Last year’s Christmas Giveaway was a very successful endeavor. We were able to hand out hundreds of commercial software programs to ghacks readers. Here is a short description of what happened last year for new Ghacks readers. We decided last year that it would be nice to use the marketing power of Ghacks to convince [...]
Please Help Ghacks With This Survey
I was approached by one of the companies that I work with (IDG) to publish a survey on my website. This survey is being used to create a Media Kit for Ghacks that will be used as a data source in advertising deals. This should mean a higher ad revenue for the site as the [...]
Holidays Until September
It is not often that I go on holidays. This can be mainly attributed to the fact that my work and spare time balance was leaning towards lots of work and not so much spare time. This is going to change and it is starting tomorrow with a seven day trip to Jerusalem. I just [...]
Web Server Migration Today
I will be moving Ghacks to the new web server today which means that you might experience all kinds of problems with the site including disconnects, display errors, script errors or lack of updates because you are still being redirected to the old web server after the change to the DNS. The new managed server [...]
New Managed Server Ordered
Ghacks has been running on the same server for more than a year now. The server it is running on is provided by German company Hetzner who offer a fantastic deal for the money (€49 for a 4 Gigabyte server with everything that is needed to run websites that have a lot of traffic). A [...]
Otaku Gadgets
You might know that Ghacks is not the only website that I run. I have for example a very successful Windows 7 website that I operate with Everton from Connected Internet. The project is that successful that we have decided to create another website as a joint venture. Otaku Gadgets, a gadgets and hardware site, [...]
Introducing Appnews
Appnews is a new software update notification service that provides software updates via rss, twitter or email. It is the brainchild of long time Ghacks reader Rarst and combines notifications about software updates with links to reviews of those software programs on the websites Freeware Genius, Ghacks and Rarst. Every new entry consists of the [...]
