Entries from June 2007 ↓

How to create timesheets automatically with TimeSprite

This is a mini-tutorial about creating time sheets from the information automatically recorded by TimeSprite.

Once per minute TimeSprite records the title of the active window on your computer. When you view the reports, it creates groups of similar titles to make the data more manageable.

To create a timesheet, you need to create your own groups and assign the automatic groups or individual window titles to them. This is because the automatic groups are unlikely to correspond with what you actually want in your time sheet. The automatic groups are created from the recorded window titles, so they will be things like “Microsoft Word - Specifications.doc”. To create a timesheet, you need to assign these to timesheet entries.

Weekly time sheet in TimeSprite
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Google Adwords isn’t Really Pay per Click

One of the things that attracts people to Google Adwords is that it is pay-per-click. This means that advertisers only pay when somebody actually clicks on their ad. That seems straightforward enough. However, the way that the bids and cost per click are calculated mean that it is really more like pay-per-impression than pay-per-click. All those occasions when people don’t click the ad still cost you, in the form of higher bid prices for your clicks.
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