Lion

So far I've not noticed anything huge to write home about apart from the cognitive dissonance of reverse scrolling. So far most applications have just worked, although I have had the following:

  1. Drobo required a firmware upgrade for Lion to be able to use the time machine partition
  2. I can't talk to assembla's git repositories anymore - Richard had the same issue with github and has a fix I shall try.
  3. The Lion upgrade appears to have removed my Sublime Text commandline symbloic link, which is annoying.

Finally, one very cool thing I've not had a chance to play with is the Network Link Conditioner, which looks like a jazzed up version of Sloppy.

 

Getting Adwords & google Forms to play nicely.

I recently set up a simple google Form as a survey to validate an idea I've been playing with and ran into an issue. I wanted to drive traffic to the survey using google adwords, but adwords wont let you link to a google.com URL. Nor will they let you mask the URL with a CNAME. 

What to do?

I set up a one page site using google sites ( survey.jonoabroad.com ) and embedded the form in the page. This gives the added bonus of google analytics to track how many people are viewing the form Vs completing it. 

If there is a simplier way to achieve the same thing, I'd love to know.