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Write For Zath UK Technology & Gadget Blog?
October 17, 2008
Would you be interested in having the opporatunity to write for Zath?
We’re an established UK Tech Blog that’s been running for over 4 years and now gets over 5,000 visitors a day to the site. These figures are increasing month on month, so we’re now looking to recruit some more talented writers onto the Zath team so that we can better cover news and reviews of the latest in technology, hi-tech gadgets and gaming for our readers.
Have you ever considered writing for a website such as Zath? Have you got a interest in the topics that Zath covers? Can you write original content to a high standard about these things that you like?
Continue reading »Gadget Competitions – 11/10/08
October 11, 2008
You may remember that I highlighted a gadget competition over at Coolest Gadgets a while back, well Zath is once again one of the nominated Coolest Gadgets of the Week with our recent gadget post about a Mini Catamaran. Not only can you vote for you favourite of the nominated gadgets from a variety of gadget and tech websites, but you can also stand a chance of winning $100 for yourself by voting and then leaving a comment.
Continue reading »Math of Zath – August 2008
October 7, 2008
Admittedly I’ve left this August round-up a little late, so I’ll keep it pretty short and hopefully you’ll find something you missed the first time round!
Here’s what was big in August according to 51,000 people who visited Zath in that month – which again was up on the previous month, around 25% in fact, so that was rather nice growth, hopefully that will continue, which would be great!
If you have missed some of these posts the first time round, be sure to subscribe to Zath so you don’t miss any of our new content!
Continue reading »LG Renoir (KC910) Event
September 29, 2008
A few days ago I was invited along to another LG Bloggers’ Event that was held around Covent Garden in London. This time round, the event was for their latest mobile phone called the LG Renoir (KC910).
This is the mobile phone which I wrote about here on Zath a few weeks ago when it was still only known as the LG Renoir KC910 (preview). I’m pleased to see that like I hoped for in my preview post, LG have decided to give its latest creation an actual name to be known as instead of just the LG KC910 – I feel the LG KF600 potentially suffered somewhat marketing-wise from only being known by its model number. I mean the LG Secret sounds much better than just simply the LG KF750.
Continue reading »Follow Zath on Twitter!
September 9, 2008
Do you Twitter? I have to admit that I was very sceptical about this Twittering malarkey – I thought it was just a pointless thing to be doing as I wrote about in one of my early posts where I questioned the point of Twitter? However, that said, I have to admit that I think I was wrong about it and am now perhaps a little late to the Twitter party, but better late than never!
Twitter is essentially a way of letting people know what you’re currently up to or thinking – pretty much like people update their Facebook status, a mini-blog so to speak! In fact I have my Facebook status set up to update to whatever I post as a Twitter update by installing the Twitter application onto my Facebook account.
Continue reading »The Math of Zath! – July 2008
September 7, 2008
The Math of Zath is back! Now with it’s own feature logo! – Thanks again Forest!
Here’s what was hot in July according to the over 41,000 people who visited Zath in that month – which set a new record high for the site! I hope that a good number of you are seeing this as it will mean that you’ve liked the site enough to either subscribe or come back to the site from a bookmark!
Continue reading »Northern UK Bloggers’ Meet-Up
August 16, 2008
The first Northern UK Bloggers’ Meet-up took place yesterday at the Old Broadcasting House in Leeds – which is now a one of the facilities of Leeds Met University, which happens to be where I was a student back in 2001-2004 – it kind of felt like I’d come full circle!
The aim of this first session was to decide on the format for future events (which we kind of did), have some informal discussions about blogging and basically get to know each other.
In total there was about 20 bloggers that turned out for this initial event, we proceeded into the “boardroom” – not quite like the Apprentice with Sir Alan Sugar waiting for us – there was certainly no intimidating grillings, it was a very relaxed and good-humoured affair.
Continue reading »Custom Logo Design For Zath
August 4, 2008
In the last few days you may have noticed that Zath now has somewhat of a new look – I’ve finally managed to get a custom logo design created for the site and I can’t believe just how much of a difference it makes to whole look and feel of the site.
First of all, I have to say that I do not consider myself to be a creative person, well certainly not when it comes to creating designs, artwork etc.
As you can see below, the temporary logo design that I created a few months back when I implemented the overall new design of the site on it’s first birthday, was well rather simple to say the least – it’s probably the best that I could manage! I could have spent days or weeks trying to create a decent looking logo, but it would never have looked as good as the new custom logo design we now have displayed on the site.
Continue reading »The Math of Zath! – June 2008
July 29, 2008
What can be said for the Math of Zath! in June? Well it was thankfully a fairly consistent month of traffic compared to previous months which had been up and down like a yoyo! I suppose this also means that the top popular are a more accurate measure of what was doing well on Zath! all month long.
Anyway, if you’ve missed out on seeing these posts at the time, now’s the time to see what everyone else has been taking a look at, followed by some other of my personal favourites from May.
