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H: Automatic Gmail labels based on sender
Is there some way to make Gmail apply a label to incoming mail automatically based on the sender? For instance if Bob is my client, and all contact I have with Bob is work-related, can I make Gmail automatically apply the label 'CLIENT' to all incoming messages from Bob?
I would also be interested in a similar feature based on the recipient email address because I use my Gmail to check several accounts.
AI: Sure. You need to create a filter.
Matches: from:([email protected])
Do this: Apply label "CLIENT"
Matches: to:([email protected])
Do this: Apply label "non-work related" |
H: Automated periodic backup of Google Apps (email, docs, calendar)?
I'm a big fan of Google Docs for SME, having used it for two years in my current company, set it up for a startup project, and recommending it to folks starting a business.
While it takes away much of the pain and cost of providing these services locally, there is the nagging issue of not having a comprehensive 3rd party disaster recovery system in place. This was highlighted to me by a recent blog post from e1lven.com titled Why no company that values their data should EVER “Go Google”.
Google has a couple of stop gap, partial measures (like automatic forwarding of emails to another address). But there does not seem any native-Google approach to backup Google Apps data.
Are there any automated periodic backup services for Google Apps data?
AI: I use backupify for online backups of gmail, flickr, twitter etc. There also appears to be a version for google apps(business version so you'll probably pay for it) but it's a great service and I've restored from it before. |
H: Entering an old password to log into Facebook
I recently changed my password and well ... I was very attached to the previous one. Now every I time I log in, I keep entering the old one by mistake.
Sorry! You Entered An Old Password
Your password was changed from either this computer, or another computer on the same network that you are currently on, at
How many times can I enter the old password and keep getting this notice.
Or does this notice go away after a while and returns "incorrect password". For example, if I change my password every week, is Facebook keeping the last password or all passwords I have ever used and still serve this notice ?
AI: What happens if you change your password again and then you enter your original password?
This will tell you whether it's just the previous password or a whole history of passwords. You'd have to keep changing the password to see how many - not that I'm advocating that you do that of course.
If they implement a scheme where your last "N" passwords have to be unique then they will need to store this information, otherwise you could just alternate between two passwords which is only marginally more secure than keeping the same password all the time. |
H: If a Tumblr blog is deleted, is the subdomain available again for re-registration?
I have a blog on Tumblr (not my primary blog) which I wanted to delete and re-register under a new email ID, so that the two accounts are separate. But if I delete it, will the subdomain be available for registration again - or is it like WordPress.com, which doesn't allow the same name to be registered again?
AI: I just went ahead and created a throwaway account to test this. Yes, once a subdomain is deleted or renamed, it becomes available again for registration on Tumblr. |
H: How to retrieve a stolen Yahoo account's password?
One of my friends just got hacked on her PC and her Yahoo account password was stolen. Now the hacker use her account under her name for bad reason. He may have change alternative email, security question, etc.
What can we do about that? We need her account back. Is it possible?
ps. I tried to google search for Yahoo contact information but I'm not sure where to knock Yahoo door.
AI: From here:
How to recover your Hacked Yahoo! Account:
“To be able to reset your hacked yahoo
password just send a mail to Yahoo
Security Department –
[email protected].
always remember to be polite in
contacting them, tell the whole story,
don’t blame them for your hacked
account, tell them when is the last
time you access your account, supply
them the password that you last used
to accessed your account, give them
all the information you entered when
you register your account or just the
information when you last update your
account.” |
H: Does Bitbucket have a dark theme/night mode (an option for light text on a dark background)
I’ve been using Bitbucket for a while now, and I find it a bit jarring going between working on my code, where I use a light-on-dark colour scheme, and Bitbucket’s bright white pages.
Does Bitbucket have an option to set the entire site to a darker colour scheme?
Eight years later: or, alternatively, any support for dark mode. See also https://charlesrt.uk/blog/the-dark-web-rises/
AI: You can change the theme used by following these steps:
Log in to BitBucket
Navigate to a Repository
Click the Admin tab
In the top right hand pane select Appearance Settings
Choose your highlight style from the drop down (you can preview the new style on the right hand side)
Click Save Settings
Themes without a white background are:
Grey
Friendly
Manni
Black
Fruity
Native
Beige
Perldoc
EDIT
I don't believe there is way to change the overall theme for BitBucket within their settings but you could use StyleBot (a Google Chrome plugin) to change the CSS. StyleBot instantly changes the CSS and persists your changes for future visits. |
H: Bulk email service that handles sending an email based on time since the user signed up
Is there a bulk email service (like MailChimp) that lets you set up emails based on the date that the user signs up (like a weekly course) or based on a user-entered date (like a count-down to a birthday)?
AI: The term you want is an email 'autoresponder'. Most of the SaaS email programs have them.
Mailchimp: http://www.mailchimp.com/features/autoresponders/
Aweber: http://www.aweber.com/autoresponders.htm
GetResponse: http://www.getresponse.com/features#followUpMessages
Constant Contact: http://www.constantcontact.com/email-marketing/features/index.jsp
Features will differ from provider to provider. The right choice for you depends on your particular needs. |
H: How to reply to Facebook wall posts?
If someone posts on your Facebook Wall, is the standard way to reply as a comment on that wall post or as a wall post on that person's wall?
AI: The standard way would be to reply as a comment, as this would appear below the person's post in his/her wall. If you post on his wall he will have dig in through all posts to make sense out of what you have posted. |
H: How to make my blog site visible in Google Search
I created a blog site a long time ago, but it is still not visible in Google Search.
Please can anyone guide me?
AI: Sign up for Google's Webmaster Tools and describe your site therein.
Even better, have your blog auto-create a sitemap.xml and submit that to Google (using the aforementioned Webmaster tools). My blog gets indexed within hours if not minutes after each posting. |
H: How do I change the interface language in Google Groups?
Today I logged into Google Groups and, to my horror, that the interface language changed to Hebrew, probably because I'm accessing the site from Israel. (I speak Hebrew, but rather not use it on the computer.)
How do I change the language? I couldn't find any link for changing it to English.
AI: Place ?hl=en before the # sign in the URL. For example:
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!overview
Becomes:
https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=en#!overview |
H: Filtering Twitter feeds - removing @ posts from the feed
Is there a way to filter Twitter feeds so that I do not see the @replies of a given user?
For example, I [generally] do not want to see the "@reply thanks"-type messages from companies to followers.
AI: Interesting, I don't think you can see those replies in your timeline unless you follow both users unless they precede @ with a next character. You may want to check @support
".@twitter the whale is huge"
The above is just an update with a mention as opposed to a reply.
You can use a userscript such as Tweetfilter and choose filter all replies. |
H: How can I get MediaWiki and WordPress to share login credentials in an intranet?
We have several products that our staff are required to login to in order to use.
Is there a way to get MediaWiki and WordPress to utilize the same login information without manually setting each product to the same username and password combination?
AI: Try the solution here - AuthWordpress:
Sharing WordPress session cookie with MediaWiki (Stack Overflow) |
H: Export all Content Pages in Analytics
How would I export all the records from Google Analytics on the content page? Right now I am limited to 500 at a time.
AI: Par for the course, found the answer directly after posting. You do this as follows:
Load the content page
Add &limit=123456789 to the end of the query string and hit enter
Click "Export"
Click "CSV" - NB - Don't use CSV for Excel!
Thats all folks. |
H: Any difference in audio quality for various YouTube video resolutions?
Some music videos on YouTube are available in more than one resolution.
Do they all have the same audio quality? Or do the videos with larger resolution have better audio?
AI: Wikipedia has a table with different conversions and also the audio related to them.
As of Jan 2013
Quality and codecs
I'm sure the sound quality might have to do a lot with flash player as well, but I'm no expert on that. |
H: Is there any point in using Gmail alias to prevent spam?
I'm thinking of starting another Gmail account for the "less important" things that I need to register with (random websites, subscriptions etc)
That is until I realized you can use Gmail alias.
But whilst I think it will be useful for re-routing things to seperate folders, is it useful for keeping out spam?
I would've thought all spammers need to do is to add a rule - "if domain == gmail.com, then remove everything after the plus sign" in order to get to your real address?
AI: The spammers might possibly do that, but I doubt it. I find Gmail's spam filters are so good I don't need to worry about it.
One thing it is useful for is to find those companies/entities that play fast-and-loose with your e-mail address. When I get e-mail sent to [email protected] from some other website, I know that website1 gave away (or sold!) my e-mail address and I'm not likely to continue my relationship with that entity (or the site that bought it, for that matter). |
H: Send & Delete in Gmail
Is there any way to add "Send & Delete" button in Gmail like "Send & Archive" which can be enabled in Labs? Any add-ons, extensions or Greasemonkey script will do.
AI: There's nothing in Labs to do this at this time.
Depending on what you're after, you might be able to get close using filters. Create a filter that looks for a particular string in the content ("Contains:"). Make the string something innocuous that no one would ever think to put in a message (something like ///d\\\). Then set your filter to delete any such message.
When you send a message with that string in it the message will get labelled "Trash" (as if you'd deleted it yourself).
Two possible complications
If the recipient replies and quotes your "tag" the message will go straight to Trash. If they don't it won't
If you use this to reply to a message, the reply will go to Trash, but the original won't. It doesn't delete the whole thread
Depending on what you're trying to accomplish these may or may not be a problem. |
H: How can I find unread emails in Gmail?
According to Gmail, I've got one unread email in my inbox.
How do I find it without browsing through the entire inbox?
AI: Search for;
label:unread
OR
is:unread
in your Gmail search box.
Other Gmail search operators can be found here;
http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=7190
Hope this helps |
H: Gmail in Windows Live Mail
I am using Windows Live Mail and configured Gmail. But I am receiving 2 copies of every mail. How can I remove that? In the web view of Gmail I am just receiving one email, while Live Mail is showing several copies of the same mail.
