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Hi fellas
I have a windows mobile site 1800PocketPC.com, its just over a year old. I was wondering if you guys have heard of it ?
We usually post about freewares and the latest hardware news about windows mobile. We dont have a forum for people to hang out coz we think as long as xda-devs and ppcgeeks are there why would anyone need a forum for windows mobile. I was hoping to get some constructive criticism about the site and ways we can improve the site.
You can also subscribe to our RSS ot Twitter
I know your site for some time and it´s very good, I like the format (exept for a narrower line of adds on the right)
Congrats!
I go all the time
I really like the site,
only thing is you could be be a little bit more "selective" or "picky"
At least what I think this could be "Pearls and beauty" of xda-developers.com for the average guy.
- I really like the category style!
- The Wallpaper stuff: Naaaahh I think you will catch some fishes with this but is it really needed? I think it makes the site look a bit cheap.
- RSS and twitter is great: every Headline was a hit so far (well some exeptions but I think beauty is in the eye of the beholder).
- Customisable rss and twitter by categorys and user would be the ultimate I think (but this would almost need the power of a socialnetwork)
- You are already on the top scores of google! (at least when I search for something)
- You can discover the real beauty of google translator when visiting your site Microfi Nitrogen -> Microfi Stickstoff (Germans get the joke)
but besides of the jokes it can be really usefull.
- I can´t test right now but have you checked "freedom from barriers"? The new "touchscreen generation" of phones might be great for handicapped persons. Would also be great to have a rating system for them as well.
So far really great
THX for this site
thanks for the kind words fellas.
@ moesfeld : Customisable rss and twitter by categorys is a great idea, I will look in to getting it done in the near future.
I am in the dark about "freedom from barriers" , do you have any links from where I can read more regarding this ?
Hi sajio,
You have really done a great job with the site, i actually am now quite addicted to your site to catch on the software which i miss on XDA. So keep up the good work and i hope with all the frequent updates and personal attention, you have made it full of valuable resources. What i think is keep your site fresh alway like you do now, and you would not need anything additional.
Regards
Sharif Ansari
the0ne said:
thanks for the kind words fellas.
@ moesfeld : Customisable rss and twitter by categorys is a great idea, I will look in to getting it done in the near future.
I am in the dark about "freedom from barriers" , do you have any links from where I can read more regarding this ?
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Well it pretty much depends on what cms you use. Many have the "accessability for disabled" already inbuild.
I found the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines
Also I found the Web Accessibility Toolbar that lets you check if you meet the guidelines.
I know your site a while ago, and I like very much.
Keep it up
I go there @ll the time nice job!
thanks guys
i love it and subscribe to rss for it. thanks for you hard work.
you are welcome
What is the best free web hosting out there?
I have tried Sixserve, megabyet, and other smalltime ones who didn't send me a confirmation mail. Sixserve has a lot of ads that skew the formatting of the site, and megabyet has flood control, and my site takes forever to load on most occasions. I can't use a credit card as I'm too young, and my parents are overly paranoid to use their credit card online. I want to use the site as a repo for my upcoming project to cook roms in a package, and also to be my portfolio (I'm also a photographer, and a smalltime video editor) . I want to use Joomla!, or wordpress for my site. Can anyone please guide me on which free web host is the best, or, even better, donate to me a web host. I will do something great in return . You decide.
Why not just use the wordpress hosting? I'm not sure on what sort of restrictions there are on the sites though re content etc.
captainstu72 said:
Why not just use the wordpress hosting? I'm not sure on what sort of restrictions there are on the sites though re content etc.
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Wordpress hosting does not support 3rd party themes, and I have to pay for CSS editing. Also, no space for my repo. Anyway, thanks.
Oh right, thats pretty lame then!
What kind of space do you think you'd need? Just so someone who possibly has some spare space on there host can give you?
I would help - but do not have any subdomains, nor any space/spare DB's.
captainstu72 said:
Oh right, thats pretty lame then!
What kind of space do you think you'd need? Just so someone who possibly has some spare space on there host can give you?
I would help - but do not have any subdomains, nor any space/spare DB's.
