Rowena Wendy Lei is a mother, a writer, a gadget lover and teh ultimate blogger. Rowena is one of the most prolific writers I know and by golly, that's what she does and is amazing at it. Any publication with her as a writer is going to the top.

And so it gives me great pleasure to announce (rather belatedly, sorry), that Rowena has joined me at Tech Exchange. Obviously when I try to improve things around here, I don't mess around.

I'm super proud she agreed to work with me here, and this also marks as the best amongst a number of improvements on the site in general. Astute observers will notice it is not in 'Beta' anymore, and is in full swing. I've now segregated the Gadgets into Phones and Laptops. There are actually many other items like Cameras, mp3 players and LCD TVs, but until I populate these with more items I'll stick with Phones and Laptops for the moment. I'm even uploading some of the older gadget details I got from my earlier days as a tech writer, to help make TechExchange's gadget gallery a bigger, more useful database for users to reference and comment on.

There's also a new WebHosts directory, featuring Internet Service Providers offering other services like web access and webpage development. I've recently received an Excel file featuring hundreds more companies and I'll upload that when my sched clears up eventually. Web Hosts is something I've wanted to do since way back, seeing that there was no reliable way to rate local web hosting services, which is sad considering that we're all on the Internet - the place where bad and good reputations are more easily spread.

There's also the new Events & PRs section, featuring straight up press releases we get directly from PR companies and manufacturers. This frees up the main Blog section of the site for Opinions, Editorials and HowTos as well.

And finally I've uploaded the RSS Feeds page, featuring various RSS feeds for the different content types of the site. Useful for when, for example, you don't want to read our opinions on the blog section and you'd rather see just straight up new Phone, Laptop or other Gadget Releases.

So that's what I've been doing so far. And now with Rowena aboard, the future for this site is nothing but good.