AI: Since you have not explained how you have configured GMail and Windows Live Mail, I'll list the steps to set this up below.
If you confirm whether this matches what you've done, this might enable others to help?
Access a Gmail Account in Windows Live Mail Using IMAP
Make sure IMAP access is enabled in Gmail.
Select Go | Mail from the menu in Windows Live Mail.
Hold down the Alt key if you cannot see the menu bar.
Click Add an e-mail account at the bottom of the list.
Type your Gmail address under E-mail address:.
Type your Gmail password under Password:.
Enter your name under Display Name:.
Make sure Automatically determine my login ID is checked. (You can verify it is working correctly if the local part, i.e. what comes before the @, in your Gmail address appears under Login ID:.)
Type your Gmail password under Password:.
Make sure Manually configure server settings for e-mail account. is checked.
Click Next.
Make sure IMAP is selected under My incoming mail server is a _ server.
Enter "imap.gmail.com" under Incoming server:.
Make sure This server requires a secure connection (SSL) is checked under Incoming - Server Information.
Type "smtp.gmail.com" under Outgoing server:.
Make sure This server requires a secure connection (SSL) is also checked under Outgoing Server Information.
Also check My outgoing server requires authentication.
Type "465" for Port: under Outgoing Server Information.
Click Next.
Now click Finish.
Click OK.
Select Tools | Accounts... from the menu.
Highlight the Gmail account in the list.
Click Properties.
Go to the IMAP tab.
Enter "[Gmail]#Sent Mail" (not including the quotation marks) under Sent Items path:.
Type "[Gmail]#Drafts" under Drafts path:.
Type "[Gmail]#Trash" under Deleted Items path:.
Enter "[Gmail]#Spam" under Junk path:.
Click OK.
Click Close.
Shut down Windows Live Mail.
Source: How to Access a Gmail Account in Windows Live Mail |
H: How can I get GOOGLEFINANCE to return only the historical price of a stock and not an array?
I'm trying to figure out the cost basis of some stock that I sold last year and I can't quite get GOOGLEFINANCE to do what I want. The stock was purchased through a DRIP so there are about five shares that get added every quarter over a long period of time.
I have the settlement dates and number of shares but, before 2003, I don't have the purchase price. So, I'm trying to use the GOOGLEFINANCE function to figure out the price but if I write
=GoogleFinance("GOOG", "PRICE", 3/3/2000)
I get a 2x2 array rather than just the historical price.
Is there any way to chain GOOGLEFINANCE into another function that would return just the value in the lower right cell?
AI: No, it is not possible. You can however just reference the lower right cell in another cell.
so if you got back from Google:
A1: "Date" B1: "Close"
A2: "3/3/2000" B2: "55.22"
A3: "Date" B3: "Close"
A4: "3/4/2000" B4: "58.44"
Set cell C1 =B2 and cell C2 =B4
and the results will be:
C1: 55.22
C2: 58.44
you could also put the query in one google doc and then reference it from another google doc if you really wanted to separete the data. |
H: Queue up a list of YouTube videos in succession
Sometimes I like to watch YouTube while doing something else, like washing up or doing exercise.
Is there an easy way to queue up a string of YouTube videos and have them play one after the other?
AI: Every thumbnail in YouTube has a plus sign in the top bottom corner that appears when you mouse over it. Clicking it will add the video to a queue visible at the bottom of the screen. |
H: How can we have two Gmail accounts open on an iPad?
I love the Gmail iPad web interface, but my girlfriend loves it too.
How could we both use Gmail on the iPad without having to login/logout all the time to switch accounts?
AI: Different browsers. iCab or Atomic. Then just agree keep one browser for you and another for your girlfriend. |
H: Is there a way to obtain an embed link for a Google Drawings?
I have a drawing in Google Docs Drawings, and I would like to embed a PNG/GIF of it in a web page, but I would like the embedded image to remain up to date with any changes made to the drawing.
Is there a way to do this?
It wouldn't matter if the image was only updated once per day or something, by the way. Ideally I would like something like this:
<img src="docs.google.com/drawing/png?docid=123456789123456789&width=400&height=200"/>
AI: From the File menu choose Publish to the web.... Choose an image size, then click the Publish button. Click OK to confirm and you will get a URL suitable for the src attribute in an img tag. |
H: Cancel Carbonite Pro account
Does anyone know how one would go about canceling a Carbonite Pro Account?
Do I have to call? Or is there a web-interface way to do this?
AI: The way I went about this is I started a chat with Carbonite (non pro support).
They then switched me to a Carbonite Pro agent.
The information I needed to cancel my account was:
Name of company holding the account
Last four (4) digits of card used to pay for account
Name on card
Billing Address
Written (in the chat) confirmation that your backed up data will be deleted
And then I had to wait about 10 minutes for the account to be deleted. |
H: What happens to my events when I change my time zone on Google Calendar?
I am currently living in the Pacific US time zone, but I may be doing a summer internship in Eastern time zone, which is 3 hours ahead. What will happen to the existing events when I change my time zone on Google Calendar? Will they remain at the same absolute time or will they shift 3 hours forward in absolute time so that they remain at the same clock time in my new time zone?
AI: They will shift to match the time zone when you created the event. For example an event at 15:00 in pacific time will remain at 15:00 in pacific time, but in your new time zone will be shown at 18:00 in eastern time zone. |
H: FB private messages from email
Given that I know user's email address (full name, address and some more info) and I know that this user used his email to register on FB. Is it possible to send private message to the user in question using his email?
AI: No. Using email address you can send email to the user. |
H: Twitter RSS feed
Possible Duplicate:
How do you find a Twitter RSS feed?
How can you get an RSS feed of your own tweets from Twitter? The official Twitter page says they no longer support it. What third-party feed software do you use?
AI: You can use Google Reader to fetch RSS feeds from twitter. Just remove #! from https://twitter.com/#!/username and paste the URL in "Add a Subscription" field in Google Reader. In fact Google Reader will also give you the actual feed URL in form of https://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/xxxxxxxxx.rss if you click upon "Show Details" on the right side of feeds page. |
H: How do I add a new contact to Highrise via email?
Sometimes I get partnership offers from people but I'm not ready to work with them yet.
I'd like to have an easy way to add them to Highrise (the 37 signals app) and tag them.
Can I do that?
AI: You can email a contact into Highrise using your 'Highrise Dropbox' email address. You can find this address in Settings > My Info > Email dropbox.
You can bcc Highrise when communicating with a prospect, or you can forward an email from the prospect to your Highrise dropbox. If the contact exists, Highrise will attach the email to their case. If the contact doesn't exist, Highrise will create it automatically.
See the Highrise demo here:
http://highrisehq.com/emaildropbox
I don't think you can tag them at the same time, but you can create a Highrise task (to remind you to tag them) using the process above. |
H: How to mark all unread email as read on Hotmail?
I have around 2,000 emails as unread in Hotmail.
How can I mark all of then as read in one go?
AI: It's rather easy. You just put a check mark on the box in top left side (just beside 'Show:') of email list. It selects all mails in the view. Then hotmail will provide you an option just above list of mails: "xx items selected. Select everything in your ???? folder". Just click 'Select Everything'. Click upon "Mark As > Read" on the topmost bar. The operation will be done in seconds. |
H: Twitter + Delicious?
Okay, I may be revealing my ignorance here, but I can't seem to find an answer. I recently got a Delicious account. However, I post a lot of links on Twitter as well. I hardly ever post to both. The result? When I want to find previous links/bookmarks, it's often more hassle than it's worth.
So my question: Is there any way to search my Twitter/Delicious links at the same time?
AI: Trunk.ly
Greplin is great, but Delicious isn't supported yet ("coming soon"). |
H: When connecting Twitter and Facebook, can posts be filtered?
I have both Facebook and Twitter accounts. I also use Linkedin.
If I want a tweet to appear in my LinkedIn profile, I add the hashtag #in.
Is there a way to do something similar with feeding Facebook from Twitter, so that not every tweet gets copied?
AI: You can use an application like Selective Tweets or TweetPo.st so your tweets ending with hashtag #fb will be automatically imported to Facebook, while all others will be ignored. |
H: How to communicate a position as a Google Maps URL?
I'd like to show someone a specific point on Google Maps. How can I put down a pin (and remove all other pins) and get a URL of the resulting map?
AI: You can also share the map by centering your view on the location you right-click. Once this is done, you can then link to the maps by clicking the link icon (looks like a chain segment) in the upper right corner. This will re-create your viewed location anytime you go to the URL it gives you. |
H: What is "Blog Mode" and "Sticky" in StumbleUpon?
When I create a new favorite in StumbleUpon, is see two checkboxes Blog Mode and Sticky but no definition of what they mean or why I might want to use them.
What do these choices mean?
AI: It's the difference posting a normal review of a site you've stumbled or a blog post just to shoot the breeze. The sticky option is like forums or blog welcome notices, tacked on and sitting high atop the rest of the posts.
Blog mode let's you make a post that is other than a review of a stumble - a regular "blog" entry, if you like.
Sticky mode makes a review or a blog entry stay at the top of your reviews page.
StumbleUpon Community Support Staff
You'll also see that when you select the Blog mode checkbox, the label "URL" changes to "Title" to go along with the blog post. |
H: How to open Google Cached version of a URL
I have a URL http://raw.fotosite.pl/ which seems broken. I want to view its cached version if cached by Google/any other web caching site.
In Google advanced search is there any special keyword/search directive that I can use to find the cached version of this site.
Is there any other site which caches web pages and displays back dated versions of them.
AI: The query cache:url will display
Google’s cached version of a web page,
instead of the current version of the
page. For example, [
cache:www.eff.org ] will show
Google’s cached version of the
Electronic Frontier Foundation home
page.
Note: Do not put a space between
cache: and the URL (web address).
