(Nobody will say that an orangeis an instrument, or a means to an end; but we often look upon oranges as means to ends, for example, if we wish to eat them, or, perhaps, to make our living by selling them.)
- The Open Society And It’s Enemies
Archive for 2009
Quote: Popper
Monday, December 14th, 2009Adding Reader and Analytics to Google Apps
Tuesday, October 6th, 2009
Google Apps for your domain bring you all the functionality of Gmail, Google Docs, Calendar and talk to your own domain. Which, for those of us who like Gmail et al, is a very nice thing to have.
What Google Apps doesn’t give you however, is the integrated google account that gives you access to all their other services like Google Reader and Analytics.
So after a while switching between my shiny new apps account & my plain old google account, I decided to write a little greasemonkey script to add them to Google Apps.
Basically it inserts links to Google Reader and Analytics into the top left navigation of Gmail, Google Docs & Calendar, and redirects the navigation in Google Reader to point to your Apps account rather than the ‘Google Account’ you’re using for Reader & analytics.
You can generate the script for your site by typing the domain in here and then following the link:
Alternatively you can take a look at the Source on github, or clone the repo with
git clone git://github.com/davidmiller/apps.expanded.user.git
Hope you find it useful somehow.
Love regards etc
Something’s Burning #4
Monday, October 5th, 2009
Google Website Optimizer Timesavers
Friday, September 25th, 2009As useful as Google Optimizer is, it also happens to be rather patronising, asking you the same questions over & over :
Which is great the first time you set up an experiment, but really starts to grate after a few dozen.
Thankfully, as long as you are logged in to the right account you can just bookmark your way straight to the create a new experiment page by bookmarking something along the lines of this:
https://www.google.com/analytics/siteopt/exptsetup?experiment=&account=YOUR_ACCOUNT-NUMBER_HERE
Saving you Three Precious Clicks & Two Pageloads !!!
Love Regards etc