About Chris Chapman

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Chris is a gadget hacker, a tech writer and, most importantly, the founder of HackIt. Chris writes on most, if not all, of HackIt's blogs from time to time and does multimedia content as well. Chris codes, games and hacks gadgets to make them work for him. He regularly writes for News and HackIt Top 5 among others. He also uses Mac/Linux and Android. :)

Posts by Chris Chapman on HackIt

HackIt 2.2: Faster loading and a new font…

By | January 28, 2012 at 4:48 pm | No comments

Hello! It's me again, with another update to HackIt. If you remember, HackIt 2.0 was when we announced that we'd be moving to individual blogs on a WordPress-based system, migrating from our Drupal site. Since then, we started numbering our site releases and major changes to our...

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The new front page is here!

By | November 28, 2011 at 9:56 pm | No comments

We've finally rolled out the new front page. As you can see, I'm writing this down here in the bottom left corner of the new page. Let me do the obligatory and take you over the new features in long-winded textual form, even though you can probably see them in their full glory...

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HackIt Search now default on all blogs

By | November 5, 2011 at 8:34 pm | No comments

HackIt's new Search feature has now been rolled out to all blogs on the HackIt network. This means that, when you enter a search term on any blog, all blogs in the network will be searched. The results page will show results from all blogs, and every search box has been...

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Front page redesign on its way…

By | October 5, 2011 at 6:36 pm | No comments

This front page is boring, isn't it? The site news isn't the most interesting of front page topics. Wouldn't you prefer to have the latest videos, tech news and reviews pop up on the front of the site? Well, that's what we're working on. It'll show up right on the front...

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We’re BACK!

By | September 27, 2011 at 6:57 pm | No comments

Hey! HackIt had quite a long outage over the weekend, which rolled over onto Monday. We were installing BSD on our server. And now we're back, and better than ever. Our system will now run faster, fail less and we will operate more services as well. Thank you for...

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Stuff is good…

By | August 12, 2011 at 9:40 pm | One comment

If you're here, it's either because you Googled something or you like HackIt, right? Well, if you like HackIt a lot, this bulletin's for you. You can never have enough stuff, right? Well, we've started selling it. Now, we'll admit it, it's not cheap - one-off prints from...

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The forum is open!

By | July 25, 2011 at 10:25 pm | No comments

We have (at last) opened our discussion forums using our new software. You can sign up for a free account and access the forums as often as you like at http://forum.hackit.me.uk. More categories will start opening soon for wider discussion. Let the talking...

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News is here

By | July 17, 2011 at 8:36 am | One comment

Our next blog on the 2.0 network has arrived - News. News is your place for keeping up on the top tech news we've heard, up to the minute. News isn't an opinion blog, it's just the news, so you won't get my interpretation of what's going on in the world of tech on there - just...

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HackIt Top 5 opens for business

By | July 16, 2011 at 7:42 pm | No comments

Hi guys! We've just launched our first blog in the hackit 2.0 ecosystem - HackIt Top 5. On this site, you can see our top 5 favourite gadgets, games, apps and more. We've started with our top 5 business card scanning apps - and I'm sure you'll agree that our number one is a...

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Hello, and welcome to hackit 2.0!

By | July 16, 2011 at 11:21 am | No comments

Hello! It's finally here, the update everyone's been waiting for - we have upgraded to hackit 2.0! The site is gone, the content is saved, the database is backed up and we are launching our new WordPress-powered blog network to make HackIt more interesting, easier to read,...

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