However, when I try the web site you referred, Google does not open any cached version. That must be because Google has not been caching that site. However, it brings a cached version if you use cache:www.fotosite.pl instead of cache:raw.fotosite.pl. |
H: Creating one Facebook page for two or more blogs
I write two blogs, one in blogger and another in Wordpress. I found out that I can insert the blog URL in 'Notes' of a facebook page and import the posts. I was wondering if there is any way to post updates from two separate blogs into a single page automatically.
AI: I have tried to use Yahoo Pipes to do this...but I didn't do it right...I assume one could accomplish this by creating a combined feed and importing THAT feed in to your notes section.
I do not know how to do that though. but I am sure it is possible this way. |
H: How to hide specific education in LinkedIn profile?
Is there a way to hide specific school in LinkedIn profile?
I mean hide not completely remove.
AI: No, it is currently not possible.
And knowing LinkedIn, I wouldn't expect it to be, either. |
H: How can I get a confirmation email when the other party has received and when they have read my email?
I want to know how can I get a confirmation email when the other party has received and when they have read my email ?
I use Roundcube as email reader/sender.
AI: Here's a list of services that claim to do that. Never used any of them, so I can't tell how good they are. |
H: How can I get Firefox to remember passwords for banking sites?
I wish for Firefox v4 to ask to remember passwords on Windows 7 for many banking sites that somehow cause this feature to be suppressed. Is there a way in Firefox or a plug-in that will allow these passwords to also be remembered?
AI: Go to your Firefox components folder. The default path is
C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\components
Now open the file nsLoginManager.js with a text viewer (Notepad or Notepad++).
Go to the function at around line 804 (varies with version of Firefox), which is:
/*
* _isAutoCompleteDisabled
*
* Returns true if the page requests autocomplete be disabled for the
* specified form input.
*/
_isAutocompleteDisabled : function (element) {
if (element && element.hasAttribute("autocomplete") &&
element.getAttribute("autocomplete").toLowerCase() == "off")
return true;
return false;
},
Now comment out the first 3 lines, so it becomes:
/*
* _isAutoCompleteDisabled
*
* Returns true if the page requests autocomplete be disabled for the
* specified form input.
*/
_isAutocompleteDisabled : function (element) {
/*if (element && element.hasAttribute("autocomplete") &&
element.getAttribute("autocomplete").toLowerCase() == "off")
return true;*/
return false;
},
Save it, restart Firefox and you're done. |
H: Can Gmail automatically base "send from" address on the "to" address?
In short:
In Gmail, is there a way to let the "send from" address change automatically depending on which of my accounts it was sent to?
In long:
I recently joined a team (of developers) and they provided me with an email address on their domain (for if I have business with a client or something).
Anything sent to [email protected] is forwarded by the team.com mail server
I'm using Gmails "send mail as" functionality to send email through smtp.team.com.
I receive emails and I can send them, so that works
I have my default "send as" address setup as [email protected], which I would like to keep since I send 90% of my mail through there.
Now I'm wondering how to do the following, if at all possible:
when I receive an email at [email protected] (as opposed to [email protected]), and I reply to it, my "send as" address will change automatically to [email protected]
I can do it manually, but I know I'm going to forget sooner or later, confusing the hell out of people since the team lets me use a pseudonym.
I hope my question makes sense, and I'm sure it's easily answered by a "no, not possible" or "yes, option X in tab Y".
AI: Yes
In your Gmail settings, under "Accounts and Import", if you have multiple "send mail as" accounts set up you can choose to always default to your Gmail account or to respond with the account to which the message was sent. |
H: Default to filter by Most Recent on Facebook profile
When I visit Facebook, the initial page is always Top News. Is there a way to make it display Most Recent as the default sort filter instead?
Even better if I can have it default to a specific filter in Most Recent.
AI: That's not possible at the moment, but you can bookmark this URL which will always take you to Most Recent:
http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=lf
Another bet would be to use a browser add-on that can achieve this:
Better Facebook is a FREE browser
extension that improves Facebook by
adding lots of great enhancements and
functionality!
Facebook "Most recent" by default
is a plugin which automatically
switches to "Most recent" instead of
"Top news" when you first enter
Facebook. |
H: How to have better quoting in Gmail?
When replying email in rich text format, Gmail behaves like Outlook and encourages me to write the reply at the top. The problem is I want to write my reply between the paragraphs of the previous email text.
If I choose plain text, Gmail adds ">" on the left of each line, which is good, but the quoted text is kept as a single very long line of text. Gmail doesn't break the line into several lines after 70/80 characters.
Is there an option or plugin or tool to customize how Gmail quote previous email?
AI: Answering my own question, it turned out the problem was during switching from rich formatting to plain text:
if previously I used plain text, Gmail will break long lines properly
if previously I used rich formatting, Gmail will quote Outlook style, and when I press 'plain text', Gmail will reformat the reply to plain text, but long lines are not broken
So the solution if previously I chose rich formatting is:
reply
click 'plain text'
discard
reply again |
H: Twitter user that tweets all messages containing a hashtag
I am using Echofon for Mac and wonder how can I get, through Growl, all new messages based on some hashtag. In the options it does not seem to be possible.
Another option would be to get new tweets from a user that tweets only about a certain hashtag, is it possible to create such user?
AI: You need to create a so called Twitter Bot which will tweet everything containing a certain hashtag.
There is a really good tutorial on this here. |
H: How to estimate the age of my Yahoo! Account
I'm trying to estimate how old my Yahoo! account is, but I can't find this information anywhere on my profile. Any idea on where this could be displayed or a way to guess it? Unfortunately, there's no old mail there to help me estimating it.
(It's the first account I've registered, ever, so I'm curious :D)
AI: Go to:
http://pulse.yahoo.com/
and click "Profile" on the left-hand side navigation. It will bring up your Yahoo! Profile page. In the upper right-hand corner, there is some small text that says Member since: ab/cd/efgh. |
H: Automatically filing emails in Gmail
In Gmail I can select an email and "Move to ASD" but I want to be able to do this automatically for new emails (that match certain criteria). I would want it to be "automatically marked as read" as well (since like doing filing).
Has anyone tried it before?
AI: Create a filter (see here if you don't know how) that applies the label ASD and select 'Skip the Inbox' |
H: How can I import existing emails into a new Google Apps email account?
I'm working on setting up a Google Apps account. As part of the switch, I'd like to import old emails for all users on the domain. I thought I could do this by using the mail fetcher functionality. However, when I try to do that, and enter the email address I want to fetch mail for, I get an error message:
The blacked out parts are the email address (which I'm also logged in as in the new Apps account).
Is there a way to import existing emails into this Apps account?
AI: The e-mail fetcher would only fetch new e-mails that are on the inbox of the POP account.
IMAP is the the way to go. Here's a quote from another guide:
It was simple: I merely added Gmail as an IMAP account to my Apple Mail client, then just dragged folder-by-folder all the messages important to me onto my Gmail account. It took a while to transfer all the messages (be sure to open the Activity window in Mail to see your progress), but once it was done, all my old messages were safely stored in Gmail and had their original dates! Perfect! |
H: Why on the first page Google says there are thousands of results but on the last page there are less than a hundred?
Why on the first page Google says there are thousands of results but on the last page there are less than a hundred?
That's kind of a recursive Google Search that should be self-explanatory. It did take me some time to tweak the sentence and trying to find a number which would correspond precisely, the reason why I changed it to "hundreds" instead! :P
If you have used Google long enough you certainly have stumbled on situations similar to this, many times. Whenever it shows less than 10 pages it's quite easy to see it. The point is: the number of results on any page except the last one seems like a terrible estimate.
What's even weirder, some random times the estimate suddenly becomes much better and almost exactly the same on all pages than it is on the last page - the only page that's always correct.
So, anyone knows why?
AI: I don't know the exact answer - perhaps no one outside of Google knows. But I have two data points which may be useful.
The first is XKCD's take on the issue:
So it really looks like there’s a certain threshold of result volume beyond which Google apparently says “screw it” and throws out a gigantic number. I imagine this is probably due to incompetence rather than intentional deception; I’m sure it’s hard to generate pages quickly from many sources, and maybe for searches with a lot of results they don’t have time to get it all synced up. So they fudge the numbers. The fact that this makes it look like they have way more results than they do is presumably just an unintended bonus.
The second data point is from a computer science professor I had who was quite curious about the issue and bothered some friends at Google about it. They told him that sometimes it becomes very expensive to figure out how many results were really returned from a search, so they just make a best guess and return the first page of results, which is all most people care about. Only when you actually start drilling down through the pages does Google bother to fully calculate the remaining pages.
So neither of these is a definitive answer, but hopefully they will be useful at explaining the kinds of issues that may be causing Google's inaccuracies.
EDIT:
Sathya's answer on this page has an answer from Google's Webmaster KB.
When you perform a search, the results
are often displayed with the
information: Results 1 - 10 of about
XXXX.
Google's calculation of the total
number of search results is an
estimate. We understand that a
ballpark figure is valuable, and by
providing an estimate rather than an
exact account, we can return quality
search results faster.
In addition, when you click on the
next page of search results, the total
number of search results can change.
In this case, we realize that some of
the query results are duplicates, and
collapse those duplicates so that you
can find the specific result you're
looking for more easily. Collapsing
the duplicates decreases the estimated
number of results, as well as the
overall number of results pages. |
H: Label several email addresses in Gmail in one go
How do I put a contact group label on several email address in bulk instead of putting a label in every email address one at a time.
For example: I have 100 email address and I want to create a contact group called "holidays 2011". I don't want to enter every email through the process of push "new contact" and write the email address" and push "groups" and looking for the label called "holidays 2011" between hundreds of labels and push "holidays 2011".
If I spend 7 seconds to complete the entire process for one contact, that means for 100 email address I am going to spend 700 seconds. Besides, to do it that way is very boring.
