Am not quite sure if Google Wave is ready for primetime yet, because in my opinion it needs a lot of fixing up to do. At the moment Google Wave is kinda buggy and slow (faster than other web apps of course, considering the high standards Google has set for itself). But that doesn’t mean that you shouldn’t try out Google Wave if you haven’t already.

I have 8 invites of Google Wave to giveaway at the moment, and I will update this post if there is more in the future, so make sure you keep this page bookmarked and check back often.

What Should You Do?

Comment on this post, saying why do you want a Google Wave Invite and how it can make a difference to your day to day life. And second just tweet the following :

“RT @coolkarthik88 #DailyApps Giveaway : Google Wave Invites | http://j.mp/6ROWH3″

8 Lucky people will be randomly chosen from the Comment thread to receive the Google Wave Invites.

If you have invites that you’d like to giveaway to DailyApps readers please get in touch with me using the contact form.

Till then Happy Google Waving!

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Alright its finally over. Yeah the birthday celebrations of Dailyapps come to an end with this post. I swear no more birthday related posts after this, and I mean serious business. Thanks to all you guys for making the birthday celebrations a huge success.

I couldn’t have been more happier to giveaway some cool goodies and ahem some surprises along the way. Dailyapps is something close to my heart and its birthday was always a very special moment for me.

Now let me just cut through the crap and reveal the names of the people who have won the goodies in the giveaway.. Alright then here we go…

5 Licenses of xplorer² go out to :

• Mike Ryan
• Gustavo Leig
• Kyle Judkins
• Brian Lam
• Randy

And the 10 Licenses of Mediamonkey go out to :

• Shuve
• Colin
• Shankar Ganesh
• Jan
• Mike
• Jay Caldwell
• Chris King
• Plague 616
• Daniel
• IanG

And the third giveaway that 25 Pingdom accounts got snatched off pretty fast. So there is not much to say about it..

And many thanks to the sponsors of the giveaways namely xplorer², Mediamonkey, and Pingdom.

I’ve sent out emails to all the winners to let them know that they have won something in the giveaway. And now coming back to the most important thing, I had already said that there was a surprise in store..

Before I reveal the winners, let me reveal the prizes. I’m sure many of you might already be kicking yourselves as you see this, because not many took active part in this particular surprise giveaway :

Ok no more crap talk, the prizes are a brand new iPod Nano which goes to Raj and and iPod Shuffle which goes to Stevie for guessing the prize right.

Congratulations Raj and Stevie, I will be contacting you soon for you to claim your prizes. With that last bit, its the end of Birthday celebrations of Dailyapps.

I hope you had a good time and you enjoyed the giveaways. My apologies to those who didn’t win. I’m sorry for that, and those of you who won, congratulations to you..

Thanks again guys! We’ll have a blast next year as well..

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Wow, what a weekend its been!! Incase you somehow missed it, Dailyapps was celebrating its first birthday yesterday and we wanted to celebrate the birthday with you guys.. Thanks to a few sponsors we had a few goodies to giveaway to you guys. Many of you have already entered the giveaway, but for those who haven’t there still some time left.

Remember you have till 11PM EST tomorrow (28th July) to get yourself entered in the giveaway. After that the celebrations will end, and I will contact the winners. In all the prizes are valued at nearly 3500$!! Here’s a quick roundup of what we are giving away and a link back to the sponsors who have generously offered the prize

• xplorer² – Windows Explorer Replacement – Great for both power and casual users alike who want the extra features! Windows Explorer sucks in comparison to this amazing piece of software.  We have five licenses valued at $29.95 each to giveaway. ENTER GIVEAWAY HERE!
• MediaMonkey – The only media manager you will ever need! The ultimate music manager out there, defeats iTunes hands down There are ten licenses we have to give away worth $19.95 each. ENTER GIVEAWAY HERE!
• Pingdom – Those of you who have a website of your own or plan to have a site in the future will certainly need a website uptime monitor. We have 25 Pingdom basic accounts to giveaway which is valid for one year and valued at $119.40 each. FOLLOW THE INSTRUCTIONS HERE TO GET AN ACCOUNT!

Please make sure you read the instructions carefully for each giveaway. Also if you read my first post mentioning the Birthday you must have read that I mentioned there is a surprise thrown in as well for good measure.

I won’t reveal what the surprise is at the moment, but to be eligible for the prize you need to comment on this post and answer the questions I’ve asked in the post. Not really all that difficult I guess.

For all those smart users, I am pretty sure you can work out the surprise yourself, so get yourself down to guessing the prize. The first person to guess the prize right will win something as well. You can have your guesses as comments on this post itself.

Its not all over yet.. The weekend has been really special for me, and as there is still time left for the giveaway (Ends at 11 PM EST tomorrow that’s 28th July), I’d like many more people to enter.

I hope you’ve enjoyed out giveaway extravaganza and can’t wait to make some of you winners tomorrow!

Thanks a ton for being a part of Dailyapps Birthday celebrations…

Hopefully the next year I can do something bigger and better.. Till the next birthday the only thing I need to do is of course write the special content that all you guys have come to like over the past year.

