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Archive Google Apps Email to Google Drive

Loren Nason — Wed, 15 May 2013 02:41:17 +0000

A client whom I setup on Google Apps asked for an easy way to export emails from Google Apps to Google Drive to then be able to save to DVD/CD/etc.

This can be done easily by just choosing the “save to Google drive” when printing the email. This works great for 1 or 2 emails but isn’t efficient for hundreds of emails.

So off to the interwebs to search for a solutions (using Google search of course)

I found a solution:

Marcello Scacchetti wrote this tutorial and Google Script using Google Docs to do what the client needed to be done.
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/buster/viral-video/actors-star-in-tonight-show-viral-video-6758492

I followed Marcello’s directions and it worked. His script was missing a few requirements for my client so I modified the script to add into the PDF ’date’, ‘ time’, ‘to:’, ‘from:’. My modifications work but the resulting PDF isn’t pretty and it’s still a work in progress.

How to use my script (directions similar to his directions)

Step1:

Open link to my Google Doc Script – Archive Email to Google Drive – mod by Your Local Tech

Step 2:

Click menu item called “Gmail Archiver” and select “Initialize”. You should see an authorization request like the following:

Press “OK” button to authorize and follow the authorization process.

Step 3:

Now click again on ”Gmail Archiver” menu and select “Initialize”. You should see now a confirmation box about the successful initialization of the script.

Step 4:

Now go to Email and add the label “Archive to Drive” to each message you want to archive:

Step 5:

Go back to the spreadsheet document and click on ”Gmail Archiver” menu and select “Archive Gmail Messages”. After some seconds you should see a message like:

Step 6:

Go to Google Drive and inside folder “Email Archive” and you should see a new folder representing the exported email message. The script creates a folder for each message and any attachments.

Bingo

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Own your Instagrams with Pressgram

Loren Nason — Wed, 10 Apr 2013 23:37:25 +0000

Instagram is the super duper for all you mobile photo junkies. It has all those fancy hipster filters and publishes and stuff. I’ve never used it.

I’ve been asked at times how to get Instagram to post to your WordPress blog. There are lot’s of “solutions” to coble it together.

There is a new solution at KickStarter that needs your help.

Pressgram

What is it?
This is an app for iOS that will basically send pictures with fancy filters to your WordPress powered site.

Is it Free?
Yes, you are helping an entrepreneur build it and be part of the community that supports it.

Android or Windows?
Maybe but not at this time.

Why?
Because it’s cool and it is better to own your photos than Facebook owning them.

What do you get if you support it?
Kudos, stickers and more

My friend Chris Lema (who is awesome) will give you even more if you kick in some change

If you support the project for $50-100, Chris Lema will give you a copy of my 2 eBooks plus the one I’m writing right now.
If you support the project for $101-1,000, Chris Lema will give you a free 1-2 hour skype consulting call. (check out what others say about Chris Lema )
If you support the project for $1,001-3,000, Chris Lema will help you or your team with a project (web site, PowerPoint presentation, getting virtual teams right, etc)

What will I give you if you kick in?

I will match Chris’ second offer.
If you kick in between $101-1,000, I will give you a free 1-2 hour consulting call (skype or cell)

You have 4 days (April 15th 12:08am EDT)

Kick in here:
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/tentblogger/pressgram-an-image-sharing-app-built-for-an-indepe

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Mail Merge with Gmail or Google Apps and Google Docs

Loren Nason — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 20:01:07 +0000

This great, anyone miss doing mail merge should watch this video on how to do it with Gmail and/or Google Apps.

You can use Hotmail and Yahoo as well.

This is awesome

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Automatic Featured Images from Video

Loren Nason — Tue, 01 Jan 2013 01:23:15 +0000

Do you make video posts w/o much text and no images? This plugin will help you keep your home page looking the way you want with featured images by importing image thumbs from embedded videos.

In my previous post I shared a youtube video from my Nexus 7. But then I remember I didn’t have the video thumb plugin turned on. So I installed it and then edited the post to pull in a thumbnail.

