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H: Can't type into Facebook's JavaScript Test Console I can't figure out how to use http://developers.facebook.com/tools/console/ Am I supposed to type my requests in the big white square? I can not type anything inside (after logging in and accepting the application. Tried on Ubuntu Firefox and Chrome) AI: It looks like it is broken. Using the Developer Tools in Chrome there are a load of JavaScript errors. I would suggest reporting it to Facebook possibly via their forum.
H: How do you create a 'premium' advertising network? I want to create a 'premium' ad network for a niche market, where I want to invite sites which are suitable for the ads.. is there a software or service which helps setting up an ad network? AI: For software you can use OpenX as an ad server. As for creating a premium network, you have a chicken and egg problem. Sites won't sign up for exclusive ads unless you have good advertisers and can offer good rates. Advertisers won't come until you have good sites. I think what you are trying to build is something like The DECK so if you haven't you might want to check out their service.
H: Gmail: Is it possible to star a conversation while composing a new message? Sometimes I realise while composing a message that I'd like to star the resulting conversation. Currently I wait until I've finished writing and sent it, open sent items, then star the conversation. Is there a quicker way or perhaps a way to star it while I'm still composing? AI: I believe your only option while composing your new email is to click Drafts on the left, star your draft, then click the draft open so you can finish it. Or you could create a filter for [email protected] and bcc it to this email address. The filter would then just star any emails that have bcc = this email.
H: Opening files directly in Google Chrome I'm frequently opening files from websites (e.g. doc files) and is seems Chrome is missing the option to open it directly instead of saving it first (like possible in e.g. IE, FF, Opera). Any hack around? AI: At present Chrome will only download the file - it won't give you the option to Open or Save that other browsers give you. You can set files with certain file extension to open automatically after the download has completed. Taken from this Google Chrome FAQ article If you want certain types of files to always open after they're done downloading, click the arrow next to the file button in the downloads bar and select Always open files of this type. To prevent potentially malicious files from automatically downloading to your computer, this option isn't available for executable filetypes, such as those with .exe, .dll, or .bat extensions (for Windows), and .dmg extensions (for Mac There is also a Chrome extension that previews some file types (PDF, Presentations etc) in the Google Docs Viewer. This can be found here. Looking through some of the Google Chrome forums this feature has been requested numerous times since 2008 - the standard response of "we are working on it" has been always been the reply from Google.
H: Is there privacy if you view email boxes in office network? If I open my Gmail account in office network or chat with someone in Gtalk, since our communications are through a proxy, will anyone be able to see my mails? Even if I log out, will someone be able to snoop my emails? AI: Gmail uses HTTPS by default. However, there are still two ways that IT can see you: If your PC has a trusted certificate owned by IT, they can setup an SSL proxy which resigns using their certificate and capture all traffic. Your PC might have monitoring software Either method could allow them to see your authentication cookie, which they could use themselves until you log out. If they have an evil proxy, they could block logout requests to keep you logged in indefinitely and use your authentication cookie until it expires. If they have a keylogger on your PC (some companies do this), they'll have your password, too.
H: How to disable and revoke rights for a Facebook application? I used a Facebook app but I want to remove it completely. How to do that? AI: Go to Facebook. Click on "Account" then click "Privacy Settings". Look at the bottom left of the page, click "Edit your settings" under Apps and Websites. Click on "Edit Settings" immediately to the right of the "Apps You Use" section. Click "Edit settings" to change application settings, or click the "X" to remove the app.
H: Is there a way to merge a non-Google-Apps Google Voice account with a Google Apps account? I have a Google Voice account that I created before it was available on Google Apps. I recently created a Google Apps account and maintain my e-mail as [email protected]. Is there a process that exists for merging my Google Voice account into my apps account so that I don't have to switch accounts to use Google Voice? AI: It isn't possible to merge your Google Voice account with your Google Apps account and retain the data. You can however request that your Google Voice number gets transferred to your Google Apps account. See this Google article for full details
H: Is there a way to associate two Google Voice numbers to the same cellphone? I have a Gmail account and a Google Apps account. I have setup a Google Voice number and associated it with my mobile phone for personal use. I want to setup a Google Voice account for business and associate it with my Google Apps account and associate it with my same mobile phone. The idea is that I carry one phone, and business contacts call one number, while personal contacts call another. Has anyone found a workaround for this? When I try to setup on one account, it disables the other Google Voice number. AI: I think you can do this but you have to set up the mobile number as either work or home on your Google Voice accounts. As soon as you set it up as a mobile on an account it will disable the other account. By not setting it as mobile, I think you may lose any SMS functionality.
H: How to make YouTube video appear in Google When I Google for one of my videos, it shows up at the top with a preview image. One of my other videos just shows up without a preview image. I think it's because that video does not have enough thumbs up ratings. Is that correct? How many are needed before it appears in Google with a preview? AI: Nobody knows how exactly Google is indexing the web and their YouTube, but I'm pretty sure that thumbs up ratings have nothing to do with the preview image. Give it a few days and try again.
H: How to search within a limited number of domains with Google? Is there a feature in Google Search (advanced search, etc.) or in other Google products where you can limit your searches to only a specific set of sites? I tried searchterm site:xyz.com , abc.com, but that does not work. AI: Try doing searchterm site:abc.com OR site:def.com Real world example: Honda Civic site:edmunds.com OR site:honda.com Works.
H: How do I import friends into Youtube? Is there any way to import friends from Facebook or Gmail into Youtube? AI: There isn't a way for to import a contact list directly in to YouTube but it will suggest/find friends for you to add based on your Facebook and/or Gmail contacts. First you have to enable AutoShare: Sign in to YouTube Click Account Click Activity Sharing Connect your Facebook Account Once AutoShare has been set up when you visit the YouTube homepage you will be prompted to find your friends. This blog post on YouTube explains how this feature works. Full details on the AutoShare functionality can be found here
H: Transfer MSN Live ID Microsoft offers a function to change the Live ID (the email that registers the Live ID) to another. I wonder if I changed the Live ID, will my friends' that added me to MSN will update their Friend's List (with my new email)? Also, I linked my Live ID to XBOX Live. Will my XBOX Live Gold Membership be affected? AI: You shouldn't need to do anything as all your information should be transferred to your new ID. Taken from the Change Live ID screen When you rename your Windows Live ID, your new ID works just like your old one. All of your account information and contacts will automatically transfer to your new ID within 48 hours. If you are concerned about your Gamer Tag this can also be changed manually. Although I would wait at least 48 hours after changing your Live ID before attempting to move this. Change the Windows Live ID associated with your gamertag
H: Image slideshow with a book/page flip effect Do you know of an application that can make embeddable flash image galleries that have a page flip effect. AI: You will find on: http://page-flip.com/demos.htm http://www.actionscript.org/showMovie.php?id=459 http://www.flash-filter.net/page-flip-effect.phtml Hope this helps.
H: How to get a link to a Google Translate translation? I was able in the past to do that, but I can't find how anymore. AI: All I had to do is to click in the "Translate" button and the URL was updated. The instant translation doesn't update the URL. The URL format is: http://translate.google.com/#origin_language_or_auto\|destination_language\|encoded_phrase or http://translate.google.com/translate?js=n&sl=auto&tl=destination_language&text=encoded_phrase If you want to translate a webpage, use: http://translate.google.com/translate?js=n&sl=auto&tl=destination_language&u=http://example.net destination_language must be a language code, like en for English or pt-BR for Brazilian Portuguese. You can also set a value for sl (source language) instead of "auto".
