Google Analytics is hard, here is some help

A nice list of Custom Reports for your Google Analytics. Find the best traffic sources for your website, find errors and more.

8 Custom Reports from the Google Analytics Solutions Gallery - Analytics Blog
New analysts have it easy these days. Back in my day, we have to walk uphill in the snow both ways to get decent enough web reporting. My first blush with web analytics came upon me when I was a marketing coordinator for an advertising agency several years ago. I got the hand-me-down grunt work ...

How to tackle Material Design

Great short article, the most important thing in it is explaining what guidelines are and that guidelines are there to help you, not to force you.

#ftl #link #materialdesign #android

Originally shared by +Matias Duarte

Awesome post by Max Weiner of Pocket - I'm so excited to see how many developers are successfully adopting Material!

How to Not Freak Out About Material Design
A sane approach to making your app Material

The oral history of the new rising star of Emoji's - Poop

Read and laugh out loud - I love especially the reference to Dr. Slump, one of my favorite anime as a kid - have to revisit it.

The Oral History Of The Poop Emoji (Or, How Google Brought Poop To America)
Everyone's favorite emoji began in Japan. But without Google, it may have stayed there.

Finally share your Keep Notes with others

I love Evernote, but not everyone does - it's big, you need an account for sharing notes etc. Google Keep is simpler and "leightweight" - or pre-installed if you are a Nexus user - so this is a no brainer for sharing simple Notes between me and my partner.

#ft #link

Originally shared by +Android

Try to share your shopping list this holiday season. We hear that’s the way it’s done at the North Pole. http://goo.gl/cymAfo

 

Crazy suburbs - as seen on Google Maps

I just come around to this with the chrome extension that shows interesting places on the new tab in Chrome. Really Really interesting - more than the classic cule de sac.

btw: the extension is called Earth view from Google Maps
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/earth-view-from-google-ma/bhloflhklmhfpedakmangadcdofhnnoh

Google Maps
Find local businesses, view maps and get driving directions in Google Maps.

"Screaming into the Canyon of Our Lives: Amazon Echo Name Review"

If you need to name something sometimes, this is a good read.

http://catchwordbranding.com/catchthis/namereview/screaming-into-the-canyon-of-our-lives-amazon-echo-name-review/

Screaming into the Canyon of Our Lives: Amazon Echo Name Review |
When was the last time you had an argument about a factual topic? Like who coached the Bulls in 1997 or why the sky is blue? The gradual advance of the Internet into every arena of our lives has made these conversations, and the knowledge itself, obsolete. But what about when your 8-year-old son ...

Visual Studio and .NET Go Cross-Platform | Visual studio content from Paul Thurrott's SuperSite for Windows

This is in my opinion huge ... especially making Visual Studio free for small teams and supporting iOS and Android Development (although only Javascript/HTML at the moment). This will give .net Developers a chance to reach out to new audiences and create applications for multiple platforms.

I think that this will expand the variety of apps and it will be great for small/medium firms you have legacy software developed in .net and couldn't afford to start over from scratch. With this move they can port their software to Linux and Mac and maybe also extend into mobile apps.

Visual Studio and .NET Go Cross-Platform | Visual studio content from Paul Thurrott's SuperSite for Windows
In a major expansion of its open source efforts, Microsoft announced today that will open up Visual Studio and .NET to developers on all major platforms. It starts with the open-sourcing of the core .NET server stack, a new free and full-featured Visual Studio edition, and preview versions of ...

Sideeffects of making Blackmagic Fusion VFX free

The newly free Blackmagic Fusion will not only give Adobe some hard times - also established VFX Artist will be faced with a lot more competition in the future.

Making this professional software free for everyone will make it a defacto standard on which most new VFX Artists will train on. Sure you could pirate the software before for training - but then you had to choose between After Effects, Fusion and others. Now you will just try out first Fusion.

This will bring down salaries for VFX artists I imagine and push them to become even better, since just knowing a tool everyone can afford to learn isn't a distinguishing factor anymore.

BTW: A quick tip if you are wondering why Blackmagic Fusion 7.5 can't import/export MP4s - you need to have installed Apple's free Quicktime Player (might seem obvious, but on my freshly installed machine it wasn't)

Blackmagic Design: Fusion

The world's most advanced visual effects and motion graphics solution! Fusion is the world's most advanced compositing software for visual effects artists, broadcast and motion graphic designers and 3D animators. With over 25 years of development, Fusion has been used on over 1000 major ...

Great Ad from Honda - go see it

But before you do one little advice - once the video runs - keep the key R pressed for some time.

#link #ft #youtube #ad #honda

Originally shared by +Jack Morgan

This is just pure genius advertising. Tap ‘R’ while watching the video.

These guys are gonna win so many awards.

