DailyApps Turns One Year Old…
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I still can’t believe that this day has finally come. On this very day the last year I had started DailyApps after a not so successful stint with blogging earlier. I never expected DailyApps to become popular and be quite successful.. Looking back at the earlier posts, I can see how poorly they were written. I have surely come a long way since then I guess.
As most of you already know, I am currently pursuing my engineering studies in computer science and I feel that some of the stuff I’ve written in the past deserves a special mention simply because it is coming from 19 year teenager. Well all that aside, life is in full swing and expect more quality stuff in the coming future.
I had initially started out on ASmallOrange back in July 2007 and the server was more or less enough in the early days of DailyApps until this extremely popular post ( Hack Attack : Install Leopard on your PC in 3 easy steps! ) took my server down and I had to move to my own VPS. In between these outages though my hosting was graciously donated by a good friend Thilak.
This one year has been fantastic and I’d like to share a few stats with you guys.. This is from the day we started that is 26th July 2007 to this date.
- 2+ Million Unique Visitors.
- 3.2 Million Page Views.
- The most viewed posts are the Hack Attack series and then in a close second comes the homepage.
- Here are the browsers used by the readers of Dailyapps
- Firefox 52.9%
- Internet Explorer 31.8%
- Safari 10.1%
- Opera 3.9%
- Traffic Sources
- Google 32.4%
- Direct 15.0%
- Stumbleupon 8%
- Digg 7%
- Most Popular Search Phrases
- Install Leopard on PC
- XP SP3
- Vista SP1
- Dailyapps
At the moment Dailyapps is my heart and soul, and I have no plans of giving up anytime soon. At the moment I am working on optimizing the ads on the site to make them as less as obtrusive as possible to you readers.
Thanks again to all you dedicated readers..
You might already be swearing on me right now. Come on man first birthday and no party, no goodies, you got to be kidding me right??
Well No.. For all the effort you’ve put over the past year I thought I should have a giveaway of sorts for you to take away some nice goodies..
Well here we are.. read on to find out more about the giveaway
The DailyApps Birthday Bash Giveaway
All you readers have been the guiding light of DailyApps. A lot of you have given your suggestions, tips and shared interesting apps and that’s why we have a small giveaway over here…
Well here are the stuff we are giving away this time..
- xplorer2 – 5 Pro Licenses
- Media Monkey – 10 Gold Licenses
- Pingdom – 25 Basic Accounts for One Year
The details as to how you can avail these cool goodies will be live in the coming few hours. Each giveaway will have its own set of rules so make sure you read them properly before you take part.
You can take part in all the three giveaways but you can win only one prize.. Wait that’s not all there is a little bit of surprise for you as well.. To find out more about it you will have to wait, but in the meantime I’d like you to leave a comment on this post answer either one (or both) of the following…
- Your favorite post on DailyApps?
- How did you find out about DailyApps?
On Monday I will reveal the surprise, and will select a winner randomly from the comments on this post.. Make sure you leave your name and email address in the comment form so that I can contact you later..
23 Comments, Comment or Ping
SHuve
happy birthday!
Jul 26th, 2008
Shankar Ganesh
Congratulations and Happy Blog B’day
The first time I visited DailyApps – I came from the Tech Buzz site, the name you’ve chosen for the blog is really good – it made me stick to the site and look around.
I’ve came to know about some really good apps from your blog posts – particularly, the USB Disk Ejector tool and also the SP3 Hack.
Thanks a ton, keep writing
Jul 26th, 2008
Mike Ryan
Wow, I can’t believe this site is one year old!
I think I started reading this blog not too long after you started it up after finding it in a google search. From there, I became a daily reader and haven’t come across a bad post yet.
As for my favorite post, I am going to have to go with your spotlight on Defraggler. Why, you ask? Because Defraggler is a daily task, along with the mentioned Ccleaner and Recuva. That gem of a find has been one of the most useful applications I could think of!
