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Remove Filter  | One of the biggest names in keyword research, [URL="http://www.wordtracker.com"]Wordtracker[/URL], has announced the availability of separate UK keywords, rather than forcing British search marketers to depend on worldwide data including keywords from every English speaking region for their SEO campaigns. The ability to fine tune campaigns to the local market should …  |
| | A VPN, or Virtual Private Network to be formal, is a method of creating an encrypted data tunnel across the Internet from your device to a destination server. Although savvy home users and enterprises will operate their own VPNs (business-grade routers provide this functionality) for most folk, a VPN comes … |
| | A survey of attendees at Infosecurity Europe earlier this month showed 70 percent in favour of the dictionary definition (in this case the Cambridge Dictionary) of a hacker being amended. The amendment in question being to remove 'illegality' from the definition. The current definition of a hacker is "a person …  |
| | What was your favourite April Fools' Day prank this year? Here's mine to kick things off. If only it were true... Google Japan got creative with a bubble wrap keyboard for typing and relieving stress at the same time. More [here](https://youtu.be/RkJZDvHMyTA) |
| | Have been trying to change my profile pic via the community profile update avatar option. I keep getting told that 'The image you are attempting to upload doesn't fit into the allowed dimensions.' However, there is no clue as to what the allowed dimesions might be. The one I'm trying … |
| | Serious question. I'm really interested in what you actually use DaniWeb for and what you get out of your membership? 1. What is the main thing you do when you are visiting DaniWeb? 2. Is there anything you'd like to do that you can't currently? 3. Do you have one …  |
| | This coming Sunday marks the one year anniversary of the Cambridge Analytica scandal story breaking and engulfing Facebook. Does *anyone* think Facebook, and in particular Zuckerberg himself, have learned *anything* other than they are both apparently immune from whatever smelly stuff hits the fan? |
| | OK, so we are thinking about bringing back the 'Member of the Month' feature in the monthly newsletter that goes out to all DaniWeb members. This was a staple in the DaniWeb Digest for many years, coming to an end at the start of 2016. The hall of fame was, … |
| | Huge congrats Dani, the new DaniWeb is not only looking slick and on-trend but actually *feeling* so much better to use, more powerful and more professional. I'm loving it so far! A BIG thank you from me for all the hard work you've put into this.  |
| | If you visit the Member Search page, the hamburger navigation menu top left is missing. You have to go back to the home page instead. Is this intentional? |
| | I've been following this whole 'Bloody Dazah' debate for a while, and have largely resisted from commenting as I was struggling to have anything positive to say. However, having now had a long chat with Dani about Dazah and DaniWeb I have to admit that I've changed my mind with …  |
| | eBay is susscessful, no doubt. However, it's customer service and in particular the 'money back guarantee' really sucks. Other ecommerce sites could do well to learn from the tragedy that is eBay and do a better job. I've been an eBay user since 2001, and for the first time needed … |
| | It's that time of the year again when the whole 'prediction' business machinery gets fired up. So I thought I would grab some of the ones from my inbox that are perhaps most applicable to the digital marketing sector. The following were inspired by some crystal ball gazing by the …  |
| | I love the idea of Dazah as a virtual meet-up connector, but the quality of proposed connections really needs to improve a tad methinks. Take this one that just arrived: > About abbas haider > > i wanna job i'm a bachelor Riiiiiiiiiiight. 1. I have no vacancies. 2. That's … |
| | Oh how I miss Alan (diafol) at times like this. Those times being when England beat Wales in the Six Nations rugby :-) Any other rugby union fans left on DaniWeb? |
| | Dani/Blud - heads up that the newsletter editor doesn't appear to be sending the newsletter edits for checking. I've been editing the October issue all morning and hit the preview button a bunch of times, with no emailed version arriving at all. |
| | So, the [VeraCode 2017 DevSecOps Global Skills Survey](https://info.veracode.com/analyst-report-devsecops-global-skill-survey.html) recently found that software developers are not receiving the training they need to be successful as DevOps. Some of the numbers that caught my attention included 70 percent stating they don't think the 'security education' they have got is adequate for the … |
