Statigram is a slick web application that integrates with Instagram and allows you to manage your account directly from the web. Once you’ve signed in, you’re presented with your feed in a grid view. Not a fan of grid view? No problem. You can swap between list and slideshow views as well.

Under the Viewer tab, you also have quick access to your photos, printing options for your photos, your likes, your followers, people you follow, and photos that are popular on Instagram.

The printing options for your photos are pretty cool. You can print your Instagram photos nearly anywhere. The options are iPhone cases, fridge magnets, calendars, wall art, stickers, pillows, albums and posters. These are some innovative uses of your Instagram photos and they make great gifts too. For the hardcore Instagrammers, there are also keychains, phone charms, mini stickers, bamboo picture frames and bamboo iPhone cases.

Under the Statistics tab it really gets fun. You initially get presented with an overview of your Instagram stats, from the number of photos that you’ve shared to the number of likes and comments you’ve received. You also have a breakdown of your follower rate along with your scores, which are broken down into your Love, Talk and Spread Rates.

It doesn’t end there. You can drill down even further with options for Rolling month analysis, Content, Engagement, Optimization, and Community. Statigram does a wonderful job of drilling down on your account’s statistics.

You can see the number of photos you’ve posted, your most engaged followers and your most popular photos in the Rolling month analysis, while under content you can see when you posted your first photo, what number user you are (I am number 335,820), when you post your photos, the filters you use most and which tags you use and how often. Engagement pretty much covers all your likes and comments since joining Instagram and which pictures were the most liked and commented on. Optimization takes care of the best times to submit photos, which filters have the most impact and which tags you currently use as opposed to the ones that are the most popular on Instagram to get those likes and comments numbers up. Community encompasses your followers, those you follow, your account growth and the people you enjoy most.

The next tab in the navigation bar is Snapshots. These are quirky pictures based on your stats that you can email to your device and upload to Instagram to share with your followers. It’s a pretty cool feature which I think is a nice touch.

Next is the Management tab which houses a comments tracker on your photos and a function that allows you to send and receive private messages to and from your followers and people you follow.

The Promote tab is up next with some nice features for promotion. You can promote your photos with a public URL, which allows non-Instagrammers to view your photos and an RSS feed, which you can use on your website or blog.

You can also share to Facebook. You may think that this is a no-brainer considering Facebook bought Instagram, but keep in mind that this is an independently developed web app. There is a feed tab for Facebook pages, a Timeline box and a tool to create a Facebook cover photo from your Instagram photos. Your cover photo gets put together relatively quickly, and once the pop up box appears with it, just right click to save.

The final tab is the Contest tab, with current contests being run and also past ones with their winning photos.

Ultimately I can say that this web app appeals both to the iPhoneographer and the geek in me. A mashup of statistics and Instagram is a winner in my books.

Here they are:

To get your hands on this generous freebie, visit premiumpixels.com.

Do you know of any fantastic, free icon sets? Let us know in the comments.

Everyone love great service, but no one likes throwing a scene when service goes sideways. Most customers would prefer to resolve issues offline rather than write a scathing online review that will never be answered, in all likelihood.

Krit makes it easy for customers to reach a decision-maker without spoiling their quiet family dinner. Business managers can save face by responding to their customers in minutes, not hours. Additionally, both parties’ contact details remain private.

What about venues that are not yet registered? Krit employees will track down the person in-charge and do their best to get you a response.

Does Krit work in every situation? No, some issues are better handled in-person, but there exists a whole category of problems that would otherwise go unaddressed.

You know, the little things. And they add up.

Customers don’t have time to page through a phone tree or find an email address on your website. They want to talk with you now. Existing solutions charge customers to SMS or use complex phone numbers. Why pay to complain? Krit is completely free for customers and there is nothing to install. Simply visit krit.com on your mobile phone and rate your experience at a nearby venue.

Krit is primarily aimed at restaurants, retailers, guest houses and hotels, but works for any service-based business that wants to know how customers are feeling, including night clubs, clinics, hospitals and waiting rooms. Franchises can gather valuable business intelligence by analysing customer sentiment across branches.

Visit krit.com today to start your free 60-day trial and delight your customers with Krit :).