Continue reading »Dell Studio Launch Coverage
July 15, 2008
Following up on my coverage of the recent Dell Studio laptop launch that I attended at the recent Dell Silverstone Formula 1 testing day, I thought I’d just do a quick post rounding up some of the coverage from that day.
My friend Gaj over at Gaj-It.com has done a bit of video editing of some of the various videos that he took on day and created a cool montage video that pretty much covers the events and atmosphere of the day, check it out below:
Continue reading »Dell Event at Formula 1 Silverstone Testing Day
July 12, 2008
A few weeks ago I was invited by Dell to attend a Silverstone Formula 1 testing day (26th June 2008) which was actually the final testing session before the British Grand Prix took place there just over a week later. The purpose of the day was for launching the new Dell Studio laptops, this would be the second Dell event that I’d been asked to take part in, it was therefore a great opportunity and I gladly accepted.
Only then did I then find out that we’d be getting flown into Silverstone by helicopter – a place, where on the day of the British Grand Prix is the busiest “Heli-port” in the world!
I had to meet up at an Elstree Aerodrome in North London for 8.30am – it meant I had to get up at around 3am – which is probably the earliest I’ve ever had to, so that was bit of a shock to the system! I was out the house and on the road by around 4am – but it would ultimately be a very worthwhile journey!
Continue reading »The Math of Zath! – May 2008
June 26, 2008
What can be said for the Math of Zath! in May? Well it thankfully a fairly consistent month of traffic compared to previous months which had been up and down like a yoyo! I suppose this also means that the top popular are a more accurate measure of what Zath! was ranking well on all month long.
Anyway, if you’ve missed out on seeing these posts at the time, now’s the time to see what everyone else has been taking a look at, followed by some other of my personal favourites from May.
Continue reading »Best Hi-Tech Gadget Blogs
June 19, 2008
Do you like hi-tech gadgets? Of course you do, who doesn’t like a good hi-tech gadget? I mean they’re like toys for adults to play with!
I recently met several fellow technology / gadget bloggers at LG’s ‘Secret’ Bloggers’ Event to promote the release of their new ‘Secret’ mobile phone. The event was enjoyable in terms of hearing about and getting to play with LG’s latest mobile phone, we also had the opportunity to talk to the LG people to discuss their products, future directions they may take and the industry in general.
Continue reading »Zath Welcomes Mike to the Team
June 8, 2008
Just a quick post to introduce another new member to the writing team here on Zath!
Mike is a good friend of mine who I work with in my day job – he’s a real personality and has a great sense of humour and hopefully that will come across in his blog posts to you. He’s a big games player of World of Warcraft, Nintendo Wii and his Nintendo DS.
Continue reading »The Math of Zath! – April 2008
May 21, 2008
I’ve thought up a new regular post for the Zath! site, much like I post with the ‘Path of Zath!‘ (somewhat irregularly, but I’ve got some new ones on their way) – this time round I thought I could call it the ‘Math of Zath!’ – it is basically a post I’ll make once a month that showcases some of the most popular and best posts in the previous month.
Also, being the analytical person that I am, I’ll probably throw in some statistics in along the way – don’t there won’t be too much, I don’t want to bore people to death with numbers! 
Zath Welcomes Ender to the Team
May 5, 2008
As part of the development of the Zath! website, I’d like to announce and introduce you to a new writer to the team!
‘Ender’ has been a friend of mine for many years now having met at university, he’s a great guy who’s a highly skilled animation graduate and will be writing about TV/Movies, games and tech related subjects – I hope you’ll enjoy what he has to say as much as I do and am sure you’ll find it interesting and useful!
You can now read his first regular post which is an Iron Man Movie Review!
Continue reading »LG’s ‘Secret’ Bloggers’ Event
April 28, 2008
A couple of weeks ago LG invited me to participate in some of the launch events they had planned for their latest mobile phone handset; the ‘LG Secret’.
On Thursday 24th April (unfortunately I couldn’t attend this event), LG held a press conference to announce the name and other details of the latest in their range of ‘Black Label’ series of mobile phone handsets – until this event, no-one had been told what this new mobile would even be called.
Continue reading »Ricky Gervais Podcast Review
April 7, 2008
The Ricky Gervais Podcasts are very funny! Just like nearly everything he does, not much else to say…but I’ll try!
Ricky Gervais (who started off on the XFM radio station) is one of those comedians that you either love or hate from my experience of talking to various people – personally I think he’s great and have enjoyed watching him ever since he first started appearing on TV.
Continue reading »Should Entrecard Be Dropped?
April 6, 2008
You may have noticed that I have been using Entrecard on Zath in the past few months, located to the right of my website, but do you know what it is and how it works?
What Is RSS Feed?
March 28, 2008
As you’re visiting websites these days, your probably coming across this symbol (or a variation of it) more and more, it indicates that there is a RSS Feed available for the site, but what is RSS Feed?
I’m sure there’s a lot of people out there who know exactly what an RSS feed is, but I keep getting blank looks when I mention it to people, so I thought I’d write a quick post highlighting what it can do.
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