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Unable to view my apps in Google Play

While I’m trying to identify the culprit causing spam ads in my notification bar, I now have a new problem.  Since I couldn’t easily identify the app causing the trouble, I started with uninstalling an app for Chess.com.  Now, whenever I go into the android marketplace and click on “My Apps” I get an option for “Force Close” or “Send Report” with the message: Sorry! The application Market (process com.android.vending)… Read More »Unable to view my apps in Google Play

I hate android notifications that I didn’t ask for

I’m pissed. Not sure why an ad showed yup in my notification bar asking “see if someone is spying on you” or something like that. I noticed the link was for an affiliate marketing company called Deadbolt.  I haven’t found an easy way to see which app is using them. There is another company called airpush and there is an app to detect airpush in your apps.  I didn’t have… Read More »I hate android notifications that I didn’t ask for

Autocomplete that people just have to click

I had another new traffic record yesterday.  92% of the traffic was related to people searching on the topic of the google trend weirdness post I wrote. I’m really curious how much of this traffic is from bots trying to alter the Google autosuggestion feature, how much is from people wanting to know why this happens, and how much is from people hoping to find out disgusting stories. At least… Read More »Autocomplete that people just have to click

Typing this with my voice

I just got a new phone – the Motorola XPRT.  I finally had to get rid of my HTC Touch Pro 2 because the internal earpiece speaker stopped working.  I hadn’t considered switching for a long time because of the great SERO plan that I had, however I decided it was finally time to let go of the SERO plan and upgrade to the SERO premium plan. I haven’t done… Read More »Typing this with my voice

Annual traffic trends

I haven’t posted much lately.  Just been busy with plenty of other things.  I figured I should post something since I set a new record today for traffic.  I hadn’t had this much traffic in almost a year.  My high traffic time last year was mostly after my post about weird results in google trends.  I was also posting more regularly back then which definitely helped. I started to have… Read More »Annual traffic trends

Chromebook to play with

It’s a bit ironic that I was praising Microsoft’s cloud offerings just about a month ago, and then Google sends me a CR-48 netbook to pilot.  I suppose I am a good candidate to test out the CR-48 as I’m someone who is moving to “the cloud”. I haven’t had much time to blog lately, mainly because I’m still behind at my day job.  Once I get caught up there… Read More »Chromebook to play with

Windows Live Skydrive rivals Google Docs?

I’ve always been a big fan of Google, so I was really surprised today when I found some stuff where Microsoft seems to be doing a better job than Google.  Microsoft of course has the advantage of familiarity when it comes to programs like Word and Excel.  But I was surprised to see Microsoft has some great “Cloud” apps. Google has been making a bold move towards cloud computing with… Read More »Windows Live Skydrive rivals Google Docs?

People just love the unusual suggested searches

So it turns out December was my best month yet on this site trafficwise (which isn’t saying much). I have made minimal to no effort to assist this website in getting decent rankings in search engines, aside from doing the usual set-up within WordPress. During the summer months, I did get a lot of traffic from my pages on the Keter Bellevue Shed.  I would have hoped that was the case, as… Read More »People just love the unusual suggested searches

Trying to maximize adsense revenue

You can see my initial post on the topic of Placement ads vs Contextual ads here.  Last month I had my November update when I had some mixed results.  I figured I’d do a December update now. Since my last updated was on November 21, I figured I’d look at November 22 through December 21.  For Website #1 which was up to 6.5% placement ads in November, it is now… Read More »Trying to maximize adsense revenue

Working on posting here from Android

I figured I would also try posting from within the android browser to see. How that works. The above is as far as I got in the browser and now I’m back to the android app to edit and add the rest. The browser was painfully slow. I’m not sure if it is trying to spellcheck as I went along or what, but it was worse than even using firefox… Read More »Working on posting here from Android

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