The Coolest Gadgets site has seen an exponential increase in visitors the last couple of months, which is great news so thanks everybody.

This has meant we’ve upgraded our hosting package 3 times this month and are on the waiting list for a nice new shiny dedicated server.

In order to reduce our memory and CPU usage we’ve implemented a caching mechanism which will greatly reduce database accesses. If you encounter any problems please let us know.

If the above sounded like complete gobbledygook just ignore it, normal gadget posting will resume shortly.

Our England flags give away proved to be very popular and we’ve been busy sending flags all over the world. I was expecting most comments to be from readers in England and was quite surprised when the majority of requests were from abroad. I ended up sending flags out to Germany, Brazil, Argentina, Canada, USA, South Africa, France, India and Malaysia. Thanks again to The Gadget Store for providing the flags, though next time can you give me some cash as well to cover international postage costs :). So now come on England.

Last month I did a thank you post to the gadget sites that have linked to us recently, this seemed to go down well. I don’t know if it was coincidence or not but we did get a fair few more quotes and links afterwards. So here comes another round of thanks to some of the good guys in the blogosphere.
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Our friends over at The Gadget Store have noticed we have a small affection for the beautiful game (football to those that don’t know what I’m talking about) and have kindly donated a box full of England flags to give away to our readers.

So if you want a free St. Georges flag (3ft x 5ft or a car flag) leave a comment to this post saying what you like about gadgets and football. Make sure your leave a real email address (which we will never ever share) so that we can get a physical address to send the flag to. All flags will be given out on a first come first served basis.

Thanks again to The Gadget Store for this cool freebie.

Problogger Darren Rowse is doing a feature called Habits of Highly Effective Bloggers, I certainly don’t class myself as a highly effective blogger but as I tend to post here a fair few times a day I guess that still makes me a blogger. So here are my opinions on what makes an effective blogger (or not).

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I enjoy writing for CG and it’s a great excuse to research all sorts of gadgets but one thing I find really annoying is when sites copy and paste posts that you’ve spent time and effort writing.

On the other hand when a post gets quoted or mentioned on another site and they give you credit that gives me that warm blogging feeling. So I’d like to thank the following sites for quoting and linking to us recently.

• MedGadget
• Gizmodo
• SCI FI Tech
• Gizmologia
• OhGizmo
• UberReview
• Unobtainable
• Ounae
• materialist.netikuller
• PopGadget
• Shiny Shiny
• theludwigs
• freshtrend
• bitacora.chiquiworld
• GearLog
• cygnoir

The list is in no intentional order and if I’ve missed anybody out let me know and I’ll include you in my next thank you note.

On a totally unrelated note I’ve just updated the software running this site so if you experience any problems please let us know.

Cheers

Thanks to Google we have been able to translate Coolest Gadgets into an extra 8 languages, you can now read all of our geeky posts in:

• Spanish
• German
• French
• Italian
• Japanese
• Korean
• Portuguese
• Chinese

The Google monkeys aren’t perfect and it wouldn’t surprise me if they make the odd boob, if you read a funny translation please let us know (in English preferably :))

We received a request to include images in our RSS feed. Seems the easiest way for us to do this was by publishing the full text via the feed and not just a snippet, so that’s exactly what we’ve done.

So you can now read the entirety of Coolest Gadgets (with images) by subscribing to our feed.

As always any comments and suggestions welcome.

My friend Alek is a strong contender for an SEO (Search Engine Optimisation) contest that is currently running. Which ever participant ranks #1 on Google for the word elursrebmem on May 15th is declared the winner. If Alek wins he is donating all the prize money to charity so the least I could do was a post here giving him a few more links.

V7ndotcom elursrebmem for Celiac Charity

Don’t let v7ndotcom elursrebmem black hat SEO win the $7,000 contest!

So good luck Alek with the elursrebmem contest.