Hintswen.com http://www.hintswen.com/blog For everything Grey Fri, 24 Oct 2008 02:13:25 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 en CAPS lock day http://www.hintswen.com/blog/2008/10/24/caps-lock-day/ http://www.hintswen.com/blog/2008/10/24/caps-lock-day/#comments Fri, 24 Oct 2008 02:13:03 +0000 Hintswen http://www.hintswen.com/blog/?p=68 It seems that every year in the leadup to caps lock day it’s all I think about. I always plan to do something for that day… and every day, just a few days after caps lock day I remember that I missed it.

Did anyone else do anything for caps lock day?

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]]> http://www.hintswen.com/blog/2008/10/10/goon-city/feed/ Can you turn it down? Please? http://www.hintswen.com/blog/2008/10/07/can-you-turn-it-down-please/ http://www.hintswen.com/blog/2008/10/07/can-you-turn-it-down-please/#comments Mon, 06 Oct 2008 21:07:21 +0000 Hintswen http://www.hintswen.com/blog/?p=53 Why is it that about half the prople that listen to music on public transport find the need to either play it on loudspeaker so everyone can hear, or play it on headphones at the highest volume so everyone can still hear anyway. Do they not realise WE DON’T LIKE THEIR STUPID RAM/HIP-HOP CRAP. YOUR MUSIC SUCKS, we’d rather not hear it.

So turn it down?

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]]> http://www.hintswen.com/blog/2008/10/07/can-you-turn-it-down-please/feed/ China filtering our skype conversations http://www.hintswen.com/blog/2008/10/03/china-filtering-our-skype-conversations/ http://www.hintswen.com/blog/2008/10/03/china-filtering-our-skype-conversations/#comments Fri, 03 Oct 2008 10:35:18 +0000 Hintswen http://www.hintswen.com/blog/?p=49 China has been monitoring and censoring messages sent through Skype.

Aparently there are thoudands of messages and recordings of conversations that have been recorded.

This might come as no surprise to you as china seems to be filtering just about everything else anyway.

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]]> http://www.hintswen.com/blog/2008/10/03/china-filtering-our-skype-conversations/feed/ Freecall, iPhone to iPhone http://www.hintswen.com/blog/2008/10/02/freecall-iphone-to-iphone/ http://www.hintswen.com/blog/2008/10/02/freecall-iphone-to-iphone/#comments Thu, 02 Oct 2008 11:46:10 +0000 Hintswen http://www.hintswen.com/blog/?p=47 There is a new program availiable for iPhone users that will allow you to make free calls to other iPhone users that also have the program. The catch? you need to have a WiFi connection wherever you are.

It’s basically Skype for the iPhone. It is currently availiable for download from the Apple Store.

]]> http://www.hintswen.com/blog/2008/10/02/freecall-iphone-to-iphone/feed/ Blog Stats: September http://www.hintswen.com/blog/2008/10/01/blog-stats-september/ http://www.hintswen.com/blog/2008/10/01/blog-stats-september/#comments Wed, 01 Oct 2008 10:24:34 +0000 Hintswen http://www.hintswen.com/blog/?p=45 Ok, so I actually checked all these stats today but whatever… they haven’t changed much anyway…

Google Pagerank: 2 (although one site did tell me it was -1)
Alexa rank: 1,076,769 (I believe this increased by a small number in the last few days although I’m not sure, I’ll have to look through my logs for when I told my friend my ranking…)
Technorati rank: 2,655,296

Google Analytics Data:
September 1 - September 30
Visits: 1,253
Pageviews: 2,069
Pages/visit: 1.65

Top 5 Content:
Format: <Pageviews> <page>
449 /blog/2008/09/07/spore-a-little-dissapointing-really/
326 /blog/2008/09/05/google-chrome-review/
232 /blog/2008/09/14/ipod-invented-by-furniture-salesman/
212 /blog/2008/09/14/spore-my-future-piece-junk/
197 /blog/

Top 5 Keywords:
Format: <Visits> <Keyword>
6 firefox 3 easter eggs
6 google chrone
6 google chrone download
5 pore dissapointment
2 chrone browser (also tie with “dissapointed with spore”, “easter eggs firefox 3″, “firefox 3 easter egg” and “firefox 3 predict url”)

Visitor Information:
Browsers:
Format: <number> <browser>
1,120 Firefox
(not providing numbers for each version because it gets a little messy)
85 Internet Explorer
26 Chrome
8 Opera
7 Mozilla

Operating Systems
Format: <number> <OS>
1,058 Windows
736 XP
306 Vista
9 Server 2003
7 2000
129 Macintosh
64 Linux
2 (not set)

Connection Speed:
Format: <number> <speed>
496 Cable
338 DSL
289 Unknown
107 T1
19 Dialup

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Just waiting for hostgator to release the details on the new plans so I can see if I should be kicking myself for not getting the cheaper plan.

