Introducing Blogger Stats

Posted by Staszek Paśko and Wiktor Gworek, Software Engineers

(Update 08/30: We’ve made these improvements to the Blogger Stats, based on your feedback and suggestions.)

• Self-view exclusion: You can now exclude your own visits by clicking on “Don’t track your own pageviews” link on the Stats | Overview page. We’re also now excluding traffic coming from Blogger admin admin pages and post Preview, providing more accurate pageview data.
• More effective bot traffic filtering. We’ve made several improvements to detect “bots” (the non-human visitors, such as crawlers) including extending our list of known “bots” to provide more accurate pageviews from real visitors.
• Internationalization. Now Blogger Stats is available in more than 40 languages.

---

Although some of you use Google Analytics or other third party tools to track your blog traffic, many of you have requested an easier-to-use, fully-integrated stats feature for Blogger. We heard that, and we are excited to announce that Blogger in Draft now has built-in stats. Just go to Blogger in Draft, and you'll notice a new "Stats" tab. You don't have to install or configure anything to start benefitting from Stats.

The coolest thing about the new Blogger Stats is that it monitors and analyzes your visitor traffic in near-real-time. You can see which posts are getting the most visits and which sites are sending traffic to your blog right now. For example, if a reader shares one of your blog posts on Twitter and the post is getting lots of clicks, you will see a traffic increase in Blogger Stats almost instantly, with the particular Tweet mentioning your post being identified as the traffic source. Of course, traffic data across longer time periods (day/week/month) and all-time historical data are available as well.


There's also a lot more data that's being tracked, such as popular search keywords that send visitors to your blog, which country your visitors come from, and which web browsers they are using. Basically, with the new Stats feature, you know what's going on with your blog right now.

The new Stats feature shows all of this data in a simple, easy-to-understand graphical user interface. Since Stats are part of Blogger, you don't have to sign up for another service, or embed any code in a gadget.

Additionally, if you want the enterprise-level power and flexibility of Google Analytics, you can still use it, as outlined inthis Help Center article. Note that the pageview data in Blogger Stats and in Google Analytics may not be identical, due to different collection mechanisms used. Also, Blogger Stats do not support private blogs for now.

Check out the new Stats feature now, and let us know what you think.

Source: http://crackedupload.blogspot.com/

How To Make A Hyperlink

HTML Hyperlink Code

Code

<a href="http://www.hyperlinkcode.com">Hyperlink Code</a>

Output

Hyperlink Code

Code In Context

Make <a href="http://www.hyperlinkcode.com">Hyperlink Code</a>easily.

Output

Make Hyperlink Code easily.

Source:
http://crackedupload.blogspot.com/

Free Rapidleech Sites with Premium

Free Rapidleech Sites with Premium

Please give additional support by spreading the word, thanks

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

How to Use Download Link Checker & Folder Links Extractor 

For Mediafire, please use Premium4 / Unrestrict / Simplydebrid / Juba / Rapeit / Poringapic / Turbogenerator / Exrapidleech / Bigspeeds / Superlinksbr / Shimory / Gigadown / Rapid8 / Tuhoctoan / Doktortesisat

Indian users who have problem accessing the sites add 's' after http (https)

Rapidshare, Rapidgator, Uploaded, Netload, Extabit, Putlocker, Hotfile

Filefactory, Uploading, Bitshare, Megashares, Crocko, Rapidgator, Jumbofiles, Extabit

(Monsterleech) - Filefactory, Netload, Uploaded, Hotfile

- Uploading, Filefactory, Youtube, Mediafire, Freakshare, Crocko, Bitshare, Jumbofiles, Bayfiles, Lumfile

(registration required) - Uploaded, Ul.to, Depositfiles, Uploadstation, Filefactory, Netload, Putlocker, Freakshare & other non premium filehosts

Rapidshare, Filefactory, Sendspace & other online streaming websites

(registration required) - Lumfile, Filefactory, Hotfile, Freakshare

Uploading, Filecloud, Mediafire, Uptobox, Crocko, Putlocker, Slingfile, Fileflyer, Sendspace, Socksave, 2shared, Fileflash, Speedyshare, 1st-files, Yunfile, Free, Albafile, Datafilehost, Scribd, Sanshare, Filestay 

Turbobit

are, Rapidgator

DOWNLOAD HERE:

http://reliabledownloads.org/file/0SdL5

Source:
http://crackedupload.blogspot.com/2013/10/free-rapidleech-sites-with-premium.html

Fake Traffic to Blogger or your Website Discussion

This article explains about the experience of the author regarding fake traffic and how fake traffic can affect your website or blog. In short, an insight of fake traffic and its side effects. Fake traffic in Blogspot.

