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nathan pitman.

Yay, Print ordering from Flickr! Nov 24. 050

Looks like Flickr are trialing a print ordering service, it’s US only though right now.

Google Analytics Nov 15. 056

Google Analytics, this could be the serious free competition which products like Mint and Delineate really didn’t need.

Google Analytics tells you everything you want to know about how your visitors found you and how they interact with your site.

Basically it’s like a hosted version of Urchin (Which is nice if you ever used it), you simply create a Analytics account, pop a snippet of JavaScript into your page headers and off you go.

Google Analytics delivers everything you’d expect from a high end stats solution, and it integrates with AdWords. I’m going to give it a bit of a trial run right here on nathanpitman.com to see how it shapes up.

Update: A nice write up on Google Analytics by Eric Peterson.

Phone Companies May Soon Block Skype Nov 09. 050

Phone Companies May Soon Block Skype (and other VOIP services).

Grrr, argh… hmph.

One step forward, two steps back.

Third gen Squeezebox Oct 25. 050

Slim devices have just announced the third gen Squeezebox, designed by Fred Bould the new form is just stunning. Where the 1st and 2nd gen Squeezbox’s were plastic and clunky this regains some of the poise and character which the 1st generation SliMP3 player had.

The design combines brushed aluminium, solid steel and a highly polished surface through which you can view the 320×32 pixel greyscale display. Excellent, I want one!

Mac newbie seeks Mac guru for short term relationship Jul 04. 0510

On Friday I finished up at Mirashade and today was my first day at my new place, Bite CP.

The most significant change for me is that at Bite right now I’m using a Mac, I think it’s a dual G5 with about 1.5Gb of RAM, so not bad by any stretch of the imagination. However… as a Mac ‘OSX’ newbie I could really do with some tips. I’ve already sussed the whole ‘Exposé’ thing but I really need some more tricks up my sleeve if I’m going to make passers by go ‘oooh’ and ‘aaah’ as I work my magic (hmm).

Please help me. Tell me about the great shortcuts you use everyday, the software you just cannot live without for web development, which IM and Mail clients you use and finally… is it tricky to set up an IMAP server? Hmm… maybe that’s one for another day.