Google changed my RSS News Feed today from Feedburner to a Google domain on my request. I did that mainly because it is then possible to add Adsense ads to the feed which I’m thinking of trying out. Since it is a transfer of the domain it could mean that some of you are experiencing [...]

You can help make Ghacks better. Yes, it is not complicated and does not take more than a minute for some of the things that you could do. If you really like my website, like the articles, find interesting software and tips on it then you could think about helping Ghacks grow. I created a [...]

In short. If you are a professional you are eligible for free subscriptions to any of the information products (mostly magazines) that I have listed below plus every other that is available at my Free Trade Magazine Subscriptions & Technical Document Downloads page here at Ghacks. While I do focus the products that I write [...]

Ghacks has finally passed the 10000 RSS Feed Readers mark which is a huge milestone for this website. I’m pretty excited about this figure and hope that it will stabilize there quickly. It usually goes down a bit on weekends and comes back on weekdays. The Feed Analysis that I performed about three months ago [...]

The WordPress developers have released version 2.6 of their blogging plattform almost one month ahead of schedule and while some users might be excited to update their blogs and test the new features I’m always a bit taken back by those updates because it means that I have to spend a few hours updating my [...]

Well it’s finally time for me to go out and spend some time without sitting 16 hours at a computer desk. I will be going on a short trip to the North Sea for the next seven days starting today and I’m surprised that the sun is shining. I’m usually a person with bad luck [...]

I experienced some difficulties with the new theme for Ghacks and decided to revert back to the old theme for now until they are sorted out. The major problem for me was that somehow my Google Adsense earnings were cut in half. Now the strange thing about that was that the impressions of the Adsense [...]

I changed the theme today and what you can see right now is the new Ghacks theme. It smaller and more efficient than the old one using less images and other elements that slow down a website. Not everything is final as of now and if you encounter any problems let me know about them [...]

The Ghacks T-Shirt competition has ended a few days ago and I finally found some time to draw the ten lucky ones who all get a free Ghacks T-Shirt. Free means totally free including shipping to any place here on earth, it might just take a while before it arrives. I will contact all winners [...]

I’m currently testing a WordPress plugin that I always wanted to test but never had the opportunity to do it. It’s the Who Sees Ads plugin which allows the administrator to define rules on who is seeing ads on the website and who is not. I figured that regular readers would not click on ads [...]

I’m very proud to announce that the first two t-shirt designs for Ghacks have been finally completed and are now available in the Splitreason Online Store. You can take a look at the Ghacks T-Shirts right now or wait and see what I have to offer. I think it’s something to celebrate, especially if you [...]

It’s time again to take a look at some of the new magazines and whitepapers for professionals. This is basically a cooperation between my site and the Netline Cooperation who provide access to these magazines and whitepapers free of charge. Magazine subscriptions are free and sometimes provided as magazines that are send to your doorsteps [...]

I did make two large purchases in the last two days. I finally ordered my new computer yesterday, or better the parts for the new computer, and cannot wait to build it once all the parts arrive at my home. Most of the hardware for the PC did not change since my last article about [...]

I just got word from my contact at Rev Response that they are currently offering a free 1 year subscription of PC Magazine instead of the usual 2 free trial issues. The offer is only free to qualified professionals in the United States. Users who apply for the offer have to fill out some information [...]

I usually start my day by opening Thunderbird to check my emails and my website to check the comments that are awaiting moderation. I have installed some rank checkers in the Firefox status bar that display the Pagerank, Alexa rank and Compete rank of the active website and I realized that the Alexa rank for [...]

You know that I’m a honest person and when I first heard about the two new additions to the Grand Effect network I had the following thoughts: Paris Lemon sounded like a hot French chick ( sorry girls) and I was anxious to get a first picture when I woke up from my pleasant daydream [...]

I thought I would be having a quite evening but since WordPress released the new WordPress 2.5 just a few hours ago I will be updating my blogs to this new version hoping that everything will update flawlessly. The new version is considered to be a major step forward, lots of elements have changed in [...]

Grand Effect is the name of the blog network I’m in. It’s a relative small blog network compared to others that are around. We started with five sites and I’m excited that we were able to bring in another website that makes a very good fit. The website’s name is SheGeeks, a site that concentrates [...]

