Author: Oliver Jobson

  • HubSpot: Integrating other cookie scripts into the HubSpot Cookie consent tool

    HubSpot: Integrating other cookie scripts into the HubSpot Cookie consent tool

    The new 🍪 consent tool in HubSpot will only prevent HubSpot cookies from being set by default. I couldn’t find a good ‘cookie control’ solution that would work well with HubSpot and 3rd party cookies, so I had to evolve the default HubSpot cookie tool so that it would make it work for my situation. Hopefully…

  • Fibre-to-the-Home (FTTH / FTTP) broadband installation – BT Openreach (from BT, Sky, TalkTalk and similar ISPs)

    Fibre-to-the-Home (FTTH / FTTP) broadband installation – BT Openreach (from BT, Sky, TalkTalk and similar ISPs)

    The route to getting Fibre Broadband This would be three years in the making for myself, so it couldn’t have come soon enough! There are already a couple of blogs that cover off Openreach’s process for installing Full Fibre Broadband, but most are three or four years old and there were a couple of differences…

  • Fix: Why can’t I order Fibre to the Home broadband? (FTTP / FTTH)

    Fix: Why can’t I order Fibre to the Home broadband? (FTTP / FTTH)

    Fibre had been laid in the street, my neighbour could order FTTH (also known as FTTP), but Openreach weren’t allowing orders for my address. This is how I contacted Openreach and resolved the issue and I now have Fibre-To-The-Home (FTTH) broadband – hopefully this blog might  also help you get your FTTH connection sorted.

  • BT, Openreach – consistently incompetent?

    So, after my last blog on super fast broadband a little while ago I did eventually get somewhere with BT.  Hoards of Openreach vans descended on us from September to November 2017 to lay fibre to all the BT manholes around the housing development – FTTH was coming to this part of the North Cotswolds…

  • Solved: Batch convert PDF to PPT & DOC files in Acrobat X Pro

    This guide will help you to setup an Acrobat X action to easily batch convert PDFs in a folder. Once configured, you can run the action by simply selecting it from within Adobe X Pro. The action batch converts PDF files in to office PPTX or DOCX format files. Once you have this action configured,…

  • G2Crowd – compare software and services

    If you’re looking at investing in software or services then you might find this a useful tool. G2Crowd helps you find, review and compare options/vendors for many different applications/needs. Get the right software & services for your business with 370,200+ validated user reviews to help you make smarter decisions. Perhaps the best way to describe…

  • 4K HDR TV Format: iPlayer 4K device support

    Update: The upcoming Amazon 4K Fire TV Stick will now support HLG – find out more | buy here. The plethora of 4K UHD formats looks like the format wars of  Betamax vs VHS, BluRay Vs … well, whatever the other HD media disc thing was, MP4 and er, OGG(?) all over again.TLDR: your iPlayer…

  • Guide: How to change the Rel=Canonical Link on Hubspot pages and posts

    Guide: How to change the Rel=Canonical Link on Hubspot pages and posts

    HubSpot offers no official way of changing this important SEO parameter. However, if you do need to change it there is a way! It’s very simple and just involves a snippet of jQuery code. Just edit the code snippet below with the address of your original content and then place it within your post or…

  • Scream if you want to go faster…

    AKA: Where is our superfast broadband? An open letter to Fastershire, Openreach, Gigaclear, Gloucestershire CC, Moreton-in-Marsh Town Council and Geoffrey Clifton-Brown MP For 4 years now the our development (comprising >300 new build homes in Moreton-in-Marsh) has been promised broadband as part of the ‘Fastershire’ roll out plan. As far back as 2013 the Fastershire status for…