The YouTube blog announced YouTube Analytics yesterday. Just as Google Analytics enables webmasters to better understand all sorts of details about their traffic, YouTube Analytics will do the same for those publishing videos. YouTube Analytics replaces Insight, the previous stats tool for YouTube videos. It can be accessed from YouTube.com/analytics where you can see the stats … [Read more...]
“Incorrect Product Key” Trying to Activate Windows XP
A client's hard drive recently died and I needed to get them up and running quickly. The computer was an older Dell computer and had been built off of the Dell pre-install. I grabbed a new hard drive, a CD that had Windows XP's Service Pack 3 slipstreamed into it, and began the install. When the install reached the point of asking for the product key, I typed in the … [Read more...]
Google Insights for Search reveal the hot Black Friday items
This time last year, I was writing about how Google Trends could tell us what to expect for Thanksgiving dinner because people were searching for things like butterball turkey, deviled eggs, green bean casserole recipe, apple pie, sweet potato casserole, turkey gravy, cranberry orange relish, candied yams, and sweet potato pie. Using Google Insights for Search, we can filter … [Read more...]
XKCD hits the Nail On The Head for Troubleshooting
A long-time problem to anybody that has tried to solve their own problems by looking online is that there are often suggested solutions but rarely confirmations. If you land on a forum where somebody was complaining about the exact same problem you're dealing with now, it's nice to have the confirmation that the same problem exists for somebody else out there as well. The … [Read more...]
Not enough memory for PHP or just a stupid script?
I recently came across an error with a theme on Drupal 7 that was complaining about insufficient memory in order for a setting change to be made. It gave the error: There is not enough memory available to PHP to change this theme's color scheme. You need at least 18.51 MB more. Check the PHP documentation for more information. … [Read more...]