Google Analytics displays Image Search as “Refering Sites”, not “Search Engine”. Since I have quite some traffic coming from Image Search I really wanted to know what keywords people were using. Internet Marketing Insight has a great solution that will do exactly that. (I never got other solutions that did the URL rewriting in Javascript to work…)

But you can make this script even more useful by adding country-specific referers (like “images.google.com”, “images.google.de”, etc.). Just add the individual hosts with the specific TLD to the Analytics script:

pageTracker._addOrganic("images.google.com", "prev");
pageTracker._addOrganic("images.google.de", "prev");
pageTracker._addOrganic("images.google", "prev");


This will display the specific TLDs individually in Analytics and catch all the rest under “images.google”.

Apple only “allows” certain (rather ugly) colors to be set as a solid background color on OS X. I don’t even want to go into how utterly stupid I think this is…

Ok, here’s how you can easily set an arbitrary color on OS X.

1. Save this 1×1 transparent PNG to your “Pictures” directory.
2. Open the “Desktop & Screensavers” preferences pane in the “System Preferences”.
3. Select “Folders / Pictures”
4. Select the trans.png (might not be visible, but the image square is in the directory listing to the right)
5. You might have to select “Center”
6. Now you should see a color selector which lets you set your color.

Here’s how the preference pane should look like: