In MacOS Sonoma v14 the screen savers settings are still under the "System settings" but Apple promoted their screen savers, leaving the 3rd part screensavers under an "Other" category.
To select a non-Apple screensaver for your Mac, go to System settings and on the left menu scroll down until you find the "Screen Saver" item and click on it.
On the right part, click on "Show all".
SoftMeter is a Google Analytics client for desktop software (Windows and macOS) that does not rely on the Google Analytics SDKs. With SoftMeter you can monitor the usage of your software application, in the same way as you monitor the visitors to your website.
Google is stopping the Universal analytics properties in July 2023. So you will need to create a GA4 new type of property.
How to search and find duplicate files, even if they have different filenames. Solved for Windows and MacOS.
The new generation of Apple Macs and Macbooks come with a major change in the CPU. They have an Apple processor, the M1 Apple silicon chip, a RISC / ARM64 architecture.
Old intel based applications will continue to run under the Rosetta2 emulator. Applications compiled for ARM64 will run natively.
How to add application analytics to your C# (c-sharp) desktop software.
Google Analytics was made to monitor your website traffic but many other uses were emerged as developers loved this free data collection and reporting platform.
SoftMeter now has Matomo as an additional data collection and reporting platform for desktop software usage analytics.
List of antivirus software companies and where to submit/report false positives. False positives, is the erroneous detection of clean files.
How can you connect your desktop application to Google Analytics and get application analytics for free? (As you do on your website)
Google Analytics is the most popular platform for website statistics.
If we imagine our desktop or mobile software as a website, shouldn't we be using the same successful analytics platform also for our software usage analytics?
This is the idea that sparked the creation of SoftMeter, our software usage analytics library for Windows, MacOS and IOS.
Mobile application analytics tools: SoftMeter works is the missing link from your application to Google Analytics.
Read here how to add mobile application analytics to your IOS app.
Comparison of runtime usage analytics for software (application analytics tools and mobile application analytics tools): Revulytics/Trackerbird, Nalpeiron, Appdynamics, Deskmetrics, Telerik analytics, and more.
Application analytics dashboard: a quick view into the usage statistics of your software application.
This blog describes how you can add installation analytics to your existing Installaware script.
With the installation analytics you will be able to see the daily/monthly/yearly number of installations and uninstalls, the operating systems where the installations occur, the countries of your users and much more.
You can monitor the usage of your Delphi/Pascal GUI desktop application with Google Analytics, using SoftMeter. SoftMeter brings free Delphi analytics to your Delph or pascal programs.
Indie software developers are used to measure their website traffic. With the new Installation Analytics tools, they can now also measure their software installations and removals.
Your new MacBook (or Mac) comes with some built-in Apple screensavers, but you would certainly prefer a bigger variety of Macbook screensavers to choose from. Read here our suggestions for your Macbook screensaver.
Installation analytics is the technique of gathering installation statistics directly from the distributed software installers.
The developers can see even in real-time the stream of installations and uninstalls of their software, understand the impact of their advertising, detect remote problems immediately after the release.
Having installation analytics in your software is essential for your success in this brutally competitive internet.
Our desktop software analytics library (SoftMeter) allows you to monitor your software program's exceptions by sending them automatically to Google Analytics.
It's time you see some instalaltion analytics for your shareware or other types of desktop software.
With SoftMeter, you can monitor your software's distribution and installation analytics using InnoSetup, and Google Analytics. A free and easy to implement solution.
Website vs Mobile App types of reporting views in Google Analytics, and the measurement protocol.
The Google measurement protocol can send PageViews, ScreenViews and Events to your Google Analytics account.
See a comparison listing the similarities and differences between the two types of reporting views: Website vs Mobile App.
Shareware developers can now monitor the usage of their programs via Google Analytics, in the same way they monitor their website traffic.
This is the announcement of v0.5.2 of SoftMeter (former libAppTelemetry) that brings this capability to indie programmers (Windows, MacOS X).
By using SoftMeter in your shareware/software application you can see runtime statistics of your desktop program via the Google Analytics platform.
As a shareware developer, you are probably already using Google analytics for your website traffic as it is a free and reliable solution. With our SoftMeter library, you can now also monitor the usage of your software program.
In this article, you can see examples of the reports that you will get.
This procedure to transfer your domain name from one registrar to another requires less than 10 minutes of your time. Together with the waiting time for the servers to update, the domain switch takes from 50 minutes to few hours to complete. As this is completed in less than a day, you can perform the transfer just a few days before the renewal date your domain.
A list of free online tools that will help webmasters check their website for errors, inconsistenices, and issues like the DNS propagation, site load speed, HTML validity, website health, website who is who history, SSL status, and more.
