Most Recent Articles by Travis

The Google Apps Transition – Google Analytics

As this series in moving from a personal Google Account to a transitioned Google Apps Account, we’re focusing on the process of transferring ownership on certain Google services. This time around, Google Analytics takes the spotlight.

Burg, a simple and clean graphical boot loader for Linux

One of my biggest complaints about Ubuntu (and other Linux-based operating systems) is the unnecessary cluttering of the boot menu. It appears someone else was a little fed up with it too and created a new and simple graphical boot loader for Linux called Burg. Burg takes all that text-based boringness and replaces it with [...]

The Google Apps Transition – Blogger

Blogger is the first in a series of Google services that involves dealing with account permissions and ownership. Many Google services allow you to assign access to your data to other Google accounts. We are going to take advantage of this feature to “migrate” our data from our old Google Account to our transitioned Google [...]

The Google Apps Transition – Google Voice

One Google service that I just can’t live without is Google Voice. Voice gives you one phone number that can ring all your phones, gives you free text messaging, can transcribe your voicemails, and much more. And now with its integration with Gmail, it’s usefulness just got that much better. But with the Google Apps [...]

The Google Apps Transition – Picasa Web Albums

As noted in the first of this series, moving from a regular Google Account to a Google Apps Account is no easy feat. One of the more difficult services to migrate is Picasa Web Albums. There’s no simple export / import method nor changing of the account’s ownership. We we’re going to need to get [...]

The Google Apps Transition – Introduction

For those that don’t know, I rather much enjoy Google and the services they provide. Gmail revolutionized the way we use email. Voice gave everyone the One Phone Number To Rule Them All. And YouTube has made stars out of regular people. One service that I’ve always championed is Google Apps for Your Domain (better [...]

Set Chrome to Run Flash and Other Plug-Ins On-Demand Only [Lifehacker]

If you’d like to keep a tighter reign on Flash, Silverlight, Java, and other plug-ins, the latest Dev and Canary Build versions of Chrome allow you to set your plug-ins to “Click to play” and almost never see auto-loading web content again. from Set Chrome to Run Flash and Other Plug-Ins On-Demand Only [Chrome]. on Lifehacker As [...]