Harvey Nichols is running a new campaign to promote its Fifth Floor Food Market. This advert takes a satirical look at the fashion, with a series of jaw-dropping sights (if you’re easily offended, it would probably be best not to watch this).

In the provocative advert, farmyard animals replace the fashion models, while the humans in the film are played by staff from the advert creators DDB London, Harvey Nichols’ creative agency.

Search engines are great (shameless plug coming next) and the soon to be improved, theopenworld.com search engine is truly mighty. But getting the most and easiest experience out of your search seems to be a little bit out of reach for some, but it is realy easy.

So here goes with an easy guide to get more

Start with the obvious keywords for your searches. If you’re looking for info on days out in London, use the search term days out in London

The more words you use that are related to your search the better, it will help refine your search results down massively.

No need to capitalise on your searches

Most search engines are not case sensitive. Whether or not you type your search words in upper or lower case, the search engine will be able to read, so you don’t have to be grammatically correct. For example, a search engine will see the search terms Winston Churchill, winston churchill, wINston CHurchIll will give you the same result.

No need for ‘where’, ‘how’, ‘and’, ‘I’ and ‘but’

Search engines, will tend to skip searching for keywords if they are ‘and’, ‘I’ and ‘but’. These are known as ‘common words’ (don’t get snobby!)

If the common words are essential

If common words is essential to getting the results you want, you can include it by putting a “+” sign in front of it. For example, putting how will I know I am pregnant will exclude the common words, put +how will +I know I am pregnant instead.

It’s all in the phrase searches

Sometimes you may be looking for an exact phrase, lyrics, selection of keywords, or someone’s name. Put quotation marks (“) around the keywords. For example putting  john ian smith will bring up any page which contains these words, if you put “john ian smith” it will only search for that specific combination of keywords.

Sometimes you may want to get negative

If you’re searching for bass, it can have two meanings, fish or music, and you will end up with mixed results. If you put a minus sign (-) in front of the keywords that you don’t want included, the search engine will drop these results from the results. For example, search for bass -fish will produce only search results relating to bass and music, fish will be deducted. But do note that you should put a space between you keywords, bass-music will be seen as one word.

Microsoft has released a Service Pack 3 (SP3) for Microsoft Office 2003. Office 2003 SP3 adds some evolutionary fixes and additions in security for Office 2003. Microsoft also says “it further hardens the Office suite against potential attacks and other security threats” .

The Service Pack also includes fixes that have been previously released as separate updates for Office 2003.

Some of the changes in Service Pack 3 modify the behaviour of Office 2003, including changes that disable some features by default and increase control for computer administrators. Changes include:

• Office 2003 can no longer open or save certain file formats. For more information
• MAPI forms do not run in public folders and user folders. For more information
• Office 2003 can now be configured to allow or deny specific COM components
• Some COM components with unusual characteristics may not function as expected
• Changes have been made to the behavior of Microsoft Office Document Imaging
• Attachments with the .gadget extension can no longer be opened in Outlook
• Access add-ins can no longer be configured for use by all users
• The Fast Save setting in Microsoft Office Word has been removed
• Documents saved in certain formats no longer contain the version number of Office
• Certain macros in older Excel file formats have increased security

Click here to download Office SP3 now

Just a bootnote
Make sure you close all programs (Office ones at least) before you start the install process, standard restart is also needed after the installation.

I think this must be one of the most misinterpreted jargon terms. As to which is which? I am talking about the desktop and the screensaver. People do seem to get mixed up, and hopefully we can put an end to the confusion.

The desktop is the place where you see all your usual desktop actions and folders. For example, your documents folder, computer, Internet Explorer, email, recycle bin, etc. It also shows the start button and taskbar (the thing that runs along the bottom of the screen). (more…)

Microsoft is releasing a bunch of patches this week as part of September’s Windows Updates, five in total. There has been little in the way of what issues these address. There will be one high-priority update (non-security related) for an unidentified software package. It is however know that there is malware targeting machines running the MSN client software.

The important updates:-

• Microsoft Windows
• Live Messenger (formally MSN Messenger)

The other updates are for Visual Studio, SFU and SharePoint Server.

Further to this, there will be another Microsoft Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool.

Be sure to run Windows Update, if your PC has not already done so.

So, Monday 3rd September, 6 o’clock in the evening and the tube network goes on strike. Fortunately I was back home in my study (working) at that point. (more…)

We all, at some point, will have an accident with the phone. No, not whilst driving (not legal, or recommended), and not dialling or texting the wrong person. I’m talking about dropping your phone in water, or spilling juice on it, or dropping it in soup (my mother did that once! It tasted just as good).

First things first, if you waterlog your handset timing is everything. And just like in the ‘What to do when your Internet / broadband stops working‘ guide, if you skip steps or get impatient then you will only be making the process longer for yourself, and ultimately end up with a useless handset. (more…)