WordTracker is a useful tool for webmasters. WordTracker tells you what searchers are looking for on the web.
Occasionally, WordTracker will surprise you with an insight into something interesting going on in the world. Here’s a WordTracker result I just found:
Search Term
Number of Searches
iphone
9,423
iPhone Complaints
3,321
Apple iPhone
1,149
What this tells us is that “iPhone Complaints” is the second most popular search term which ordinary web searches use to find information about the Apple iPhone.
It looks as if there are plenty of unhappy iPhone customers on the Internet!
iPhone Complaints
Common iPhone complaints include:
No support for custom ringtones
Battery life shorter than promised
Sound volume insufficient
Lack of Flash support in the web browser
Built-in GPS is not user accessible
Built-in Bluetooth cannot be used for data transfer
Built-in camera has no ability to be adjusted
Lack of useful applications (SSH, SFTP, VNC, Remote Desktop)
No games
No voice dialing
Keyboard is very difficult to use
A lot of Apple/AT&T customers have already returned their iPhones for more mature devices such as the RIM BlackBerry.
I’ve stumbled upon the following e-mail that was sent by a disgruntled webmaster. Enjoy it
I must say, I’m quite upset. I have been using images from your website on my website for a long time now and suddenly they are gone, and I am concerned. I am using my website to build up my business which is not easy and you changed the location or deleted them or something.
My concern is that if you do not upload the images again, I might have to contact my lawyer as I am using these images for the purpose of advertising and this sudden change without warning means I have to find where you moved them and to get them working again.
Why would you do such a thing? I am an honest business man and small businesses like mine never get respect. I hope you realize it took me a long time to find images I liked. Now I have to find your images again. Please put them back right away. I don’t think you want me to call my lawyer about this.
After experimenting for a few months with various ways to introduce ads in their videos, YouTube is finally launching a video ad platform. The current format is represented by a strip which occupies 20% of the video. The ad appears only after 15 seconds of the movie have passed and if the user clicks the ad, the video is paused and a new window opens for the ad. If the user does not click the ad, it’s displayed for 10 seconds and then it disappears.
As for the pricing, Google choose to apply a 20$ fee for 1000 impressions. Although it’s a little weird they use this instead of the Google classic Pey Per Click system, but Google officials think that safer CPM model will be better for their customers.
So having YouTube as a constant user-generated content pool, Google can provide extensive coverage for publishers and interesting ways to financially attract advertisers. But for now the platform has to be tested to eliminate eventual bugs and to attract publishers.
As we speak, every single blog in the Blogspot network is not functional, returning a 502 Server Error. That includes the Google Blog itself. Oftenly, the connection to some other blogs hosted on Blogspot times out after a minute, leaving a few question marks behind.
At a quick closer look, the Blogger network is down as well, including their main sites. Could this be due the blog migrations? Perhaps.
I couldn’t find any valid explanation from Google, downtime reports or to be honest any official stance, but I will keep you updated as soon as I find out.
In the mean time, if anyone has any kind of idea or information related to this, please share it with the others by leaving a comment. I would appreciate it.
Keep in touch,
When Google launched their new Google Gears service a couple of months ago, I was sure online-based applications will make full use of it. And that’s just the case with Zoho, one of the most popular online office suite and a direct contestant of Google Docs.
The fact that they used Google Gears to provide offline availability for Zoho Writer before Google did is funny in a way. But for now only Zoho Writer will be accessible offline, the rest of the Zoho suite is going to be made available in weeks to come, and besides that the documents will be read-only when offline.
After the install of the Google Gears plugin a “Go Offline” button will be enabled, not that this only works with Internet Explorer 6 or higher or Mozilla 1.5 or higher. Zoho lovers should be pleased, as this is only the beginning and other features will become available in the following 4 or 5 weeks.
Take a close look at the following two pictures. The first one represents a picture of the Microsoft staff 29 years ago in 1978. Here are the members from the portrait, from left to right.
Top row: Steve Wood, Bob Wallace, Jim Lane. Middle row: Bob O’Rear, Bob Greenberg, Marc McDonald, Gordon Letwin. Bottom row: Bill Gates, Andrea Lewis, Marla Wood, Paul Allen.
Yes, that little kid in the bottom left corner is actually Bill Gates. He was just a teenager then, but he grew and had an important contribution to what Microsoft is today. Who would have thought back then that those geekish people would propel Microsoft into the large corporation it stands as today?
Easy to see they were all ‘hippies’ back then (or were people dressing like that 30 years ago?) There were some at Apple Corporation as well, so maybe we could say that hippies created the personal computer industry. For those interested, the history of the personal computer is (at least partially) interwoven with the 60’s counterculture. An excellent book on this topic is John Markoff’s “What The Dormouse Said: How the 60s Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer”.
Either way, “Would you have invested back then?”
The second picture presents Microsoft’s senior leadership roles.
From left to right:
Bill Gates, Craig Mundie (Chief Research and Strategy Officer), Ray Ozzie (Chief Software Architect), Steve Ballmer (CEO).