H: Can I archive only certain messages within a conversation? I have a long conversation with many recipients (I'm organising an event), in amongst the replies I have 3 or 4 mail delivery failed messages, which I'd like to Archive (so that they're not messing up the conversation) but don't want to delete (as I want to refer to them later, to figure out who's addresses are bouncing). PS I've found a similar question about marking-as-read, but I can't see anything quite like this How to mark as unread just one message and not the entire conversation in Gmail AI: Unfortunately, no. "Archive" does nothing but remove the "Inbox" label from the conversation. Labels can only be applied to (and removed from) conversations. If you turn off Conversation view (an ability only recently added to Gmail) then it does appear you can change the labels on the messages individually. But then, you'll lose what I think is the strongest feature of Gmail. And, if you do it just temporarily, it appears that the "conversation" is broken, so even when you go back to Conversation view the entire conversation is broken up, never to be reassembled. (I also tried a kludge where I deleted an individual message from a conversation then tried to apply different labels to it, but when I removed it from the Trash it went back to the Inbox and was right back in the conversation view.)
H: Text formatting enhancements on Facebook Does Facebook have any text formatting enhancements like Markdown? While writing a comment or status update, can I use linked texts or @-referrals? Or is it just like Notepad? AI: No you cannot, only @-referrals to friends,events and pages that you are affiliated with on Facebook. You can only place formatting in notes.
H: How can I reconnect to my friend whom I previously blocked? I have block the one of my friend from my facebook profile, but now we want to reconnect again.... a strange truth of life. Perhaps, Facebook doesn't want that and me & my friend both are not able to see each other profile/post ... anything and everything.. which is making an impossible task for us to send a friend request. In simple words, How can I reconnect to my friend whom I previously blocked? AI: If you'll go to the Privacy Settings, on the bottom you will see a Block Lists section, where you can Edit your lists of blocked people and apps. From there I guess you'll see your friend's name somewhere.
H: Is it possible to hide row numbers in a Google Sheets? When looking at a numbered list that starts at the number 1, the row numbers are potentially confusing. (Assuming one has row 1 as column heading labels, item 1 will be on row 2, item 2 on row 3, and so on.) Is there a way to turn off row and column headings, as there is in most spreadsheet programs? In case I'm not making sense, the picture below should clear things up: AI: No, it's not possible. This sounds like a good feature request for Google Docs.
H: Find out who likes my website using the Facebook like button Where can I find the details on who has liked and commented on my pages via the Facebook Like button that I've put on my website? I recently put the Facebook Like plugin on my site and now see that there are a number of users that have clicked on the Like button. Like John and 51 others like this. Is there a way for me to see which Facebook users have clicked on the button? I would like to see the comments and likes linked to this button. AI: I don't think so, it is meant to be for your users to know about their friends. You could search for your site with site:facebook.com but not all profiles get crawled by Google.
H: How can I search last.fm for tracks that have two specific tags? Let's say I want to find music on last.fm that is tagged with both trance and new wave. Is this possible? So far I can only figure out how to browse by single tag. AI: This feature is currently in the Last.fm playground; http://playground.last.fm/multitag Welcome to Last.fm's playground! Here you can try out some of the projects we are working on and let us know what you think. Hope this helps
H: Pause/suspend a Gmail filter I have a number of Gmail filters acting on my incoming e-mail. I'm trying to find a way to "pause" a filter. By that I mean to temporarily turn it off without deleting it. (Some are fairly detailed and I'm afraid I'd never be able to restore them if I deleted them.) Gmail itself obviously doesn't have this function, but what could I do that stops the filter from acting while not losing the filter itself? AI: You could export your filters, delete them and then when you are ready to enable them simply import them back in. This is what they suggest you use the Labs: Filter Export/Import function for.
H: How to group messages in Facebook? How to group messages by people in Facebook? For example I want to see all messages that I've sent and that I've received from some person. AI: You need the new Facebook Messaging to accomplish this. I think ( cannot remember ) you can search by name within the old messaging system.
H: RSS feed for twitter's trending topics How can I get RSS Feed of Twitter's Trending Topics of India? AI: You may have to write a custom yahoo pipe You can get some ideas from these pipes related to twitter trends.
H: Twitter Greasemonkey script to add a "retweet with comment"? I as wondering if anyone knows a Greasemonkey script which would add a "retweet with comment" to the timelime items. I was looking for something that would have a similar appearance to tweetfilter, with the little buttons added at the end of the tweet. AI: This Greasemonkey script adds a RT link to all tweets on Twitter.com It adds the current tweet text in to to your new tweet box prefixed with RT - this will then enable you to add comments to the tweet before posting. Other third party applications have this functionality built in. For example, Seesmic Desktop 2 has a Quote option which does the same thing.
H: Gmail web client does not display 'High' importance flag How do I get the Gmail web client to display the 'High' importance flag? Is it a setting that needs tweaking? AI: GMail doesn't support these flags, so there is no way to tweak it somehow. Please note that High Importance Flag is something that is not defined in Internet Message Format (thanks @fretje for the link).
H: Why wouldn't you use SSL? A lot of web applications (Facebook and Twitter, for example) provide SSL support, but don't make browsing with SSL the default option--you have to opt-in manually. Is there some kind of major drawback to using SSL that I'm not aware of? It seems to me that browsing with SSL is clearly better than browsing without it. Why wouldn't these companies make SSL the default for their web apps? AI: It's all in the handshake. A connection over TCP, like http://..., uses a three-part handshake: Client --> syn, Server --> syn ack, Client --> ack SSL uses a much longer sequence. This site says SSL (https://...) uses about 4 times more packets, and has 3.5x more latency than http://
H: How can I post a video to Facebook and let members of a group view it? I have a video I filmed for a group that should ideally only be viewable to those people. How can I post a video to Facebook and let members of a group view it? If my friends can view it, that's acceptable, but there are members of the group who aren't on my list, so I'm not sure if they'll be able to see it. AI: If you post a video to a group then all members of the group will be able to see the video. If the group is open then anyone who views the group will be able to see the video. From the Facebook FAQ How do I post videos to a group? Group admins can select whether videos can be posted to a group from the Customize tab of the Edit Group page. If videos are enabled, the admins have the choice to allow either all group members or only other admins to post videos. If you are allowed to add videos, you can do this by clicking the "Video" icon in the Publisher at the top of the group’s main page. If this is an open group, the videos will be visible to everyone who views the group. The videos posted on closed and secret groups are only visible to other members. Admins always have the ability to remove videos that they do not want to be associated with their group
H: How to download all English books from Gutenberg? I need to download all Gutenberg ebooks, in plain text format (not html) and only in English language. Anyone has suggestions how to download them all from the Gutenberg server? I need them to make a linguistic research. AI: According to Information About Robot Access to our Pages: The Project Gutenberg website is intended for human users only. Any perceived use of automated tools to access the Project Gutenberg website will result in a temporary or permanent block of your IP address. The only exceptions to this rule are below. How to Get All Ebook Files How to Get Certain Ebook Files How to Mirror Project Gutenberg How to Get Catalog Data The page in the links above give you examples to use wget. So, I'd quess: wget -w 2 -m -H http://www.gutenberg.org/robot/harvest?filetypes[]=txt&langs[]=en Aside, back in February 2011 when this answer was posted, and up to October 2011, its wiki said: Robot access to our site should be left as last resource, when everything else has failed. Also, remember that the Project Gutenberg web site is copyrighted. [...] You can get all our eBooks in zipped files by pointing your robot at http://www.gutenberg.org/robot/harvest [...] Unpacking the zip files will produce another 70,000 files. This is an example of how to get all files using wget: wget -w 2 -m http://www.gutenberg.org/robot/harvest [...] If you want only some types of files say: wget -w 2 -m http://www.gutenberg.org/robot/harvest?filetypes[]=txt [...] If you want only files in a given language say: wget -w 2 -m http://www.gutenberg.org/robot/harvest?langs[]=de
H: How do I change my password with Zvents? I've noticed that Bing Events uses Zvents. The submit an event option takes you right to Zvents. I'd like to know how to change my password on Zvents. AI: I found it there is an FAQ at Zvents proper (not http://bing.zvents.com). How do I change my password? After you log in, click on the 'MyZvents' link displayed in the top right corner of any page. You can change your password by clicking on the 'Update Your Profile' link. Or, just go here: http://www.zvents.com/user/edit
H: Are recipients of my Gmail emails also given my full name? In my own inbox, I see some people as John Smith but others as [email protected]. I am aware that if I explicitly change someone's name in my contact list, then they will appear as whatever I set it to. But besides those people in my contact list, how does Gmail (or other e-mail programs in general) decide whether to show a full name or email address only? AI: On an e-mail message, an e-mail address can have an optional "human-readable" name. Typically they are formatted like this: John Smith <[email protected]> or [email protected] "John Smith" Whether the human-readable name is displayed when you view an e-mail message is up to the mail client. Additionally, whether they are included in sent messages or not is also up to the mail client used. In your case, Gmail is pulling your name as it appears on your Google account and including it in your outbound messages (unless you've changed under "Settings \| Accounts and Import"). Now, of course, that's just for messages you send from Gmail. You can also do things like e-mail an article from a site. Typically they'll ask you for your e-mail address, but your name is probably optional. There won't be a "human readable" portion of the e-mail address for that sort of message.
