Today Microsoft is officially launching Windows 8 at a special event in New York In addition, the company will also have its first stab at releasing its own-made hardware in the face of the Surface and Surface Pro tablets.
Sunday, October 25, 2015
Multi-Window View In Galaxy S III
I hope you people are acquainted with the word Multi-Window feature.Yes,this feature first came out in the Galaxy note II.As it turns out the Galaxy S III owners might get a chance to join the multitasking action with the upcoming Android 4.1.2 update.
According to SamMobile, the update is coming in December and in addition to the Multi-Window functionality will also bring bug fixes and stability improvements.
For those unfamiliar with the feature, it allows you to have two applications open on the screen at any one time and operate both at the same time. It works great on the 5.5-inch Galaxy Note II, but we’ll see how well it’ll work on the Galaxy S III once the update hits the device.
According to SamMobile, the update is coming in December and in addition to the Multi-Window functionality will also bring bug fixes and stability improvements.
For those unfamiliar with the feature, it allows you to have two applications open on the screen at any one time and operate both at the same time. It works great on the 5.5-inch Galaxy Note II, but we’ll see how well it’ll work on the Galaxy S III once the update hits the device.
Blog Traffic Measurement Tools
Web analytic tools helps you to collect, measure and analyze the internet data and the site visitor records for understanding and optimizing web usage. It not only helps you measure and analyses website traffic but it is also a wonderful tool for market & business research.
Not only yours, you can also gauge your competitors traffic resources and check in which areas you need to excel. Web analytic tools have become a necessity for every site, whether small or big. Web analytic are available both off-site and on-site, so you can choose the one according to your requirements. Check and increase the visitors to your sites with these important yet free Web analytic tools.
Not only yours, you can also gauge your competitors traffic resources and check in which areas you need to excel. Web analytic tools have become a necessity for every site, whether small or big. Web analytic are available both off-site and on-site, so you can choose the one according to your requirements. Check and increase the visitors to your sites with these important yet free Web analytic tools.
1.Google Analytics
Google Analytics is the enterprise-class web analytics solution that gives you rich insights into your website traffic and marketing effectiveness. Powerful, flexible and easy-to-use features now let you see and analyze your traffic data in an entirely new way.
2.StatCounter
A free yet reliable invisible web tracker, highly configurable hit counter and real-time detailed web stats. Insert a simple piece of our code on your web page or blog and you will be able to analyse and monitor all the visitors to your website in real-time
3.Clicky
Clicky is designed to be the easiest web analytics service you’ve ever used. Services like Google Analytics do everything except take out the trash, but you probably don’t know what any of the data means.
4.Piwik
Piwik is a downloadable, open source (GPL licensed) real time web analytics software program. It provides you with detailed reports on your website visitors: the search engines and keywords they used, the language they speak, your popular pages.
6.Jawstats
JAWStats is a free, open-source website statistics and analytics package. It runs in conjunction with AWStats and produces clear and informative charts, graphs and tables about your website visitors.
7.Grape Web Statistics
Grape is a free, open source program that allows web developers to keep accurate statistics of visitors. The program is currently in a beta testing phase, although it appears to be reasonably stable.
8.Site Meter
Site Meter’s comprehensive real time website tracking and counter tools give you instant access to vital information and data about your sites audience.
9.Woopra
Woopra delivers a complete suite of enterprise grade analytics in one easy to use live interface. Now you can monitor multiple Websites simultaneously in a tabbed window and switch quickly between each.
10.GoStats
GoStats continues to provide a reliable site stats traffic counter service with web analytics since 1999.
So these are the ten free web analytic tools. You have any other in mind?Feel free to add them in the comments below.
Secrets Behind Increasing Blog Traffic
Oh!Why doesn't my blog traffic increase?Well,this is one of the most common complaints that I hear from bloggers . Those early days are indeed the hardest, because you need to put hard work in without the certainty of achieving results.
If you are in that same situation, here is a simple strategy that will certainly increase your blog traffic and make you break the 1,000 daily page views mark. In fact, the strategy could be used even if your are already over that number but have reached a traffic plateau lately.
Just make sure to execute the 4 steps as planned and to spend the two hours and a half every day (obviously if you have more time available you can expand the time spent on each of the four steps proportionally).
1.Promoting Your blog
The first activity here is the promotion of your killer articles. Whenever you publish one of them, you should push it in any way you can. Examples include:
i)letting the people in your network know about it (don’t beg for a link though),
ii)letting bloggers and webmasters in relevant niches know about it,
iii)getting some friends to submit the article to social bookmarking sites,
iv)getting some friends to Twitter the article, and
v)posting about the article in online forums and/or newsgroups.