Web traffic is the elixir of any website. A website without traffic is as bad as a pond without water. The website will be of no use if you are especially running a business. Even for blogs, it is important to have good web traffic.


Two Types of Traffic


There are two types of traffic on the internet, do you know? Yes, good traffic and bad traffic. Good traffics are those coming from search engines(organic), referrals and loyal visitors. Today, we will be focusing on the bad traffic or the fake traffic.


What is fake traffic?


Fake traffic is an automatic software generated impressions on a website. The traffic is a pure simulation by software, tool or a bot which doesn't have any human visitors involvement on your website. The traffic changes very quickly by shifting IP address. The IP address once will be from India and the next IP address can be from some other country. These traffics are fake because, you are posing fake to advertisers and audience that you are generating so much traffic, but not.


Why Fake Traffic?


Have you ever generated fake traffic to your website before? Don't ever try it. Fake traffic will not give you ANYTHING. You may earn for time being, but will lose everything tomorrow.

If you din't generate any fake traffic, then someone else can generate fake traffic to your website. Anyone owning a website at some point might receive fake traffic.

Coming to the question on "why fake traffic to your website?", when this traffic was not generated by you, then why would someone invest to send fake traffic to your website?
There are some reasons why someone should consider sending traffic to your website. The only big reason why someone would send fake traffic is they are your "Competitors" in the business or they have an enmity with you.


Why will happen someone send fake traffic?


1) To shut down your Adsense account (Google Adsense don't like people getting the evil traffic)

2) To Shut down your web servers by consuming too much resources

3) To shut down your other ad agents.

4) To cramp your website bandwidth quota.

5) To fool your normal traffic statistics.

6) To lower your business relationships with your customers and clients.

7) To fool the blog's ranking systems



Have you ever noticed fake traffic in your Blogspot blog?


Some days ago during the second week of Aug 2012, I had noticed that there was a sudden raise in traffic to my website. I came to know this, because I check my blog at least 6 to 10 times in a day. I check the Google Analytics and Blogger dashboard statistics. I constantly monitor the web traffic to my website daily. Good that, I noticed them.

Here is a snapshot of my findings:








These traffics were coming from an unknown region from Africa. The IP addresses were shifting within the same region and sometimes from USA. I noticed this in my Google Analytics.


Tools you can use to detect fake traffic:


1) Google Analytics
2) Statscounter
3) Sitemeter
4) Awstats
5) Any other tool you like which is good to detect the live traffic. Please suggest some for our readers.

I recommend you to use Google Analytics and Statscounter.

Source: http://crackedupload.blogspot.com/2013/10/fake-traffic-to-blogger-or-your-website.html

What did I do when I noticed fake traffic?


I came to know that something is wrong and the first thing I did was alerted the Google Adsense team about this. I thought for a Blogger powered website with Adsense on it, the first thing would be to alert Adsense team. I did exactly that.
Here is the form I used to alert Adsense team :

 https://support.google.com/adsense/bin/request.py?hl=en-GB&contact_type=invalid_clicks_contact&rd=2


Suggestions:

1) For Blogger users: Inform to Blogger support team if the fake traffic doesn't stop. YourBlogger site may be suspended due to this.
2) For other users: Inform to your hosting company.
3) If you have hosted your domain via GoDaddy or any other domain hosting company for your Blogger blog, then inform them as well.

Alert the above, only if the fake traffic doesn't stop the next day. Keep an eye and stay close to the traffic statistics.

Hope this article would help all others facing similar kind of problem with their websites or blogspots.

