July 14th, 2010
Saurabh Dutta
Web analytics tools are a great help for all of us who wish to keep their sites updated and be aware of the visitor statistics, which can help in defining goals and eventually result in growth of the website. A good statistics package will let you know significant information about the visitors visiting your website, which when interpreted wisely can help you understand which trends work for your site and which don’t.
Here is a quick review of 7 Best Web Analytics tools which can assist you in keeping your website updated.
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June 26th, 2010
Saurabh Dutta
Who doesn’t want a speedy computer? We all do. And most of us have had spent our times and energies in optimizing our computers so as to increase its speed. Now how do we know whether our efforts have made an impact or not, were they fruitful or not?
Well, the solution is simple- Download a free benchmark testing software which will judge your performance in an objective unbiased manner and whenever you make any changes to your computer, you will be able to see how much it has affected your computer’s performance.
Here’s a quick review of some great free benchmarking software products to help you:
1. SuperPi
This is how it works- SuperPi is able to calculate the value of pi up to 32 million digits after the decimal point and that is what it makes the processor of your computer do. It now tracks how quickly this calculation is terminated by the processor.
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June 16th, 2010
Saurabh Dutta
Mozilla gives a good platform to a number of applications which depend some or the other of its aspects in terms of its native technology. I am listing here some useful applications which you can download free of cost from the net and bring them to your advantage:
1. Boxee
This customizable application organizes your media i.e music, videos and pictures and makes it convenient for you to navigate through them through media remote controls. What’s interesting is that if you have an iPhone of iPod, you can actually turn it into a remote control for your Boxee set-up, just by easy installation of an app. Boxee is certainly a new way to enjoy entertainment!
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June 8th, 2010
Saurabh Dutta
Phishers have now come up with something new and witty to steal your identity- tabnapping (tab + kidnapping). Aza Raskin, the creative lead of Firefox unveiled this simple, elegant style of identity-theft which Phishers are using to exploit the inattention and trust of users in their browser tabs.
Tabnapping involves secretly replacing an existing tab with a fake one which shows the login page of a website,and the user is duped into giving away his/her password. All popular browsers on windows and Mac OS X are vulnerable to tabnapping.
Consider this- You are browsing on the net, with multiple tabs open, as usual, navigating from one tab to another occasionally. One of these tabs is of your Gmail account.
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June 5th, 2010
Saurabh Dutta
Google Chrome has proved itself as one of the best, fastest and safest web browsers! But no matter how much security a browser promises to offer, you can always take some initiative to improve it. The official Google Chrome Extensions Gallery has a lot to offer to all those who feel a need to boost their defenses. So here’s a list of Chrome extensions for a carefree, safe browsing:
1. WOT chrome extension
User-friendly and safe, this tool will tell you which websites you can trust and which not. While, you surf, search and shop on the net the traffic-light rating symbol will rate the websites that you visit showing you, how trustworthy a website is. These ratings are powered by millions of users who rate the sites according to their experiences.
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June 2nd, 2010
Saurabh Dutta
Search engine optimization is the buzz word in the blogging world, for everyone is working on improving their visibility in this competitive environment. Social media marketing and optimization have become inevitable if one wants their site to be known and talked about. And for all this you need some good research tools which can analyze the social presence of a site or brand. Here’s a quick review of some great SEO tools which might prove useful to you:
1. HowSociable
Quick and easy, this tool gives you the snapshots of customer social presence metrics which helps you to monitor your optimization programs. It gauges the social presence of a brand name or a specific keyword in which you might be interested. With the amount of utility that this tool offers, you can definitely manage to afford a paid social media measurement tool.
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May 31st, 2010
Saurabh Dutta
Are you suspicious about someone hacking your Gmail account? Inspection time! All you have to do is follow 6 quick and easy steps by which you can determine if someone has tried to invade your personal space. So here we go:
Step 1: Check the ‘Last Account Activity’ Section of your inbox
Often neglected, displayed in small font the ‘Last Account Activity’ section lies at the bottom of your Gmail inbox. It witnesses who uses your Gmail account and when. Click on ‘details’.
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May 28th, 2010
Saurabh Dutta
Protecting your privacy is of paramount importance on any social networking site. The new incarnation of Facebook had to face great deal of criticism because people using it felt robbed of their privacy. However, though it still is appealing enough for you to hang on to it and stay in touch with your buddies, while at the same it time it tempts you to navigate through the numerous applications it offers. You should take some time to go through these privacy tips which can prove quite handy for any Facebook user:
1. Use Facebook Lists
“Everyone”, according to Facebook’s own website means the entire internet, not just all face book users. What? You didn’t know that? Well, now you do. So learn to use one of the most underrated tools on Facebook- the list function.
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May 27th, 2010
Nehal Dutta
Google Analytics Service facilitates websites to collect the data about their visitors. You may not know but it’s very common that websites usually track your behavior through this Google service. It’s amazing to know that Google itself will now help you to block this information.
Google has released an add-on “Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on” for your web browser which will stop the browser from sending information to the Google Analytics services. According to Google, it has made such an add-on to provide the website visitors with more number of choices about how their data is collected.
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May 26th, 2010
Saurabh Dutta
Every website developer wishes that all the content of his website which may often include videos, should be accessible to anyone who visits the site.
No doubt, flash videos have gained tremendous popularity, but there are still a lot of users accessing the Internet from different cell phones and low powered devices which have either no or minimum flash support. Hence, integrating HTML5 videos in your website could be a great idea if you wish to cater to all your visitors impartially.
As a website owner and developer you should know that there are some great tools available for free, that will let your videos run via HTML5 or flash in case the former is not supported by visitor’s browser:
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