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Billy Bowie is a well established Scottish company based in Ayrshire, providing Tanker Hire, Drain Clearance, Septic Tank Emptying and liquid waste disposal services skills to Utilities, Industry, Government, Transportation and Domestic customers throughout the UK.
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With modern technology the way it is today, we should all do our best to keep up with the times. It’s never that simple to be honest as we are all busy with our day to day tasks of running our business or spending quality time with the family.
QR codes have been around for some time now and many businesses do not have them yet – are you one of them or are you asking what is a QR code? Below is an image of a QR code for our company Solutions on Demand.
What do you do with the QR code?
Well you can simply use a QR code scanner on modern phones to scan it and visit or read the message that it holds.
Want to try it out?
Visit your app store and download a free QR code scanner. Launch the application and scan the above QR code – it should direct you to the homepage of Solutionsondemand.co.uk
Why have this?
Well just one solution, it’s a perfect marketing tool for business cards! We will leave you to come up with the ideas of what else you can use it for…
We’ve been that busy with our day to day work, we’ve forgotten to update our blog.
Our IT support Ayrshire field has been very busy recently installing new networks and providing IT support and backup solutions to a number of new customers.
One mention is to a local company who supplies plant hire throughout Scotland www.BlackwoodPlantHire.co.uk
Our handymanayrshire.com website goes live.
Call 01294 218 088 to talk to our handyman client who provides services throughout Ayrshire & East Kilbride. He can take care of Plumbing, Electrical, Gardening, Carpentry, Painting and Decorating – no job is too big or small!
We launch the website for The Hub in Stewarton Ayrshire. We recommend visiting the hub for a quiet drink in the afternoon relaxing in their lounge, or why not treat yourself to a meal in the restaurant? If you are interested in a fantastic night out, The Hub have a nightclub that will allow you to party on into the early hours of the morning.
Visit The Hub Stewarton – www.thehubstewarton.co.uk
Search engine giant Google has just announced its Google+ social networking platform that’s set to rival Facebook. Well, that’s the plan anyway. Google doesn’t have a particularly strong history when it comes to social networking services with both Google Wave and Google Buzz failing to catch on, but if the demo is anything to go by, it’s investing a lot of time and money into making its latest venture a potential Facebook killer. Should Mark Zuckerberg and Co be worried? We took an in-depth look at Google+ to see what it brings to the table.
What is it?
Developed under the codename Emerald Sea, Google+ is basically Google’s latest attempt at creating a social network. Google is cannily calling it a project, rather than a product – perhaps to avoid comparison with its less successful social products. Google reckons that current online networks (no names mentioned) simply don’t cut the mustard and that’s why it’s launching its own version. According to Google’s official blog:
“Today, the connections between people increasingly happen online. Yet the subtlety and substance of real-world interactions are lost in the rigidness of our online tools.
“In this basic, human way, online sharing is awkward. Even broken. And we aim to fix it.”
The idea is to topple Facebook from its throne by making every existing Google product socially compatible. The company certainly has a lot to work with, including Picasa, Gmail and Google Maps and information and functions from all of these will be integrated into the Google+ experience so that you don’t have to sign into different services to share your photos and let your mates know what you’re up to.
Each Google+ profile will centre around the Stream, which is essentially the same thing as Facebook’s news feed – where all of your info and updates from your chums are rounded up and constantly updated. The Stream will be joined by four core elements – Circles, Hangouts, Huddle and Sparks – with Google hinting that these are the starting block for future developments.
Google wants to make sharing online more like sharing in real life – different things with different people. For example, you might want to catch up with your pals about your drunken Saturday night out, but you don’t necessarily want your parents in your chat. You can keep your conversations separate by putting your contacts into ‘circles’ such as ‘Work crew’, ‘Uni mates’ and ‘Parents’.
To put your nearest and dearest in neat little online compartments all you have to do is click and drag them into the relevant circle and then they’ll only get the information that is meant for them. If only real life were that simple.
As the name “Hangouts” suggests, this feature is all about hanging out with your buddies, virtually, of course. You can choose specific friends, or circles, to invite for a face-to-face video chat and anyone in the Hangout can invite others to join as well. According to Google’s demo: “Until teleportation arrives, it’s the next best thing”. We’re not sure about that – it’s basically just video calling.
The difference, it seems, is that you can include more than two people in each chat – something that not all video calling services currently offer.
