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DuoBlogger’s Redesign

Mark — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 16:55:34 +0000

Now that the redesign of DuoBlogger has come to an end on 18th of march, we are quite happy with the result.

Let us know what you think about our blog using the poll below:

The theme is sold by rocketthemes and if you like it as much as we do, you can get it there as well – the theme is called WP-Moxy. Their support is awesome as well, got help within no time at the forum to resolve some minor modifications.

The biggest change we wanted to see with a new theme was that our clients are able to contact us quickly regarding our services. The contact details on the sidebar are one of those changes we wanted to see, and it seems it works quite well. We plan on doing an update on the about page, the AdSense consultancy page and the video’s located close to the footer (on the homepage) as well. Since most of our pages are badly outdated, it’s gonna take a while to fix every aspect of our blog.

If you have any questions or suggestions on the design part or overall, email us or ask them in the comments below – should be way easier now :).

Cheers,

Mark

DuoBlogger goes local

Hendrik — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 23:45:52 +0000

Mark and me are feeling the need to extend our work and go into local niches. As you know Mark is from the Netherlands and I am from Germany. The idea is to build something in our own mother-tongue.

A Dutch and German Webmaster-forum

We talked and drew the conclusion that we could best serve all our readers best with a local forum in our mother tongue. Mark will overtake a Dutch version of DuoBlogger and I will work on a German version. The collaboration platform is yet again going to be a forum.

Access DuoBlogger.nl/.de

As previously said, Mark overtakes the Dutch DuoBlogger version: http://www.duoblogger.nl. He will post guides and answer questions.

I will overtake the German DuoBlogger version: http://www.duoblogger.de

AdSense Extreme

Hendrik — Wed, 20 May 2009 18:52:16 +0000

An extreme AdSense video recorded in the largest Gyrocopter on the world in the Heide Park Soltau, Germany. We always give our readers an inside peak from all around the world, this time more extreme.

I must say that I was pretty scared when I was on the highest point in the roller coaster.

DuoBloggers Go Wild

Mark — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 23:40:03 +0000

Now that Hendrik is visiting me here in the Netherlands, we thought it would be a nice idea to go and have some fun – something like skiing indoors.

While we had a great time swimming through the crowds of people (it was sunday night and there was a major cut on ticket prices), it was a perfect opportunity to build up our teamwork. While waiting at the lifts it gave us time to chat about random stuff. After the skiing we looked for a MacDonalds to fill our stomachs with some food, but there was a long line of cars in front of the MacDrive so we skipped it and went straight to my local kebab shop and ate something there.

After that day Hendrik went for some shopping at the Outlet store which sells high brand cloths for cheap. And in the afternoon we are always on our computers blogging and socialising :)

Tomorrow we are heading to Breda, which you can find here on Google Maps. And the plan is actually to go Karting. Like Mario Kart :P We will see what happens, and keep you up to date. We also try to get some footage there.

My new green computer

Hendrik — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 19:38:35 +0000

I gotta apologize…. I have not been writing a lot recently, one reason for that is my new super green computer. If you ask me then we all should start supporting our environment, using old, power-intensive computers will damage our precious environment. We only have one environment and although we humans are only temporary with 100 years of life, we should also start thinking about future generations. Within 200 years mankind used almost all of nature’s resources which took billions of years to develop.

Yosemite national park

Nature kicks ass… Oh I was reminded of going green when I checked the old SD card in my camera…. There were some pictures of my trip to California in 2007. I am attaching it – it is Yosemite national park in California. One of the most stunning places on earth. I still remember driving through there, I only feel that way if I see something truly amazing – I had this strange feeling that I was nothing – nature was so overwhelming and breathtaking that I simply felt temporary (in a gamer’s words: owned). I mean, take into consideration, humans live 100 years and it takes 10000 years for the Grand Canyon to cut itself 10 centimeter deeper into the rock. We are nothing, we are just a very small part of the nature-complex. Taking us out of nature will have no effect on anything – we will just fade away and the life-cycle will go on for billions of years more.

I am getting emotional lol. In fact I am almost starting crying right now :-(. I wanna go there again as fast as possible :-(. The next time I want to take my girlfriend with me. I still remember the lonely block-houses in zion national park. Taking her there is one of my biggest dreams :-).

My green computer

Back to topic: I think that we should use our nature, but not destroy it. So what I did, I build together a computer with only energy-saving parts. My computer before was consuming way too much power…. My graphic card in idle mode alone was using around 50 Watts, which is way too much. Attaching a picture of my new computer.

I am really sorry for all the cables lol. I really need to work on my cable-management. What is not shown on the picture is a USB-hub which I bought. That way I can quickly use all the USB devices on my other computers, especially useful for my EEEpc-901. You just need to take 1 cable and plug it in one USB port and you got all the devices available attached to the Hub.

So, posting some specs for the hardware gurus hehe:

- AMD AM2+ e9350 (only 65 Watts when fully used)
- Nvidia Geforce GTX260
- 4 GB OCZ 1080 MHZ DDR2 Ram
- M3N-HT Mainboard for Hybrid-SLI
- 550 Watt PSU 86 percent efficiency

In office my Power-counter shows me that I am using 80 Watts, which is quite good compared to my other computer. We should all care about our environment :-).