SheepTech report card is a monthly report on the blog’s performance, in terms of traffic, revenue and uptime.

Traffic

As reported by Google Analytics, there are 30,116 unique visitors and 48,501 pageviews for March 2010. SheepTech has grown quite a lot for the past one year according to SiteMeter:

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The default battery indicator on laptops powered by Windows XP, Vista and 7 shows only the most basic information—% of battery juice available, estimated time left before the battery dies off, and charging or plugged in. You are simply out of luck if you want to know more about your laptop’s battery using it.

Whether you are a road warrior who cares much of your battery’s health or is just simply curious about it, check out BatteryBar. It sits beautifully on the taskbar indicating the percentage of battery juice left or time left depending on preference. Hovering it will reveal:

• Percent of battery juice left
• Capacity of battery – e.g 12,443 mWh of 17,294 mWh
• Charged rate – e.g 13,642mW
• Battery life left in time – e.g 0:34
• Full battery lifetime in time – e.g 1:00
• A/C – connected or disconnected
• Battery wear – e.g 700% of 57,720 mWh

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This would be relatively easy if URL shorteners does not exist. But the fact is not so. Links shared on Twitter are largely short URLs, bit.ly being the top gun, followed by god knows how many other providers that provides similar service.

Even Tweetmeme won’t do the trick, you can only track tweets that have your blog’s domain name in it with it.

BackTweets

BackTweets is able to track tweets with link to a specific domain name (all blogpost/pages within the domain name), whether they are masked by short URLs or not. Just simply enter your blog’s domain name and Backtweets will return you with a list of tweets that links to your blog.

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Boiling eggs is definitely not the funnest thing to do. Either end up with an overcooked egg if you walk away, or be bored to death if you watch your egg.

Egg Watchers decides to end the egg watching game. Let it know how you like your perfect egg done and it will estimate the time needed to boil it—and show you a YouTube video (randomly) of almost equal length as the boiling time.

The time the video ends is the time where you can enjoy your egg.

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(Gmail+Firefox/Chrome) Do you receive emails from strangers very often? If yes, it would probably be a lovely to have this Firefox add-on/Chrome extension installed— Rapportive.

This is what Rapportive do — kick out the sidebar advertisement from Gmail and replace it with information about the sender of the email you are reading. Here’s what it will display:

• Photo pulled from Gravatar
• Job, position or employment information pulled from LinkedIn
• Social media accounts that match the email address, courtesy of Rapleaf
• If a Twitter account is present, it will display the 3 latest tweets

It’s even possible to add personal notes under the contact profile.

If you are curious on how your profile is displayed to other Rapportive users, you can view it by going to “Sent Mail”, click on any of your sent mail, and lastly, simply hover on your name:

The Dark Side

Remember that embarrassing MySpace profile you created years ago? Or that Bebo and Friendster profile? No? They don’t belong to you?

Problem 1: You have created several accounts on different social networking sites in the pass, with all the embarrassing photos, information about you written years ago that no longer hold any truth today, and those bling blings you have pasted all over your profile.

And you have totally forgot about it! Guess what? If your email recipient have Rapportive installed, he will be able to discover all these history of yours!

Not cool, definitely not.

Problem 2: Inaccurate information. In my case, Rapportive is grabbing my outdated LinkedIn employment information. It is not reflecting the modification I have made some time back. Besides, it’s also linking to my very old Flickr account that I no longer use.

Heck, my email address is not even linked to that old account anymore. But somehow they are still able to dig it out and completely ignore my new account (which is linked to my email address).

Rapportive is well aware of this problem:

If you see data which is inaccurate, abusive or otherwise objectionable, we want you to be able to correct it. Soon you will be able to edit information directly from within Rapportive, but while we are working on this, please send us corrections by email and we will deal with them promptly.

I have sent them an email, and Martin (co-founder) rectified my information on a Sunday!

Problem 3: Google is not gonna like this. They invested so much time perfecting Gmail, giving out so much space, and you are removing their only source of income to over all these cost?

But this is more of a Google problem than ours. They are not any less evil after all