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There are some applications that are so amazing, every mac user should have. Although some are payware, the are limited and are definitely worth it. A lot of good applications are included with Macs in iLife, however there are still some that are necessary for the happiest mac-ing!
These applications pretty much cover it for me. iWork is awesome for me, but some business users would prefer something with more Microsoft compatibility should opt to the new Microsoft Office 2008. Adium is a great, muli-protocal instant messaging client thats more light weight than iChat. Perian allows for playing of many different types of media files from within quicktime. Photoshop, although expensive, is the greatest image editing program available.
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.