I thought it would be nice to lift the curtain a little bit and provide everyone with information on what’s going on behind the scenes at Ghacks hence this new column which will be published monthly from now on. I’m pretty happy with the development of the last months, heck the whole year. The subscriber rate already jumped to a solid 7000 subscribers which means we are only 3000 short of reaching the 10000 subscriber goal of this year with 9 months to go, that sounds doable, don’t you think ?

I did receive another email today asking me about my Facebook user name. I never put much thought into joining Facebook or any other hyped web community. The main reason for this was the question about the why. Why should I join Facebook ? Only to show everyone a list of my friends, to show them what I’m doing ? Will it turn out to be a “I’ve got more friends than you thing” in the end ?

I’m happy to announce that I’m still able to offer several free magazine subscriptions to you in the form of downloads. You can take a look at the main page to look through all available options or use any of the picks below. They have been handpicked by myself and are all free to subscribe to and download.

You might have noticed the survey banners in the sidebar or below posts. Those banners are from a cpm company that require at least 200 filled out surveys before they make targeted and well paying banner campaigns available for that website.

You might have noticed the bar at the top of my blog, the one that begins with Grand Effect. I was approached some time ago by Sarah if I wanted to be a co-founder of a new blog network called Grand Effect which would start with a few blogs in February. I liked the idea from the beginning and decided to join the blog network.

I’m looking for advertisers to place their banners on Ghacks and would like to give everyone the opportunity to earn some money when they refer advertisers to my website that book advertisement. The payout will be half the money for the first month which means it is a minimum amount of $150 and a maximum of $2500 depending on the ad spot sold.

Wow what a milestone. My blog finally reached 6000+ RSS readers for the first time which is an awesome milestone for me and verification of the progress of this blog in the last two years. I never thought that I would reach the 6000 users this quickly and I’m thankful for each and every user who is reading my articles in his RSS reader.

I like shoes made by Etnies who happen to have a online store where you can create your own shoe. Unfortunately though they only ship to the United States which is why I’m looking for someone who would be so kind to order a pair of custom made shoes for me and send them to my location in Germany afterwards.

I hope you all had a nice evening yesterday. I would like to take the opportunity and preview the things to come in 2008. 2007 was an astonishing year for Ghacks and I have great plans so that 2008 will exceed the last year in all terms. You can expect roughly 1500 new posts this year written by me which should keep you up to date with all the latest trends, programs, services and hacks that you can imagine.

I wish all of my readers – be they regulars or new ones – a wonderful New Year’s Eve with lots of whatever they like to do on that day. May the year 2008 be in every aspect a better year than 2007.

The next few days will not see that many updates here on my website because I will be spending most of that time with my friends and family instead. I wanted to use the opportunity to wish everyone a merry Christmas – if you don’t celebrate have some nice days.

Once in a while I do post about my blog earnings on this blog. I still do not like to post exact figures although it would give me some credibility with the blog community who seem to put those into higher regard that earn a lot of money with their blogs. Still, you would not tell someone you hardly know how much you earn in your job either, would not you ?

You might remember that I wrote about quitting my day job to become a professional blogger and Internet consultant and I would like to take the opportunity to write about the first 15 days of December which have been my first two weeks without a “backup” job.

Since today all outgoing links from commenters had the nofollow attribute attached which meant that the link was not used by search engines to determine the rank of that website. It also meant that the Pagerank was not passed to the website that was mentioned in the comments.

After working in a normal job and blogging for the last two years I decided to make the big step and quit my day job and become a full time blogger. This is actually a huge step for me but I think I know all the positive and negative aspects of the decision I made two months ago.

Hi everyone. I’m Cheryl and I’m going to be one of the guest bloggers here at Ghacks. I’m a zoologist who loves technology almost as much as I love animals. Besides my passion for animals, I’m also crazy about football (soccer, for you North American folks) and my favorite team is Arsenal. I’ve loved sports [...]

I’m happy to announce that the transfer to the new server was successful. We tried to keep the downtime to a minimum by reducing the TTL of the Nameserver to a bare minimum. Some comments have been lost, let me explain why that happened. We made a MySQL database dump on the old server and had to transfer the database to the new one and import it there.

