All Posts Tagged With: "gHacks"
Giganews Increase Usenet Retention To 120 Days
I’ve been expecting Giganews announcement that it’s Usenet retention (how long old posts are kept for ) has been increased to 120 days, ever since I spotted that my favourite newreader newsleecher had increased it’s search function to 140 days.
Providing 120 days of retention is a major achievement when you consider the share amount of [...]
Adding A Robots.txt File Has Increased My Google Traffic By 16% In 4 Days
I finally got around to adding a Robots.txt file on Sunday and already my Google Traffic has gone up by 16% in only 4 days. I’m amazed that such a small change as adding a robots.txt file has had such an impact.
Although I asked a month ago for advice on adding a robots.txt file [...]
How Much Is Your Website Worth?
Valuing websites is extremely hard and there’s no set method for doing it. However, it is worthwhile having a rough idea of how much your site is worth as you may wake up one morning to find a surprise email with an offer. I’ve had a few offers in the past, but I’ve [...]
4Apr2007 | Everton | 4 comments | ContinuedPlease Welcome Zane And Martin To The Team!
I’d like to welcome Martin and Zane to the Connected Internet team. Martin of gHacks fame will be looking after the new Connected Internet German site and Zane will be looking after the new Connected Internet Chinese site, as well as joining as the new Gadgets and Gizmos Editor.
Zane is also developing MyBlogLoggers.com, a [...]
How Many Aprils Fools Posts Did You Spot?
I just spotted the following post on OneTipADay which claims allows you to download music, movies etc from iTunes for free, which was my favourite Aprils Fools joke as I actually fell for it.
Which ones did you spot? Some were pretty obvious like gHack’s and TechCrunch’s, but John Chow’s took me about 30 seconds [...]
Quick Links 26/03/07
Computer ShutDown Day looks like it was a success as I had very few feeds to catchup on yesterday. Here are some interesting reads to get you started this week:
Bounty Offered To Kill Pirate DVD Sniffer Dogs
Website banned? Try the encrypted url
Bugatti Veyron At 253MPH (video below)
Xbox 360 Elite Will Do IPTV
Translators Wanted For Connected Internet
Following my decision over the weekend to remove my automatic translation tool, I’m now looking to recruit human translators to translate my blog into other languages. Key languages I am interested in are Japanese, Chinese, Spanish, German and French. If you can translate my site into another language then please let me [...]
26Mar2007 | Everton | 21 comments | ContinuedJust How Good Are Translator Plugins?
Martin from gHacks is recruiting human translators to convert his site into other languages so that he can extend the reach of his site. I’ve been relying on the troublesome Angsuman Translator plugin to automatically perform the same task on my site, but I’ve never really stopped to think about how accurate the translations [...]
23Mar2007 | Everton | 32 comments | ContinuedOptimise Your CSS File
My pages have got a bit slower this month as I’ve added a few more plugins and images, so this post from Martin came at a good time. It gave some good tips for making WordPress pages load faster including using the css-compress WordPress plugin to optimise css files.
The biggest improvement I managed to [...]
OnlyWire: One BookMarklet To Rule Them All
I read about OnlyWire yesterday on gHacks and OneTipADay. OnlyWire is a social bookmarking aggregator. Once you’ve registered with OnlyWire and installed their bookmarklet in your browser, it can be used to submit your favourite posts to 15 bookmarking sites in one go.
14Mar2007 | Everton | 6 comments | Continued



