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Steve Jobs: Almost 3 Years After His Death, How He architected Your Love For Apple©
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We may have gone busy with our day-to-day lives -- using your iPhone, and all these aesthetically designed (both in hardware & software combined, and in concept) Apple products, but this can be the time we can stop for a moment - and listen. Yes, listen to CultCast.
Here's a buzz about Steve, the architect of Apple, showing you how to build a closer and loving relationship with these Apple products.
Blog Site Tweak: Let There Be Comments!
"No one's giving out their piece of comment...", said Pat, while checking his blog site. This should be a nice line in a fictional high-tech or modern-themed e-book somewhere, right? LOL!
How did I figure this out? You can check out my blog: "In-Page Analytics: What Makes You Click?" to know more about how I stumbled upon this very handy feature. Okay, You may have a different blog platform, but the concept should all be the same: Check your post/comment settings, and make sure this is enabled, and configured right. This is super fundamental, you say. Yup, I hear you, and IKR.
This blog will only feature any associated accounts you may have with Google, and that, with Blogger,
For Google Accounts, log in to your blogger dashboard, and select the page you wish to double check if your comments are set in the right way - just the way you want it.
Select Settings on the left side pane. Next, click on Post and Comments. Now on this part, you need to consider who do you think can post comments: Anyone, including anonymous users, Registered users, Anyone with Google Accounts, and the members of your blog.
You can be your own moderator! Check which posted comment is a spam, or a legit and an honestly said thought. You can select Always if you really want to moderate all posted comments all the time. Sometimes if you have a time parameter - let's say you wish to control the comments coming in depending on how old those posts were. After that, you'll be asked for your email address so you'll be notified every time someone gives out comments about your blog (or can be a spam).
"But I hate Spam!" Doesn't everyone? Aren't we glad there's this Show word verification option, to rid all those nasty bots, and non-bots, once and for all? Make sure to save those settings, and watch those comments flow! In-Page Analytics: What Makes You Click?
I just checked and viewed some report from Google Analytics, and boy, did I miss out some nice gems. What am I talking about? The Comments! Now that's why I don't see anything coming in.
You can also download this cool feature as one of Google Chrome's extension, so you can either enable or disable it anytime you like. You will get this dialog box in case you haven't installed the extension yet. And, you can click on load full view to see all the details of your site/post in a different tab.
Okay, so why am I stressing this out so much? Basic intuition, guys! You get to see how each reader interacts with your site. You can tell which link is clicked and accessed the most, to sum it all up.
Just imagine how useful this would be on your mid-day analysis report, or whatever time you check your site. Isn't technology so Amazing?!Tuesday, September 30, 2014
8 Cool Features You May Not Know About The New ThinkPad© Helix
I've been thinking about the cool IBM ThinkPad, and how this progressed.
If you can recall, these laptops were a wee bit pricey, but you can expect superior quality, as these tough guys are built to last. Plus of course, the T43s & T60s both have large screens, therefore makes it heavy too, questioning the word "Portability". But that was before. ThinkPad has evolved to meet the need of today's generation.A premium laptop with a price to pay makes your money's worth. Now, without any further ado, Read on!
Full HD 1920 x 1080 IPS Display
Vibrant, wide-view 11.6 400-nit Corning Gorrilla glass IPS display with ten-finger multi-touch technology seamlessly integrates with Windows 8 and allows more precise control as well as a vivid and immersive viewing experience on the tablet laptop hybrid
The optional ThinkPad digitizer and pen performs capacitive touchscreen functions—swipe, drag, open, click—with precise control and converts your handwriting into digital text, all on this hybrid tablet laptop
Tablet With Full-Sized, Spill-Resistant Keyboard, & Intelligent Touchpad
The Legendary ThinkPad ergonomic keyboard is renowned for its full array of keys, excellent feel, and TrackPoint & pointing device. It is also spill-resistant, protecting circuitry from liquid exposure
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Laptop, Tablet, Stand, and Tablet+ Modes
Work at a desk in laptop mode, get mobile in tablet mode, and share data and presentations by placing Helix in stand mode—simply dock the tablet backward with the enhanced keyboard. Fold it down onto the base for Tablet+ Mode and get more power, ports, and battery life than a standard tablet
Get Online Wherever You Are
Always on, always connected: embedded 3G support, NFC and WiFi
Complete Connectivity
USB 2.0 port, Mini DisplayPort on tablet – use with keyboard dock to add two USB 3.0 ports and another Mini DisplayPort
Dolby® Home Theater® v4 and Dual Stereo SpeakersDual Cameras
2MP front-facing webcam for crystal-clear video conferencing; 5MP rear-facing camera with LED flash and 30 fps video recording. Increased audio clarity and maximized volume output without distortion — enjoy a crisp, clear immersive surround sound experience
Advanced Security Features
Intel; vProtrade; and AMT technology, BIOS encryption, Kensington Lock port ,TPM chip and Computrace support make the Helix an enterprise ready business tool
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Tuesday, September 23, 2014
Google Analytics: WIIFM? (in concept)
What's In it For You? Loads!