H: Adwords Keyword Tool API Is there an API to access the results returned by the Keyword Tool in Google Adwords? Also, is there a site that provides an API to verify if a domain is taken? AI: The Adwords API lets you access the Adwords Keyword Tool. For domain name availability checks, there is a now closed question on Stack Overflow: Finding if domain name is already registered? Let me know if you still miss something.
H: How can I post my Delicious bookmarks on my Facebook wall? I want to post a bookmark link in Delicious on my Facebook wall, when I save it in Delicious. AI: There are two Facebook Apps that claim to do post your delicious bookmarks to facebook: del.icio.us box My del.icio.us
H: Is there a way to print my e-mails in a book? Is there someone who knows if there's something available online where I can print parts of my e-mail inbox? I've been trying to make the selection by hand, but I just don't have the time to make a final selection. There's always new e-mails coming in, and it's just a lot of work. Does anybody know a website where I can do this automatically? AI: Memeoirs does exactly what you need. You can choose to print the e-mails you have exchanged with your girlfriend only. Furthermore, you can also limit the time period of the conversations, to, say, February 2010 - February 2011. All the hard work is done for you, and that includes stripping away forward / reply quotes, signatures, etc. The final result is a nice looking book that will be delivered to you, via post. Hope this helps. Disclaimer: I am one of the developers of Memeoirs.
H: Cancelling Facebook Connect permissions of a site? I wrongfully approved permission request of a site that demands almost all the possible permissions that could be granted via Facebook Connect. Now I can't manage to cancel off these permissions. Can anybody help me with this? AI: Open Privacy Settings, click Apps and Websites at the bottom of Privacy, remove the website from "Apps you use".
H: Track and administer OpenID permissions on Google account How do I track and administer all my OpenID permissions on my Google account? For example, I signed in to an OpenID-enabled site. If it was a new site I visited, I'd get a permission request page to link the site's OpenID mechanism to my Google account. Now, if I could give permission, that surely means I can revoke it? How do I do it on my Google account? AI: Go to https://www.google.com/accounts/b/0/IssuedAuthSubTokens To navigate to this page: Sign in at http://google.com and click your name in the top navigation bar. Then go to Google Account Settings. At the bottom, click Visit the previous version of the Google accounts screen. In the Security section under the Personal Settings tab, click Authorizing Applications & Sites It then displays a list of sites under the Connected Sites, Apps, and Services header which you can then Revoke Access to.
H: How do I plot a bunch of points on Google Maps? I've got a list of hundreds of lat/long coordinates and I want to plot them on Google Maps. What is the easiest way to do this? The data is currently in CSV format. AI: I think the easiest way to do this is to create a KML file with all your lat/long coordinates and open them using Google Earth or Google Maps (http://maps.google.com/maps?q= "YOUR KML FILE URL HERE") Some info on creating a valid KML file: http://code.google.com/apis/kml/faq.html#howtocreate and here you can find an Excel to KML converter: http://freegeographytools.com/2007/another-excel-to-kml-converter
H: Saving my Word documents online I can't quite believe this isn't possible, though I fear it may not be. I have Windows 7, Office 2010 (or whatever the latest version is) and a Windows Live account. I want to write a document in Word on my desktop and save it straight to Windows Live. This should be easy. Is it? Does Microsoft support this? It seems like a simple request in 2011. Any ideas? AI: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/web-apps/ Create a great looking document in Office and then switch easily from working on it on your PC or in the browser Upload documents to use in Office Web Apps If you have Microsoft Office 2010 you can upload documents directly to your Windows Live SkyDrive from Excel, OneNote, PowerPoint, and Word. On the Save & Send tab in Backstage view, click Save to Web Hope this helps.
H: How to import mails by contacts from another Gmail account? I want to import emails from another Gmail account by some specific email addresses? I have created another Gmail account for family and friends and I want all mails by them in my newly created account. AI: First you will need to create a filter and set all those specific email addresses in its conditions, and set it up to apply a new label (say, "Family"), to all messages, including existing ones. Then you can follow this tutorial but instead of dragging all folders into your new account you would need to drag only the label "Family" which contains all your desired messages EDIT: There's also "Gmail Backup" which claims might help with this, but I have not tried it.
H: Is there an encrypting DropBox wrapper? DropBox seems like a useful service, but not one I'd trust any sensitive files with. Is there an application that encrypts my DropBox files locally before DropBox sees them? Encrypting/decrypting them manually before syncing would be too cumbersome. AI: You could use AxCrypt to encrypt individual files transparently (open and edit them after encryption with double-click). This would have the advantage over TrueCrypt that Dropbox would not need to upload the whole container if you changed just one file in it. You would however still loose the benefits of delta syncing.
H: Hotmail and Facebook accounts have been hacked Both my Hotmail and Facebook accounts have been hacked and I am not able to access them. My email account has important information and data. How do I retrieve my accounts? AI: Have you tried the "I forgot my password" link at the login screen of the sites? Maybe you could recover the password if you remember the answer to your security question. Also do not use the same password on different sites. If malicious hackers find out the password to one of your sites they will try to log in with the same password on other sites. My advice is to use a password manager like LastPass to generate and store different random password for each site you use and protect them with one strong master password. Also from now on be careful when login in to your account from a system owned by someone else, or a public computer. Also have an Anti-Virus Suite installed in your system and scan your computer regularly. As far as I know, if your account is hacked and the hacked is adamant on not letting you get it back, there is nothing much you can do.
H: Is there a way to password protect Google Forms? I would like to create a check request form but I only want users who either enter a password or whose Google accounts I give permission, to be able to fill out the form. Is this possible? One idea if this isn't by default would be to embed the form in a web page that is password protected and then never hand out the URL of the form but I am hoping there is something better than that available. AI: There isn't a way to password a protect a form within Google Docs at the moment.