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I don't need much space for the front-end (the web site), based on my experiences in jumping around free web hosts, I only need 1 MYSQL database, about 100mb is more than enough for the site. However, for the repo, i would need (maybe) a LOT! of space, so that the end-user does not need to download >1gb? of data just to cook a ROM of < 50mb. Oh, the area for the repo should not have flood control enabled, please. TYVM
I guess you gave up on hosting it yourself?
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I guess you gave up on hosting it yourself?
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Yup, becos' the electricity costs involved were humongous, so did the bill (I don't know about your country, but electricity in S'pore is charged at 20-40 Singapore cents per kilowatt, depending on the type of housing; that's equal to about 13-30 US cents!)
You get the idea.
I wouldn't touch free hosting with the proverbial barge-pole, but apparently byethost is alright.
I can't vouch for them, or otherwise, and I would always recommend people use their own dedicated server they have root on (provided they know how to manage a server), or that of someone they trust to run the server for them.
I am not a fan of shared hosting services, but they're obviously very convenient for a lot of people who aren't interested in servers etc. I just think you're better to learn to work on a server, for the day something it goes wrong and you need to use ssh to fix something.
But this doesn't help the OP, who can't pay for hosting, so if you want to try a free host, byethost might be worth a look. No personal recommendation from me btw, just what I've heard from others.
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I wouldn't touch free hosting with the proverbial barge-pole, but apparently byethost is alright.
I can't vouch for them, or otherwise, and I would always recommend people use their own dedicated server they have root on (provided they know how to manage a server), or that of someone they trust to run the server for them.
I am not a fan of shared hosting services, but they're obviously very convenient for a lot of people who aren't interested in servers etc. I just think you're better to learn to work on a server, for the day something it goes wrong and you need to use ssh to fix something.
But this doesn't help the OP, who can't pay for hosting, so if you want to try a free host, byethost might be worth a look. No personal recommendation from me btw, just what I've heard from others.
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I tried the following free web hosts:
Byet
Sixserve
Megabyet
Byet's resellers(e.g: noadsfree, 000a.biz, etc...)
000webhost
Awardspace
Dreamhost
And more
But all... s*ck. All have flood control, which isn't beneficial for WordPress as it will query the MySQL DB 30+ times every time a user loads a web page, hence it will take forever to load the page(Flood control blocks out multiple connections to save bandwidth). Wp-cache did not help either. I am at my wits end now. I would definitely appreciate if someone who has $$$ to spare treat me with a hosting account. AdSense will pay you back when I start up the site. Please..............?
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@arikyeo: Wow you already tested many different web hosts.
I am actually very satisfied with my own web host and until now I had no problems. I can recommend this webhost. Maybe you want to test this one too.
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@arikyeo: Wow you already tested many different web hosts.
I am actually very satisfied with my own web host and until now I had no problems. I can recommend this webhost. Maybe you want to test this one too.
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LOL... This thread was abandoned a long time ago...
Anyway, I'm happy with Heliohost now. Great service, great uptime.
I think the best choice for you is WordPress hosting , specially if your CMS is WordPress .
If you want to use a free web host for WP I recommend Wordpress.com. My recommended web host for Joomla is Freehostia. Just refer to: http://www.freehostia.com/free-joomla-hosting.html. I can understand why someone would choose WP for a small site and it's probably a little easier to administrate than Joomla. But I've always preferred Joomla to WP or other CMS, mostly because I've used it more. Joomla is very good, there's a lot of great free and commercial extensions available, pretty steap learning curve for an administrator though. Drupal is also a great platform to create complex sites, but I'm not a fan of it just because I don't wanna learn another system. Joomla meets all my current requirements. I don't think there's a "best one" of them.... it depends on your goal and technical expertise. There are some useful resources which can help you have a right choice when choosing your needed CMS. I recommend two pages providing a comparison chart of WordPress, Joomla and Drupal: http://www.threehosts.com/ratings/wordpress-vs-joomla-vs-drupal.html and http://www.rackspace.com/knowledge_center/article/cms-comparison-drupal-joomla-and-wordpress. Both present the information in an easy-to-understand format. The best recommendation I can give you is to do some good research on other available products so that when you made your final decision you can stick to it and don't have to change the whole system after some time because this then can get time consuming and causes additional costs. A full list of these programs is available at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_content_management_systems. But the most popular ones are presented on http://www.simplescripts.com/script_list. Platforms on SimpleScripts are categorized and this helps you make your decision more easily.