Think of Google Analytics as your main dashboard to all your blog posts & sites.
Imagine this: You get to track in real time all incoming, outgoing visitors, site traffic, sessions, and site activities (clicks) from and into your website. Make use of those advanced features, and all those Google products you need to utilize to give you more efficiency and efficacy in handling your site's data, and so much more!
This discussion does not include all other additional advanced features you may need, it's out there for you to explore. Plus, there are upgrades for business users with highly complex needs, and I won't be able to cover that from here (lol). A good read would be this: What Google Analytics Benchmarking Means For Businesses, for example
Using Google Analytics can help you make those needed fail-proof decisions in an instant. Think how useful it can be to a small, crawling and evolving site, how much more to a highly complex and structured site/portal! The end result stretches far into limitless possibilities, and this makes it more exciting!
I guess this should work something like this: Google Analytics is your main outer core, or the outer box, (the size of this outer box will depend on your site's potential to grow, but of course, it's dimension continuously grows - theoretically & physically speaking) where you need to implement all concepts and planned ideas about your blog sites.
But you have to put in mind what specific content you need to work on. As you put in more details, you'll be considering the level of each content, how each of these would affect other ideas you might add in the future. You need to put those concepts into properties - like boxes where you can add in and sort all ideas as they become your blogs, or site details as you continue (a sitemap comes into play in this part as well, though this should vary).
Before Google Analytics can track all your content, and your soon to be site, you need to initiate a Property Tracking ID. This chunk of number is like a chip, or a tracking number in a shipment if you will, where it can be traced, and observed, with all traffic data that comes in and out of your site. These data are then sorted and processed, which then becomes your detailed report, the information you need so you can change and improve your blog site/website's image over the internet.
I almost forgot to mention, that as you view these information, you will see all trends: You'll discover what specific topic is a hit, at what age group and demographics it highly favors from, which country and geographic setting your topic reaches out the most to, and if you are a business owner then you will benefit more - tons of processed info are at your fingertips, and I can imagine how amazing that thought process should look like from here! That's pretty much it, I suppose.
So now we have the Tracking ID, that's enclosed within an outer box, or Properties. What's next, you ask? Well, now that you've seen (conceptually) the ever expanding outer box, you need to have another box inside, which also has a potential to grow dramatically in size. These Tracking ID's are now incorporated into your ideas, as these becomes your blog posts, your blog sites, your website, etc.
Now, you will see that there will be partitioning or a need to divide and categorize your content as you see fit. These processes goes on a loop every time you add content, but the thought structure is pretty much the same. Bottom line: planning is the key - start with the end in mind. (I need to remind myself that most of the times).
Think of Google Analytics as your main dashboard to all your blog posts & sites.
Imagine this: You get to track in real time all incoming, outgoing visitors, site traffic, sessions, and site activities (clicks) from and into your website. Make use of those advanced features, and all those Google products you need to utilize to give you more efficiency and efficacy in handling your site's data, and so much more!
This discussion does not include all other additional advanced features you may need, it's out there for you to explore. Plus, there are upgrades for business users with highly complex needs, and I won't be able to cover that from here (lol). A good read would be this: What Google Analytics Benchmarking Means For Businesses, for example
Using Google Analytics can help you make those needed fail-proof decisions in an instant. Think how useful it can be to a small, crawling and evolving site, how much more to a highly complex and structured site/portal! The end result stretches far into limitless possibilities, and this makes it more exciting!
I guess this should work something like this: Google Analytics is your main outer core, or the outer box, (the size of this outer box will depend on your site's potential to grow, but of course, it's dimension continuously grows - theoretically & physically speaking) where you need to implement all concepts and planned ideas about your blog sites.
But you have to put in mind what specific content you need to work on. As you put in more details, you'll be considering the level of each content, how each of these would affect other ideas you might add in the future. You need to put those concepts into properties - like boxes where you can add in and sort all ideas as they become your blogs, or site details as you continue (a sitemap comes into play in this part as well, though this should vary).
Before Google Analytics can track all your content, and your soon to be site, you need to initiate a Property Tracking ID. This chunk of number is like a chip, or a tracking number in a shipment if you will, where it can be traced, and observed, with all traffic data that comes in and out of your site. These data are then sorted and processed, which then becomes your detailed report, the information you need so you can change and improve your blog site/website's image over the internet.
I almost forgot to mention, that as you view these information, you will see all trends: You'll discover what specific topic is a hit, at what age group and demographics it highly favors from, which country and geographic setting your topic reaches out the most to, and if you are a business owner then you will benefit more - tons of processed info are at your fingertips, and I can imagine how amazing that thought process should look like from here! That's pretty much it, I suppose.
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Now, you will see that there will be partitioning or a need to divide and categorize your content as you see fit. These processes goes on a loop every time you add content, but the thought structure is pretty much the same. Bottom line: planning is the key - start with the end in mind. (I need to remind myself that most of the times).
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