Recover lost photos and files

Have you ever accidentally deleted photographs or files from your digital camera memory card or pc hard drive? Don't panic, there are various software solutions available to help recover them even if you have re-formatted the disk / card.

RecoverPlus for Windows Vista/XP/NT/2003/2000/ME/98SE is available for download - http://www.arcksoft.com

There is a free trial available, and a full version download should you wish to have the extra peace of mind.

Are you fed up of unsolicited sales and marketing telephone calls?

My wife and I have become very annoyed at the constant sales and marketing calls we have been getting lately. They seem to time the calls to perfection, exactly when we have finished our evening meal and put our daughter to bed.

However there is a solution to enable you to opt out of receiving unsolicited sales and marketing calls to your home or mobile telephone numbers.

All organisations (including charities, voluntary organisations and political parties) are legally required to stop making such calls to numbers registered on the TPS unless they have your consent.

Simply register and you will be sent an email to validate the request.

The Telephone Preference Service (TPS)

BT customers can also sign up to BT Privacy by calling 0800 121 8000 or registering online at http://www.bt.com/btprivacy. BT Privacy gives free caller display (normally £1.75 a month) to BT customers making calls on its network, allowing them to preview incoming calls numbers. It also registers BT customers with the Telephone Preference Service - thereby filtering out around 90% of unsolicited marketing calls.

I hope this proves helpful

Google penalty for paid links

It's getting late now, so to kick off this blog I thought it might be useful to let everyone know that Google are now penalising websites that sell links, and indeed websites with paid links included on their web pages. In addition, Google said that some sites that are selling links may indeed end up being dropped from its search engine or have penalties attached to prevent them from ranking well.

When I say penalising, basically many websites have had their PageRank reduced over the past week or so. It seems a fairly logical step from Google, as their search engine algorithms give ranking juice to websites with relevant good quality inward links, therefore large directories and other ecommerce websites were capitalising on this with paid links. Hopefully this will mean large directories will slip down the rankings and help refine the search to produce good quality relevant results.