I also loved your post about Cairo. One day the M1 will be released and thanks to you I get to try it out. (Wink wink). Hopefully that post comes out to a great end as well.
Well, anyways congratulations! You have done a great job in keeping this site running, and not a shabby post yet.
Jul 26th, 2008
sakabatou
Happy birthday!
I’ve been around here just for a few days but…
Wow! this is what I want.
Your suggestion is so great, they’re step-by-step and can understand easily.
I found here when I google about osX86.
So keep running this site, it’s really good.
Jul 26th, 2008
Thomas Beckingham
Happy Birthday!!
I was so glad when I found this site, it seemed to fill a gap, there are alots of tech sites dealing with gadgets, but this had more tweaking and apps to improve the PC experience.
1) My favorite post without a doubt is the guide on dual-booting iATKOS OSX86 and Vista. It worked brillantly
2) I’m pretty sure I came across your site when another site featured one of your articles, can’t remember if it was lifehacker or another blog, but I was sure glad when I found it.
Jul 26th, 2008
caschy
Happy Birthday from Germany =)
Jul 26th, 2008
Chance
Congratulations on the site, though. It’s definitely a milestone, and I hope you continue to post.
Jul 26th, 2008
IanG
Happy Birthday
Keep up the good work.
Jul 26th, 2008
Bhavin
Hi kartik,
Happy birthday 2 dailyapps. Congo to u man. keep the good work up.
dailyapps.net has become 1 of the favorites of mine.
it was installation of mac osx on pc article, that attracted me to this website.
Jul 26th, 2008
Tim
happy birthday
stumbled across this site with the mac for pc
Jul 26th, 2008
Abhijeet from Jeet Blog
Congrats Karthik ! Great blog and great achievement ! I think I’ve been a dailyapps subscriber since a pretty long time now and have been really enjoying it. Keep blogging !
Jul 27th, 2008
Sharath M Puranik
happy B’day to dailyapps.net
glad to see its going very well… hope it becomes all the more famous..
Jul 27th, 2008
Kyle
found it for the XP SP3
Jul 27th, 2008
Mike M,
Happy Birthday! I think I found DailyApps from a link in Lifehacker (but Im not 100% sure about that).
Jul 27th, 2008
Henrique Neto
Congrats for this first birthday!
I’m Henrique from Brazil and I found out your site/blog via google (answer to the 2nd question).
Well, my favorite post was definitely the one about How To Install Leopard on 3 Steps. After that I finnally got courage to try that again and now I have both Leopard and XP on my pc!
Thank you for all the information on your blog and good luck for the next posts and the next years!
Jul 28th, 2008
Raj
You’ve a great blog out here Karthik.. Been a long time reader.. And my favorite post is the leopard install one..
I guess I found your blog through some other blog. .I don’t remember which one though..
Jul 28th, 2008
V1
Happy birthday!
Your favorite post on DailyApps?
Cant really choose.. must have been a iphone jailbreak… or.. That must have been the leopard on osx86 i found in through google… Felt in love dailyapps that day..
answer on nr2… google :=D
O god lol, i just saw u mentioned the post in this topic XD
That was the post i found on google while i was debugging my osx86
Anyways what are the plans for the comming year
?
Jul 28th, 2008
max
Happy B’day and congratulations to completing one year !!!
My favorite post on DailyApps is Hack attack for Mac OSX
and How did I find out about DailyApps ???- from my best friend.
Thanks !
Max
Jul 28th, 2008
Ramkesh Renganathan
Your favorite post on DailyApps?
Definitely the Leopard OSX86 post. That was the day I found this blog and that’s the day I started reading it.
How did you find out about DailyApps?
I think it was a link from Engadget or Lifehacker.
Jul 29th, 2008
Ruthie
unsubscribe please
Jul 29th, 2008
manpreet singh
happy birthday u rock & i love u keep posting and be blessed. With all my liking for u soon u’ll celebrate its 10′th birthday and i’ll be there byebye
Jul 29th, 2008
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