Source: http://crackedupload.blogspot.com/2013/10/fake-traffic-to-blogger-or-your-website.html

Li-Fi: Technology that Uses Light Bulb to Establish Internet Connection

A team of Chinese experts and specialists have successfully developed, and experimented an innovative way of gaining access to the Digital World of the Internet using the signals sent through the Light Bulb instead of Radio Waves as in Wi-Fi.

Scientists named it Li-Fi.

In case if you don’t know, Wi-Fi operates in the frequency range between 2.4 and 2.483 GHz. IEEE 802 (11a operates in the frequency range from 5.725 to 5.850 GHz. These are often referred to as the “2.4 GHz” and “5GHz” bands).

The term Li-Fi may not be new to many ears; in fact it is around since 2011, when Harald Haas had first used it in his TED Global talk on Visible Light Communicationon this very context.

The Li-Fi technology operates under the principle that light can be used to carry Signals as an alternative to traditional radio frequencies; it keeps serving as long as there is no blockage of any kind, between the Light source and a Computer.

Chi Nan, the I.T Professor at Shanghai’s Fudan University, who also leads the Li-Fi research team (which includes scientists from the Shanghai Institute of Technical Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences) have said that, “One-watt LED Light Bulb may establish an Internet connection for four Electronic Gadgets at once.”, she added that, “A light bulb with embedded microchips can produce data rate as fast as 150Mbps.”

The current tools for Wireless Signal Transmission is expensive and less efficient, said Chi.

“Millions of base stations have been established for strengthening the signals of cell phones, but most of the energy is consumed for their cooling systems. The energy utilization rate is only five percent” she explained.

In today’s world where two thirds of the total population does not have internet access, and places like Pakistan, China and India, where over billion people combined don’t have this facility; gaining access to the Internet by just turning on the Light bulb will be nothing less than a dream come true.

According to Chi,

“Wherever there is a LED light bulb, there is an Internet signal. Turn off the light and there is no signal”

More importantly, according to the experts, the development of a series of key related pieces of technology, including light communication controls as well as microchip design and manufacturing, is still in an experimental period and there is still a long way to go to make Li-Fi a commercial success.

Despite the fact that the Technology is still in the experimental period, Netizens should be excited to view 10 sample Li-Fi kits that will be on display at the China International Industry Fair that will kick off on November 5 in Shanghai.

Photo courtesy: Extremetech

Fingerprint Scanner Comparison: HTC One Max Vs. iPhone 5s

By Azeem Ullah Hassan

Fingerprint scanning seems to be another bit of tech which Apple has brought to life. While it is nothing new, getting used in the Motorola Atrix a few years ago, the way Apple has implemented it is again turning out to be the biggest advantage for the company.

As expected, competition has followed the trend and according to reports, Samsung’s next flagship will reportedly come with an eye-scanning sensor. Very cool.

So far, however, only HTC has incorporated this technology in its HTC One Max, but how does that stack up compared to the industry-leading iPhone 5s’ Touch ID?

Well, rather poorly. In theory, HTC’s fingerprint scanning seem quite good. Execution, however, is far from perfection. The scanner’s placement, the phone’s ergonomics and the technology’s functionality leave something to be desired.

Firstly, unlike the iPhone 5s’ Touch ID, sensor in HTC’s One Max is located just below the camera, which means your finger is likely to smudge the lens everytime you’ll use the scanner, which will require cleaning every once in a while. (And at least to this author it looks quite bizarre.)

Unlike Apple’s feature which remembers 5 fingerprints, HTC’s solution remembers only 3. It requires a swipe to be unlocked rather than just the placement of a finger. That doesn’t sound too bad, but instead of just swiping your finger over it, you’ll have to press the unlock button first, which sums up to two steps unlike Touch ID’s one.

Ergonomics will also be a pain. Being at the back, you can’t simply use the fingerprint scanner one-handed like you can on the iPhone 5s and as you would’ve expected, swiping at the back without seeing it DOES leave room for a lot of mistakes.

One thing which you can, however, do with HTC One Max is to assign a task to each of your three fingers. This is great but you can only use this function only from your lockscreen.

The One Max – after all this shortcomings – can be termed a missed opportunity. The scanner is its biggest feature but that’s exactly where it fails flatly. Even when you put its finger-scanning capabilities to a side, there’s little-to-no reason of buying the One Max (except for the sensational design) as its feature-package is modest for a device as expensive as this.

