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As we have re-launched TechieZone with a complete overhaul of the design and structure of the site, we are offering our esteemed readers a treat in the form of a giveaway. We are offering a couple of licenses of Professional version of MacX DVD ripper for Mac and Windows. The original price of this software is USD 49.95 and now available at a discounted price of USD 34.95. So it’s a nice opportunity to grab a license.

Brief Description:

Before I tell you, how to win a license, let me provide you a brief review of the software. MacX DVD Ripper Pro is the ultimate DVD backup and ripping software available for both Macintosh and Windows. This is not like any other available ripping program but offers tons of features as described below:

1. Ripping DVD to MP4, H.264, MOV, FLV, MPEG, M4V, AVI, QT(QuickTime) with high quality video/audio.

2. The New DVD-Backup feature let you copy DVD to single video file with original video quality and 5.1-channels AC3/DTS Dolby audio.

3. It can backup/rip copy protected DVDs released by Disney, Paramount, Warner etc..

4. It operates at a much faster speed as compared to any other solutions addressing the same need.

5. Available for both Mac and Windows.

Rules to Participate:

In order to enroll yourself in the giveaway, you need to do any of the following:

1. Like our Facebook Fan Page at http://www.facebook.com/TechieZone

2. Follow us in Twitter at http://twitter.com/techiezone

3. Retweet the following:

#TechieZone has re-launched & offering MacX DVD ripper pro worth $34.95 for free as relaunch giveaway at http://bit.ly/hNtnBC

4. Update the details, you did as a comment here. For example, your facebook user name (if you did 1) or twitter user name (if you did 2) or the tweet status URL (if you did 3).

5. Each activity above will give you 1 entry. So more number of activity you do, more is the chances of winning. You can use any/all of the above activity only once per user name.

6. Winners will be selected randomly using random number generator service.

Contest Deadline:

The contest will be open till 25th February 2011, afterward any entries posted through comment will not be entertained. Winners will be declared on 27th February 2011. The name of winners will be posted here and will be contacted via email with the license keys. So use correct email ID while commenting here.

Please look out for lot of other giveaways like premium WordPress themes, WordPress plugins, Premium software license, web hosting, domain names etc.

Thank you Sarah for providing the license.

Hello World…Welcome to the re-incarnated version of Techie Zone. Now this erstwhile popular blog has not only a completely revamped design but also it is sitting on a new location. The original version of Techie Zone is still living in the Internet at it’s old location. Many of you must be thinking why I kept the old name Techie Zone where I could have simply switched to a new name and started everything fresh. I could have done that, in fact at some point in time, I had decided to sell my erstwhile popular website the original Techie Zone. But I did not do that instead wished to keep the name and do a complete revamp.

To answer Why I did that, let me start from the beginning. I got the taste of blogging and started working on Internet in the year 2006. Initially in my learning phase I started with blogger platform like majority of newbie bloggers do. I posted my first post on 27th July 2006. After sticking with blogger for sometime, I learned about WordPress.com and started exploring that. By this time I was getting a good grip on both blogger and WordPress.com and started exploring money making option from Internet. I came across a website called MyLot and made my first earning from Internet in the year 2006. As I had money with me earned through MyLot, I decided to buy a domain and bought TechieZone on 9th Sep 2006. But I did not know how to create a website the easiest way on my own domain. That is when I learned about the self hosted version of WordPress. I could not have dreamt of any better option than that. The flexibility it offered and support of millions of users/theme and plugin developers made me fall in LOVE with WordPress. Finally in the year 2007, I switched over completely to self hosted version of WordPress and my first self developed website Techie Zone was borned. Switching to a self hosted version of WordPress was never an easy task and I had to learned a lot of things and I am still learning. During it’s journey from 2007 till date Techie Zone has seen lots of ups and downs. The visitor count of Techie Zone increased from 20-30 in a day to 1000s and it was being featured in first page of google for many Windows related search term followed by the movement of Page Rank from PR 0 to PR 4. But destiny had something else for Techie Zone. I did the mistake of moving it from the subdomain blog.techiezone.in to techiezone.in and that is when the downfall started. I followed all the SEO specialists recommendations, tried many tactics but nothing worked. PR went down to N/A..the earning from adsense started declining, direct advertisers withdrew themselves. In the mean time I was so much engaged in my day-to-day job that I hardly found time to update any new posts. Frankly I started loosing interest because of all the negative growth Techie Zone saw. Later on I was able to manage my time and tried fixing things to regain the status of Techie Zone, nothing worked. I was hurt and decided to sell the site and start a new tech related website. But when I thought of my journey to this blogging world and how Techie Zone played a pivotal role in it, I could not sell it nor did I dare to abandon the name. And as Techie Zone is my brain child, it will be there with me for ever.

Future Plans:

Going forward, this address will be the permanent location of Techie Zone. The original Techie Zone will still be there but I am not going to update it any more. I still get 150+ visitors a day to this blog, which is decent looking at the fact that I am not doing anything to it for couple of months.

I will be a professional blogger. Having said that I am going to dedicate more time to blogging here and some of my other online ventures.

This blog will cover topics ranging from Desktop computing, Internet, Hosting, SEO, Blogging etc..

Friends, please do not forget to share your blogging journey in comments.