Track your Readers!

This post was guest blogged by Simon Koldyk of ScribbleWiki

If your running any sort of website you most likely have some sort of stats (if you don’t have one check out Google Analytics, its free!).  On a blog you have a RSS feed; but, you don’t know who is looking at that or who has that in their feed reader.

Enter Feedburner, which was bought by Google last year.  You can go to Feedburner.com put in your feed, it spits out a new feed for you and then you just take a Wordpress plugin (or whatever your blog software is) and plug that in.  Done.

Feedburner will give you a couple of things, in the first 24 hours it will just give you some live stats it is keeping.

Then after the 24 hours it will start giving you a feed count which is the amount of users that checked your feed in the last 24 hours whether you posted anything or not (RSS Readers check several times a day; but, will only count as one person).

You can then log-in to FeedBurner.com and click on the publicize tab and put a Feed Counter on your website.

This is good for showing off your readers and is really good for selling to advertisers.

Also, Feedburner since its owned by Google is already plugged in with Google Adsense so you can just put your Adsense publisher ID in and have it show Google Ads in your feed.

By Simon Koldyk in: Freelancing   -  Tags:

Battlefield 2142 Mac 1.50 Patch Released!

Update: You can download the patch via my server here: http://www.stupidsucks.com/downloads/public/Battlefield2142-485and941A-to-1512.zip

Yes, I am a mac “gamer”. Two words that don’t belong in the same sentence. I’m not really a big gamer (I used to be) since I usually just work all the time now BUT for quite awhile I’ve been waiting on EA to release the 1.50 Patch for Battlefield 2142 for Mac users.

EA is terrible about supporting their Mac gamers. Everything comes WAY WAY later for Mac than for the PC guys. But, I guess you can’t blame them. The Mac guys are definitely the minority, lol. Anyway, the patch has finally been released! I’m downloading it now but it is going slow as heck so once I get it downloaded, I’ll upload to my server and post a link here for others to download it faster (who likes waiting an hour for a download? Not me.. ).

By Jarel in: Software   -  Tags: , , , , ,