Today, I purchased tickets for the Farnborough Air Show 2014, at a cost of £48 each.
As if that wasn’t bad enough, there was a £0.50p charge to print my tickets at home!
The charge was the same for collecting from the Box Office.
For convenience, I printed the tickets at home, but feel this charge is totally unjustified.
Link buying spam from Discover Media
I received a spam email earlier this week from a guy claiming to be John from Discover Media, asking to place an article on my blog, with a link to his ‘client’ site.His email address was john@discovermedia.co.uk Hi,I work for a company called Discover Media, acting on behalf of a casino client who like...
Download emails from GMail in a specific label with GMVault
I recently wanted to download around 20,000 emails from a specific label in my gmail account. To do this, I used GMVault. I’m not going to talk through the basics of setup / using this as it’s already talked about at length on the GMVault site. However, in order to get it to download only the mails in a specific label, you will need to do a custom sync. The command I used was this: gmvault sync...
Gmail reply all graduated from Labs– ‘r’ shortcut doesn’t reply all
I recently noticed that while replying to an email in google apps (or gmail for that matter) it wasn’t defaulting to Reply All – despite me enabling this lab. Upon further inspection, I noticed this was no longer an option in the Labs.Fearing that it had been removed altogether, I had a look over the General settings tab, and found that it had graduated from a ‘Lab’ to an actual feature: This was...
Online hotel booking sites & credit card reservations – beware!
Recently, I was working on a project with a similar business model to hotel booking websites such as LateRooms.com and Booking.com: The customer reserves a “room” from a third party. The customer pays at the hotel. Failure to show, results in customers card being charged. I was intrigued about how the others got this process to work, and naturally went about finding out, and doing...