Happy tenth anniversary!

Today happens to be exactly 10 years since I started this blog. It has fallen by the wayside somewhat, but suffice to say this was probably at the end of a series of blog efforts - and this one has persisted. It has also lead to side blogs having being developed and regardless of its form, stature or prowess, also forms the lynch pin of all those other efforts. So without much further ado here are some notable highlights:

First post on this blog

July 12th, 2007 set out with a minimal of preambles, tenuous of mission statements, some of it adhered to but without a goal regardless of how vague it may be, where does it lead?

Crossing 10,000 hits

When the blog first passed the triple digit mark

First youtube video post

First video, that was posted on youtube and on this blog that is

Top 10 posts by hits

These are a list of posts which had the highest number of hits throughout the entirety of the blog.

1. How to save battery drain on Vodafone Smart 858
2. Update - How to save battery drain on Vodafone Smart 858
3. Wireless Keyboard and Mouse - PCLINE PCL - WOD1
4. Fare thee well, aul buddy
5. More JavaScript, and then some
6. One Plus One - The flagship killer
7. Wireless Keyboard and Mouse
8. Hurdles for Google+
9. Black EVA travel hard case for Amazon Kindle 3
10. Amazon Kindle 3 unpacking

All time page views

Pageviews all time history

23,436

Pageviews by Country

United States	6964
Russia	3158
Ireland	2232
United Kingdom	1410
Ukraine	1155
France	875
Germany	430
Poland	342
New Zealand	289
Turkey	219

Pageviews by Browsers

Internet Explorer	7260 (31%)
Chrome	6650 (28%)
Firefox	6392 (27%)
Safari	1480 (6%)
Opera	900 (3%)
Mobile Safari	441 (1%)
Mobile	26 (< 1%)
BingPreview	20 (< 1%)
GSA	16 (< 1%)
Java	15 (< 1%)

Pageviews by OS

Windows	16457 (71%)
Macintosh	2507 (10%)
Linux	2035 (8%)
iPhone	791 (3%)
Android	766 (3%)
Other Unix	196 (< 1%)
iPad	104 (< 1%)
Unix	37 (< 1%)
iPod	37 (< 1%)
BlackBerry	17 (< 1%)

Blogging Tools

Image via CrunchBase

I’ve come to use a few tools when it comes to the task of blogging. It’s not usually hard to find information online when it comes to most anything but one thing that happens is loss of focus when dealing with the topic you might be free-writing or incubating. 

There are a plethora of tool available as add-ons for firefox that enable many features. The problem is just that, there are countless add-ons. Finding one that adds just the right type of functionality  to improve productivity or increase information or aesthetics without overwhelming features or crowding is crucial for me.

With that in mind Zemanta, is such a tool that helps to add a bit of colour to any blog. It scours sources of images which are usually available freely without licensing issues to insert into your blog. This is done on the fly and presents images in relation to the content being typed. Another feature is text links which you can select as well as tags based on content. Usually the links are a bit too much, highlighting almost every other word which Zemanta deems pertinent. Otherwise it offers a very simple system to link to other sources that might be of interest.

It is available for blogs as well as email and I’ve only used it on Firefox but it’s available on other browsers as well.

disclaimer: previously posted on my other blog.

New Blog

As I previously blogged a while back I've decided to start a blog on techie stuff so this is my first post on said site:

"After what seems the 10th or so blog, here's one where I will be dedicating to posts about: technologies, productivity, software, coding and the like. For the lack of a better name I shall call it 'd O N Y' my signature mark until a more suitable one can be thought of."

It shall be up and running shortly and should have content coming up a regular intervals. (fingers crossed) http://donyd.wordpress.com/