Archive for June, 2008

Interview with the World’s Fittest Athlete

Posted by admin on June 25th, 2008

Paddy Doyle

 

Name: Paddy Doyle

Location: Solihull, UK

Activity: Professional multi-disciplinary athlete

Website: www.worldsfittestathlete.co.uk

Easily: Hi Paddy, thank you very much for accepting this interview, how are you feeling today?
Paddy: I’m fine thank you

 

 

So Paddy, you are the world’s fittest athlete and hold over 160 records, how and what pushes you to reach this level of excellence?
To achieve 166 Course, Regional, National, British, European and World fitness endurance records I have to train every day, duration of training 3 to 4 hours. I hold various World Records under several different sporting catergorys. To be awarded the World Fitness Endurance Title I had to beat three tough multi fitness records they are as follows -

 

{World Multi Fitness Record}

12 mile walk

12 mile run

110 mile cycle

Weights lifted 312,170 lb   

1,250 press ups

1,250 star jumps

3,250 sit up crunches

20,000 metre rowing

1 mile run carrying 44 lb back pack

1,250 hip flexors 3 kilometre’s gym stepper

2 mile swim

{Finishing time 21 hrs 21 min’s 2 sec’s.}

 

{Guinness World Record Physcial Fitness Challenge}

12 mile run

12 mile walk

1,250 press ups

3,250 sit up crunches

1,250 standing hip flexors

110 mile cycle

20 mile row

20 mile cross trainer

Weights lifted 300,000 lb

2 mile swim

{Finishing time 18 hrs 56 min’s 9 sec’s} Previous World Record Holder Rob Powell “USA”

 

 

{World Fitness Champion’s Title Record}

2 mile & 21 metre swim

20 mile row

20 & 1/4 mile cross trainer

10 mile speed march

100 & 1/4 mile cycle

550 star jumps

3010 sit up crunches

Weigths lifted 300,000 lb various lifts

10 & 1/4 run

505 hanging leg lifts

{Finishing time 17 hrs 12 min’s 33 sec’s} previous World Record Holder Rob Powell “USA”

 

Once I completed the official title records, the title was awarded by the Registry of World Record Holders. The founder and President Dean Gould and USA President Dr David Adamovich.

 

 

How long have you been working in the army? What have you learned from this experience?
My military background was serving in the 2nd Battalion Parachute Regiment, RAF Infantry reserves and the Royal Fusilliers, total regular and reserve service 8 years. I found that the army gave me the discipline to succeed. I have a training team consisting of a sports therapist, martial arts instructors and strength athletes, they push me hard in the gym and when we are training in the hills.

 

 

And now, what’s your next challenge? A new record?
My next official World Record will hopefully be to represent Great Britain at the World Record Challenge Cup starting on the 1 August to the 10th August, I hope to attempt the record in the USA this all depends on sponsors, one of the record will be the most back of hands push ups in 1 minute carrying 40 lb back pack.

 

 

 

Sharing this adventure is important; could you tell us a bit more about your website and why you’ve chosen Easily?
I decided to build my own web site to share my experiences and pass on my knowledge.  Easily.co.uk have promoted my web site and have always found them the be very supportive when I have any technical issues.

 

 

 

What message or advice would you give to our readers?
My message to all readers stay positive, if you put your mind to a challenge, believe that you will succeed. I have always been humble and respectful to all who I have met, and have always treated people equally.

 

 

 

Thank you very much Paddy, we wish you all the best in your coming projects.

 

 

How to add a Favicon to my site ?

Posted by admin on June 16th, 2008

What is a Favicon

Favicon is short for “Favourites Icon”. The name is derived from the bookmark list for Microsoft Internet Explorer which is called Favourites list. When you add a site to your Favourites list, Internet Explorer (version 5 and above) asks the server if it has a file called favicon.ico. If present, this file will be used to provide an icon that is displayed next to the bookmark text.

Other browsers such as Mozilla have also added support for favicons. Depending on the browser, the favicon can appear in a variety of places, not just in the bookmarks list (in fact, it may not even appear in the bookmark list at all). It may be shown in the address bar or the title of a browser tab, for instance.

How to create a Favicon

To create a favicon.ico simply create a 16×16 .PNG or .GIF file and convert it to an icon resource with Chami. If you want, you can add more images to the same icon resource to provide alternative resolutions. Most browsers only use a 16×16 image but in a different context (e.g. when you drag a URL from the address bar onto your desktop) a larger icon may be shown. If the icon resource only contains a 16×16 image, this will be scaled to the appropriate size, so technically there is never a need to add alternative resolutions. However, doing so can increase the quality of the displayed icon.