Wish me luck for the coming year

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I still can’t believe that this day has finally come. On this very day the last year I had started DailyApps after a not so successful stint with blogging earlier. I never expected DailyApps to become popular and be quite successful.. Looking back at the earlier posts, I can see how poorly they were written. I have surely come a long way since then I guess.

As most of you already know, I am currently pursuing my engineering studies in computer science and I feel that some of the stuff I’ve written in the past deserves a special mention simply because it is coming from 19 year teenager. Well all that aside, life is in full swing and expect more quality stuff in the coming future.

I had initially started out on ASmallOrange back in July 2007 and the server was more or less enough in the early days of DailyApps until this extremely popular post ( Hack Attack : Install Leopard on your PC in 3 easy steps! ) took my server down and I had to move to my own VPS. In between these outages though my hosting was graciously donated by a good friend Thilak.

This one year has been fantastic and I’d like to share a few stats with you guys.. This is from the day we started that is 26th July 2007 to this date.

• 2+ Million Unique Visitors.
• 3.2 Million Page Views.
• The most viewed posts are the Hack Attack series and then in a close second comes the homepage.
• Here are the browsers used by the readers of Dailyapps
  • Firefox 52.9%
  • Internet Explorer 31.8%
  • Safari 10.1%
  • Opera 3.9%
• Traffic Sources
  • Google 32.4%
  • Direct 15.0%
  • Stumbleupon 8%
  • Digg 7%
• Most Popular Search Phrases
  • Install Leopard on PC
  • XP SP3
  • Vista SP1
  • Dailyapps

At the moment Dailyapps is my heart and soul, and I have no plans of giving up anytime soon. At the moment I am working on optimizing the ads on the site to make them as less as obtrusive as possible to you readers.

Thanks again to all you dedicated readers..

You might already be swearing on me right now. Come on man first birthday and no party, no goodies, you got to be kidding me right??

Well No.. For all the effort you’ve put over the past year I thought I should have a giveaway of sorts for you to take away some nice goodies..

Well here we are.. read on to find out more about the giveaway

The DailyApps Birthday Bash Giveaway

All you readers have been the guiding light of DailyApps. A lot of you have given your suggestions, tips and shared interesting apps and that’s why we have a small giveaway over here…

Well here are the stuff we are giving away this time..

• xplorer² – 5 Pro Licenses
• Media Monkey – 10 Gold Licenses
• Pingdom – 25 Basic Accounts for One Year

The details as to how you can avail these cool goodies will be live in the coming few hours. Each giveaway will have its own set of rules so make sure you read them properly before you take part.

You can take part in all the three giveaways but you can win only one prize.. Wait that’s not all there is a little bit of surprise for you as well.. To find out more about it you will have to wait, but in the meantime I’d like you to leave a comment on this post answer either one (or both) of the following…

• Your favorite post on DailyApps?
• How did you find out about DailyApps?

On Monday I will reveal the surprise, and will select a winner randomly from the comments on this post.. Make sure you leave your name and email address in the comment form so that I can contact you later..

Till then lets get on with the birthday celebrations

If the graphic above didn’t interest you enough, then read on till the end of this post. One of my favorite web forums WebMasterTalk recently merged with the Earners Forum owned by the Escalate Media. Due to this merge they are having a HUGE contest with over $25,000 in prizes. I just signed up for the contest and I thought I should let the readers of DailyApps know about such a great contest.

Let me tell about the amazing lineup of prizes these guys have got :

• A beautiful new Macbook Air laptop from ClickBooth valued at $1,800.00!
• A professional version shopping cart solution from Interspire valued at $995.00!
• $500 cash in a Max Bounty affiliate network account awaits you!
• Another $500 in the form of a Text Link Ads gift certificate should help with your marketing efforts!
• How about another Apple product, the iPod Touch from Rocket Profit….wow!
• Another $250 cash in a Pepperjam Network account will make you smile!
• Sure would be nice to have some custom T-shirts printed for your headline website, right? Well, Ndesigns is going to do that for you! This is 24 custom printed shirts (color T’s, 3-4 color printing, one-sided).
• The hottest new camera for blogging, The Flip Cam, is provided by AdValiant!
• Speaking of blogs, the MOST AMAZING paid theme ever is now yours from Revolution Theme and it isn’t just one, but the complete multi-pack!
• To help you relax that hard working brain of yours, we close the package out with a Nintendo DS Lite from RevResponse!
• 3 Free months of Aaron Wall’s SEO Training can only be good for business!

Well I’m going all out to try and win this amazing contest. If you guys are interested in winning these cool goodies then go ahead and sign up here. Just to let you guys know, if I do win anything from this contest then I’ll be giving up some of the prizes that I win to readers of DailyApps.

So go ahead and take part in this amazing contest, and see if you can win some great prizes. Please do drop in you comments to let me know that you are taking part. My best wishes to all you guys..

The Contest ends on May 13th so get started now. More details about the contest are here