You might have noticed that a lot of articles on Crenk have been removed. This isn’t exactly the case, we have actually made a huge amount of them private.

Crenk is going through a major transition period and we are going to greatly improve the amount and quality of our articles. All old articles have been made private and we will be going through them one by one and getting them republished when they have been adequately improved. Ohh.. and of course with a lot more opinions! For a long time I have been sick and tired of pushing out articles that I wasnt happy with, so its time we got rid of them and only published articles we are proud of!

Along with improved tech news you will also see more reviews (web and mobile apps), plus a lot more fun geeky viral content.

Overall, Crenk is going to be a lot more fun, with articles that appeal to the mainstream technology geek.

This is the moment to let us know what you would like to see here on Crenk! Any thoughts.. drop them below in the comments.

p.s. did I mention less crappy ads!

• Flying Carpet Optical Illusion – November 26, 2011
• Google+ Song – September 29, 2011
• Dubstep Dancing to Pumped Up Kicks from Foster the People – September 27, 2011
• Dont Just Jump Ship to Apple So Easily – September 27, 2011
• Cat Having Problems with Printer – September 20, 2011

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Additionally, they have a no registration option in which you can just host images.

Anyways, they are looking for VIP Alpha testers. If you want to get into the Alpha testing drop us an email at: info (at) crenk.com

• iYunque: Rainforest App with Maps, Routes and More.. – August 28, 2009

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I am planning on writing a few articles per week on the Huffington Post, but the majority of articles will be on here.

Recently, we have had a lot of issues with the site and some functionality, but we have been working hard to fixed that and everything is slowly starting to come together. Thus, expect a lot more great articles to go live very soon.

• Huffington Post To Be Leading Independent Online News Source in UK – July 9, 2011
• Huffington Post to Launch French Edition – October 10, 2011
• Huffington Post Over One Billion Page Views Per Month – October 3, 2011
• Leaked: Amazon Redesign – September 5, 2011
• Google Music Beta Now Available: Average Music Locker Service! – May 11, 2011

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I wanted to write a quick article here on Crenk to show how Google’s Panda update has hurt our site. I’m hoping that someone from Google actually reads this article and notices that there is still a big issue here!

Yesterday one of our authors wrote an amazing how to article titled: How to Download and Burn Hulu Movie to DVD.

The article is completely original, it’s over 400 words in length and provides a detailed step by step guide. This article is the epitome of original content!

I wanted to see where this article was actually ranking within Google for the keywords: burn hulu movie to dvd.

I would have thought that the original Crenk article would have been in the top 50 at least. However, after searching the top 100 article we didn’t appear. Bad times!

Then, I discovered that 4 websites scraping our content are ranking within the top 100, one even ranks just outside the top 10. How is this providing good search results?

It would be great if someone from Google could please take a look and let us know why this is happening!

• Crenk Still Being Punished by Google for NO REASON! – July 14, 2011
• Google: Crenk Isnt a Content Farm! – February 28, 2011
• Blekko Starts Blocking Content Farms from their Search Engines – February 2, 2011
• Yelp Walks Away from Google’s Half a Billion Dollars – December 22, 2009
• Monitoring your Search Engines Positions – July 2, 2009

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The new Crenk is finally here. Welcome to Crenk 2.0, which is focused around community. Crenk 2.0 allows anyone to contribute to Crenk and earn money when your articles are published.

Crenk 2.0 in basic points:

• Anyone can submit articles to be published on Crenk
• If your articles are published you will receive a revenue share
• Revenue share is based on a CPM rate (provided in the platform). Thus, every 1,000 pageviews you will receive a rate
• Stats are provided in the Dashboard and all stats are real time
• No limitations to how many articles you can publish
• Revenue share is valid for the life of the article
• Payments will be made via Paypal Quarterly

If you have any questions please don’t hesitate to drop us an email. Otherwise just signup and get started now!

• Crenk is Getting Greatly Improved! – October 18, 2011
• Crenk Still Being Punished by Google for NO REASON! – July 14, 2011
• Crenk in the Brand Republic 200 – May 18, 2011
• Google Panda Got It Wrong! Scrapers Out Ranking Original Content: Crenk Example – May 18, 2011
• Adam Boulton Introduces Crenk Readers to Sky News iPad App: Number 1 in the App Store – March 21, 2011

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Crenk has decided to use Hello Bar to ask our readers to donate to the Japan Earthquake clean up via the Red Cross.

