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Yes you can use it and unless your using wifi it will coat you a FORTUNE!!!! - Ed Dale

when my son comes to visit from Australia, he just buys a sim card and puts it in his phone. It's cheaper that way. - Nancy Sutherland

What about using skype phone on your iPhone? - Claude Pelanne

I once made two calls on my mobile (to another mobile) while abroad... that was a $700 mistake :( - Jorge Blanco

Hi, I work for one of the big phone companies (can't tell you which) in iPhone tech support is AUS. you can use your iPhone overseas. Here's some links to the roaming charges for optus http://tinyurl.com/5b6mw4 and Telstra http://tinyurl.com/4afrwm and vodafone http://tinyurl.com/7zul6e . Just remember data is the real killer when roaming. On the iPhone go to settings/general/network and make sure data roaming is switched off unless you want a second mortgage. - Scott Mackenzie

If you want to unlock your iPhone for use with another carriers sim card you had better allow about 10 days to do it because that's how long it takes for most carriers to complete. You also have to restore the iPhone with iTunes to complete the unlock so make sure you prepare in advance unless you are taking your computer with you (restoring will wipe your data on any other computer - Scott Mackenzie

LJF - does that annoy your friends with your status changing so often? It was mentioned to me recently - Alistair (alpinefolk)

I don't tweet that often, and nobody's mentioned it to me so far. I've made sure @replies don't change my status, so that helps. My bigger problem is stuff getting posted twice on FB, once from the status change and once from the FriendFeed. 8-{ - LJF Wolffe

I heard about a website called http://www.hellotxt.com through another IM'er and have only this morning signed up. It looks really good and you can update your status across heaps of different networks. Facebook, twitter, friendfeed, tumblr, and on and on... - Scott Mackenzie

Marysia Kurowski, I was trying to do exactly the same thing, as I love all the banter that goes on, let me know if you find out (by the way do you know who elliot13 is?) - Groobers

Elliot Web: were you Elliot13 on last night's chat? why do you ask, Groobers - did he have some good jokes? Heh, I'm the same person as Isha by the way - weird the way that FF shows our full names instead of our nicknames. - Isha (Marysia)

No it's not that, just I was so busy trying to work out the copying thing that I missed him saying hello and I felt rather rude as by the time I said hi I think he had gone. Just wondering who was saying hello to me, that's all. I worked out that was you by the way (do I get some sort of prize?) and loved the stuff you sent to keep us all entertained. Thanks again - Groobers

Yes, you win a prize, Groobers, and here it is: http://is.gd/5dZY And if you've already seen it, you can have this: http://short.to/82v and this: http://short.to/82w - Isha (Marysia)

If you can't copy and paste you could always do a screen shot by pressing print screen (on a windows computer) and saving it in a photo editing program. Not really as pretty but at least you'll keep the information... - Scott Mackenzie

No, Scott - that doesn't work - you can only see a few lines of chat at once. - Isha (Marysia)

That's weird, I just tried to copy the chat in ustream and it worked... Maybe it just doesn't let you copy that many lines at once. (There wasn't much text there now...) - Jorge Blanco

Yes - I got about 1 1/2 to 2 A4pages of chat - but that's only from 00:30 to 00:41 (that would be UK time = GMT) - Isha (Marysia)

Oh Marysia thanks for the prize, just watched the first one and tears are literally pouring down my face an absolute classic love it, you are one classy lady thanks for sharing.. - Groobers

Marysia did I hear you say ff uses our, god forbid, REAL name? All this time I've been thinking it was using my user name and wondering why everybody was using their real names. Thank God I've been well behaved (which is probably they use our real names, ha). Just to confirm what name does it show right here -> - Russ

In RTFF I see "Russ:" at the beginning; does that help? - LJF Wolffe

If you highlight the entire chat area then right click and choose copy it works for me. I am using FireFox 3. In August they did have a thread in the 30DC forum for the chats that were copied. Warning - If you refresh, you will loose all text (in the chat box) prior to that when it pulls back up. - Sheryl Loch

Lol Russ! Your nickname is russcooperdc and the name we see is Russ. I think if FF was displaying your nickname we'd kinda guess what your surname might be. Like some kind of knitwit I gave my full real name for "Name" when I created my FF account and now find that my full name is the one that FF displays instead of my nickname. How stupid is that? - Isha (Marysia)