| | Generally speaking, when it comes to being as secure as possible (and, just as importantly, staying as secure as possible) newer is better. This is certainly the case if we are talking mobile operating systems such as Android and iOS. As of the start of March 2017, according to [Apple's …  |
| | Not being a white-supremacist, racist, slavery-apologist myself I'm finding it hard to understand why there's such a fuss over taking down a statue of a white-supremacist, racist, slavery apologist. The 'it's part of our history' argument doesn't wash with me, nor the Germans as I don't think there are any … |
| | For the longest time, every pun intended, I was a smartwatch hater. How dumb is that, a stupid-expensive smartwatch that really does nothing much at all. I mean, what's the point of wearing a watch that tells you when there's an email on the phone that's in your pocket? Or, … |
| | Moving forward with the DaniWeb Digest, we'd like to hear from you about what you would like to read from us. Just give us your ideas for content to include in future issues of the DaniWeb newsletter and we will see if we can make it happen. Join the conversation … |
| | OK, so in [this thread](https://www.daniweb.com/hardware-and-software/microsoft-windows/threads/507918/presentation-loads-with-error) I offered advice to visit the Microsoft troubleshooter here: https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/help/927477/how-to-troubleshoot-a-damaged-presentation-in-powerpoint-2007-and-powerpoint-2010 and DaniWeb broke the link and struck a line through it to say it didn't exist, when it quite clearly does. It may well break again here, let's see. I suspect that DaniWeb isn't handling … |
| | I am sure that members of DaniWeb will join me in congratulating [rproffitt](https://www.daniweb.com/members/280178/rproffitt) on his promotion to moderator with immediate effect. While Robert may be a new moderating face to DaniWeb members, not only will you know him from his many contributions to our discussions here but what you might … |
| | This week I have been seeing 'Oops, you don't have permission to post here' appearing a lot after I click submit - usually when replying to a post. I compose my reply, press submit, get the Oops message, hit back, my reply has gone and if I were a newbie … |
| | So, my twin boys start college (sixth form) this year and as their birthday is coming up I thought I'd kill two birds and buy them the laptop they need. I'm used to speccing out my own laptops for the office here, but when it is my money rather than … |
| | The recently active list for admins and mods (team) appears broken, at least regarding myself. Currently it says I was last active 4 days ago, yet I've been on and active every day for the last 4 days (including posting and admin duties - the infractions list even shows my … |
| | Have pressed the 'update upcoming issue and email test copy' button a couple of times now (maybe 10 minutes apart) and neither has resulted in the edit being emailed to me. Last couple of months the edit was arriving almostb instantly. Just flagging in case it points to something more … |
| | Jolly good luck, indeed. I hope you don't need it, but watching from over the pond it looks like there are going to be some very short fingernails by tomorrow... |
| | OK, so given that Microsoft has seen fit not to include Fax and Scan with Vista Home Premium (although Business and Ultimate users get it) what Vista friendly third party apps are you using to replace the missing fax functionality? Assuming, of course, you do not have an all-in-one printer … |
| | Just noticed that the blue burger menu is showing 'Web Applications' as a forum, but when you get there it is called 'Cloud-based Applications' instead. |
| | The unread PM counter in the main toolbar (between the finder and chat icons) is stuck on 0 and doesn't change to show new/unread PMs. Not exactly the most serious of problems, but something to flag for later when you get a chance to check it out Dani. |
| | On the plus side, there certainly seems to have been a drop in spam activity since the new UI went live. I suspect the spamming hoardes don't like it very much :)  |
| | Trying to change my signature, but the edit toolbar doesn't work - clicking on bold or trying to add a link does nothing. |
| | I see that the newsletter archive has vanished in the new UI, but so has the newsletter editing link for producing the new ones. I'm guessing this is on the list for implementation in the coming days, Dani? |
