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H: Hotmail account is automatically sending emails, no evidence in Sent folder
After clicking a link in a message, my Hotmail account sent emails to all the people in my address book.
The email itself is not present in the Sent folder items. Bizarrely, the problem occurs from my Android smartphone because I haven't used my PC in last two days.
Any ideas on how to solve this problem? I've already changed my password.
AI: You should perform a virus scan on your computer. The chances of a hacker sending random emails on your account is very slim. More than likely, the link you clicked performed a drive-by download and loaded malware on your computer. If the malware sent the same link you clicked to all your contacts, you should tell them to immediately scan their computer for viruses if they clicked it. |
H: How to share cloud stored folders intelligently
I have a paid 50GB cloud storage account and a coworker uses a free 2GB account.
I shared a big folder from the 50GB accont with him, but now he runs out of space on his account and he would have to upgrade to 50GB or leave the shared folder.
This means that each dropbox user has to pay the shared folder's space?
Does this mean if I share this with 5 people, 5 people have to pay for the same content?
AI: Unfortunately yes. The request to resolve this issue is pretty high in the Dropbox Votebox. Please vote for it.
You could try alternatives to Dropbox like Wuala or SpiderOak. In these applications the shared space is taken only from the user that started the sharing. The privacy features are better too. |
H: Is there a way to restrict apps access to my Evernote?
When I give an app access to my Evernote account, can I say, "only access XYZ notebook" or "you only have the right to write, but not to read, my notes"?
AI: It seams Evernote at the time of writing has no support for OATH like many others do. :(
The only way at the moment to give a 3rd party access to your notes is to give it your password. If you give your password to a 3rd party they will have the same access rights to your Evernote as you have. This is true for any other service.
UPDATE: I was wrong! I could link my Evernote account to Greplin without giving them my password. In Evernote it appeared under Settings -> Authorized services. So Evernote does support a form of OATH or can give 3rd parties access to their API without revealing your password to them. |
H: What happens to my Google account contacts data when accessed by a third-party?
I want to start to use goodreads.com with my Google account but when I start to sign in with my Google account I get prompted that goodreads.com will get access to my Google contacts. This worried me a little.
Does anyone know why they want access to this information or how they use it?
Please note I have contacted them, but they have not gotten back to me.
AI: The reason that Goodreads or any 3rd-party service asks for access to your address book is to find other friends/contacts that use the same service.
Using basic authentication, people would just provide their username and password to the service (say their Gmail account) and the service would read the address book. This is a highly insecure practice and is teaching people to be phished.
The new method that Goodreads is using is OAuth or OAuth 2.0 which provide granular access to your accounts via a token, and allows access to be revoked. In theory this is better, in practice a nefarious user can get that password in a hundred ways.
Once Goodreads has access to your contact info, you have to trust them that they won't do anything dodgy with it, like spam your entire address book (Plaxo, I'm looking at you!). If you're not comfortable with this, don't grant access to them. |
H: How to password protect an email in Gmail?
I want to send a password protected email using gmail. Yes I Know I could attach a document, and protect that instead, but I would like to protect the email body, if that is possible?
AI: No, that is not possible with email. Such a function is not specified in the email protocoll.
The only possibility would be to encrypt the text in your email body with a tool like PGP or S/MIME. The recipient needs to enter his private password to decrypt the email body.
But you need a email client or third party tools to support this (as well as your mail recipient). |
H: Apps.ycombinator.com section list
What exactly does the apps.ycombinator section list versus the normal news.ycombinator section.
For example I know news.ycombinator.com/ask lists all the "Show HN" and "Ask HN" questions.
I assumed apps should be showing recently updated applications but it looks the same as news.yc
AI: Apparently, someone already asked this on Hacker News here.
Paul Graham's response was:
Another name for news, left over from a time when news had so few users that it would have seemed odd to use news urls for people applying to YC. |
H: How to use Twitter's t.co service to shorten a URL
I like how the new t.co URLs show up as the destination instead of some cryptic value. Unfortunately Twitter hasn't built it into their default web based Twitter client. How do I shorten the URL with the t.co service?
