Posted 8 months, 3 weeks ago at 5:21 pm. 1 comment
Yesterday,Apple finally decided to release updated MacBook Pros with the newest Penryn processors from intel. I headed to the apple store to purchase a 17″ baby for myself. So far, it has been amazing! The 17″ screen (matte) is brighter and bigger than I thought! All my applications launch instantly. The hard drive upgrade to 250Gb (from 160) in this generation of Macbook Pros is also a great benefit as well as the 512Mb VRAM they upgraded the 8600 to.Now, as opposed to a hackintosh I built, I have a real genuine Apple computer. I’m very impressed with the build quality. I don’t have one complaint about it.Later, I will post information such as benchmarks, etc. With this post will come a more indepth review of the laptop.
Posted 11 months ago at 12:37 am. 1 comment
I’ve always been interested in the software necessary to generate a heat map showing where everyone is clicking on a site. I remember seeing other people show images of it. I spent a good 30 minutes looking on google trying to find a good, free one to no avail. Then, something amazing happend, I decided to try out Stumble Upon to add my site to it. I did, and the thought I’d try stumbling around. The first site was garbage, the second was that all-famous helicopter game, and then the third linked me to Click Heat! Now isn’t that just coincidental!
I immediately downloaded it, setup was easy, took 3 minutes. clicked around on my site a few times, and the opened up my ‘heat map’ and its…. beautiful. Although there ain’t to many clicks. Thats understandable seeing as I just installed the damn thing 5 minutes ago and this isn’t (yet) the kind of site that has a constant flow of visitor. Just showed my 10-15 randomly placed clicks. I do however see great potential.
The software itself is a javascript that sends out an AJAX request with the click coordinates. They are stored in a final and then when I want to view a heat map, php uses GD to create the image for the selected time range. It even has a feature so that it won’t log clicks from specific IPs (like my own) so it won’t pollute the data.
All in all, this was a great stumble that I can’t believe I haven’t found before I recommend it to all of you in need.
Official Site of Click Heat