A Few of my Favorite things PT 2!

If you don’t know me well by now I am the person who is alwasy trying out new things even when everyone else is using the norm or so call best. So here I will just list some webware and software products that in my eye are worth the shot.

• OPERA 9.5 – I have for the past two years been using camino web browser instead of firefox for mac because of it’s sluggish ways, which is very annoying and can make a user unproductive. After a while I just wanted more choices in my web browser and more spead since I average 25 plus tabs a day. So I started using Opera 9.5 and surprisingly it has out performed all of those browsers in speed and memory usage, which are important to me.
  

  Opera Web Broswer 9.5

  A lot of people have just bypassed Opera but with this new version there is no way I am going back to firefox at this time. It’s new interface, updated email client, custom rendering engine and it’s amazing Opera Link, that syncs your bookmarks and Speed Dial between your computers and mobile phone are built in and just make using it great. There are plenty other items tied in with the browser like better fraud protection, but Ill let you check it out for yourself.

• OPERA MINI 9.5

If you are going to use Opera 9.5 on the computer using it on the cell is a must. Opera mini is the best web browser on the mobile phone and I think will continue being so because of its innovation and anyone with less fancy cellphones and even blackberys can enjoy full websites on their mobile device so check it out.

• Clicky Web Aanalyics – One day I was getting annoyed with google analytics lack of live updates to its web stats. To me I just wanted to see the habits of the users in real time and maybe even get organization names and get something extra about my future client, employer etc. I stumbled upon a blog discussing several sites that are better than google analytics and I was amazed right away. Here is a list of thing sthat are offered by Clicky.

Track outbound links
Track downloads
Bounce rates
Visitor organizations (e.g. Microsoft Corp)
Visitor hostnames (e.g. comcast.net)
Most active visitors
Track custom data for every visitor (usernames, cookies, etc)
Email reports
IP tags
Real time data
Widgets of Mass Deliciousness to put on your web site
Get your stats via RSS feeds
View popular data in a TagCloud instead of boring tables and charts
Aggregate (multi-day) view for all data
Data export to CSV, XML, and JSON
Spy (a live view of your web site)
Works with visitors who have disabled JavaScript
White label as your own product
Official WordPress plugin for easy integration with your blog
FeedBurner RSS stats integration
Google Maps integration
Clean, modern interface
Public statistics
Updated constantly
Free service
Insanely affordable premium service
(starting at less than $2/month) n/a
Affiliate program to earn you cash or free premium service

There are more products to come! I figured I would start off with a quick post, but it ended up long so I will make daily updates about new products you might be interested in so keep an eye out.