Abstract: A paint roller frame with a barbed cage including elongated rods mounted to longitudinally between end members of a roller cage frame with protruding barbs that frictionally engaging an inner bore of a roller cover to prevent slippage of the roller cover from the roller cage frame.

Abstract: Service Allocation and Assigning Method and Program therefor A computer sever-based process for matching users of a messaging system requiring a particular service to those users of the same messaging system who have identified themselves as being capable of providing such a service is described. Practically, a messaging service provider (MSP) provides a messaging server connected to the internet on which calendaring functions are offered to users of the MSP in the wider internet community. The users requiring a service create an item in the messaging system including descriptive textual information concerning the service required and one or more proposed times and dates when that service would ideally be required.

Abstract: Computers connected to the Internet generally have loaded thereon a “browser” to enable the user of the computer to view information contained in Text Markup Language files known as web pages. The invention disclosed relates to a method of compressing web pages by replacing the most commonly used elements within the web page text files, known as tags, with a simple control code and simultaneously creating a look-up table string containing the control codes and the corresponding tags. The result is a compression string representative of the original web page file and a look-up string, both of which are inserted into a simple web page file having lines of code recognizable and executable by said browser. On receipt of said simple web page file, the browser recognizes and executes the code which works on the compression string using the look-up table string to expand said compression string which is then recognized by the browser as being in conventional web page file format.