AI: Once you have created the contact group, you can add multiple email addresses or contacts at one time. To add email addresses, select the group on the left (which lists current members. Then click the Add to "groupname" button which will open a text box. Type in or paste in the addresses, separated by commas, and then click Add.
To add existing contacts to a group, you can click the check-box by those you want, and then select the group name from the Groups drop-down list. |
H: How, exactly, does a Facebook worm work?
I initially had assumed that a FB friend of mine was spreading a malicious link because she had innocently accepted an app and given it privileges, but she says that's not the case. See the exchange:
Friend: "Don't click on the link you got from me! It's infected! I got it from (name redacted)!!! I'm sorry! I gotta stop ****** around!"
Me: "You accepted an FB application. All you have to do is go to Account -> Privacy settings -> Apps and websites and un-accept the offending application. That's why I don't do FB apps, period."
Friend: it's not an app. not on the list...it's a worm
How does that work? JavaScript shenanigans when the person clicks on the link?
AI: Yes, exactly JavaScript. I just met such a worm and tried to decode it.
What the actual problem is:
The recent Facebook worm works by getting users to visit a page, which makes them insert a JavaScript string into their address bar and therefore executing it.
So, DON'T EVER copy some JavaScript code into your address bar. That's the main problem. And don't click any links you don't trust. Or at least open those links in a new window using the Privacy Mode (Firefox) or Incognito mode (Chrome) so that it won't be able to access your Facebook session.
What did our hackers do to make people not realize what they're doing?
Escaping the script
The string you copy into the URL bar mostly links to another JavaScript which is executed. This script is actually decoded into entities. So instead of using string characters, the whole script was put into a string and escaped so that no human could read it in the first place.
For example, if I had a very malicious function I'd escape it and the user would only see:
function%20test%28%29%20%7B%20alert%20%28%22LOL%22%29%3B%20%7D
and unescaped it would be
function test() { alert("LOL"); }
The script therefore unescapes "itself" before it is executed.
Obfuscating it
Now it's getting ugly: Before escaping it, the evil JavaScript code is obfuscated, with function names like _____x and variables like aLDIWEJ. This makes still sense for JavaScript, but it is entirely unreadable to humans. This is done, again, to mask the intentions of our Facebook hackers.
At this point, the code could have looked something like this:
What the script does
Well, what this script does is take your current Facebook session. Because you are logged into the site, it can do anything in your name. For example, things it can do through Facebook's API is:
creating an event like "OMG I can see who stalked me!"
chatting with people
posting status updates
etc.
This all happens by calling some of Facebooks API pages (some PHP pages, I forgot which). |
H: Metric units in Google Maps?
Is it possible to tell Google Maps to use metric units? I know that for instance the German version does use metric units, but I'd rather use the English one.
AI: When you select get directions a link shows up under the input boxes for the addresses for your query that is titled "Show Options". If you select that link you see two check boxes below and on the right of those is a section that says miles / km. You can switch between US standard and metric by selecting the appropriate unit. |
H: How to switch to Old Twitter
When I click on my username, there is the option "Switch to Old Twitter" but when I click on it, this URL opens with the following plain text:
403 Forbidden: The server understood
the request, but is refusing to
fulfill it.
What's going on? How can I switch to Old Twitter?
AI: I was getting the same error message too.
Clear your cookies and log in again - it should work then. I have provided a screen shot just so you know I am not making it up :)
EDIT
After a bit more digging it appears that there is an issue with Twitter. You can switch back to the old twitter but you have to use the link that appears in the blue banner at the top of the page.
If you try to use the option in the drop down called Switch to Old Twitter it won't work.
I think the reason for this is that it executes a HTTP POST with some hidden form values. One of these values is the authenticity_token. This value is not set for the drop down option. However, looking at the link in the banner, the value is set.
I suspect this is what is causing the problem.
By clearing your cookies your are forcing Twitter to display the banner which has the correct hidden form values set. This is what enables you to view the old twitter.
EDIT 2
This issue has now been fixed by Twitter and you can simply switch to the old version of Twitter using the drop down menu option. |
H: Recovering data lost in Google Apps transition
I use Google Apps for my domain. Until recently, I was required to sustain a Google Account separate from my Google Apps Account for products like Reader or Analytics. This changed when Google began a consolidation of such split accounts, ostensibly merging Account data into Apps Account Data. I have so called "conflicting" Accounts owing to my use of the same email address for both Accounts.
On forced transition day, however, I lost the data associated with my Reader and Analytics account. Both are now empty. Google's help forums have not been helpful. Moreover, the support documentation asserts that I should have:
been presented with a conflict resolution page, allowing me to change the account name on the non-Apps Account
been able to successfully consolidate data into the Apps Account.
Neither proved true. I am unable to login to my old Account and cannot rescue the Reader data meticulously collected over several years. Presumably Google still holds the data I so desire to export, but I cannot attract the attention of staff so that I might get my data.
What are my options?
AI: It might be a long shot, but try Twitter. I was able to get the attention of the right authorities which lead to a speedy resolution—they were different companies. |
H: Twitter profiler?
My Twitter is way too busy. I want to know who I can unfollow to reduce the highest amount of messages. The messages are so spread apart it's hard to tell. There are also retweets. Is there an app that will do this? Since the API is available, I suspect this has been done.
AI: Noisy Neighbours will inspect your timeline and provide you with a graph detailing your followers by number of tweets.
You need to authorise the Web App to read your Twitter timeline before using it.
EDIT
It appears that Noisy Neighbours no longer works an alternative is ManageFlitter
ManageFlitter will analyse your Twitter account and provide with details on:
who isn't following you back
inactive users
talkative users
quiet users
This should be a good start to help you trim down who you follow. |
H: Archive all messages in Gmail bearing the same label
I started using Gmail to read a high-traffic mailing list, and my inbox is swamped with these messages. I've successfully tagged all the messages with the same label ("Busy") and have a filter that will send future "Busy" messages straight to archive.
My inbox is still cluttered with hundreds of these things.
How can I select all the messages tagged "Busy" and archive them at one go?
AI: On the left hand side, click the Busy tag (or any other if you wish; it may be in a drop down) to bring up all of the messages with the selected label. Then on the top left of the messages pane, there will be a checkbox with a dropdown. Click the dropdown and select the All option. Now, under the More or More Options dropdown (upper right), select Archive. And you're done. |
H: How can I export all emails between myself and another person from Gmail, i.e., to send to a third party as a readable file?
I have had a large number of conversations about a project with another person using Gmail, and Gmail has effectively served to document the development process.
I would like to share these conversation with another colleague so that they can be reviewed and summarized.
What is the best way to do this?
AI: If it's all within a conversation, just forward it all.
If you've got too many spread conversations, your best bet might be giving them all a label and using your favorite IMAP Client to forward them. By labeling them you van easily select the messages that will be in an IMAP folder on your application.
There's still no way to do it within gmail, and it's even pre-listed as a suggestion. Go there and cast your vote for it! |
H: Does Gmail support return receipt?
Does Gmail support return receipt of an email ?
AI: This is not available using the usual web interface.
If you want read receipts you will have to activate POP3 access on your Gmail account and configure an email client that supports reciepts - such as MS Outlook, Outlook Express or Thunderbird.
If you want to stick with using the web interface you can sign up for ReadNotify this is a paid subscription service where by any email you send, you send it through their servers and they provide read receipts. They also provide other information and notifications. |
H: Only one editor of my MediaWiki
How can I configure MediaWiki so that I am the only one that will be able to edit content of MediaWiki?
AI: You'll want to disable editing for non-logged in users, disable registration, and disable editing for regular users (Just in case someone is already registered)
Put this at the bottom of your LocalSettings.php
# Disable editing and account creation for regular and anonymous users
$wgGroupPermissions['*']['edit'] = false;
$wgGroupPermissions['*']['createaccount'] = false;
$wgGroupPermissions['user']['edit'] = false;
# Enable editing for yourself
$wgGroupPermissions['sysop']['edit'] = true;
# Hides the IP in the header
$wgShowIPinHeader = false;
For more about user rights, see this manual page. |
H: Buffering progress gone from YouTube
When playing a video on YouTube the light-red buffering progress no longer appears, though the rest of the UI works as usual. Buffering still happens, it just doesn't display its progress.
I'm not sure if this is intentional by YouTube or not, but in any case, how can I make it visible again?
I'm using Firefox on Windows 7, with Flashblock, as a signed-in user. Trying the recommended solution by Google to generic YouTube problems - which is emptying the browser cache - didn't help.
AI: Try removing the cookies for Youtube
Hope this helps. |
H: Synchronize my favorite sites with my Google account
How do I to synchronize my favorites URLs, (all that I marked with the star) with my Google account?
I want to be able to to save my favorite sites in my Google account and not to lose the content if I would have a problem with my laptop.
AI: if you using google chrome? if so you can use the browser sync and just use the book marks to save your "favorites" |
H: Receive mail into Gmail from custom domain Google Apps
I have a regular Gmail account and a custom domain'd Gmail account. I want to use Gmail's "Check mail using POP3" function to retrieve the latter into my regular [email protected] but I can't get past this popup:
It either says it had a problem connecting to pop.gmail.com or mail.customdomain.com timed out.
One last note: I do not want to forward emails from one account to another.
AI: For gmail, the port should be 995 not 110.
Also you have to make sure that pop is enabled on the account.
However, as mjrider says, forwarding is much faster and it should cause any problems with conversation flow, providing you don't log into the secondary account directly and send emails from there (since these replies won't appear in your main account).
I use both forwarding and pop access, but the latter is only for is an old account which I can't forward. |
H: How to sort emails when searching in Gmail and how to sort messages by "Unread"?
Sometimes I am searching for messages from a specific sender and when I get the results and select all messages I cannot move them to "Folders". I can only move them to "Labels" which is not what I want because they will appear in "Labels" and in the Inbox as well which defeats the purpose of organizing messages in folders. How do I do what I want?
