Let’s say we have a budget for this quarter for $5,000. We start an AdWords campaign and launch it on December 8th. We can go into our graphs and mark this. “5k AdWords”. It doesn’t end here. You could label things as: “got story on digg”, “picked up by fark”, “city posters”, “twitter promotion started” the list goes on.

How can you add an annotation? It’s simple. Any place that shows an “over-time” graph in Google Analytics, allows you to add one. simply click the little tabbed arrow below the chart and fill in your note. Annotations can be public (visible to anyone who has access to this data) or private (only available to your user account who has access to the data).

Here is a video explaining it in further detail.

This is a really simple but powerful feature added to Google Analytics and everyone can start using it today. There will be no more guessing as to why there was a huge increase, or decrease in web traffic. Are you using GA Annotations? If so let me know how you like it.

Luckily this problem is a quick fix, but can be annoying or may leave people stuck for a while. First, plug in your drive and right click on “my computer” and click “manage”. Under storage click “disk management”. You should see your USB drive on the list. Find your appropriate drive and click format.

You will now be able to use the drive like you could before.

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• Download Chrome OS Torrent
• Download IMG Extractor
• Format USB Drive
• Copy To USB Drive
• Change Boot Order
• Boot In Chrome

Right now, there are two options to get Chrome OS on your netbook. the first option is to download VMWare and run it as a virtual machine through Windows 7, Vista, or XP. This option tends to be slow, kind of annoying and everything has to be done through a window. The other option is to put it on a USB stick and boot up from the drive. I chose the last option, the USB stick and this is how i got Chrome OS on my netbook.

First what you need to do is download the Chrome OS developer torrent, which is about 300mbs. Once downloaded, unzip the file, and you will be left with an image file (img). This image file contains the goods. Next we need to download a special IMG extractor which will automatically copy it to the USB drive. Next, get your USB stick and format it to NTFS. First make sure you back up everything on the drive if there is anything on it. You can format the drive by going to “My Computer”, find the drive, right click and click “format”. This should bring up a dialog where you can name the drive, and then check off quick format. Once that is done click format. The process should only take about 1 minute depending on what was on the USB previously.

Now we are ready, just to confirm, we have our IMG file, the IMG extractor and we also have our freshly formatted USB drive.

Pop in the USB drive and open up the IMG extractor. We need to do two things now - browse to the img file and also determine what drive letter the USB drive is, and use the dropdown to set it. This way the extractor will know where to place the files. If you do not know what drive letter the USB stick is you can go to “My Computer” and it will say it there.

Once you browsed to the IMG file, and the drive letter is changed, click “extract”. This should take a minute or two.

Once complete you now will have a fresh copy of Chromium OS on your USB drive! Now all you have to do is one last step and you will be on your way to booting in Chrome.

Restart your computer and get into the BIOS. Don’t be scared, we just need to make one quick change to the boot startup. Depending on your type of computer, it may vary, but mine was F2. Press F2 over and over again, before the Windows logo screen appears. A DOS looking screen should appear and unsing the arrow keys navigate to “boot”. This screen has a list of boot options and the order they should run. Make sure you have the USB stick as number one. This means it will look for the USB stick first, then check to see if an operation system is installed on a hardrive. Save and exit.

Your computer should now restart and a blue Chromium OS should appear with two fields, for a username and password. Make sure you have a plugged ethernet connection as wireless is not currently enabled.

But that is it! Let me know your thoughts, how your experience was. How you feel about this and more!
I will be following up with a “Hands On View” post shortly.

Thanks to hexxeh for allowing all of this to happen.

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

Something To Get Used To
Not gonna lie,..I am liking the new Chrome OS from what I have seen, and cant wait to install it tonight on my Netbook…but the whole idea of a file-less computer with only a web browser + some tools kinda is limiting. Basically they are stripping down an OS, which is OK, but why take options away from the user.

Now when I say “Will you be making the switch?” I mean that very loosely. I know, that for me, I would never be able to make that jump just yet. I deal with hundreds and hundreds, if not thousands of physical computer files a day. Now, if I were to use Chrome OS, I would not be able to manage them appropriately and even store them locally, only in the cloud. hmm, not going to roll with me just yet. Google says you can still listen to all your music, watch videos, and do everything else you can already do online, yes that is cool but I feel very limited. So, what does that tell me? It means I will be installing Chrome OS but not as my primary OS, and I do not believe thats what Google is intending to do just yet. It makes perfect sense for a Netbook, or someone who only wants to do simple things they do every day. Read email, browse the web, watch videos etc.

Applications:
Not only that - applications. There are some web applications, but no locally installed physical applications. That means no Photoshop - not gonna work, no Dreamweaver - not gonna work, No Final Cut Pro - not gonna work.. and the list goes on. But that does not mean it will be like this for ever. The world we live in today is constantly changing from a technological aspect. So what we have today is def. not what we will have tomorrow. For instance there are online web versions of these applications popping up here and there. I have used Aviary once and a while for online image editing, but nothing hardcore. My good friend Bryan, introduced me to Pixlr, which I the closest I have seen to an online version of Photoshop.

The Future Of Applications
It is really exciting to see local versions of applications now being used as online tools. But one thing scares me. So instead of purchasing a local hard copy and installing it on your machine, I am scared a lot of these software companies, Adobe for one, will start to charge a monthly subscription to use the software. Opposed to a one time purchase fee since it is an online tool. Scary stuff, but just throwing it out there.

Limitations:
Ok so since everything on Chrome OS is “Stateless” meaning, there is no physical version of that file, only in the cloud” what would happen if you lose internet connectivity? That means everything you could already do on your limited machine, is now rendered with a “no connection found” page. Not going to roll with me.

My thoughts
I am the type of person who embraces change and love this so far, even though it looks as though I highly dislike what I am seeing thus far, but that is not true. I am just very comfortable with the way I operate, that introducing a new way of doing things that is completely different, is itching me like some poison ivy.
So that being said, I will be installing it tonight and will give a run down on my thoughts.

Other Videos
Here are some other videos where you can learn more about Google Chrome OS.

Please let me know your thoughts. Will you be testing this out? Playing, installing, using? If so let me know how it works out.

You can download Chrome OS here: Download Chrome OS

Think of an equasion - It is made up of brackets, curlies and parenthesis. So is this bookshelf. Not only that, but like equations, depending on what brace is something is contained in, there shows more importance. Here is what the official description says:

‘Equation Bookshelf’ is a simple idea of to divide things in priority order… put together the books that you need immediately or more important between (parentheses)! Set others between [square brackets] and {braces}.

Maybe today a beautiful flowerpot will be the most important thing! Tomorrow a portrait of a girlfriend and so on… A different and funny way to organize your objects!

Not only is the concept unbelievable, but it is beautiful designed to have a contemporary feel of awesomeness.

I wish this was real. Do you?