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Migrate from KissMetrics to Customer.io

Limetree, like a lot of companies out there, relied on KissMetrics to get insights on users. We tracked lots of events and tried to make sense of them.

With all this data there was still one flaw. We could easily segment customers and create useful charts, but we could not reach them. KissMetrics did not help here; the data was fairly closed and there was no API available.

I wanted to email customers who had used the service for a few weeks and then stopped. Or those who only sent pictures but no videos. I wanted to tell them that video was an important part of the product.

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Sync Gmail Contacts and Google Calendar with Outlook

There are many tutorials out there but they are all too complicated or/and give you paid, complicated tools to do the job.

Both tools on this post are free, will sit on your tray and won’t bother you, while maintaining your contacts and calendar synced. I’m gonna show you the easiest way to do it.

Google Calendar Sync

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Download page: https://web.archive.org/web/20090522185324/https://www.google.com/support/calendar/bin/answer.py?answer=89955 (Direct link to download)

Installation

  1. Read through the Google Calendar Sync Terms of Service, and click **I Agree**.
  2. Follow through the Installation Options and click **Install** to finish the set-up process.
  3. Once Google Calendar Sync is installed on your computer, the Google Calendar Sync Settings window will appear:

Just enter your email/password and click Save. If you don’t want to sync back to Google Calendar choose “1 way: Google Calendar to Microsoft Outlook”

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Beginners' Guide

This area is intended for everyone new to PHP. It opens with a series of informal, entertaining tutorials written by Vikram Vaswani, founder and CEO of Melonfire. These tutorials build on a previously-published 5-part series which has now been updated and extended to embrace PHP 5, making parts of it suitable for those of you who already have worked with PHP 4 in the past.

If you came here to learn about elementary PHP 4 or basic PHP 5, this is for you. Enjoy!

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