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Create a weekly or specific date alarm to wake you.Fall asleep with the sleep timer, which can also put your Mac to sleep.Use the egg timer for quick one-time alarms. Let your Mac sleep through the night. imageBackup Alarm - Ayush Saran

Skip over inane DJs and commercials, and wake up to the best music in the world: your own. wake from sleep iRooster wakes you and your Mac up from sleep just when you tell it to. repeating alarms Create repeating alarms to wake yourself up everyday. Snooze Sleep in a few extra minutes with iRooster's innovative Snooze system. Lullaby Use Lullaby to put yourself to sleep gently with your favorite music. - Ayush Saran

Explaining the Playstation game Grand Theft Auto 4 to his grandmother "I don't shoot everybody, just the drug dealers and hookers." - Ayush Saran

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Hey look! A new Flickr-searching desktop app that can place photos and captions directly into Keynote. - Ayush Saran

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The Private Messages For WordPress allows users of WordPress blog send private messages (PM) to each other. Users will have their own inbox and outbox. Administrators of blog can control total numbers of items in mailbox of each user group (Administrator, Editor, Author, Constributor and Subscriber). - Ayush Saran

The Private Messages For WordPress allows users of WordPress blog send private messages (PM) to each other. Users will have their own inbox and outbox. Administrators of blog can control total numbers of items in mailbox of each user group (Administrator, Editor, Author, Constributor and Subscriber). - Ayush Saran

The way you determine whether an A/B test shows a statistically significant difference is: 1. Define N as "the number of trials." For Hammy this is 8+4 = 12. For the AdWords example this is 32+19 = 51. 2. Define D as "half the difference between the 'winner' and the 'loser'." For Hammy this is (8-4) ÷ 2 = 2. For AdWords this is (32-19) ÷ 2 = 6.5. 3. The test result is statistically significant if D2 is bigger than N. For Hammy, D2 is 4, which is not bigger than 12, so it is not significant. For AdWords, D2 is 42.25, which is not bigger than 51, so it is not significant. - Ayush Saran

The calculator below can be used to interpret the results of a usability-oriented split (A/B) test. This is a basic scenario where you have two groups of Visitors (A & B) who each get to see one version of your website and for whom you track the number of Conversions or Goals (purchases, downloads, click-throughs, etc.). - Ayush Saran

Sifter is a hosted bug and issue tracking application focused on making work less tedious. You can signup for a free trial to take it for a test drive or go on a quick tour with screenshots to learn more. - Ayush Saran

hoverIntent is a plug-in that attempts to determine the user's intent... like a crystal ball, only with mouse movement! It works like (and was derived from) jQuery's built-in hover. However, instead of immediately calling the onMouseOver function, it waits until the user's mouse slows down enough before making the call. Why? To delay or prevent the accidental firing of animations or ajax calls. Simple timeouts work for small areas, but if your target area is large it may execute regardless of intent. - Ayush Saran

hoverIntent is a plug-in that attempts to determine the user's intent... like a crystal ball, only with mouse movement! It works like (and was derived from) jQuery's built-in hover. However, instead of immediately calling the onMouseOver function, it waits until the user's mouse slows down enough before making the call. Why? To delay or prevent the accidental firing of animations or ajax calls. Simple timeouts work for small areas, but if your target area is large it may execute regardless of intent. - Ayush Saran

jParse is a jQuery plugin that allows you to parse XML that was fetched with the jQuery .ajax method (making it fully customizable). It's easy to use and ultra lightweight at only 2KB! Best of all, it's compatible with all major browsers: - Ayush Saran

Testimonials from happy clients are an important part of any service business’s website, lending trustworthiness and experience to a business. Showing those testimonials in their best light is important, as you want visitors to see them without allowing them to dominate your site’s design. - Ayush Saran

Firstly, did you know one circle is double the area of the other? Probably not, because we’re not very good at judging relative areas of shapes. Can you determine the value of the overlap area? The equation is complex on paper, let alone in your head! - Ayush Saran

# Check for proper DOCTYPE # Is there a wp_head() call? # <html> tag should include language_attributes() # Is there a feed autodiscovery link? # Are you fetching the title and description using bloginfo() - Ayush Saran

