Comments on: Freewaregenius rises from the ashes!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 15:35:58 +0000

Its good to see you back mate

By: Brent

Brent — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 04:18:52 +0000

Whew, thought I was doomed to searching for freeware on my own. We all know how frustating that is…. WELCOME BACK…..

By: mouser

mouser — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 17:21:54 +0000

welcome back samer! you are not allowed to leave again!

By: DComedian

DComedian — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 00:53:09 +0000

Delighted to see your very well written reviews are back.

By: Gregpcs

Gregpcs — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 16:26:35 +0000

Very glad to see your site back up and running!!

I only recently found your site but quickly made it a top fave of mine and a must go-to when looking for various helpful utilities and apps. So much so in fact that I was using a late 2007 cached version of your site off the Internet Archive to scout some things while you sorted your hosting issues out.

Thanks for running an especially useful and informative site for all of us who are trying to operate on a budget and borrow from all the expertise out there that has already solved problems with unique software solutions.

By: Rarst

Rarst — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 23:11:34 +0000

@Samer

Huh? Skribit allows suggestions without login of any kind, most of suggestion I receive are anonymous. Login is just an option so person gets notified when his suggestion is linked to the post and closed.

Looking forward to new theme by the way, current BlackCrunch was used for a looong time, as far as I remember. WordPress themes improve with amazing speed eve in short time since I started my blog and keeping eye on them.

By: Samer

Samer — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 21:13:16 +0000

Thanks guys for all your positive feedback!

@ Tomas M.: thanks for the tip! Disabled revision tracking, hoping that will have an impact.

@ Bruno: a picture of me? I dont want to scare people hark hark.. Actually I think I will add a picture somewhere in the new template.

@ Rarst: I did lost the Skribit widget. Its not very well implemented IMHO. They ask people to register to comment, and it is not clear that users can use their Yahoo/Gmail/Hotmail logins to do so. Instead I will probably add a page with some polls on it and people can comment there if they have ideas.

@ Voltaire: thanks for the tips. It’s actually not the Navbar that I am looking into but a tabbed widget (latest posts, popular posts, featured posts, latest comments, etc). Yours is a cool site btw.

By: Voltaire

Voltaire — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 04:48:00 +0000

Hey man,

I was actually looking into navi bars myself, and came across a few different ones. None look like the old one, but these could do the trick

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/cms-navigation/screenshots/

http://www.liewcf.com/blog/archives/2005/05/wordpress-navigation-bar/

http://alexking.org/blog/2005/05/23/popularity-contest

By: Dave K

Dave K — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 02:54:28 +0000

Aw-right it lives.
It was my fault actually. I was trying to show it off to some friends New Years – I had touted it as beyond insanely great & incredibly useful – so of course it was DOA. I’ll never do that again.

Very glad to see the site back – after all it’s insanely great & incredibly useful

By: Defi

Defi — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 23:10:15 +0000

Glad to see you back!

By: Robert Tipping

Robert Tipping — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 22:37:11 +0000

I missed the site big time and i knew it was not the bill.
I have had this kind of thing happen on my sites(built for others)and it really, really hurts.
Good to see you back.

By: RG

RG — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 18:30:56 +0000

Welcome back Samer, I was one of the ones who posted on Lifehacker, was wondering about your host, glad freewaregenius is back

By: Rarst

Rarst — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 18:18:03 +0000

Glad you are back. I am displaying latest post title for blogs in my blogroll and it was quite a rollercoaster seeing how freewaregenius (dis)appers and gives throws different posts all the time.

On Ajax navigation – I told you so. Sorry, had to say it.

I hope you will sort out all load issues, YSlow is indeed good for that, so are some online benchmarks.

PS I see you lost Skribit widget in the process? What version was you using? Latest is very light.

PPS email me if you need some any input/help/links on blog optimizing, I am not really expert but like to keep my blog as light as possible

By: Eddie

Eddie — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 16:31:33 +0000

So glad to see you back. I’ve never posted a comment here before but your presence was missed when everything went offline.

By: Mark

Mark — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 16:14:54 +0000

The host I use, hostingmode.com, does daily backups (including databases). I’m pretty sure most hosts do that nowadays.

PS: No plug above, I’ve been using them for years and am happy but seriously just about any host will have complete daily backups and with their client’s just being a supplment!

By: Joe

Joe — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 15:51:42 +0000

I’m glad you got it mostly sorted out. I’ve been looking forward to your second “10 essentials” post, and it sure seems like I’m not the only one.

By: Bruno

Bruno — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 15:47:24 +0000

@ Samer,

So, it was not the financial crisis, you had not invested too much on a server hosted by one of the companies financed by Madoff. We all feel so much better to see you back. Well, ’see you’ is kind of language abuse… May be instead of your Ajax application, a picture of you would be less CPU consuming
Happy new year and thanks for your wonderful work.

Bruno from Tanzania.

By: Tomas M.

Tomas M. — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 15:24:13 +0000

Hi, Samer, I had similar problems with my blog (healthy-family.org), now I’m using Semi-Dedicated hosting at downtownhost (one shared server is only used by 20 clients), but most important thing that I want to advise is to disable WordPress revision tracking (introduced only in v2.6), that is ON by default. At the beginning it looks as very cool feature, but if you like to write long post (and I know that you do , every edit and save cycle creates a copy of the whole article, what eventually blew up my data base 10 times in size…

It’s very simple to disable revisions, you just have to add one line to config file, here you can read more: http://www.mydigitallife.info/2008/07/22/disable-and-turn-off-post-revisions-tracking-in-wordpress-26-or-above/

By: Firekid

Firekid — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 15:07:42 +0000

my daily feed is back online. YIPEEee!!!!

By: Rob O.

Rob O. — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 14:46:38 +0000

Great to see ya back in action!