Winner: iPod Nano Twiiter Contest

Congratulations to @MikeFancy on Twitter, he won the tech.nocr.at Twitter contest and a shiny new iPod nano is on it’s way to him. When we informed him that he was randomly chosen from the list of re-tweeters, he posted this to his twitter account: “I won an iPod Nano, just because I follow @technocrat_blog! A [...]

Social Media & tech.nocr.at

Now that I am finally convinced that social media is not a fad I have decided to bring tech.nocr.at into the current century. I have received many an email from readers wondering why we aren’t on Facebook or why we aren’t on Digg? I have been a big believer of twitter over the past year [...]

How To Speed Up WordPress With Nginx And WP Super Cache

Edit: Fixes suggested in the comments have been applied to this howto We recently moved tech.nocr.at over to a bunch of VPSs in order to achieve some decent load balancing and speed. Even though SliceHost isn’t a sponsor, I’d like to give them a quick plug. SliceHost is easily the greatest VPS provider bar none. [...]

GIFAR Image Vulnerability

Researchers at NGS Software have developed a method to embed malicious code into a picture. When the picture is viewed, the malicious code embed in the picture could send the attacker the credentials of the viewer. Social sites like Facebook, Myspace, or Digg are particularly at risk, but the researches say that any site which [...]

11 WordPress Plugins For Professional Bloggers

In a world filled with enough plugins to make your head spin, it can be quite frustrating looking for that right plugin to do that job your after. Most bloggers have spent countless hours sifting through google or wordpress.org looking for a plugin to do something they are after but just can’t come up with [...]

Built for Blackberry Software

I’m a pretty serious Blackberry junkie. When I roll out of bed the first thing I do is pick up my 8830 to check my day, email, and the website, hell I’ve even posted to tech.nocr.at from my little beauty. Email, contacts, and calendar isn’t the only thing available to us power users though, RIM [...]

Mixpanel: They like goats, what about you?

There’s only one main component to this site that the site begs from you as soon as you sign up: “So…we like goats, what about you?” Mixpanel quickly asks you your interests and forms an ever-changing tag cloud to quickly find content suited to you. The most important and largely unnoticed feature with mixpanel is [...]

Why StumbleUpon is better than Digg

Before I go on my observations between digg and stumbleupon let me just say that I am happy with digg and stumbleupon equally, as a user. This is just a numbers crunch that explains on paper why traffic referrals from stumbleupon are better for your site than numbers from digg, in the long run. Back, [...]