The Mac Observer Technology Stack

Cross-platform plugin plays animations, videos and sound files in .SWF format.

ASP.net is an open source framework for building web applications and services with .NET and C#.

Font Awesome makes it easy to add vector icons and social logos to their website.

Gravatar is a service for providing globally unique avatars and was created by Tom Preston-Werner. It is owned by Automattic, having integrated it into their WordPress.com blogging platform.

Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) is the standard markup language for documents designed to be displayed in a web browser. It can be assisted by technologies such as Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) and scripting languages such as JavaScript.

JavaScript is the programming language of HTML and the Web.

Modernizr is a JavaScript library which is designed to detect HTML5 and CSS3 features in various browsers, which lets JavaScript avoid using unimplemented features or use a workaround such as a shim to emulate them. Modernizr aims to provide this feature detection in a complete and standardized manner.

Nginx is a web server which can also be used as a reverse proxy, load balancer, mail proxy and HTTP cache.

Apple Pay is a mobile payment and digital wallet service by Apple that lets users make payments using an iPhone, Apple Watch, iPad or Mac.

BlueMatrix offers solutions for investment research authoring, distribution, and consumption.

Indiegogo is a crowdfunding engine that helps individuals, groups and non-profits raise money online to make their ideas a reality.

Kickstarter is a crowdfunding platform for creative projects such as movies, music, art, theater, games, comics, design, and photography.

Patreon enables creators to earn ongoing revenue directly from their fans.

PayPal is a global eCommerce platform for buyers & sellers. PayPal allows payments & money transfers to be made securely via email, phone, text message or Skype.

Privacy let's you create virtual cards with the from your browser or phone and protect yourself from fraud and hidden charges.

Truebill is the first platform that allows you to find, track and manage your subscription services and recurring bills.

Arlo is a cloud-based training & learning management system which enables businesses to promote, sell, and deliver physical and online training courses.

Qualtrics makes sophisticated research simple and empowers users to capture customer, product, brand & employee experience insight. Measure customer experience, track employee engagement, improve brand awareness and gather product feedback in a one powerful platform.

BotDetect CAPTCHA generator is a security solution using Captcha challenges to prevent bots from accessing protected website functionality.

Cloudflare mitigates threats from website scraping to application level attacks e.g. SQL Injection and DDOS Protection without any additional hardware.

Cryptomator is an open source client-side encryption for Dropbox, Google Drive.

Dashlane makes identity and payments simple and secure everywhere

DomainTools is a threat intelligence and investigation platform.

Intuit Data Protection Service provides cloud security and cloud privacy for data on on both public and private clouds.

reCAPTCHA is a CAPTCHA-like system designed by Google to establish that a computer user is human.

VirusTotal is a service that analyzes suspicious files and facilitates real-time detection of viruses, worms, trojans and malware content.

Cloudflare Content Delivery Network (CDN) is a geographically distributed group of servers that ensure fast delivery of Internet content, including HTML pages, JavaScript files, stylesheets, and images.

GitHub is a place to share code with friends, co-workers, classmates, and complete strangers, helping individuals and teams to write faster, better code.

Medium is a blog-publishing platform.

Vimeo PRO is a business video hosting platform.

Yoast offers plugins to improve SEO and optimize web sites and blogs.

YouTube is a video sharing service where users can watch, like, share, comment and upload their own videos. The video service can be accessed on PCs, laptops, tablets and via mobile phones.

Cloudflare protects and accelerates any Internet application online without adding hardware, installing software, or changing a line of code. Internet properties powered by Cloudflare have all traffic routed through its intelligent global network, which gets smarter with each new site added.

Hurricane Electric is an Internet service provider offering IPv4 and IPv6 services.

Sonic is an internet & phone service provider.

Dropbox is an off-site server for file syncing, storage and sharing which allows users to save & share files of any format & access them anywhere, on any device.

Mindjet is a visualization software, addressing key business productivity pain points by visually connecting ideas, information and people to save time, improve business processes and drive innovation. Mindjets information mapping software, MindManager, is available for both Windows and Mac, and is centered around information mapping.

Scribd is a digital library where people can publish, discover, and read books and documents of all kinds on the web or any mobile device.

Slack is a single workspace that connects users with the people and tools they work with everyday, no matter where they are or what they do.

Facebook Pixel helps organizations measure customer actions, build audiences and unlock optimisation tools. Facebook pixel is a snippet of JavaScript code that allows you to track visitor activity on your website.

Funnel is for e-commerce marketers, agencies and sophisticated online marketers that automatically reports advertising and sales KPIs with live dashboards and easy to share reports. Funnel pulls all advertising data from all online marketing platforms, structures it and matches it for cross channel ROI comparison.

Google Analytics allows users to measure sales & conversions, plus gain fresh insights into how visitors use sites, & how they arrived on site.

Google Translate is a multilingual neural machine translation service developed by Google, to translate text, documents and websites from one language into another.

Matomo is a free and open source web analytics application that runs on a PHP/MySQL webserver.

Startegy is a data visualization tool designed to help businesses manage and track their finances with customizable dashboards, goal setting and tracking, income statements, real-time data, QuickBooks integration, and more. Accountants and bookkeepers can also manage their clients within Startegy.

Gmail is a free, advertising-supported email service offered as part of Google's G Suite, with 15GB of storage, color-coded inbox filters and unsend button.

G Suite is a suite of apps from Google which offers a number of tools to communicate and collaborate with colleagues, store files, and manage data.

MailChimp list management features help users organize and target their list for sending. They automatically remove bounce backs and unsubscribes from their list.

Mailstrom offers email productivity tools to manage emails and filtering of spam mails.

Voxer offers real-time communication in one powerful push-to-talk (PTT) app.

Zoom is a scalable, cloud based video conferencing & web conferencing platform enabling online meetings, webinars, file sharing, group messaging and more.

Parallels provides desktop and application virtualization across desktops and mobile devices along with technology management solutions.

Western Digital Corporation is an American computer hard disk drive manufacturer and data storage company. It designs, manufactures and sells data technology products, including storage devices, data center systems and cloud storage services.

SparkFun is an online retail store that sells the bits and pieces to make your electronics projects possible.

Keep track of everything thats happening on your network from when a user installs a piece of software they shouldnt have, to when your printers toner level gets low! Spiceworks lets you monitor and receive alerts on all the network happenings you care about most!

SurveyMonkey is an online survey development cloud-based software as a service company, SurveyMonkey provides free, customizable surveys, as well as a suite of paid back-end programs that include data analysis, sample selection, bias elimination, and data representation tools.

Typeform is the versatile data collection tool that makes asking easy and answering fun, whether it's forms, quizzes, surveys, or something completely new.

WooCommerce is an eCommerce plugin for Wordpress