Helmers Blog

The upgrade of my blog to WordPress 3.0 has been finished successfully! So now I can start designing a new ‘look’ for my blog…so in a few weeks the site will have an up to date layout again.

Since a long time Helmers Blog is using the translation services of Microsoft Translator. This service can do an instant translation of a website. Just press select the correct language and press the > button.

The new Translator Widget can do more Yeah..the new functionalities are still in beta, but I think they really rock. It is possible to let the Translator Widget translate your website automatically. So if the website (which is using the new Microsoft Translator Widget) is in English, but your browser settings are in Dutch, German, French (or one of the other languages) it will automatically translate the website in your own language.

Another new feature (invite only at the moment) is the Collaborative Translations. This feature allows you to create a better translation of selected text. See the image below for an example.

Because the new Translator Widget is still in beta, some features won’t work entirely the way the should. If you see anything that isn’t working the way it should, you can report it at the Microsoft Translator Forums.

It’s almost the end of the year…it’s almost time to celebrate and (a few days later) fireworks. The year that my blog had to move to another hoster twice due to a visitor overload! 2009 is also a year for loads of new stuff : I build myself a Nerd Network, the Philips TV which was unable to stream media files and of course the launch of Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 and Exchange 2010!

2009 was a great year for my blog, the blog kept growing every month! Over 190,000 visitors visited Helmers Blog during the first 11 months of 2009. In November 2009 I found a sponsor which made it possible to move the blog to it’s own server! Thanks Hozio for the sponsoring!

This will probably be my last blog post in 2009. Just two more working days for me this year….so let me end by wishing you all a very merry Christmas and a a very happy 2010!

Helmer

  Since early this year I received several e-mails from the web hoster to let me know that I had too much traffic/load/visitors coming to my blog. The first two overloads had something to do with a blog post I created, but the last one (just a few weeks ago) simply had something to do with a large increase in the number of visitors.

This made me decide to tweet about a sponsorship I was looking for, and Hozio responded. I’m proud to tell you that my blog has been migrated to it’s own server over at Hozio!

As you probably noticed the blog is back again. The only change I made was the Featured Content banner on the top of the homepage. If you like new hot stuff…just keep an eye on the blog for the next few days!