Monday, September 17, 2007

Google Analytics: Best website tracking, no ads and absolutely free

Now most of the time, bloggers, webmasters are curious to get reports about their sites or blogs performance. Obviously, it's important as the only way to judge is by having some tracking. You just can expect everyone to leave a comment.
So, people google for web tracking tools and endup using some webstat counter which shows false reporting, shows their links on our websites.(I used some of these counters and was pissed off totally when figured that much of the data is irrelevent or wrong).
Then a little late, I found google analytics. This has plain, simple interface and very simple javascript which need to be pasted once and that's it. Tracking is on for the webpage. :) Itn't simple.

And yes, like other google products, it's free. They show the report in much detail.

Check out the details here to find out that it's a real gem.

Flash demo: http://www.google.com/analytics/media/report_tour/feature_tour.html

Features page: http://www.google.com/analytics/features.html

Google Analytics blog: http://analytics.blogspot.com

And to access it use URL http://www.google.com/analytics

Thursday, September 13, 2007

Machine very slow. Performance very bad. Try these...

Everyone who is using computers for long time may have experienced that their computers are turning slow after sometimes. It can be weeks, days or month.



So here are the tips to rectify this problem upto some extent.



User Profile:

Clean desktop by removing unwanted items.

Move the files/folders which are not essentially required in your user profile(i.e c:\documents and settings\). Mainly, Desktop, My Documents, My pictures are used other than videos and downloads. So move the large file from these places to someother part of your disk.



Clean Temporary Files:

Type cleanmgr.exe on Run box and hit Ok.

Select the parts which you want to clean and submit.


Visual Effects:

Right click My Computer->Properties->Advanced->Settings(for performance)

"Performance Window" will open new windpw

Select option "Adjust for best performance"





Disk Defragmenter:

In the Start Menu->Run window, type dfrg.msc and hit OK.

window will pop up.

Select drive and hit Defrag button.

It's a lengthy process and depends on the occupancy and size of your disc.

This is not the end, I will be adding more in this so to make your computer/system superfast. Right now, I need to run for some work.

Monday, September 10, 2007

How to view answers at experts-exchange

Most of the times when you are searching for some answer on google or some other search engine then at the top of search results is experts-exchange.com . Then you jump to this site to know the answer and find that you need to be paid subsciber to see the answer.
Well, a workaround to see the answers without subscribing to it is mentioned below:

If the google search lists experts-exchange as the site with answer. Open the page provided by google. Move to the solutions part where it will be showing the blurred, crypted text. Find a keyword like author name which you could use for unique searching.
Do CTRL V and press C or ( View->Source in IE). This will show the html code for the page. Find that word and below that you will find meaningless english words. Copy them. Open another IE window and search for ROT-13 converter(one is at http://personal.ecu.edu/wuenschk/humor/rot13.htm)

Copy the text there and press convert and hurray, see the answer.

Sunday, September 9, 2007

Ad Aware - It cleans spywares, malwares from your computer

Even the safest surfer cannot protect his system from getting infected, if not with virus then with trojans, spywares, adwares or other malwares. If you block them then many sites won't open. So, you cannot afford to add too many restrictions in your computer configuration.

Ad aware has been one of the most famous ad & spy removal tool. It comes in three versions, free, professional and plus. It's a product of lavasoft and widely used tool.

The C-Net and users rating for this tool is 4 out of 5 which is best and that is after when 255,000,000+ downloads has been done. So you can estimate level of confidence and trust, users are putting into this.

The free version is also very powerful. Just make sure that you are updating the definition file before running the tool on your machine. The only limitation is that it is not providing you real time protection. Still, you can schedule a run for ad-aware either on daily, weekly or monthly basis.


It gives you option of full system scanning, custom scanning etc, smart scanning with each selecting some and ignoring options.

For running this the first time, it's better to run the deep scan the system(full scan) and then smart scan or custom scan afterwards.

It can be downloaded from http://www.download.com/3000-2144-10045910.html