Having always been a fan of point-and-click games such as the Sam & Max series of games made by Telltale Games, Falchion Games provides that itch of wanting to play those type of games with their new game “Go to Hell Dave.” I spoke with Lead Designer Alex “North” Byrom about this game a month ago and I was told that this game is going to appeal to those who enjoy a good comedy … Read more
If you are using Posterous you surely must realize that Posterous is shutting down on April 30th 2013 which is only just a few short weeks away. The good news is you don’t have to lose your Posterous blog, Bluehost created a WordPress plugin that will allow you to export your Posterous blog and import it into your Bluehost WordPress blog. Step 1: Backup Posterous Log into Posterous Click Backup Click Request Backup Enter the … Read more
Welcome back to another episode of Dragon Blogger’s very own Dragoncast! It’s been awhile but we are finally back on the air. On this episode we come back with an all new format where The Dragoncast is going to be your source of all things nerd, but don’t fear! We will continue to provide news and discussion about tech based products and much, much more. Last Sunday was the season 3 finale of AMC’s The … Read more
I am one of those bloggers who rarely pay for plugins or themes unless there is no free plugins out there that can achieve the same features and functionality. I would even combine 2 or 3 plugins to achieve the same functionality but when a premium plugin comes along and has the functionality of 5,6 or 7 free plugins then it is something I think worth taking a seriously good look at. SEOPressor V5 was … Read more
Let’s say you have a few images on your site that you want in articles, but don’t want to show up in Google Image search. There are a few steps you should follow to remove images from Google Search one that makes an immediate removal request and the other which permanently makes it so the image won’t be indexed and show up on Google Image Search. To remove an image from Google Search this actually … Read more
Are you currently looking for one of the best and newest monitors on the market? Look no further. This is the HP Envy 27. Released in February of this year and shown at this year’s Consumer Electronics Show. The HP Envy 27 is the newest monitor to come from HP. I’m here to tell you exactly why this monitor is one that you will definitely enjoy and not regret purchasing. From the moment you … Read more
Got bored of Facebook’s timeline visual? Here’s something new which will be introduced very soon. Facebook always tried to give new features to their users whether they wanted them or not, and the biggest social networking site Facebook is currently rolling out new changes for the users once again. This feature which already exists for some users includes a reply button on comments, and news feed features. News Feed: A few weeks ago Facebook announced that they were bringing a new … Read more
A VPS is a virtual private server with root access on which you can run any OS of your choice at time of purchase and setup. This means that you can run a web server, a mail server, a private proxy or anything you want on that OS too. You will have a virtual container running in a data center and you can run any applications you want on it for the most part. What … Read more
Recent updates to the BlogsVertise platform should have bloggers considering using it as a banner advertisement system, especially if their blogs are not yet approved for BuySellAds there is a good chance you can get approved for BlogsVertise. The reason is that BlogsVertise can sell ad slots (currently limited to 300×250 or 125×125 only) for the price that you set, but also you can have filler ads that offer you a set cost per action … Read more
It just happened to be coincidence that I ordered my original Dragon Blogger T-Shirt through VistaPrint and my image had some glossy issues on the back of the shirt. The site is going through a re-design soon and there will be a new logo, so I wasn’t sure if I should go ahead and touch up existing ones and order or make Dragon Blogger shirts available now or if I should wait until the new … Read more
In my Make Money Online page I focused on programs that specifically pay bloggers to write sponsored reviews, do promotions on Social Media and covered the CPA/CPC programs like AdSense, Chitika, Kontera, Infolinks and more. I only briefly touched on programs that help you earn money by hosting video content, and I wanted to showcase some of the ones I have tested over the years and which ones I still currently use occasionally. One note, … Read more
After troubleshooting for several hours earlier today I was getting 500 errors when trying to publish to my WordPress blog via Live Writer or Word 2010. Would get a standard WordPress xmlrpc 500 error trying to hit xmlrpc.php but the thing was I can hit the page directly and it was working for my other blogs which were upgraded to WordPress 3.5.1 the same day. Naturally whenever you are troubleshooting a WordPress problem the first … Read more
On this episode of The Dragoncast we welcome back Dragonblogger’s very own Victor Salazar to discuss with Brian and Bryce their favorite movies and games from 2012 as well as some of the movies, games and other awesome forms of technology to look forward to in 2013. Also we would like our listeners to give us some feedback and let us know what your favorite movies, games or anything else you really enjoyed from 2012 … Read more
I have had most of my blogs protected by Incapsula for the past several weeks and have seen improvement in both performance, reduced downtime and benefited from the increased security of using Incapsula to protect my sites over the past few weeks. What is Incapsula Incapsula is a web application firewall, CDN and website optimizer all rolled into one package. It is a cloud based service that sits in front of your websites or blogs, … Read more
Hey there! Who here is a blogger? I know I am! Once you have gotten the blogging bug, it can become quite difficult to stop writing. It doesn’t matter whether you have a personal blog or a blog focusing on a particular topic, somewhere out there, there is an audience for you. You know what else is out there for you? Earning opportunities. If you are fortunate enough to be contacted for a sponsored post, … Read more
In this weeks episode of The Dragoncast the guys discuss Batman and since the new Christopher Nolan Batman trilogy has been released Brian, Bryce and Andrew talk about each of the films (WARNING there are some movie spoilers!) and even rate them from best to worst, but let’s be honest here all of the movies were great…right? Also Andrew and Brian give a review of the newly released game in the Far Cry series “Far … Read more
Wordpress 3.5 updates the media editor making it easier to add media to your Wordpress blog posts and set featured image.
I started using Author hReview on all of my primary blogs and updating some of my review articles to leverage the features of Author hReview which is a fantastic plugin written by Hesham Zebida. Author hReview allows you to add review info boxes at the top and optionally at the bottom of your posts as well as add the appropriate microdata so that the star rating you apply for the product or service you reviewed … Read more
Attractive and high quality images draw attention, people are more like to be engaged and drawn in if they first see something visually appealing this is why services like Pinterest, Instagram are so popular. So if you haven’t been using high quality images or stock photography for your blogs yet then you are missing out on an important method to keep readers on the page and entice them to stay if they visit from a … Read more
I have been growing my Amazon affiliate sales recently by using Azon brand of plugins and with the release of SimpleAzon I have rebranded it to offer it to fellow WordPress bloggers so they can get all of the benefits of SimpleAzon for a fraction of the price. AzonPostImages is my branded version of SimpleAzon, it is the same exact plugin and is just branded for my site and readers. Therefore any information you read … Read more