A good deal

For anyone after good UK Rails hosting then Brightbox are currently running a 50% promo offer on their hosting. That's a hot offer!

Sage Connect Reseller

We're please to announce that we are now a Sage Connect approved reseller.

What does this mean? It means for a business that wants their website to talk to their sage system we can assist.

If you are interested in streamlining your business processes and removing errors then feel free to contact us.

Happy to help.

PPC and SEO

Don't you just love Buzz words!

Well, our new PPC (pay per click) and SEO (search engine optimisation) service is now coming along nicely.

We're offering a range of solutions to help get your business noticed.

However, we're not promising overnight miracles. They DON'T happen - anyone that says they will get you listed in a top position overnight (well even in a few weeks!) is generally lying (unless they own Google).

It takes time, patience, trial and error mixed in with research, statistics and yes, reporting.

We've got success stories, just contact us if you want to know more.

Romsey Town FC

We're delighted to announce that we are working on a website for our local football club - Romsey Town FC.

The offical club website will be available at: http://www.romseyfc.co.uk

Another Day...another page

Some may have noticed that we have a new holding page. We keep promising to release our new website, but we keep getting really busy! That's a good thing though.

Anyway, we thought we ought to at-least put some updated information on the site, so we have.

We're pushing the iPhone work for external customers currently which is very successful.

Writing for the iPhone started in one direction (emphasising on our own Apps), but ending up allowing us to develop for others - and the Apps we wrote highlight that we know what we are talking about.

We will continue to develop our own iPhone Apps, but for now others are enjoying our expertise.

The trouble with CMS

We've been playing with CMSystems lately. 

CMS (content management system) are nothing new. In-fact they have been around in varying levels of complexity for several years. 'Back in the day' when people were just learning about the 'web' and 'google' are very own Andy had already developed a fairly powerful CMS system for a large marketing company he worked for.

Today, there are blogging systems (Wordpress, TypePad) and website management systems (Drupal, Joomla etc.). The issue I have with these systems is that they have quite a high overhead in the 'learning department'. That is, they don't make it really easy for the average Joe to edit content without a good sit-down, plenty of coffee and some patience.   Now, that can be great for us as it means clients will often ask us to theme, train and help with such systems.

However, the CMS should just work with the site - and not have a site that has to work around the CMS. 

Soon, we will release associateMe. This is a rather nice little CMS system that I could give to my 5 year old daughter and let her publish a 'How many dolls can I collect' website. It also will be powerful enough and feature filled with modern technologies for a large site to utilise. 

It will work with the site, flow with the site and basically just be yummy.

Watch this space.

Announcing EzKeyz

Launching later this month is EzKeyz, our latest clients' website. EzKeyz offer high-visibility cursive keyboard stickers to aid very young children with ICT.


EzKeyz also offer musical (piano) key stickers to aid children (and adults) with learning how to read and play musical scores.

The new website will be available shortly at www.ezkeyz.com.

Welcome 2009

We've been a bit quiet lately on the Blog but that's mainly because we have been enjoying Christmas!

Anyway, role on 2009! 

We are working on some cool projects that should see release soon.

We're also busy working on some bespoke apps for customers. If you are after an iPhone App then drop us a line and we'll see what we can do.

MyChristmas Will Fill You With Holiday Cheer

Rated: 8/10

"Whether you are already riding a holiday high or still looking for something to get you in the spirit MyChristmas has everything you need to celebrate the season." - Allison Glennon, from App Craver.

"MyChristmas is an all in one holiday app by Talee Talee and it has everything that you need to make your holiday bright. This app is jam packed with whatever you are going to need to take you through Christmas right into the New Year.

When you open MyChristmas and go to the main menu it becomes clear that you are in for a pretty thorough holiday experience. The full list includes: a Christmas Countdown, “A Christmas Carol” eBook, Christmas Carols, Music, Games, Entertainment, New Years, and iChoose Choice".

MyChristmas Review from iPhone App Reviews.net

A review of MyChristmas from Michael over at iPhone App Reviews.net:


I don’t know the people at Talee Talee, but after poking around MyChristmas for a while it’s pretty clear that they took a good look at the mess of Christmas apps hitting iTunes and they came to the conclusion that it’s all just soooooo unnecessary. And they’re right! Seasonal apps are usually very lightweight and have a pretty short shelf life so why not roll them all up into one download?

And thus was born “The Christmas Compendium” that is MyChristmas. This kitchen sink app includes all of the following:

- Two Christmas Countdowns
- “A Christmas Carol” eBook
- 18 Christmas carol lyrics
- 7 instrumental Christmas songs
- 2 pretty good Christmas games (Solitaire and Match)
- Ding-’em-yourself Christmas Bells, pretty cool
- A flickering Christmas candle
- Mistletoe with smooching sounds
- 2 Christmas sounds (Santa and Rudolph)
- New Year’s Eve Countdown
- Auld Lang Syne lyrics
- A fireworks display

Whoa! That’s a lotta holiday crap crammed into one application.

By themselves none of these apps-within-an-app will blow you away, but as a collection it’s pretty impressive. You’ve got your countdown, the eBook, the music, the lyrics… it’s Christmas overload! But it’s way more efficient than installing 10 different apps that you’ll be deleting come January.

The best parts of MyChristmas are probably the music, the Solitaire and Match games, and the Christmas Bells. The mistletoe could also come in handy if you’re “that guy”, the one who’s always ramming your tongue down a girl’s throat when she thinks she’s leaning in for an innocent holiday peck.

An interesting thing that Talee Talee built into MyChristmas is its ability to “talk” to iChoose when you can’t decide what part of the Compendium you want to play with. On any menu screen you just tap on “iChoose Choice” and the app will temporarily switch to iChoose (which you have to have installed already), make a selection for you, and then kick you back to the selected MyChristmas section.

It’s true that a lot of the apps included in MyChristmas can be had for free and some of them, like the Snow Scene, are pretty underwhelming, but you could do a lot worse for a buck. If searching the iTunes App Store for various Christmas apps sounds like a pain in the ass that you just don’t want to deal with, spend $.99 on MyChristmas and be done with it. Even despite a little lameness here and there, MyChristmas comes with plenty of value to make it worth buying.