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I recieved an email from MyOffers.co.uk today which featured a tempting array of competitions.

UK computer book buyers should be more wise. Before blindly buying from Amazon assuming that on previous experience they were way cheaper than Waterstones for example, take a moment to do a comparison.

Recently I almost bought an iPhone development book from Amazon but found it £5 cheaper with free delivery from stock at http://www.compman.co.uk/ . The same book from Amazon would not have been despatched for at least 2 weeks.

So before you loyally line Amazons pockets, check to see if you could help smaller retailer and your own pocket too!

MacLaren Buggies have backed down after extreme pressure from the public and are now offering free kits to parents who request them to improve the safety of their prams in line with actions taken in the USA.

HOAX! It would appear a story circulating at the moment is actually a racist circular email.

"Last night at ASDA Manchester a little girl of 3 went missing, ASDA’s policy is to lock all doors the girl was found in the toilet with 2 Romanian women, one was shaving her head and the other was putting her in boys clothes. This has been told to me by an employee of ASDA, be extra vigilant when out and about. Pass on to anyone who may need to know this information."

After reading about the MacLaren Stroller product recall in the USA I was concerned that I appeared to have one of the affected products, though it was bought in the UK. There seemed to be no information on their web site in the UK so I emailed them. I was very impressed to receive this morning the following message from the UK McLaren ......

Earlier today Maclaren USA Inc announced a recall of every buggy / stroller they have sold since 1999 after they received 15 reports of childres finger tips being amputated after placing their finger in the pushchair's hinge mechanism.

Models affected by the recall include Volo, Triumph, Quest Sport, Quest Mod, Techno XT, TechnoXLR, Twin Triumph, Twin Techno and Easy Traveller.

Consumers were told to contact Maclaren at (877) 688-2326 or through the web site http://www.maclaren.us/recall for more information.

What MacLaren clearly failed to adequately prepare for is

Tweetbeep.com is A great productivity tool which emails Tweet Digests alerts periodically based on a search term. This means you can track tweets based on vertical markets or specific interest areas easily.

You can choose between hourly and daily alerts and have up to four with a free account.

The service is very similar to Google Alerts which provides the same facility for Google Search.

Tweetbeep.com - Google Alerts style Service for for Twitter

This is a tale of a mac user who's bacon was saved by Snow Leopard in built back up software, time machine. If you do not use this feature - you MUST! How much do you value your data? All it takes is to buy an external hard drive.

I had an issue with my iMac today. I got a grey screen showing the Apple logo and the normal spinning cog icon but it did not proceed any further.

Embarking upon iPhone development is a daunting prospect. The Apple iPhone Developer area is huge, the SDK is massive and one can't help but wonder where to start.

Fortunately there are some superb resources to help guide you on your way.

The Google Social Search tool is a specialist search available when you are signed in to your google account. It searches for blog posts by authors within you 'social circle' which Google defines as being those people in you are publicly connected to through services like Twitter and Facebook.

The search can be found via Google labs.