Category Archives: Software

Google Analytics ‘2.0′ – Re-design

By Bish | Published: 09/05/2007 – 23:22 | Posted in Design, News, Software, Technology, Web | Comments (0)

Jeffrey Veen over at the Google blog today announced a massive redesign of the already comprehensive Google Analytics stats package. Based on the original website statistics from Urchin software, Google’s feature set was comparable to many other commercial competitors but no-one could ever label Analytics of being the most user friendly web stats app out there. For instance checking out your search keywords of visitors to your site required a huge amount of clicks (if you could find the option on the first place).

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Thunderbird 2 Released

By Bish | Published: 20/04/2007 – 12:38 | Posted in Apple, News, Quick, Software, Technology, Windows | Comments (0)

Mozilla’s Thunderbird 2 has come out of testing and been released to the public. With an increased feature set, it will be interesting to see whether quality app has kept pace with Outlook 2007 which has had some good press recently.

Gmail Released into to the Wild (well www)

By Bish | Published: 20/02/2007 – 16:53 | Posted in News, Quick, Software, Web | Comments (0)

I missed this one, it seems Google has taken the big step of releasing Gmail to everyone without the need of an invite.

From their blog.

Gmail sign-ups are now open worldwide! No more waiting for someone to invite you—just create an account directly at www.gmail.com.

Though still in ‘beta’ I have used Gmail for a long time now with virtually no problems. If you haven’t moved your webmail across from other inferior web email apps, now is the time to do it. Gmail is quite simply excellent.

How to: Get VLC Running in Vista

By Bish | Published: 18/02/2007 – 15:40 | Posted in How To, Microsoft, Quick, Software, Windows | Comments (21)

I am not sure whether there is an issue affecting all users of (the excellent) VideoLAN on Vista but it has definitely caused me problems. After installing VLC 0.8.6a on Vista the sound appeared to be fine but no picture was displayed. It seems that this is an issue with the output module in VLC but can be easily fixed by editing the settings or preferences.

  1. Go to ‘Settings’ -> ‘Preferences’
  2. Expand the ‘Video’ option and click on ‘Output Modules’
  3. Change the ‘Video Output Module’ from the drop down list to ‘DirectX Video Output’
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How To: Move Firefox Tabs Between Windows

By Bish | Published: 11/02/2007 – 12:40 | Posted in Design, How To, Quick, Software, Web | Comments (7)

Note to self. I really should read the change logs or new feature lists for applications properly when new versions come out.

Firefox is still the best browser out there, we all know that, but some of the little features and touches that these guys add are quite simply amazing.

Everyone using Firefox 2 should know that you can drag your tabs to re-organise where they are listed from left to right which is a powerful feature in itself. From an organisational point of view though I quite often work with an Active Collab tab first, my SideJob account open next and maybe my delicious account after with whatever I am reading thereafter. Occasionally I need to move these around if I start browsing something and then get down to work which and this feature is handy and a time saver.

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