You can see that once it imports a thumbnail it will auto set it as the featured image.

Here is the plugin:

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/video-thumbnails/

This plugin should work for most themes, but your results could vary.

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How to Make Phone Calls from Your Google Nexus 7 Tablet

Loren Nason — Mon, 31 Dec 2012 00:25:19 +0000

I got a Google Nexus 7 tablet for Christmas. This video showed me how to turn it into a phone. Awesome This post also published directly from the Nexus.

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Google Docs vs Zoho vs Microsoft Word

Loren Nason — Thu, 27 Dec 2012 04:27:41 +0000

Found this good comparison from a professional writer on his experiences with Google Docs and Microsoft Word. It is a good read if you are looking for alternatives to Microsoft Office Products.

Personally for me I love my Google Apps email, but I still use Microsoft Office products. I just don’t use Outlook.

Read it:

http://slashdot.org/topic/cloud/google-docs-vs-microsoft-word-an-even-matchup/

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Press This bookmarklet not working?

Loren Nason — Thu, 01 Nov 2012 22:32:05 +0000

Is or has your “Press This” bookmarklet stopped working for your website. A friend was having this specific issue today. Read on to see what we found.

Problem:

404 error when using “Press This”

Cause:

extra characters inserted into Press This bookmark (see example below)
specifically some of the equals (=) characters were replaced with %3D and that caused the link to break

[php]
javascript:var%20d%3Ddocument,w%3Dwindow,e%3Dw.getSelection,k%3Dd.getSelection,x%3Dd.selection,s%3D(e%3Fe():
(k)%3Fk():(x%3Fx.createRange().text:0)),f%3D%27http://domain.com/wp-admin/press-this.php%27,l%3Dd.location,e%3DencodeURIComponent,u%3Df%2B%27%3Fu%3D%27%2Be
(l.href)%2B%27%26t%3D%27%2Be(d.title)%2B%27%26s%3D%27%2Be(s)%2B%27%26v%3D4%27%3Ba%3Dfunction()%7Bif(!w.open(u,%27t%27,%27toolbar%3D0,resizable%3D1,
scrollbars%3D1,status%3D1,width%3D720,height%3D570%27))l.href%3Du%3B%7D%3Bif%20(/Firefox/.test(navigator.userAgent))%20setTimeout(a,%200)%3B%20else%20a()%3Bvoid(0)
[/php]

Solution:

Copy Press This code from working site and then replace domain (see example below)

[php]
javascript:var%20d=document,w=window,e=w.getSelection,k=d.getSelection,x=d.selection,s=(e?e():(k)?k():
(x?x.createRange().text:0)),f=’http://www.yourlocaltech.com/wp-admin/press-
this.php’,l=d.location,e=encodeURIComponent,u=f+’?u=’+e(l.href)+’&t=’+e(d.title)+’&s=’+e(s)+’&v=4′;a=function()
{if(!w.open(u,’t',’toolbar=0,resizable=1,scrollbars=1,status=1,width=720,height=570′))
l.href=u;};if%20(/Firefox/.test(navigator.userAgent))%20setTimeout(a,%200);%20else%20a();void(0)
[/php]

Actual Cause of bad Press This code?

Unknown at this time. Solution was just to fix bookmarklet and move on than spending countless hours to find why the bookmarklets were borked.

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Pin It – A free Genesis child theme

Loren Nason — Fri, 26 Oct 2012 04:53:52 +0000

I saw tweet go by from Brian Gardner of a Genesis child theme he was working on called Pin This. It looked interesting so bookmarked it for later.

Everyone is so enamored about Pinterest but really I think all the work you put into social notworking you should at least put some of that effort into your own site. It got me thinking more about about that Pin This theme.I tried finding if Brian had released/finished (it wasn’t). After finding it un-released I decided to copy and re-create it myself with some added features and then make it complete.

What I added:

Responsive Design
3 new widget areas
- A slide down CTA area
- 2 widget areas in the content
Necessary functions and script to make it work really cool

The awesome thing about this theme (at least I think so) is when you are looking at the home page there are 2 alternating widget areas that appear in between the posts.

