Google Is Cheating You

Posted by hts | December 10, 2007 .

Google is a corporation that extended well beside their initial scope: they have a contextual advertising network, social network, email, web2.0-style services etc. Also, it is known that Google is a company with huge profits, and besides, with rapid-growth profit.
Basically, you wouldn’t expect from such a company to steal some hundreds from small bloggers. Yet, […]

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rssHugger Review

Posted by hts | December 9, 2007 .

While searching for ways to promote my blog and to increase the number of RSS subscribers, I found a post on John Chow’s blog about rssHugger
I wanted to give it a try, so here we go, this the review needed to get “in”.
What is rssHugger about? Basically, you send your blog for review and, if […]

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The New America

Posted by hts | December 8, 2007 .

I present you… The New America:

Now, after you had your laugh, read on, because, leaving aside the funny part, you should see the “not-so-funny” part of it.
You probably know that one of the symbols of America is the Statue of Liberty. It represents the basic ideas upon which America has been established: liberty, democracy, […]

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Pass the Ball

Posted by hts | December 8, 2007 .

I recently found an interesting flash app. You can “pass the ball” from hand to hand by moving your mouse. Nice to play with, in your “relaxation moments”.

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Posting Gap

Posted by hts | December 8, 2007 .

Sorry for the posting gap - I had no Internet access for 4 days, therefore I was not able to post anything. Plus, I’ve been busy with some stuff at school. Well, I’m back in business, so expect some great posts the following days. Stay tuned.

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So much creativity: IE8

Posted by hts | December 6, 2007 .

After working hard for months and months, the marketing team behind IE has finally come up with a name.
Some of the ideas they looked at were:

IE 7+1
IE VIII
IE 1000 (1000=8, binary speaking)
IE Eight!
iIE
IE for Web 2.0 (Service Pack 2)
IE Desktop Online Web Browser Live Professional Ultimate Edition for the Internet
(ouch!)
Ie2.079
(Math Edition, maybe)

but […]

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How to Support Linux

Posted by hts | December 5, 2007 .

I want to make it clear from the beginning of the post: I am not one of those Linux/M$/Apple fanboys, who is trying to promote by any means one or another OS.
I have used Linux in the past, for short periods of time and it provided a better experience than Windows XP. That’s why […]

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Google Wants to Keep Track of Your Possessions

Posted by hts | December 4, 2007 .

We already know that Big G stores a lot of info about us: browsing habits (search engine), emails (gmail), relatives/contacts (orkut), news we read (g-news) etc.
However, it seems that it is still not enough. As if indexing the world’s documents wasn’t an ambitious enough plan (if this would be Google would “take care” of…), now […]

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How to Write Diggable Headlines

Posted by hts | December 2, 2007 .

The headline of an article or blog post is your “ticket” to win the reader on your side.
It takes the average reader 2 to 5 seconds to read the headline. Therefore, do your best during this short period of time to convince the potential reader to actually read your article.
This also applies to Digg headlines. […]

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