In MacOS Sonoma v14 the screen savers settings are still under the "System settings" but Apple promoted their screen savers, leaving the 3rd part screensavers under an "Other" category.
To select a non-Apple screensaver for your Mac, go to System settings and on the left menu scroll down until you find the "Screen Saver" item and click on it.
On the right part, click on "Show all".
SoftMeter is a Google Analytics client for desktop software (Windows and macOS) that does not rely on the Google Analytics SDKs. With SoftMeter you can monitor the usage of your software application, in the same way as you monitor the visitors to your website.
Google is stopping the Universal analytics properties in July 2023. So you will need to create a GA4 new type of property.
How to search and find duplicate files, even if they have different filenames. Solved for Windows and MacOS.
Upgrade for free to v1.4.2 of our library for product analytics for software applications for Windows, MacOS and IOS,
The new generation of Apple Macs and Macbooks come with a major change in the CPU. They have an Apple processor, the M1 Apple silicon chip, a RISC / ARM64 architecture.
Old intel based applications will continue to run under the Rosetta2 emulator. Applications compiled for ARM64 will run natively.
Download and upgrade for free to v1.41 of our library for product analytics for software applications for Windows, MacOS and IOS,
Download the new version to benefit from its product analytics features for Windows, MacOS and IOS,
How to add application analytics to your C# (c-sharp) desktop software.
Google Analytics was made to monitor your website traffic but many other uses were emerged as developers loved this free data collection and reporting platform.
SoftMeter now has Matomo as an additional data collection and reporting platform for desktop software usage analytics.
List of antivirus software companies and where to submit/report false positives. False positives, is the erroneous detection of clean files.
Download now the new version to benefit from its in-app analytics features.
A new screensaver release restores the compatibility of the screensaver with MacOS Catalina.
How can you connect your desktop application to Google Analytics and get application analytics for free? (As you do on your website)
We prepared several preconfigured dashboards for your application usage analytics that you can immediatelly use as soon as you release your software with our SoftMeter application analytics library.
SoftMeter v1.1 was released, for Windows, MacOS, IOS. Changed DLL calling convention, new function setOptions(), removed functions setProxy() and setSubscription().
Read what's new in v0.9.4 and v0.9.3 of our free application usage analytics tool.
Google Analytics is the most popular platform for website statistics.
If we imagine our desktop or mobile software as a website, shouldn't we be using the same successful analytics platform also for our software usage analytics?
This is the idea that sparked the creation of SoftMeter, our software usage analytics library for Windows, MacOS and IOS.
Mobile application analytics tools: SoftMeter works is the missing link from your application to Google Analytics.
Read here how to add mobile application analytics to your IOS app.
SoftMeter v0.9 was released just before Christmas.
This version adds support for IOS apps. You can monitor the usage of your IOS app via google analytics for free. An IOS example is posted so you can start easily.
It happened that the StarMessage screensaver had a problem under the new Mojave MacOS version. Due to a change in the operating system's screensaver framework, StarMessage lost its ability to draw on the screen. Many other screensavers for MacOS were also affected in the same way.
SoftMeter v0.6.3 was released.
If you are already using SoftMeter to monitor your application usage, please upgrade. The API remains the same so the upgrade is simply a replacement of the library file (DLL in Windows, dylib in MacOS).
If you are not using SoftMeter, read on.
Comparison of runtime usage analytics for software (application analytics tools and mobile application analytics tools): Revulytics/Trackerbird, Nalpeiron, Appdynamics, Deskmetrics, Telerik analytics, and more.
Version 0.6.2 of SoftMeter, our application analytics library was released.
All developers are asked to upgrade to this version.
There are no API changes, so the "upgrade" is a simple replacement of the previous DLL or dylib by the new one.
Application analytics dashboard: a quick view into the usage statistics of your software application.
This blog describes how you can add installation analytics to your existing Installaware script.
With the installation analytics you will be able to see the daily/monthly/yearly number of installations and uninstalls, the operating systems where the installations occur, the countries of your users and much more.
In this version of our software usage analytics library:
- Internal improvements (please update your installation package),
- cdecl and stdcall in the same DLL,
- all-in-one function.
