How to Change Gmail’s New Mail Sound!

Wednesday, January 6th, 2010

Change new mail sound for Gmail Notifier! – If you are using Gmail Notifier and you’re sick of the “new mail” sound, here is how you do it! Change it to something more fun! I changed mine a while a go to a lady that says “You have new mail!”, but she kind of annoys me now! Time to change! Also, if you feel that the “new mail” sound get you stressed, you should change it!

How to Find a New Mail Sound

You should be looking for .wav files. There are tons to choose from out there, anything from South Park “You’ve got mail you bastards!” and plain “ding”-sounds to Austin Powers “You got mail baby!“. For example, check out ILoveWavs and TheSoundArchive.

When you have found a sound that you like, download it and then place the sound file in C:/WINDOWS/Media where Windows other .wav files are stored. If you save it some place else, you might delete it by accident later on and then you will get an error!

How to Change New Mail Sound for Gmail Notifier

- This will also work for other mail programs that uses Windows New Mail Notification, like Outlook!

• Click Start and select Control Panel.
• Click on Sounds and Audio Devices and choose the tab called Sounds.
• Mark New Mail Notification in the list and then choose your sound in the list next to the Browse button.
  - If you saved your .wav file some where else, you have to click Browse and find it.
  - To disable the mail notification sound, choose (none) in the list instead.
• Click OK and you’re done!

How to track your Blogger statistics with Google

Tuesday, May 29th, 2007

Google owns Blogger (Blogspot), everyone knows that. But we all Blogger bloggers miss the statistics module that for example WordPress.com blogs already have. Since they’re in the same family I think it would be a good idea to implement Google Analytics with Blogger. But you never know, it might show in the future.

However, if you want to track your visitors on your Blogger/Blogspot without putting up a linkback-image to the tracking-service on your blog (that’s so 90′s!) then Google Analytics is the tool for you.

Since everyone doesn’t know how to do it, here is a little short tutorial for the newbies:

Track your Blogger (Blogspot) statistics with Google Analytics

How to set it up

• Go to Google Analytics to sign up or log in.
• When logged in, choose to create a new account (click on the menu next to “My Analytics Accounts” at the top right of the page and choose “Create a new account”) and follow the steps. When you get to “Tracking Code“, open up a new window/tab and log in to your Blogger account.
• When logged in you will see your Dashboard, click “Design” under the name of your blog and you will arrive to Page Elements.
• Then choose “Edit HTML” in the horizontal menu.
• Take a look in the textbox and find the </head> tag.
• Now you have to copy and paste the code from Google Analytics right BEFORE the </head> tag, then click  “Save Template“.
• Then click “Save and Finish” at the bottom of  the Google Analytics page and you’re done!

To check your Blogger statistics, you just have to click on your account on the first page of Google Analytics. If it says “Tracking Unknown” in the status column, even after 24h (you have to wait a day until it starts tracking), you have done something wrong.

Also, you might want to get your blog “Google verified” (How to add and verify a site on Google) so your blog gets crawled – your chances to show up on search results increases. Here is a tutorial for you WordPress.com users.

(Latest update of this tutorial: August 1st, 2010)