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Woopra – A peep into Realtime Analytics
Woopra is a real-time analytics software that plugs into your website and gives you extensive analytics information about not just the visitors you had in the past, but the visitors you also have online at the moment. We had the opportunity to talk to the Woopra Development Team and learn the experi
Read Full PostUsing Twitter for Monitoring Trending of your Brands
Hey! Hello. Yes, we all know how useful Twitter can be with the real-time search thingy. And it's also great for knowing what has catched the world's fancy lately. But there is a bit of a snag with Twitter. It doesn't provide you with tools for following the trends. So, say I am someone interes
Read Full PostEmpire of Sports – be the super athlete in the virtual world
Empire of Sports is a Massive Multiplayer game developed by the French company F4. In the game you create and control your own virtual avatar that can play in 11 different sports – Skiing, Football, Basketball, Tennis, amongst others. In this virtual world, you start as rookie and train and perfor
Read Full PostWhy Blog with WordPress
Every time I recommend a friend of mine to blog, one of the usual queries (if not the first) is how do I blog? True, every other social network is offering you a blog these days. You also got Blogger, Wordpress, Live Journal, etc. But the most common answer to this question is 'Wordpress'. I will ex
Read Full PostHow to Install Unavailable Firefox 3.5 Addons
The biggest handicap about using Firefox 3.5 right now is the lack of availability of some of our most loved addons.Yes they are being migrated to 3.5 fast, but yet why wait for them, when you can use them right away? Yup! With a little hack, you can fool your Firefox to believe that the addon is
Read Full PostHow to Install Firefox 3.5 on Linux
July 1st saw the release of Firefox 3.5. You must already be aware of what is new is version 3.5 and what makes it the awesome-est browser to-date, if not check this Firefox 3.5 preview video and the feature list for Firefox 3.5. In this post we are going to walk you through installing Firefox 3.
Read Full PostManyBooks.net – Public Domain eBooks
This post is a quick note about one of my favorite sites - ManyBooks.Net. ManyBooks is an archive of a number of Project Guttenberg, Public Domain and Creative Commons etexts. What it thus becomes is a library of classic literature and text (starting from Vigil and Herodotus, to the contemporary)
Read Full PostIntroducing Aardvark – realtime, community-powered support
Have you ever had one of those moments when you desperately need an answer but don't know who to ask? Or that all those you could think of asking have no clue, but you do need an answer? Well, Aardvark is meant for you? Aardvark provides you with a platform to have realtime conversations with
Read Full PostIntroducing Subgroups in Linked In
Linked In has now added a new feature - one oft repeated by group managers - Subgroups. What does it allow you to do? Define groups within your groups, thus creating more stronger focus groups. This is what Linked In says in their annoucnement mailer: We're happy to announce that later this week we
Read Full PostSims 3: Game Review
On June 2nd, 2009 EA released the next chapter for one of the most popular gaming series – The Sims. The Sims 3 brings a lot of new stuff to the table, while improves on what was already there. We have a look how. First thing you will notice the moment you launch the game is the new graphics engi
Read Full PostWhat is the Drupal Content Management Framework
In the previous post we introduced, Drupal the Content Management System. We also made a fleeting remark that Drupal is so powerful a CMS that it is also called a Content Management Framework. This time around, we will look at what makes Drupal THE content management framework. [caption id="attac
Read Full PostLaunchy in Windows – Who needs the Start Menu?
[caption id="attachment_806" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="Launchy in Windows - Who needs the Start Menu?"][/caption] Notice anything different in this screenshot? Well, if you have used Linux or Mac, you must have definitely come across GNOME Do (in Linux) or Quicksilver (in Mac).
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