Application analytics is a new practice and still only very few desktop applications use.
It is unique and powerful because it allows you, for the first time, to see beyond the download of your desktop software.
Here is the opportunity: You can become a development hero by implementing this new practice into your software.
You can monitor the usage of your Delphi/Pascal GUI desktop application with Google Analytics, using SoftMeter. SoftMeter brings free Delphi analytics to your Delph or pascal programs.
Indie software developers are used to measure their website traffic. With the new Installation Analytics tools, they can now also measure their software installations and removals.
Your new MacBook (or Mac) comes with some built-in Apple screensavers, but you would certainly prefer a bigger variety of Macbook screensavers to choose from. Read here our suggestions for your Macbook screensaver.
Installation analytics is the technique of gathering installation statistics directly from the distributed software installers.
The developers can see even in real-time the stream of installations and uninstalls of their software, understand the impact of their advertising, detect remote problems immediately after the release.
Having installation analytics in your software is essential for your success in this brutally competitive internet.
A digital clock functionality was added to the screensaver version 5.74.
You can now see the current time in 24 or 12 hours format, include or exclude the seconds. You can additionally select the color of the digital clock display, and its movement speed. Together with the time, you will, of course, see all the other animations of the StarMessage screensaver.
This article describes the changes in the API function names and the backward compatibility of the SoftMeter application analytics package.
Our desktop software analytics library (SoftMeter) allows you to monitor your software program's exceptions by sending them automatically to Google Analytics.
It's time you see some instalaltion analytics for your shareware or other types of desktop software.
With SoftMeter, you can monitor your software's distribution and installation analytics using InnoSetup, and Google Analytics. A free and easy to implement solution.
Website vs Mobile App types of reporting views in Google Analytics, and the measurement protocol.
The Google measurement protocol can send PageViews, ScreenViews and Events to your Google Analytics account.
See a comparison listing the similarities and differences between the two types of reporting views: Website vs Mobile App.
Version 0.5.3 of libAppTelemetry (now called SoftMeter) was released.
With SoftMeter you can monitor the usage statistics of your desktop program (Windows, MacOS) and the size of your user base.
SoftMeter has a free edition.
It works with Google Analytics, which is also free.
You can write your most important wishes using the stars of the night sky.
The illumination of the moon image is improved together with the accuracy of the moon phase percent. More options were added to control the power settings and to keep the computer awake and avoid sleep/low power mode.
Our StarMessage screensaver was hit today by a bug in the algorithm responsible for the 2018 moon phases calculation.
StarMessage screensaver v5.7.0 (Windows, Mac, Apple store) was released to fix this bug.
Shareware developers can now monitor the usage of their programs via Google Analytics, in the same way they monitor their website traffic.
This is the announcement of v0.5.2 of SoftMeter (former libAppTelemetry) that brings this capability to indie programmers (Windows, MacOS X).
By using SoftMeter in your shareware/software application you can see runtime statistics of your desktop program via the Google Analytics platform.
As a shareware developer, you are probably already using Google analytics for your website traffic as it is a free and reliable solution. With our SoftMeter library, you can now also monitor the usage of your software program.
In this article, you can see examples of the reports that you will get.
This procedure to transfer your domain name from one registrar to another requires less than 10 minutes of your time. Together with the waiting time for the servers to update, the domain switch takes from 50 minutes to few hours to complete. As this is completed in less than a day, you can perform the transfer just a few days before the renewal date your domain.
A list of free online tools that will help webmasters check their website for errors, inconsistenices, and issues like the DNS propagation, site load speed, HTML validity, website health, website who is who history, SSL status, and more.
- Internal improvements of the screensaver
- Better illumination of the new moon phase
- Better registration system for paying users
- More quotes in the full version (v.5.5.7)
- More quotes in the free version (v.5.5.7)
- Better launch options and more clear explanatory messages (v.5.5.7)
Go get the free version from our website [Windows], [MacOS].
The new version v5.5.2 of the screensaver is released.
It contains more famous quotes and internal improvements.
Go get the free version from our website [Windows], [MacOS] or from the [Mac Apple store].
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