Hostinger is the best ever!
Many good subdomains!
Try it
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Best free web hosting for WordPress/ Joomla?
Joomla is a portal- or community type site while WordPress is a blog.
Joomla gives you a lot of power in your hands and that is noticeable in the admin section where there are so many options that you get dizzy the first time you go in. it's having less plugins.
Since WordPress has a logical structure, it is easy for a developer to change things around, place ad banners etc…Again, give preference to a specialized developer used to work with WordPress. its having good and lot more plugin's then Joomla
Joomla’s strength is in complexity which is not useful to beginners
WordPress is simple, you can see it as a blog or as a regular website so, it is very useful to beginners.
From free hosting you can not get all basic services which are required for a beginner. You have to pay a minimum amount for basic things which can you do by best hosting service providers. if you need to suggest some hosting services means go with web host, ubiqhost, hostingshout. you can expect good services from these hosting providers as per my experiences.
Best free web hosting for WordPress/ Joomla?
its been good thing to have such forums, its good news of free hosting over wordpress....i was searching alot for such hosting provider i too went with different hosting providers......but its all conditional.......can you give some more details over these free hosting provision.
The Best Free Web Hosting Services
arikyeo said:
What is the best free web hosting out there?
I have tried Sixserve, megabyet, and other smalltime ones who didn't send me a confirmation mail. Sixserve has a lot of ads that skew the formatting of the site, and megabyet has flood control, and my site takes forever to load on most occasions. I can't use a credit card as I'm too young, and my parents are overly paranoid to use their credit card online. I want to use the site as a repo for my upcoming project to cook roms in a package, and also to be my portfolio (I'm also a photographer, and a smalltime video editor) . I want to use Joomla!, or wordpress for my site. Can anyone please guide me on which free web host is the best, or, even better, donate to me a web host. I will do something great in return . You decide.
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Honestly, there are tons of ways you can host a website free. From the top cloud giants (Google, Amazon, Microsoft) to local hosting start-ups that are looking for ways to scale up their customer base.
Google cloud hosting has an offer of $300 free credit that lets you deploy live websites/application on their cloud platform. Amazon and most cloud giants has similar offers ranging from a month credit to a full year free hosting plan.
While these are solid options, they seem too technical for most persons that are just on the lookout for a test environment to deploy their demo websites.
Assuming your purpose for this search is to get a basic shared hosting with an easy to use control panel, then here are the best options for you.
x10hosting: x10hosting is one of my preferred option for deploying demo web apps in the past. I recommended their services to lots of students who are learning to code and so far, none of them have a single complaint against them. Needless to say; they’re one of your best guys whenever free hosting is the topic of discussion.
FreeHostia: FreeHostia lets you host up to 5 different domain names on their free plan. There’s also 3 free custom domain email accounts and up to 6GB monthly bandwidth on FreeHostia free hosting offer. Even though I do normally prefer Zoho and yandex.connect for free email hosting, the email hosting services from FreeHostia really rocks. There’s certainly no risk in giving them a trial.
AtSpace: AtSpace is another free hosting services offering company with support for webmail, php, mysql database and 1-click WordPress installation tool. Even though I do not strongly recommend their premium plans for best CMS hosting experience, I’d like to say that they are very honest and straight-forward with their platform and pricing scheme.
The ability to upgrade your free web hosting plan from free to premium for a small amount once it starts getting a good traffic is an added advantage that distinguishes them from similar hosting providers.
AtSpace hosting offers 30 days money back guarantee for new clients to let them test their premium servers before deciding to stay or opt-out.
With AtSpace free hosting, there’s zero ads, unmetered bandwidth, custom domain email account and PHP/MySql database access.
