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Author: Arron

  • A Fresh Start, Calls for a ‘Fresh’ Theme …

    You may have noticed we’ve switched to a premium theme! On Friday, and bearing in mind we wanted to re-launch RazorianFly with a bang, we picked up the ‘Fresh News’ theme from WooThemes. This theme offers tonnes of configurable options behind the scenes, but also offers a lot more to you, our readers …

    We’ll be editing and moving things about for quite a while until we’re happy, but I’d just like to highlight some of the new, convenient, features this theme now offers you … (more…)

  • Move Complete – Please Report Bugs 🙂

    Well, it was tough, but finally we are self-hosted and let me be the first to say, with one awesome (premium) WordPress theme! – Yes, on Friday, Trentiles bought the ‘Fresh News’ from WooThemes (We highly recommend them). The move from wordpress.com to self-hosted, took from last Friday (5th Sep) until today (9th Sep). This was partly due to image resizing and painfully eradicating (to the best of our ability) invalid permalinks … (more…)

  • Advertise

    Hey! – Would you like to see your site or blog in one of those spaces over there? Your in luck.
    We are now offering advert space on this blog.

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    Pricing (REDUCED!)
    Advertise your site on RazorianFly now, from just £1.99 a month!
    We offer two great sizes of advert area, sure to suit most needs:

    125 x 125 Pixel Ad Block (small square):
    £1.99 ($3.40) /month

    300 x 250 Pixel Ad Block (large rectangle):
    £7.99 ($13.60) /month

    All payments are managed securely by Paypal.com.

    Interested?
    If you wish to order advertising from us,
    please contact me directly at arron@razorianfly.com for more information.

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    To give you a feel of the blog, and it’s traffic, we are currently getting (on average) 8.000 in traffic a month, with approximately 584 page loads, 316 unique visitors and 280 first time visitors a day.

    Below are the traffic figures for September 2008 (Wk 01):

  • Rapid Review: Masayuki Akamatsu’s Banner.

    We first saw Banner [App Store] appear on the store back in late July. Since then banner was renamed to ‘Banner Free’ [App Store] signaling to pretty much the entire world the developer was gearing up to launch a charged version, and on Friday, that’s exactly what Masayuki Akamatsu (the developer) did … (more…)

  • Shoe Circus: Microsoft’s defense to ‘I’m a Mac, I’m a PC’ Ad Campaign.

    Bill Gates, starring in his own commercials? – Surely not.
    Sadly, yes. Also on the pay roll? – Jerry Seinfield [Wiki].



    In this first installment of the series, we see Bill Gates visit a low-discount shoe store, with Jerry following shortly after him. Microsoft says the ads are part of a new $300 Million advertising campaign aimed solely at striking back at Apple’s smug “Get a Mac” ads … (more…)

  • 3 Days Only: The Mechanical Spider. – [Updated]

    By now, I’m sure you’ve all heard of the huge mechanical critter to invade Liverpool, but if you haven’t, a french company has created and brought over a 50ft (15m) high mechanical spider (pictured above) for a five-day piece of street theatre in the UK city of Liverpool … (more…)

  • September 9th: No iTunes Unlimited.

    I recently blogged about the possibility of Apple unveiling a new option to buy your music from iTunes, dubbed iTunes Unlimited. Unfortunately, according to sources within CNet, Apple will not be introducing an iTunes subscription service next week … (more…)