There’s a perception (OK a reality) that the majority of web startups are US-based. Hard to argue when you see the pure volume of new apps and services being created every day. But London (and the rest of the UK!) is slowly building a credible presence alongside Europe. There’s a couple of services that I’ve  Read more »

www.ifttt.com Fantastic service – you’ll sit and ponder for some time.

loads.in is a free service that allows you to enter the URL of any site (more sensibly your own site) and analyse how quickly it loads. But for a free service it offers pretty good tools – choose the location and browser and it stacks the tests for comparison. Each test also allows you to  Read more »

I love Dropbox. It’s one of those apps you just install and forget (well, actually if you run it on a laptop with Windows 7 64 bit OS it has a wee issue with not letting your laptop sleep properly but I’m sure they’ll get that fixed). There are other perfectly good sync options like  Read more »

If you’re running Google Analytics and you just need a simple, plain English overview of your weekly stats – Metric Mail sends you a weekly PDF by email with your dashboard stats. Now you can do this thorugh Google Analytics already but where this service is useful is if you want to circulate the report  Read more »

You used to have to make sure you backed up everything on your desktop to the cloud, but now if you’re using Google Apps or Gmail plus all the social services for storing photos and messages – you now need to make sure you’re keeping a local copy of all your data. Whilst Google and  Read more »