Also how do I sort messages by "Unread" in inbox and in search results? I also would like to sort by "Date" after sorting by "Unread".
AI: The biggest disappointment many people have in Gmail is when we try to sort messages. There was never any way to sort by anything. It's always default to descending date. If you need to browse your mailbox in a different way, get IMAP and an email client. While I kinda agree with this approach, sometimes I do miss at least being able to sort dates in reversal order (oldest first).
You can try and suggest it as a new feature. It's even already pre-suggested there! Maybe some time in the future we'll have it.
The Move To drop down is there just because too many people were too lazy to re-learn how to manage their mailbox and requested folders. It's just a hack that actually does 2 commands at once: insert label "foo" and remove current label - which can be inbox, a system label. Similarly, Archive is a hack to remove inbox label.
Now, if you, reader, are willing to understand why Gmail is so different and so many people like it... Keep reading, including every link. ;-)
You really should learn more about Gmail labels. It's not just how to use them. It's a whole different organizational approach. In the long run you will enjoy much better if you structure your mails with labels rather than folders because there really is no need for folders once you get used to it - at least for a regular person mailbox. And, by the way, the idea is keeping the inbox empty through archiving.
Try to re-think how you handle your mailbox in general. There's no need to use a lot of old resources-on-how-to-find-mails such as folders and sorting because you can simply search. And so labels are all about adding keywords to most relevant items or to highlight them in another way.
The disadvantage labels used to have is that with too many of them, the labels menu can get messy for browsing (like you would browse folders). But that was "fixed" with nested labels. Actually a much better fix is using less labels or hiding the less used ones. We hardly ever need that many. |
H: Manage "liked" pages shown on Facebook news feed
The news feed on my iPhone Facebook includes updates from my "liked" pages, but my desktop Facebook does not. I have two questions pertaining to this discrepancy:
How do you show updates from "liked" pages on desktop Facebook?
How do you see a list of all your "liked" pages to remove the ones you don't like?
AI: You can manage your pages by going to your 'Profile' and clicking on 'Info' on the left.
It lists out all the pages you have 'liked' sorted by category.
There is a edit link on the right over there.
You can remove the pages which you don't like over there.
Regarding how to show updates from the pages you've liked, I think facebook automatically hides updates from the pages you don't interact with. |
H: Did Facebook ever had a dislike button?
I know they are not planing on implementing it, but did Facebook ever had a dislike button or a thumbs down button of any kind?
Also, I'm not talking about the unlike button that appears after you "like" something.
AI: Probably the closest thing is the X button that appears in the upper right corner of ads and other items, which allows you to mark an ad as uninteresting, but this doesn't share anything with your friends as with the Like button. Also answers in the Help section have Helpful and Unhelpful options.
The "Like" button started out internally as an "Awesome" button, as recounted in this history by Facebook Director of Product Engineering Andrew Bosworth, and did not have any negative counterpart.
If someone dislikes something that you posted it is usually not particularly helpful to see that they dislike it without any reason given (unless your post is expressing dislike and they are actually trying to agree with you). Even if you can guess the reason they dislike it because you know the person, the dislike is likely to be misinterpreted by others. Comments are usually a better way to express dislike so that you can make your objection clear. |
H: Receive e-Mail when Stock Price reaches 52-week low?
I have a list of about 100 stocks. I would like to be emailed when any one of these stocks reaches a 52 week low. I can do basic programming in PHP etc., but is there a simpler way? Does Yahoo Finance or Google Finance offer such a service?
AI: Google doesn't seem to be able to do this. From Google Finance support:
Although we don't provide stock alerts at this time, you can request email updates or create an RSS feed about particular companies using Google Alerts. Google Alerts delivers relevant text and video results from blogs, discussion forums, news sites, and more. Visit http://www.google.com/alerts to get started.
I can't seem to find anything like this on Yahoo Finance, either. I did find a website that seems to do this, Zignals. I haven't used the service before, but it looks like it would be worth trying out. |
H: Is there a way to reject unwanted messages in Gmail?
Somebody mentioned to me a long time ago that this is a feature in Outlook, but I never needed it so I'm not even sure what it's called.
I've been getting more and more mis-directed email lately, particularly from credit card companies and other corporations. It isn't spam: other people have mistakenly signed up for these services with my email address. For example, every month I get a statement notice and payment confirmation from AmEx for a guy who shares my last name and first initial.
Is there any way to reject emails like this? They aren't spam, per se, so I'm reluctant to mark them as such and wind up having legit email flagged because of it. I've tried letting them know that they have the wrong address for the person, but big companies like this don't make it easy to respond to their emails.
If I can't reject them, what's the best way to deal with this? Filter to delete mail from that sender?
AI: There are currently 3 basic ways to reject unwanted messages in gmail:
Mark as Spam
Unlike your belief, you can safely mark anything you consider slightly annoying or unrequested as a spam. And you should do it. I've marked mails directly from my primary contacts as spam, and never lost any important mail because of that. Just to illustrate to your specific case, gmail even offers an automatic unsubscribe feature for some lists if you click on Mark as spam. Should the worst happen and you find legitimate messages on the spam folder, there are fixes for that, such as adding their e-mail to your contacts or using filters.
Filter
If you can come up with a simple enough rule that will work for your sample, you can safely create a filter. If you have any doubts, instead of throwing stuff to trash, set a label and archive the message, so you can review the filter later on. Simple stuff.
Priority Inbox
That's even more magical. In my case, it was almost useless because I've been using the first two features and activating it didn't help much. But it's great nevertheless. Just set it up, try it and see if it's a fit. The whole idea behind it is exactly what you've requested: reject unwanted messages that you don't want to send to spam or trash. Maybe it's a mail list you subscribed yourself. You can rank it as unimportant, if gmail didn't already did it, and it will stay on your inbox for further review. |
H: Chrome: Is possible to merge bookmarks data from two computers?
I wonder how to merge bookmarks from two different computers into one Google account.
I have bookmarks in my laptop and bookmarks in the computer I use to work. Does anyone know how to put together into one Google account?
By the way,
I´ve just synchronized the bookmarks of my laptop with my Google account but I wonder what would happen next Monday when I will go to work and my Chrome synchronize with my Google account. That synchronization would erase the bookmarks I have in my office computer?
AI: If you're using Chrome's sync, your bookmarks on the unsynced computer will be added to your network bookmarks.
I've done this before, and each time this is how it's worked. |
H: Transfering facebook profile images into Google Contacts
Is it possible to automatically copy the images of people's facebook profile to Google Contacts?
Bonus points if I can also copy other data such as their birthday.
AI: Here's a lengthy discussion on the issue:
Sync/merge Facebook contacts with Gmail contacts
I found one app as well:Google Contact Sync
For events/calendar:
How to Sync Facebook Events with Google Calendar
Facebook's missing calendar feature:With fdCal get your events and friend's birthdays in Apple iCal, Mozilla Sunbird, Google Calendar, Microsoft Outlook or in your RSS reader! The process can be done in less than a minute, and it's free! |
H: How to attach EXE file in Gmail?
Possible Duplicate:
How can I send a windows executable via Gmail?
Why doesn't Gmail allow to attach EXE files? It's very annoying.
Gmail even denies if I archive the .exe file to .zip.
Why did they decide to do that?
How do you do it when you want to attach an EXE file?
AI: Thanks to the new GMail AntiVirus Scanner, you cannot send or receive emails with exe, dll, ocx, com or bat attachments even if they are sent in a zipped (.zip, .tar, .tgz, .taz, .z, .gz) format (The .rar format is still allowed).
Since you cannot Turn Off GMail
AntiVirus Scanning, you can use these
GMail hacks to send program file
(exe), virus samples and other blocked
formats with GMail:
Use a free file hosing online service like Rapidshare, Megaupload or
Yousendit to upload your file and send
the link of the uploaded file in your
GMail message.
Rename the file: Change the file extension to fool the GMail scanner.
The new attachment could contain
instructions making it easier for the
recepient to derive the actuall
attachment type. For instance,
Rename Adobe-Reader.exe to
Adobe-Reader.exe.removeme
If you have lot of exe files to send, put them in a zip file and
change the extension of the zip file
as mentioned in the previous step.
Remember that GMail denies zip
attachments that contain exe files.
Pass-Protection won't work either
since GMail can examine exe filenames
even in password protected zipped
files as the archived filename
listings are not encrypted by the Zip
program.
Use a different compression software like WinRAR which compresses
files in .rar format. GMail is
currently not scanning or blocking
.rar filetypes. But there is a high
probability that GMail might support
rar formats in future. In that case,
you can consider splitting the rar
files and attaching them separately
(like .r1, .r2..)
Important: I would recommend only the
first technique since all others
violate Google policies and Google
could even terminate your GMail
account.
Source: Attach and Send Any File Type with GMail Like EXE, ZIP, Videos; Trick GMail Antivirus Scanner
On 05/14/2012 (today), I attempted to upload a .rar file that contained a .vb file - one of Googles banned file types. gmail does not allow .rar files containing banned file types anymore either. |
H: Gmail: Add 'mailed-by' domain to safe list?
Gmail keeps marking emails coming from my site as spam. Is there any way to set up a filter that will send any emails coming from that domain to my inbox?
AI: You can check for common issues with mxtoolbox http://www.mxtoolbox.com/?
Try the blacklist and spf test first, and fix those if they are not defined. |
H: anonymous links in email?
I've received a spam claimed to be sent from one of my friends' email (well I'm sure he didn't send it).
What exactly would be the implications of clicking the link?
What's the worse that could happen by clicking on the link?
AI: If you hover over the link with your cursor, it should show you where the link actually directs to. Chances are it's some malware-infested site or phishing scam.
