Author Archive for Everton
Everton is based in London and has worked in the internet and mobile space for over ten years now, and before that worked in corporate strategy and consulting. He has a degree in Economics from Cambridge University.He also writes for Windows 7 News, Windows 8 News and One Tip A Day.
Organise Your Desktop With Stardock Fences
I discovered a great new windows utility this week on our sister site, Windows 7 News & Tips. One of the areas that I hoped Microsoft would improve in Windows 7 was providing better tools for keeping desktops organised. Unfortunately they didn’t, but lucking I’ve now discovered Stardock Fences. With Fences it is easy to [...]
Get PC Support From Virgin Digital
Virgin Media have launched in the UK a new PC support service called Virgin Digital Help. It appears a sensible move as over the years Virgin Media has received hundreds of thousands of calls from broadband users wanting support with their PCs. Now, Virgin Media are offering this expertise to both Virgin Media customers and [...]
Win $300 Of Computer Memory In Our Christmas Giveway!
Everyday this month we’ve been giving away over $300 of free software or hardware together with out sister site Windows 7 News. In total we are giving away over $9000 worth of software and hardware!. Today we have the following great main prize up for grabs: $300 of free computer memory of their choice from Crucial Technology!
Yes, the [...]
Follow Drew Carey On Twitter And Help Raise $1M For Charity
A few weeks ago I read about the comedian Drew Carey’s offer to donate $1m to the charity Livestrong setup by the greatest cyclist ever Lance Armstrong for each person that followed him on twitter, up to a million followers. I expected to see a massive rush of people following Drew but as of today [...]
Win A $200 Belkin Router & USB Adaptor In Our Christmas Giveaway
In our $9K Christmas Giveway today we are giving away a Belkin N+ Wireless Router and a Belkin N+ USB Adaptor worth $200 in total. In addition, we’re also giving away today:
a copy of Uniblue PowerSuite worth $100
a copy of MediaMonkey Gold worth $40
a copy of Tidysongs worth $40
That’s $380 in total in prizes! To win all [...]
Christmas Giveaway Day 5: Win a Linksys Router Worth $200!!
The Christmas giveaway we’re running with Windows 7 News & Tips is proving to be a lot of fun and it’s nice giving such cool prizes in way over $9000 in prizes in total!!. On day 4 we gave away several prizes:
Uniblue RegistryBooster 2010 Worth $30!!
Uniblue PowerSuite Bundle Worth $100!!
Free Copy Of WinRAR Worth $45!!
Recover My Files Professional Worth $100!!
TidySongs Worth [...]
We Now Accept Guest Posts
For the first time ever this blog will be open to guest posts. I’ve decided to open up the site to guests as I think it’s a great way to give exposure to many of the great sites out there at the same time as introducing my readers to new content.
If you are a blogger [...]
Watch FIFA World Cup 2010 Draw Live Online & Top Ten World Cup Goals
The draw for the greatest sporting event in the world is happening today. No, it’s not the superbowl (sorry to my American friends), but the FIFA World Cup 2010. Only the Olympics comes close to the football world cup, with over 1 billion people watching the last world cup final. The number next year will surely be much [...]
Sponsored Tweets And Ad.ly- New Revenue Stream?
I joined Twitter fairly late, but in the last six months I’ve managed to accumulate nearly 4000 followers. I’ve tried promoting a few affiliate programs via my tweets and I can’t really say they’ve been successful. However, this week I’m testing a new way to monetise my twitter following; sponsored tweets. I joined Ad.ly earlier [...]
$9K Christmas Giveaway – Day 4
Our Christmas Giveaway is proving to be the most popular competition we’ve run to date, with some of the prizes getting thousands of entries each day trying to win a share of $9000 in prizes. On day 3 we saw some very frantic bidding to win $300 in Amazon vouchers:
$300 In Amazon Vouchers – Lowest Unique bid $16.99 [...]
Google Launch Public DNS Service – Do You Want Google Tracking Everything?
Google have just launched a public DNS service via their blog where the service is positioned as part of Google’s “effort to make the web faster”. DNS in a nutshell is like a switchboard for the internet, and (normally) your ISP provides your DNS server which tells your browser how to find other websites. Google’s [...]
$9k Christmas Giveaway – Day 3!!
We are giving away over $9K in Prizes in our Christmas Giveaway over on Windows 7 News. Everyday we are giving away great prizes worth over $300!! Today we are givign away $300 in Amazon vouchers as well as another copy of A-Squared Anti-Malware 4.5 worth $40!!
To play all you have to do is visit our Christmas [...]
Groom Updates Facebook Relationship Status And Tweets In Real-Time
I’m not sure what Dana Hanna’s new wife thinks of his antics. The youtube video below captures the moment when Dana Hanna pulls out his mobile while standing at the altar to update his facebook relationship status to say that he was now married. On top of that he even sent a tweet to announce [...]
$9K Christmas Giveaway – Day 2
Our prize pot has now swollen to over $9000!!! To be in with a chance of winning prizes in our Christmas Giveaway you need to start bidding – all bids are free and you can bid as many times as you want!!To play all you have to do is visit our Christmas Giveaway auction site [...]
New Google Analytics Asynchronous Code Improves Page Load Times
Google Analytics have just released their latest generation of their tracking code. The new asynchronous tracking code uses a script that uses a “separate lane” to handle part of the processing of your webpage. This script can process at the same time as other scripts, improving the accuracy of stats of webpages like this one that [...]
How To Fix Windows 7 Black Screen Of Death
Millions of Windows 7 users have been confronted with a black screen after boot following a recent security update by Microsoft. The Windows 7 Black Screen Of Death is easily fixed and a fix can be found at Windows 7 News & Tips.
The new Windows 7 BSOD was caused by the latest Microsoft security updates [...]
Enter Our Christmas Giveaway – Now Over $8K In Prizes!!
The Christmas competition we are running in tandem with Windows 7 News & Tips is now well underway!! We’ve got eve more prizes nows – in total we are giving away over $8K!!
How does it work? Everyday between Dec 1st and Dec 24th we will be giving away a minimum of $300 in prizes to lucky reader readers. [...]
