After months of preparation, we are proud to announce the launch of our very own MakeTechEasier forum. Be sure to click on over and take a look around, and be sure to bookmark the page if you intend to visit often:

MakeTechEasier Forum

The forum is powered by bbPress, which in my opinion, the best software to integrate with a WordPress blog. It does not come with some of the bulky features found in most established forum software, but it is definitely fully functional and you won’t have to waste your time and bandwidth loading those stuffs that you likely don’t have any use for. One thing for sure, it is light on the server and loads very fast.

Last week, MakeTechEasier collaborated with YIWO Tech Development to provide a 24 hours free download of their proprietary software – EASEUS Partition Master Professional.

As all of you know, the event did not turn out well. Due to some server issue, many of you were not able to download the software.

EASEUS has published a apology regarding this:

Yes, Make Tech Easier is now one year old. Happy Birthday!

For those of you who have been with us and giving us your support all the while, we’d like to take the opportunity to say THANKS to all of you. MTE won’t be what it is today without all your support. You are awesome.

A year ago, I started this blog as a personal passion and as a way to document all the hacks that I have done to my computer. Never did I thought that maintaining and updating this blog has now become my full time job. It is really great to do something you really like and make a living out of it. I can only say that it’s been a wonderful journey for me.

Here’s a quick review of the statistics for the past 1 year:

Are you seriously obsessed with your computer and have tons of computer tips and tricks up your sleeves? Are you always surfing the Web to look for cool useful software and eagerly share with your friends when you found one? If that is who you are, then you are the one we are looking for.

Make Tech Easier is a tech blog that covers tutorials for various operating system, cool software reviews and plenty of tips and tricks for the popular Web apps. We are in the process of expansion and are looking for writers to help us turn this site into something bigger and better.

Here are some interesting links for you:

WordPress Theme

Are you getting tired of your Wordpress theme? SmashingMagazine has, once again, compiled a great list of free wordpress theme. And if that is not enough, Mashable lists out some unusual wordpress themes to get your theme designing mood going.

Here is the result of a recent poll in MakeTechEasier (MTE).

Out of a total of 92 votes,

• 79.5% like Firefox
• 6.5% like IE
• 6.5% like Safari
• 6.5% like Opera
• 1% like other browser

This result seems a bit of a surprise when the statistics taken from W3C shows that (in Dec 2007) Firefox users only account for 36.3% while IE users (inclusive of IE5, IE6 and IE7) take up 55.9% of the market share.

This is really one of the most frustrating thing that can happen when dealing with Google – the Google 403 Forbidden Error

While trying to download an application from Google Code, I was shown the unfriendly 403 forbidden page that totally shut down the download.

Year 2007 is coming to an end and it is time to do a wrap-up on the interesting things that happened this year. Rather than me babbling about it (which is going to be boring), I’m going to take a different, more interactive and fun approach.

I want you to tell me what is the best technology that you have discovered in 2007.

I am sure all of you have benefited from some of the wonderful technology in 2007. Now it is time for you to show your appreciation. Blog about the best technology that you have discovered in year 2007.

It is very easy, here is how it works:

It’s a fact that Linux users don’t like Windows. The pictures say it all…

Windows: We suck more! and that’s guaranteed

Wellington, Fla.-based Devil Mountain Software ran several versions of XP and Vista through a test simulating common desktop computing tasks. It found the original Vista performed 50 percent to 100 percent slower than the prevalent XP Service Pack 2, or SP2.

In the coming 1st quarter 2008, Microsoft is releasing Vista service pack 1 and service pack 3 for Win XP. The fact is, Vista SP1 barely improved the operating system’s performance while Win XP SP3 increase the XP performance by 10 percents.

What this means is that Vista is getting slower while XP is becoming faster.

Which one will you choose? Source

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