A lot of antivirus programs can monitor that kind of thing in real-time and stop your computer from doing anything stupid just before it's too late, but I wouldn't rely on that. If you have even the slightest suspicion it's illegitimate, just delete the email. Don't let your curiosity get the better of you; it's not worth the risk. |
H: Where does LastPass keep its local copy of the data?
Just try it. Close your browser, disconnect your computer from internet, open the browser and try to access your data on LastPass. It will be there. Because it's stored locally.
In this forum topic, Joe Siegrist says that LastPass always store the most updated local copy of our encrypted data. I wonder if that data is stored at a single file and where. So I could make backup copies of it and maybe even access it through LastPass Pocket.
I actually asked this same question in there, twice now, but still got no answer!
So, anyone?
AI: LastPass stores data in various places depending on your operating system and browser.
This information is taken from this LastPass FAQ Article
Windows
IE & Firefox
AppData%\..\LocalLow\LastPass\ or %AppData%\..\Local
Settings\Application Data\LastPass\
Chrome
%AppData%\..\Local\Google\Chrome\User
Data\Default\databases\chrome-extension_hdokiejnpimakedhajhdlcegeplioahd_0\
Safari
%AppData%\..\Local\Apple Computer\Safari\Databases\safari-extension_com.lastpass.lpsafariextension-n24rep3bmn_0\
OS X
Safari & Firefox
~/Library/Application Support/LastPass/
Firefox (non-binary
Firefox profile directory
Chrome
~/Application Support/Google/Chrome/Default/databases/chrome-extension_hdokiejnpimakedhajhdlcegeplioahd_0/
Linux
Firefox
~/.lastpass/
Chrome
~/.config/google-chrome/Default/databases/chrome-extension_hdokiejnpimakedhajhdlcegeplioahd_0/
Firefox on other platforms utilizes
the Firefox profile directory. You can
back these directories up and they
will contain the latest copy of your
data. Be aware that on Windows,
Protected Storage is used to
additionally encrypt your data so
you'll need to ensure that your
Windows profile is also backed up.
Your data is also backed up at
LastPass.com, and a copy is on any
other device or computer you use so
this isn't required.
Your data is also securely synced with
the LastPass servers. When you make
updates to your LastPass account,
whether in a browser plugin, a mobile
app, or the website, the updates are
reflected on the LastPass servers as
well. If your hard drive ever crashes,
or your laptop is stolen, you can
easily regain access to your accounts
by reinstalling the plugin
(https://lastpass.com/download.php)
and logging in with the same email and
master password. |
H: What formula would I use to calculate monthly cost?
I'm trying to make a Google Sheets that will list my total expenditures in the form of recurring fees/subscriptions. I've successfully enabled the basic 'SUM=(C2:C24)', but I would like to add a caveat; periods of time. To clarify, some of my expenditures are every three months and some are every month. I would like to take this into account. An example:
I pay Last.fm $9 every 3 months for their premium service. While I could simply change the price column to $3/month, I would like to be able to account for this using the formula. I am not familiar with formulas in Excel or Google Sheets beyond being able to read them.
AI: Column A can be the recurring cost. Column B can be the number of months in the recurrence. Column C can divide Column A by Column B to get the monthly cost. Then you can sum column C. For your last.fm example:
A2 = "9.00"
B2 = "3"
C2 = "=A2/B2"
The your total monthly cost would be the sum of Column C. |
H: Parsing Time data in Google Spreadsheets
I'm keeping cycling diary in a Google spreadsheet.
Each entry has a value of Duration entered as ie. . Then I have the totals where duration is summarized as well. But whenever
Some of the relevant columns:
Distance
Duration (entered as 3:45:30 meaning 3 hours, 45 minutes and 30 seconds)
Average speed - calculated based on the following formula:
=if(or(isblank(C3);isblank(D3));;C3/(HOUR(D3)+MINUTE(D3)/60+second(D3)/3600))
This correctly calculates my average speed.
But. Then I also calculate totals at the top of each column. Distance and time are summed up, but speed is calculated on these two sums because I can't simply make an average of calculated speeds since each of them depends on the course length.
But. Whenever total time exceeds 24 hours, formula for getting hours out of some value returns value between 0 and 23.
So if you run ie. =hour("25:30:20") it will return 1 but I want this (or any other that I'm not aware of) function to return 25. Of course my speed calculation is completely off.
How should I get all hours from my time summary?
AI: Solution
Suppose total distance is in column C1 and total time is in D1 then average speed formula would be:
=C1/(int(D1)*24+hour(D1)+minute(D1)/60+second(D1)/3600)
int function is the one I was after. |
H: Reblog yourself on Tumblr
Recently in my timeline, I have seen users that have repeat posts from earlier such that it is in the format of a reblog.
When I click on my posts I do not see the option to reblog.
How to reblog oneself on Tumblr ?
AI: Reblog is mainly for re-posting blogs by others;
http://www.tumblr.com/docs/en/dashboard
Reblogging lets you quickly share things you find on Tumblr. Clicking the Reblog button next to any post will create a copy on your blog, and give you a chance to include your own comments.
Reblogged posts automatically include attribution to the original poster.
But you can reblog yourself by doing the following;
http://tumblring.net/how-to-reblog-yourself-on-tumblr/
Right Click on the following bookmarklet link – REBLOG YOUR OWN POST ON TUMBLR – and choose “Bookmark this link”
Now, once you are on one of the posts of yours that you want to reblog (not the dashboard, but the article itself ) Click on the Reblogging bookmark you just saved and you will be taken to the reblogging edition screen.
The bookmarklet mentioned above is;
javascript:%28function%28%29%7Bwindow.location=%22http://tmv.proto.jp/reblog.php?post_url=%22%20window.location%7D%28%29%29;
Hope this helps |
H: Returning date in Google search results
Sometimes when I search for articles on the net, I would like to see the year of the article to see if it's relevant for my search. Is it possible to return that in the search result of Google search somehow, or can you recommend any other search engine with this feature?
AI: Generally, if you want to know how recent the information is, you can use a Google “date” filter (via the Advanced Search page, under the “Date, usage rights, numeric range, and more” section).
Or, you can append specific &key=value variables to your search URL, as shown on the Unofficial Google Advanced Search guide page. The guide, details several date-based or time-based options, such as date (past N months), daterange (between two Julian dates), or tbs=qdr (limit by time period).
I've had good results by appending daterange and limit by time period to my URL; mixed results with just date alone. Here are some examples.
Date: http://www.google.com/search?q=ruby&hl=en&date=6
Date Range: http://www.google.com/search?q=ajax&hl=en&daterange=2452821-2453187
Limit by time period: http://www.google.com/search?q=ruby&hl=en&tbs=,qdr:m |
H: Why doesn't YouTube have a download button?
YouTube has all the buttons—Upload, Browse, Subscribe etc.—, but it doesn't come with an inbuilt “Download” button. Viewers have to use third party software to download the videos from YouTube. Why is that?
AI: Because the premiss of the site is that you go back to view your favourite videos so you can see (more) advertising, sponsored links etc.
If you download the videos you could watch them as many times as you wanted without seeing all this.
There's also the small matter of copyright - you only have the right to view the videos, not copy and (potentially) redistribute it. |
H: How do I use a computed range in formula?
I currently use this formula:
=sumif($E$2:$E$363,L3,$D$2:$D$363)
I'd like to change it to instead of having the $D$363 hard coded, that it pick up the "363" part from another cell that I specify. Here was what I tried if that gives you any better indication of what I want to accomplish:
=sumif($E$2:$E$363,L3,concatenate("$D$2:$D$",A1)), where cell A1 has the value 363 in it.
This doesn't work though.
Possible?
AI: There's a few ways of doing that, here's an easy one:
=SUM(INDIRECT(ʺ$D$2:$D$ʺ & A1)) |
H: What do the YouTube movie ratings mean?
While perusing in the "new" movie section, I noticed some movies have "ratings." eg: L, N, S, V, D.
What do those letters mean?
AI: The YouTube Content ratings are based on Language, Nudity, Sexual Situations, Violence and Drug Use
Language
L : Strong Language
Content rated L may contain some expletives and profanity; however such words should be infrequent and not used in a sexual context. Content with expletives and profanity that have been bleeped should be rated L as well. An L may also indicate suggestive dialog, sexual innuendo, or other discussion of adult themes. Other L-rated speech may include the expression of strong views and opinions that viewers are likely to find offensive, disrespectful, or otherwise controversial.
L+ : Explicit Language
Content rated L+ may contain persistent use of expletives and profanity. It may also include coarse and vulgar dialogue that is sexually explicit.
No Strong Language
Content rated No strong language should be free of any strong, coarse, or other potentially offensive language. Even mild cursing such as "hell" and "damn" or words that are bleeped should be rated as L or L+.
Nudity
N : Minimal covering
Content rated N may contain individuals who are minimally clothed (e.g., low cut tops, underwear or revealing bathing suits). Content rated N should not contain any fleeting or prolonged nudity, including exposed buttocks, genitalia, or areola.
N+ : Some nudity
Content rated N+ may include content featuring exposed buttocks or partially nude breasts. Content rated N+ may also contain full nudity where the context is appropriately educational, documentary or artistic.
Note: Some shows and movies may contain N+ content that would generally not be accepted on the site. Videos originating from the YouTube user community must abide by the YouTube Community Guidelines and may not be permitted to include such content.
No Nudity
Content rated No nudity should be free of nudity or partial nudity of any kind.
Sexual Situations
S : Mild sexual situations
Content rated S may contain mild sexual activity or themes. This includes implied sex acts, light or comedic fetish references or behavior, or the presence of mild sexual situations or discussion.
S+ : Explicit sexual situations
Content rated S+ may contain explicit sexual content. This may include dramatized sex acts, explicit sexual situations or discussion.
Note: Some shows and movies may contain S+ content not otherwise permitted on the site. Videos originating from the YouTube user community must abide by the YouTube Community Guidelines and are not permitted to include such content.