HondaVideo - YouTube

From concept to reality: rebranding Google Squared - Jack Morgan

Want to see a comprehensive case study about a corporate design implementation - look no further. Well written, great examples and a great insight into how corporate design is a system that helps you build an identity and doesn't stifle creativity.

From concept to reality: rebranding Google Squared
2nd November 2014 Squared (often referred to as ‘Google Squared’) is an educational initiative developed and launched by Google London in 2012. It's catered to people working in the advertisin...

Using linked SmartObjects in combination with Layercomps in Photoshop CC | Veerle's blog 3.0

Nice overview on the technique - it also shows a rather complex example. I moved away from designing in Photoshop, but hey to everyone it's tool of choice.

Using linked SmartObjects in combination with Layercomps in Photoshop CC | Veerle's blog 3.0
Webdesign talk - XHTML CSS, Graphic Design tutorials and Inspiration

Add a File to Multiple Folders in Google Drive without CopyingThis is an awesome trick and it works great and can be very useful for logos and other files you might want to re-use and be sure that the correct version of the file is always used

Add a File to Multiple Folders in Google Drive without Copying

This is an awesome trick and it works great and can be very useful for logos and other files you might want to re-use and be sure that the correct version of the file is always used.

A couple of things I noticed:

* if you rename a file it will get renamed everywhere - so watch out.

* You cannot see in your normal file structure if the file is the original or a clone (reference). Help your future self by adding something to your filename - like "_universal" or "_xdrive"
* You can see all the instances of the file when you look at the details panel in the web version of Google Drive and eliminate single locations at will

Add the Same File to Multiple Folders in Google Drive without Copying
Did you know that Google Drive lets you place the same file or folder into multiple folders simultaneously. This prevents you from creating duplicate copies of the files in your Drive.

Interesting Thoughts about "The Grid" - a new website builder

I looked into The Grid and really have the same questions and doubts as this article. Interesting also the comments, for once pretty civil ;)

AI websites that design themselves? Why I'm skeptical of The Grid
If you haven't heard of The Grid, it's a website builder that claims to have created “AI websites that design themselves.” It's been generating big buzz- including support from Jason Fried and coverage by Wired. Curiously, The Grid hasn't launched yet and their homepage shows no demo or ...

Welcome to Donger List

A Donger is a set of unicode characters assembled to form a text emoticon. Sometimes also refered to as emojicons, emoticons, kaomoji, kawaii faces, Japanese emoticons, or text faces.

Nice and funny - I've seen those around but couldn't place them.

Welcome to Donger List - A Donger is a set of unicode characters assembled to form a text emoticon. Sometimes also refered to as emojicons, emoticons, kaomoji, kawaii faces, Japanese emoticons, or text faces.
Welcome to Donger List - Over 600+ Dongers, Emojicons, Kaomoji, Text Faces, Japanese Emoticons, and Kawaii Faces - Updated Daily - A Donger is a set of unicode characters assembled to form a text emoticon. Sometimes also refered to as emojicons, emoticons, kaomoji, kawaii faces, japanese emoticons, or text faces.

Material UI - not from Google

Here is an alternative if you want to use Material Design in a web project and not use the Polymer Framework from Google. Looks a tad complicated to setup, but you might want to give it a try.

 

Spice up the bland Apple design

Apples design choices are not top notch anymore, some might say they are a bit bland. So why not update your system font with this free package.

Input: Fonts for Code — System Font Replacement
Input is a typeface for code, designed by David Jonathan Ross and released by Font Bureau.

Walk along the Berlin lightborder Video

I walked last Saturday along this lightborder, made some great photos and fortunately someone else created this timelapse-like walkalong.

Type Genius - Find a matching font for your project

There are some books out there trying to help you find matching headline and body texts ... this online tool tries the same - it's not perfect or complete in any way, but it is a beginning.

Try it for yourself.

Type Genius
Find the perfect font combo for your next project. Abril Display, Adelle, Adobe Caslon Pro, Adobe Garamond Pro, Alternate Gothic No. 1 D, Alternate Gothic No. 2 D, Atrament Web, Bebas Neue, Brandon Grotesque, Calluna, Chaparral Pro, Chivo, Comic Serif Pro, Courier Std, DIN Condensed Web ...

That's one use of Google Maps I can see, maping out the great vine regions.

#ftl #link

Originally shared by +Google for Work

With , +Vinous provides vineyards with location data to help wine connoisseurs develop stronger connections to the birthplaces and stories behind their favorite wines. Learn more: http://goo.gl/XUfCzK

 

Material design morphing icons 2 - CodePen

I like this animations - and in spirit of material design, where transitions are a big thing it makes totally sense.

Material design morphing icons 2 - CodePen
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