I booked a flight on orbitz and noticed they have a pretty good looking ad for hotel discounts:
Say goodbye to dreary days and long nights and say hello to the hottest hotel deals on the Internet when you book by January 31, 2013. With savings of up to 50% on hotels across the country, we say let it snow, let it snow, let it snow. .
Continuing a tradition he started at his first Inauguration in 2009, President Barack Obama is calling on Americans all across the country to honor the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and participate in the National Day of Service on Saturday, Jan. 19, 2013.
The National Day of Service is the First Family’s most treasured inaugural event, but it’s not just about what can be done on one day. President Obama will be asking Americans to make an ongoing commitment to service in their communities by focusing on seven issue areas: health, faith, education, the environment, honoring our veterans and military families, community resilience, and economic development.
Hello,
Our community has grown by many millions of people since we wrote our original Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. As we announced in December, we have updated our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. These policies also now take into account the feedback we receivedfrom the Instagram Community. We’re emailing you to remind you that, as we announced last month, these updated policies will be in effect as of January 19th, 2013.
You can read our blog post that highlights some of the key updates. And remember, these updates don’t change the fact that you own your photos that you post on Instagram, and our privacy controls work just as they did before.
Thank you,
The Instagram Team
Google has just announced the new Analytics newsletter:
> This month’s Google Analytics updates include feature improvements to In-Page Analytics, mobile measurement trends, updates to Google Tag Manager and an enterprise analytics case study.
A few of the featured items:
– Track links better with in-page Analytics improvements
– Make mobile central to your strategy in 2013
– Tag your site more easily with Google Tag Manager’s built-in templates
– Learn how Gilt embraces Analytics for predictive modeling
I just saw an ad for box.com and visited their site and watched their video. They appear to be most similar to dropbox with some resemblance to sendbigfile / kicksend and also some functionality of Google Docs. From their homepage (without watching the video) I had a hard time understanding what they did. They have a cloud based service and a fairly simple API that you can use to connect with it. It seems interesting but I’m not sure it will gain enough support to be around in the long run. Hopefully they will – competition is good.
This year Google Voice offered personalized calls from Santa:
The URL that you are sent to is:
https://www.google.com/santatracker/#/village/santacall
After the season wrapped up, they have a nice graphic and a notice:
> Happy Holidays! Santa has completed his journey around the world and is taking a much deserved break. Visit us again next year!
Recently I’ve been trying to switch from TextMate to SublimeText. For the most part it is an easy transition, but there are a few things that cause me hangups. One of them is how the autocomplete works.
In Text Mate, you can use enter / return to get a new line after typing something like a CSS or LESS rule.
In SublimeText, if your CSS, LESS, SASS rule matches an auto complete snippet, pressing enter (or return) will cause that to be autocompleted.
Fortunately you can edit your `Preferences.sublime-settings` file and add the following rule to keep autocomplete on but disable enter / return from autocompleting:
“auto_complete_commit_on_tab” : false
##Step 1 – Download the Roots Theme
Download the Roots (based on Bootstrap) theme for WordPress at http://www.rootstheme.com/
##Step 2 – Unzip / Install the Roots Theme
Unzip the theme and install it in your `/wp-content/themes/` directory – the resulting path should be `/wp-content/themes/roots/`
##Step 3 – Create a Child Theme
Create another directory for your child theme in the `/wp-content/themes/` directory – perhaps something like `/wp-content/themes/my-awesome-theme/`
In that directory you will need to create a `style.css` file that should contain the following information:
/*
Theme Name: My Awesome Child Theme
Theme URI: http://www.my-awesome-child-theme.com/
Description: A child theme based on the Roots / Bootstrap wordpress theme
Template: roots
*/
Now you should be able to select this as the child theme in the theme chooser. By default everything will be the same as the parent theme. To override files, copy them to the child theme directory and then modify them.
The `functions.php` file will actually get loaded before the parent `functions.php` so you may need to do something like:
add_action( ‘after_setup_theme’, ‘my_child_theme_setup’ );
function my_child_theme_setup(){
// your code here
}
In order to have some things modify what the parent theme has set.
Google’s help for setting up Microsoft Outlook 2007 / Microsoft Outlook 2010 with G-mail and Google apps seems to be offline or at least redirecting to a non-helpful general e-mail page. Here is a repost of the page:
Outlook 2007/2010
To set up your Outlook 2007/2010 client to work with Gmail:
Amazon recently announced that they are enabling “detailled billing reports” – which is a great way to keep an eye on your AWS usage and costs. One of the wonderful things they are have enabled is a fine-tuned billing and even some projected billing.
To set this up, log in to your Amazon Web Services Console and visit the Billing / Usage Details for your account. Click on Billing (near the bottom left) and then ‘sign up’ for the detailled billing and the programmatic billing.
The reports will be saved to one of your S3 buckets – a few times per hour.
Dear AWS customer,
We are excited to announce Detailed Billing Reports, a new hourly grain view of your AWS usage and charges. This detailed report enables you to better understand your AWS Bill by providing hourly usage and cost data by product and Availability Zone. In addition, consolidated billing customers can now view unblended rates and cost. This report is particularly useful for analyzing your usage of Amazon EC2 On-demand and Reserved Instances.
To get started, visit the Billing Preferences page to sign up for Detailed Billing Reports. You will also need to sign-up for Programmatic Access, as reports are only published to your Amazon S3 bucket. AWS generates new reports based on your estimated bill multiple times per day and a final report for month end.
To learn more about Detailed Billing Reports, please visit About AWS Account Billing.
Sincerely,
The Amazon Web Services Team