4. 000webhost: 000webhost is very popular among student developers as it comes in handy for testing demo websites/apps.
With a free hosting account at 000webhost, you’d get access to the following features:
10 GB of monthly bandwidth limit
1 GB disk space
Free domain name
Free auto installer for WordPress, Drupal, Forums, Joomla and many other scripts
A vibrant website builder
Free Cpanel control
Instant account verification without any charges
5. $1 USD hosting options: Most shared and VPS hosting companies lets you try their hosting packages for only a dollar per month. If your reasons for wanting a free host is to test your local host contents, temporarily deploy a test site for a client or work on short term code testing: Then this option would come in handy. All you’d need do is → Search Google with the $1 hosting keyword to pick any company of your choice from the list.
Note: Most free hosting companies would force you to upgrade as soon as you start getting good traffic. It is better to have a backup plan as soon as your website start getting a good number of daily visits.
PS: Once you’ve outgrown the free hosting offers, look towards any of these reliable shared hosting options or pick from these cheap VPS SSD hosting plans.
PPS: Upgrading to a premium hosting plan offered by the free hosting provider is never a good option. This is because they are mostly over-sold and would affect your website performance in the long run.
First off, I'd like to say hi and I hope all of you are doing well. I come to you in request for some support as well as an offering that some of you should be able to benefit from.
I've been working hard as possible to produce a website for Android tablet users, which is 100% free of charge. No catches, no gimmicks, no nothing. Before anyone flips out thinking I am advertising, consider this: I could have dropped a link and left. But I didn't I'm here, explaining my cause, and letting you know that there is a wonderful resource that you did not know about, and should enjoy!
Anyways, the website is www.androidtabapps.com (and I won't even link it here! unless a mod says I can) and its sole purpose is to become the internet's largest database of applications that are specifically designed to work on Android tablets. This website will benefit each and every one of you who own an Android tablet because you won't have to sort through hundreds of non-tablet-optimized applications to find something good.
My request from any of you (and its ONLY a request), is that if any of you have, or know of, an application that is designed FOR an Android tablet, to please use the submission form located on my site so that I may add it? I am doing all of this work by hand and while I admit that it's painstakingly time consuming, I am enjoying myself while adding the applications because I am finding some really cool stuff so far.
I look forward to seeing some of you on the site. Pay it a visit, let me know what you think so far. Thanks!
Mine, just in case I need it for something in the future.
As a promotional offering for any application developer:
If you are a developer who has created an application that is written to run specifically on Android tablets, or is WELL optimized for Android tablets, please contact me using the form on my site to receive a 7-day free featured advertisement on my site. Mention XDA somewhere, please. The featured advertisement of your application will be found in the big slider at the top of the home page among other pages. This is limited to the first three developers who contact me, so act fast! Android Tablet Apps is already getting good traffic and I'd love to help some of you developers out a bit!
I'm offering free ad placements for 7 days for the next 3 developers to contact me with information regarding their Android tablet app that's on the market!
Thanks, this will be very useful for me!
I'll let you know if I have any Tablet Apps.
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One of my good friends who is a priest and a doctor is asking for a little help with creating a website for his nonprofit charity organization. Anyone have any recommendations of free / cheap website creation templates or hosts to look for creating something for him? I was looking at wix.com, but also want to see what my other options are, or if anyone has used any of these hosts. Also what kind of monthly / year costs are we looking at?
For those that are curious the basic charity is helping out AIDs / HIV children in Ghana Africa, which can be kept alive for about 40 cents a day.
Wordpress is probably the most popular website platform, and it's free.
http://wordpress.com/
It's touted as a blog platform, but I've seen many sites built with it and only a few of them were actually blogs. If you're just looking for a site with pretty much static information on it then it's apparently easy to use, but you can also use plugins to make the site more dynamic. It all depends what you need from it.
I'd recommend giving it a look and trying it out.
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Wordpress is probably the most popular website platform, and it's free.
http://wordpress.com/
It's touted as a blog platform, but I've seen many sites built with it and only a few of them were actually blogs. If you're just looking for a site with pretty much static information on it then it's apparently easy to use, but you can also use plugins to make the site more dynamic. It all depends what you need from it.