H: Undo "Report Spam" in Gmail? I have unintentionally "Report Spam"ed an email that I meant only to archive from a frequent legitimate contact. Are there spam rule controls somewhere in Gmail that I can reverse the effect of my error? AI: You can go into your Spam folder in Gmail, select the mail in question and click the "Not Spam" button. Gmail should be smart enough to remove the contact and characteristics of the mail from its internal spam definition.
H: How to purge CloudFront's cache I would like to know if it's possible to clear CloudFront's cache, The file concerned has changed on Amazon S3 but it's not being updated on CloudFront. AI: I found the answer using Python: import boto cf = boto.connect_cloudfront('aws_access_key_id', 'aws_secret_access_key') cf.create_invalidation_request("distribution_id", ["/path1","/path2"]) Documentation: boto.connect_cloudfront create_invalidation_request
H: A public version of 37signals' Basecamp? I'm using 37signals' Basecamp webapp for collaborating with many people on data standards. Generally I like the product. There are a few issues like not being able to easily follow a topic or wiki (writeboard) for changes. Their wiki-mechanism kind of sucks (finicky, no nested lists, tables, etc). The biggest issue I have is that I can't seem to make everything public. Though you should need a login to contribute or collaborate, I want the outside world to see what we're working on as easily as possible. I want all of our great content to be search engine indexable. I'd like to not have a separate front end site for the world to see and a different site for us members to collaborate with. Any webapps like Basecamp that I should be looking at instead? AI: One possible solution is to use a combination of Google Apps. Google Site for the public view and wiki Google Code for code sharing, issue tracking, tasks Google Docs for formal documentation Google Groups You can get very creative with this. Good luck.
H: Which apps that use Google Account sign-in are currently incompatible with 2-step authentication? I decided to opt for Google's 2-step authentication for increased security. After setting up my Android device with the Google Authenticator and also configuring backup phones and printing out the list of backup verification codes (and putting that in a safe place ;-) ), I was presented with a screen, asking me to generate (optionally) application specific passwords. Which apps should these application specific passwords be used in? I'm guessing the Talk desktop client and any email client that uses the Google credentials are what these will be used for. Do I need to create multiple passwords for every app or will a common one work across all? AI: At present, it's pretty much anything that accesses your Google account and doesn't go through the web interface -- chat clients, email clients, etc. You'll need a different password for each one -- they're one-time passwords 1. 1: http://googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.com/2011/02/advanced-sign-in-security-for-your.html
H: Get column number by referencing column title In Google Sheets I have a number of columns that I have given titles to in Row 1. Using a formula, I want to return the column number (i.e. 5, 6, 7, ...) for the column that has a specific title. For example: =GetColumnNumber("Account Balance"). This GetColumnNumber() function above doesn't actually exist, but it demonstrates what I'm trying to do. Is there a way to achieve the same result? I've found this function reference which I've been trying to sift through. AI: I think this will do what you want. For example if your columns are A to D, =iferror(match("Account Balance",A1:D1,0),"No match") returns the column number or an error message. Thanks for pointing out that function list. It will come in handy.
H: Notifications of replies to posts in SourceForge.net I'm using a SourceForge.net forum and I was wondering if I can subscribe to my posts in order to get email notifications when someone replies. I'm currently using "Monitoring" functionality, but it seems to work only at forum level and not at post level. AI: In the forums, when viewing the topics, you should see a column on the right for monitoring options. Click on the orange RSS icon to grab the feed of that topic. You can just use your RSS reader of choice to get notice of replies. Or you can use some RSS-to-email service (e.g., Feed My Inbox, Feed Mailer, etc.) to have those RSS items sent to your inbox.
H: Any risk in replying to a message on Facebook? I got a message from someone I've never met before, or even heard of, from Nigeria. He wants to learn to write Java code and is asking me if I can recommend any websites or e-books to help him. He seems legitimate and sincere. I don't hide my web presence, so there are any number of ways he could have found me as a programmer. I'm considering replying. However, with scams of Nigeria past in mind, I just want to double check: is there any security risk to replying to a Facebook message? Anything dangerous about this? AI: If you reply to a message then you give them "friend" access to your profile for one month. Concerning Nigerian scammers then that could lead to identity theft or other website accounts being hacked using your personal information (mother's maiden name, etc.).
H: Where to find the pages and links shared on new Facebook profiles? Facebook rolled the new Facebook profiles. In old Facebook the pages I "liked" and links that I "shared" are directly shown in profile pages, but in the new Facebook both are missing. So, where I can find this? AI: You can find the links that you have posted by clicking on Links on the left side of the home page (you may need to click More▾ first, or just go to http://www.facebook.com/posted.php) and then click on My Links. And as Jonik stated, you can find the pages you like on your profile Info tab.
H: Stop YouTube from changing my quality settings on full screen Whenever I click "full screen" on YouTube, it changes the "quality settings" from 240p to 480p. I prefer to control the quality setting myself, and not have it influenced by the full screen button. Is there a way to stop this? A Greasemonkey script perhaps? AI: Officially you can't and there are a lot of requests for that in Google Forums. One of the Google Employees says: There are a few different options if you login, then choose "settings" in the drop down where you select quality (right under the video player): I have a slow connection. Never play higher-quality video. Always choose the best option for me based on my player size. Always play HD when switching to fullscreen (when available) You can try one of the scripts to find the one that suits you best.
H: How do I add contacts to CC for a group in Gmail? I like to use the groups feature of Gmail to quickly send an email to a certain group of people that are generally always included on certain emails. For instance, I have a Family group so I can quickly email everyone in my family. This is really convenient, but it always puts all the addresses in the "To" field. I have other groups where I always want to CC certain people, while others should be in the "To" field. Is there a way to create a group in Gmail where one or more of the addresses are automatically put in the "CC" field instead of the "To" field? AI: Contacts are just addresses and groups are just collections of contacts. Unless you write a plugin to read user defined fields from the contacts api, I don't believe that you would be able to selectively designation a contact as 'to' or 'cc'. Otherwise, I would suggest creating two subgroups: one for the 'to's and another for the 'cc's. Remember that contacts can be members of multiple groups. So all of them can still be members of a 'Family' group.
H: Add a date field to a Google contact without year Is there a way to add a field like "Anniversary" to a Google contact without specifying the year? If I try to save while leaving the year blank, I get an error message: "Please enter a month, day and year for dates." AI: It looks like it's not possible in the newer version of Google Contacts, while in the old one you could, but without be able to changing the type of the event: In the newer version you're getting this error no matter how hard you try all the different formats of a date without a year: Sorry, we don't recognize this date.
H: How to use two Dropbox? Possible Duplicate: Multiple dropbox accounts on one PC? I have a personal Dropbox and I have special dropbox that I'm using with a friend like a SVN server(to hold code). How can I easly switch between those two? AI: Look similar to the question answered here; Multiple dropbox accounts on one PC? Hope this helps.
