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Wishing You a Very Happy Christmas from The Team at TFTS

Andrew Tingle — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 00:02:09 +0000

It’s that time of the year again when people are, quite suddenly, nice to each other for a while (ah, shame it isn’t like this the year round, eh?) and we at TFTS – that is Alex, Chris, Kevin, Mike, Nick and myself – would like to extend our warmest ...

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New Enhanced Credit Links for Sites on Our Links Page [TFTS Link Love]

Andrew Tingle — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 01:45:01 +0000

Whilst we like to keep site notices to an absolute minimum, we felt it necessary to just offer a quick head’s up for those sites either already featured on our (newly updated and revised) links page or who are on topic and would like to be featured, as we are ...

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TFTS Welcomes Two New Members to the Writing Team [Gary Sims & Piyush Bakshi]

Andrew Tingle — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 11:40:35 +0000

I am personally overjoyed to welcome two new staff members to TFTS with both Gary Sims and Piyush Bakshi joining our writing team today, both of whom are not only accomplished and proven writers in their own right but both of whom are bringing with them a great deal of ...

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Get Active in Our New TFTS Forums – Win $250 (Talk About Incentives…)

Andrew Tingle — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 11:44:42 +0000

As you may be aware, TFTS has just opened its brand new forums and, as with any new forum, getting the ball rolling is an initial hurdle so we thought ‘how can we really act to get the ball rolling?’ and the answer is, let’s face it, in these time ...

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New TFTS Forums Now Live – We Look Forward To Meeting You

Andrew Tingle — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 10:51:27 +0000

We are pleased to announce that, in a bid to engage with you more and to offer a means of free interchange, we have just opened our new TFTS Forums where you can talk about gadgets and technology, write your own mini reviews (which could appear on the site with ...

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New Logo, Blown CPU, Dead Computer [Hence My Disappearance]

Andrew Tingle — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 15:48:58 +0000

Life eh? Just when, yesterday afternoon, I’d managed to pop the new TFTS logo onto the site and whilst still in my FTP program sorting out a little code my computer’s CPU decided to give up the ghost with somewhat of a pop leaving me with no computer and no ...

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TFTS Welcomes A New Staff Writer To The Team [TFTS Site News]

Andrew Tingle — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 14:14:07 +0000

As regular readers will know, we have been searching high and low for additional writers for TFTS for some time now and, whilst we’ve had a fair few applications, we have been holding out for writers who, we feel, will bring a genuine (almost tangible) passion and enthusiasm for all ...

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TFTS Taking a Week’s Break – Recharging Our Batteries

Andrew Tingle — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 10:23:26 +0000

Just a quick note to advise that, as I will be off sunning myself in warmer climes and consuming copious amounts of beer/cocktails/spirits for a week on a well deserved break, there will be no updates on TFTS for the next few days. In the meantime, however, please do feel ...

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TFTS Gets A Fresh New Look [TFTS V3 At Your Service]

Andrew Tingle — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 22:45:29 +0000

Its been a while in the making and its taken a non-stop 48 hour stint – hence no posts during this period – to tweak it to match our initial ‘vision’, but at last the new look is now live and (touching wood) we appear to have most the creases ...

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TFTS Posting On Hold As We Take A Long Overdue Holiday

Andrew Tingle — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 16:40:28 +0000

Having worked every day pretty much without exception for as long as we can remember, except for when we experienced a family loss, the time has come for me to recharge my somewhat depleted batteries so TFTS will be taking a two week break as the wife and I jet ...

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Updated – Notice of Forthcoming Downtime This Weekend Due To Server Upgrade [Completed]

Andrew Tingle — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 03:29:01 +0000

Some of you may have noticed that we have experienced a few ‘blips’ of late due to traffic surges bringing our server to its knees so, in order to resolve these issues, we are upgrading to a new quad core dedicated server which will, unfortunately, result in some downtime as ...

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TFTS Looking For Writers – Come And Join Us, And Get Paid

Andrew Tingle — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 02:35:55 +0000

If you enjoy writing, have a keen eye concerning gadgets and can write engaging prose we would very much like to hear from you as we are now looking to get a few additional writers on board to help us drive the site onwards and upwards by offering more content ...

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TFTS Surpasses Magic 1,000,000 Unique Visitors Mark

Andrew Tingle — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 17:02:23 +0000

We’re genuinely thrilled to announce that TFTS has passed the somehow rather meaningful 1,000,000 unique visitor mark today (courtesy of a visitor from Jackson, Mississippi) within 18 months of featuring our very first post – an occasion that we couldn’t possibly let pass without a brief acknowledgement and the ...