I'd recommend giving it a look and trying it out.
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Correction
WordPress is divided into WordPress.com and WordPress.org
WordPress.com is for relatively new users. Your blog is hosted and managed by WordPress, but you do not have much freedom of customization since WordPress.com doesn't support plugins. Also, unless you buy a domain, your website will be www.yourwebsitename.wordpress.com
Wordpress.org is for slightly experienced users. This alternative requires you to find your own hosting, and install wordpress on it. However, the customization is nnear infinite with a lot of plugin options.
I recommend wordpress.org if you can set up hosting and want a more pleasing experience , and wordpress.com if you just focus on the content rather than the design
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QuantumFoam said:
Correction
WordPress is divided into WordPress.com and WordPress.org
WordPress.com is for relatively new users. Your blog is hosted and managed by WordPress, but you do not have much freedom of customization since WordPress.com doesn't support plugins. Also, unless you buy a domain, your website will be www.yourwebsitename.wordpress.com
Wordpress.org is for slightly experienced users. This alternative requires you to find your own hosting, and install wordpress on it. However, the customization is nnear infinite with a lot of plugin options.
I recommend wordpress.org if you can set up hosting and want a more pleasing experience , and wordpress.com if you just focus on the content rather than the design
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Thanks for that. That makes sense now it's been explained. I've clearly spent very little time looking at it myself!
Archer said:
Thanks for that. That makes sense now it's been explained. I've clearly spent very little time looking at it myself!
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My pleasure.
(ZOMG! I corrected Archer)
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sites.google.com for just basic info and files, but more advanced ucoz.com is good. You can create html or basic web pages, forums, chats, a comment system, a file cabinet, and organize and theme any way you want, along with pm's and rankings and site view statistics. and $30 a month (cheaper if bought for a year or so) you can remove ALL adds, custom domain, more storage and such. Once you understand it is easy to use. a bit of HTML for more advanced users, and plain text for newer people. a good example is http://communiteam.ucoz.com/, which I built in 45 minutes, but still seeing what else I want to add.
oh, and you can create privates forums and such, and a contact page where they can send the msg straight on the site to your email.
Weebly.com is awesome
Epic Sax Guy Is Epic.
Hi All!
I'm quite new android games developer. I'm looking for developers community feedback on my first "serious" project.
So, as I'm keen on brain teasers I wanted to create some puzzle game. I've started my research and found out one of old style games called Freeways. So I thoutght that I can improve it from design and car behaviour perspective.
For last couple of weeks I have few thousands of downloads but very few feedback!
And I don't know should I upgrade it further or there is no chance to find my audience....
I've spent like 1 year to make it and absolutly dissapointed that there is now feedback from players. Should I start another project? Another 1 year?
Please advise... Thank you in advance!
Link to my game is here:
Motorways mind logic puzzles - Apps on Google Play
Stack the states in brain teaser IQ puzzle. Memory & thinking car traffic maze.
play.google.com
WYSIWYG.
Feedback, yes well here you go...
Looks like a data miner to me
No reason to know my precise location or browser history, share with 3rd parties or for me not to have the option to delete collected data.
I wouldn't even install it... based on that alone.
The games I have are all firewall blocked
My favorite apps have zero permissions and never request internet service. They are also some of the best.
Hi Blackhawk! That's a feedback already. This is set up of ads mediation I'm using. Probably it stops other users aswell. Probably I need to find another mediator
Carrot Games said:
Hi Blackhawk! That's a feedback already. This is set up of ads mediation I'm using. Probably it stops other users aswell. Probably I need to find another mediator
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I know you want sponsorship and to generate revenue. I can understand that. It's a tough business. Poweramp has a good business model and is one of my few gladly paid for apps. A lot of bang for the buck and nothing comes close to it for a stand alone music player.
Unfortunately from a user prospective that degree of data mining is potentially harmful. Personally I won't tolerate it... no app is worth that. All social media and shopping apps are banned from my devices. Done that for a decade now. One of the first things I targeted when I started using Androids.