Right, since it is the last day in august now i think it is about time i published last months (July) site stats. usually i get around to posting these figures a bit earlier, usually around the third or fourth of the month however i had a lot of busy weeks throughout this month (August) and could not find time to get it done.

In the month of June my stats were as follows: 2,395 unique visits with a total of 2,729 pageviews. Above is a picture of the figures of last month the month of July, as you can see they have dipped slightly, i can explain kind of what caused this.

Ok so what caused this very small fall of 1.09% traffic? For some reason throughout the month of July my google analytics tracking code just stopped suddenly and i have no idea why, The figures in the pictures above do not include 10 of the 31 days of July. So if my tracking had not of stopped working i would of definitely had more traffic than what is shown above. I know i was still getting visitors as i was still receiving comments and also i have another small stat counter, however it does not record the stats history so i cannot show it here .

Still 2,369 unique visits for last month is not too bad considering the 10 day loss of tracking. Below is a graph of my stats for the month of July, in it you can see the 10 day fall of stat recording.

During the month of July i made 14 blog posts, not a lot however it is still remaining consistent, and that is how i like it at the moment . Here are all the blog posts from the month of July:

Lewis Hamilton – First Win For 2009 Season

Gravatar – Do You Have One?

A Local Band – Artificial Flight – First Music Video

Screenshot A Site

Why Did My Analytics Break?

The Way To See Tweets – VisibleTweets!

High Blood Pressure

Eircom Hacked?

It Never Worked Before!

It’s Finally Back

Holidays Over, Work Again

Now Is The Time To Begin The Work

June 2009 Review

Moving My Blog

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A great feature of the Wordpress platform is that it allows you to easily implement pictures into your posts & pages with little to no effort.

However there has always been one thing missing from this, that is the ability to crop, and rotate your images live whilst you upload them. On numerous occasions i have uploaded a picture and then realized that i had put it the wrong way round. I would then have to re-upload a rotated version; this all takes time, time that i could use doing something else.

Tonight i was looking about the Wordpress plugin’s page and found a great small plugin that lets you crop, resize, rotate and add watermarks to your pictures. You do not have to upload a picture then go to a different page in your admin panel to edit the picture, the plugin is implemented into the existing Wordpress image upload box and it only takes 2 seconds to fix up a picture.

I know for sure i will be using this plugin a lot in the future. The plugin is called: Scissors and can be found on the Wordpress plugin directory.

I enjoy messing about with computers and learning new ways of doing things or how to get the most out of a computer. Having knowledge of how a computer operates is very usefully when something goes wrong.

I have been using computers now for about 10 or 11 years and since my first day with them i have now become a lot more familiar with fixing problems. Before when i had little know-how on how a computer operated i would have to get someone down to have a look at the computer and fix it. So they would usually end up taking it away and then coming back a day or two later saying it would cost a fair bit of money.

I reckon that whenever a tech person takes away your computer, they probably have one look at it and most likely 99% of the time they will know how to fix it and it will probably only take a few hours, in most cases a run of an anti-virus program would sort out most problems. Then in that other 1% a more in depth investigation will be required to find out what is the problem.

Since i have such an interest in computers i was keen to find out how to fix them. Now if something goes wrong with my computer i can fix it easily with no hassle at all . It saves you so much time and money. By fixing it yourself it will not be broken for as long since you do not have to wait for your computer to be returned to you and also you do not have to pay those mental fees people try and ask for!

I talked to a few people before and they told me that they would take it to a PC clinic, like the ones they have in PC World. Before most places like this even look at your computer they will straight away charge you a standard fee of €50! That is just mad money, then on top of that you will get charged for any parts required etc…

Friends of mine always get me to have a look at their computers, and most of the time it would be something simple to fix such as a few viruses or maybe some spyware or even errors that have occurred. A lot of the time people ask, why is my computer going so slow?

A few simple things could be done to fix that big problem that you have, first make sure you have enough space on your disk drive, check for viruses / spyware , remove unnecessary programs,  and try a defrag of your hard drive. Most of the time that will work no problem and you will have your computer back up and running smoothly again.

It is strange that whenever i start to fix one person’s computer, suddenly loads more computers break and i end up getting asked to fix them. I think it is odd that they all break around the same time as each-other, or maybe it is just me thinking they do. I enjoy fixing them, and it also gets me a bit of money on the side whilst i am not at work .

A few days ago i decided it was about time i bought a new mobile; i had been hoping to get an iPhone however i am not willing to fork out up to €600 to get one. So instead i decided to get a really great phone made by LG.

The phone i bought is the LG GW520; it is a great phone and was definitely worth buying it. It has a touch screen and even has a full QWERTY keyboard which slides out from underneath it, so anyone who is good at typing and knows where all the keys are, then you would really like this phone .

So originally my network operator was Vodafone and when i was looking about for a new phone the options they had were pretty lame, so i decided to have a look at o2′s phone’s and they were so much better, they have a lot of ‘ exclusive to o2 ‘ phones, and the LG phone i bought was one of them.

The phone only cost me €199 and you even get €50 free credit, what more could you ask for . The stupid thing was that since i wanted to change over from Vodafone to o2 there was going to be a bit of trouble.

Since i had once been with o2 and then went to Vodafone, in order to go back to o2 once again it requires some kind of special sim card. So it turned out they had none of the sim cards that i needed left in stock in any of the stores in my town so i had to wait about a week before they would have them! Like how do you run out of sim cards?

The stupid thing is that if i had been transferring over from Vodafone to o2 for the first time then they could have given me a sim card no problem or if i wanted a new number then it would not have been a problem either. The thing i would like to know is, how sim cards are so different, surely they are all built the same way.

So to port my number from the Vodafone network to the o2 network took a bit of time, but it was definitely worth it, the price plans are slightly cheaper with o2 than Vodafone.

I also looked around online to buy my LG phone and even considered getting it unlocked so i could of used it on Vodafone, but it worked out more expensive and o2 seemed to have the best deal on it.

For the past two weeks i had been off work due to being in hospital and in turn i had to take time off from work on doctors’ orders. Now however i am allowed to get back to work .

Having time off from work is great, but it is only great when you plan it and have something planned to do. When it is not your choice, like having to go into hospital, then it is not so enjoyable.

When you are used to getting up and going into work it just becomes part of your normal daily routine, so when something that fills so many hours of your day is taken away it seems somewhat odd to have nothing to do.

Over recent weeks i have begun to get a lot more work on the side to do, such as making a few sites for some people. It is great to finally have people ask for my help, at least i know all my hard work is now not going to waste . I am also now fixing a lot of computer’s and laptop’s as it seems once one person breaks their computer usually a lot more suddenly break, or maybe this just happens for me, anyway there will be no complaining from me, as more work equals more money & experience .