H: Google 2-step verification: Should my phone know my password? Just enabled 2-step verification for my Google account. I have installed Google Authenticator on my Android phone, and I set up an application specific password for the Google account associated on my phone. This works great when just using installed apps like Gmail, Calendar and Google Reader. But if I want to access Google Docs, Google Tasks or any other website that requires a Google login, I don't seem to be able to use a application specific password. I have to use my real password and then use Google Authenticator to make a code for the next step. This means if my phone is stolen, revoking the password to my phone is pointless. The phone have already been verified, and all that is needed is my password, which the phones browser will have remembered. I realize that I can take measures to ensure the phones browser doesn't remember my password, but that's just not convenient at all. Am I missing something, or is there no elegant solution to this? Should I just let my phone know my real password? As I see it, being able to login with application specific passwords on websites (which apparently isn't possible) is the only way I can revoke my phones access in a meaningful way. AI: It remembers your code for 30 days, but if your phone gets stolen, you just remove the "mobile application" (this means Google Authenticator) associated with your phone from the two-step settings page. This will immediately invalidate your code, and your phone browser will no longer log in. This is what the setting looks like in my account: This does mean that you need to remember to remove at least two things should your phone get stolen: Your Google Authenticator application, and the application-specific password for your phone. You might also have other application-specific passwords to remove. This also applies to any other device containing a logged in browser (like a laptop). The code will remain valid for 30 days unless you remove the Google Authenticator application in the settings. If it wasn't your phone that was stolen, you can immediately register the Google Authenticator application again and you will get new code to use. This is my understanding of how it works but so far as I can see this is not spelled out in Google's documentation anywhere.
H: How can I migrate from AOL Mail to GMail? I was able to import contacts but I want to make sure I have a smooth transition and don't lose any mail. I want to make sure if anyone emails me at AOL that it forwards over to Gmail for a period of time. Is this possible? AI: Use Gmails mail fetcher and AOL's POP3 access; http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=21288 Use your full AOL e-mail address for the username, including the domain Server: pop.aol.com Port : 995 SSL : Yes Hope this helps.
H: What's the best place to discuss something privately? I've been considering putting together a business proposal, and I would like to find a place to discuss this online with other collaborators privately. I also want to make sure that the data doesn't get leaked to the public somehow. I would prefer not to have to pay much or anything, but I'm willing to pay a small amount of money if it's absolutely required. What services do you recommend? EDIT: After having this up here for a while, I've realized I should probably add in a bit more things to help clarify what I want. I don't care if the host can read it, so long as they agree not to disclose it to outside sources, or to profit off of it at all. But I'm not so paranoid that the data has to be encrypted on their server. I'm assuming that anyone who has access to the site has access, and I don't need to protect the information that is on this site. I want it to be a form that promotes collaboration, a form, SE style, wiki style, anything that makes it easy to collect ideas would be ideal. Hope these tidbits help. AI: You could create your own Private Wiki at Wikispaces. You would need to upgrade to the Plus Package for Individuals and Groups in order have a private wiki. This costs $5 a month or $50 a year and provides the following features: Unlimited Users Unlimited Pages and Messages 2GB Storage Max 20MB Per File WYSIWYG Editing Ad Free Private Wiki SSL Security Custom Themes
H: Is there a way to know how often a file was downloaded from my public Dropbox folder? I often put files in my public Dropbox folder and send the public link to people by email. Is there a way to get some sort of report of how often files were accessed? Or is it possible to know the number of downloads? AI: At present (February 2011) this is not possible to do in Dropbox. It is on the wish list though.
H: Automatically sending files to your Dropbox Account via email Is it possible to, say, email files via attachment to your Dropbox account? As opposed to manually placing the file on the Dropbox folder on your computer? AI: At present (February 2011) this isn't possible to do using Dropbox. It is on the wish list though. An alternative service is available called SendToDropBox if you are happy to use a third party.
H: Type testing in Google spreadsheets Is it possible to test for integers or strings in a Google Spreadsheet and respond to each differently? AI: To test for string you can use =ISTEXT(A1) To test for an Integer you will need to do something like this: =IF( (D8 = int(D8)), TRUE, FALSE) Which basically converts the value to an Integer and then checks if it is the same as the original pre-converted value.
H: Can we use official icons for commercial use Can I use the Ruby on Rails icon for my serviced based company. (Commercial use.) http://rubyonrails.org/ Same for Android and iPhone/iPad. AI: If you have any doubts you should get permission from the respective rights holder. Contact the company, explain what you are wanting to do. If you are linking back to the Ruby-on-Rails site (for example) I can't see that they'd refuse. As long as you weren't claiming to be something you're not you should be OK. (Subject to the I'm Not A Lawyer clause).
H: Sum on condition? I have set up a form with Google Spreadsheet where I want to collect grocery expenses for different people. How can I sum the expenses for different persons? Each row has a column with the person's name and the amount spent. Let me give an example for the problem: Table: A B Name Amount Me 1 You 2 Me 3 Me 4 You 5 I want to SUM column B where column A = "Me" so the result is 8. AI: You can use the SUMIF function to calculate the total sum for each person. If you enter the following formula in a cell you like, it will give you the total amount spent by "Me": =SUMIF(A2:A6,"=Me",B2:B6) where A2:A6 is the Range, "=Me" is the Criteria, and B2:B6 is the Sum_Range.
H: Blogger - How to view page hits statistics Is there a way to view the page hits statistics in in your blog on Bogger (http://www.blogger.com)? AI: Yes. If you are logged in, either click "Design" in the upper right, then click "stats" tab, or "Dashboard", click "stats". You can drill down into stats about the blog, page, post, etc. for different time periods.
H: Google Realtime: how to search for messages from a specific Twitter user? For example, how would you write a search query that returns the recent updates from the Twitter user @google (and not return updates from other users that just happen to contain the word "google")? Naively, I tried from:google, but it doesn't have the desired effect. AI: It would be site:twitter.com/google then click on "latest" on the left sidebar.
H: What's the best way to use Gmail offline? I'll be on a flight for a long time and need to respond to email. I use a Mac and Gmail. AI: You could always use the "Offline Gmail" labs feature. If you are not averse to using desktop mail applications, you could always sync all of your email through IMAP on mail applications like Sparrow and Mail.app (the latter comes with OS X).
H: Get the links to the status updates on Facebook and Twitter? I want to give a link to a status update of me to others. Is there any way to get that link to each status update on Facebook and Twitter? AI: To get a direct link to a Status Update or a Tweet you click the time of the Status Update or Tweet was posted. This opens the Status Update or Tweet on its own. You can then use this URL as a direct link that particular Status Update or Tweet. Facebook Twitter
H: Google Calendar doesn't show yearly event on 29.Feb. = bug? A friend of mine has his birthday on the 29.Feb. and I've created a repeating event in Google Calendar for this. Google Calendar shows this event on leap years but not on non-leap years (like next week!). I had expected the calendar to move the event either to the day before or the day after (either direction can be argued), but not showing the event at all is a bug in my opinion. Is there a way I can fix this? Is this a known bug in Google Calendar? (Will it ever be fixed?) How would you expect this to be handled? AI: Some one came up with a great solution that writes an event on your calendar on the 60th day of the year, equivalent to Feb 29th or Mar 1st dependent. http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Calendar/thread?tid=1afbf0737d261d5c&hl=en You want an event that recurs on the 60th day of any year equivalent to Mar-1 or Feb-29 where applicable. I have done a bit of source code below. Just replace "Someone" with the name of the person you want, save as a .ics file type in notepad and upload to your calendar. BEGIN:VCALENDAR BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20090301 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20090301 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;INTERVAL=1;BYYEARDAY=60 DESCRIPTION: LOCATION: SEQUENCE:0 STATUS:CONFIRMED SUMMARY:Someone's Birthday TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR Hope this helps. To import the ICS file: in the left-hand list of "My Calendars", click the "Settings" link, and then on the "Import Calendar" link.
H: ImageShack is showing "Unregistered domain. Go to http://imageshack.us to register" instead of my pictures Instead of showing the images I've uploaded, ImageShack has started showing the generic frog image with the following message: Unregistered domain. Go to http://imageshack.us to register. Why is this coming up? AI: ImageShack has apparently changed their policies and now insist upon registering the referring domain onto ImageShack . If the domain is not registered with an ImageShack account then the images will not be shown and the above picture will be substituted. However, if the end user is a registered ImageShack user, then they will show the image.
