I think it was writer P.J. O'Rourke that once said that golf combines two of the favorite American pastimes - taking long walks and hitting things with a stick. What is certainly true is that, while it may be a very pleasant place to spend a few hours on a sunny afternoon, golfers take their sport very seriously. The thing that gets me though is the way they keep score. While TV scoreboards are filled with up to the date information,the humble golfer still mostly relies on the simple piece of paper to keep their score and has no idea ... Read more
To the initiated, let me just take a few minutes to tell you about Lionel Messi. In case you aren't aware, Messi is an Argentinian superstar football (or soccer) player who plays for the Spanish club Barcelona and has won the coveted FIFA Ballon D'or award as Best European player four times now. He's as tricky as Maradona or Pele without any of the controversies of the former or the legendary celebrity of the latter. He hasn't been pictured on the front page of the newspaper with numerous prostitutes nor he has been connected with any drug taking scandals. He ... Read more
It seems like a parent's life takes a bit of a back seat as soon as a child comes along and takes up the majority of their time. Trying to further yourself with classes and courses can turn into a bit of a nightmare. Half the problem isn't necessarily with the harried parent though. Quite often the problem lies with poor website information and badly organized companies who fail to deliver the information that you need. Nurturize is a new search engine application designed for parents that makes it easier to search and find the classes and courses they need ... Read more
Somehow, up until now, the concept of fishermen and a social network didn't quite sit right with me. I don't know if it's the fact that fishing is an outdoor activity and the complete opposite of the original idea f the social network. But with the explosion of the mobile and tablet phenomenon everything has changed now. Now fishermen can sit proudly alongside workers, photo enthusiasts and students in having their own network. Fishfeed Mobile is a community where you can do all those things that a network does including sharing videos and photos with other fishing enthusiasts. If ... Read more
One of the things that sets the biggest sporting teams apart from the also-rans in their field are their rabid supporters who will support their team through thick and thin. NFL has the Dallas Cowboys, Washington Redskins, New England Patriots and New York Giants, baseball has the NY Yankees and the LA Dodgers, basketball has the Lakers and the biggest of all - soccer (or football, as it is known in most territories) has the Spanish clubs, Real Madrid and Barcelona and finally, there are England's Manchester United and London's famous Arsenal. Formed in the 19th Century, Arsenal - or ... Read more
It's a bit sad really. The fact is, the days of the spreadsheet as we know it, are pretty numbered. While they have served us well, they can be a little cumbersome and better results and analysis can be achieved using other methods. Whether we are using them as an inventory at home for books and cd's or in a business sense to log personnel details or research documents it makes more search now to use a data management application instead. Flextory is an easy to use Software as a Service management system where you can create a spreadsheet for ... Read more
I remember those days when the Italian master downhill skier Alberto Tomba used to weave his magic in the slalom events at the Winter Olympics. It seemed for a while there that no one would beat him. It wasn't that long afterwards that Microsoft introduced a skiing game called SkiFree for Windows 3.1 and Windows 95 that everyone played for a bit of fun. Well, this great addictive old school downhill racer has now been adapted for iOS and proves itself to be just as addictive as its parent. That is, until you get caught by the abominable snowman, of ... Read more
The most popular shows on the TV these days are the reality-based ones and some of the biggest are the talent shows like The Voice, X-Factor and the worldwide variations of American Idol. However, those kind of shows tend to produce winners that tend to be fairly similar and there are only a small number of contestants that get the chance to shine each year. MeTheOne takes the talent show onto the Internet where everyone from singers, musicians, jugglers and surfers can pit their talent with the aid of social networks and YouTube. Give talent scouts and agents a chance ... Read more
If you have put together an email marketing campaign then you will know that, unless you have the right tools to do the job properly, it's going to take a long time to integrate your databases and get your customer lists useable. It's just the way it is. What would speed up the process though, is an application like Mailsync that takes all the boring legwork out of collating email customers. It syncs emails using first and last names for Mailchimp and Campaign Monitor and integrates well with the most popular databases to speed up the process automatically and provide ... 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