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This isn’t about SEO, but I’ve just discovered a REALLY handy trick for lost passwords.
I’m sure I’m not the only person who does this - I forget login passwords, as I save then in my browser - but then they’re hidden, so if I need the pass for another machine, or to give to someone else, I have a problem.
I’ve just discovered that there is a code you can use to unhide the hidden characters.
When you’re on the login page, and you can see the automatically generated password with the characters replaced by stars - paste this code into the address bar:
javascript:(function(){var s,F,j,f,i; s = “”; F = document.forms; for(j=0; j<F.length; ++j) { f = F[j]; for (i=0; i<f.length; ++i) { if (f[i].type.toLowerCase() == “password”) s += f[i].value + “\n”; } } if (s) alert(”Passwords in forms on this page:\n\n” + s); else alert(”There are no passwords in forms on this page.”);})();
And, hey presto - hidden passwords revealed!
This is a recent pic of internationally renown mystic Uri Geller
Uri Geller with Vernon Kay, at the recent filming of celebrity family fortunes.
Go on, have a guess……
Look at Uri with the pic of Vernon Kay above, how old would you say he looks? Late 40’s, early 50’s?
He’s 62!
And no, it’s not photo airbrushing - Uri looks the same face to face.
I’m in my early 30’s now, whatever his secret to looking young is - I want to know it, so I can look as well as he does when I’m in my 60’s!
So I asked him what is the Uri Geller secret to looking young?
Uri answered:
“Thanks Kev!
The secret is simple, built from many elements:
You can’t stop the ageing process but you can slow it down!
Love Uri”
So, there you go - the Uri Geller secret to looking young!
I’m doing OK with some of these points, although I’m not vegetarian, and I usually drink more than one small glass of red wine per day 
I’ve not been on twitter long, like many people I kept putting it off until just a few weeks ago - and now I’m really into the twitter phenomenon.
I recently doubled my followers within a couple of days using a very clever little idea called tweet success (a way to automate this process - but in an ethical and non spammy manner, it just vastly speeds up what you would usually do manually) and I’m gaining many new twitter friends on a daily basis. I’m making lots of connections, I’m learning from people - I’m helping people, it’s fantastic.
There’s one thing that I see people doing quite often with twitter, that always confuses me - and that is, holding back on following, in an attempt to build an account which is far heavier on followers than following.
Why?
As far as I can tell, most of the people that do this, do it in an attempt to demonstrate a large perceived profile - Ego, basically
But It doesn’t make sense, does it?
Surely the only way you’re really going to make connections, new allies, new colleagues, new friends, new customers - is with relationships, and you’re going to find it difficult to build relationships up with people who follow you, who you don’t follow back.
I’ve seen evidence of quite a few people with high profiles who don’t do this - and it appears to do wonders for their popularity.
The best example : Barack Obama.
Is twitter the reason Barack Obama won?
Well, look at this :
Senator John McCain Following :31| Followers: 146,756 . Doesn’t follow back.
Barack Obama Following: 352,614 | Followers: 372,592. Does follow back!
So, John McCain didn’t build a relationship up with his twitter followers - Barack Obama did.
Barack Obama won, of course - So what does that tell you? Did this help Barack Obama to become president?
When you follow Barack Obama, and you see a few minutes later that he is following you, what does that do? Doesn’t it make you feel that little bit more connected to him - even though you know that the chances are he’ll never see a DM or @reply from you personally (he might, you never know), just the act of following you back does something to your perception of the other person & your relationship to them. If they follow you back then you feel more connected than if they don’t follow you back, wouldn’t you agree?
According to some of the articles I’ve read in the US media, I think some American twitter users are feeling slightly let down by their president at the moment possibly, seeing as he was quite prolific with his tweets right up until winning - and then has gone completely quiet since then, hopefully though most people will let him off for having a bit of a break from twitter while he gets settled in the new job, I’m sure he’ll be back tweeting again soon.
Or maybe he’ll take a leaf out of our PM’s book & employ a team of staff solely for tweeting.
Seriously, check it out : No 10 Downing Street
You’ll notice that, like Barack Obama - Gordon Brown follows back, in fact they’re following more people than they have followers. Following: 182,706 | Followers: 179,878
What’s very clever, is that the twitter staff who refer to themselves as “No10 admin” are very active on twitter, even replying to people quite regularly, and these tweets aren’t authoritative or condescending, they’re very humble, and even funny at time, for instance :
No10 admin sitting in a big black van outside Congress trying to upload pictures of PM’s speech. Grand white walls and a clear blue sky.
The day is done for No10 Admin. Good night all and please follow tomorrow when the PM will deliver a speech to Congress.
@MattSTKC Actually the PM also met John McCain and Hillary Clinton at Embassy in April and then Senator McCain again in London.
@samsw68 Hey it’s hard to snap, edit, upload, twitter and dash about all at once. Some more pics now available: http://tinyurl.com/b79v8x
No10 admin just uploading some pictures to Flickr of PM’s visit to the White House - go to http://tinyurl.com/b79v8x to check them out.
@Scott217 Thank you for your welcome. No10 admin has been the beneficiary of US hospitality on a number of occasions - a commendable quality
@presentsqueen Apologies, it is of course the White House. No10 admin too busy watching the character count…
Can you see what they’re doing?
They’re connecting with people on a whole new level, not through their normal channels, but be OUR normal channels!
They realize now that in order to really connect with people, they need to connect to us using the media that we use to connect to people, such as twitter - & if it was just a one way connection they wanted, they could do that via press releases, newspapers & TV - but it’s not, they want us to feel connected to them, which is why they follow back.
So - personally, I’m following as many people as the twitter follow limit will allow me to, and over time - I’m unfollowing anyone who hasn’t followed me back, so that I can make sure I’m only following people who do actually want to build relationships.
It worked for Barack Obama, it’s working for no.10 downing street, I’ll work for us too 
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Well ok, maybe slightly
So just to confirm, I am in fact SEO consultant Kevin Lewis, and NOT west life member Brian Mcfadden, I’m a much better SEO consulatant than Brian, probably a better singer too but please don’t ask me to prove that! ;-).
One of my clients, photoimage art in Manchester, who produce high quality photo canvas prints thought it would be funny to take my head & put it on Brian Mcfaddens body, in this pic with Kerry Katona.
I wanted to show you this just as an example of the clever things that can be done to photos.
Clever isn’t it?
This isn’t all they can do, they can even perform what they call”Virtual Cosmetic Surgery” taking away signs of aging, gettig rid of spots or blemishes, they can even complete images that have been cut off by poor photography.
See their canvas prints help & tips page for more info.
