Posts Tagged ‘google’
View Google Analytics on your iPhone with Analytics Pro
Posted in Software, on March 22nd, 2010 by Carlos.
If you’re a Google Analytics aficionado and an iPhone user, then you may be interested in this app, Analytics Pro. This app brings you all the metric-y goodness of Google Analytics in a friendly format for the iPhone. It supports multiple profiles under multiple Google accounts, if you swing that way. Along with your normal set of analytics and views, Analytics Pro gives you handy summaries for the current day, past day and past week. The app is well laid out and feel at home as iPhone app. Michael Grothaus who wrote a review on the app over at TUAW even comments that “Matter of fact, it’s even easier to view my reports in the Analytics Pro app than it is on the Analytics web site.” So far with my initial testing of the app, I might have to agree!
Analytics Pro is available for $6.99 on the App Store. [App Store via TUAW]
Bing Available for iPhone, includes Maps and Directions
Posted in iPhone, on December 16th, 2009 by Carlos.
I have a confession to make. I like Microsoft’s Bing search engine. Even though I actually don’t use it often (after all, Google is still my browser’s homepage), I do try Bing out every now and then to see if I can get some different results. There are a few things, including interface, that I think it beats Google at.
Microsoft has released a Bing application for the iPhone that brings a lot of the Bing usability to your mobile device. It has a pretty slick interface, and actually makes searching on the iPhone a little more pleasurable. I still find Google’s interface for the iPhone quite lacking. Aside from the standard items you can search for: websites, images, news – Bing can also act as a replacement for the Maps app on the iPhone. It even taps into the GPS to figure out your current location.
Although it sounds sacrilegious to load up a Microsoft app on your iPhone, I’d actually recommend giving it a shot! It’s not one of my ‘software must haves’ but it certainly is a ‘software should try’! [Bing on the App Store]
Google Chrome Beta for Mac Released
Posted in Web, on December 8th, 2009 by Carlos.
Google has made available a beta version of the webkit based browser, Chrome. I had downloaded an earlier release for some testing and it seemed to run well. I’ll probably stick to Safari though, only firing up Chrome when I accidentally click the wrong icon. My only hope is that Chrome becomes more successful on the Windows side of things so people move away from Internet Explorer. I have downloaded it and it feels pretty snappy and responsive, more so than FireFox even, but then again, I’ve always found FireFox to load up too slowly on the Mac compared to Safari. Go download it now.
Will you be switching?
Google’s New Simplicity
Posted in Web, on December 3rd, 2009 by Carlos.
If you head over to Google.com you’ll notice a new super clean search page by the search giant. Until you move your mouse, nothing but the Google logo, the search bar and the Google Search and I’m Feeling Lucky buttons appear. Move your mouse and the rest of the text links and nonsense appear. Unfortunately they find this too advanced for us Canadians, and as such it isn’t showing up on google.ca yet. What do you think? Do you like it? I wish you could save an option so that even when you move your mouse none of the other clutter appears. [Google via Gizmodo]
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