Have two gmail accounts that you need to access simultanieosly? Or two different eBay accounts?
An easy way to access both at the same time, without having to log out of one and then into the other, is to simply use two different browsers. For example, you can log into Gmail account 1 using Firefox, then Gmail account 2 using Microsoft Internet Explorer, and even Gmail account 3 using Google Chrome.
Since each browser keeps track of its own cookies, you can have unique sessions on the same site (Gmail, eBay) without one inferring with the other.
Yeah, it’s incredibly simple, but very useful. Thank the browser wars!
Canon does not seem to provide a driver for the Canon Rebel XT camera that is compatible with Windows Vista 64 bit. This leaves you with the option if purchasing a compact flash reader to transfer you photos – but, not anymore.
All you need to do to get Windows Vista 64 to recognize your camera is to change one setting in your camera’s setup screen. Turn on your Canon Rebel XT, Press the ‘Menu’ button and go to the 2nd menu. Then, under ‘Communication’ change it from ‘PC Connection’ to ‘Print/PTP’. Yes, it seems counter intuitive but it works!
That’s it. Told you it was easy.
Amazing to see a plane we usually take from SFO-LHR maneuvering above clouds of smoke to battle wild fire. This 747-100 has been modified by Evergreen International to hold 20,000 gallons!
I customized a 404 page today. Just with some text to let the user know the page wasn’t there with a few links to existing content on the domain. Then, using the script below it redirects the visitor to my homepage in 2 seconds. A nice way to capture your 404 traffic I thought.
This example is setup to redirect to another page in 2 seconds. When a page contains this JavaScript, it will be redirected to another page that you specify in the “window.location=“. You can change the number of refresh seconds by changing the “move()’,2000 to the number of seconds you’d like.
Example:
1000 = 1 second
3000 = 3 seconds Place this code between the <head> and </head> tags
<script language=”JavaScript”>
var time = null
function move() {
window.location = ‘http://www.yourdomain.com’
}
//–>
</script>
Ever since I scored some great vintage camera gear the other week, I’ve been keeping my eye on the Craigsist free section in Marin for any potential finds, and today I came up lucky. It was advertised just as ‘Old Steamer Trunk’. No picture, no further description. Just a phone number, which I called within 8 minutes of the ad being posted. I was already the 2nd person to call, but they weren’t able to pick up the trunk right away. Just my luck – so off to San Rafael (just 5 miles up the road).
I bought some great (I thought) speakers at a thrift shop on Valencia in San Francisco the other day. Amidst all the usual crap Sanyo and Matsui plastic junk, I spotted some all black speakers on the bottom shelf with the B&W badge. Knowing that they make a quality speakers, I overlooked the holes in the speaker grill and the bruised corners and took them the checkout to pay my $25 finders fee.
They felt nice and heavy, and when I plugged them into my Beomaster 1900 amp, they sounded pretty good. Until I moved the balance control over to the left speaker. All mids and lows, but no highs. I removed the grill and confirmed my suspicion – the tweeter wasn’t working. I opened up the speaker and, woah, just a loose wire. The red wire wasn’t connected at all, so I connected it and waited for victory. But it didn’t come, still nothing out of the tweeter.
Interesting post about Google Analytics. Seems a 6 month cookie is used by Google, so that any visit for up to 6 months after the cookie is set, no matter where the visit is from, is attributed to Google.com search.
Comparing the stats for Toprural delivered by Google Analytics with his own 3rd-party solution, he finds that, while his own system (AT Internet’s XiTi) says 37.8% of visitors come via Google, GA says it’s 71.8%. The core of the problem, he discovers, is the good old cookie window. It turns out the default cookie window Google ascribes to visitors that arrive on a site via Google is six months. Six months!
So, every visit a user happens to make to a site for the six months after having once visited that site via Google is ascribed to the search engine. The standard window for display media is 30 days, a sixth of the length Google has opted for, while we’re typically asked to assign search cookie windows of a couple of days at most.
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