Even according to its maker, the One Max is a temporary answer to competition but then again, when you’re spending this kind of money on a phone, you intend to keep it for many summers and winters.

Nexus 5: The Leaks, Rumors and Expectations

By Azeem Ullah Hassan

In the entire Android world, no gadget is more awaited than Samsung’s latest flagship and the newest iteration of a Nexus phone. Every year during October Google takes its turn to announce the latter and this year, the expected date is 28th.

For the second year running, the dice has fallen in LG’s favour, perhaps to challenge Samsung’s supremacy. This is how the new Nexus 5 might turn out, based on rumours and leaks.

We have gathered all the leaks and rumours to put Nexus 5 a shape. Here’s how it is likely to look like:

Display and Design

The display of the Nexus 5 will most-probably be a 4.95 inch IPS unit with Full HD 1080p resolution. The name itself seems to indicate a 5 inch screen.

The design is still a matter of speculation but Nexus 5 seems to have bid farewell to the exquisite but fragile glass-back of its predecessor. There’s also a landscape NEXUS logo written at the back but that should change in the final version as well. It will be available in White and Black.

Hardware

Smartphones from Nexus series are best-known for offering a juicy spec-list at a price which comparatively more people can afford. The Nexus 5 will most probably come with hardware specs similar to the LG G2, namely a SnapDragon 800 processor with 4 Krait 400 cores clocked at 2.3Ghz, 2 GB RAM, Adreno 330 GPU and 16 or 32 gigs worth storage, non-expandable of course.

The back camera will be an 8 megapixel unit with LED Flash, Optical Image Stabilization and Full HD 1080p video recording.

Considering how mediocre the Nexus 4 camera was, this unit here might feature some special effects or bells-and-whistles. There will be a 2 megapixel at the front.

Software

This one is another no-brainer. Android 4.4 KitKat will be making a debut alongside the Nexus 5 and common sense says that it will come pre-installed on the phone in Vanilla form. The official Nestle Kit Kat page has been teasing about the announcement for long enough and has already confirmed that the latest OS will come in October.

Miscellaneous:

The phone might use the new Wi-Fi standard 802.11ac and microUSB 3.0 (which debuted on Note 3). LTE versions will be coming shortly after. Bluetooth 4.0, NFC, USB-OTG and a few other exotic connectivity options might also make an appearance.

Battery capacity is expected to be 2300 or 3000 mAh.

Pricing and Availability

We are actually quite sure about the pricing, thanks to a leak on Play Store courtesy of Google. The device made a mysterious appearance for a few minutes there, costing $349 for the 16 gig version. The 32 GB model, hence, should cost $399.

Availability is not properly known but the phone should hit the markets at the end of this month or during the first few weeks of November.

We won’t say that this phone is cheap but compared to competing products, it sure is tempting. It will be a pain to find at a reasonable price in the first few months of its availability but prices should settle down in the coming few months after its release.

Here are few leaked images of the device as well:

The 10 Fastest Growing Apps This Year

BY ZOE FOX

Vine saw 403% growth between Q1 and Q3 this year, making it the world's fastest growing app. Twitter relaunched Vine in January, explaining its exponential growth.

Following Vine for fastest growing apps were the recently relaunched Flickr app and Instagram, proving 2013 is an important year for mobile apps sharing images and videos.

SEE ALSO: Vine: 12 Ways to Make Your Videos Stand Out

Statista's chart below shows the 10 fastest growing apps since Q1 of this year.

Have something to add to this story? Share it in the comments.

Image: Image: Flickr, aulia.m

Google Unveils Tool to Help Businesses Visualize Their Data on a Map

BY ADARIO STRANGE

Although search remains Google’s flagship product, the power and utility ofGoogle Maps makes it an essential tool for anyone with a smartphone. Now, the app is unveiling yet another enhancement called Google Maps Engine Pro.

SEE ALSO: 9 Captivating Data Visualization Projects

The new tool, which costs $5 per month, allows businesses to move data from a variety of files (including CSV, TSV, XLSX, My Maps and spreadsheets) directly into Google Maps. Once the data has been imported into Google Maps Engine Pro, businesses can create interactive, geographic maps full of valuable internal information, such as inventory data, office locations and sales leads.

