as an online purveyor of electronics (and a furniture brand). I have heard him speak at a journo junket and on TV — he is always entertaining.
At the Professional eBay Sellers Alliance (PeSA) conference that just ended at the Gold Coast Convention Centre on Friday, Ruslan entertained the 600+ audience on Wednesday with the story of his business journey and some valuable tips that he had learnt.
I presented two sessions at PeSA12
Ruslan also gave his views on SEO and CRO agencies, which were interpreted by the audience in a couple of ways. The people at my table and I took them to mean, “Don’t worry about SEO; get your online business right. Offer a differentiator and provide a value-add.” I can’t recall his exact words, but they left an impression on some that SEO wasn’t at all important and that Ruslan didn’t care much for SEO. [click to continue…]
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Using cPanel to enable Gzip and speed up the website
by Ash Nallawalla on 20 May 2012 · 0 comments
Continuing from the previous post about Migrating a Thesis blog, I looked at the Yslow add-on for Firefox and noted a few issues that were giving the home page a total score of C.
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Migrating a Thesis blog
by Ash Nallawalla on 8 May 2012 · 0 comments
I don’t get time to look at this blog much these days, but having switched my VPS yesterday, I decided to use Yslow, Page Speed and Firebug to check its performance. It isn’t good but the price is right for what I am doing.
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PHP Fatal error: Out of memory (allocated 28311552)
by Ash Nallawalla January 7, 2012Tweet While checking out the TrainSEM website, which runs aMember software, I got a PHP error instead of the usual page: Fatal error: Out of memory (allocated 28311552) (tried to allocate 40961 bytes) in /home/trainsem/public_html/amember/library/Am/abc.php on line 343
Twitter: Sorry, that page doesn’t exist!
by Ash Nallawalla November 30, 2011Tweet For nearly a week I could not get anything out of the Twitter website, i.e. twitter.com. I tried to click the links of people who were following me, but without fail, Twitter kept responding, “Sorry, that page doesn’t exist!”. It didn’t matter if I tried the handles of some famous people — they all [...]
Yellow NZ is back with a bang
by Ash Nallawalla October 31, 2011Tweet Earlier today, Yellow (Pages) New Zealand tweeted: Have you checked out the new www.yellow.co.nz website? More relevant search results, a fancy new design & improved page load speed! I confess to not keeping up with the Yellow Pages scene since leaving Sensis some 18 months ago. I had mentioned Yellow NZ a couple of [...]
Does LinkedIn police its own rules?
by Ash Nallawalla September 24, 2011Tweet Unlike the majority of LinkedIn users, I pay for my account and I advertise there (as do my clients), so I have a lower tolerance to lax quality control within LinkedIn. Fake Accounts I used to belong to some SEO discussion groups (inside LinkedIn) when I noticed that Halle Berry was a participant, except [...]
Creating a Google-proof persona
by Ash Nallawalla August 14, 2011Tweet A persona is a fictitious person that has certain defined attributes. In product marketing, we create personas for major groups of users who will use the product. For example, a word processor’s set of personas might include a high school student, a university student, a generic office worker, a specialist author, a manager, and [...]
Only public profiles allowed on Google+
by Ash Nallawalla July 7, 2011Tweet Some months ago, Google announced that there would be no more private profiles in Google. It was around the time when rumours of Google+ started leaking out in the form of Circles. Here is the wording (emphasis mine):