Both Ultrabooks will feature a sleek magnesium and aluminum body that will be 17.8mm thick. You get a full set of ports, including Ethernet, VGA, HDMI, 1 x USB 2.0, 1 x USB 3.0 and also an SD card slot. It has the traditional VAIO chicklet keyboard and a MacBook style trackpad that will hopefully will be similarly good. 

On the inside you get Intel’s Core i3-2367M processor with Intel HD 3000 graphics. You also get 4GB of RAM, 320GB hard drive (with the option to go for an SSD), Bluetooth, Wi-Fi and Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit. The battery is said to last up to nine hours with the SSD model.

Let’s hope these two make it to South African shores!

If you were buying an ultrabook, what would you choose?

Images from SlashGear.

The pair now have eight-pack abs, and a booming fitness startup. Fitocracy initially started as a social fitness website in late 2010. Users can follow other members, members’ workout routines and various fitness groups. Like many current social networks, Fitocracy also has a news feed to follow the events of the members and groups the user follows.

The one thing that sets Fitocracy apart, however, is the gamification of fitness. Users are awarded points for their workouts, and because it integrates with Runkeeper, users can also get points for their runs. Users accumulate points which allow them to level up, earn badges and rank on a leaderboard. Once your workouts are complete and you’ve been allocated points, you can share your progress on Twitter and Facebook.

Since I’ve only started going to the gym lately, I decided to give Fitocracy a try. I’m lucky in the sense that I have two gym partners who keep me accountable and motivated, but that also gives me a chance to log my workout between sets.

I personally think that turning fitness into a game, with points, levels and quests is a win. Hitting the gym can be particularly daunting, but Fitocracy brings the challenge to the gym and gives you the opportunity to earn points.

The app is only available on iOS at the time of writing and it has a beautifully clean interface making it a pleasure to use. When entering an exercise to track, the application also gives the user instructions on how to perform that exercise. This is especially helpful for beginners who have joined the gym, gotten a workout routine, but aren’t exactly sure how to perform the specific exercise.

Fitocracy is a free application on iTunes.

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Just like the Loch Ness Monster, you may have heard the rumors about Google Drive. It turns out, one of the two actually does exist.

Today, we’re introducing Google Drive—a place where you can create, share, collaborate, and keep all of your stuff. Whether you’re working with a friend on a joint research project, planning a wedding with your fiancé or tracking a budget with roommates, you can do it in Drive. You can upload and access all of your files, including videos, photos, Google Docs, PDFs and beyond.

For more details on what you can do with Google Drive, read the rest of the post here.

If you have a Google account and want to activate your Google Drive, follow this link to check if it’s ready.

Let us know your thoughts about Google Drive in the comments!

Finally technology has caught up with expectations with the ultra-responsive, ultra-sleek Ultrabook – inspired by Intel. Ultrabooks Rethink personal computing by providing the most complete and satisfying computing experience. So whether you are travelling over the Easter weekend or whether you are looking for a hot accessory to match your new outfit bought at SA Fashion Week, an Ultrabook is what you need. So we know you want to be Ultra-cool and Ultra-efficient so we are giving away the stylish Asus Zenbook UX31E Core i5, featuring a 2 second resume time and only at 3mm at the front and 9mm at the base.

1. How desperate are you to get your hands on this Ultrabook?

All you have to do is submit a photograph to us of your current computer setup that shows how desperately you NEED a new Ultrabook. One of you will instantly change from desperate to Ultra-cool at the end of April when the winner is announced. Make your experience Ultra….enter now!!

2. BONUS ENTRY (will only count if you’ve submitted a photograph)

Desperate for this machine, send a Tweet or update your Facebook Status saying, “I want to win the #zenbook in the www.iMod.co.za competition! /cc @imodcoza” – if you send that Tweet or update your Facebook Status, you’ll get an extra entry into the competition.

Send your photograph to ultrabook@imod.co.za now!

Terms: I need to receive at least 30 entries in order to give away this beautiful machine, so please spread the word! Competition closes on Sunday 29th April, 2012, any submissions made after this date will not be included. Limited to South African residents only.

Join the Intel social media communities on Facebook or follow them on twitter to keep up to date with all Ultrabook and Intel Innovations .