If there is time left, spend it with search engine optimization, social media marketing and activities to promote your blog as whole. Those can range from keyword research to promoting your blog on Facebook and guest blogging.
2.Writing Killer (Pillar )Articles
If you are not familiar with the term, a killer article is nothing more than a long and structured article that has the goal of delivering a huge amount of value to potential visitors. If you have a web design blog, for example, you could write an article with “100 Free Resources for Designers”. Here are some ideas for killer articles:
i)create a giant list of resources,
ii)write a detailed tutorial teaching people how to do something,
iii)find a solution for a common problem in your niche and write about it, or
iv)write a deep analysis on a topic where people have only talked superficially
Spend one hour brainstorming, researching and writing killer articles (also called linkbaits, pillar articles and so on).
Notice that your goal is to release one killer article every week. If that is not possible aim for one every 15 days. So the one hour that you will spend every day will be dedicated to the same piece. In other words, expect killers articles to take from 5 up to 10 hours of work.
3.Frequent Posting
Don't rely on killer articles only.They alone can never increase your blog traffic.Normal posts are the ones that you will publish routinely in your blog, between the killer articles. For example, you could publish a killer article every Monday and normal posts from Tuesday through Friday. Here are some ideas for normal posts:
i)a post linking to an article on another blog and containing your opinion about it
ii)a post informing your readers about a news in your niche
iii)a post asking a question to your readers and aiming to initiate a discussion
iv)a post highlighting a new resource or trick that you discovered and that would be useful to your readers
While killers articles are essential to promote your blog and bring new readers aboard, normal posts are the ones that will create diversity in your content and keep your readers engaged.
4.Networking
Networking is essential, especially when you are just getting started. The 30 minutes that you will dedicate to it every day could be split among:
i)commenting on other blogs in your niche,
ii)linking to the posts of bloggers in your niche, and
iii)interacting with the bloggers in your niche via email, IM or Twitter.
Remember that your goal is to build genuine relationships, so don’t approach people just because you think they can help to promote your blog. Approach them because you respect their work and because you think the two of you could grow together.
Carcassone Game Review
After a long time, the digital version of Carcassonne has finally come to Xbox Live. The tile-based German card game is already a hit on the Xbox Consoles.
Carcassonne is a turn based game where players draw a lan card, that can feature part of a city, a field, a road, or a monastery. These are played, jigsaw like, onto the game board, and a small number of tokens can be placed to try and score points. Your aim could be to build up cities, long roads, or territory that will score bonus points at the end of the game. It's a finely balanced mix of tactics and resource management, with some random elements thrown in to the mix.
From the App Directory listing:
Just a few years after its release, Carcassonne became a modern classic and a must-play. Turn by turn, the players create a landscape by placing tiles with roads, cities, fields, and cloisters. Deploy your followers - knights, monks, thieves, or farmers - and try to score the most points to win the game. The ever-changing landscape makes each game a new experience. With the official expansion "The River II", Online Multiplayer, Xbox LIVE Achievements and Leaderboards, this is an essential title for board game enthusiasts.
Probably the best thing about Carcassonne is that it's a really good computer game - the physical version takes a lot longer to play, and you need some willing players to join in. With this Xbox Live version you can dip in and out of a single game, you can have variable AI levels to play against... and you don't need a ginormous table to lay out all the cities, towns, roads, and fields!
125,000 Apps In Windows Phone Market
With just a few days left before Windows 8 launch event,WP Market has passed a milestone.More than 125,000 apps have now been published in the Windows Phone Marketplace and new content is currently being added at the rate of 215 apps per day. At the time of writing, 126,530 apps have been published, of which 113,170 are available for download (live). Of these, 15,822 were added in the last three months and 5,673 were added in the last month. These apps come from just over 30,000 different publishers.
Key points
As of October 22nd, 2015:
- 126,530 apps were published to the Windows Phone Marketplace over the last 20 months
- 113,170 apps are live (publicly listed as available for download, total across 60 countries)
- 101,517 apps are live in the US Marketplace
- Windows Phone reached the 125,000 milestone faster than Android (26 months), but slower than iOS (18.5 months)
- 30,000 developers have published an app in the Marketplace
- Proportion of quality apps (rated five or more times) stable in the UK at 7.8% (8% in May), increasing in the US at 13.8% (12% in May).
The graph below shows the growth in the total number of apps (content items) published to the Windows Phone Marketplace over the last 24 months.
