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Two Web Analytics Software for Desktop

Most of use might have used Google Analytics for whatever reasons. Google Analytics could help us to learn about where our visitors come from and how they interact with our site. This service is brought online by Google for free.

Google Analytics AIR (Click on the picture to enlarge)

Ever wonder if you could view your Google Analytics results at your desktop? Yes, it can be done by using a software developed by Nicolas, called Google Analytics AIR. It was built under the Adobe AIR platform. However, you still need to have the Google Analytics account in order to use this software.

The second desktop Web analytics software is by Woopra. The platform used is Java, and is developed by Woopra. Although Woopra is currently in it’s beta stage, don’t under estimated it. It can even gives you live report, i.e. how many users are currently visiting your site. In order to use this software, you need to have an account with Woopra.

Woopra Analytics (Click to enlarge)

In my humble opinion, Woopra is better than Google Analytics, especially the reporting style. How about you?


Display Maths with Wordpress

Displaying Mathematics notation in a browser is not an easy task. One option is by using a plugin such as Design Science MathPlayer™, which enables Microsoft Internet Explorer to display mathematical notation in Web pages. However, the plugin is not so popular, and it does not comes with the browser by default.

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List of Blog Directories

Backlink is one of the technique to generate traffic to a blog. This article provides a list of high page rank blog directories.

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How to backup WordPress data

Backup is a process of duplicating data, so that it could be used to restore the original after a data loss event. This tutorial will show how to backup your WordPress posts, pages, comments, custom fields, categories, and tags easily, using WordPress eXtended RSS (WXR).

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Wordpress xmlrpc.php error 404

A Weblog Client is a desktop software that you can use to post to your Wordpress blog from your PC without the use of Web browser, via xmlrpc.php. By using a Weblog client, you are able to write posts offline and save drafts. However, some Web hosting provider block the access to xmlrpc.php, due to some security issues, at least for an older version of Wordpress.

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How to embed source code in a blog

To embed source code inside blogger blog, like in the picture above, I use a css box like below:

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Check your blog load time

This tool could be used to determine a blog load time.

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