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Dolby Labs Release Dolby Mobile
Today in Barcelona at the 2008 Mobile World Congress, Dolby Laboratories released Dolby Mobile, that promised to bring rich, vibrant surround sound to mobile phones and portable media players. At the same time Dolby also showed aacPlus, a high-quality, highly efficient audio compression format designed for download, streaming, and broadcast applications on mobile phones.
“Entertainment [...]
Join Casale Media To Gain More Control Over Your Ads And Higher CPMs
Over the last couple of weeks ago I’ve been experimenting with new ad networks to see if I can improve the earnings from my various ad positions. Today, I’ve started running ads from a new network, Casale Media, that not only lets me have full control over what ads are running, but more importantly [...]
11Feb2008 | Everton | 0 comments | ContinuedXBMC Coming On OS X And Linux. Plus, I Need Advice With New PC Spec
I’m a big fan of XMBC, the great open source media center for Xboxs. But, I stopped using it over the last 12 months because my needs had out-stripped the capabilities of the Xbox, which can’t support native HD content. Because of this, I now use PCs running Windows Vista Media Center [...]
11Feb2008 | Everton | 2 comments | ContinuedThank You To The Site Sponsors
It’s been a very busy week on the site, and I’d just like to send out a quick thank you to the site sponsors.
CrawlScore: CrawlScore is a new service that crawls and diagnoses any crawling related issues with your website. This may not sound very exciting, but ensuring that Google and other search engines are [...]
10Feb2008 | Everton | 0 comments | ContinuedApple iPhone Has A Greater Share Of The Smartphone Market Than Windows Mobile
I’ve been paying a lot of interest to news about smartphones over the last couple of months, as I’m coming up to my annual upgrade. Currently I’m packing two phones, a Nokia N95 for personal use and a HTC S620 for work, and I can’t work out which platform, Symbian or Windows Mobile, I [...]
10Feb2008 | Everton | 11 comments | ContinuedFriday Fun: James Brown Dance Lesson
I’ve always been a big James Brown fan, more so as I’ve got older and I’ve collected some of his less mainstream tracks which tend to be even funkier. I was very sad to see him pass away on Christmas Day 2006.
Anyway, at least he left behind a very big musical and dancing legacy. [...]
Growing Tired Of Anchor Text In Comments - Switching Off Dofollow
Apologies to my regular readers who haven’t been abusing my generousity, but I’ve been forced into turning off ‘dofollow‘ on comments. Too many users are trying to take advantage and it’s taking too much time each day to delete or edit their comments.
If users still want to receive a link back from this site, [...]
Fifth Underseas Cable Cut - Am I The Only One Who Things Something Fishy Is Going On?
Over the last week, a number of undersea fiber optic cables have been severed in the Middle East. So far no explanation has been given for how the cables are being cut. But, surely the odds of FIVE cables being cut in a week are very high and they can’t be accidents. [...]
6Feb2008 | Everton | 5 comments | ContinuedWidgetBucks - Worth Considering As An Adsense Alternative
The CPM of the google adsense unit that was below my posts has recently fallen to below the $1.50CPM threshold I have set for banners, so I have removed it.
Removing poorly performing Adsense units quickly is very important, as they will drag down the earnings of your better Adsense units due to Google’s Smart Pricing. [...]
Early Days But Pay Per Play Ads Payout Is $4CPM
Pay Per Play is a new advertising method that has started trials this week before full rollout. The service works by playing 5 second ads to site visitors with a maximum of one ad played per visitor, and with a payout per play not per click.
Yesterday Pay Per Play ran the first test campaigns [...]