No sexual situations
Content rated No sexual situations should be free of any sexual conduct or themes. Brief displays of affection, such as a kiss or hug are excepted.
Violence
V : Mildly violent or disturbing
Content rated V may contain mild, comedic violence, fantasy violence, or isolated incidents of realistic violence. However, any violence depicted should not be gory, pervasive, or sexual in nature. Similarly, V-rated content may contain a small amount of other imagery or situations that are disturbing or repulsive to sensitive viewers (such as real or dramatized medical footage, or depictions of disgusting or scary content in a horror or fantasy context).
V+ : Strongly violent or disturbing
Content rated V+ may contain violence that is persistent, intense, and graphic. Content rated V+ may include pervasive imagery or situations that are disturbing or repulsive to the average viewer. This may also include animated content, if it features realistic depictions of extreme violence or other extremely disturbing or repulsive imagery.
No violence or disturbing content
Content rated No violence or disturbing content should be free of violence, injury, or other imagery that may be considered gory, disturbing, or repulsive to sensitive viewers.
Drug Use
V : Mild drug use
Content rated D may contain mild drug use, including excessive or persistent consumption of alcohol or tobacco. It also may include incidental or comedic use of drugs such as marijuana, sativa, hallucinogens or prescription pharmaceuticals. Implied, non-graphic use of other drugs, such as heroin, may be rated D as well.
V+ : Drug use
Content rated D+ may contain graphic, fictional depictions of drug abuse and display of drug paraphernalia. Content rated D+ may also contain actual depictions of drug abuse where the context is appropriately educational, documentary or scientific.
Note: Some shows and movies may contain D+ content not otherwise permitted on the site. Videos originating from the YouTube user community must abide by the YouTube Community Guidelines and are not permitted to include such content.
No Drug abuse
Content rated No drug abuse should be free of any drug abuse. However, fleeting and moderate consumption of alcohol or tobacco by adults as well as responsible use of medications may appear. |
H: How do I make certain pages invisible for all but some users in MediaWiki?
I do not want our wiki to be visible to the public. Only registered users should be able to view the wiki.
There only seem to be options to block specific users or IP addresses. I want to block all except registered users.
How do I do that?
AI: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Preventing_access
Specifically the 'Simple Private Wiki' information;
Simple private wiki
For the common use case of "a private wiki, for oneself and approved others", you need to:
Restrict viewing
Restrict editing
Restrict account creation
Hope this helps. |
H: Inserting page numbers in a Google Docs document
How do I add or insert a page number in the footer or header of a Google Docs document?
AI: As @Barry states in his answer you can use this option to put page numbers when printing a document. You can actually add it to the document itself with some HTML code in the header of footer section. See here: http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2008/03/adding-page-numbers-to-google-documents.html |
H: How can I get Google Music Beta outside of the US?
Google's Music Beta is a dream come true, except I'm in the UK:
We're sorry. Music Beta is currently only available in the United States
Obviously I can't just go via a proxy and set up a new account in the US as I need it on the account I have and that I'm currently using with my phone. How can I get Music Beta on my phone?
AI: Information on this is understandably thin on the ground. However, it appears that it is only the registration process that checks your country of origin. If you use a proxy to obtain an invitation code you should be able to link that with your current Google Account.
However, as the information is pretty sketchy at the moment I would use caution if you are going to attempt to do this.
Other than that, you will have to wait until Google release the service in the UK. |
H: "Add additional static fbml box" on a Facebook page seems to have vanished
On this tutorial (and all others I could find) they show this image or similar:
I remember using this in the past for my page:
http://www.facebook.com/1919reykjavik
On this page I have two static FBML links on the left, and I would like to have a third one. However when I tried going into the edit screen, like the tutorial says, I get this:
i.e.: the add additional fbml box button is missing.
Is there a new way to do this that's even more obscure than the old one?
AI: Sorry, FBML has been deprecated. To add a new tab to your Facebook page you will have to add an existing app or create your own iframe app.
Starting Friday, March 18th, you will
no longer be able to create new FBML
apps and Pages will no longer be able
to add the Static FBML app. While all
existing apps on Pages using FBML or
the Static FBML app will continue to
work, we strongly recommend that these
apps transition to iframes as soon as
possible. |
H: Is there a way to filter messages into a certain folder in Yahoo! Mail?
Is there a way to filter messages into a certain folder in Yahoo! Mail (much similar to what is available in Gmail)?
AI: You should use the new Yahoo mail interface. It is easier to see your new options.
Create a Folder
Go to Options > Filters > Add Filter (then set up your filter to move to the folder) |
H: Make "Switch account" menu default in new Google multiple sign-in interface
Google's new interface requires an additional step to switch accounts:
Click email/ID in upper right-hand corner
Click "Switch account" (This is the additional step.)
Click account or "Sign in to another account..."
Now, I rarely use the first menu items that show up ("View profile, Account settings, Privacy"), but I use the switch account functionality many times per day.
Is there a way to directly display the list of accounts by default? (the menu as it appears after clicking "Switch account"
Extensions/User-side JavaScript OK; solutions for Chrome and Opera browsers preferred.
AI: http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/97229
This simple script currently just adds a few styles to show the available accounts on first click.
Hope this helps. |
H: What does this game use as it's "engine"
http://chrome.angrybirds.com
On what is this game based on? Does somebody know?
HTML5? Flash? JavaScript?
AI: It is built on WebGL which essentially extends the JavaScript Library and uses the canvas element in HTML5. |
H: How worried should I be that my gmail is showing IMAP access from an Amazon EC2 instance?
When I click that link at the bottom of my gmail screen where it says "Last account activity: 0 minutes ago at IP 50.19.49.49 Details". I click the link and sure enough, it shows accesses from my own IP (IMAP and browser), but it also shows IMAP access from this IP 50.19.49.49, which appears to belong to an Amazon EC2 instance. I can't think of any reason why an EC2 instance would be accessing my email. Should I be concerned?
Update: I changed my password an hour ago and logged back in from my browser and my iPhone, and then went out to dinner. Now it's showing accesses from my home IP (browser and IMAP), and IMAP accesses from 50.19.49.49 (Amazon EC2), 198.227.195.87 ("Service Provider Corporation"), and 166.137.137.85 (AT&T). So either AT&T or Apple is using 50.19.49.49, or some other app on my iPhone got my gmail password and is sharing it with people they shouldn't.
AI: Figured it out - it was "Xobni for Chrome".
I had disabled the plugin, but somehow it managed to transmit my changed password back to the mothership, in spite of being disabled. I removed the plugin entirely and told them to purge my account. |
H: Yahoo Mail "Strongly Believed to Be Compromised"
When I went to log into my Yahoo Mail account, Yahoo stated that it strongly believed that my account had been compromised. I'm not sure how it happened. My guess is that Yahoo was hacked.
I reset the password and security questions on my Yahoo account. I also reset my Gmail account password.
I looked in the Sent folder and I don't see any spam.
I'm on a Mac.
Is there anything else that I need to do?
I had a lot of personal info in my email. Do I need to worry about identity theft? That's my biggest concern. If the scumbags sent fake Viagra ads from my account, that's not great, but it's not a big deal. Identity theft would be a big pain.
AI: It is very unlikely that Yahoo was hacked. More likely your account fell victim to cookie theft or something else in that vein. You've already changed your password and security question, and no mail seems to have been sent from the account, so I would not worry about it. You've already done everything you can do.
If you want to be extra safe, you might go over your inbox and check for any financial or otherwise important information you might have in there (bank login info, credit card numbers (unlikely), passwords to other sites, etc.), and take the appropriate precautions with regard to any sensitive information you find. |
H: Services to host images online?
all I need is a simple service that allows me to host images online and have access to the direct URL of the image (without paying and without obtrusive ads).
http://imageshack.us does not give me direct URL of the image.
http://www.freeimagehosting.net has way too many ads.
AI: http://imgur.com will do the job for you. You can upload an image from your computer or from the web and it will provide you with a direct link. You can even group multiple images in to a group.
Sign up isn't required but if you do it's pretty easy and it lets you manage your images and image groups etc.
imgur is used by Stack Exchange when uploading images to questions and answers |
H: How do I know who is following me on Tumblr?
In actual fact it is likely that no-one is following me, but I'm unable to figure out if I have zero followers or not as I can't seem to find any links to the list of my followers.
Where does the list appear if I have any?
AI: You need to go to your dashboard and visit the Followers page. That will show other users that are following your blog.
From the Tumblr help page
Following and Followers
The Following page shows blogs
that you are following. Posts from
these blogs will appear in real-time
on your Dashboard.
The Followers page shows other
users that are following your
blog.
You can follow any Tumblr blog you
visit by clicking the Follow icon
in the top right corner of the page.
Or, you can enter it manually on your
Following page. |
H: Blank page at http://apps.facebook.com/twitter/
The Twitter app is showing in my Facebook profile, so I think it's installed, but when I go here: http://apps.facebook.com/twitter/ -- I just get a blank page.
According to help videos I've watched, when I go there, there should be the ability to specify which of my Facebook pages my tweets should be published on.
I'd like to make my tweets appear on my page -- not my personal page -- my business page.
Why is the http://apps.facebook.com/twitter/ page blank? How do I get this app to function?
AI: You have to delete/uninstall the application, remove the permissions and try again.
I wish I could tell you the exact problem with the application but I have not figured it out. Facebook and Twitter do not share information well so there are bugs that have not been fixed over the past few months. |
H: How do I delete my LinkedIn account?
I haven't found any option to delete my LinkedIn account. Is there a way to do so?
AI: You need to:
Log in to your LinkedIn account
Select Settings from the arrow drop down in the top right
Then click the Account tab and select Close your Account |
H: How did my email get hacked? What to do next?
I use Hotmail. My password was strong (upper/lower case letters, digits, and special characters. No dictionary words.
It was only 8 characters, maybe that was the problem?
