Google Analytics has become more or less the standard tool for web statistics. Before Google Analytics came to market, you had to either pay or use statistics based on the web server log files. When Google bought Urchin and branded it to Google Analytics they changed all this by giving it away for free. I’ve [...]
A client called me this Monday morning and told me there where some issues with one of their sites. The problem turned out to be some issues the SMTP server. After about 2-3 hours of debugging i desperately tries to do a search on Twitter for “IIS SMTP” and to my surprise i could actually [...]
If you request a URL than returns a application/json result Firefox will give you a “Download this file” dialog by default. If you rather want the JSON data to show up just as a xml, rss or html page would you could download this little extension called JsonView that will do this for you. Another [...]
I’ve been building some Facebook applications lately. Facebook pages and applications is kind of a confusing system and you can’t get enough of handy tips to put in your toolbox. The latest problem I had was that I wanted to add the application canvas as a tab on the application page itself. But as the [...]
I have always thought it has been a hustle to send e-mail from my localhost. As the spam problem has been more and more serious it has been harder and harder to send mails. But today i found this beautiful little app that act as a fake SMTP server. Just use localhost as your smtp [...]
I’ve done lot’s of “web 2.0″ stuff lately and i just want to write down to really nice tools i found. Test and Validate JSON I have just built an API for AlternativeTo. It use JSON and this tool was really a life saver when it came to debug and test everything. http://jsonformatter.curiousconcept.com/ Test if [...]
Ever noticed that sites are way slower in Firefox / Safari / Chrome and so on when you try to debug a website localhost on Vista. Apperently there is some kind of DNS bug caused by IPv6. To fix it in Firefox you can type about:config and look up network.dns.disableIPv6 but this doesn’t fix the [...]
Sometimes i love Google more then is healthy. I was looking for some way to extract a favicon from a page and get it as a png, and i found this wonderful little service. http://www.google.com/s2/favicons?domain=youtube.com http://www.google.com/s2/favicons?domain=yourdomain.com Anf you get the icon in a png. Amazing!
