New Theme – Best Ever!

I’ve been through many WordPress themes over the last 4 years, but the one I added last night is definitely the best ever!  It’s very clean and simple to use, and more importantly, very, very fast even with all my many plugins and tweaks running.
The feature I love the most is the featured posts carousel, [...]

Launching Otaku Gadgets

After taking a minor break from blogging in 2008, I’ve been working even harder than ever in 2009.   What has really spurred me on has been the success of Windows 7 News, that I run jointly with Martin from gHacks.  Having an official blogging business partner is great as two brains are better than one, [...]

Mobile Broadband Speed In Your Hands

The Broadband market is a battle field. Not the one fought with guns and swords, but, the one which uses mobile broadband speeds and enticing offers. Top broadband suppliers, like O2, Virgin Media, BT, Orange, T Mobile, 3 and Vodafone, fight their way out to woo consumers, with various attractive broadband packages.
The Promise…
Internet access speed [...]

Top Five iPhone Games

After weeks of deliberating I finally ordered, not one, but two iPhone 3G S – one for me and one for the new Mrs Blair. They should be arriving next week, and I’m already creating a list of apps I want to install. Portable video games are hot as a pistol, and the [...]

Windows 7 Pre-Orders Start Tomorrow

From tomorrow individuals in the US, Canada and Japan will be able to pre-order Windows 7 and save up to $100 off the full prices. Microsoft haven’t set an end date for the offer, merely stating that they have a sales target in mind and that they will pull the offer once that has [...]

AntiVirus And AntiSpamBee Plugins For WordPress

Last week my server was attacked by a DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attack for about 5 days, which took my sites down for about 4 hours.  My host liquidweb responded brilliantly and although they couldn’t stop the attack, they tweaked my server so that it could handle excess load from the attack.
The incident made [...]

How Not To Do SEO For 2009

How Not To Do SEO For 2009

Web start-ups face a daunting task of getting known. As of last count, over a billion pages literally litter the web. That’s a billion competing pieces of informtion swamping yours. Compound that with the short attention span of the average surfer. And the problem of ever shifting viewer loyalties. No wonder many netrepreneurs surrender and [...]

How To Deal With Your Mobile Stalker

How To Deal With Your Mobile Stalker

It’s late at night and you’re chatting with your wife.  Suddenly there it is again
“RING RING!”
Your cellphone’s buzzing. The number’s unknown and it’s the upteenth time that someone’s ringing you- but doesn’t answer when you (or your irate wife) picks up. Your wife suspects an affair. You swear there isn’t. Still, you’re in hot water.
Don’t [...]

Recommend A 3 Column WordPress Theme

Recommend A 3 Column WordPress Theme

I’ve been using the theme on this site for over a year now, so I’ve decided it’s time for a change as I need something new to fiddle with!  There are so many good wordpress themes out there so to speed up finding a newA theme I thought I’d enlist the help of my readers.
If [...]

Where’s my iPhone 3GS?  No Stock In The UK

Where’s my iPhone 3GS? No Stock In The UK

I ordered 2 iPhone 3G S phones online last week.  I thought I’d give O2 a call today to see where they were and I was disappointed to learn that the iPhone 3G S was out of stock. I was told to call back tomorrow as they might have some news on stock.  Carphone Warehouse [...]

How To Take Cool Shots At Night

How To Take Cool Shots At Night

Wherever you go, you’d see the flash of digital cameras. These are the newtoys of the millenium. People print pix, create digital albums, and upload to social networks. Visit Facebook and witness how the average user has created a virtual storybook of his daily life in pictures. It’s the next best thing to having an [...]

Please Don’t Screw Up HTML 5

Please Don’t Screw Up HTML 5

HTML 5 is upon us, and it should change the way we deliver web content. That is, if the browser makers and web designers don’t screw it up.

How To Choose Your Next Digicam

How To Choose Your Next Digicam

Until just about 5 years ago, folks still fell in line to buy film. Choices were simple. You either got the 36 shot roll of film, or the 21 shot. A few blest individuals got to use Advantix which allowed printing  of thumbnails. That saved on printing costs since you can easily identify which shots [...]

OpenOffice.org vs Google Docs

OpenOffice.org vs Google Docs

Microsoft Office has ruled the world of computer productivity since the Windows 9x era. Really, how many of you are still using Corel or Lotus? I thought so.

Migrated To New Server Over The Weekend

Migrated To New Server Over The Weekend

I’ve had to move servers again and the migration was completed over the weekend.  I’d like to thank my new hosts WiredTree for a very professional move, which had no major hiccups.  Already users should see major speed improvements on the site, which will increase over the coming weeks as we tweak the server.
I decided [...]

When Should You Remove Ads From Your Site?

When Should You Remove Ads From Your Site?

I’ve read many blog posts advising as to when aspiring bloggers should add banners to their sites.  In my opinion the advice given in most posts that you should only add adverts once you’ve got an established readership is wrong.  A good blog should always be attracting new readers, so why should new readers be [...]

How To Make Quick And Safe Bucks Online With Forex

How To Make Quick And Safe Bucks Online With Forex

95% of new investors fail the forex game. That’s a fact. The average bloke jumps into the market with a $10,000 investment hoping to hit a goldmine. He purchases scores of forex indicators off ebay to get an edge. Then he tries autotrading robots amounting to a thousand dollars. Then reality sets in. Losses accumulate [...]

Download Kaspersky Internet Security 2010 Trial Version

Download Kaspersky Internet Security 2010 Trial Version

The team of popular anti-virus software has recently released a free version of Kaspersky Internet Security 2010. Kaspersky Internet Security 2010 has been released on a trial basis and can be used totally free of cost.
While it is free it doesn’t limit itself by not offering great features that you will need to have a [...]

Fun With VirtualBox

Fun With VirtualBox

In 2002 I switched to Mac. As those of you who have been paying attention know, I was a dyed in the wool NeXT guy, and I had OPENSTEP on my primary workstation from about 1997-2002. I kept an assortment of other machines on my network running FreeBSD, Solaris, various linux distros, and the occasional [...]

Fastest Way to Search Websites that belongs to one person

Fastest Way to Search Websites that belongs to one person

After visiting a website I like,  I’ve always wondered: are there any other sites like it? Perhaps about a different subject but written in the same style/presentation  that I’ve grown to enjoy. I’ve had this thought many times but just dismissed it and carried on little did I know that I wasn’t the only one [...]

Kick Them Out. Permanently

Kick Them Out. Permanently

Installed a Suite lately? Whether it’s Mcaffe or Norton, Office or StarOffice, they’re vexingly difficult to purge from your system. That’s supposed to be a feature too- not a flaw. Egotistic suites think they’re doing you a favor by clinging on in perpetua long after you’ve ‘uninstalled it.’
You don’t have to suffer misbehaved suites anymore. [...]