H: How to make flv-players work with iphone/ipad? We don't want to use youtube-embedded videos on our site. How can we make our flv-player (flash) work with iphone/ipad? Is it something with the codec used? AI: The iOS (iPhone, iPad, etc) does not support flash and will not do so in the near future and there is no real good way to make it run flash that would be easy for your customers to use. I would suggest to bite the bullet and host an h.264 version of your videos on your site.
H: How do I loop a blog-embedded video? (from Vimeo or elsewhere) I created a short (4 second) video meant for looping on the web (via Tumblr) and saw two options. Create an animated GIF Embed and loop video hosted elsewhere (YouTube, Vimeo, etc.) Software exists to convert from video to animated GIF, but you lose most of its image color palette and end up with large data files. Looping looked like a better option, since you only need to export and upload the original clip. Plenty of hosting sites allow embedding on Tumblr, but stop after 1 play and show ads or "related videos." How can I host my video and loop its playback, without ads or other overlays? AI: For YouTube, replace the video ID (1sRaZV21zb4) with your own ID and the video loops. <embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/1sRaZV21zb4?fs=1&loop=1&hl=en_US&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="640" height="390"></embed> (ADDED BY ASKER): For Vimeo, replace the video ID (20278207) with your own ID and the video loops. <iframe src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/20278207?title=0&byline=0&portrait=0&autoplay=1&loop=1" width="400" height="225" frameborder="0"></iframe>
H: Changing the title of a YouTube video that's been uploaded How do you change the title of a YouTube video after it's been uploaded? AI: Sign in to YouTube and go to your videos Click Edit Change Title Save Changes
H: Is there any way to tell if people have opened a Google Drive document that you have shared? I sent out links (read-only) to a number of people and am curious if there is a way to see whether people are actually going out and viewing that document. I understand it likely won't have names for everyone/anyone that looks at it, but I'd be interested at least in knowing how many "hits" it got to make sure that at least some of those I sent it too actually looked at it. AI: This page describes a method to do so. Track Visitors To Google Docs; Know When People Open & Read Your Documents It suggests to add a blank image to the document which can then be counted using statcounter.com
H: Amount of information access granted to a page you like on Facebook When I like a page on facebook. Lets say liking a band on my music intrests and putting it in my information section. How much access have they been granted about me? The links they post appear on my news feed but what else? I am very much interested to know about provacy implications of this... Can that page/band/etc. access my friends list? read my status messages? see my information etc? AI: Liking a page does not grant the page admins access to your status updates, friends list, or other information on your wall or profile if it is not already visible to Everyone. They will have access to your name, profile picture, gender, networks, and Facebook username and uid; these are always visible to Everyone. Additionally, the page admins have access to aggregated demographic information on their entire fan base. This includes the percentage of fans in each gender & age range, and the number of fans by country, city, and language setting, but only for at most the top 20 countries and cities and only where the number is significant. The demographic information does not identify individual fans, and is not available at all for pages with less than 30 fans. See this blog post for an example of what is shown. As you noted the page can post content to their Wall which will appear in your News Feed, however you can use the X in the upper right corner of any such content to hide all of the page content from your News Feed and still Like the page. The page can also send you Updates, which appear in a subtab under Messages. Facebook has a history of introducing changes that have unannounced privacy impacts, so keep that in mind and do not count on their current practices staying the same. In fact you can be sure that there will be changes over time.
H: Embed start time in a YouTube video I want to give out a link to a YouTube video have it start the playback at a specific time in the clip, e.g., 2 minutes and 45 seconds. Is that possible? AI: To specify a point, append a tag to the end of your video link with the following syntax: #t=1m45s (you can change the numbers before the "m" and "s" to edit the minutes and seconds, respectively. Here's an example: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bibCui3lFM#t=1m45s
H: How to revert a test account to a normal account on Facebook I want to start developing some Facebook applications and I came across this page that allows me to create a test account. Please do not click the Make [Your Name] Test Account Become a Platform App Test Account I went against my urge to click and decided to google a bit and it seems this option converts your actual Facebook account into a test account. How can one revert this change ? AI: This does indeed convert your "normal" account to a "test" account and it cannot be reversed Take a look at this Article on Facebook: We ensure that test users are exempt from Facebook spam or fake account detection systems to ensure that you can test your application without worrying about getting disabled. Also, to ensure that using test user accounts to test various scenarios doesn't end up unintentionally creating spam, we enforce certain limitations on what test users can do. Test users can interact with other test users only and not with real users on site. Test users cannot fan a public Page or create public content on them like writing on a Page's wall. A Test user can however view and interact with the application tab on the Page if they are associated with that app. They can be accessed and used by any developer of the associated application. They only have test privileges on the associated application. This implies that they can use the app in live mode or sandbox mode but cannot edit any technical settings or access insights for that application. A test user is always a test user and cannot be converted to a normal user account. Up until yesterday, creating a Test Account used to just add you to the Facebook Test Network. So to undo this, all you had to do previously was remove yourself from the Test Network. Unfortunately, this is no longer true due to recent changes made by Facebook. There is a blog post here with further information about this. UPDATE The process of converting your own account to a test account is now redundant. You can now create up to 50 developer test accounts to interact with your apps. Developers will be able to use the Graph API to create accounts, manage friends, test their apps, and build automated tests. These new tests accounts do not need to be verified, & each test user will receive a login URL that does not require a password. More detailed documentation of the APIs is available here. Test accounts can now be created via the Graph API. A test user is a user account associated with an app created for the purpose of testing the functionality of that app. You can use test users for manual or automated testing. We allow you to access the test account via a login_url which allows you to directly login to the account. The login_url expires after one hour, but you easily refresh it to get a new login_url for the same test user. We also provide you an access_token for the test user so that you can take actions on behalf of the test user via the api. An app can create up to 500 test users to start testing an app.
H: Can I get a Facebook Fan Page to appear in my fan's newsfeeds? I have a Fan Page, where I keep pushing latest information from my site. I seem to recall that in the past, these updates were visible on my newsfeed. Right now though, I don't see any of these updates in my feed. Is there a way to get these "status updates" to appear in my feed? AI: I still get status updates in my feed. Facebook "intelligently" decides what should appear in a user's feed, so if the user regularly interacts ("likes" posts, comments, etc) with a Page, it will show it in their news feed. You probably don't get updates in your news feed any more because you as a user (other than as a Page administrator) don't interact with the page. You will have done when you first started because you had only just added the page.
H: Can't delete/add or see any entries in one Google Calendar I use Google Calendar on a regular basis, and somehow one single Calendar I created is now empty. I can't add entries to this calendar. The settings also seem very different from the settings of other calendars: I also can't delete the calendar (the option is just missing): I recently shared the .ics link to this calendar with a coworker. Could this have anything to do with the missing entries? AI: The issue has resolved itself. The calendar is now back and working normally.
H: Extension for Google Chrome to display network accesses as Firebug does? Is there an extension for Google Chrome that displays all requests and responses via network, how long they take and status as Firebug on Firefox does? AI: You can use developer tools (CTRL+SHIFT+I) and select Network tab. Press the record button and then refresh the page you want to test. Here is an image of what it looks like in the current page If you need more details to help you identify performance issues you can download Speed Tracer. It visualizes metrics that are taken from low level instrumentation points inside of the browser and analyzes them as your application runs You can install it from here
H: Amazon EC2 Free Tier Usage I signed up for Amazon free usage tier where i get a micro instance free for a year. If i terminate the free instance and start a new micro instance, will i be charged for the new instance or will it be free? AI: You get 750 free hours of Linux micro instance time per month for one year after signing up for your AWS account. It's up to you how you use it: you can run one instance for the whole year, or you can run multiple instances for shorter periods. It's completely OK to stop and start instances. See http://aws.amazon.com/free/ for details.