You know when you’re trying to arrange a night out by having several different text conversations with a number of friends? If so, you’ll know how long-winded and confusing it can become. The idea behind Huddle is that you can turn all these exchanges into one big group chat to save you time.
This certainly has the potential to be a very useful addition to the Google+ mobile offering – we just hope that your friends are slightly more decisive about their plans than the tedious bunch of individuals on the demo page.
Most social networks, Facebook included, have run into trouble over privacy concerns at some point or another, so what is Google+ doing to address it? You’ll be able to alter your visibility settings so that only your name and photo will appear online to people that aren’t in your network. However, if you’re in a circle on a friend’s public profile, then your picture will appear on there (but clicking on it wouldn’t go anyway if your privacy settings are on). You’ll be able to assign different levels of visibility to different aspects of your profile. You can also choose whether your profile is indexed by search engines and, as with Facebook, you’ll be able to block people.
Google+ won’t ever disclose the names of your circles (apparently, even to the people that are in them), although people in circles may be able to see some of the others members of the the circle that they’re in – presumably depending on who posts any kind of feedback.
If you decide you don’t like it, then you’ll be able to downgrade your account, which will delete your
profile and remove any posts, circles and other Google+ content while still enabling access to Gmail and other Google services.
Let the battle commence with Facebook…
For the last few months, many voices claimed that two of the most popular social websites nowadays – Facebook and Skype – are to be “united”, of course, for an approximately $4 billion sum. Even if this transaction will not complete, Facebook and Skype already started sharing some “goodies”, each from each other – while Facebook created an application that allows users to call their friends through Skype service, Skype added a “News Feed” from Facebook.
Although this merge could literally mean a great threat for Google’s Gtalk (imagine Facebook extending its services from only text to text and voice, that would be huge for the social media environment), it seems that another huge bidder tries to get its claws on Skype. Microsoft, as we mentioned, are set to buy Skype for an incredible amount of money – that’s $8.5 billion! We are talking here about over 3 times more money than eBay paid in 2005 and this could be a great step forward for both Skype and Microsoft.
Why this move, you might probably ask yourself? The answer is quite simple: guys at Microsoft want a larger piece of Internet searchers with their search engine – Bing – and what other way to start this other than acquiring the most popular online voice service available nowadays? With tens of millions of users worldwide, this could be a huge hit for the Internet industry and could shake some big players like Google.
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Ayrshire weavers recognised as world’s first co-op
Events are taking place in the East Ayrshire village of Fenwick to mark its unique place in the history of the world wide co-operative movement.
Exactly 250 years ago, 16 Fenwick weavers signed a document, promising to support one another, work honestly, and charge fair prices.
Later they went on to bulk-buy food and sell it at a discount to members.
The group also founded a credit union, a lending library and an emigration society to help villagers move abroad.
Many historians have dated the formation of the co-op movement to the middle of the 19th Century, in Rochdale.
But now research by John Smith and John McFadzean, who live in Fenwick, has established the village’s claim as the world’s first fully recorded co-operative with all records and original charter intact.
‘Banded together’
Mr McFadzean told the BBC’s Good Morning Scotland programme: “The [weavers] realised that they were facing financial ruin.
“Working independently, selling their goods to the merchants, and getting bartered down and bartered down, there was no profit left in their sales.
“So they banded themselves together, so they could actually fix a price, and buy stuff in in bulk.
“Then they used the money they made to look after the poor, and to expand the whole co-operative venture throughout the village.”
But Mr Smith said when the 16 original Fenwick Weavers gathered in the parish church to secretly sign their charter, they can’t have guessed where their initiative would end up.
“It started off as a local enterprise to help the people of the village, and to help the weavers themselves,” he said.
“But when you look into the history you can see how it developed locally after that, and you see other co-operatives springing up in the area.
“You can see that the principle was being taken to other places, where they thought it was a good idea, so they copied the example that was set here in Fenwick.”
As part of the 250th anniversary celebrations, guests at an event at the church have been asked to sign a copy of the Weavers’ charter.
Mr McFadzean said the modern co-operative movement went far beyond the supermarkets on British high streets.
“It’s a world-wide financial, and economic business model,” he said.
“It takes in farming, manufacturing, worker-owned co-operatives all round the world.
“Last year co-operatives traded in the trillions [of pounds]. The total was equivalent to the GDP [Gross Domestic Product] of a country like Canada.”
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