A 40Tech Gaming Night – Are You Interested?
I don’t know about you, but my gaming time is pretty limited nowadays. When I do game with others online, I don’t want to join in with a bunch of griefers, cheaters, and immature players. Where then...
View ArticleFollow the 40Tech Writers on Google+, Twitter, and Elsewhere for More Tips...
We know that you can’t get enough of us. That’s what we like to tell ourselves, at least. If you like what you read here, then your tastes might overlap with ours. In addition to what we post here, we...
View ArticleThanks to Our Sponsors
Thanks to Glyde.com and Sanebox, our current advertisers. Glyde is a way to buy, sell, and organize video games, DVDs, tablets, eReaders, iPods, iPhone, iPads, and books. Sanebox automatically filters...
View ArticleThank you, Glyde and Sanebox
Thanks again to Glyde.com and Sanebox, the current advertisers on 40Tech who are running an ad of 4 weeks or longer. Glyde is an easy and cheap way to buy, sell, and organize video games, DVDs,...
View ArticleHappy Holidays from 40Tech — and the Star Wars Cat
It’s that time again, folks. A time of laughter, a time of cheer — a time of the gifting and receipt of fun tech toys. Oddly, I don’t have any on my list this year. I just want a toolbox. Well… Skyrim...
View ArticleThe 10 Most Popular 40Tech Stories of 2011
It’s that time of the year where you see lists everywhere you turn. Now it’s our turn, as we present you with our list of the top 10 most popular 40Tech articles of 2011. These are articles that were...
View ArticleHappy New Year — and Some Sweet Star Wars Awesome!
Bye bye 2011. We hope everyone had a great and safe night last night, and we wish you all a fantastic and prosperous 2012 — filled with happiness, good times, and 366 (Leap Year) days of awesome...
View ArticleThe 2011 App of the Year
LastPass is the 40Tech community’s choice for 2011 App of the Year. After almost a week of voting, LastPass outdistanced the second place finisher, Springpad, by over 250 votes. If we had voted...
View ArticleWho Are You, Anyway? An Updated Look at Our Reader Demographics
At the end of 2010, I took a look at this site’s demographics. Over the past few years, I’ve gotten to know some of you quite well, but my look through the site stats was a bit more impersonal back...
View ArticleThank you to our sponsors
Thank you to those advertisers and sponsors who support 40Tech, and keep the lights on, and keep me motivated. This month the thanks go out to Giztopia, which is running a 4 week ad for its gadget...
View ArticleWelcome to 40Tech Reloaded
I typed the title of this post with tongue firmly in cheek. I thought about going with “40Tech HD,” “40Tech 360,” and “40Tech 3.0” (this is the third iteration of the site), but went with “Reloaded”...
View Article40Tech 4.0
Almost two years ago, I changed the look of this site, and announced it with a long post and explanation. It’s now time for another change. This one was brought about for a simple reason – the old...
View ArticleLinked Posts on 40Tech
I’ve made some subtle changes to the site, all involving linked posts. A linked post is a post where I’m primarily commenting on content that I’ve seen on another site. I’ve always linked to those...
View ArticleUntitled Posts at 40Tech
Some of you reading 40Tech in an RSS reader might see some posts with “Untitled” or something similar as the title of some posts. This isn’t a case of me forgetting to add a title to some posts, but is...
View ArticleSlim Down 40Tech’s RSS Feed
[February 24, 2018 update: I’ve further tweaked how I’m handling micro.blog posts. They’re no longer on the main page, but in their own section of the site and in their own RSS feed.] Original post: A...
View ArticleMicro.blog Posts Moved Out of Your 40Tech RSS Feed (and into Their Own Feed)
My foray into micro.blog is a work in progress. Micro.blog is a service that allows you to publish Twitter-like updates to your own site, but also have them appear in a familiar timeline interface at...
View ArticleMy Micro.blog Setup With WordPress
I’ve tweaked how I’ve used this site with micro.blog a few times. During the last change, I inadvertently broke my ability to create most types of new posts on micro.blog. The short explanation is that...
View Article10 Years of 40Tech
I must not be big on anniversaries, because I completely missed the 10 year anniversary of this site. A “Coming Soon” post went live on May 28, 2009, with the first substantive post going up on June...
View ArticleDark Mode on 40Tech
It’s been a long time coming, but I’ve finally implemented dark mode on 40Tech. I started working on this a few months ago, and it was my use of dark mode on iOS in bed at night that spurred me to take...
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