If you’re like me, you like lists. And if you’re like me, you like year-end lists. In that spirit, as we close out 2009, let’s look at the 10 most popular stories this year here at 40Tech. We’re going to define "most popular" as those stories with the most page views. The page view count represents the total number of times a page was viewed, whether by different people or not. At the end of this post, we’ll look at the most popular posts on the site based on other barometers. These statistics are as of December 21, 2009. Read more
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40Tech launched on June 4, 2009. While the site is still in its infancy, its growth has been encouraging. We have you to thank for that. Thank you for visiting, and for contributing. In the first days, we were excited about getting 10 visits a day, believe it or not. Today, we’re going to take a brief look at the site’s traffic statistics over those six months, and a few of the lessons we’ve learned from those statistics. We’ll use Google Analytics to look back at our traffic.
This is an update to an earlier post, How to Secure Evernote on a Shared Computer, and shows an easier way to open an encrypted version of Evernote data with a simple desktop shortcut.
A few months ago, we explained how to use Evernote and TrueCrypt to secure Evernote on your computer. This was in response to one of the loudest gripes about Evernote – its inability to natively secure your data, short of locking your user account every time you stepped away from your computer. One of the commenters to that post, Barry, shared with us a batch file (a text file that runs a series of commands) to make this process even easier to use. Once set up, it is a two step process: click on an icon, and enter your password. Doing so automatically opens TrueCrypt, decrypts your data, and then opens Evernote. The batch file even closes TrueCrypt when you exit Evernote. Read on for updated instructions that include Barry’s batch file. Thanks to Barry for sharing this with us.
Google Wave is still in its early stages, with most of us learning as we go. I don’t know about you, but it seems that every day I stumble upon an easier way of doing something in Wave. There are some outstanding Wave resources out there, such as The Complete Guide to Google Wave by Gina Trapani with Adam Pash, and Mashable’s HOW TO: Get Started with Google Wave. But sometimes you just want some basic tips to get you started. A few weeks ago, we wrote about How to Organize the Google Wave Sidebar With Tags. In that spirit, here are 5 more entry-level tips for Google Wave.
A week and a half ago, as part of a review of the first 6 month’s of 40Tech’s life, we took a look at the technical details of starting the site, including some lessons we learned along the way. Today, in Part 2, we look at some of the other factors that went into starting this site, and in determining what direction the site has taken so far. As with the last post, we hope that this will help those of you starting your own site, and that the experienced bloggers out there will be interested in glimpsing behind the scenes of another blog.