Keep in mind that for a user with a slow modem a favicon.ico may increase the page loading time by a few seconds if it is too large, so don’t overdo it. Adding a 32×32 alternative should be enough to make sure the image will look good even in contexts with larger icons. Adding even more and larger alternatives is unnecessary bloat. Try to keep the number of colors below 16 and create a 16-color icon using the –colors 16 switch of png2ico (or even create a b/w icon with the –colors 2 switch). This will result in a smaller file that loads faster.

When you create the images to include in your favicon.ico, don’t forget that the icon may be composed against various background colors so you should use transparency rather than a solid background if you want to avoid that your icon appears inside a box. Note, that icon resources only support binary transparency, i.e. a pixel may be visible or invisible but not something like 30% translucent.

Installing your Favicon

To add your new favicon.ico to a web page put it on the server into the same directory as the web page it is for (e.g. www.example.com/foo/favicon.ico for www.example.com/foo/index.html). That is the first place a browser will search. If it doesn’t find an icon there, it checks the top-level directory of the server (www.example.com/favicon.ico for the www.example.com server), so by putting it there you can have a default favicon for all the pages in your domain. Depending on browser and configuration, the favicon.ico is not always rendered, even if it is in one of the above locations, unless the web page explicitly declares its presence. To declare that your web page has an icon, you add the following 2 lines into the <head> section of your page:

<link rel=”icon” href=”favicon.ico” type=”image/x-icon”>
<link rel=”shortcut icon” href=”favicon.ico” type=”image/x-icon”>

How to use Mac keyboard shortcuts ?

Posted by admin on June 13th, 2008

Mac computers are quite famous for the intuitive way of using them, here is the list of the most important shortcuts to know:

Menu commands
Keyboard shortcut Description
Shift-Command-Q Apple Menu
     Log out
Shift-Option-Command-Q Apple Menu
     Log out immediately
Shift-Command-Delete Finder Menu
     Empty Trash
Option-Shift-Command-Delete Finder Menu
     Empty Trash without dialog
Command-H Finder Menu
     Hide Finder
Option-Command-H Finder Menu
     Hide Others
Command-N File Menu
     New Finder window
Shift-Command-N File Menu
     New Folder
Command-O File Menu
     Open
Command-S File Menu
     Save
Shift-Command-S File Menu
     Save as
Command-P File Menu
     Print
Command-W File Menu
     Close Window
Option-Command-W File Menu
     Close all Windows
Command-I File Menu
     Get Info
Option-Command-I File Menu
     Show Attributes Inspector
Command-D File Menu
     Duplicate
Command-L File Menu
     Make Alias
Command-R File Menu
     Show original
Command-T File Menu
     Add to Favorites (Mac OS X 10.2.8 or earlier), Add to Sidebar (Mac OS X 10.3 or later—use Shift-Command-T for Add to Favorites)
Command-Delete File Menu
     Move to Trash
Command-E File Menu
     Eject
Command-F File Menu
     Find
Command-Z Edit Menu
     Undo
Command-X Edit Menu
     Cut
Command-C Edit Menu
     Copy
Command-V Edit Menu
     Paste
Command-A Edit Menu
     Select All
Command-1 View Menu
     View as Icons
Command-2 View Menu
     View as List
Command-3 View Menu
     View as Columns
Command-B View Menu
     Hide Toolbar
Command-J View Menu
     Show View Options
Command - [ Go Menu
     Back
Command - ] Go Menu
     Forward
Shift-Command-C Go Menu
     Computer
Shift-Command-H Go Menu
     Home
Shift-Command-I Go Menu
     iDisk
Shift-Command-A Go Menu
     Applications
Shift-Command-F Go Menu
     Favorites
Shift-Command-G Go Menu
     Goto Folder
Command-K Go Menu
     Connect to Server
Command-M Window Menu
     Minimize Window
Option-Command-M Window Menu
     Minimize All Windows
Command-? Help Menu
     Open Mac Help
Command-Space Open Spotlight (Mac OS X 10.4 or later)
Command-esc Front Row
     Activates Front Row for certain Apple computers

 

Find the whole list on their support pages.

How to use Windows shortcuts ?

