I thought I’d check out my site stats to see how Google Chrome is doing (now that I know Google Analytics can track it separately) since it was launched on the 2nd.

The least techy of my sites is BMTG, which garners just 1.67% of users from Chrome. Next up, Copy+ is 3.55%. This site is 5.66%. Not fantastic, but not too shoddy.

Other things that came out in this that Firefox is the most popular browser for this site (it’s IE on the others), Chrome usually has similar percentages to Safari (considering Safari is available on both Windows and Mac, I guess that doesn’t look too good for Safari). Opera is usually languishing in 5th place.

So, Chrome isn’t doing too badly, considering it’s shortcomings. But it is fast and simple, which is what many people want. Having said that, the more tech the site is the more visitors appear to use it. Which in my mind doesn’t go – Chrome is a very un-tech browser.

I guess you just have to be geeky to try something else out and not stick with what you know – many of the visitors were probably doing what I did last week and was just giving the browser a test drive. Time will tell – I’ll try the same again in a few months and see if those percentages remain.

+Extract is a free piece of software that is designed to extract/rip free-to-air (FTA) programmes from your Sky+ or Sky HD box. You need to take your hard drive out to do it (Sky put a USB socket on their boxes but it doesn’t do anything!) but otherwise it’s a bit of a breeze.

Anyway, the author was hoping to make some money from it in the form of donations and has, well, been disappointed. As a result he’s given up further development and has closed down his forum.

The chap who writes Copy+ is a friend of the author and he even hangs out on the Copy+ forum as well, so I took the plunge last week and asked him if he’d be interested in us taking +Extract over. And he agreed.

Now, we won’t be doing any more development (although the source code is for sale!) but we can make all the downloads available from our site and dedicate some forum space to support (amongst other users – we can’t provide any official support ourselves). It’s not perfect, but it’s better than nothing!

Therefore +Extract can now be found on the Copy+ site on it’s own dedicated page. Plus you can discuss it on the forum. Huzzah!

Thanks to Neil for letting us do this. And that might go some way to explaining why I’ve been getting the servers upgraded

After whinging in the ear of my host, Streamline.net (poor quality but, erm, cheap), they have moved my MySQL database to a different server – a better one, they say.

Well, they didn’t have to, so I have to thank them for that. Both this blog and the Copy+ site has been updated appropriately – time will tell if it will help.

Longer term it’s still my intention to move to Memset.