Another month has passed and it is time to look back at the top stories that we have published here on Ghacks Technology News in November 2011. A lot has happened in that month. Google has added pages to their social networking service Google+, called Google+ Pages, and Ghacks has its own. Feel free to [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
- Comments: 36
The Ghacks Christmas Giveaway 2011 Starts Tomorrow!
The 4th annual Ghacks Christmas Giveaway starts tomorrow. I did not reveal the products that you could win in previous years. This year, it is going to change to give you enough time to participate in the giveaways that you are really interested in. Today, I’m going to post general rules about the giveaway as [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
- Comments: 25
Google+ Pages Announced, Ghacks Has Its Own, Help Promote, Please
Social media signals have become more important in recent years for websites. Search engines use the noise created on social networking sites such as Facebook, Twitter or Google+ in their algorithms. I’m not really a fan of fan pages and all that kind of stuff that goes along with it. The core reason here is [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
- Comments: 4
Ghacks October 2011 Best Of
Another month has passed rather quickly. Below you find a personal selection of articles, reviews and tutorials that have been published on Ghacks Technology News in October 2011. We had some announcements of our own to share in October. Ghacks turned six in the month, and in that time span we have been published more [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
- Comments: 71
Announcing the 4th Annual Ghacks Christmas Giveaway
When I first started the Christmas Giveaway back in 2008 I did not really think that it would become an annual event, nor that other sites would pick up the idea and run their own giveaways at that time of the year. The Ghacks Christmas Giveaway is an event taking place from December 1 to [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
- Comments: 135
Comments, Please
Recently I asked myself a question: How come that some blogs, like Lifehacker, ZDnet and other technology blogs get dozens of comments per post, while comments on other sites that I hold even dearer are close to zero. Some articles here on Ghacks for instance receive dozens of comments. A lot of the giveaway (which [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
- Comments: 95
Ghacks Turns Six Today, Lets Celebrate
When I first started the Ghacks Technology News blog back in October of 2005, I did not really have any expectations whatsoever. If it would be there after a year, that would be fine. If not, nothing was lost. I also did not really think about making money with the site, or even -gasp- quit [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
- Comments: None
Ghacks September 2011 Best Of
The months are flying by, it seems. September 2011 has been an exciting month. Microsoft released a developer preview of their upcoming operating system Windows 8. I have added a Windows 8 category in this roundup so that you can read up in case you missed the launch hype. Coverage will slow down now until [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
- Comments: 12
Ask The Readers: Mobile Access, Smartphone Coverage
With mobile access to Ghacks reaching new heights every month, I’d like to use this Ask The Readers post to get your opinion on a few things that I have been pondering about for a couple of months. First issue that I would like to throw into the room is mobile access to Ghacks. There [...]
