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Google Annotations For Analytics - What You Need To Know

Posted on the December 8th, 2009 under Cool Websites, Google, Industry News, Tutorials, Web 2.0, Web Development by Timothy Allard

Google just released some updates to Google Analytics and boy are they useful. Having used Google Analytics from private beta, I realized there was one feature missing which could be very useful in reporting - and it was released today. Have you ever ran a campaign for your website or started some marketing promotion and wonder why there was a huge traffic spike 3 months down the line? Google Analytics Annotations can solve that. You can now create custom labels and annotate throughout your accumulating web traffic data. This is very useful right off the bat, lets take a closer look.

Chrome OS Killed My USB Drive - How To Get It Back Up And Running

Posted on the December 1st, 2009 under Industry News, Tutorials by Timothy Allard

If you are playing around with Chromium OS and made your USB drive bootable, you may come across an issue. Here is a scenario - You just put Chromium OS on your bootable USB drive. You are now done with your experiment and now want to go about using your USB drive for other storage, but come across a problem. Your drive is not usable and shows an inaccurate file size of the disk. Here is how to solve that problem.

How To Install Chrome OS With A USB Drive

Posted on the November 25th, 2009 under Gadgets, Google, Industry News, Web 3.0 by Timothy Allard

Ok, so last night I was able to boot up my Gateway netbook into Chrome OS and here is what I found. This guide will help you get set up in under 15 minutes. There are 6 steps to do this and if you are very eager to get Chrome os on your computer to play with, then this is a great tutorial to experiment with.

Chrome OS - Will You Be Making The Switch?

Posted on the November 20th, 2009 under Industry News, Web 2.0, Web 3.0 by Timothy Allard

I am sure you are all aware of the current “buzz” coming from Google. The new Chrome OS is just about ready and the anticipation is building. Basically Google has been working up a very new way of using the computer and running applications you use every day. The idea is that now a days the average user uses the computer to get online. They basically click the power button and wait in anticipation to double click their browser and open it. Google says that why need all this extra fluff if 90% of the time, you are just looking to get online. Take a look at this video for a good overview.

I have a download link to get Chrome OS at the end of this article.

I Have Streamy Invites! UPDATED

Posted on the October 5th, 2008 under Cool Websites, Industry News, Web 2.0 by Timothy Allard

Well It happened. I logged into my Streamy Private Beta account today and it said I had invites! SO I will be giving some out to a few lucky comment posters. Let me know why you want an invite in this posts comments and I will be choosing some lucky winners to experience streamy! I only have a limited amount of Streamy Invites so act quick.

On a side note, if you are interested here is my Streamy Review.

Just an update on Streamy Invites. I have give out many thus far and have a few left. I am going through commentors who have posted and will be giving out ASAP.