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SocialHistory, Beencounter and CSS history hacking
SocialHistory, Beencounter and CSS history hacking allow you to determine whether a user has visited a particular site, but is it overstepping the privacy line if you use this for behavioural targeting?
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Are email open-rate and click-through rate better than goals?
Are open-rate and click-through the most important metrics when it comes to email marketing? Surely goals are what it's all about?
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How to create a Linux iPlayer download GUI using Zenity
Here's how I created a simple graphical utility to download TV and radio programmes from the BBC's iPlayer site using Zenity, Bash and iplayer-dl.
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- How many marketing emails are sent untracked?

- There are lots of technologies available for tracking email marketing ca...
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- Virtual pageviews versus event tracking

- It's sometimes tricky to know when to use Google Analytics' virtual page...
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- Will Google SSL search harm web analytics?

- Google has today announced the launch of a new secure search engine whic...
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- A taste of iPhone support coming in Ubuntu Lucid Lynx

- Ubuntu's Lucid Lynx release, which comes out later this month, is due to...
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- Create an encrypted USB drive for Ubuntu Linux

- Protect the sensitive data on your USB key from prying eyes by encryptin...
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- How to fix the Android AVD no target problem

- If you're getting started with the Android SDK and encounter an error me...
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- First impressions of Ubuntu's new look

- It was only announced a couple of days ago, and it's clearly a work in p...
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- How to move Ubuntu Lucid's 10.04 Gnome buttons to the right

- Ubuntu 10.04 users were pleased to see Canonical's efforts to give Ubunt...
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Recent comments
iplayer-dl is a Ruby application, which will run most easily on Linux or Mac (hence the Mac scree...
TechPad: 18:18 PM Aug 22nd, 2010
I don't understand how to use this. I have vista and firefox. Do I need to copy the iplayer int...
mufc1977: 15:15 PM Aug 21st, 2010
No worries, glad you got the buttons back in their rightful place!
TechPad: 13:13 PM Aug 12th, 2010
Disregard my previous comment: The FIRST time I tried it, it definitely didn't work. After addi...
freshrich: 1:01 AM Aug 10th, 2010
Great tutorial, but it doesn't work with Ubuntu Lucid. The only way I could get it to work was b...
freshrich: 1:01 AM Aug 10th, 2010