In common with other application stores, the total number of published items is not the same as the number of items available to consumers. Of the 126,530 items published to the Marketplace, 11,639 are no longer available (withdrawn by Microsoft or unpublished by the developer), a further 1,716 items are in staging (awaiting an update, in beta or not live for some other reason). That means there are 113,170 apps currently available for download (live) on the Windows Phone Marketplace.
In addition, some apps are only available in select markets. This means the number of available items to a consumer, in a given market, is lower than the number of published items. The current figures for live apps (i.e. fully available for download) are: US (101,517), UK (96,265), France (92,887), Spain (91,224), Italy (90,806), Germany (91,940), Australia (92,670), Russia (75,728), Brazil (65,360) India (92,130) and China (46,094).
It's notable that both China and India have enjoyed stronger than average growth since our previous report, perhaps indicative of strong sales of low cost devices, such as the Lumia 610.
The graph below shows the number of live apps available in 59 countries. The 5 groupings visible in the chart align, roughly, with the date at which the country went live in the Marketplace. The five groups are Windows Phone launch (October 2010), Mango launch (October 2011), Expansion 3 (January 2015), Expansion 4 (March 2015), and Expansion 5 (April 2015).
Some apps are only distributed in a single country. This usually applies to apps that contain region-restricted content or features, are hyper-local (only relevant to one country) or are only available in a single language. The chart below shows the number of single market distribution apps for each country. As you might expect the US leads the way (2854), with China in second place (1558), indicating a strong "local" app presence. Other apps are distributed in multiple countries, but not all the countries are available in the Marketplace. Developers with such apps may be missing out on potential downloads.
In September, the last full month for which data is available, an average of 215 apps were added to Windows Phone Marketplace per day. This was down from earlier in the year, but more than double the number from September 2011 2011 (97 per day). The app addition rate has fallen over the middle months of 2015, perhaps as developers look ahead to Windows Phone 8, but the overall trend sees an increasing growth rate from 2011 to 2015.
Letterpress Game Review
If you’ve used the Twitter client Tweetie or the official Twitter apps for iOS, Android and OS X, you have one person to thank for them: Loren Brichter. Brichter rose to fame with his excellent Twitter app, Tweetie, for iOS and Android. These apps were so good that Twitter acquired him and his apps and since then he made the Twitter apps for iPhone, iPad, Android and OS X.
Last year, Brichter left Twitter to continue working for his own company, Atebits. He has been secretly working on his own app since then and yesterday it was finally released on iOS. Say hello to Letterpress.
Letterpress is a two player, online multiplayer game similar to Scrabble, where you have a grid of 5×5 tiles consisting of letters. Your goal is to form words using these letters. The word should have at least two characters and you cannot repeat words. Once you select your letters, they get assigned by your team color. The opponent then has to do the same.
If you choose from the white tiles, that is those that have not been used, you get one point per tile. If you steal tiles from your opponent, you get one point and the opponent loses one point per tile. Once stolen, the tiles turn the color of your side. If you use your own previously used tiles, you don’t get any points. Eventually, you have to use up all the tiles on the board and the one with the highest score wins.
The premise is pretty simple but despite that the game is fun to play. What I really like about this game is how well made it is. From the UI design to the slick animations, everything is top-notch and shows that a great deal of care went into making the game.
Now here’s the best part: Letterpress is completely free for download. There is an upgrade option for which you have to pay $0.99. which lets you use various themes for the board and you can also play multiple games at the same time but even without upgrading the game feels complete.
Click here to download the game on your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch. You’ll need a Game Center ID to play the game.
Last year, Brichter left Twitter to continue working for his own company, Atebits. He has been secretly working on his own app since then and yesterday it was finally released on iOS. Say hello to Letterpress.
Letterpress is a two player, online multiplayer game similar to Scrabble, where you have a grid of 5×5 tiles consisting of letters. Your goal is to form words using these letters. The word should have at least two characters and you cannot repeat words. Once you select your letters, they get assigned by your team color. The opponent then has to do the same.
If you choose from the white tiles, that is those that have not been used, you get one point per tile. If you steal tiles from your opponent, you get one point and the opponent loses one point per tile. Once stolen, the tiles turn the color of your side. If you use your own previously used tiles, you don’t get any points. Eventually, you have to use up all the tiles on the board and the one with the highest score wins.
The premise is pretty simple but despite that the game is fun to play. What I really like about this game is how well made it is. From the UI design to the slick animations, everything is top-notch and shows that a great deal of care went into making the game.
Now here’s the best part: Letterpress is completely free for download. There is an upgrade option for which you have to pay $0.99. which lets you use various themes for the board and you can also play multiple games at the same time but even without upgrading the game feels complete.
Click here to download the game on your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch. You’ll need a Game Center ID to play the game.
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