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• Tipsy Towers , 16 Jul 2010 in Events
  

  Title: Tipsy TowersLocation: Argyll Hotel, DunoonLink out: Click hereDescription: The Walking Theatre Company’s hilarious take on the classic Cleese series, Fawlty Towers. When the waiter Manuel is murdered who can the culprit be? Is Major Reine Tubb or her sister Marge? Has the Antiques Conference at the hotel got anything to do with, and will [...]

• KT Tunstall Plays Inver Cottage Free! , 20 Jun 2010 in Cowal&Music&News
  

  And you didn’t hear about it? Not surprising, this one had a limit of 70 and the management at Inver Cottage were worried if they advertised the gig they would be swamped.
  In fact they withdrew an Ad in the Dunoon Observer, fearing it would bring hundreds more than would be able to get in.
  As it [...]

• Prints Exhibition at Lochgilphead Community Education Centre , 26 Apr 2010 in Events&Photography
  

  [ May 1, 2010; ] The Mid Argyll Camera Club is showing a Prints Exhibition at Lochgilphead Community Education Centre, Manse Brae,  throughout April. The Centre is open from 9am to 9pm Monday to Friday.

  The 23 members’ prints are mainly from the recent annual competition of this session.

  The colour and monochrome prints include those that scored highest in the club’s [...]

• How can you remain impervious to online threat? , 11 Apr 2010 in Community News&Media&Technology & Web
  

  And still use Microsoft Windows?
  Unless you are a geek, the panoply of options that Windows offers to hackers wanting to hijack your PC is intimidating. The range of anti-virus software doesn’t help, not least because a good proportion of it actually contains the viruses themselves.
  Frankly, to use XP, Vista or 7 is considered an invitation [...]

• ForArgyll isn’t monkeying around, we want you to subscribe! , 10 Apr 2010 in Community News&Media
  

  We’ve now got ourselves a Chimp, a mailchimp to be precise.
  He’s a cute little fellow who resides virtually on a server somewhere over the other side of the pond. And he’s available to us to send out emails to subscribers on a weekly basis. We’ve just sent out our first, announcing that after a short [...]

• Accident closes A886 Glendaruel until 10pm , 09 Apr 2010 in Community News&Cowal
  

  A road traffic accident on the A886 has closed the road in both directions in Glendaruel  until 10pm tonight at least according to emergency services.
  The accident happened on the wide bend between the turning to Otter Ferry and the turning to Tighnabruaich. Cars are being diverted via the coast road in both directions.
  Fire engines and [...]

• iPad vs tablet: a ForArgyll Survey , 05 Apr 2010 in Arts & Culture&Community News&Media&Technology & Web&Tourism
  

  We asked several people in Argyll today what they would choose: an iPad or tablet? On the one hand an undoubtedly desirable piece of hi-tech consumer gadgetry, on the other a very consumable block that’s nutritionally questionable, but undoubtedly sugary. Of course the latter won. Half those surveyed hadn’t a clue as to what an [...]

• ForArgyll.com to charge £1 for a day’s access … , 01 Apr 2010 in Community News
  

  The Times and the Sunday Times announced last week that they would have a pay wall. And no, we’re not serious. We see the idea of a daily or weekly charge as a huge drag against growing an audience. We don’t need it –

  The more people that read us
  The more people click on our [...]

• Is Argyll Shooting itself in the foot? , 27 Mar 2010 in Arts & Culture&Business&Business&Community&Community News&Regeneration&Theatre&Tourism&Tourism activities
  

  Many may complain how difficult it is to make a living in Argyll, but when we award business to firms and individuals outside Argyll aren’t we contributing to that unsustainability?
  With experience in two sectors, the creative and the voluntary, I see this happen again and again. Local suppliers being discounted in favour of external ones. [...]

• Ten Tested Steps to Un-Throttled CPUs , 26 Mar 2010 in For Argyll&Media&Technology & Web
  

  Warning for the general reader: this is a semi-technical article for WPMU admins and WordPress users hosting their own sites on services such as Bluehost.
  We’ve just run into this problem, and we’ve solved it. Completely. The site which was running slowly is now bouncing along at an unflappable rate, and we still have a strategy [...]