4 Free Heatmap tools for tracking user behaviour on a site

Tracking user behaviour on a site can be quite tricky, I agree. You get lot of questions instead of answers starting from what metrics to track and what tools to employ to how long to track a metric. Having said that, I should admit that heatmaps are fun to look at and a more easy way to make meaning of your analytics metrics. Here are ten such heatmap tools that will make analytics easy for you.1. Codynamix Open Source Free Heatmap Tool Cannoli is an open source click heatmap tool and it’s written in Ruby on Rails. It’s based on Ruwa web analytics. You can get the latest code from github: http://github.com/rosario/cannoli Its free however...

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How To Enable Direct Downloads For RapidShare Premium

RapidShare, one of the largest online file sharing service has recently made several changes, one of the most annoying one though was that they have now disable direct file downloads for RapidShare Premium accounts.This means that, even if you are a Rapidshare premium account user, you will have to click at-least 3 buttons/links  before your actual download begins. If you are one of the users who is angry about this, here is a way in which you can enable direct downloads for Rapidshare premium accounts.Step 1: Login to Rapidshare PremiumStep 2: Click the "+" symbol next to "Settings" on the landing page after your login.Step 3: Click...

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Over 1.3 Million Websites Host Malware - Don't Be One of Them

As a follow-up to our article "What You Need to Know About Malvertising:" Dasient saw a spike in the number of websites hosting malware in Q2 of this year, according to the security-as-a-service company's Q2 Malware Report. According to Dasient, over 1.3 million web sites host malware - more than twice as many as the company found in Q2. Also, malvertising campaigns tend to start on weekends, javascript based attacks are on the rise and ASP pages are increasingly targeted. Dasient is quick to point out that in the case of attacks on ASP pages, correlation doesn't imply causation. But it does recommend increased attention to ASP...

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How to Make Invisible Password Protected Folder ?

Do you want to password protect your folder? Do you want to make it invisible so that it remains unnoticed by the normal users? Well here is a way to do that. In this post I will show you how to make a password protected folder in Windows without using any additional software. Here is is step by step procedure to create a password protected folder. How to create a Password Protected FolderStep-1: Create a new folder (Right-click -> New -> Folder) and give it any name of your choice. For instance I name it as ABC.Step-2: Now in this folder place all the important files, documents or any folders that you want to password protect.Step-3: Now Right-click on this folder (ABC) and select the option Send To ->Compressed (zipped) Folder.Step-4:...

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IBM Claims Breakthrough in Computing that can make Things 100 times Faster

No matter how much of computing power we pack into our hardware, one fact still remains. They are powered by age-old connections, the ones that had powered US Telegraph lines around a hundred and fifty years ago. Yes, I am talking about those copper wires. A nuisance as they should have become by now, IBM has finally realized the fact and come up with a better solution using an optical bus. IBM has made this breakthrough by using photons to transfer the signals, which has been done by electrons all this while. This will record a new era of computing, which will be accompanied by massive parallelism. This simply means better implementations of...

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GoDaddy.com On Sale.. Not At $.99 Though

GoDaddy is probably the king of domain registrations and hosting solutions with it being the registrant of a significant percentage of registered domains. Now the big daddy of domain registration, e-commerce and hosting services has put itself up on sale for a staggering $1 billion.According to WSJ, GoDaddy is up on the block for a cool sum of $1 billion. GoDaddy, which heavily advertises raunchy advertisements, specially during the Super Bowl posted revenue between $750 and $800 million in 2009 and is by far the biggest domain registrant and service provider for websites.GoDaddy.com currently handles about...

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Twitter Instant Follows YouTube Instant and Google Instant

It looks like we have to start bracing ourselves to hear the word "Instant" overdone in the next few weeks and months. After Google Instant was launched a Stanford student created YouTube Instant and almost landed a job with YouTube.Now, behold, someone has gone ahead and created a Twitter Instant search (http://beached.org/twinstant/) which works on the same fundamentals, results change as you type. However, it still has a lot work to do as far as the "guessing before you type" feature which both YouTube Instant and Google Instant have.The author of Twitter Instant is riding the Instant wave and asks whether...

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4th Generation iPod Touch India Pricing Detailed

Apple India has issued a press release detailing the prices of their latest iPod Touch. The new iPod Touch should be available starting next week. The prices mentioned in the press release include applicable taxes: iPod Touch 8GB Rs. 15,400 iPod Touch 32GB Rs. 19,900 iPod Touch 64GB Rs. 25,900 According to Steve Jobs, the new iPod Touch has been made slimmer which I really want to see for myself since the iPod Touch was unbelievably thin already. Other features introduced are:Retina Display (same display as in iPhone 4) Front facing and rear facing camera FaceTime HD Video Recording Game Center 3 axis gyro Apple’s A4 Chip The 160GB...

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