Account Activity is awesome, it’ll give you access into what you are spending your time doing – how many emails you’re sending and receiving, how often you’re searching on Google and so the list goes on. Talk about an incredibly tangible way to measure where your time is being spent. If you’re like me and you use the Google suite of tools, then you’ll be stoked for this (but will probably realize just how much Google knows about us, haha).

Here’s a sample from a test account of what you’ll see:

If you would like to sign up, click here, opt-in and standby for an email from Google once your report is ready for viewing.

I have done this as you can see above and I’m frantically looking at how many emails I receive and send. It’s interesting to know that I reply to only 10% of the emails I receive! Here are some more things I spotted:

• I’ve performed 716 Google Searches in the past month.
• YouTube video’s I’ve published have received 10,846 views in the last month.

Interesting stuff! :)

Dropbox was founded in June 2007 and has raised $257 million in funding, as you can imagine, it’s hugely popular and the team has the resources to make it even more popular. The concept is really simple: Dropbox creates a folder on your machine, anything you put in this folder is then accessible from anywhere in the world on literally any device. So, for example, if you take photographs on the weekend, you can put the photographs in your Dropbox folder and then access them from another machine or on your mobile device without having your computer with you. Of course, you can put anything in your Dropbox, not just photographs – I like to keep documents that I use often, templates for invoices and I also love the fact that you can share your dropbox with someone else so that they can access your files too.

Here are some important things:

• Dropbox is free for the first 2 Gigabytes, which is plenty of space for a lot of photographs
• Dropbox works on Windows, Mac, iPhone, Android, BlackBerry and the iPad
• Once you’ve signed up, you can tell your friends about it and get more free space

Take a watch of this Dropbox 101 video if you don’t understand:

If you want to start using Dropbox, simply click here, it’ll only take a few minutes and there’s a wonderful tour to assist you!

When you arrive at the landing page, the focus lies on the search bar, allowing you to enter your specific search criteria. You can also choose where Social Mention searches for results. The current offering is blogs, microblogs, such as tumblr and Posterous, networks, bookmarks, comments, events, images, news, video, audio, and questions. Of course, you could also choose to search all of the previously mentioned corners of the Internet. There is also an option to select your social media sources. Once you click on the link, you are presented with quite the comprehensive list of sources.

Social Mention also suggests a linked list of trending topics, allowing you to see what’s being said across the web about the current trending topic.

The landing page also gives you the option to create social media alerts. Similar to Google alerts, but for social media. If you create an alert with Social Mention, you will receive an email daily with results based on your search criteria.

On the landing page you are also presented with the opportunity to add the Social Mention widget to your website or blog, allowing your to ‘display realtime buzz’ about your predetermined topic.

Once you’ve entered your search terms, the loading page informs you that it is searching content from across the universe. Hardly the Google Instant I’ve become accustomed to, but it is a specialised search engine after all, so I will give it some credit.

I figured I would do a search for ‘imod.co.za’. The result were rather interesting. There were no iMod articles that appeared in search results on the first page at all. The only thing remotely close were three mybroadband.co.za forum posts that made specific mention of imod posts.

In the left sidebar of the results page is a block with percentages for strength, sentiment, passion and reach. There are also results for hours average per mention, when your search term was last mentioned, how many unique authors mentioned the search term and how many times the search term has been retweeted. These stats make almost no sense to me and social mention hardly makes the effort to explain it.
The next subheading in the left sidebar is sentiment, obviously the general sentiment towards your search term based on certain positive, neutral and negative associative keywords.

Top keywords are just below. You can see from the data presented that the keywords are most likely pulled from social networks announcing the latest blog post on iMod. Next up are the top users who use the search term in their status updates and my tweets and it looks like I’ve also made it onto the list, probably from tweeting my own blog posts on iMod.

The top hashtags that are used in updates are up next, followed by the top sources for the search term. Logically, Twitter comes up first, but the rest of the search sources provide irrelevant information. I’m surprised that not even Facebook has featured as a source.

In the right sidebar, you have the option of saving your search results as an RSS feed, an email alert or as a .csv or Excel file. You also have the option of exporting sentiment, top keywords, top users or top hashtags as .csv files.

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While Social Mention may be a useful search tool with a few insights, I feel that it could do with some work, regarding the explanation of different categories as well as relevant results for search terms.

Do you use a social search engine to monitor what’s being said about your business or your brand? Which one are you using? Share in the comments below.