In the last five-ten years, there has been a splurge of Torrent sites on the internet. Many promising ones came and left at the same pace, while some struggled with anti-piracy law suites. Some managed to fight along while getting popular with the masses, and those are the ones who’ve actually managed to thrive. Torrent Freak has come out with a list of the most popular torrent sites of the… Continue reading

While there are always speculations on who’s a better web host, the truth is that each webhost is good enough in its own respect. Its about what you, as a webmaster need in a host that need to be answered first before going for the best host. An industry leading, highly reviewed host might not be required for a beginner blogger, at the same time, a typical hosting package may… Continue reading

For many years Apple has been at the leading edge of technology, software, branding and web design. A strong and instantly recognisable Apple style is maintained across the company’s applications and Internet exposure, with several key aspects in its approach to design. Strong, bold icons are used to define and navigate; great product and screenshots reveal the goods; cleanly-gridded typography with various sizes of text makes large amounts of content… Continue reading

When it comes to Twitter, Tweetdeck and Seesmic rules the app world. But on a Mac, there are lot of other eye candies that miss the limelight because of the dominating two. Here is a list of some better alternatives, that you might have missed. 1. Blue Bird – Exclusive Twitter app for Mac Bluebird is a nice Twitter app exclusively for Mac users. You’ll love the Mac-like interface. Download… Continue reading

We watch YouTube almost every day. I mean, even if we didn’t want to there’d be some instances where we need to log in. I’m a bit apprehensive about using YouTube especially at work because most of the times, the things that pop up are NSFW. However, I’m a big fan of YouTube and these tools make sure that we don’t end up in the YouTube loop, but make things… Continue reading

If you’re a movie lover like me, you’d have an IMDB account, a catalog of the entire list of movies you’ve seen, some odd 8 movies in the download queue (oops ! strike that ) and ask silly questions like this on facebook. Honestly, social media has taken over my movie interests in a very big way. I have at least 3 movie related apps on my Android. Anyways, here… Continue reading

I know what you’re thinking now. Original Content on Twitter? “Your” Bitly links ? – Move on Mani !

Well, this isn’t a personal post. But rather a question raised towards a seemingly silly issue, by some seemingly silly people on Twitter. I have this thing with “seemingly silly” things, simply because in most cases, they turn out to be not-so-silly. Anyways, that’s not what I wanted to say… Continue reading

“I always tell people when they start talking about ROI on Social Media, well, what’s the Return On Ignoring?”
- Jeffrey Hayzlett, Kodak.

Social Media Monitoring ? That’s an often heard but a meaningless term to many of us, right ? Many think that there is no ROI to Social Media, and while this topic is up for debate, I’m saying – yes and no.
No because, we… Continue reading

For most of the companies who’re not into social media, its a curse. Social Media for many is a non-productive thing, and may be if I were in such a company, like a financial firm, I would take the same stand – block or curb the use of social media during office hours. Although we could debate on the issue, whether companies should block or allow the social media channels… Continue reading

Old tweets ? What old tweets ? On twitter, there are no old tweets, there are only new and newer tweets. So if you wanted to cross check or grab a link from your tweet two weeks ago, it wouldn’t be available to you (unless you haven’t tweeted since). With many of us constantly updating our twitter streams, older tweets gets literally buried. So is there a way by which… Continue reading

Skype was and always is the leader when it comes to free video and voice chat on the internet. There are many alternatives out there but clearly Skype got its big pluses to make us all stick to it. I’ve been using Skype for so long that I haven’t really tried any alternatives, although I know that there are. Skype has been good with voice chat, video chat and even… Continue reading

Its frustrating sometimes when you realize that there’s a lot you can do with Twitter but most of what you see in public are restricted to the common usages. Here’s where open source scripts come into play. Here are ten such interesting open source twitter scripts that will let you do all that (almost) you couldn’t do otherwise.

1. Witty – Open Source Windows Client
Witty… Continue reading

If you are the type who rely on Google Images when it comes to finding images on the internet, you’re on the wrong side. Honestly, Google Images is crap. There are better image search engines out there that does a far better job that Google. Don’t believe me ? Here is a comprehensive list of them, try them out yourself.
1.  Alamy images
Don’t let that Google style image search… Continue reading

So chances are that you’re either planning to get an Android (some cal it maturing from an iPhone/ Smartphone) or already have one like a few already out there, and you’re already into a set of social media stuff like Twitter, Facebook and blogging. SO would your migration from iPhone to Android smooth ? Looks like it will be better with the plethora of android apps that are coming out… Continue reading

Tracking user behaviour on a site can be quite tricky, I agree. You get lot of questions instead of answers starting from what metrics to track and what tools to employ to how long to track a metric. Having said that, I should admit that heatmaps are fun to look at and a more easy way to make meaning of your analytics metrics. Here are ten such heatmap tools that… Continue reading