Visits – Google Analytics in a Menu Bar App

Posted in Mac, News, Software, Utility

Google Analytics is undoubtedly one of the most useful tools that Sergey and Larry ever gave us. By inserting a bit of code in your website you can drill right down into the data on your website’s visitors and improve your pageviews and bounce rates. However the actual Analytics website isn’t the most accessible and checking visitor metrics becomes something of a chore. Visits is a small Mac app that enables you to view top content, referrals, search keywords, browser stats and locations for all your tracked sites. It distills the pertinent data down into an easily digested format and is always at hand on the menu bar if you want to see how your day’s views are going.

Taxi for Mr Heywood Jahbloemee – Letterboard for iPad

Posted in iPad, Lifestyle, News

It wouldn’t make much sense running this particular app on anything less than an iPad, because your intended audience would probably need their reading glasses to see it. Letterboard enables you to create the kind of signs the limo and taxi drivers hold up at the arrivals lounge at airports. It’s classy, simple and undoubtedly easier to read than Sharpie on cardboard.

RedNotebook – An Excellent Cross-Platform Journal App

Posted in Linux, Mac, News, Software, Windows

If you’re the sort of person that likes to record daily events, but doesn’t necessarily want the world to know that the Swedish meatballs you ate for dinner have given you explosive diarrhea so violent that you can’t sit down without a doughnut cushion, then private journalling apps are a good option. The exact opposite of blogs, journal apps like RedNoteBook enable you to record your life’s twists and turns in private, tag and format your text and insert images and files within a secure personal environment. Should you have a change of heart at some later date and decide that the world needs to learn about your collection of 1970s caravan catalogues, then you can export to PDF, HTML, Latex or plain text.

FlipTime XL – The Perfect Partner for your iPad Dock

Posted in Digital Home, iPad, Lifestyle, News

I‘ve always loved flip clocks – there’s something so very comforting about that old analog action and its coolness can even survive being transformed into an iPad app. There are plenty of flippy-number clock apps on the App Store, but I reckon FlipTime XL is the best one and the ideal app to have running on your iPad when you plug it into that fancy desktop dock of  yours.

Track Your Local and Broadband Traffic and Bandwidth with Networx for Windows

Posted in News, Software, Utility, Windows

With ISPs in many countries cracking down on bandwidth and rolling back the generous packages they used to lure everyone onto broadband, it’s more important than ever to be able to track your usage. Networx is a great free utility that enables you to track and analyse every aspect of your network connections whether they’re LAN, WAN or off-plan. It can monitor your broadband usage and alert you when you’re getting close to your cap and, if you have an SNMP enabled router, will even monitor that directly giving you the full picture of all traffic on your household network. You can get it here.

TFI Friday Time Waster – World’s Largest Rope Swing

Posted in News, TFI Friday Time-Waster

Cobra Tag – for when ‘down the back of the sofa’ won’t cut it

Posted in Android, Digital Home, Gadgets, Lifestyle, News

The Cobra Tag neatly tackles two first-world problems in one go. Firstly it functions as a proximity alarm, reminding you when you’ve left your keys, bag, infant child (or whatever else you tag) on the bus. Secondly it can be used to locate your missing items by sending out an alert sound when you trigger it. The whole system is controlled from an Android or Blackberry app called PhoneHalo. It’s available now for $79USD.

Fly Free Photo Editing & Viewer Software

Posted in News, Photography, Software, Windows

Fly Free Photo Editor is a well designed Freeware Windows image editor with a great feature-set and a slick Mac style interface. Features include, batch resize, batch photo slideshow PowerPoint, direct upload to Flickr, Google and Facebook and an HTML to image web page converter.