Kiran Upadhyay

Are you running a Wordpress blog?  One very important aspect of the blogger’s job is to keep track of his web traffic.  It is good to know how many visitors you have and whether that number is climbing or tanking. It’s also good to know as much as you can about your visitors.  Where did they come from?  What are they reading on your site or blog?  What kind of changes do you need to make in order to get, keep, or grow that readership?  If you want more reasons to analyze your traffic, check out  7 reasons why your website won’t last without analytics. Many people reach for one of the most powerful tools out there to do the work for them.  That tool is  Google Analytics. We have covered Google Analytics many times before here on MakeUseOf including Ryan’s recent article about how to put Google Analytics to work for you with email reports .  Google Analytics is probably the most popular traffic analyzing tool there is for webmasters a...

Google Chrome , the free web browser from Google, has dozens of “small detail” features that can really improve your browsing experience.  One of these features is the new tab page: instead of a useless blank page, Chrome automatically displays a list containing thumbnails from the websites you visit most frequently. Just because Chrome offers this cool feature doesn’t mean it can’t be improved, so in this guide I’m going to introduce you to Speed Dial for Chrome, a great extension that can make your new tab page look and function better. Speed Dial Speed Dial is a great extension for Chrome that replaces the default new tab page with large, visually-striking buttons and is highly customizable.  With Speed Dial, you can take your standard new tab page: And turn it into this: Getting Started To start using Speed Dial, head on over to the  Speed Dial’s Chrome extension page .  Click the blue  Install button and the extension will be ready to go! Setting up y...

Are you jealous of  i Pad ’s awesome document reading capabilities? Well, never fear,  Aji Reader  is one iPhone app that will get you reading PDFs in no time! iPDF  is another free one, as well. If those two aren’t the bees knees, you can use  DropBox  as a Reader or you can create your very own free PDF reader using iPhoto and iTunes. The best part of being a MakeUseOf writer is that we get to play with  lots  of tools and apps. Hunting for the best free PDF readers was a challenge because there aren’t too many that are truly free and don’t require an eventual upgrade. Of the handful that exist, a lot of them were too complicated to use and, in some cases, were document readers but not actually PDF readers. In identifying the best iPhone PDF reader, I wanted to find one that was free and simple to use and had good search capabilities. I didn’t want to waste a lot of time downloading, searching, or converting files. I wanted to instantly...

Need a new  Photoshop  brush? Before you go out and try to scour the Internet for some decent brush sets to work with, have you considered simply learning how to make Photoshop brushes yourself? Forget about all the hassle of searching for and downloading brushes from the Web. With Photoshop, it’s a breeze to create your very own so that you can use a unique and a little bit more of a personal brush tip to whatever you are working on. Let’s get right to it and find out how to easily make your own Photoshop brushes. Make Your Selection To get started, we’ll need an image to make the custom brush out of. It’s up to you as to if you’d like to use the entire image or just a specific part of it. Just use a selection tool like the Lasso or Magic Wand to select an area of the image you want for the brush. Otherwise, simply use any of the Marquee tools and drag around to make the selection. Color and Size Limitations Keep in mind that if there’s color in the image, the brush ti...