They were at a news conference announcing plans for Ozzie and Mundie to assume increased roles in the company. The picture was taken about a year ago.
Stealth Computer Corporation a leading ISO 9001 manufacturer of industrial rugged computers and peripherals has released a small form factor or mini PC that is so small that it can fit on the palm of your hand. The LPC-350PCI Little PC employs Intel’s Pentium and Celeron M series processors, designed for optimum power efficiency without compromising processor performance. The robust anodized aluminum chassis measures just over 2 inches tall having the overall footprint about the size of a hard cover novel, measuring in at 10″ x 5.87″ x 2.75″ and weighing approximately 6 lbs.
One of the unique attributes the LPC-350PCI possesses is the open PCI card slot. “Clients can simply add specialized I/O, video, data acquisition and communications cards, something that cannot be achieved with other small computers such as notebook PCs” remarks Stealth’s President & CEO, Ed Boutilier.
The LPC-350PCI mini PC features a multitude of I/O connectivity built into its impressively small design such as; LAN, Serial, 3-USB 2.0, FireWire, Video, Audio, PS/2 Mouse & Keyboard ports. The LPC-350PCI has a built-in 2.5” high-shock hard drive with up to 160GB’s of storage space for archived data.
For applications that require extra high shock, vibration and wide temperature ranges an optional Solid State Hard Drive or Flash Drive is available. A slim DVD/CD-RW optical drive comes standard with an optional DVD burner available. Systems are compatible with Microsoft Vista/XP, Linux etc and can be custom configured to meet the exact needs of the OEM or end user. The Stealth LPC-350 series Little PCs are shipping now with prices starting at $995.00 USD depending on configurations. Stealth’s LittlePC products serve a demanding market where powerful solutions are being deployed in space-challenged applications around the world. Digital Signs, Kiosks, Embedded Control, Thin-Clients, POS & Human/Machine Interface are just a few of the applications that are ideal for Stealth’s LittlePC products.
Just I was talking about Google’s initiative to increase storage space for a small fee, Hotmail took measures of its own. Now Hotmail offers 5GB of storage space. It’s quite a big jump from the 2GB it previously offered, but this is surely not the only new improvement.
“We’ve spent more time in this release identifying what parts of the product are slowest and fixing those. We hope that you notice an improvement when this update is released to your account, and we’ll continue our work on performance in future releases.”
So from now on you can expect your Hotmail pages to load faster and make you save time. Besides that, other improvements were made to the contact list, now you can keep track of a person that uses multiple login names within one contact entry. Not only that but there is even a wizard to help you make the change.
Also safety features were added, such as blocking images and links in emails that come from unknown users. This should prevent phishing fraud and other malware related actions.
For now Yahoo! seems to lead the free email market with its ads supported, unlimited storage space webmail, and now comes Hotmail with it’s 5GB, so it’s Gmail’s time to show that it’s the best.
Here is GPS product that takes you everwhere. With the new pocket sized Magellan CrossoverGPS you can navigate the toughest trails, traffic and oceans. Coming in at 8.5 oz. or 9.4 oz if you get the Sport Guard™ attachment and just 3.4″ by 4.3″ by 1.1″ the Magellan CrossoverGPS is very light and fits in one hand.
With built-in street maps of North America and light topographic maps of the connected 48 U.S. states it will kind of hard not know where to go. You can upgrade with regional MapSend® Topotopographic maps, MapSend BlueNavTM marine charts or MapSend Lakes charts by using Secure Digital memory cards. The battery which the best in its class offers up to 8 hours of usage before needing a recharge.
Road navigation features contain multi-destination routing, SmartDetourTM which finds different ways to get around traffic and SayWhereTM technology where you CrossoverGPS tells you turn-by-turn directions as well as the street names that to turn onto. Not to mention an optional TrafficKit accessory that makes avoiding traffic easy with Real-time incident reports.
With its waterproof to IPX-4 design the sleek and rugged CrossoverGPS lets you go anywhere with it. You can enhance the durability of the already fortified CrossoverGP with the afore mentioned Sport GuardTM.
There are lots more cool features such as an Auto night view where you can adjusts color and contrast for easy night viewing. Also a Digital Music Player so you can listen to music through the integrated speaker or your own headphones, a Photo Viewer to check out your pictures, and a Bird’s-eye 3D view that shows your surroundings clearly. All of this and a SirfstarIII chip set for quick access to a satellite signal is ready for you to take anywhere. Outdoor Magazine’s 2007 Gear of the Year.
Is your GMail inbox getting full? Mine is 70% in use at the moment since I’m getting about 20 e-mail accounts redirected there . Anyway, I found out today that you can increase your storage space if you need to, you just need to pay a small amount of money.
Here is GPS product that takes you everwhere. With the new pocket sized Magellan CrossoverGPS you can navigate the toughest trails, traffic and oceans. Coming in at 8.5 oz. or 9.4 oz if you get the Sport Guard™ attachment and just 3.4″ by 4.3″ by 1.1″ the Magellan CrossoverGPS is very light and fits in one hand. 