The Hello Bar comes from UK design shop digital-telepathy. If you haven’t used Hello Bar before, you’ll need a new account; just sign up with the invite code “helpjapan.”

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Crenk has been selected as one of the top 50 UK Technology Blogs according to Cision. Its another great bit of new for our site which seems to be growing daily.

The list includes Techcrunch EU, Coolest Gadgets, Red Ferret and more.

To check out the full list click here.

• Crenk is Getting Greatly Improved! – October 18, 2011
• Crenk Still Being Punished by Google for NO REASON! – July 14, 2011
• Crenk in the Brand Republic 200 – May 18, 2011
• Google Panda Got It Wrong! Scrapers Out Ranking Original Content: Crenk Example – May 18, 2011
• Crenk 2.0: Start Publishing Your Tech Articles and Earn Money – April 26, 2011

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The whole process on moving to the Rackspace Cloud was amazingly simple. Rackspace have made it very easy to upload your content via FTP, create the zones, add and edit email addresses and control MySQL databases, etc. I’m really happy we have finally moved to the Rackspace Cloud service and this will provide Crenk with a lot more flexibility and room to grow.

From here on out you will see a lot of great changes to Crenk. Crenk will be adding more content, higher quality content and provide more articles for the average internet user.

• Rackspace Release Cloud iPad Application – March 14, 2011
• Installing and Setting Up WordPress in Rackspace Cloud Site – February 17, 2011
• Crenk is Getting Greatly Improved! – October 18, 2011
• Crenk Still Being Punished by Google for NO REASON! – July 14, 2011
• Crenk in the Brand Republic 200 – May 18, 2011

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Amit Singhal and Matt Cutts wrote on the Google blog:

This update is designed to reduce rankings for low-quality sites—sites which are low-value add for users, copy content from other websites or sites that are just not very useful. At the same time, it will provide better rankings for high-quality sites—sites with original content and information such as research, in-depth reports, thoughtful analysis and so on.

Since that time we have noticed that our organic traffic from Google has nosedived. Crenk isnt a content farm and we aren’t a low quality content source!

Can someone at Google please get in touch and let us know why we are being heavily punished!

P.S. This seems to have changed our traffic numbers, but somehow the content scraper that is HuffingtonPost hasn’t lost any traffic at all.

• Crenk Still Being Punished by Google for NO REASON! – July 14, 2011
• Google Panda Got It Wrong! Scrapers Out Ranking Original Content: Crenk Example – May 18, 2011
• Google Release Chrome Extension to Help Users Block Content Farms – February 15, 2011
• Blekko Starts Blocking Content Farms from their Search Engines – February 2, 2011
• Wipsace Ignites Online Collaboration – November 20, 2009

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Top Gadget News Blogs for 2011

Get the latest news in gadgets and all technologies with a visit below.

1. Business Week Get a blog where the bottom line is directly involved with breaking the latest news here. Bloomberg has a special section for technology news which offers several blogs or news by tech category.
2. Real Tech News Independent tech news is offered on this blog. Over 40 contributors review and write about many new gadgets, deals, and more.
3. Pogue’s Posts Get the latest in technology news from “New York Times” blogger David Pogue. He has been writing a tech column since 2000 and has authored many books on the subject.
4. Techmeme Get your technology news on the serious at this site. Regular headlines and analysis are featured several times a day.
5. Information Week The business value of technology is featured here. You can also check out their many blogs on everything from green computing to hardware.
6. Crenk Startup technology is often focused on in this blog. Deals, freebies, how-to’s, and gadgets are also written about.
7. Tech Crunch Get the latest news just by clicking the Gadget section here. You can also check out the homepage with loads more on what’s hot, or check out the Crunch Board where jobs and services are posted.
8. Tech Dirt Think gossip is just for celebrity talk? Then check out this blog with tech news such as Apple using special screws so that users can’t open their phones.
9. The Register Get the latest in technology news from this British site. It includes sections on hardware, software, security, and more.

Click here to read the full list.

