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With the growth of mobile usage for data, its important for you as a webmaster to know how many visitors visit your website from mobile devices. The reason is very simple, before you go ahead and setup your own mobile website, you must have some sort of analytics to validate the need of a separate mobile website. In this article, i will walk you through the steps to find out how many visitors to your website visit using a Mobile Device using Google Analytics.

With Google Analytics, you can easily find out how many visits you received on your website from each mobile operating system, how many pages were visited on average and also the time spent on your site, you can also find out conversion and ecommerce information.

1.) Login to your Google Analytics account and navigate to the report for the website.

2.) One the left side menu, click on Visitors. Clicking on Visitors link will show up more menu items.

3.) Next click on Mobile.

4.) You now have the option to see the reports for users coming to your site from Mobile Devices as well as Mobile Carriers.

5.) Click on Mobile Devices to see the report of visitors visiting your website from a Mobile Device.

Once you have the numbers around the mobile traffic on your website, you can get yourself a neat mobile website in just 5 minutes with MobStac. Check out my earlier article titled Get your Blog Mobile Ready in 5 Minutes for FREE to learn more about it. Also, if you are planning to get some Mobile Applications developed for your website, you might want to attend the next Open Coffee Club Bangalore meetup which is focussed around Mobile Apps. Read more about the program by clicking here.

via Google Analytics Blog

Yesterday, Apple released its new generation of iPod Touch which come with FaceTime, Retina Dispaly and Game Center alongwith HD Video Recording capability. The iPod Touch will be released soon and if you are planning to get it when it gets released later in the month, you can pre-order it now on Amazon as well as on Apple Store.

iPod Touch 4G is available in three sizes — 8GB for $229, 32GB for $299, and a 64GB model for $399. These will start shipping next week.

Click here to pre-order your Apple iPod Touch 4G from Amazon.

1.) FaceTime — FaceTime brings video calling to iPod touch.

2.) Retina Display — The remarkable 960-by-640 resolution on iPod touch makes everything you see and do on it look even more incredible.

3.) HD Video Recording — iPod touch lets you record, edit, and share stunning HD video.

4.) A4 Processor for better gaming — The A4 processor helps give you even more amazing gaming. And Game Center lets you play against friends anywhere in the world.

Click here to pre-order your Apple iPod Touch 4G from Amazon.

Logo Creator is a professional software used for desigining and create professional looking logos. The software usually sells for $29.95, but as part of a promotional offer is available for free right now. Logo Creator offers 101 use-cases for the software and is available for both Mac as well as Windows.You also get around 400 logo templates with the Logo Creator.

Follow the steps below to get the free copy of Logo Creator.
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1.) Click here to navigate to the promotional page of Logo Creator.

2.) Enter your Name and Email Address in the form and press Submit.

3.) You will receive an email with the confirmation link. Click on the confirmation link. This will trigger another email and you will have the download links in the email.

4.) When you download the software (Mac or Windows version), you will be required to enter the userid and password provided to you by email.

5.) Once you enter the information in step 4, install and activate the software. Its now ready for use.

Well, show me the way, to the next whisky bar
Oh, don’t ask why.

For those who don’t know this is an incredibly popular song sung by Jim Morrison- Lead singer of The Doors. What’s the first thing that comes to your mind when you read Whisky? – A neatly cut crystal glass with a brand of your choice.

Well, Whisky right now is more than just an alcohol. A team of researchers from Edinburgh’s Napier University have developed a bio-fuel made from Whisky by-products that can power ordinary cars more efficiently than ethanol. It is derived from distillation byproducts pot ale (liquid from copper stills) and draff (the spent grains).

The whisky-derived biofuel product, known as a Bio-butanol, is thought to provide 30% more output power than traditional ethanol, and can be used in ordinary cars without any modification. The research has been going on for the past two years with the funding by a Scottish Enterprise Proof of Concept Programme. They also predicted that the fuel will have minimal impact on the environment.

With the depletion in fossil fuels and oil-spills in the Gulf of Mexico and Mumbai causing environmental distress at large scales, the search for an alternative such as this helps supplement the use of existing resources.

