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I've been playing around with Google Analytics' Custom Variables feature and put together a neat integration that lets us measure the real performance of visitors to our website. It's a little clumsy since Google Analytics wasn't really meant to do this, but it's good enough that many of you might find it useful.

This series of video tutorials demonstrates how to use an Interactive whiteboard

Symbian is the biggest smartphone operating system by market share, the oldest smartphone platform still in use, used by almost every major OEM at one time or another. Yet one could be forgiven for thinking Symbian is dead and buried, with news of layoffs at Nokia, management departures at the Symbian Foundation and rough reviews of the latest flagship N8 device. How does a platform powering 9 million new devices every month have almost no credibility with developers, analysts and press alike? This is the story of one of the most successful failures in tech history.

Find out exactly what a purpose-built del.icio.us page is, why you need one, and how it can benefit you. This blog is complete with examples and links.

Social bookmarking allows individuals to share resources and links. Del.icio.us and Digg are two prominent examples. Digg and del.icio.us are surprisingly effective at capturing the zeitgeist within a group of web users. Bookmarks grow in popularity based on how frequently they are saved. Bookmarking serves as an information filter - if thousands of individuals found a particular resource to be valuable (or at least of interest), it can be assumed to be of greater significance or originality.

Collection of 10 beautiful and very popular icons set useful to be used in your web applications or your websites.

Firefox has been one of the fastest and most user friendly browser for anyone. I can't think working without it. Firefox extensions help web analyst to test, report and analysis the web data easily. I've used Firefox for close to four years now and I've found a number of extremely useful third party plug-ins and extensions to simplify manipulation, analysis and graphing of data.

Howto keep updated on *ANY* topic via social media! Very Useful!

It's a very easy to use tool with different customizable parameters like stripe color, stripes spacing, orientation, colors etc. After finishing download the background and use it on your blog. This is an amazing Web2.0 product for web designers.

This article features three of the more useful and robust online web applications and/or services I've come across that are free of charge. These tools are especially useful for the web designer / web developer.

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Rapleaf provides search services that find information about people on the social web, on behalf of businesses and consumers. Top retailers, telcos, political organizations, hotel chains, social networks, and other consumer facing companies use Rapleaf's services to gain insight about their consumers and improve their consumers' experience. Consumers use Rapleaf's services to discover, manage, and control their online information.

This article features some of the more useful and free desktop graphics editors I've come across whether you're creating/editing an icon, a vector file or otherwise. I hope that everyone finds this article useful, and I also hope that it's read before you shell out $300 for a commercial graphic editor elsewhere. What you will not find in this article are the more well known image editing applications such as The Gimp

Last available copy of Google's Notebook extension, with directions on how to install it in Firefox 3.5. Very useful for anyone still using it.

Looking for the best way to drive a massive amount of traffic to my site and my blog, I've recently stumbled upon a very interesting article about Craigslist. I've always been considering it a very primitive website, as far as the design is concerned. However, Craigslist ranks among the 25 most visited sites of the world (Alexa.com traffic rankings, april 2009) and without any doubt it's the most important classified ads platform worldwide. I know that Google Adwords is very effective, other similar advertising programs are good too, but what if we could produce the same amount of traffic (or even more) using Craigslist for free? The idea is creating an appealing advertisement (with a link pointing to our website) and posting it in multiple sections of Craigslist corresponding to the major cities of the world (highly populated cities such as New York, Los Angeles, London, Tokyo, Hong Kong, etc.). This will certainly produce a massive traffic flow. The problem is that if we post the same ad (or similar ads) in multiple cities, all our ads will be detected by Craigslist spiderbots and deleted by the staff. Even if we offer serious products we will be considered spammers, and if we insist, we will be banned .... ..... and this will happen unless we use the method discovered by Steve Mount to avoid being detected by the spiderbots and to avoid being deleted. Follow the link to read more .....

People always used to search for names of the person on Google search, but the results can be varied and aren't always what you want. The might be not exact bcoz someone else with your name can also been shown on the result page. This makes people search more complicated over the years. Now using Google Profiles finding people on Google search becomes easier.

Time and time again I find myself trying to remember a bit of PHP or CSS code that I've used before to perform some sort of function. This is why most any web developer needs a code snippet application to archive those bits of code. In this article I bring attention to Snippley, a fantastic Adobe Air desktop application, and also Snipt, which is a web application based around a community to boot.

Of course it is good to talk about moving fully online from desktop but for now online apps offer us more desktop apps to use with Meebo as the latest example.

There's a lot of potential here in just about every aspect of web use - personal and professional.