Google analytics is getting more and more used these days for measuring and getting statistics on all kinds of websites. But I estimate that only half of the people who uses it, know the full range of functionality that is available within Google Analytics.
Features like:
- conversion measurement
- e-commerce
- outbound link tracking
- ….
For those who want to learn to use it properly, please have look at the SlideShare presentation from the people from Queromedia
Special thanks for Joris Roebben and Tom Michiels from Queromedia, for putting together the presentation and being kind enough to share this with us.
In a previous post (Calendar Sync tools (Google, Outlook, Rainlendar) I mentioned that I was looking for a good tool to sync my Google calendar with Outlook.
I only seemed to find paying software but today Google itself launched a free sync tool
Really easy to install and configure. You can choose 1 way or 2 way sync. This is makes the sync process between Google calendar and Outlook child play.
I was in serious need off a way to manage my tasks and agenda.
I found a really nice solution by using the following free tools:
Rainlendar :: http://www.rainlendar.net/
Google Calendar :: http://calendar.google.com
Gcal Daemon :: http://gcaldaemon.sourceforge.net/
I started using Rainlendar (http://www.rainlendar.net/).It’s a desktop calendar that behaves like a small widget on your desktop. And it looks not only really nice, it also is really good software for managing events and todo’s. I even bought the PRO license because it provides the functionality to automatically read my outlook agenda and make them visible in Rainlendar. So no double importing.
Because I have a work laptop and a personal PC, I needed something to sync all my events online so that’s easy to manage. I noticed that Rainlendar supports google Calendar, so that was the way to go. And through google Calendar it’s possible to seperate my personal and work calendar because we can make as many calendars as we wont. And google calendar provides the possibility to share your calendar. So I had my desktop calender and I had an online calendar all in sync. But I noticed really quick that Rainlendar only allowed read access to google Calendar. So I needed a 2-way sync solution between Google Calendar and Rainlendar.
After some playing around I ended up with GCal Daemon (http://gcaldaemon.sourceforge.net/). This is an open source service which provides multiple functionality. GCALDaemon is primarily designed as a calendar synchronizer but it can also be used as a
Gmail notifier, Address Book importer, Gmail terminal and RSS feed converter. This tool runs like a service which every XX minutes syncs in a 2-way manner a specific online gcalendar to an iCal format (ICS file). The only thing I next needed to do was just set my Rainlendar to use the created ICS files and my desktop and online calendars were completely in sync. I can create an event online that will appear on my desktop and vice versa. PERFECT!!!
The only things i’m currently missing is:
a tool to make my Outlook agenda sync with google Calendar
a symilar manner to sync my Rainlendar todo’s with an online tool like Remember The Milk or if only google Calendar would provide an online todo functionality.
If anybody has found a way to sync his Rainlendar todo or export his Outlook Agendo to an RSS or iCal format, please let me know.
UPDATE: I found a really good Outlook <–> Google Calendar tool. SyncMyCal adds a toolbar to your Outlook which helps you perform one-click synchronization between your Outlook and Google Calendar calendaring system. You can choose which calendars you want to synchronize and if you want to perform one way or two way update.
Google analytics is getting more and more used these days for measuring and getting statistics on all kinds of websites. But I estimate that only half of the people who uses it, know the full range of functionality that is available within Google Analytics.
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