With the current price rise for petrol and diesel, the other slightly expensive option is to own a “Hybrid”. Any vehicle that combines two or more sources of power to sustain is a hybrid car. Most of the cars currently on road run with Petrol-Electric engines. It helps increase the mileage while reducing the emissions and air-pollution.

Till the time they patent and commercialize the whisky bio-fuel invention, let’s hope it’s soon. And must have whisky, oh, you know why.

Contributed by Reema Shetty, a freelance writer from Manchester.She occasionally writes about the environment, book reviews and subjects that interest her.

Apple has announced that it will be releasing iOS 4.1 starting next week. The iOS 4.1 will be available for free for both iPhone as well iPod Touch. Below are some of the key features which will be offered by the iOS 4.1.

• Bug fixes: Proximity sensor, Bluetooth, iPhone 3G performance.

• High Dynamic Range (HDR) photos.

• High definition video upload over Wi-Fi.

• TV Show rentals

• Game Center

Steve Jobs revealed the latest 4th generation iPod Touch, which also features FaceTime and Retina Display. FaceTime till now was only supported on Apple iPhone 4 and there were reports of Apple working on adding FaceTime to Apple iPad and iPod Touch, allowing connectivity using Email addresses instead of Phone numbers.

The device is available in three sizes — 8GB for $229, 32GB for $299, and a 64GB model for $399. These will start shipping next week.

1.) FaceTime — FaceTime brings video calling to iPod touch.

2.) Retina Display — The remarkable 960-by-640 resolution on iPod touch makes everything you see and do on it look even more incredible.

3.) HD Video Recording — iPod touch lets you record, edit, and share stunning HD video.

4.) A4 Processor for better gaming — The A4 processor helps give you even more amazing gaming. And Game Center lets you play against friends anywhere in the world.

You can pre-order your new iPod Touch from here (click here).

It sure looks like Digital camera manufacturers love the phrase ‘Small is beautiful’! Yes, they introduce compact, chic and slim digital cameras and recorders with excellent features to lure the social savvy mass! SANYO electric co. Ltd, has announced its upcoming release of “Xacti VPC-PD2BK Full HD 1080 Pocket-Sized Dual Camera” quite recently. The camera is fully loaded with excellent features and marvelous technology all in a small, compact size frame that will rightly fit into your palm. It is portable and easy to use.

With SANYO’s new Xacti VPC-PD2BK Full HD 1080 camera, you can click still images with 10 Megapixel clarity and HD videos quickly and perfectly. The camera comes with two separate buttons for taking still images and capturing videos without a need to shift modes. In fact, you can click a picture when you are shooting a video. Therefore, you do not need to miss a perfect shot! It has a neat 2’’ LCD frame that displays pictures and videos at utmost precision. Its 3X optical zoom feature zooms pictures for vibrant view, just for you!

This camera is ideal to take action photography. Yes, it has a feature called “High Speed sequential photo shooting mode”, via which you can click pictures in a series. There you go! It takes about 30 photos in 10 frames all in just one second. It incorporates ‘Photo stabilizer technology’, which automatically identifies distractions or slight movements, makes the needed adjustments and renders a smart picture. It clearly distinguishes between an accidental camera shake and a deliberate camera movement.

Life’s wonderful moments are to be shared. This camera makes easy sharing of photos and videos on to social networking sites like Facebook, Twitter and YouTube, Picassa etc., No need of a separate cable, you can directly plug in to your PC with its integrated USB. Its inbuilt Simple Uploader Application will quickly install and help you with an easy, direct upload of pictures and videos on to any destination.

The camera employs the standard and most popular video compression formats like MPEG/H.264, AAC, MP4, Quick time etc., and because of this, importing, editing and sharing of videos is easy. It supports Windows 7 and works great with MAC pcs too, as it is certified with “Works with iMovie compatible”.

The camera comes with a mini-HDMI output cable, with which you can connect to a HD television or a DVD recorder. Due to its powerful set of batteries, power consumption is less and enables uninterrupted 65 minutes of video recording and 4 hours of video playback. It is compatible with the next generation SDXC memory cards too.

In all, this piece is an exact mix of high performance, style, convenience and much more. It’s expected to be available for sales coming September and is priced around $170.

Swetha Kalyanee contributed for this article, she is a Freelance Technical Writer (Information Technology) based in Chennai.