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TFTS Wishes You a Very Merry and Peaceful Christmas

Andrew Tingle — Mon, 24 Dec 2007 13:42:31 +0000

Whilst it’s our intention to continue posting through the festive season as best we can – allowing for periods of apparent lack of activity due to excessive alcohol consumption and the traditional bout of food poisoning occasioned by my wife’s continued attempts to craft a Christmas dinner that doesn’t result ...

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Where’s The Missing Post – Or How Not To Get Your Product Featured on TFTS

Andrew Tingle — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 16:52:11 +0000

If you are one of the hundreds of people who subscribe to our feed then a few of you may have noted that a post that temporarily appeared in your feedreader has since gone AWOL on account of us removing it, thus resulting in a 404 error – here’s why ...

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TFTS – As Featured on Reuters

Andrew Tingle — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 22:19:28 +0000

We are overjoyed to announce that, following our site featuring in Belgium’s edition of Maxim Magazine a while ago and our recent celebration concerning TFTS passing the magic 1,000,000 page views mark within fifteen months of the site’s conception, a TFTS reader has kindly been in contact (thanks Matt) to ...

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TFTS Celebrates 1,000,000+ Page Views

Andrew Tingle — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 11:51:50 +0000

Ever so often we like to celebrate something concerning the site and, being that we passed our 500,000th unique visitor mark some days ago without so much as a whimper, we wondered whether we should also sit back and watch our one millionth page view pass equally unmarked – then ...

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TFTS Posting Suspended for This Week

Andrew Tingle — Sun, 07 Oct 2007 20:42:26 +0000

My sincere apologies to regular readers, however, for the next five days there will be little (if any) in the way of posts on account of the fact that I have matters to attend to away from TFTS Towers as a result of a recent death in the family (alluded ...

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TFTS Reader Feedback Welcomed – And Received

Andrew Tingle — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 11:52:27 +0000

Yesterday we received some feedback from a reader which we thought we really ought to draw attention to as he raises a number of points that we felt we should address in full and, as we are always looking to learn and move forward as a result of feedback, we ...

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TFTS Online Store – Shop with TFTS and Amazon

Andrew Tingle — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 00:28:59 +0000

Long term readers of TFTS will no doubt recall that, back in the day when TFTS was a predominantly orange affair (we like to think that the new colour scheme is a little more pleasing to the eyes these days) we had our own online store which suddenly went MIA ...

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TFTS Celebrates First Birthday

Andrew Tingle — Sat, 25 Aug 2007 12:07:26 +0000

We couldn’t possibly pass up on quickly marking the fact that Thoughts from the Sidelines celebrates its first birthday today – and what a year it’s been. Whilst we are by no means a considerable presence on the net, we are extremely pleased with what has been accomplished in our first ...

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Concerning Recent Site Issues

Andrew Tingle — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 17:38:31 +0000

As regular readers of TFTS will know we recently moved to new hosting environment due to TFTS outgrowing our previous home and, initially, all was well. Unfortunately in the last couple of weeks we have been plagued by repeated downtime on account of us already outgrowing our new home (that didn’t ...

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New Server Up and Running – Lets Get Back to Business

Andrew Tingle — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 03:04:07 +0000

We are pleased – and somewhat relieved – to report that TFTS is now being served from our new, more robust server with the transition finalising only a few moments ago. We will now be requesting that our old server area is shut down having served over half a million ...

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TFTS Now Back Online – What Happened?

Andrew Tingle — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 22:04:12 +0000

If you are a regular reader of TFTS you will no doubt have noticed that we’ve been inaccessible for just under 24hrs – which, it has to be said, have felt like the longest 24hrs of our lives. By way of explanation, we were (understandably) taken off line by our hosting ...

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Announcing Our Sister Site – e-Potpourri!

Andrew Tingle — Sat, 23 Jun 2007 12:04:07 +0000

We’ve thought long and hard as to when would be the best time to publicise our new site, as referred to a few posts back, and, after much head scratching, we’ve decided that there really is no time like the present. Besides, we’re very keen to hear what you think ...

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Support TFTS and Get Noticed – Come Write for Us

Andrew Tingle — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 00:27:54 +0000

Can you write in an engaging style? Can you find original gadget related content that you think would interest our readers? If so we are now opening our doors to invite additional writers to the TFTS team. If you would like to be read by thousands, but do not have the ...

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IE6 Issues Resolved

Andrew Tingle — Tue, 29 May 2007 19:53:09 +0000

We would like to sincerely apologise to any Internet Explorer 6 users who have had issues accessing TFTS over the last couple of days. Since the issue came to our attention (our thanks to Mike Perth in this respect) we have been working tirelessly on trying to replicate and resolve ...