Posted by admin on June 13th, 2008

A lot of us already know basic keyboard shortcuts like Ctrl+C (copy) and Ctrl+V (paste), but did you know that there are more than 70 of them ? Here is the list of the most important one:

Windows system key combinations

F1: Help
CTRL+ESC: Open Start menu
ALT+TAB: Switch between open programs
ALT+F4: Quit program
SHIFT+DELETE: Delete item permanently

Windows program key combinations

CTRL+C: Copy
CTRL+X: Cut
CTRL+V: Paste
CTRL+Z: Undo
CTRL+B: Bold
CTRL+U: Underline
CTRL+I: Italic

Mouse click/keyboard modifier combinations for shell objects

SHIFT+right click: Displays a shortcut menu containing alternative commands
SHIFT+double click: Runs the alternate default command (the second item on the menu)
ALT+double click: Displays properties
SHIFT+DELETE: Deletes an item immediately without placing it in the Recycle Bin

General keyboard-only commands

F1: Starts Windows Help
F10: Activates menu bar options
SHIFT+F10 Opens a shortcut menu for the selected item (this is the same as right-clicking an object
CTRL+ESC: Opens the Start menu (use the ARROW keys to select an item)
CTRL+ESC or ESC: Selects the Start button (press TAB to select the taskbar, or press SHIFT+F10 for a context menu)
ALT+DOWN ARROW: Opens a drop-down list box
ALT+TAB: Switch to another running program (hold down the ALT key and then press the TAB key to view the task-switching window)
SHIFT: Press and hold down the SHIFT key while you insert a CD-ROM to bypass the automatic-run feature
ALT+SPACE: Displays the main window’s System menu (from the System menu, you can restore, move, resize, minimize, maximize, or close the window)
ALT+- (ALT+hyphen): Displays the Multiple Document Interface (MDI) child window’s System menu (from the MDI child window’s System menu, you can restore, move, resize, minimize, maximize, or close the child window)
CTRL+TAB: Switch to the next child window of a Multiple Document Interface (MDI) program
ALT+underlined letter in menu: Opens the menu
ALT+F4: Closes the current window
CTRL+F4: Closes the current Multiple Document Interface (MDI) window
ALT+F6: Switch between multiple windows in the same program (for example, when the Notepad Find dialog box is displayed, ALT+F6 switches between the Find dialog box and the main Notepad window)

Shell objects and general folder/Windows Explorer shortcuts

For a selected object:

F2: Rename object
F3: Find all files
CTRL+X: Cut
CTRL+C: Copy
CTRL+V: Paste
SHIFT+DELETE: Delete selection immediately, without moving the item to the Recycle Bin
ALT+ENTER: Open the properties for the selected object

To copy a file

Press and hold down the CTRL key while you drag the file to another folder.

To create a shortcut

Press and hold down CTRL+SHIFT while you drag a file to the desktop or a folder.

Find all the shortcuts on Microsoft support pages.

Thanks for the “Polos”

Posted by admin on June 6th, 2008

We just wanted to thank Heather for the delicious Polos she sent us in exchange of a support advice. We have shared them amongst the team.

Polos

How to start your business Online, in 4 steps

Posted by admin on June 6th, 2008

If you seriously thinking of setting up or growing your business, you need to think about your internet presence today to ensure you keep one step ahead of the competition.

 

Here are 4 steps to help you get Online:

-          Step1 - Protect your domain names: This is the address people will use to access your web site (yourcompany.com / yourproduct.co.uk..).  Register your online presence as soon as you can.  Many a business has found the right idea and developed a good business plan, but failed to secure their online brand in time.

 

-          Step2 - Design of your website: Creating a website is a good first step, but the most important thing is to keep it updated, which is why, ideally you should manage your own website if you don’t want to end with expensive bills with design agencies.

 

-          Step3 – Hosting and Email: Each website needs to be hosted on a server, permanently online, in order to be reached by the web community. You should use personalised email accounts like sales@mycompany.com  - this is much more professional than a Yahoo or Hotmail address.

 

-          Step4 – Marketing your Website: Your website address should be everywhere (leaflets, business cards, print ads etc..). The more people who visit your site, the more visibility it will achieve in the  search engines.

 

As a major player in the UK internet market, Easily.co.uk offers a wide range of web services - including our Website Creator package, which can help you to build and update your website yourself, using your own professional domain name, including 2 business email addresses - for only £50 a year.

.eu at £2.99 ??!!

Posted by admin on June 6th, 2008

Some of you might have heard that we were launching a stunning offer on .eu domain names.

It is true, in a couple of days, to celebrate the European Football Championship, which runs till 29 June 2008, we have slashed our .eu prices. New 1 year registrations of .eu are just £2.99 while this offer lasts, so make your move quickly!

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How to translate Easily ?

Posted by admin on June 5th, 2008

Get ready for the Euro 2008, and impress your friends with your new linguistic skills!

English: easily
Czech: snadno nabyl or snadno pozbyl
Croatian: lakši
Dutch: gemakkelijk
Greek: εύκολα
French: facilement
German: leicht
Italian: facilmente
Polish: łatwo
Portuguese: fàcilmente
Romanian: uşor or lesne or uşurinţă: cu uşurinţă or liber or calm.
Russian: легко
Spanish: fácilmente
Swedish: lätt
Turkish: kolayca or kolaylıkla or rahat rahat or kuşkusuz or şüphesiz or kesinlikle