Jake Wright is a teenaged geek. He uses two Macs and loves anything to do with technology. He records videos for YouTube, is a blogger and is an active member of the Twitter community. Do you want to contact him? It’s easy, just visit the contact page. If you want to learn more about Jake and the things he does online, then read on…

Since Jake started blogging and producing videos back in December 2007, he has become known and trusted by hundreds of people, throughout the geek community, to give honest advice and reviews. He spends a lot of his time working on this website and recording videos to share with the community. Jake first used a computer when he was 7 years old: an Emachines PC running Windows XP Home Edition. Jake has worked with Windows and ‘PCs’ throughout his life but now uses OS X on an Intel iMac as his primary operating system.

As the live video stream and chat is one of the main community features of his blog, Jake tries to broadcast as much as possible and is always trying to improve the stream in one way or another. He has spent a lot of time and money on the stream and welcomes donations to help pay for the services and equipment needed.

Jake started blogging in November, 2007, and started producing videos for YouTube one month later. Originally, his blog was created with Google’s blogging service, Blogger. In January 2008, Jake opened his first ‘website’. Using his new domain, “jak-e.com”, he created a simple website that would aggregate his online activity. By February, he had redesigned it and started live streaming but the blog was still powered by Blogger. Shortly afterwards, Jake bought a Mac mini and started recording all of his videos live from his bedroom.

Later that year, he decided to switch from Blogger to WordPress and combine his blog with his website. After three months of planning, designing, coding and testing, Jake finally finished writing his first WordPress theme. Coincidently, at the same time as he was looking for a hosting company, AAA Abbey Hosting contacted him offering him a sponsorship package and by September 08, he had a blog, powered by WordPress, with his custom made theme.

In March 2009, Jake applied to be a YouTube partner, and much to his surprise, got accepted within 2 days! Since then, he has become more popular on YouTube, gaining many subscribers daily, and continues to make videos regularly.

One month later, and around 1 year after buying his first Mac, Jake bought a refurbished iMac from the Apple Store. For £650, he got a 2.4 GHz iMac and later upgraded it with 4GB of RAM!

In August 2009, Jake decided he wanted to change the domain of his website. He realised this wouldn’t be easy as he had over 100 videos on YouTube, most of which telling people to head to “jak-e.com,” however he felt he wanted a domain that was a bit more personal, something that wouldn’t cause confusion and something that people would be able to spell. He chose “jakewright.net”, because, obviously, Jake Wright is his name, and ‘.com’ was already registered. He then began work on a new WordPress theme. Although the whole idea of jak-e.com was his blog, Jake wanted jakewright.net’s home page to be a portal, a place linking to everything he does ‘online.’ He also wanted to keep the blog the way it was, that’s why he transferred jak-e.com to blog.jakewright.net, and created a new website for his ‘home’ on the internet.

AAA Abbey Hosting had hosted his website for about one year but had proved to be rubbish! Although he was getting the hosting for free, their support was non existent, he was not getting paid for referring people and they offered an overall poor service. For these reasons, and many more, it was time to change hosts. After doing lots of research, Jake chose Bluehost as they seemed to offer the most reliable, professional service, with the most features and very good tech support, for a reasonable price.

–this page is updated every few months with the latest events in the world of Jake Wright–