CyberKnowledge Freebie: Anycom Bluetooth Headset
To get some input on the site, and because of the holidays I will be giving away a series of things this month. To start off with is this brand new Anycom HS-890 Bluetooth Headset. Retailing at approximately $50, it comes with the headset itself, the charger, a car charger, and a USB cord.
The contest is open to people in the United States and Canada only, unless you want to pay shipping. If you’d like to pay shipping, please only use Paypal. The headset will be shipped via USPS, at its standard shipping time.
How do you get it you ask? Simply leave a comment on this post. In the comment please include how you found my site, and two things you’d like improved about the site. Next week Tuesday, a winner’s comment number will randomly be drawn, and they will be emailed. Please use your real email when you comment.
If I recall I think I found your site through a comment that you have left on my site? I could be wrong about that but I have followed your feed ever since.
Hmmm…two things that you could fix…I am having a hard time thinking about some.
1) Maybe put some sort of text in that green star in the upper-right corner. It looks like it should say “beta” or something along those lines.
2) It might look a little better if the blue you picked for the color scheme was a little darker. On my desktop LCD it almost looks like a neon blue (which is a little bright) but on my laptop it looks like a normal blue.
Keep up the great site!
I found your site via some trackbacks from TechEBlog I think. Don’t really need the headset, though.
Improvements:
a more consistent posting schedule. Once a day or 10 a day or whatever would make it nice.
An email link function so I can pass on stories without copying and pasting a URL would be great, too.
I found your site from a link on this site: dumblittle...index.html
Two improvements?
1.) Proper spelling, sentence structure and less typos - the typos and such I’ve noticed so far really detract from the good information you provide.
2.) More consistent and regular updates.
I found you site when I brought the domain for you, back in the day.
Two improvements?
1. More frequent news updates, maybe a little more interactive with the viewers.
2. Change website layout and make it more appealing to me. It seems plain and could do with a nice make over.
Hello, I found your site from an article that was posted on digg.com.
I think your site has some clever insights, but before you post something you should spell/grammar check it, and have a friend or family member proof read it.
Secondly, I’m not a fan of the color scheme. That of course is my own personal opinion, but the light blue is a bit distracting while trying to read the articles.
And just so you don’t think I’m nit-picking, I think the site is well laid out and the articles are quite interesting.
Thank you!
Greetings! I found your site due to a Digg link to your article on Text-to-MP3. I like your choice of articles, they are a bit different than usual and offer a useful angle. For example, I will be trying out the MP3 producer at my job to see if it’s a realistic addition to the graduate program I currently build and maintain. I’d like to see more of our offerings have an MP3 version for downloading and listening on a player. I can see where this might be great for some students to be able to take their work with them on the road.
I really like how your site has a floating width! It’s a pet peeve that so many blogs don’t do this. Thanks!
Improvements to the site:
1) the blue color of your titles doesn’t stand out enough. I like the blue color you have chosen for your site, however the blue titles are too light.
2)Your title “tech reads” leaves much to be desired. A little more creativity here would be great!
Found your site through you, I believe we all came together through UA-Security?
1.) Unicode issues? Referring to cyber-know...e-failure/ - The apostrophes are turning into a series of characters.
2.) Highlight/bold key parts of blog posts. Currently there’s not much of a “wall of text” issue, but it’d help with skimming.
Live long!
~Davus
I found you through some NewsFire pre-built feeds. Just exploring found this interesting place… .
The sites not bad. You could make the center column more visible as the center of attention by making the side-bars a bit darker. Or add thin borders to the main body part to set it off from the sides… .
I originaly found your website in an email with a list of technology blogs. I finaly visited today because of a link on digg.com News section.
Two suggestions for your website:
1) Make your images and screenshots able to scale to the web browser. I am using firefox, and a large screen, although the images seem to extend more than the middle columb.
Example from a resent blog:
cyber-know...3mymp3.png
Solution:
I quickly looked at your source, and my suggestion is instead of using DIVs, make CELLs. That way your artwork can act indepenently of your pre-defined website structure.
2) Use Italics when refering to a product or nameing something a reader may not initialy know of. This will give you articles more flow. Doing so will allow better skimming for names or words a reader may want to remember or put into a search engine.
I do like the layout, and the colour… especialy the change in colour from post to post. Good job with you site!
I found your site through digg.com
1) The font color you use (the blue) is hard on the eyes.
2) Spelling/grammar issues. They take quite a bit away from your good content.
I found your site on Digg.com, I like the simple design but I’d like to see a better print friendly template and an email article feature.
Hello-
I found your site through the Digg story as well. Nothing like a Digg story to get some traffic moving!
A couple very minor things to improve:
1) In the original post I read, all of the “‘” (apostrophe) characters are displayed in my browser as “’”. I am using Firefox 2.0 on Windows XP Pro SP2. Not sure how to fix this but I’m sure Google would provide the answer.
2) I found it a little annoying that when I rolled over the heading links on the right hand column (Archive, Tags, etc), you have the CSS set up to put a dashed line underneath the div tag. This is a cool effect but in my browser everything got moved down by the height of the line (very slightly). Just a minor thing but I have seen this same effect accomplished on other sites without bumping all of the content below.
Other than those issues (which are very picky) I think you have a great site here!
Thanks,
Paul
Saw your site linked off Digg.com, very nice.
Hey,
I found your site through google looking at skype related articles. I searched ’skype’ and ‘landline’.
Anyways, you have some very nice posts here.
My comments on the site are:
1. Get rid of the ‘related posts’ bit under each post. Very distracting I find. Perhaps add it when you click through on the post but not on the front page.
2. And yeah, as mentioned above, spelling and grammar are important. Try and keep the errors to a minimum!
Regards,
Stijn.
Hey!
I’ve known your site for a while now, from Dave’s blog and IRC (gogogo!)
1. A different theme, I don’t really like this one
2. Tech Reads? Heh. Maybe a different name? :P
Found the site using the StumbleUpon Firefox plugin on the “MPAA Is Helping Their Users Pirate Movies” article.
Improvements?
1.) I think the general layout is fine, but the color scheme could be somewhat darker (maybe darker blue like at the very top?), or possibly find another way to better define the colums / sections.
2.) This one is real picky but the tabs ‘Home, Send A Tip, Contact, and About’ are nearly indisdinguishable.
All in all, a great site.
I found your site from the link on digg and have bookmarked it. I like your variety of articles from how tos to commentary type articles. The site design is fine with me clean and unobtrusive.
Thanks I’ll be back soon.
I ventured to your site after seeing it on multiple social bookmark websites. Such as: Digg, Reddit, and Slashdot.
A couple of things to improve upon would be your posts. It might help if you set a periodic schedule, say once every two days. This way you have new content for your viewers, such as myself, to read.
Another suggestion would be rotating layouts. This is just my personal opinion, but seeing the same layout day after day gets slightly dull. It would be spectacular to see a layout change every couple weeks or month.
That’s all, I hope you all had a great Christmas.
I used a random number generator to pick three numbers out of all the comment numbers. The numbers were as follows:
16, 8, 13. Which makes “TripleGolds” the winner.
Number generator can be found here.
Thanks again, this is a great gift.
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Yup no problem. I will ship tomorrow along with something I sold on ebay. I live in Illinois, so it might get there in a day or so. For everyone else, stick around I might be giving away an old P4 computer =)
Thanks for implementing some of the suggested changes (like mine)!
Keep up the good work.