My Way Revisited

A couple week’s ago I mentioned in my entry, My Way Not Going my way, troubles with the My Way e-mail. Also I had stopped using My Way as my home page, going back to Yahoo. Today on CyberNet, Ryan Ashley reviews My Way thanks to a tip I had sent to them a while back. After using Yahoo the last couple weeks I decided I’d give My Way another chance.

There were some things Yahoo just could not offer that were great with My Way.

• My TV Favorites, just select from the local listing you want as your favorites and My Way will search through the listing and display each day all the listings for your favorite shows. Helpful when TV Stations move schedules arounds due to sporting or new events.
• My TV Listings, the grid is color coded which makes it easier to find what you are looking for (once you learn the color codes)
• My News allows you to set the number of headlines you wish to display from each source to 4, 6 or 8. Whereas with Yahoo, you are stuck with 5 headlines per source.
• My Cartoons you can have more than Yahoo’s standard 3. In addition you can have any cartoon as long as you know the URL. The downside is the cartoons are not loaded on the home page, but that does speed up the page’s loading.

I am still uneasy with their e-mail, although I did have a couple messages from over the weekend. Also had some issues when trying to use the myway e-mail address for registrations with certain sites rejecting the use. I’ll keep my Yahoo Mail for all access e-mail and it easy to keep on top of this account with the Yahoo Mail Notifier Extension.

New Blog Home: 2 Weeks Later

It has been 2 weeks since I moved the Blog from Blogger over here to its new home at WordPress. At first I was not sure if this was such a good idea, but I wanted to able to take advantage of the trackback features on CyberNet News. One of the things I do like about WordPress is it provides stats for your blog. I’ve been reviewing those daily and seeing a steady increase of views, that was until the 13th. On Wednesday the 13th the Adobe Acrobat vs FoxIt Reader entry alone had 87 of the total 222 views! That is more than I was getting in an entire day. Even more impressive though, 75 of the visits to my blog came from the trackback link posted on the FoxIt article on CyberNet.

Also been noticing many of my visits/views are coming from within WordPress thanks to the categories assigned to the articles. Even looks like a few visitors are following the links in the Go Firefox! Forum. Also WordPress shows the top search engine terms used to find the blog. Over the past couple days FoxIt and Firefox 1.5.0.7 have been the top terms.

Now, my only gripe about WordPress is its WYSIWYG editor. A bit limited compared to that of Blogger. Simple solution around this is to compose post where I needed to do a lot of formating in Nvu and then copy the source over to WordPress. Also need to get accustom to the fact the for WordPress the ‘day’ ends at 5:00 PM my time, until the end of October when it will be 6:00 PM (no daylight savings time in my part of Arizona) But given what I have seen thus far, I am glad I made the move.