With Apple's iPad being the 'flavor of the moment' there is always going to be a lot of speculation about new developments and the tips and tricks of the trade. There are a number of ways of keeping up with the latest gossip surrounding, what has turned out to be, one of Steve Jobs' best legacies. iPadNewsBlog has become the number #1 source of the best information on all things iPad and has been featured recently in publications all over the world including the Wall Street Journal, AppleInsider and MacRumors. iPadNewsBlog is the premier iPad focused website for iPad ... Read more
To steal from David Fincher's excellent film Fight Club, what's the first rule for your website? The answer is, of course, to never have any downtime. When your server or browser is down and you don't know about it, there's a pretty good possibility that your visitors will go elsewhere and possibly not come back. Appfail is a cloud-based error monitoring system that enables online businesses to discover, diagnose and track failures in their websites and immediately let's you know about it with an email or message straight to your device. Organizations invest significant resources to encourage customers and ... Read more
Never before have their been quite so many home build projects going up around the world. It's probably something to do with the fall in house prices globally that is making it a more sensible plan to adapt or enlarge your present home or knock the place down and start all over again. Either that or it's the plethora of TV shows like the excellent Grand Designs and Design Star that are inspiring people to build their own place. FloorStyler is a superb new floor design application that allows you to lay out your house's new floor plan with a ... Read more
Convertable is a quite wonderful set of analytic business tools aimed at online marketers that takes Google Analytics to another level. While Google provides aggregated stats on the analytics data of submitted forms, Convertable takes it one step further by analyzing each form individually and then let's you track them through the whole sales and purchase process. As usual with most of these enterprising business apps, this one was born out of the frustration of a marketing team to be able to isolate where every one of their leads were really coming from and the individual ROI on each. ... Read more
So...hands up all of you who know what a jQuery Slider is. Yes, I thought so - not many of you unless you are a web designer. Well, I'll tell you then, shall I? Funnily enough, it is one of the most used elements of web design these days and is a great help to designers who want to display lots of content in a small space. The jQuery Slider Shock is capable of presenting both images and videos that are hosted locally or from external sources like RSS, YouTube, Hulu, Vimeo, Flickr, Twitter and Instagram and presents them in ... Read more
One of the failings of the modern day applications is to fill them with so much information that it's hard to navigate your way around. Scrolling around a page hunting for the place you need to go next is not only frustrating but also a recipe for losing visitors. Tour My App is a guided tour application for SaaS that provides step-by-step tours to embedding your app to guide your visitors in the right direction to sign up and complete all the key tasks you are looking for. SaaS product companies spend a lot of time and money on ... Read more
It seems rather appropriate, on this weekend that the New York Marathon has been cancelled owing to the disastrous weather conditions that have stricken the area over the last week or so, to introduce you to a rather good running application for iPhone. Race Finder is a health and fitness app that is aimed at helping running enthusiasts of all types reach their goals by locating thousands of road races and fun runs all over the world. Race Finder is an app for serious runners and something to aspire to for the casual types as it provides a comprehensive guide ... Read more
Where web design is concerned, the current trend is to design your own website with one of the easy step-by-step applications like WebStarts, Plebu, EXAI or WebStartToday. But sometimes there is a good argument for using a professional web design company. If you use a tax accountant to work out your tax at the end of the financial year you will know how their expertise and knowledge can give you the best result possible and the same can be said for web design. Hiccup Solutions is a highly experienced web design company that are adept at designing and developing all ... Read more
Easy WebContent is a simple, fast and very effective way of adding great rich interactive content to your website. Its virtually a do -it-yourself system for everyone from interested amateur to hardened professional website designer to add photos, music, video, widgets, maps and all other interactive content to their site to create and engage the viewers of your website and encourage new customers. Easy WebContent is a web based DIY system that allows everyone to create and maintain rich interactive content online. From professional websites to interactive presentations and demos, this platform helps anyone -even those with little or ... Read more
When one thinks of plagiarism the first thing that comes to mind is the student cut and pasting information off the Internet - something that of course is very much frowned upon. However, PlagSpotter is a plagiarism tracker with more universal aspirations. In reality, this free application features a set of tools that are effectively what is known as a duplicate content checker. For a start, it enables you to analyze exactly how your content is being shared on the net and whether it is being stolen or not. What's more, some sites who 'borrow' or 'duplicate' content might well ... Read more