]]> http://www.hintswen.com/blog/2008/09/30/hostgator-free-upgrade/feed/ Currently moving hosts http://www.hintswen.com/blog/2008/09/27/currently-moving-hosts/ http://www.hintswen.com/blog/2008/09/27/currently-moving-hosts/#comments Sat, 27 Sep 2008 01:20:11 +0000 Hintswen http://www.hintswen.com/blog/?p=38 So i’m switching to HostGator (and seem to have lost a domain in the process). There will be some downtime on my sites so sorry about that but you’ll live =P

Oh, and I got this email from google… aparently my website is under construction… so on my homepage i’ve written a nice big message to them. (My actual homepage not my blog homepage)

]]> http://www.hintswen.com/blog/2008/09/27/currently-moving-hosts/feed/ Where are the web hosts that DON’T suck? http://www.hintswen.com/blog/2008/09/16/where-are-the-web-hosts-that-dont-suck/ http://www.hintswen.com/blog/2008/09/16/where-are-the-web-hosts-that-dont-suck/#comments Tue, 16 Sep 2008 02:38:54 +0000 Hintswen http://www.hintswen.com/blog/?p=33 I’ve been with netfirms for awhile now and I’ve hated it. most of the time theya re giving me problems.

A site I made and hosted on my account was causing all my sites to go down because of some stupid limit to 10 SQL connections at any time, or something to do with CPU usage, so for about 2 days all my sites were down untill I fixed it.

2 days ago all my sites went down for a little while because I had more than 1 people on my site at the same time, I couldn’t get to PHPMyAdmin because of this.

Another script I was going to use didn’t work at all, it always gave me errors or made all my sites go down for a coupple of hours. It wasn’t the script’s fault, I know of alot of sites running that esact same script and it works fine, but with netfirms it doesn’t. Ofcorse, to them it’s all my fault. My script must contain some bugs or something… even though it works fine for everyone with other hosting companies.

My netfirms account is supposed to give me 250GB space, 2TB bandwidth 30 MySQL databases, but out of that what’s usable? Especially since files bigger than 5MB download slowly (I haven’t actually tested this because I don’t have many files bigger than 5MB on any of my sites)

My netfirms hosting runs out in under 10 days, I’ve probably left it a bit too late but I’m not looking for a host to switch to. It seems like I can’t find anything good though. I’ve seen a few people recomending 1and1 but that would cost me way too much. According to netfirms I’m using 453MB of space (yet after I downloaded all my stuff I only had 186MB… I’m guessing my backup got screwed) and about 500MB bandwidth. I’m also using 7 MySQL databases and my Email isn’t with netfirms.

If I switch to 1and1 I have to go for their “Home” plan or higher… their home plan would cost me $12/month, that’s the same as the netfirms plan I’m on but I’m looking for something cheaper if possible.

I saw some people recomending dreamhost, I went to the site and saw $5.95/month and it looked perfect for me… untill i got to the bottom of the page. “* $5.95 paid 10 years in advance. $10.95/mo monthly, $9.95/mo for 1 year, $8.95/mo for 2 years, $7.95/mo for 3 years, $6.95/mo for 5 years. $49.95 set up fee if you pay monthly.” Who would pay for 10 years in advance? I only want to pay for 1 year in advance, long contracts suck. That means I would be paying the same ammount as I am for netfirms for a host that has 77,000 results for “dreamhost sucks” on google.

I have used freehostia before, I find them fast and reliable, Maybe I should go with 1 of their paid packages? It means I have to go for the “Advanced” plan, because I need to host 5 domains and about 40 subdomains (now that I checked that seems like HEAPS) I would only get 6 MySQL databases though, I was using 13 but I’m not using 7… off by 1 which means I need the “Xtra” package then unless I combine some of my databases. They also have a limit of databases size… a few of my databases are quite large so I wouldn’t want to go with them incase I reach the limit.

Anyone got any suggestions? I’m running out of time.

]]> http://www.hintswen.com/blog/2008/09/16/where-are-the-web-hosts-that-dont-suck/feed/ Goofblogger’s Contest http://www.hintswen.com/blog/2008/09/15/goofblogger%e2%80%99s-contest/ http://www.hintswen.com/blog/2008/09/15/goofblogger%e2%80%99s-contest/#comments Mon, 15 Sep 2008 13:23:20 +0000 Hintswen http://www.hintswen.com/blog/?p=31 Goofblogger is giving away cash again on his make money ideas blog. So go on over there and check it out!

First Prize : $20 by paypal
Second Prize : $15 by paypal
Third Prize : $10 by paypal

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