H: Put together several messages into one conversation in Gmail I think Gmail is the first webmail provider that features the Conversation -- having only one mailbox entry for messages in the same thread. Neat. However, a downside to this is that when you edit the subject just a wee bit (even just one character), that new message breaks apart from the rest of the Conversation and itself creates a new thread. Yes, changing the subject does have its benefits. Can I put together several related messages into one Conversation? AI: This is by design, so it is not possible. There is no mechanism to merge conversations and the only way to split a conversation is to change the subject, even if it's only one character.
H: Edit an existing feed URL in Google Reader to new RSS location How do you update the feed URL of a subscription through Google Reader? Subscribed to a blog that used to publish their RSS feed at the following: http://example.com/blog/feed But now it's dead as the new hotness is located at: http://example.com/feed 301 redirect on their end wasn't set up correctly to point to the new location and/or it was just dropped like a hot potato and left to 404. You can rename a blog feed to whatever name you like. Can't seem to find where to update the feed URL if the source has moved locations. AI: You can't edit a feed location in Google Reader. You will have to delete the subscription that points to the old URL and then add a new subscription using the new URL.
H: Sending commands over Gmail Sometimes I send (and receive) long command lines to colleagues over Gmail. When the command spans many lines Gmail adds newline character making me unable to copy the command directly to the terminal. Is there a good solution to this problem? AI: You can use a Pastebin or jsfiddle.
H: How do you view the file size of a video in a webpage? I am using Chrome and was trying to inspect a Flash video to check the file size and could not find it using the built in developer tools. Is there a way in Chrome, as well as other browsers? How about for HTML 5 videos? Edit: As an aside, Chrome only seems to get the filesize of cached items, so no streaming video (unless it is cached once it is fully loaded, I assume) AI: For HTML5 there is currently no DRM or copyright implemented natively in the browser, so most (90%+) sites using it will have videos that can be downloaded by right-clicking on the video and choosing "Download" or by viewing the source and searching for the file... For HTML5 try the following to search for extensions after doing a "View Source" and in the text finder CTRL+F type: .mp4 or .m4v .ogg or .ogv .webm For Flash-based content, try a browser plugin for FireFox like Video DownloadHelper to download and see the exact size on disk: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/video-downloadhelper/ If you just want to estimate the size without downloading, try: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/live-http-headers/ If that doesn't give you want you want, for a more heavy duty Network monitoring desktop application tool the best I know of is WireShark
H: How do I keep my Facebook friends list and befriending notifications to myself? I don’t want anyone to either see my friends list or to be notified of who I become friend with. I only want those two pieces of information limited to me. How can I do this? AI: You can prevent people from viewing your Friend List by following these steps: Go to Account → Privacy Settings In the Connecting on Facebook section click View Settings On the See your Friend List click the box to the right hand side and select Customize In the drop down box next to These people select Only Me Click Save Setting I don't think it is possible to prevent the notification being posted to your wall though. To hide your friends list under Timeline: Go to you Timeline Click on your friends list in the upper box In the friends list window, click on Edit in the upper-right side In the drop-down menu, click on the icon in the upper-right corner In the menu that appears, choose Only Me
H: How do I set the privacy for a single pic/photo in Facebook? I want to restrict viewing of one of my single uploaded pic on Facebook. How do I do that? AI: Photo permissions are set on an album basis. You need to put the photo in its own album, or in an album with other photos that you want to have the same permissions, and set the permissions on that album (Account » Privacy Settings » Customize settings » Edit privacy settings for existing photo albums and videos).
H: Filtering Apache mailing list emails in Gmail I've just subscribed to an Apache mailing list and would like to filter out the incoming emails. How do I create a filter to only receive the answers to my messages and not all posts from other users? If this is not possible, how can I just receive the mails with [digester] as the subject line prefix? AI: In Gmail create a filter: 1. In "Create Filter" write into Subject: -[digester] and into "Has the words" write list:[email protected] (depending to which list you are subscribed to) 2. In the next step select "Delete it" This will delete all mails received from the mailing list that do not contain [digester] in the subject the moment they arrive into your inbox. UPDATE: I couldn't find a way to filter by In-Reply-To or References email header used by the mailing list to create threads but you could try something like this: list:[email protected] (subject:(-[digester]) OR [email protected]) This will keep also mails that contain your email address somewhere and so are likely to be replies to you.
H: Less intrusive equivalent of eightbit.me If I understand well, eightbit.me is a service to transform pictures, especially for use as avatars, into "8bit"-style pictures. Looks like this service requires access to my Twitter. Are there equivalent services that does not require this? (Side question: Is it possible that these avatars are totally computer-generated? They seems to have a kind of artistic sense.) AI: There doesn't appear to be any other service that provides this functionality. You could just sign up and create your Avatar and then revoke the Application access in http://twitter.com/settings/connections You can also create these types of images using PhotoShop - a simple Google search will provide you with lots of sites with tutorials on how to do this. According to this article on CrunchBase the images are created using pure CSS & HTML. Eightbit.me will be a service to help people create 8-bit avatars. The first idea was to use images with very few selections and to use pure HTML / JS to create the characters. Inspired by an 8-bitted Dribbble post by UK artist and designer Harry Harrison, San Francisco interactive designers Addison Kowalski, Amadeus Demarzi and Courtney Guertin took the idea to the next level by 8 bit-ing their Twitter avatars, which inevitably went viral among the tech set. Eightbit.me is the result.
H: How to get a notification when a webpage is updated? I have to monitor a page for changes, but the page has no feeds. I was using Yahoo Pipes to generate a RSS for pages like that. But it is too cumbersome just to check if the main HTML checksum has changed. Is there a tool that does that for me? AI: ChangeDetection and ChangeDetect provide these services for you. They are both free and both provide email notifications.
H: Getting the RSS feed for Wikipedia articles I've created Is it possible to get a RSS feed for the new articles I've created on Wikipedia? AI: You can get the feed if you check out the New pages watch and filter for your name only. Toolbox > Special Pages > Recent changes and logs > New pages Enter your Wikipedia handle in the Username: field Hit Go You'll then get results showing all the newly created pages started by that username. Grab the "Special:New pages" Atom feed that is created for that result output. The URL for that will look like this: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:NewPages&feed=atom&hideliu=&hidepatrolled=&hidebots=&hideredirs=1&limit=50&namespace=0&username=USERNAME Replace USERNAME in the above with yours.
H: How can I watch a YouTube video in slow motion? I have been watching a fast-moving video that I'd really love to dissect in slow motion (half or quarter speed; frame-by-frame isn't necessary in this case). Is there a quick and easy way to accomplish this? AI: You need to join the YouTube HTML 5 beta program and have a compatible browser. The playback options are as follows Make sure to inspect all restrictions as not all YouTube videos can be played via HTML5.
