Feb 10
Who is Visiting Your Web Site Right Now? Non-Profits, You Can Quickly and Easily Know Billed as providing what Google Analytics does not, Footprint allows you to view your visitors as they click through your Web site in real-time. Any visitor's click path history through your site can also be viewed along with referrer, search engine terms used to arrive at your site and visitor profile (including city, country, company, IP address and first and last visit). How to Track Your Site Visitors Using Footprint After you provide a working e-mail address, account password, the domain you want to track and preferred timezone, you will receive an e-mail message containing the JavaScript-based tracking code. The tracking code must be placed just before the closing body tag on each static html page that you want to monitor (if your site has dynamically generated pages, paste the JavaScript in your dynamically generated footer for quick site-wide placement). Footprint can also be used with any content management system (CMS) such as Wordpress, Joomla, Blogger or Drupal as well as secure (https) pages. After you have added the tracking code, log-in to your Footprint account to review extensive information about your site visitors, including any live traffic on your site.Visit the following URL to create your free (currently) Footprint tracking account:
http://www.footprintlive.com/live/sign-up--one-step-signup.html For further information about how a non profit organization can develop a productive virtual volunteering program through the use of appropriate technology, please visit this Online Volunteering Resource.
Jan 29
Have you created a password-protected PDF that prevents your content (for example, a funding proposal or an Online Volunteering Position Description) from being copied or printed but have now lost the password? PDF (Portable Document Format) files have two common passwords: Owner (the password which restricts such functions as printing or copying of a PDF file) and User (the password required to open a PDF file).
PDF Password Remover is one such easy-to-use application that will remove the encrypted
Owner password to allow the copying, modifying or printing of a PDF file. As well as being easy to use application, PDF Password Remover also:
- removes the Owner password from a single file or a group of Files (see Screen capture above)
- supports Adobe PDF 1.0 to 1.7 (which is version 8)
- does not require Acrobat or Adobe Reader to be installed
- supports English, Turkish, Thai, Latin, Korean, Greek, Cyrillic, Arabic, Japanese and Chinese
- allows PDFs to be imported or dragged and dropped to remove Owner password
- works with Windows XP, Vista and 7 (32 bit)
- does not remove the User password required to open a PDF
- does not remove other protections, such as DRM or third party plug-ins
According to AnyBizSoft's Web site, PDF Password Remover is free until February 24, 2010. After providing a valid e-mail address, you should receive a free program activation key. You can download the application from:
http://www.anypdftools.com/pdf-password-remover.html If you do not receive your activation key (via e-mail) with a reasonable time period, contact support through their Web site. For what appeared to be a technical glitch, I had to contact support; I received an e-mail reply within a day with an accompanying activation key.
For further information about how a non profit organization can develop a productive virtual volunteering program through the use of appropriate technology, please visit this
Online Volunteering Resource.
Jan 3
Based on current trends, it appears that Microsoft's dominant Operating System (OS) will be around for some time. According to a December 2009 report by Net Applications, Microsoft still commands a whopping 92.21 percent of the total OS market (see the table above). Interestingly, despite all the hype, the Mac OS only accounts for 5.11 percent of the total. Moreover, at 5.71 percent of the total, Microsoft's recently released Windows 7 alone edges out the Mac OS share. And even though Windows 7 launched with rave reviews, Windows XP still holds 67.77 percent of the total OS share.
For further information about how a non profit organization can develop a productive virtual volunteering program through the use of appropriate technology, please visit this
Online Volunteering Resource.
Dec 7
Recently Google announced a free Public DNS service to compete with such free services as OpenDNS. DNS (Domain Name Server) is a database of Internet names and IP (Internet Protocol) addresses which translates names (e.g., randytyler.org) to IP (174.133.21.80) addressses and vice versa. Most users likely use their ISP's (Internet Service providers) DNS address. However, for security, privacy and/or speed, one may choose to use a different DNS service. How do you know which DNS Service will speed up your Internet? Namebench, a free, open-source desktop-based application tests a number of DNS servers to determine which is the fastest and provides an html-based report. The individualized report, among other details, recommends Primary, Secondary and Tertiary Servers for you to use. Interestingly, when I ran the test, Namebench recommended I use my ISP's DNS instead of the DNS service I have been using for a couple of years (which is, OpenDNS). As mentioned speed alone may not be the sole factor that determines whose DNS you choose to use. For example, OpenDNS (instead of providing an error) provides a re-direction to a page of suggested sites, accompanied by advertising, when a name does not resolve to an IP address. However, OpenDNS offered a secure service when other DNS servers were vulnerable to attacks. Namebench, which runs on Mac OS X, Windows, and UNIX is available in both a graphical user interface (GUI) and command-line interface from: http://code.google.com/p/namebench/ For further information about how a non profit organization can develop a productive virtual volunteering program through the use of appropriate technology, please visit this Online Volunteering Resource.
