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Any user on this site can now have their own blog. Blog about anything you want to but keep it tech and Apple related, please. Once you've started your blog you can find it on a URL like http://www.emiratesmac.com/forums/blogs/magnus/, just replace "magnus" with your username. There'll also be a RSS feed just for your blog, like http://www.emiratesmac.com/forums/blogs/magnus/feed.rss. Again replace "magnus" with your username. Feed that RSS feed to your Twitter account, Facebook ...

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Seems the site works much better on iPhone since the upgrade. That's great. There is ni iPhone-specific version of the site but chances are ther will be something coming out in the future.

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I couldn't figure out how to add the code for Google Analytics to the site after upgrading but I found the solution here.

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Okay, it's not every day that you upgrade a web site to a completely new version of the software that runs it but today I did. We went from vBulletin 3.8.4 to 4.0.1.

We've been using a system together with vBulletin that is called vbSEO and basically it rewrites URLs so they are more search engine friendly. See, search engines don't generally like to see "...threadid=123". Instead they like "123-i-bought-a-new-macbook". And that's what vbSEO offers, it rewrites ...

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Of course the core of this site is, and probably always will be the discussion forums. Actually if you go to www.emiratesmac.com it will redirect straight to the fourms page.

But with the upgrade to vBulletin 4 we also have new functionality including blogs. Every user on the site can have a blog.

So what's the difference between blog and discussion forum?

Well, it's not clearcut but the way I look at it is that if you have something to tell others without ...