Ghacks is running on the same dedicated server for almost two years and I decided that it is time for a change and rent a faster rootserver and move all the domains and files from the old to the new server. The old server was running on an Athlon 64 3000 with 2 Megabytes of RAM while the new server is running AMD Athlon 64 X2 5600+ Dual Core with 4 Gigabyte of RAM.

Hi everyone! My name is Daniel Pataki and I am honored and excited to be able to introduce myself as a guest poster for the awesome gHacks. I am a 22 year old hyperactive guy, who never seems to want to stop (sleep be damned!). My main interests are playing guitar and singing, I’ve been [...]

I’m currently looking for one or two guest blogger who will contribute between 22-30 articles per month to Ghacks. The articles will be published under your name and you will receive between $5-$10 per article that gets published depending on the popularity of the article.

Hello to Alexqjm, Demetri and thousand other random usernames that you like to use to post a fake comment on my website thanking me for that article using a homepage link that points to your Viagra, Cars, Russian Brides, fake Rolex watches and other bullshit that no sane person would ever buy from you.

I partnered up with Pubnet who are offering free magazine subscriptions to professionals. That’s right, if you are a professional you can subscribe to a lot of magazines, tech related and others, free of charge. Those magazines can be downloaded in digital form and some even send to your location.

Some countries on earth are trying their best to keep their citizens from accessing the Internet freely out of fear that ideas of freedom and liberty would spread like wildfire throughout the country. China, notorious for blocking websites has started to realize that its citizens were able to read all those forbidden writings by simply accessing the feeds of those websites.

I would like to start an experiment and invite my ten most read blogs to take part in it. What I want to create is a blog feed dependency list which shows the top ten read blogs of all participating blogs. I start this by pinging and notifying the ten blogs that I read the most asking them to do the same.

I finally made the switch to Wordpress 2.3 after pondering for a little while if I should upgrade this early or wait until I was sure that everything would be still working after the switch. The major problem that I saw was the new tagging system that was build into Wordpress 2.3 which was incompatible with the tagging system of the prior versions and especially with the plugin that I have been using for over a year: Simple Tagging.

What began as a blog to promote a software that a friend of mine has written turned to be into something bigger – much bigger. I never thought about the possibility to make a living from blogging in the beginning but I can tell you that much: it is possible to do that.

I have seen the topic make the Digg frontpage and I was wondering why it exactly did make it. A little bit of common sense which every webmaster should have is all that is needed to know what this new spam preparation comments are all about.

If you do run a website you might have come upon comments that are posted that contain one sentence saying something unrelated but positive about the website or webmaster. Those comments can be clearly identified as spam because they do not add to the discussion or article in any way.

The new version 2.3 of the blog script Wordpress has been released about 12 hours ago and lots of webmasters are starting to prepare their blogs to upgrade their version to the recent one. There is however one difficulty with this new release which will affect a lot of webmasters who try to upgrade their blog.

I’m looking for a handful of Internet maniacs (nerds, geeks) who would like to supply me with links to interesting websites, services, softwares on a daily basis. I’m interested in all sorts of news that can be used to write articles about, take a look around at ghacks to see the topics.

I thought it would be time for a little in between competition before the big bang competition that will be held in October. In this one everyone can participate by sending in a story. This can be anything that I would publish on Ghacks myself including: Games, Hardware, Gadgets, Software, Security, Internet, Services, DRM and entertaining stories.

I would like to begin by saying that this topic is not for slow connections. I also know that this is normally not the kind of articles that you find here at ghacks but I thought it would be nice to post some pictures that I took during my Berlin visit. Berlin is an amazing city with old and new buildings alike comparable to cities such as London, Paris and Rome but a lot cheaper than the mentioned cities.

I just wanted to let everyone know that I was born today, 33 years ago and decided to make a short trip with my family to Berlin to enjoy some wonderful days and nights in Germany’s capital. It was a wonderful time and I had the chance to discover some new great places in Berlin. The Indian restaurant at the Wilhelmsstr near the Brandenburg Gate for instance was fabulous.