Outputs or returns a syntax highlighted version of the given PHP code using the colors defined in the built-in syntax highlighter for PHP. - Ayush Saran

Prints out or returns a syntax highlighted version of the code contained in filename using the colors defined in the built-in syntax highlighter for PHP. - Ayush Saran

I have long had a funny theory about the nature of passion. My theory is that passion is merely caring about something more than it’s worth. It makes sense that passion is not rational, because otherwise rationality wouldn’t have the stigma of being somewhat passionless. Right? - Ayush Saran

Setting aside the arrogance of an article centered on an unsolicited JPG of the easiest page of a site to tackle—he “spent a couple hours redesigning [their] front page”—I’m amazed that anyone purporting to be a professional interface designer would assume a night of Photoshop earns them the right to be smug. It’s easy to “design” when you’re unencumbered by things like metrics, creative direction, business acumen, sales experience, actual functionality, enterprise scale, or any thought about how a site with millions of page views and users has to function. It’s easy to look at their site versus your comp and go, “See, mine’s better. You guys must really suck at this.” - Ayush Saran

If you are an experienced user of Facebook you are aware that it is possible to simply “love” an item instead of comment it. Now we have got a WordPress plugin to implement this for us. I Like This plugin is fairly simple, you can add a meter and a button to vote in your theme to allow your visitors to shout loudly that they like what you write (if so). The first, as its name indicates, displays the number of people who liked this article and the other allows players who have not yet voted to do (if desired). - Ayush Saran

There are so many different way to display your product’s features. Here are a few that I really like. Most of them are clean, minimal ways to get across a lot of information. - Ayush Saran

jQuery plugin to highlight a form field’s parent tag (or any other selector) as you tab into it - Ayush Saran

Boxy is a flexible, Facebook-style dialog box for jQuery with support for dragging and size tweening. It differs from other overlays I've seen by providing an object interface to control dialogs after they've been created. And for simple usage scenarios, boxy also provides a jQuery plugin for automatically hooking up links and forms, as well as an ask() helper for presenting multiple choices to the user. - Ayush Saran

37signals are well known for their suite of productivity and collaboration web apps, designed to help people work efficiently and get things done. Although 37signals applications are designed primarily for use in the browser, a wide range of complimentary Mac and iPhone software has arisen in recent years. This post will be offering a quick overview of each 37signals app: Basecamp, Backpack, Campfire and Highrise, before moving on to outline over 25 Mac and iPhone apps designed to work alongside them. You’ll be spoiled for choice! - Ayush Saran

Constraints give your life shape. Remove them and most people have no idea what to do: look at what happens to those who win lotteries or inherit money. Much as everyone thinks they want financial security, the happiest people are not those who have it, but those who like what they do. So a plan that promises freedom at the expense of knowing what to do with it may not be as good as it seems. - Ayush Saran

This is the set of links that I used to demo Twitter by going down through this list to show why Twitter is such a valuable marketing tool. - Ayush Saran

In most domains, talent is overrated compared to determination—partly because it makes a better story, partly because it gives onlookers an excuse for being lazy, and partly because after a while determination starts to look like talent. - Ayush Saran

What I didn't understand was that the value of some new acquisition wasn't the difference between its retail price and what I paid for it. It was the value I derived from it. Stuff is an extremely illiquid asset. Unless you have some plan for selling that valuable thing you got so cheaply, what difference does it make what it's "worth?" The only way you're ever going to extract any value from it is to use it. And if you don't have any immediate use for it, you probably never will. - Ayush Saran

Basically, iTunes makes money by taxing people, not selling them stuff. You can only do that if you own the channel, and even then you don't make much from it, because a toll has to be ignorable to work. Once a toll becomes painful, people start to find ways around it, and that's pretty easy with digital content. - Ayush Saran

One of the best resources for people looking for Internet statistics. Their research cover social networking, web 2.0, broadband and digital divide. Apart from detailed reports you will also find infographics, presentations, trends and surveys. The research topics are quite actual as well. For instance, they already have a bunch of reports and numbers on Twitter. - Ayush Saran