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It’s official – Maxim Magazine reads TFTS

Andrew Tingle — Fri, 04 May 2007 18:01:12 +0000

I am genuinely thrilled to announce that a story that I featured a while back in TFTS concerning Guillermo Sureda-Burgos’s beautiful personal submersible concepts has been featured in a half page article in Belgium’s May edition of Maxim Magazine. I have known about this for some weeks, in honesty, but thought ...

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TFTS Moves to Full Feed with Imagery

Andrew Tingle — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 21:28:25 +0000

Following on from user feedback, we are pleased to advise that we have now updated our site feed from a summary feed to a full post feed inclusive of imagery. We would like to thank all those who have been kind enough to offer feedback concerning TFTS and we hope that ...

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TFTS Reader Feedback – Help us Improve

Andrew Tingle — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 10:24:03 +0000

Whether you are a seasoned subscriber to our feed, a regular visitor or are just passing by we would love to hear your views about the site – positive or negative. As we gain in popularity – and we have you to thank for this as well as the countless hours ...

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New Incoming Links Feature Implemented

Andrew Tingle — Mon, 16 Apr 2007 00:07:09 +0000

As regular readers of TFTS will no doubt have noticed, there has been a great deal of interest in a number of stories we’ve featured here on TFTS of late and, by way of thanks to all those sites that have been kind enough to offer links back to TFTS ...

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TFTS Featured as Tech Blog of the Week

Andrew Tingle — Sun, 08 Apr 2007 14:03:22 +0000

We’re overjoyed to announce that Thoughts from the Sidelines has been awarded the great accolade of being the featured Tech Blog of the Week for this coming week by the discerning chaps over at Daily Cup of Tech. We are, obviously, delighted to have received this accolade and we would like ...

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TFTS Now Welcomes External Submissions

Andrew Tingle — Sun, 25 Mar 2007 12:29:56 +0000

TFTS has opened its doors, as we are now welcoming submissions from readers, bloggers, designers, conceptualists and product representatives in a bid to bring our readership more in the way of stimulating content. Whether you are a reader who would simply like to tip us off about a news item you ...

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First Post for CG Makes Guardian Unlimited

Andrew Tingle — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 17:15:44 +0000

I am overjoyed to say that my first post as a guest blogger for Coolest Gadgets – linked here – has not only seemingly caused quite a stir on the internet, with the majority of major sites picking it up but, to my surprise, I’ve just noticed that it’s even ...

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Cause for Celebration – Invitation from Coolest Gadgets

Andrew Tingle — Sat, 17 Mar 2007 18:34:58 +0000

It’s nice to be noticed and, with that in mind, I am overjoyed to announce that I have been formerly invited to become a guest blogger on none other than the Coolest Gadgets website – a particular cause for celebration as far as I am concerned as I have been ...

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TFTS Now Available as a Widget!

Andrew Tingle — Sun, 11 Mar 2007 18:33:44 +0000

Thoughts from the Sidelines has been Widgetized – and it didn’t hurt a bit (though, admittedly, we were heavily anesthetised during the ‘wigitization’ process). If you would like to offer a live RSS feed of posts from Thoughts from the Sidelines from either your blog or your MySpace page we are ...

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New Browse TFTS by Image Page now Live

Andrew Tingle — Fri, 09 Mar 2007 21:54:36 +0000

It took a while to get it working the way we initially envisaged but, after a fair bit of hair-pulling and nail biting, we are pleased to announce that we have introduced a new feature to Thoughts from the Sidelines by which you can browse posts by imagery and, just ...

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Celebrating 100,000 Hits

Andrew Tingle — Sun, 04 Mar 2007 14:03:56 +0000

Just a quick post to say that we are overjoyed to report that Thoughts from the Sidelines has just passed the 100,000 hits mark today, which I missed on account of trying to upgrade my Wordpress installation (and having a few major technical issues – just typical). For one of the ...

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TFTS Site Redesign Complete

Andrew Tingle — Sat, 03 Mar 2007 12:39:32 +0000

Justing sitting short of 100,000 hits, we are happy to report that the site redesign is now complete – though regular readers really cannot have failed to notice the aesthetic overall. Surprisingly it went without a hitch, though most of the development was completed on a separate test site and ...

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TFTS Redesign Underway

Andrew Tingle — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 11:08:58 +0000

We would like to apologize to readers for any inconvenience caused as we aesthetically overhaul Thoughts from the Sidelines. We are using a ‘test bed’ to conduct the majority of the testing and recoding required, however, on occasions we will need to run a test via this main site. Once the ...

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