In addition to data-manipulation tools, Google Maps Engine Pro enables users to heavily customize the way a map appears, down to the color of marker pins, as well as the gradation and border thickness of specific zones. The tool also lets users create layers of maps, offering easy access to different sets of data within the same geographic location, simply by moving to another layer.

Finally, the maps that businesses create are private by default, but can easily be shared with colleagues; this makes the tool a particularly attractive option for organizations spread out over multiple locations.

To give potential users an idea of how Google Maps Engine Pro works, the company created a video, above, which uses California-based Pure Fix Cycles as an example.

“By providing better ways to easily integrate maps into your organization’s operations, businesses now have the ability to use powerful mapping technologies that were once only available to the mapping experts," Brian McClendon, Google's vice-president of engineering for Maps, said in an official blog post.

Have something to add to this story? Share it in the comments.

Remember Your First Video Game? New PS4 Ad Takes You Back to 1995

Do you remember your very first gaming console? Sony's latest ad for the upcoming PlayStation 4 will likely leave you pining for your good ol' PS1.

Sony tracks the evolution of its consoles from the '90s through today. The attention paid to detail is impressive: In the PlayStation 1 era (circa 1995), a teenager's room is filled with the British magazine NME (with Massive Attack on the cover) and an Air poster. Fast-forward to the PlayStation 3 era, which launched in 2006, and sitting above the console is a can of Coke Zero (the soda was introduced just one year earlier).

SEE ALSO: 15 Vintage Video Games You Can Play on Your iPhone

The ad is part of a contest; for a chance to win a PS4, you must guess the correct order in which the PlayStation symbols appear in the video.

The PlayStation 4 will hit shelves in the United States on Nov. 15 for $399. It features new AMD processors and the DualShock 4 controller.

Have something to add to this story? Share it in the comments.

Image: Sony

Scientists Discover the Reason We Need Sleep

SAM MAGGS

Humans need sleep; everybody knows that without it, we get cranky, a bit loopy, and then we die. Unfortunately, science has been a little iffy about it; though we understood the negative effects associated with lack of sleep, no one really knew why those things happened. Now, we’re finally getting some insight into what sleep does for our bodies.

For the first time ever, scientists at the University of Rochester have found one of the reasons our brain needs sleep to survive. Turns out, when we sleep, our brain takes that time to clean out the build-up of brain junk we accumulate during our waking hours. Sleep is pretty much necessary for our body’s mental street-cleaners to come out and do their work.

When cells do their daily cell-type work, they produce waste product. The rest of the body has this waste cleared out by the lymphatic system, but the brain is disconnected from that, so it needs another way to wipe out the waste. The brainhas it’s own garbage men, carried on the waves of cerebrospinal fluid, who surf the leftovers straight down to your liver for elimination. As it turns out, the brain’s garbage men move twice as fast when you’re sleeping, because your neurons shrink by half, making the fluid channels wider.

“This study shows that the brain has different functional states when asleep and when awake,” said UR researcher Maiken Nedergaard. “In fact, the restorative nature of sleep appears to be the result of the active clearance of the by-products of neural activity that accumulate during wakefulness.”

So get lots of rest, or else your brain’s spinal-fluid surfing street cleaners can’t get their gig done right.

Have something to add to this story? Share it in the comments.

Image: Flickr, Planet Chopstick

• This Exists: X-Ray Pin-up Calendar [Pics]
• Scientists Finally Understand Why We Need Sleep, And It’s Because Of Our Dirty Minds
• Natalie Portman Has Serious Science Cred Going into Partnership With Disney to Get Girls Involved With STEM
• 21 Amazing Minecraft Creations

This article originally published at Geekosystem here

Netflix Now Has More Than 40 Million Members

BY SETH FIEGERMAN

Netflix now has more paying subscribers in the United States than HBO.

Netflix revealed in its third quarter earnings report that it had 29.9 million paid subscribers as of the end of September, up from 28.6 million at the end of June. By comparison, Bloomberg reports that HBO has 28.7 million, according to SNL Kagan, a researcher.

