You’ve probably already done a fair bit of work for Google.  If you’ve used reCaptcha (on sites like Twitter, Facebook and CheckMyRoute then you have worked for Google already.  reCaptcha is a device used by websites to prove you’re human, and not a ‘bot’ (a program which goes around the internet signing up for things or accessing websites and doing evil things).  reCaptcha gives you two words to read.  One that it knows the answer to, the other it doesn’t, or it’s a bit confused with.  The word it knows the answer to proves yourself to be human to reCaptcha.  The other is a ‘vote’ – a word that’s been given to several internet users to cast their opinion over.  If you and a few other users give the same answer, you’ve helped Google by finally getting that word recognised.  Google needs humans to read these words that computers can’t, so instead of employing someone in California, it uses you.

It’s not a bad thing.  After all, Google is scanning and making searchable millions of books.  And you’re doing your bit by inadvertantly working for Google getting them published on the web.

If you’ve just upgraded to Windows 7 and you’re missing the Image Resizer Powertoy, we found a 32 or 64 bit version here:

http://imageresizer.codeplex.com/releases/view/30247

Checkmyroute checks your regular journey for traffic problems.  All you have to do is tell checkmyroute where you’re travelling from, where you’re going, the time and days you travel.  Checkmyroute will then keep an eye on any problems that may affect your journey.  If it finds a problem, it’ll email you (or text you if you tell it your mobile phone number).

We think it’s a great way of finding out about a problem before you leave – after all when was the last time you checked a traffic report for a regular journey like your daily commute?

Sign up at www.checkmyroute.com and tell us what you think!

Flash, e-commerce and CMS website goes live! www.bcdigiphot.co.uk

Flash and e-commerce website for a Hampshire/Wiltshire/Surrey based professional photographer. This allows the public to showcase and purchase his unique and varied pictures directly.

We are exhibiting today at the Connecting for Business event in Portsmouth.

It is billed as an event to promote Networking for business, with a Keynote speaker, business forums, networking café, networking wall – ideal for any business seeking growth and of particular interest to new business start ups seeking inspiration and innovative ideas.

The datails are:

4 February 2010

11:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m.

1000 Lakeside, North Harbour (The Old IBM building) J12, M27, Portsmouth SAT NAV: PO6 3EN

It is free to attend but a donation to  “Help for Heroes” can  be made on the door

This should be a great opportunity for us to show off our SEO friendly Breeze CMS website packages for small businesses, flexible support and custom database development.

We’ve just completed the first release of our latest site, www.marshaswanzy.co.uk, which features a catalogue of Marsha’s designs. The next release will feature Marsha’s new furniture range. Take a look at her amazing work here.

Google has just announced it’s public DNS service with some easy to remember IP addresses: 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4. Google think by using their DNS it’ll make the web faster.

What is DNS? It’s short for Domain Name System, a sort of phone book for the internet. It turns your website name (ie www.solvd.co.uk) into a number that’s understood by computers and network equipment. Find out more at Wikipedia.

New look for the Solvd website! We hope you like the colour scheme.

An IPS TAG (sometimes called an IPSTAG) is a unique identifier given to each Domain name company (Tag-Holder) with Nominet, the registry for all UK domain names. The tag is used to identify the company responsible for the management of a domain but they only apply to UK Domains like .co.uk , .uk.com, .uk.net, .me.uk .ac.uk and .org.uk.

If you want someone else to look after your domain name you can do this by changing your IPS Tag. To change IPS Tag you need to contact the company where you have registered the domain name and ask them to change the TAG to the TAG of your new provider. You may also have to let the new provider know that an incomming transfer is comming its way.