Dylan Pattyn *, who is currently writing an article for Time Magazine on the issue, has official confirmation from sources within Bell Canada and is interviewing a marketing representative from TELUS who confirms the story and states that TELUS has already started blocking all websites that aren't in the subscription package for mobile Internet access. They could not confirm whether it would happen in 2012 because both stated it may actually happen sooner (as early as 2010). Interviews with these sources, more confirmation from other sources and more in-depth information on the issue is set to be published in Time Magazine soon.
Bell Canada and TELUS (formerly owned by Verizon) employees officially confirm that by 2012 ISP's all over the globe will reduce Internet access to a TV-like subscription model, only offering access to a small standard amount of commercial sites and require extra fees for every other site you visit. These 'other' sites would then lose all their exposure and eventually shut down, resulting in what could be seen as the end of the Internet.
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Having a portfolio website is an essential aspect of many designers lives, and optimizing and monitoring your site will benefit you in many ways. If you are seeking freelance work and more recognition then yo will need a to use one or several of these website traffic monitoring methods.
These program will allow you to monitor many different stats such as total visitors, unique visitors, page views, browsers used, location of users, keywords used to find your site, sites that linked to you and much, much more.
All this information is key to growing ones website and freelance career. Most of these programs are very easy to use and install, some are free and the paid ones are still affordable and have great additional features. If you are going to use one or more of these programs, I would recommend at least setting up Google Analytics.
1. Google Analytics
Google Analytics is the industry standard when it comes to website traffic monitoring. It is incredibly easy to set up and will start collecting data soon after you implement it. You can track everything you could dream of with Google Analytics and if you are going to use any stat monitoring program, be sure to use this one!
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2. AWStats
This is another free way to track a good amount of your server’s stats. Its not as in depth as Google Analytics, but it is free and comes with most web hosting packages so ask your hosting provider how to get this working!
3. Mint
Mint is a cool new way to track stats. It costs money to buy but has cool “peppers” that you can add to the program to show more types of stats. People develop these peppers and then you download and install them on your account. Mint takes a bit more work to set up, but the cool part is there is a desktop widget available for Mac users which can allow you to access your stats with the click of a button!
4. Clicky
Clicky is known as the web 2.0 stat monitoring program and has a sleek and clean interface combined with powerful features. Its easy to use and will provide you with all the stats you could possibly dream of, in real time.
5. Site Meter
Site Meter is another popular choice for webmasters. It tracks all kinds of information in real time so you will have a solid idea of who is visiting your site, how they found you, where they came from, what interests them and so on.
What website traffic monitoring methods do you use? let us know which are your favorites in the comments and how they help you run your portfolio site!
15 must-have Firefox tricks
- Build your own Firefox search engine
- Use keywords to speed up your searching
- Speed up Firefox with pipelining
- Use keywords to speed up bookmarks
- Hack the Firefox interface with userChrome.css
- Put your own graphic on the Firefox tool bar
- Hack the stop, back and forward buttons
- Move the sidebar to the right
- Change the search bar width
- Remove menu items
- Protect your privacy when surfing with Firefox
- Limit Firefox's use of RAM
- Use Firefox keyboard shortcuts
- Hack Firefox printing
- Load a bookmarked Web page in the sidebar
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These 10 essential Firefox addons will make your life as a graphic and web designer much easier! The Firefox addons are extremely easy to install and you will be notified when new versions of the addons are available. I have hand picked all of these add ons and without further ado here are the 12 best Firefox addons for graphic designers!
ColorZilla 1.0
ColorZilla is an advanced eyedropper, color picker and measuring tool.
Window Resizer
The Window Resizer addon allows you to resize your browser to common resolution sizes allowing you to view website designs in a variety of popular browsing dimensions.
Web Developer
The Firefox Web Developer addons is one of the most popular addons for web designers. It has a variety off essential tools that allow you to code quality websites and troubleshoot problems easily.
Palette Grabber
Palette Grabber is a nifty little addon that creates a color palette for Photoshop, Paint Shop Pro, GIMP, Flash, Fireworks, or OS X based on the current page you are viewing in your browser.
GridFox
GridFox is a great Firefox extension that allows you to overlay a customizable grid on any website allowing you to make sure the grid you designer in your layout translate correctly to the web.
FireShot
FireShot is a cool extension that allows you to take screenshots of your web pages and also has a set of built in annotation tools that allow you to add graphics and notes.
FoxyTunes
FoxyTunes is a kick butt addon for anyone who listens to music while they design. It allows you to control almost any media player from your browser. You can also find lyrics, covers and so on.
MeasureIt
MeasureIt allows you to overlay a ruler on a browser page so you can verify width, height and alignment of page elements.
IE Tab
IE Tab is a useful tool for designers who need to check to see if their website looks good in Internet Explorer. A simple click will switch you back to Firefox.
FireFTP
FireFTP is a free, secure, browser based FTP client that allows you to easily access your server via Firefox instead of having to launch a separate program.
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Call it the iPhone economy.
Apple's soon-to-open online App Store has triggered a scramble among software developers to write business plans aimed at making money off Apple's iPhone, a mini-computer that doubles as a phone.
"I'm seeing an excitement among mobile developers that I've never seen before," said Sam Altman, chief executive and co-founder of Mountain View-based Loopt, a location-based social networking service. "People who said they'd never start a mobile (applications) company because they didn't want to rely on the carriers are now starting companies focused only on the iPhone."
Apple recently provided the tools engineers need to create applications for its popular mobile device. The Cupertino company said some 250,000 iPhone software development kits have been downloaded. The App Store Web site, where applications will be sold or given away, is expected to launch soon, perhaps July 11 when the faster next-generation iPhone goes on sale.
Apple could be creating a billion-dollar industry built around the iPhone, said Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster. In a recent note to investors, Munster wrote that the App Store could create a $1 billion-plus iPhone ecosystem by the end of 2009.
Last week, 5,200 software developers packed San Francisco's Moscone Center for Apple's annual Worldwide Developers Conference. For the first time, mobile software writers were invited. Apple offered a taste of the types of services iPhone owners could experience very soon, including near real-time updates and video from Major League Baseball, sophisticated location-based social networking that allows people to find friends, and video games in which users play by tilting the iPhone. Munster said the applications were "more powerful and attractive" than anything he'd seen on a mobile device before. What excites many developers are the iPhone's capabilities and its "stable" software platform, which makes writing programs for it relatively easy and quick. The iPhone "puts the Internet in your pocket, whether it's e-mail, whether it's Web browsing, whether's it's YouTube," Apple vice president Greg Joswiak said. "The entire Internet is in your pocket." The iPhone's capabilities are sure to become even greater after Apple rolls out its newest version, dubbed 3G for "third generation," which company CEO Steve Jobs says will operate twice as fast as the inaugural device, released just a year ago.
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