When I thought of putting the widget area in I got close with 1 widget, but I go stuck on getting 2 widget areas to alternate on post count. So I jump on the fabulous OC WordPress Facebook Group and asked for help. Dave Jesch jumped into the rescue and created 2 functions for the theme to make the magic of 2 alternating posts work. Dave’s skills are awesome. I’ve hired him for other projects, on this project Dave donated his time and effort.

Pin It Child Theme for Genesis

DEMO

What are you waiting for?
Download it now!
Be sure to tell me where you put it so i can check it out

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Import/Export Outlook 2007/2010 Categories

Loren Nason — Tue, 11 Sep 2012 10:57:49 +0000

Have you migrated Outlook to a new computer? Are you missing your categories? I have found a simple solution.

Recently I was migrating a clients email from their in-house Exchange Server and Outlook to using Office 365 Hosted Exchange and Outlook.

During the migration I needed to create a new profile in Outlook to connect to Office 365. The problem is the categories didn’t transfer. Client was disappointed because he had over 100 custom categories.

Solution Found:

Transfer Master Outlook Categories. It’s a spreadsheet that has custom programming (VBA) in it. What you do if open the spreadsheet on the exporting profile or computer. Then tell the spreadsheet to ‘read’ the categories.

After that you save spreadsheet and move to new computer or open new outlook profile and tell the spreadsheet to write the categories to Outlook.

Done. Easy Peasy

This tool found here http://klemid.de/tools.aspx

Or download zip here

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A cheaper cloud backup solution?

Loren Nason — Mon, 10 Sep 2012 00:11:30 +0000

Late August 2012 Amazon announced their new storage offering called Glacier (link). With Amazon Glacier you can get storage for as low as $0.01 per gig. Depending on the data center you choose it might a tad higher, Tokyo is $0.012 per gig.

Their are tons of backup solutions out there. Mozy and Carbonite are two I can think of. I have used them both. Mozy used to be unlimited space for 1 price. I believe Carbonite still is unlimited space for one computer.

The unlimited space pricing for Mozy and Carbonite go out the window for office environments and if you have a server you automatically have to pay more (not a bad thing, just more features for businesses)

But what if you are tired of the pricing from Mozy and Carbonite and want to reduce your monthly outlay? Or you have multiple computers and don’t want 3 subscriptions to mozy/carbonite

Now is the time to try Cloudberry Lab Backup for Desktop software and Amazon Glacier. You can backup 1 desktop for $30 in software and then backup 1tb of data for approx $120 per year. Your first year cost will be $150 but after that the software is paid for. I’m unsure if you have to buy a license for each computer to backup.

If you have a server then Cloudberry Backup for Servers is $80.

How is this different that other solutions?

The big difference is Amazon Glacier. It’s more of an archive type of backup than it is an easily accessed backup. With Mozy/Carbnoite/Dropbox/Sugarsync solutions you have immediate access to restoring files. Glacier is designed with the expectation that retrievals are infrequent and unusual, and data will be stored for extended periods of time. You can retrieve up to 5% of your average monthly storage (pro-rated daily) for free each month. If you choose to retrieve more than this amount of data in a month, you are charged a retrieval fee starting at $0.012 per gigabyte. Learn more. In addition, there is a pro-rated charge of $0.036 per gigabyte for items deleted prior to 90 days.

Is this solution for everyone?

No.

Glacier type of solutions are really meant for those who understand backup archives and what it really is for. Backing up data you only need in an emergency, not quickly.

I’m going to use this in combination with Sugar Sync. I have a main computer in the house with a 2tb hard drive that everyone uses to store important data. It will be backed up to Glacier. All other important immediate use files stay in normal file system and synced with Sugar Sync.

Small business example:

An accountant client has a Windows 2008 Small Business Server. All his data from the server will be archived to Glacier. But the data he needs quick retrieval if needed is on DropBox.

His costs will be $80 for software and monthly costs approx $1.20 (1 dollar and 20 cents)

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