Category Archives: Software & Apps

10 Reasons to Switch to Mac OS X Lion

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Mission Control on OS X Lion
I am currently running Snow Leopard on my iMAC which I upgraded earlier last year. When the new OS X Lion came out, I wasn’t sure why I should upgrade again. But after reading Tom Negrino’s review of the MAC OS X at Peachpit, I know I will be upgrading my machine later this month. Here are Tom’s 10 reasons to get the Lion upgrade:

  1. Better browsing (Stable Safari, Less crashes)
  2. Improved Apps (Mail, iCal, iChat, Addressbook)
  3. Full Screen Apps
  4. Mission Control
  5. Launchpad
  6. Auto Save and Version Control
  7. Resume (Improved Restart/Shutdown)
  8. Better File Management (Cover Flow Style browsing)
  9. Gestures and Scrolling (Trackpad)
  10. AirDrop (File Sharing with another MAC Over Wi-Fi)

Combination of these improvements and 250 new features makes the upgrade worthwhile. Plus it is only $29.

Best iPad Note Taking Apps

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According to PC Mag Top 5 iPad note taking apps are:

  1. Note Taker HD
  2. Penultimate
  3. Notability
  4. Evernote
  5. Next!

Notesplus iPad App

My favorite from that list is Evernote, it is free and can also sync up all your notes between your iPad, iPhone and computer in the cloud.However, for drawing and sketching I really like Wacom’s Bamboo Paper.

Bamboo Paper

Bamboo Paper is awesome, it is easy to use with fingers, if you want to sketch more precisely you can also buy their styles pen.

Bamboo Styles Pen

Clicky: Real-time Web Analytics

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Real-time Analytics by Clicky.com

I use Google Analytics a lot for web traffic analytics and reporting, however, it is missing one big feature which is real-time web analytics. All the reports you see on Google Analytics are for yesterday’s traffic. Many ecommerce, news and other transactional web sites want to monitor real-time traffic to see reports on how many people are on the site every hour and trying to see what the users are looking at right now, which page is viewed most in the past hour and much more. I came across Clicky.com which offers real-time web analytics that can be accessed on any mobile platform. Also, Clicky plays nice with many open-source web applications such as Joomla, WordPress and Magento, which is great.