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How to Automatically Import YouTube and Vimeo Viewer Statistics into Google Docs Spreadsheets

April 19, 2012 By Stephen 5 Comments

How to Automatically Import YouTube and Vimeo Viewer Statistics into Google Docs Spreadsheets

It isn’t easy automatically and correctly to grab statistics from many sites, but both YouTube and Vimeo expose this data. The challenge is in correctly parsing and formatting this data for use. Here’s how I do it, and I hope that this helps you with your video statistics collection!

Google Broke Public Calendar Sharing For Apps Users – Here’s How To Fix It

December 1, 2011 By Stephen 7 Comments

Google Broke Public Calendar Sharing For Apps Users –  Here’s How To Fix It

Sometime on November 30, Google broke public calendar sharing for apps users. This means that any calendars previously shared with the world (like, for example, my IT events calendar) are no longer visible. As is typical for Google, the change was made quietly and it was not immediately obvious how to fix it. But here’s what you should do if your calendar is no longer public.

Cool Google Spreadsheet XML/XPath Mojo

July 2, 2010 By Stephen 8 Comments

Google Spreadsheet sure isn’t as responsive for a power user like me, but I love the ability to share information with others and cooperatively edit a workbook. It’s become our main tool for planning the Gestalt IT Tech Field Day events. I was thrilled to discover that Google’s spreadsheet supports the importXML tag, which allows it to automatically gather information from other web sites. Let’s take a look at how it works!

How To Enable ActiveSync For Google Apps Accounts

June 22, 2010 By Stephen Leave a Comment

How To Enable ActiveSync For Google Apps Accounts

Here’s a quick tip, but a timely one now that the iPhone supports multiple Exchange ActiveSync servers: Although Google supports the Exchange ActiveSync protocol to synchronize mail, contacts, and calendars between Gmail and mobile devices, it is not active by default for custom Google Apps domains. It’s pretty easy to enable it, though.

How To Keep Your Family Activities In Sync With A Shared Google Calendar

April 18, 2010 By Stephen 7 Comments

How To Keep Your Family Activities In Sync With A Shared Google Calendar

Smartphones, computers, and iPads are proliferating in families today. Although my three kids do not (yet) have their own mobile phones, we still have quite a few devices with calendar functions: An iPhone each for me, my wife, and our au pair along with an iPad and a few computers. Using Google Calendar, we have set up an awesome shared calendar to keep all of our activities in sync. Read on for instructions!

Google Is Heading For A Cliff; What Will They Do?

May 22, 2009 By Stephen 3 Comments

Google is the most important company to the Internet. Hyberbole? I think not! Without Google, the Internet that we all know and love would be a very different place, as would the business of IT. Along with Microsoft and the supporting community around LAMP, Google is the very foundation of modern computing. But the foundation of Google itself, its ability to rank Internet content and present relevant information to its users, is at risk. What will they do to fix it?

Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.

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