The date of RichardHong.com on 28/Nov/2005

I got the new about Google Analytics open for free register two weeks ago, so of course I registered and got an account.

After playing around with it for a bit, I found there are hell a lot of awesome functions and analytic tools. What a great contribution Google made to the web again. But due to its popularity, huge demand kind of shut it down for a while. It said ‘it’s going to take 12 hours to detect your site’s data’ but actually took me about a week I think, so I just left it with a little disappointment at that time. But today when I signed it and check it out again, some nice charts showed up in my screen. After exploring for a while, I came to a conclusion – ‘Google Analytics really rocks!’

It currently not opens for registration yet but will be soon, hopefully. Or you can leave your email there and they will notify you once it open again. Once you try it, you will know how rock it is! :)

I guess quite a lot people have more than one email accounts like I do. I had a hotmail account since 5 years ago, a university account and a few Yahoo accounts. And, of course, my Gmail as well. Sometimes it’s necessary to have several separate emails. For example, all my university emails go to my Durham account and I need to reply from that email address to prove I am a Durham student for some special emails. But it’s really a pain on the neck to check every single account one by one. I don’t really trust Outlook because too many people are using it so it became one of main targets of virus. But, Gmail can help me to send and receive all the emails by only using one account! Here are a few tips to share.

For Durham Students:
There is a Mail Filter system in ITS. You can set up a filter rule to forward all your emails to your Gmail. For me, I filter all incoming email to my Gmail and didn’t leave any copies in the durham account, because there is only poor 2M for undergraduate students and it’s totally not enough to me. After that, you can go to Gmail’s Filter option and set up a label ‘University’ to all the mails come from ‘@dur.ac.uk’. This is what I do anyway. Then, you don’t need to go to University Webmail page anymore!

When you want to send an email through Gmail but using your durham address, go to ‘Setting → Account‘ in your Gmail, and you will know what to do. After you finishing verify from durham account, it’s done! You will see the selecting box like the pic above to select the address you want to send from.

For other accounts:
There is a grogram called ‘GetMail‘ allows you to forwarding your hotmail to Gmail. I kind of tried it but you need to install it locally, and I assume that you may need to leave it on to forward mails as well. I don’t really like adding too much small little stuff in my system tray so I deleted it. There is no many important emails go to my hotmail anyway. But it’s maybe useful to some people who might need it.

To send emails from Hotmail, or Yahoo or others, refer the blue font section above. It’s straightforward.

Hope this will help!

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technorati tags: Gmail, Email, Durham

After hearing so much news and gossips about this new revolutional explorer, I am going to give it a try. This photo is written in Flocks.

Also drag a photo of Korean Food from my Flickr account to test posting photos. Em….it’s quite convenient actually. But it could be better if I can do some more advance HTML editing. See if I could put the font a bit larger, it’s always a problem of the WYSIWYG editor I am using now.

Here is the plan list of what I am going to do today, write it down here to test the listing function:

1. Finishing this post, and then prepare to go to library.
2. Do my homework and all the stuff for next week there.
3. Come back and cook dinner
4. Sleep!

OK! This is just a testing post. Thanks and sorry for reading it.

technorati tags: Flock

——- Editing @ blog ——–

Yeah! Finally managed to publish it! Thanks to Chris!

I wrote the above post this morning but had problems of publishing it. There are several options when choosing API but not one for WP. Chris told me he chose ‘Metaweblog API" and it did work.  Flock looks quite a smart explorer, but not very stable at this beta verision.

It was AJS’s (Anglo-Japanese Society) banquet last night. This year we had it in a posh in Newcastle call Newcastle Assembly rooms. But what’s more important to me is that it’s a good gathering for good friends in our department and also got to mix and talk to ‘rarely-social’ Teikyo students. My housemate Arata is currently the president of AJS and she had been planning this since the beginning of this term. Good job, Arata and all the other execs.

We have got quite a lot photos from last night. But because there were too many cameras, it’s going to take a while to get all of them. Anyway, here are a few to check out first. And there are some more from AJS banquet in 2003 as well. Compare these photos from this year and the year before, I can really see how much we have changed.

———–A bit update————
Just got an email from the society: photos from that professional photographer can be viewed here now!