| | I am currently looking for members of the DaniWeb community who deserve a little recognition for their participation here, the help they provide and the support they give to others. Yes, I'm talking about the Member of the Month interviews in the DaniWeb Digest, our community newsletter that goes out … |
| | I notice that diafol is a bit quiet this year when it comes to the Six Nations. Can't imagine why :) Saying that has probably just guaranteed a butt-kicking by Ireland for England now (actually don't mean that, think it will be a really tough and close game though). Ditto … |
| | OK, following on from the suggestion [here](https://www.daniweb.com/community-center/daniweb-community-feedback/threads/491659/member-of-the-month-nominations-please) I am now asking for your memories of Dave Sinkula which will be used to help create a kind of retrospective member of the month interview/memorial. So fire away, and write as much or as little as you like. I'm really looking for … |
| | It's that time of the year when I've run out of Member of the Month interviews for the [DaniWeb Digest](https://www.daniweb.com/email/archive) - our newsletter which goes out to over 850K double opt-in subscribers. So, if you think there is a member who deserves to be featured as member of the month … |
| | As the title says, I'm just bigging myself up here but am stoked to have won the award for 'Best Investigative Feature of the Year' at the BT Information Security Journalism Awards in London yesterday. I'm particularly pleased as I beat off competition from BBC News, The Guardian and The …  |
| | Anyone else experiencing lag of between 5 and 20 seconds when loading a new page? Started about 30 minutes ago for me, pages start to load and show the first couple of posts in a forum and then stall for a while as the browser waits for daniweb.com  |
| | I have contributed to the 'Real World Computing' section of PC Pro magazine here in the UK for, come the next edition, what will be 20 years. During all of the time contributors to the section, consisting of coders and IT consultants, have been affectionately known as beardies. This despite …  |
| | Yay! But what is 'MM' out of curiosity? 1.11 millimetres? :)   |
| | I don't say it often (thank goodness) but OMG, and not in a good way. This [ASUS Transformer V machine](http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/389047/asus-reveals-five-in-one-transformer-book-v?) has got to be the maddest idea I've seen for years. > The Transformer Book V is a Windows 8.1 laptop/tablet hybrid, which turns into an Android 4.4 KitKat device … |
| | So, we all know about the likes of Facebook, Twitter, Google+ and LinkedIn but outside of the big four what are your favourite 'niche' social networks. By which I mean the social networking sites which address niche markets, which are growing quickly but have not yet really hit the media … |
| | Not exactly the most surprising news ever, that Anonymous is [planning an all out DDoS war on World Cup corporate sponsors](http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/world-cup-2014-hacktivist-group-anonymous-plan-cyberattack-on-world-cup-sponsors-9467786.html) during the football tournament. Personally, I wish them luck. Cannot stand football, in fact hate it with a passion and the world cup period is a nightmare every four … |
| | A new member [Scott_6](http://www.daniweb.com/members/1104458/Scott6) asks: > I noticed when I was setting my profile that the control for selecting my year of birth only goes back to '81. Would you know why? > |
| | What's you favourite first line, or start, to a song? Mine varies according to my mood, but currently it has to be: **"Everybody here comes from somewhere that they would just as soon forget and disguise"** Supernatural, Superserious - R.E.M |
| | There are lots of reasons why I could say bah humbug today, but the primary one right now is aimed squarely at the spammers who seem to think that there will be nobody at DaniWeb to deal with their crap. Wrong. Happy xmas spamming losers, another day of your life …  |
| | Happy Xmas, or whatever you celebrate, to each and every DaniWeb member. Have a good one. Personally I'm trying to pretend it all doesn't exist, and that's why I am at work at the DaniWeb helm at 8am on Xmas morning - but apparently I'm just a bit weird... :)  |
| | Any other collectors of vintage video game consoles on DaniWeb? Or am I really the only person sad enough to have more than 1000 of the things in my house? My collection has even been loaned to a museum for a special history of video gaming exhibition before now. [attach]15691[/attach]To …  |
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