Sheryl, are you able to get the *whole* chat like that? Whenever I've tried to do it I've only been able to get a few minutes'-worth at a time. Anyone got any whole chats from any of the TV shows? I'd love to have any. - Isha (Marysia)

Marysia, have you had any luck getting the chats yet? Here is a little prezzie for you (not the chats) but may make you smile http://www.youtube.com/watch... - Groobers

I like the japanese version of that one. Of course it is only funny if you understand japanese though. If by some weird chance you do, check http://www.youtube.com/watch... - Jorge Blanco

ROFL Groobers! - thank you - that was great fun! - Isha (Marysia)

Yes, exactly that. I have found a few sites from various forums but they all give varying results. If you know of an accurate (or as near as) site, that would be great. thanks. - san

If I remember correctly, Google is blech on this; but if you use the same syntax in Yahoo (link:yoursite.tld), it gives a closer-to-accurate picture. I seem to remember other sites that give that info, but I don't remember them right now . . . sorry. 8-{ - LJF Wolffe

Thanks Wolffe, I'll give it a go... in the mean time, if anyone else has any input, I'm happy to receive it! - san

Actually, just tried Yahoo again, and I have 2 inlinks to my site. I have submitted 5 articles from my blog to about 9 bookmarking sites per article over about 10 days... surely I should have more? Sorry for being slow if I'm missing something here! - san

From those stats, so am I! I know there's a time delay on recent bookmarks, but that's ridiculous! I must be misremembering. Phooey, and sorry 'bout that. 8-b - LJF Wolffe

No worries Wolffe, I'll wait and see what comes up in a few days. I have had better results from other sites - but only up to about 8 back links. I am using the recommended social bookmarking site from 30DC, maybe I'm not using that correctly! - san

You could double-check using http://www.backlinkwatch.com/ - Isha (Marysia)

And this looks handy, too: http://www.searchenginegenie.com/yahoo-b... Seems to have quite a lot of tools listed on that page. And this is the Yahoo page I use http://short.to/4yd; it has another url already set up in it (that you can replace with your own url), just so that you can see what the results will look like. - Isha (Marysia)

just another suggestion that may help, is if you have Market Samurai you can use it to check as well. Another thing i was told too, that your backlinks will only be counted when google crawls the site you got you backlink from. Which the social bookmarking sites would be crawled very often i imagine, but other blogs and forums you link to, may not be crawled so often, so it can take a while for them to show up. I use Samurai and the SEO plugin in flock to see mine. Hope this is of some help :)) - Tash

I use Market samurai too, just set " site: www.yoursite.com " as the keyword. You should win that ranking war... then check the SEO competition tab to view your backlinks. - Scott Mackenzie

promoting my blog which is also a way to promote my business website. Social networking leads customers to both right? So I want to maximize my benefits from the social networks. But there are so many to follow and if you are not active in them you loose ground. twitter, twirl friendfeed, blogcatalog, bloglog, my head is spinning! - Chris Dahl

Gosh, yes, I agree. When you've got a blog that's actually connected with your biz blog that's a toughie. I've been trying to do both too, and since I'm a bit of a gass-bag, guess which suffers... I too would love to have advice on this one, from more experienced marketers than me. - Isha (Marysia)

Well then let's hope some of our more experienced marketers share their knowledge with us. As I spend way too much time and effort on this now. I need to get back to creating material for my website and creating quality posts for my blog. (which suffers sometimes) - Chris Dahl

It's like an addiction, I am going to try and go cold turkey for a while and keep away from the twitter, it's so easy to get sidetracked, because it's fun and if you are like me and love "one-liners" and someone makes you laugh, your focus will be lost and the next time you look at the clock its time for the kids to come home from school and you are no further forward. I think the key... more... - Groobers

I have a hard time, too -- so for the community thing I stick to FF, FaceBook, and Twitter (and I keep telling myself not to read stuff all the time, but just to keep up with my stream!); for the social bookmarking thing (Digg, SU, etc.) I tend to only use those occasionally -- and to send in 3 other entries for every one of my blog posts. Not spamming, in other words, but not living there either. I live here! (you lucky people . . .) 8-) - LJF Wolffe

Wouldn't it be nice to have an assistant who would keep up with most of social networks for you, so you can concentrate on a couple of networks that you actually enjoy? I am dreaming of that :)... - Rita

Will you post when you update the titles-then I would love to rate it and book mark it!! - onna

Thank you so much LJF, http://tinyurl.com/48yzxm is now ready to go... I need to go check the rest of my lenses now - Mark South

