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We normally head to Blaze Farm, Wildboarclough when seeking farm based entertainment for our toddler. After a recommendation we headed for Tatton Park Farm.

Entrance was £4.50 per car plus £4.50 per adult, £2.50 per child which starts to add up so we anticipated something quite good for our money. However we were rather dissapointed to discover that once we had seen the donkeys, a small handful of sheep, hens, one rabbit, a couple of horses and some pigs that was it.

If you have ever wanted to unfollow lots of people who are not following you all in one go, or follow users based on a keyword then this site may be the solution.

I rely on Twitter to generate traffic to quite a number of my web interests. Managing Twitter accounts even with the best clients can be a time consuming process. For a while I have been looking for a good tool to manage certain aspects of Twittering and I have been pleased with what http://www.gotwitr.com has to offer.

Dries Buytaert, founder of Drupal, has summarised a fascinating set of events surrounding how Microsoft posted anti Drupal advertising via Google Adwords yesterday. Several of the Drupal community noticed and began Tweeting about it. Before long a firestorm of chat was occurring and Microsoft noticed and reacted in an admirable way considering on the one hand they were trying to compete with Drupal and on the other they positively promote Drupal.

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When I saw this app it wasn't too clear what it was about. I was pleasantly surprised to discover a location aware map based search tool for local services and businesses. Indeed it provides a superbly fast way to find for example plumbers, hotels, cinemas and dozens of other individual businesses plotting them on an in app map. Much better than google local and since it is an actual app, a very pleasing interface.

BT Exchanges Site

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."

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.

Understanding the iPhone SDK and development methodology just got a lot easier.

Lynda.com have released a series of iPhone training videos walking you through from applying to be an iPhone developer through to developing and subsequently submitting an app to the iPhone App store.

Developing iPhone Apps using Objective C++ is complex. This superb series of videos eases you in with clear example based videos. This could be the best $25 any aspiring developer could spend.

This is a video from Matt Cutts of Goolge explaining their policy on indexing sites and handling robots.txt directives.

Getting Flex working with Drupal is relatively straight forward so long as you set up your flex project environment using these following these steps.

Install as3Corelib into the lib directory of your Flex Project

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When you have exhausted all avenues of complaint and the company you have had bad service or has sold you a product you are dissatified with has not responded in a timeley manner, or refunded you to a level you are happy with, where do you turn? In the old days you might have gone legal or maybe asked Citizens Advice.