In the Year 2010...

I like statistics and start of new year always brings opportunity to summarize previous one. :)

There were 132 new posts for year 2010 and around 40% were about programming. Next 30% were about virtualization, SQL and general IT topics. Rest of posts were either me presenting new versions of my programs (MagiWOL, QText and VHD Attach) or being annoyed over something.

Total number of page views was around 65,000 which is quite an improvement over 20,000 that was for last year. Total number of visits that I saw was around 54,000. Search engines still bring me around 75% of traffic with Google as a clear winner (over 70%). U.S. visitors are strong at 30% with all other countries bringing less than 10% to the table. My own country (Croatia) is not even within first 10.

Internet Explorer is winner with 39% (same as last year) with Firefox being close second with 35% (43% last year). My personal favorite Chrome is at 19% (from 10% last year). 95% of my visitors are running Windows (62% being Windows 7).

Judging by the number of visits, most interesting posts for last year were instructions on screen replacement for HTC S740 and setting up debugging on HTC Desire.

Year 2010 was also last one on Blogger platform. This post starts new era of self-hosted WordPress. Let’s see what else this year brings us.

New Home Page

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From my very first home page somewhere in 1994 to my current one (that is, until yesterday) I always did every aspect of design myself. My home was always handcrafted.

Last big update I did in year 2006. Then I made .NET based solution that enabled me to ease my way into updating content. Every year from then I started new design and then abandoned it because lack of time.

In meantime I started writing blog on blogger.com and using it’s infrastructure and I was annoyed. Part was because blogger.com lacks some basic functionality and part was because I could not change anything in it’s code.

Next year will be different. I finally got off my ass and did some WordPress investigations. Before I knew it, WordPress was already running on my test domain and it took only one day for it to move to my main domain. In next few days I will also migrate my blog.

It was an impulse decision to do this so do expect some down time while I get to know the platform.

QText 2.32

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New version is here.

This is just maintenance release with some bug-fixing. Major fix is speeding up of QText closing on some systems.

This will be last version for at least few months. Enjoy it. :)

Download:

Too Aggressive for My Taste

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Last night I had some videos to encode. I prepared everything upfront and I left my computer to do work overnight. At morning I was greeted with logon screen. My Windows decided to install updates. It didn’t matter to them that some other program was running. Kill and burn was their motto.

Yes, I know that I can turn on “Download updates but let me choose whether to install them”. However, when I do that, Action center starts complaining about non-optimal settings. If I turn this warning off, I just turned off all messages regarding Windows Update. If I leave it on, it leaves tray icon and I may miss other important messages.

There is just no right solution for this and it annoys me quite a bit…

P.S. I know that tray area is called notification area these days. I just prefer old naming.