Category: Blog

  • Happy Thanksgiving from Techerator!

    To those of you reading Techerator from the United States: Happy Thanksgiving!  We decided to take a break from the tech today and instead tell you what our plans are for the holiday weekend.  Feel free to tell us your plans in the comments at the bottom of this post! Above all, we’re thankful for…

  • Subscribe to Techerator with the Techerator Extension for Google Chrome

    Here at Techerator, we know that our site wouldn’t be the success it is without all of our readers (Thank you!).  Since our launch in May 2009, we’ve made many improvements to the site for our readers.  Our most recent change was an entire redesign of Techerator. A big focus on the redesign was making…

  • Welcome to Techerator v2! (Updated)

    You may have noticed we’ve been a bit quiet lately – well, today we can finally divulge the big news.  For the past few weeks, we’ve been stealthily putting together the new version of Techerator which officially launched today! This new version is a complete visual redesign, but we’ve tried to preserve the overall layout…

  • Happy New Year!

    It’s officially 2010, Happy New Year! Today also marks Techerator’s 9 month anniversary, so I’d like to send a special thanks to everyone who has helped me with Techerator over the past 9 months, especially: Dustin Patterson – Co-founder and Editor Kevin Schulte – Editor Reis Pritchard – Contributor Jacob Keppeler – Contributor David Carman…

  • Happy Holidays!

    From all of us at Techerator, we wish you a safe and wonderful holiday this year.  Thank you for joining us as we grow! (Image courtesy 1Happysnapper)

  • Security Week at Techerator

    October is National Cybersecurity Awareness Month, and Techerator is participating by running a week-long series of computer and internet security related articles.  We’ll be posting tips and guides about safely using your computer, avoiding viruses/malware, recommended antivirus programs, and what to do when you’ve been infected. Check out our special National Cybersecurity Awareness Month series…

  • New Techerator Feature: Comment with Your Twitter or Facebook Accounts

    Nobody wants to create a new account to comment on a website, so we’re happy to announce that you can now comment on any Techerator article with your Twitter or Facebook accounts.  All you need to do is click the Twitter or Facebook Connect buttons at the bottom of an article, authenticate your account, and…

  • Making Tags More Useful as Popular Topics

    We’ve just improved the Tagged Posts page to improve your user experience and help you find relevant articles quicker.  You can still use any of the categories at the top of the page to look for specific articles, but Tags allows us to uniquely categorize articles while still keeping similar subject matter together. You’ll notice…

  • The Evolution of the Category Page

    One of the bigger items on my “to do” list was to get the category page layout looking similar to the front page layout (with the thumbnails and short article text).  Although specifying the “read more” tag in each post worked well enough to make the category pages easier to read, I still felt it…