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Dashalytics 3.05 Google Analytics Widget Not Working On Your Mac Dashboard?

Aug 26th

Posted by Mark in Blogging

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I’ve been using Dashalytics for a while now to track specific Google Analytics accounts from my Mac Dashboard.

The version 3.05 though started posing a few problems, Dashalytics wasn’t retrieving site information for my account and so the Mac Dashboard Widget just didn’t work.

Fixing Dashalytics Google Analytics Mac Dashboard Widget

Well it looks like there were a few little PHP issues with version 3.05 of the widget that were kindly fixed by GameBit and then improved upon by António Costa.

Just download version 3.06 of the Dashalytics Google Analytics Mac Dashboard Widget and buy the two guys mentioned above a beer for helping you More >

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A Look At Threddie: Review & First Thoughts

Aug 21st

Posted by Mark in Blogging

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Threddie.com - Brainstorming For Busy People

Well today I came across (via @smashingmag) a new productivity tool called Threddie.

Whilst calling this a fully fledged Threddie review is probably overstating it a touch, I did have a few thoughts after using it for an hour or two.

First though, for those of you looking for a quick “is it any good or not”, let me save you some reading:

It’s brilliant.

Threddie Review: What Is It?!

Allow me to quote the Threddie.com website, they say it exactly as it needs to be said:

Threddie lets you brainstorm with people using a post-and-comment system everyone’s familiar with. Just More >
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The Design Loft / DM2 Creative Proud To Be Named As Specialist Enterprise Coaches For Enterprising Barnsley

Jul 16th

Posted by Mark in Blogging

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We’re proud to announce that The Design Loft and sister company, DM2 Creative have been approved as specialist enterprise coaches for the Enterprising Barnsley business coaching project.

We’ll be supplying coaching to businesses in the following fields (broadly speaking, of course we’ll be coaching on much more than this):

  • Online marketing
  • Offline marketing
  • Web design & development
  • Search Engine Optimisation (SEO)
  • Pay Per Click
  • Email Marketing
  • Print design & production
  • Marketing strategies

It’s a fantastic opportunity for us to work with local businesses and one that we have worked very hard to achieve ,so personally I’d like to extend a big congrats and thank you to everyone in the studio.

We’ll be More >

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Merging Two Apple IDs For Use With iTunes

Jun 30th

Posted by Mark in Blogging

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Ok so whilst I was trying to solve my MobileMe POP3 problems I then realised that actually, I probably want to have my MobileMe address as the one I use for iTunes etc.

Problem is, when you try changing your (in my case) Hotmail address to your Me.com address, you  get an error saying that the Me.com Apple ID is already in use. Which it is, by you.

Now you have two Apple IDs.

So, like any good geek, I tried merging two Apple IDs for use with my iTunes library but couldn’t. I didn’t want to use two IDs as there’s More >

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Detach Widgets From Your Mac OSX Dashboard

Jun 16th

Posted by Mark in Blogging

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This is a fun little post, I use the Paymo Mac dashboard widget to track my time on client jobs, blogging and so on. I have this on my Mac Snow Leopard dashboard which is fantastic.

The only problem is that sometimes I forget to either start the timer or stop the timer when I start / finish work on a particular task. The reason for this is that the Paymo widget is on my Mac Dashboard and I just simply forget to bring the dashboard up, because it isn’t there in my face yelling at me to do it.

To aid this More >

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New Blog Theme….

Jun 15th

Posted by Mark in Blogging

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Hi all

As I hope to grow the blog into a resource for you guys, and as the readership grows, I’m constantly looking at ways of improving the way that the blog looks, feels and functions.

There will be a few new authors jumping on board soon, and to faciliate this I felt we needed a better blog design to showcase the posts that are up and coming.

The Design Loft and me personally are rather busy right now with various projects, so when looking for a new theme for our blog we turned to the fantastic WordPress themes gallery and chose the brilliant More >

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How To Setup Facebook Chat With iChat

Feb 11th

Posted by Mark in Blogging

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Further to my post on Facebook chat now working with iChat, here’s how you set Facebook up to work with iChat on your Mac…

Open up iChat and then follow these instructions from the Facebook Site Tour:

  • Go to iChat Preferences
  • Click “Accounts” and then hit +
  • Select “Jabber” from the list and then enter:Username: yourusername@chat.facebook.com Password: <your Facebook password>
  • Click the arrow next to “Server Options” and enter:Server: chat.facebook.com Port: 5522 5222 (Uncheck the box labeled “USE SSL”)

Voila! Facebook is now set up to work with iChat!

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