• Crenk is Getting Greatly Improved! – October 18, 2011
• Crenk Still Being Punished by Google for NO REASON! – July 14, 2011
• Crenk in the Brand Republic 200 – May 18, 2011
• Google Panda Got It Wrong! Scrapers Out Ranking Original Content: Crenk Example – May 18, 2011
• Crenk 2.0: Start Publishing Your Tech Articles and Earn Money – April 26, 2011

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Here at Crenk we have just added a new Like button to the top of each individual article. You will see the love heart and a plus button next to it. If you like the article make sure you click the plus button and like the article. The top liked articles will appear in the sidebar.

This will really help our writers to know which article you really like, so they can write more articles in the same areas.

• Facebook Like: See What do you Friends Like with Likebutton.me – April 26, 2010
• Crenk is Getting Greatly Improved! – October 18, 2011
• Crenk Still Being Punished by Google for NO REASON! – July 14, 2011
• Crenk in the Brand Republic 200 – May 18, 2011
• Google Panda Got It Wrong! Scrapers Out Ranking Original Content: Crenk Example – May 18, 2011

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Indeed, it seems like things are heating up over the new iPhone but not in a good way. Reports are springing up all over the internet of people having a scorching hot iPhones in their pockets, seeing red traces around the lithium battery and even fearing the device may catch on fire.

One user said “I have a black 32 GB 3GS and recently I experienced overheating when I was using GPS. Every time I use GPS it somehow overheats, however mild it may be. But in a region where 3G is out of reach and phone switches to Edge, the overheating is unbearable. You must shut down the phone”

For what is now the most well-known smart phone in the world, Apple needs to resolve these complaints about their lead product quickly. When things like this occurred with other manufacturers such as Dell and Toshiba due to overheating caused by Lithium batteries the companies were highly embarrassed, lost sales and had to write checks amounting to tens of millions to fund a gigantic recall of the faulty products in question.

So far, from what I can see it is the GPS, Internet and Battery that are having the blame placed on them. Others are also saying that the root cause of it all (if indeed this is as widespread of a problem as it’s made out to be) is that the new OS on the 3G S has poor power management.

Whatever the cause, Apple better hop to it to smooth this one over quick to either fix the problem or assure customers that no such problem exists. If this catches onto the mainstream consumer radar iPhone 3G S sales may plummet.

• Jailbreak Your iOS 4.2.1 iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch with Ultrasnow – November 27, 2010
• How to Change Your iPhone 3G Battery and Charging Port – October 19, 2011
• Jobs Answers about iOS 4 Performance on iPhone 3G – August 21, 2010
• iPhone 4 vs iPhone 3GS: Infographic – June 15, 2010
• Intro to New Apps Thanks to AppGiveaway – June 28, 2009

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Crenk is looking towards building a solid community of fans who not only provide us a sense of community around Crenk, but also have an opportunity to share their thoughts on some of our stories, and interact with other fans of Crenk.

The reason Crenk continues to go on is because of all of our loyal readers. Those new to Crenk are just as important and we welcome you and hope you leave your feedback. No site can stand alone, but together we can share ideas, innovation, and progressive thinking.

That being said, here’s what Crenk is looking for. All of you out there are amazing, smart, and techy people no doubt, otherwise you wouldn’t be here. Share your story with us and show us your stuff. We’re looking for two things!

1. Send in a video or photo of all of your tech. Lay in a bed with it, sit in a chair with it, lay it out on a table and put yourself in it. Hell stand in a tech store and take a photo of all the stuff you want around you. We want to know what our fans are using, loving, and wanting to share with others.

2. We also want readers of our site to share their thoughts on stories. Send a quick video of your thoughts on articles posted on Crenk. No censorship as long as all videos are in good taste and profanity is used when appropriate. Otherwise, share your thoughts good or bad, and if you’d like, predict the future and let us know what you see in the future for a specific topic, product or brand.

Crenk’s Facebook Page just went live, so make sure to upload your files there, and we the staff of Crenk will be reviewing them. Could there be future benefits involved? Hmmmm…good question…what do you think?

Have fun!

• Online Tribes Can Avoid GigaTribe – November 10, 2009
• Web App Buffers Timely Online Communication – November 6, 2009
• Official Google Social Network: Google+: Facebook Competitor – June 29, 2011
• Customize your Facebook Fan Box – February 3, 2011
• Facebook’s Original Name, FaceMash, for Sale – October 10, 2010

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