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London lettings agents Hurford Salvi Carr, reports that corporate sharing in London’s lettings market now accounts for 15% of the sector, and this is set to rise in 2007 with the continuation of rising house prices and high employment growth.

Hurford Salvi Carr’s found that the majority of corporate sharers are young professionals aged between 20 to 30 years old, who favour the bloomsbury property, Wapping Property and Docklands , Bow Property areas.

Corporate sharing is a relatively hidden market that has become more popular over the last few years as young professionals are choosing to live together. Hurford Salvi Carr reports that tenants choosing to corporate share tend to be new to London or have recently changed jobs.

Corporate sharers typically rent two bedroom, two bathroom properties and prefer upgraded facilities such as concierge services or gymnasiums. On average these rentals range from £350 to £500 per week in the Docklands, and £400 to £600 per week in the City and West End.

In terms of lease agreements, 75% are medium term one-year lets, of which half have a duration of two or more years. The remaining 25% comprise minimum six months. Higher rates can be achieved from corporate clients, with an ‘employee’ tenant staying for typically up to three years. Corporate sharers tend to lead busy lifestyles and opt to rent properties through lettings services rather than having to negotiate with independent landlords. Lettings agents are more proficient in the preparation of tenancy agreements and are also able to offer tenants expert advice on new legislation affecting their tenancies including the soon to be introduced Tenancy Deposit Scheme.

Buy-to-let investors favour corporate sharers, as they are mostly graduates in professional roles earning a high or a steady income and in most cases are willing to pay a higher rent. Their lifestyle means they eat out more, work long hours and employ cleaners. For information on lettings opportunities throughout the City, Canary Wharf and East London contact Kari Trajer at the Hurford Salvi Carr, city office on 020 7490 1122 - http://www.hurford-salvi-carr.co.uk

As a multi-media tool, an iPhone wins hands down. Unlike television where the only thing you can do while viewing television is to watch TV, with your iPhone you can take the dog for a job, do the laundry, study for an quiz or take a bath. The advantages of hearing as opposed to viewing are all regarding multitasking. It is certainly not expected that you use a few of the features of iPhone while completing other activities, including any that requires your concentrated attention such as operating a car, but there are certainly many things you can enjoy at the same time as your iPhone that will make the unpleasant duties be less cumbersome.

The capability to customize your iPhone ringtones has always been one of the exciting features of the device. You can get ringtones from many different sources. For example, you can use ITunes preview files to get short bursts in audio format of iTunes library. All you have to do is download the audio files and play them back as audio clips. Another method to obtain ringtones is to utilize your Windows PC to copy the ringtones directly to your IPhone. Either way, you can realize a whole realm of possibilities for unique ringtones when you buy an iPhone.

There are some interesting features which you can tap into with iPhone. For example you can combine your iPhone with IRC and enjoy live chat. Other iPhone tips which are easily available include such things as extending battery life, converting a DVD to iPhone, getting troubleshooting help when you can’t determine why some feature isn’t operating the way you think it should, and checking for dead pixels. You can even make sure of the caller’s location before you accept a call from an unknown number.

The Moon Directory is an established directory based on the very popular phpLinkDirectory script. The directory has recently added a customised Moon and Stars theme in addition to redesigning the link detail pages. All of the links now have a screenshot, making the site more interesting and drawing your eyes to the most colourful websites listed!

The web directory is growing in ranking and is continually being promoted using new and established promotion techniques. A novel feature of the directory adds the ability to find the categories with the highest Google Page Rank, where there are currently 159 categories with a Google ranking greater than 0.

Keep an eye on this directory, as its clearly started to evolve into something very different from other directories!

The Moon Directory is an established directory based on the very popular phpLinkDirectory script. The directory has recently added a customised Moon and Stars theme in addition to redesigning the link detail pages. All of the links now have a screenshot, making the site more interesting and drawing your eyes to the most colourful websites listed!

The web directory is growing in ranking and is continually being promoted using new and established promotion techniques. A novel feature of the directory adds the ability to find the categories with the highest Google Page Rank, where there are currently 159 categories with a Google ranking greater than 0.

Keep an eye on this directory, as its clearly started to evolve into something very different from other directories!

JagoHarry.co.uk is a long established site that has undertaken many different custumes over the years as the owner Daniel Harrison has taken a path through web design and programming. The latest version of the site has begun the process of moving from a standard blog to a web 2.0 optimised blog.

You might know Dan from other projects, as he was the chap behind the very popular phpLD PR Update Tool used on many phpLinkDirectory-based web directories. He’s also very interested in MythTV based PVR projects, making money from the web, electronics, programming, and even fireworks!!

There are more and more websites popping up each day and it is getting harder and harder to attract visitors to you site. Now It might seem obvious that your site needs to actually have something to offer visitors and you need to make it easy for your site to be found! Well, you will need to decide what your site is all about, but getting it known is all about correctly marketing your site and getting it found in the Search engines.

SEO or SEM (Search Engine Optimisation or Search Engine Marketing) can cost you an awful lot of money to get your site first in the Search Engine Results PageS (SERPS) - but it does not have to. The best thing to do is to set about learning thebasicsc for yourself and simply by reading SEO Articles and then applying what you learnt can get you started.

Reading a few website articles will not make you an SEO expert overnight, but it can get you started, and in the process by doing all the basic things yourself you will save a small fortune! Now, doing SEO is no good at all unless you monitor your progress. So the logical thing to do is to make use of some SEO Tools to monitor your progress and results. Tools include Multi DC Pagerank Checker, IP address Checker and SERP checker just to name a few.

If you spend as little as 10 minutes/day for 3 months working on SEO aspects of your site you will soon notice that you are getting more and more visitors and your site is much easier to find in the Search Engines. Your 10 minutes a day has only added up to a few hours, and you have probably saved yourself several hundred $$$ along the way.

When I was on Holidays I took a lot of photos with my digital camera - like you do. I wanted to share some of them with family so I added them to my email only to find my email was clogged up and wouldn’t send! I then realised that each photo was over 1 meg in size! They only needed to be smaller to send in email.

I got out the software that came with my camera nad tried to use to make the pictures smaller without success. Then I tried searching for other software on the internet. While I was searching, I found this great site that has an online image resizer - which was just perfect for me!

There was no software to install and it is really easy to use, unlike the software that came with my Camera. So, if you are looking for an easy way to resize photos online then give it a go! The best part was that they make it easy to download the new smaller photo or even just send it in an email. I took just a few minutes and resized my holiday photos and then they were easy to send to my friends.