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20
Jun 07

Google Analytics

I added google analytics to this site. It’s not because I want to see how many visitors are coming (I know, it’s not many) but because I’d like to see any searches that are leading here. The dreamhost web control panel isn’t all that exciting, and I don’t want to work too hard at getting stats.

Google analytics made it real easy to install, and I used a plugin from http://www.oratransplant.nl/uga/ to add a wordpress plugin, which just inserts the javascript at the top of every page. Now I get to see all the funky searches that people are using on the web, a little peep into peoples minds.

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12
Jun 07

Safari 3 makes my gmail slow

I downloaded the new safari beta 3 to see what it is like. I love the speed that it renders web pages, it’s definitely faster than firefox on mac. There’s still a lot missing though. The first thing I looked for was google chat in gmail, which has never been available for me in safari. It still isn’t there though, so I’ll have to keep using iChat for my gChat. The next thing I noticed was that gmail has started sputtering, taking forever to load the inbox, giving errors when trying to send mail, generally giving strange errors which I’ve never seen before.

The windows version was nice too, for speed at least. I don’t know what that funky big bar on top is like. Now it looks like an upside down imac. Big forehead browser.

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6
Jun 07

Google maps – embed a map in your page

When you get a new google map api, they give you some sample code to start with. If you want to put that code into it’s own page, with just the map, it’s easy enough. Just make a new page, paste the code in and save it. That’s what I did with my sample code. If you want to add that map to a page (like this page), you can use an iframe to do it. An iframe is just a html page embedded in another page, like a little window. So if I want to put this page:

http://nevan.net/maps/map.html

into this page

I can code it like this:

<iframe src="http://nevan.net/maps/map.html" style="width: 520px; height: 320px;"></iframe>

Here’s the result:

As a note, I gave the iframe 20 pixels more height and width to make up for margins and avoid scroll bars appearing.

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8
Feb 07

Gmail – checking mail from other accounts in gmail

Finally, gmail allows you to check other mail accounts.