Hunting flats in London

Some people compare looking for a flat to watching a horror film. To some extent, it is true, as you have to spend much energy and effort to get the flat you wish, especially in London.

If you are student and have come to London at the beginning of the academic year- in September, be ready that it is not easy to get London student rentals because of the great number of those who want to rent a flat.
The first thing that you should decide is what kind of flat you want to have and how many rooms are necessary for you, what part of the city and so on. This will set some criteria for you to find the desired flats.
As soon as you need accommodation for student London, start with your friends, explore the neighborhoods of the universities or the nearest Tube stations. But, when you select such apartments, be aware that the price can be higher than usual. The formula is simple – the farther you are from the city centre, the cheaper the rent is.
Some people, who want to save some money, they prefer student flatshare London when several people rent a big flat or even a house and pay together the rent and other bills as well. It is a good variant for many students nowadays.
When looking for flat, take care to choose reliable sites or reliable real estate agencies, as the city is full of scams, because this is the way to steal somebody’s money. If you are foreigner you are more likely to be cheated by such people.

The best way not to have trouble in London while looking for a flat is to come earlier before the studies, and to have some friends or acquaintances who are able  to give you a hand with realtors.

7 reasons why customers pick Magento

Those who are evaluating platforms for managing online stores have no doubt at some point considered Magento CMS. To help making the final choice we’ve decided to put together a little review of the most essential features Magento offers to its users.

1. Unlimited items and categories. Magento provides incredibly flexible catalog that supports any types of physical or digital products you might want to sell. For specific groups of products certain options can be set up, for instance size, print and color for clothing. You can also create groups of products and cross links to related items, which may help to increase your sales.

2. Flexible pricing. When you use Magento you are in charge of the prices. If you think that today is a good day for a grand sale all you have to do is make some changes in the admin panel of your store. You can offer customers such options as “buy one item and get another for free”, percentage discount or discount for the following item. Such freedom and flexibility allows you to quickly respond to all the moves of your competitors and set your own rules.

3. Customizable design. Though Magento offers a great number of pre-designed themes that you can choose from, if you want to create a truly unique website that would capture potential clients’ attention you can use services of Florida Magento programmers that will take your idea and create functional and visually attractive design of your website.  

4. SEO. With this CMS you can be sure that your site will be ranked pretty high in search engine results and that your potential clients will be able to find you.

5. Multiple languages and currencies. This feature allows easily go global and sell your products at some of the most exotic locations imaginable.

6. Reporting and analytics tools. Florida eCommerce web developers made sure you get only relevant information on your products and sales.

7. Customer relationship. Magento allows making customers more engaged into your business. They can write reviews, “like” and share info on your products on Facebook and other social networks, create wish lists and more.

Another thing worth mentioning is a huge number of plugins Magento has to offer. If you want to learn more about them read here.

MWC 2013: the amount of downloads of mobile applications increased in January

In a short time after the “hottest” period of the year – the Christmas and New Year celebrations – the experts are ready to make some conclusions on the amount of downloads of mobile applications.

Traditionally this period becomes the highest point in such rating because of new users of smartphones and tablets who got the device as a present under a Christmas Tree and start to fulfill them with different content at once. In several weeks this index always decreases a little but several first weeks are the golden time for mobile application developers.

Fiksu the specialist in mobile application marketing, is going to publish the statistics for January – which is traditionally the “hot” month for the mobile application markets when all people who got new smartphones and tablets as a present start fulfill their devices with mobile games and different kinds of applications.

This year January is not an exception. The cost of attraction of a loyal user who starts the application tree or more times decreased by 11% for Fiksu as compared with December 2012 – from 1,67 to 1,56 dollars.

The amount of downloads of free mobile applications that are included in top-200 for iPhone in the USA increased by 13% as compared with December last year to 6,01 million.

For the Christmas of 2012 year the record number of new mobile devices were activated that is why it is not surprising that activity of new users and downloads of applications increased significantly during the latest days and weeks.

“The January indexes of Fiksu became the first indicator of a mass character of mobile advertising when the advertisers focus on value and not on volume making strategic planning for the coming year and distributing the budget to maximize the efficiency”, - says Mika Adler, the Chief Executive Officer in Fiksu.

Guest post by Josh Hamilton, technology consulter and author of analytical and how-to articles regarding IT, mobile trends, cell phones and plans. Specializes on explaining how to improve mobile signal with cell phone booster, how to choose the technological networking solution for a home or office, and how to use IT in the most efficient way.