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Typo fixed on Color Lines
2007-12-05 02:43:00
The last uploaded game "Color Lines for Pocket PC" had a typo on the installer, causing the application to be installed in "Programms/Games" instead of "Programs/Games" that was fixed and the new installer is ready for download.Enjoy!Leo
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Two more games to the list: color lines and snake
2007-11-28 06:51:00
As promised, each month will have some new stuff, the new stuff for december are Snake and Color lines, a remake of those classic games.Check them hereMore comming soon.bye!
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Tetris just added
2007-11-12 02:44:00
I just added tetris, i know, i know, tetris is an old game, but it thought it was ok to add my version of this game for pocket pc, besides, it has a new thing, since we are in a pocket pc and we have a touch screen we can use the stylus (finger??) to drag the piece and move it left and right while is moving down. check it!good luck!more games comming!
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Some updates in the pocket pc games
2007-10-30 09:14:00
As you might noticed we have updated our games. And updated the files for those games (cab installers)Changes:--Sokoban--* By mistake a debug version was loaded on the site, with only 2 levels, from about a week ago now you can play 10 levels again.* A bug in one of the levels was fixed. --Checkers, Othello, Sokoban--* ZIP file contained cabs for different platforms, now you have only 1 cab file, (is a .net app, you dont need more than one)
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2000 visits daily and raising!
2007-10-30 09:05:00
After one month of SEO and submitting some of our Pocket pc games to a few sites and directories all over the internet, TeKnowMagic have reached 2000 visits daily (avg) and a peak of 3567 visits, with more than 800 new clients coming to the site every day. In total more than 65 000 people have downloaded our games and more are coming every day. And that's only the beginning, new games each and new tools will be coming each month so the bar will keep raising right?Currently we have chess, checkers, sokoban, click and slide, othello,(all for pocket pc) and a visual studio .net tool, next month is comes with: checkers 2.0, tetris, and the special of the month: podcast submitter (A FREE SEO TOOL!!!!)
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Levels wanted for sokoban (genius edition)
2007-10-30 08:58:00
We are glad to announce that teknowmagic is about to launch Sokoban Genius Edition , a selection of very-hard-to-beat levels developed by our users, with more than 50 levels, this Genius edition will also bring some new graphics, but just some.. not much since this is not Starcraft 2 and the best thing about sokoban is the simplicity.Just one thing left to say.If you beat the 50 levels of sokoban genius edition, you will get all TeKnowMagic's Games and source code + games not yet released.Good luck
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Avoid hotlinking and get more traffic
2007-10-06 13:08:00
The real thing is that since I run a team of coders and most of my incomes come from programming, I did not pay attention to hosting statistics. But then I decided to put Google ads on the site so I started looking to those numbers; especially bandwidth and page views.The facts: I had a folder with zip files on my site, and on any page where I was offering a game for download a link was there to just click and get the file.The problem: Many forums and sites started putting links to my files directly, not to my pages, so somebody was drinking up all my bandwidth, without even watching my site. That was unacceptable, don't you think? Having hosted my site in a Shared .NET hosting with IIS I couldn't play with IIS as on a dedicated server, and it was not Apache so, no .htaccess, right?The solution: Being myself a .NET coder the solution was quick, I coded a page called download.aspx that allow clients to download files from my hosting, by clicking a button. That button just writes th...
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My First Day With Adsense, just cool
2007-10-04 14:01:00
Hearing all that about making money with adsense I tried myself, I had about 300-500 visits each day to my site, and about 200-300 unique visitors each day, so... why not. So I went to Google and setup the adsense account. You can’t imagine my surprise when I noticed the first 10 cents coming through after 30 minutes and the first 3 dollars during the first day. I was amazed. The thing is that adsense works really nice. It took me some time to setup the correct ads and keywords. You have to check some things when using adsense.1) Check your keywords, if your site is about board games, set “board games� as a keyword, if you only set “board� you can get ads about surfing skateboards or about intel boards. Really… it is quite important to keep ads focused, people who visit your site have a reason for that; they are interested in something that might be in your site. And it seems quite clear that a guy looking for “board games� like chess, checkers etc, will not (most li...
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Raising visits
2007-10-01 12:50:00
Some weeks ago, maybe some months ago, I uploaded the first games to my site. As a coder and not as a marketing guy, I thought that was more than enough to share my code with the community. But... no visits, I knew that I had to submit my site and pages and games to directories etc, but I am just too lazy to do that. Even when I coded myself 3 automatic submission tools that SEO people use all over the world. (And yes, they are good :))So I decided to try and submitted 3-4 games to www.freeppcgames.com, and in 1 day, I had to change my hosting; yes, I had to change it! I was using a free hosting account and keeping files (games) for download in gigafiles.co.uk, they just offer 1gb for free monthly well, in just 1 day my bandwidth for downloads was consumed. FOR THE VERY FIRST TIME!!!I felt happy, well, not my pocket since I had then to pay for a better hosting, so I moved to seekdotnet.com, with 60gigs/month and more space. I did all that more than 2 weeks ago, and I am still gettin...

TeKnowMagic is blogging
2007-09-10 07:32:00
We are on the blog road!Yes... we are blogging now, for several months we have been changing from one host to another, and we decided to settle down, so, instead of installing the best-updated-state-of-the-art blog engine in our site; we just opened a blog here in blogger, because is amazing.... yes, it is. We don't need a news section in our site and we don't have to open a tips and tricks section neither, I can publish them here. Just keep a site for what a  site is, right?So, what's new with teknowmagic?Well, we have done lot of things, we finished a lot of projects on Rentacoder we have ranked now about the #250 out of 188.000+ and keep moving to the top 100! (then we will see...)But if you check our site, and will see some new stuff, we just added more free games to our product sections, a chess game and a sokoban game, both of them for Pocket PC using .NET Compact Framework (yes, we are a  .NET company, with .NET games... surpriesed?!)As always, all our products a...
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