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iPhone Home button stopped working – a workaround
A couple of weeks ago, a terrible thing happened to my favourite gadget. Yes, I dropped my iPhone in a sink full of water. Initially all looked fine and it worked as normal. However, the next morning the water that had penetrated the phone started to corrode its components and the Home button stopped working. … Continue reading
Trialing Adsense between post and comments
As regular readers will know I’ve been running an ad trial on the site to learn more about ad placement with a view to sharing the knowledge on here and with colleagues. Having completed a short test of Google Adsense Link Units vs Ad Units, I’m going to follow up with one of the questions … Continue reading
Google Adsense trial
In a post last year, I explained that I was looking to run an ad trial on the site to test ad optimisation service Pubmatic as a way to test it for some much larger sites. That test is now over, partly as this site doesn’t really get the traffic to provide precise enough data, … Continue reading
Improving your bounce rate
Back in November, I started an experiment to improve the bounce rate on the blog through the related-posts plugin in WordPress. As below, this typically displays three related posts based on tag, category, body and title. I’ve been monitoring the changes in the bounce rate each month since the plugin was activated with encouraging results. … Continue reading
Spotify mobile
Among the increasing number of ways to stream music legally (imeem, last.fm, youtube…), one service that has caught my eye is Spotify. At present a desktop application with ambitions to go multi-media, the service provides ad-supported (or ad-free for £9.99/month) European access to streamed versions from all the major music labels. It’s iTunes-inspired interface is … Continue reading
Google Chrome not yet world-beta
My post on the launch of Google Chrome was one of the top 10 posts of 2008, so I should follow up now Chrome is out of beta. There remains much to admire, but still much to come until this gets nearer to replacing my current browser choices. The biggest of all remains the lack … Continue reading
URLOpener opens multiple browser tabs
In my role I give a lot of presentations which involve demoing multiple sites in a browser. To have all the URLs preloaded when I start the presentation, I’ve experimented with a number of tools: 1. Firefox session manager (works fine, but fiddly to transfer between PCs) 2. Firefox portable (fiddly and unreliable in our … Continue reading
Displaying related posts in WordPress
In an attempt to improve the bounce rate on the blog, I’ve finally added a related posts plugin which exactly what it says on the tin. After some experimentation with the WordPress plugins, I settled on the amusingly named ‘Yet another Related Posts Plugin‘ which is anything but yet another plugin. With a simple install … Continue reading
Random comments award
Something strange is happening on one of my archived posts, Pimp my blog. The majority of non-spam comments that I get on the site are relevant and informative, but for reasons unexplained that post has now attracted a request for help with SQL, a test message, a joke, a business article and even a comment … Continue reading
Wii want cricket
Although I’ve long had access to one, I’ve borrowed a Wii for a long overdue extended trial of the console and am working my way through the various Wii Sports games that came with it. After initially being underwhelmed by the graphics and simplicity of the gaming, I’ve started to be pulled in by the … Continue reading