You're very welcome! And the site looks a lot better now -- and has some interesting info! Good job! 8-) - LJF Wolffe

Access your WP control panel at yourdomain.com/wp-admin with the username admin and the password you setup in WPD. Check out the plugins tab to see if the sticky plugin is activated (you can do this directly from WPD though). And go to Manage Post and click sticky. - Jorge Blanco

thanks Jorge, but that is what I have done and it says it is sticky, but it is still isn't. The pluggin is activated and says it is sticky, but it just isn't. I just can't work it out. I wonder if there is some other pluggin or way of doing it?? but thanks for replying :)) - Tash

Hey Tash - don't know if this will work for you but have you gone into the WPD login and made the post sticky there? I had success making a post sticky from there. I didn't try it from the admin. I have been finding that some things work better from the WPD login and sometimes better in the Admin login. Don't really know the logic - may be worth a try???? Luck to ya! - Elizabeth

Elizabeth, Tash said: "WordPress, (not WPD)" :-) - Isha (Marysia)

yeah this one is in Wordpress, not Wordpress Direct, I wanted to see if i can do a wordpress blog and have it work just as well as the WPD setup. Just getting a little bit hard to keep paying all these subscriptions and still not making anything yet. I have the right plugin for the sticky feature, but it just isn't working. I just wasn't sure if maybe there was another pluggin that does the same kind of thing. thanks heaps everyone :)) - Tash

Tash, could it be a "broken theme"? I don't know if that's only a feature of WPD, since WPD is the only kind of WP I've used. - Isha (Marysia)

Hi Tash, Is the version of Wordpress you are using the latest? Check if the Sticky plugin is compatible with that version. Some plugins haven't been updated to the latest version of WP yet and will not work, could be what is happening. Sticky is going to be built into the WP version that is coming, the 2.7 version, don't know how long that will be but should be soon. - Carmel Baird

Thanks Marysia, I tried another theme and same thing, but it was worth a try ;) - Tash

Thanks Carmel, I never thought of that, now I will have to look into that, thanks heaps :)) - Tash

I've never seen anyone jumped on for that in this room, except for one person who spammed the room several times in about 4 hours. And even they weren't deleted. See the top 3 items here: http://friendfeed.com/search... - Isha (Marysia)

If we can't put our website in here, how come Ed keeps doing it? I say go for it too. Now you've gone and made me want to look at it... What's the link? - Scott Mackenzie

The only risk is that some other guy could run for the same key phrases you have. But if you don't have any problem with that just go for it! - Nicolas Mendez from twhirl

yeah mine isn't being logged by google yet - IanBowland

Do you mean indexed? Takes a few days, how long has your site been up for? - Seang-Lim Tan

nah, just found out that hostgator are doing some upgrading - which has caused problems with my blogs.... hopefully it's fixed soon - besht

I love robots but the link goes to an error page, arghh - Scott Mackenzie

Huh. I got to http://robotmaniacs.com just fine . . . - LJF Wolffe

Okay, my apologies, it was just my computer. I think I need a Mac... - Scott Mackenzie

If there's space, I'd love to get in on it too . . . - LJF Wolffe

I tried one and it seems to have fizzled a bit, but you can check it out: http://friendfeed.com/rooms... - Susan Whitehead

Adwords was covered so lightly on 30DC that I was alittle surprised. This was my first 30DC but I've studied and have done adwords for 6 months and Perry Marshall's book is the #1 seller on the subject. But never have I heard of anyone paying $3.00 a click for something not proven to sell. 25 Cents is usually the starting point. If your keyword is $3.00 or $14.00 you will never make a dime and lose your house. Try to come up with adwords that are similar or more specific. Check out a free video just.. - Bob Perry

out for PPC Classroom. They are doing a new release next week but the free videos will help you a great deal in this department. goto: http://www.ppcclassroom.com/blog... - Bob Perry

Tough one to cover in a comment...It's about relevance - Google rewards relevance. It starts with your keyword/phrase - Market Samurai should be able to help you find lower cost phrases in your niche - within the campaign, have one ad group for each keyword/phrase - split test two ads for each ad group - your keyword/phrase should appear at least once in the ad - the landing page should be optimized for the keyword/phrase too. That will help with relevancy and should decrease your cost-per-click. - SteveH

Thanks for the help, it ended up pretty well, my max CPC was $3.10, but the clicks I got cost me about $1.77 on average, no one bought anything but it was a valuable lesson for me;) - Elliot Webb