Justin Germino I had an email from Google that they had pre-selected a custom URI for my profile and I was quick to accept it. My custom Google+ profile URL no longer contains that long crazy number string and Google Plus was far behind other services in letting you hand out a simplified profile URL you can just share with your friends that had your name or brand in the URL itself. (LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter and just … Read more
Here at DragonBlogger.com we have partnered up with Zyma Technologies to bring our readers a chance to win a free 1 year unlimited web hosting plan. This unlimited web hosting plan includes: Unlimited disk space Unlimited bandwidth Unlimited email accounts Unlimited SQL Databases Unlimited FTP Accounts Free transfer from existing account (and assistance) Free tech support CPanel Web Hosting and Free Google Vouchers If you are looking for another hosting provider, or currently running a … Read more
I have since switched my email subscriber list from MailChimp to SimplyCast and really like that SimplyCast has a free epic plan which lets you send unlimited emails per month to up to 2,000 subscribers of your mailing list. This is actually more than MailChimp which only lets you send 2,000 emails per month period, as you can send any number to the same set # of subscribers until you get over 2,000 subscribers. In … Read more
We have partnered with our friends over at FilmBook to give readers a chance to win a free copy of The Hunger Games on Blu-Ray. I thought the movie was very well done and saw it in theaters though I hadn’t read the books myself. We did a review of The Hunger Games here on DragonBlogger.com back when it came out in theaters. Contest Rules: All entries must be in by October 21, 2012 at 11:45pm … Read more
After reading about @ileane having her blog iframed by other blogs which can lead to not only your content being read and used on another site, but your Google banner ads displayed on another site and a violation of AdSense ToS which does not allow AdSense ads to be displayed via an iFrame. This could risk in an account ban. So I decided to test out the WP No Frames plugin after I saw it … Read more
How often do you check your Google Analytics for your blog to see what percentage of your users come from a mobile browser, compared to standard desktop browser? Have you started putting in a mobile theme yet or started on a plan to appeal to your mobile readers/customers? You have even more limited real estate on a mobile browser screen, so it is imperative that your mobile theme be optimized for the mobile experience. In … Read more
Guild Wars 2 which is set to release on August 28th by NCSoft (get access 3 days early if you pre-order on Amazon.com) showcases a handful of playable races to add some diversity from the human driven campaigns of the original Guild Wars game and expansion packs. These races add their own distinctive stories, quests and choices to the mix and make the replay-ability factor very high for Guild Wars 2. So here is a … Read more
I have been an Amazon Prime customer for over a year now and enjoy not only the free 2 day shipping benefits, but I also like the streaming video options while not as full as Netflix they do offer some variety and a few movies that you won’t find on Netflix. So when I saw the Amazon Instant Video app is released for the iPad and now lets you select any of the catalog of … Read more
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In the later versions of Google Chrome HTTP Pipelining which was available in Firefox and Opera for a long time was finally made available. HTTP Pipelining allows the Chrome browser to open multiple threads to call and load web page resources at the same time in parallel instead of sequentially which can speed up website load times when visiting websites online. Update: This article is pretty much useless at this time as Chrome has … Read more
I finally broke down and purchased my 4th Roku device about a week ago and this time I got a Roku 2 XS as I needed the USB slot which the lower end models do not have. For the same price that the Roku XD used to be you get a much more functional device with the Roku 2 XS and even though I have seen and read reports that they may be slower, I … Read more
If you have a decent video card in your system you may be able to get improved performance from Google Chrome simply by adjusting the GPU compositing setting in Google Chrome. This setting is easy to experiment with and the worst it can do is cause Chome to be slower and you can just undo it. The first thing you want to do is go to your flags, type chrome://flags and be careful what settings … Read more
It didn’t take much longer than 2 weeks to break the 6,000 entry mark in the Xbox 360 or PlayStation 3 Giveaway contest, which puts it so far on track to do at least equal if not maybe exceeding the iPad 3 Giveaway contest I held back in May 2012 on DragonBlogger.com. This contest was to appeal to my rapidly growing gaming audience and more gaming writers have signed up for the site recently as … Read more
Repair or reset Internet Explorer 9 in Windows 7 with these easy steps that you can do with Internet Explorer itself.
MailChimp account deactivated can happen without warning and you will be banned from MailChimp losing valuable subscribers instantly.
Configuring and using MaxBlogPress Bring My Visitors Back to help protect your RSS content from being stolen without permission and add social sharing.
I have seen and learned about the WP Filter Post Category which has the neat capability of restricting which category of posts can show up in your homepage “while_post” loop call. This is ideal for blogs where you may not want to have a certain category show up on your homepage main content area because you have a separate featured article section. This plugin is mostly for themes that don’t support the functionality to separate … Read more
Tutorial introduction video of The Secret World where you learn how to fight and move around in a scary underground train station.
DragonBlogger.com is looking for writers to join the team which will be a way for writers to earn some money while contributing to this site.
I started doing contests for real with Rafflecopter in 4Q 2011 and have become so hooked on giving away gadgets, software, games and other cool prizes to dragonblogger.com readers and fans that I am constantly thinking of what to give away next. It all happened when I gave away the first Kindle Fire, the appreciation and interest in the contestants and how much they were thankful for the chance to win, the gratitude of the … Read more