Did you see the changes for christmas
A Star Photography has gone Christmasy for Christmas after the website got put on a new software system the content has been moved around to make it easier to get to and a new photo storage area is in creation for people photos to be accessed be password.
Tel us what you think and should we create a Easter time one to. Contact Us with your comments.
A Star Photography – Website Update
We will be shortly updating the A Star Photography to a CMS site which means easier to edit and update. We will Start this Process in 2011 / 2012 as soon as we get back. If there is anything you think would be good for us to add to the website please let us know.
We also mabey making the site have less pages but will look into this more as time goes on.
If you have and enquiries contact us info@mcrpgroup.co.uk or info@astar-photograpy.co.uk
A Star Photography
MCRP Group of Companies
Merry Christmas & a Happy New Year
That’s it for 2011 we are now closing for Christmas we will be back in January 2012, the technical phone line will be closed but the online suport system will be still be open and we will respond to them through there.
From all of us at MCRP Group and all our companies wishing you a very merry Christmas and a very Happy New Year
AA Network Solutions Portfolio page goes active
At long last the portfolio page has been done and added to our AA Network Solutions page which shows some of the companies we have worked with.
MCRP Group and its companies become IPAF Certified
We at MCRP Group are always looking to improve our services and what we do recently our brand have become IPAF Certified giving us more flexibility in the work we do.
This helps us do more for you with some projects being on a grand scale, or a little scale this helps us help you.
Making E-Mailing Our Companies Better For Everyone
We think that there are too many email addresses for a company so we decided to change this, all our companies will be generalised to info@ to make it allot easier to remember email addresses. We have decided to keep personal contact email addresses for direct contact but if you cant fin the email you just email info@ and it will be passed on to that person straight away saving you time, rummaging around for that lost piece of paper it was written on.
On our AA Network Solutions Website there will be info@ and we will keep tech@ that is the only two that will stay on that site.
Also all of our websites have contact us forms on them to make it easier to contact us.
We will be implementing all these changes to all our websites by the end of October 2011.
Michael Rainey – Director – MCRP Group Ltd
MCRP Group Ltd – Looking into providing phone and broadband Services accross the Uk
Well we thought we might jump on the band wagon and bring you all more value for money with broadband and phone services thoughout the UK, this is in the research stage and its looking promissing, also we would be alboe to provide fiberoptic broadband if you live in a broadband enabled area we will let you all know closer to the time what is going on. If you would like for info please contact us
Michael Rainey – MCRP Group Ltd
New Main Telephone Number
Well we have decided to get a low cost call main company number which is easy to remember and is the same as our fax number apart from the last digit
0844 310 4999 will be the new main company number at present the option system is not active so all call Will come to one central place.
Once active the system will be t following and all contact us pages will be update with the options.
The system will say the following:
‘Welcome, Please Choose from the following services’
Press 1 for MCRP Group Ltd Head Office
Press 2 for A Star Photography
Press 3 for AA Network Solutions & AA Hosting Services
Press 4 for Future Buy Direct
Or for anything else please press 0
there will be an option 5 at a later date, these options make it easier to Handel your call, and make sure you go through to the right person.
If you want more infomation please contact us
Google ramps up speed of search
Google has made chang
es to its search engine as it strives to get consumers the information they want faster.
Its new Instant Pages system will shave between two to five seconds off the time it takes for a web page to load, the company said.
It is also planning to offer voice-activated and enhanced image searching.
Google, which processes one billion requests every day, said search remained its core focus.
The firm still dominates the market although Microsoft’s Bing is slowly eating into its share.
Bing’s US searches rose to 14 percent in May from 12 percent at the end of 2010. It also powers searching on Yahoo, which has 15.9 percent of the market while Google’s share slipped to 66 percent from 67 percent, according to measurement firm comScore
Instant Pages works by pre-loading the page associated with the top search result in the background as a user decides what to click on.
Google relies on its relevance technology to confidently predict the number one result a user will pick.
That means when the top pre-rendered link is chosen, the web page opens instantaneously.
The search giant said it typically takes around five seconds for a web page to launch once someone clicks on it.
“We at Google will not be happy until we make the Web as easy to flip through as a magazine,” Google fellow Amit Singhal said at the Inside Search event in San Francisco.
“We are obsessed with speed. We often say speed is still the killer app,” he added.
During a demo at the event the Washington Post home page loaded immediately with Instant Pages, compared to 3.2 seconds without it.
Last year the Silicon Valley firm introduced Google Instant which gives users results to queries while queries are being typed into the search box.
Positive impact
“What we have observed is that every time we shave 15 milliseconds from the speed, users search more and more, said Mr Singhal.
Over the next couple of weeks Instant Pages will be made available to users of Google’s Chrome web browser.
The company said it would open access to the software code so other browsers such as Firefox and Internet Explorer could also incorporate the feature.
“Making it ubiquitous will make people go wow, Google just made the web faster,” said Matt Rosoff, west coast editor of Business Insider.
“As far as Google is concerned it is another thing that will continue to draw people to Google and make sure they don’t leave for another competitor like Microsoft.”
Say it
On mobile, Google is offering an alternative to the traditional keyword search with icons linked to common searches such as restaurants, coffee shops and bars.
It said that the move was prompted by a rise in searches involving nearby places.
The company is also preparing to introduce voice-activated search for personal computers. The feature already exists on mobile devices.
The tool, represented by a small microphone icon in the far right of the Google search box, will appear over the coming days.
In a demonstration, reporters were shown that the search engine understands the difference between Worcester, Massachusetts, and Wooster College – words that sound the same but are spelt differently.
“Arguably speaking is the most natural way we learn to express our needs. It remains to be seen what kinds of usage scenarios may be important when it comes to the desktop. As the data comes in we will learn (that) over time,” said Mike Cohen, manager of speech technology at Google.
According to Google, voice search traffic has grown six-fold over the past year, and every day users speak about two years’ worth of speech into the system.
The company also revealed during its presentation that as many as 230 billion words a day are entered into the language bank system, helping to improve the way it deals with accents, pronunciations and colloquialisms.
The speech recognition tool will only be available on Google’s Chrome web browser for now but executives said they hope other software makers would eventually implement the technology.
Scannable Bar Codes for Your Android Phone
Ever wonder what those maze-like black and white squares are on websites? They are called QR (quick response) codes and can be scanned from your phone using the Barcode Scanner application found in the Android Market. A QR code can contain: contact information, calendar event, email address, geo location, phone number, SMS, text, or URL.
How do you use the Android Barcode Scanner?
You open the app and you will see a box with a line through it. You need to center the QR code in the box, using the line as a way to center it. Once you hold it steady the phone should beep and process the information.
Try it on this QR code for our head office website MCRP Group Ltd:
If everything worked correctly you should now be at MCRP Group Ltd’s homepage on your phone.
Creating a QR code is as simple and entering information at a code generator website and clicking “Generate”. Visit QR code generator and look at the different options available. Once you generate your code you can either download the image of the code (right click – save image as..) or embed it via the link provided to you.
QR Codes are becoming popular and are being pushed by Google. Google has started using the codes on local listingsfor businesses and they even sent out stickers to more than 100,000 local businesses with these QR codes.