I only use this password for my e-mail. Nothing else.
I didn't receive or respond to any phishing emails.
I checked news sites and there is no report of Hotmail itself being hacked.
Malwarebytes and other scanners/tools I have claim my system is clean. No key loggers.
Does anyone have any thoughts on how my account could have been compromised?
They immediately changed the password, recovery questions, and recovery email. Then they sent spam asking my contacts for money (to be sent via Western Union). The IP address the mail appears to originate from seems to be a Nigerian IP block.
First, I don't understand how my password could have been gotten. When I tried guessing passwords, after five or six attempts it made me enter a CAPTCHA before each attempt.
Can people brute force Hotmail/MSN passwords?
Second, it doesn't appear that there is anything I can actually do. When I search online, all I find are tips to prevent being the victim of fraud (i.e. don't send money via Western Union) but I can't find any place to report the criminal(s).
Does such a place exist?
Finally, what steps can I take to prevent this in the future?
AI: Hotmail can be bruteforced. And CAPTCHA is always being improved because it's always being broken. Also, sometimes companies have vulnerabilities they don't know about or don't acknowledge, etc. Basically what I'm trying to say is, even if you are very safe on the internet (as it sounds you are), your account can still be hacked.
One thing, however, many people over look is when and where they log into their accounts. It is best not to log into email and Facebook in places like the Apple store, on a Starbucks or McDonalds network, etc, as those computers and networks are "out in the open". As we saw with Sony recently, sometimes the big company won't even encrypt sensitive data before it starts sending it through the air. NEVER log into bank accounts from a public network.
Your account can also be compromised by someone cracking the password reset questions you set. Someone can use the forgotten password link to view these questions. If they are easy to guess or ones with common answers you are leaving your account wide open.
Notify your friends that you have been hacked, using Bcc. Notify Hotmail support. And probably, you will have to make a new account. |
H: Can I have multiple OpenID accounts?
I'm trying to understand OpenID better, and several questions are popping up in my head:
Is it all right to have multiple OpenID accounts, from different providers?
Is there any advantage or disadvantage to doing so? Would it cause any problems if they are unrelated to each other, or should (can?) they be linked together in some way?
AI: Is it all right to have multiple OpenID accounts, from different providers?
Yes.
Is there any advantage or disadvantage to doing so?
Backup, I suppose. If a site ( such as Stack Exchange) supports an additional OpenID, if your primary OpenID goes down you can always rely on the alternating openID. This approach of course relies upon the target making use of multiple openIDs mapped to a single user account.
Would it cause any problems if they are unrelated to each other, or should (can?) they be linked together in some way?
I would say no. |
H: Can I add an autoincrement field to a Google Spreadsheet based on a Google Form?
Is it possible in Google Forms to give a unique value to each row it inserts into the spreadsheet as well as the timestamp?
AI: You can do this by adding a script trigger.
Supposing your current Form has two columns Timestamp and the answer to one question. So you currently have columns A and B populating with data. Lets assume you want column C to have you auto increment number.
You need to first go to Tools > Script Editor
In the Script Editor window enter the following script:
function onFormSubmit(e) {
var sheet = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSheet();
var row = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSheet().getLastRow();
sheet.getRange(row,3).setValue(row);
}
Save the script and then go to the Triggers menu and select Current script's triggers
Populate the drop downs as follows:
Click Save
Then Save and close the Google App Script window.
Now when your form is submitted it will populate the row number in column C along with the data that has been submitted via your form.
In you want to change the column that the row number gets saved to you need to change this line of the script:
sheet.getRange(row,3).setValue(row);
and change the value 3 to the corresponding column index number. |
H: Is there a way to insert a link in a Facebook image description?
Is there any way I can embed a link in Facebook image description?
I tried <a href> and [alt](link) tag, but it encoded it and showed the tag itself.
I want the link to be hidden by a word.
A simple link is allowed.
Is there any other way?
What about embedding the link and only show the text (applies to any post type in facebook)?
AI: No. It is not possible to use special formatting in Facebook Photos.
Consider using a url shortener and vanity name for your links if you do not like the way they are presented.
e.g shrt.io/test
Otherwise, use Facebook Notes instead. |
H: Yahoo! email account is sending spam to my old contacts, what do I do?
An old Yahoo! email account of mine is sending out viagra spam and advertisements to all the contacts in that account's address book. I'm not the one getting spammed, my friends are.
A friend forwarded me one of the emails and the only information I see is the following:
----- Weitergeleitete Mail ---- Von: Firstname Lastname <[email protected]>
The account is 12 years old and closed. But I can't control it because it was cancelled by Yahoo! some years ago through, I guess, lack of activity. Nothing I did wrong to close the account.
It feels as though Yahoo! should take some responsibility for not allowing any means to stop spam generated from their domain.
What should I do? Can I do anything?
AI: There's nothing that you can do. If the spam is actually being sent from that Yahoo! account, you could change the password (but since you said that you "can not control", you may not have access to the account anymore)
Most likely a spammer has retrieved the address book and the From address, and they can easily send messages with a forged From address (or send them directly through the Yahoo! account if they control it). The cat's out of the bag at this point. You can't stop the messages. All you can do is warn your contacts to ignore them.
You could try to recover the password to the Yahoo! account if you know the recovery information. Use the "Forgot password" link on their site.
The spam may not even be coming from Yahoo! (if your account was disabled, it certainly couldn't be coming from there, unless someone else registered a new account using your old disabled name). It's trivial to forge the From address on an e-mail address.
If you have one of the emails you should look at the message headers (how to depends on the receiving client or service) to see if it actually originated from Yahoo!'s servers.
In future, make sure you have a strong password on your e-mail accounts to prevent them from being broken into and having the contacts list stolen (or e-mails sent in your name.) |
H: Are emails marked as Spam in Google Mail reported to SpamCop?
When using Gmail,
I would like to know if when we mark email as Spam, is it also reported to SpamCop.net or any other related site?
AI: In Gmail, marking email as spam only marks it as spam for you, not for others.
If Google determines a message is spam, it is based on algorithms that match certain tendencies and phrasing that suggest the message is spam. Google doesn't share this information under almost all circumstances.
So, no, the message is not reported to outside companies. |
H: How to create a page reference in Wikipedia (synonym redirection)?
I want to internally add a reference to a wiki-page. For example, say the page name is The_Page_Name. I would like to add a known term (say, The_Reference) to Wikipedia that should redirect to The_Page_Name. They are both synonyms that overlap each other.
AI: I believe what you are looking for is a "Redirect." Information on this can be found here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Redirect
To create a basic redirect manually, set #REDIRECT [[target page name
here]] as the only body text of the page. For instance, if you were
redirecting from "UK" to "United Kingdom", this would be the entire
body of the "UK" page:
#REDIRECT [[United Kingdom]] |
H: Gmail Verification Code
When I signed up for Gmail, this was sent to my secondary email address:
Congratulations on creating your brand
new Gmail address, [email protected].
Please keep this email for your
records, as it contains an important
verification code that you may need
should you ever encounter problems or
forget your password.
You can login to your account at
http://mail.google.com/
Enjoy!
The Gmail Team
Verification code:
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Unfortunately, my secondary email address was hacked. I don't want the hacker to use one account to hijack another account.
So, how do I get a new verification code or how do I invalidate this validation code?
AI: You have access to the new account so,
Change your recovery address.
Change your SMS and Security question.
Change your password
After this, the account you removed, will not be able to get the recovery link
* * *
I have tried different ways to get Gmail to ask for the original verification code but in all cases I have tried, they don't ask for it.
Also testing against a recovery account I removed
The email account did not receive the recovery link
For a forgotten username the email account did receive an email but the email basically said there were no Gmail accounts associated with the current one.
Reading various forums it seems it used to ask for the verification code in a form.
But I do not see it there anymore. |
H: Web service to monitor earthquakes in the world
Is there a good web service to monitor all earthquakes around the world?
It should give the latest earthquake locations on a world map similar to a heat map. It would be nice if we could filter the earthquakes by magnitudes. For example, only list the earthquakes >5M, or only list and sort the ones in Europe, etc.
AI: How about the official U.S. Geological Survey Earthquake World map? There are also maps for various regions, including Europe.
They also offer RSS feeds and KML data. |
H: How do special characters in a URL work? Are they fake?
I came across a URL with non-Latin characters, featuring Korean glyphs:
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/여보세요
Copying it gives me another URL:
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%EC%97%AC%EB%B3%B4%EC%84%B8%EC%9A%94
What technology is behind this? Is it just Google Chrome browser "magic" or is there indeed some UTF-8 or similar stuff behind it?
AI: Technology behind this is called Internationalized Resource Identifiers (IRIs) and it's defined in RFC 3987. It's use in URLs is defined in RFC 3986. Characters are indeed encoded in UTF-8. The "unreadable" form is UTF-8 converted using raw percent-encoding. |
H: Specify a default document template in Google Docs
Is there any way in Google Docs to specify a default document template that all my new documents are based on?
Like most of the metric world, I don't use the legal paper size. I also generally don't print my documents much so I don't need 1 foot margins.
AI: Create a template in the gallery/repository and select them as the basis when making a new document.
Create your document and lay out the elements on the page
Save this document under a name you can remember or sets it apart as a template.
Go to the menu: Create new > From template...
You'll be taken to the Template Gallery
Select the "My Templates" tab
Click Submit a template
Select the document you just created as the template you want to use and share.
Next time you want to create a new document based on a template, you'll go back to the Template Gallery and select it from there.
To speed the last step for next time, note the URL that appears in your browser when you open up the template. It will look something like this:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/Awh01EbUNCh0fL3tter5/edit
Make a bookmark out of that. Next time you hit that address you'll load up the document. That's as default as you can get right now.
Keep in mind that while other people using Google Docs will also be able to use your template for their documents, they will not be able to edit it. |
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