Woopra is a webmasters dream come true, as a stat junkie I couldn’t have asked for a better analytics and I can’t think how they can possibly make it any better than it already is. Woopra is one of a kind Web Analytics that easily puts Google Analytics to shame with real time, feature rich information with a desktop client. Most importantly, since the client is based on Java, it is platform independent and you can install it on your favorite Linux Distro.

Currently Woopra is on beta stage and users are invite only; however you can still register and they might invite you if they have more opening for beta -testers. The only requirements for installing woopra client is that you have at least java 1.6 installed; of course you still need to have an account for you to use it with your website. The beta-testers themselves have limitations of 10,000 hits per day, after that the client won’t log/update information.

There are too many features to mention, but to highlight some of the key features of Woopra:

1) Live World Map View:

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According to Torvalds, he is not sure about the exact date when Linux was born. Some consider his announcement to be the actual date of birth for linux in August 26 1991. Others feels that the first official release of 0.01 to be the Birth date of Linux; which is today, September 17, 1991. As with every aspect of linux, there are controversies and misconceptions. Take your pick, I just need a reason to celebrate with a drink. ;)

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I am always skeptical about all this “new” social media sites popping up every day. I am finding it hard to maintain the six social media sites that I am already active in. The last thing I need is twitter… so I signed up for twitter. It’s not really that bad; I think it can be a very good source of interesting information. Thanks to twitter, I got to know about “Chrome for Linux” before any of my feed readers (200+) picked it up; I also got to know about one of the most interesting song (On the Radio — Dancing Choose) in a long time (Thanks Kevin).

I wanted to write a tutorial about how to update your twitter from the terminal with bash scripts and everything; but after looking at my previous post about not having to use the terminal, I think it would be a little bit hypocritical :), so I might get back to that when the dust settles a bit. What I really need is lots of friends for my twitter account, apparently no one seem to like me (only 4 followers!!). So if you like this blog and use twitter you might consider following me. I promise to not update every five minutes; for the next five minutes.

A common misconception with Linux is that you have to know how to use the terminal in order for you to use linux. The fact is you won’t have to use the linux terminal more than you would use CMD in Windows or the terminal in Mac OSX. Today we will look into some of the applications that a “normal” computer user would use without having to know the terminal. Here the term “normal” is vague; since every computer users needs are different from one another, but we will try to cover some basic applications that a normal computer user might use.

Web Browsing: Links and Lynx are great for web browsing on the terminal, especially if you like showing off; practically speaking it has little advantage over a full blown graphical web browser. Most of the popular web browsers can also be used with linux. Here is a list of 9 Web Browsers for Linux. If you are too attached to IE (why??), you could use IEs4Linux to install IE on your linux system.

Text Editors: Vim - Emacs - nano are not practical text editors. Powerful editors? Yes. Practical? No . What a “normal” computer user needs is a simple text editor for simple text editing; gedit and kate are the best text editors out there for linux. If you are too attached to windows notepad; you can use it under linux too with wine, which is installed by default.

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