SEE ALSO: 6 Great Alternatives to Netflix

In total, Netflix reported having 40 million members, up from less than 30 million a year earlier. Roughly 37 million of those members are paid subscribers.

Netflix's subscriber growth of 1.3 million domestically and 1.4 million abroad were significantly better than Wall Street estimates of 1.1 million and 950,000 new subscribers, respectively. Likewise, Netflix report earnings per share of $0.52 on revenue of $1.11 billion, which beat Wall Street's estimates for earnings per share of $0.49 on revenue of $1.1 billion.

The company's stock shot up by more than 10% in after hours trading following the report, closing in on $400 a share.

NFLX data by YCharts

Image: Justin Sullivan/Getty

Google's uProxy: A Peer-to-Peer Gateway to Internet Freedom

BY LORENZO FRANCESCHI-BICCHIERAI

In parts of the world where repressive governments control the Internet with unassailable firewalls, netizens don't see the same web that people in other countries can.

Now, Google wants to give people in these countries a tool to circumvent those invisible barriers, and defeat censorship. Called uProxy, it is meant to be an easy-to-use, peer-to-peer gateway to the open Internet. With uProxy installed, somebody in Iran could use a friend's Internet to connect with him or her.

SEE ALSO: Google Launches 'Project Shield' to Defend Against Cyberattacks

Though Google announced uProxy on Monday at the Google Ideas Summit in New York, N.Y., the tool isn't ready to be made public yet, and the Internet giant isn't comfortable announcing a release date. First, it wants to roll it out for a few "trusted testers" to improve it and make it more secure.

"The reason it is closed source at the moment, the reason we're not open sourcing it right now, is exactly that we don't want people to start using it before, actually, it's safe and secure," said Lucas Dixon, the lead engineer at Google Ideas who has worked on the project.

When it's ready, uProxy will be released in the form of a browser extension for both Chrome and Firefox that will allow two people who know each other, and are already in touch via chat, Facebook or email, for example, to share their connection.

The user in Iran, for instance, would be able to ask a friend in the United States via chat to activate uProxy. The U.S. friend would click on the extension, and the Iranian user would receive a notification. After clicking on the notification and accepting the invitation, he or she would then be connected to the Internet, via secure channel, through the U.S. friend's connection.

"It's basically a personalized VPN [Virtual Private Network]," Dixon told Mashablein an interview.

And it doesn't appear to need a lot of expertise to run it, as opposed to other commercial VPNs. Yasmin Green, principal at Google Ideas, described it during the launch as something that simply requires "two clicks on my side to bypass a repressive regime."

The other difference is that uProxy won't depend on a centralized server or a commercial provider, so it won't be easily blocked by a government or other regime.

Dixon notes that it's important to remember what uProxy is not and does not do. It doesn't anonymize traffic like Tor, it doesn't allow for file sharing, and it doesn't provide encrypted, secure communications like tools Silent Circle and Cryptocat.

uProxy, which was seeded by Google Ideas, but mainly developed by researchers at the University of Washington, isn't the first tool of its kind. There are numerous projects and kinds of software that promise to circumvent firewalls and censorship, like the open-source project Lantern, whose developers contributed to uProxy through Brave New Software.

Before releasing uProxy to the public, Google will let Internet freedom organizations like OpenITP, which itself funds and develops censorship circumventions tools, to audit the code, Dixon said. Then they will release the code, open source, for the public to see.

For Eva Galperin, Global Policy Analyst at the digital rights advocacy groupElectronic Frontier Foundation, Google's extremely cautious approach is a good sign.

"If we are worried about security and privacy of our tools," she said, "it is important that our tools be well audited and that our tools be open source."

uProxy certainly has great potential, but it remains to be seen when it will launch and how effective it will really be. Internet activists point to the cautionary tale of Haystack, another tool promoted to circumvent censorship in places like Iran.

It was at first widely lauded and hyped, before security researcher Jacob Appelbaum found serious holes in it. Vulnerabilities that could have put people in danger.

The tool was later disabled and abandoned.

Have something to add to this story? Share it in the comments.

Image: Peter Muhly/AFP/Getty Images