H: How to send mail via a Google Apps account without it ending up in spam? Apologies if this is the wrong Stack Exchange site; moderators please advise and move this question if needed... I have a website which I set up with Google Apps. Thus, I changed the DNS records (the MX records) to use Google's mail servers; in other words, when mail is received by my domain it is properly received by Google and ends up in the Google Apps mail app for my domain. But almost every mail I send from my email which is received by a Gmail address (which is the vast majority of them), ends up in the spam box of the recipient. I am using my personal email account and taking advantage of the ability to send from multiple accounts, but I have set up the SMTP settings to use smtp.gmail.com with my custom domain email and not to just use my personal email as the forwarding email address. This, according to any Google Apps instructions I can find, is the correct SMTP server settings. I am using this email as a support email for my Android apps; I can't afford for my replies to go in spam and my customers to assume that I didn't reply to them! This has happened several times now and each time I waited a day or two and then re-sent the mail from my personal email and got a response saying they never got the first email (from the Google Apps domain email address). How in the world is Google flagging its own hosted email accounts as spam? They are simple plaintext messages, in fact they are always replies to messages sent explicitly to the email, so why in the world are they being marked as spam and what can I do about it?? AI: If you are not already using SPF and DKIM to authenticate your email, these can help it get past some spam filters. SPF identifies the servers that are authorized to send mail from your domain. If all mail sent from the domain is sent through Google Apps, see this page for instructions on creating an SPF record. DKIM is used to add a digital signature to your message headers so that the recipient's mail system can verify its authenticity. See this page for instructions on enabling DKIM in Google Apps. Neither of these guarantees that your messages will not be marked as spam, but they should help, assuming that your domain does not have a reputation for sending spam. (If users frequently report mail from your domain as spam then authenticating the message as being from your domain could actually hurt.)
H: POP is enabled from 2006, want to have it marked enabled from 2005 I have been using Gmail since mid 2005 and didn't realize that I had to activate POP manually. So my POP access is enabled only from 2006 November. With the recent outages, I want to backup using POP and not IMAP cause that doesn't do much anyway. Is there anyway I could get Google to reset my POP Access enabled date to 2005 from 2006? I know it sounds crazy. AI: If you want to backup your Gmail, it's perfectly fine to do it using IMAP. In Windows, try with Gmail Backup. In Linux, offlineimap is excellent software for that. As of POP settings, in Gmail->Mail settings->Forwarding and POP/IMAP, you can choose That should enable access to earlier emails too.
H: Is there a way to fetch all of my tweets and save them on my computer? The place I work at had a big convention last year in December (2010) and we heavily promoted participants to use twitter to interact online. Now I am trying to go back and see if I can fetch all the tweets that used the convention hashtag and possibly save a copy locally. I did twitter search but it does not go as far back to see the tweets. Is there a way to search this far back in Twitter? AI: The following applications are able to save all your tweets to your computer: MKTwitter is a nice free, open source application which lets you connect to your Twitter account and save your Tweets to your computer. No hassle, no knowledge required. Just download it, run it and you are done. Tweetake is another website which connect to your Twitter account. The website is rather barebone but the way it works is really …great! In fact, thanks to it you will be able to save all your Twitter details and information. Its options let you backup the following things: Followers, Friends, Favorites, Your Tweets, Everything! As a result, the website will return you with a CVS file which you can open using Office Excel. TwitterBackup is a free javascript application. Again, thanks to it you will be able to backup all your Twitter account. The nice thing about this application is that everything will be saved in a XML file which is completely compatible with Office Excel. TweetBackup is a web utility which, as its name suggests, is able to save your Tweets somewhere else. Other features include: daily backups, friend list backup, no installation required, very easy to understand, very easy User Interface, set-it and forget about it procedure.
H: Can gmail's archive feature save storage? If we archive a mail in gmail, is storage saved? I mean, is the file compressed well? Gmail can search in archived mail. If it was really compressed, the searching was very hard job. But they can. So I'm very curious about what gmail's archive mean. AI: Google is probably doing something to save space. Maybe they are indexing and then compressing (older) emails. But your space usage is counted from non-compressed emails. So in short: archiving do not save your space at all. Whole point of "Archive" is to move email from inbox. Point is that whatever is in your inbox is something important you should react on, and other things are archived.
H: Sending an Outlook invitation from Gmail Someone asked me to send them an Outlook invitation. I'm not on Outlook and don't want to set up an email account just to send them an invitation. Is there a way to send an Outlook invitation from Gmail? AI: There is no specific invite for an Outlook user within the default Gmail interface. Since you can send a calendar invitation within Gmail now testing the behavior of Outlook should be trivial. Generally speaking varying clients such as Outlook, Lotus Notes, Thunderbird, etc... acknowledge the invites from a differing client; however in some cases they don't. Based on information from this thread it appears that at least towards the end of 2007 they stopped working; going from Gmail to Outlook. The best option is to simply send a standard calendar invitation within Gmail to see how Outlook responds.
H: How do I see local trends for my (unsupported?) location in Twitter? The options for 'local trends' on Twitter are very limited: I count 20 countries + world wide and 21 cities. Are there more 'official' local trend options or is that it? Is there a planned timeframe for New Zealand (or other countries) to be added? AI: There is a small notice when you use the old Twitter. Don't see your location? We're working on it And from Support If you don't see your country or city, it means we're not receiving enough tweets from that geographical area to create a quality list. Locations are not manually decided, but displayed dynamically based on tweet volume. Try TrendsMap for the time being http://trendsmap.com/local/new+zealand http://trendsmap.com/?ll=-40.9006_174.886&z=5 I am not sure how reliable it is for I am not from NZ.
H: Is there a screencast recording application like screenr.com that allows more than 5 minutes? Screenr.com is a site that allows you to very easily create screencast videos, with no download/install (Java) and the ability to embed videos on your own site. However, it limits videos to 5 minutes in length. Is there a similar web application service which allows a longer video length? AI: I can't comment yet, so I'll put it here. Don't know about screencast web services, but if you are on linux you could use ffmpeg to grab the screen for all the time you want ffmpeg -f alsa -ac 2 -i pulse -f x11grab -r 30 -s 1024x768 -i :0.0 -sameq output.mkv Then upload to your favourite video hosting service
H: Adsense with Google App Domain? I'm trying to login to google.com/adsense with my Google Apps credentials, but it says the service is not available for that domain. I've been looking in the apps Dashboard how to activate it with no luck. I need to setup Adsense for content for the website with that Google Apps domain. Any ideas? AI: You should be avable now to do that because Google has just change the way thay Google App Domin works wicth means it now should support it.
H: How can I label conversations in Gmail using only the keyboard? I don't like using the mouse. It's slower than knowing keyboard shortcuts really well and using them. I want to label conversations in my Gmail inbox using only the keyboard. Couldn't find anything useful in the Gmail keyboard shortcut list. Is there any way to do it? Even customizing it myself with something like Greasemonkey? AI: To label the currently open mail, press L and start typing the label. Matching labels will appear as you type, so you can just navigate to the one you want (using arrow keys) and press Enter. To label AND archive the mail at the same time, press V instead of L and follow the same procedure. In the mail list view, use J and K to move up and down the list (the tiny arrow to the left of each item will move), press X to select one or more mails and then use L or V to add labels.
H: Cut parts of a video from YouTube I uploaded a 10 min video to YouTube, but I am only interested in some "intervals" like the one between minute 4 to 5. Are there online editors that allow to "cut" it, and upload it to YouTube again? AI: YouTube itself has an editor that can be used with uploaded videos to: Trim clips Combine videos Add music Insert transitions Rotate clips
H: Filter/hide online news that match criteria I read the news through some of the most important online newspapers. I am tired of reading always some of the most boring (for me) news that include always the same words; "football", "crisis", "Obama", etc. Is there some kind of Firefox plugin or whatever that filters the newspaper's site and hides all news that contain these words on the title or text (at different depth levels) of the article? AI: I don't know plug-in or extension that does it for you, but you can always use Google News and instead of filtering out, you can choose what's you're interested in by choosing custom sections from the Google News Directory.

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