Rick Wargo
May 10th, 2010 - 08:18pm
I’ve always enjoyed Google Analytics and thought it was an excellent free offering, that is, until I found Woopra. I am considering ditching Google Analytics all together and just use Woopra.
Woopra provides a level of detail Google cannot, giving me live information about what is occurring on my site at any moment; it even offers the ability to chat with someone currently browsing my site! Besides from the standard analytical information, Woopra offers lots of information that can help me determine how to improve the content I offer. And it is all in real time!
I cannot give it the justice it deserves; I suggest heading to www.woopra.com and downloading it for yourself. There are a number of plug-ins to make it easy to connect your site with Woopra. I added the javascript to my pages; it took just a few minutes.
I suggest you try Woopra; you won’t be disappointed (at least in the choice of analytical tool). And, I forgot to mention, it’s free!
Rick Wargo
May 4th, 2010 - 05:27pm
This entry is really low-tech but involves technology I carry with me every day – my smart phone. I’ve purchased a number of applications to maintain shopping lists on my iPhone, but the method I really prefer is to write what we need on a dry-erase board that is magnetically attached to our refrigerator and when I head out to the store, instead of copying the information, I just snap a picture of it. It’s quick and dirty and works really well!
Rick Wargo
May 3rd, 2010 - 03:10pm
Here is a good list of 25 promising South Jersey companies from the Philadelphia Business Journal. This list includes links to the companies Internet presence; the original list did not.
South Jersey 25 Fastest-Growing Companies and Hall of Fame Inductees
Rick Wargo
April 25th, 2010 - 12:04pm
While attempting to fix the problems in my OpenVPN configuration using DD-WRT on my new router, I connected my laptop to the server, from behind the OpenVPN client machine. I was using it to peer at the OpenVPN logs. Of course, both OpenVPN connections are going to appear from the same address, the laptop behind the NAT router and the router itself so OpenVPN was never going to work for both at the same time. So, the duh tip #2 is to ensure only one OpenVPN connection is made from a single IP address.
Rick Wargo
April 25th, 2010 - 12:00pm
My router that ran DD-WRT (WRT54G) died recently and I had temporarily replaced it with my LinkSys VOIP router. I also configured that router to use my dynamic DNS service (DynDNS.org). Upon replacing the broken router with a new one and correctly configuring it, I couldn’t get OpenVPN to work. I finally realized that on the server, when it tried to make the connection back to the client, it was using an IP address from DynDNS.org that was created by the VOIP box that had updated it with a local LAN address. So the tip is, make certain the IP address on the dynamic DNS site is correct – I had to log in and change it by hand because DD-WRT said it didn’t need updating, when in fact it did!
