The StyleSheet - For businesses that use the internet

Social Mention

Posted January 23, 2012 By Kristine Fernandez

We have all Googled ourselves before to get a glimpse of our online presence, but here is a tool that you can use to measure social media buzz in a meaningful way: Social Mention. Social Mention analyzes 80+ social media sites and aggregates the data into measures like strength, sentiment, passion, and reach. Passion, for example, demonstrates how likely someone will continually mention your product, site, etc. These measures, as well as its stream of all social media mentions, will help keep you aware of your online reputation and provide you insight into communicating about your company in a positive way.

ClipMenu

Posted January 23, 2012 By Steve Garcia

ClipMenu allows you to save a history of your clipboard items, so that you don’t override what you originally copied when you go to copy something new. You can save up to 50 clipboard pieces with this free Mac download.

GAget & Polaris

Posted December 15, 2011 By Izzi Hassan

If you own a Mac and use Google Analytics to keep tabs on your website’s viewership trends, GAget is worth checking out. This simple widget gives you an up-to-date overview of your site’s statistics right from your Dashboard! To install, download GAget, enter your Google Analytics email address and password, and select the profile you wish to view.

Got a PC? Use Google Analytics on a daily basis? Then you’ll love Polaris! Polaris lets you view a snapshot of your Google Analytics profiles right from your desktop, in a shiny Adobe AIR based widget.

Hidden Files

Posted December 15, 2011 By Jeff McAllister

On the Mac operating system, files that are not typically meant to be opened remain as hidden. Although this certainly lends to a more tidy folder structure, these hidden files can be eating up your hard drive space. Recently, my portable flash drive was showing that nearly all my space was occupied and appeared to be empty. Using the free download, Hidden Files widget, I was able to see it was leaving ‘ghosted’ trash files on the drive. This was holding nearly 2GB of useless information. As always, if you are uncertain as to what truly is trash, do not delete it!

Vlingo

Posted November 16, 2011 By Kristine Fernandez

Full discretion mode: I text, Google, and navigate on my phone while I’m driving. While I like to live life on the edge, my mother was less impressed. Vlingo, the nifty phone app available for iPhones, Androids, and Blackberries, was her motherly recommendation (mandate) to keep me hands-free without losing access to all of my favorite phone activities including texting, updating my Facebook status, hearing incoming messages, and even booking a hotel.

iOS 5 Message Flagging

Posted November 16, 2011 By Margeaux Denson

With the arrival of the iPhone 4S and iOS 5, Apple also introduced two features which work very well with Outlook for Mac: Flagging Messages and Tasks. You can flag messages that you have read, but want to follow up with later. The new iOS 5 Tasks feature is part of the Reminders app. You can sync tasks, set reminders, set a repeat schedule, add a priority and add notes to tasks. Additionally, Outlook for Mac has a feature that displays your flagged messages as tasks.

Kindle for Mac

Posted October 13, 2011 By Jeff McAllister

With a quick and free download through Amazon, Mac users can have access to over a million books through Kindle for Mac. The application allows user to view comments from other readers, highlight and make notes, change color modes and look up words or phrases instantly in the built-in dictionary. For PC users, Amazon also offers a Kindle for PC free download.

Adaptive Images

Posted October 13, 2011 By Nick Weynand

Installing the Adaptive Images script will help your website run better on mobile devices. It takes large images on your site and dynamically creates smaller versions of them that display nicely on smaller screens.

Fluid 960 Grid System

Posted September 19, 2011 By Steve Garcia

More of a technique rather than an app or plugin, the Fluid 960 Grid gives your website the flexibility to maintain the design of a website regardless of the size of the browser it’s viewed in. While standard design generally uses a fixed width (often 960 pixels) that scales down when viewed on smaller devices, or shows a lot of background on widescreen monitors, fluid design resizes the content to fit to the device itself.

Wunderlist

Posted September 18, 2011 By Carly Smith Hohl

Wunderlist is a great task management app that allows you to sync your to-do’s across all of your devices. You can create new lists, assign due dates, and share your tasks with others.