AI: Prefix the URL to shorten with http://twitter.com/share?url= and then in the resulting page you can copy the URL from the edit box, or just Tweet from there. |
H: Move Google tasks from Gmail to Google Apps account
Is it possible to move Google tasks from Gmail to Google Apps account?
or
Is there any way to export the Google tasks from my Gmail and import it in Google Apps account?
AI: There's no way to export tasks. At best, you can email the task list to your Google Apps account and copy+paste, but again they become one big task instead of several, individual tasks. |
H: How can I tag friends in a YouTube video on Facebook?
I've shared a video from YouTube to Facebook, and this has shown up ok on my wall.
Now I want to tag friends that are in the video, and can't see any option to do that. All the guides I see in places like this say that there should be a tag option to the lower right of the video, but I can't see that. Is this a feature we've lost in one of their updates, or has it just moved somewhere obscure?
AI: Tagging is available only if you upload the video directly to Facebook—if you share the link, the video is fetched from YouTube, not Facebook so you can't tag them.
Might I suggest dropping a comment and doing an @Mention? |
H: Will Google track me less if I pay for Google Apps for Business?
I'm increasingly freaked out by the relevance of ads I see across sites. For example, I receive a joke mail about planning a trip to Antarctica, and now I start seeing Antarctica travel ads across sites that use AdSense.
I am curious whether or not my privacy is controlled more tightly if I upgrade to a Google Apps for Business account. My assumption is that I (as an admin of the domain) would better be able to control which data Google has access to.
Hopefully someone a little more fluent in legalese has looked at the Terms of Use for Google Apps. If not, I suppose I will go ahead reading it.
AI: The advertisements you see following you around are not connected with whether or not you have a Google Apps account, business or otherwise.
What is happening is that you're being remarketed to across the Google Ad Display network.
The cookies in your browser help the ad network track what kind of interests you've been viewing on other sites and find relevant ads to you. The higher the relevance, the likelier you are to click on the ads.
You can decrease the rate of these ads following you around by opting out using the Google Advertising Cookie Opt-out Plugin and deleting your cookies on a regular basis. |
H: Prevent duplicate tagging in Tumblr
I must be really bad at this. I started to type "watches" for a tag and it appeared in the list because I used it before.
Now when I click on it, I get two tags.
How can I get this working without adding the incomplete and the already existing tag ?
AI: This is an intended feature. You're supposed to be able to see "hey, I want that tag too" and click it to add both. The same thing happens when you push tab.
The functionality you really want is to push the down arrow key til you've selected the correct tag, then press enter. |
H: Report fraud websites online?
There's an awful lot of scams going on, and I'd love to report them, but it seems that none of the big players (looking at you, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube) have a way to report external websites that are claiming to be these guys.
For instance, I just saw a website that pretends to be YouTube, presents a fake CAPTCHA, and the submit button triggers you clicking "like" which ends up posting it to your wall.
I could report to Imgur, which was hosting the images... but Facebook didn't seem to have anything to send this to, neither did YouTube. I don't run into spam every day, but when I do I'd sure like to help people get away from it.
What should I do?
Sitting on my hands is not an option.
AI: You can report to Google Safe Browsing - Malware / Phishing or use an addon like Web of Trust.
Chrome & Firefox make use of Google Safe Browsing API, so reporting a fraudulent site to Safe Browsing will result in Chrome or Firefox displaying a message about an unsafe site.
Web of Trust(WOT) works in almost the same way. |
H: Can I hide my favourites on YouTube from the other users?
Can I hide my favourites on YouTube from the other users?
I have a normal YouTube account and I realised that everything I add to my favourites is visible to anyone. Can I hide it instead?
AI: On your channel page, click on "Videos and Playlists" tab and untick "My Favorites". |
H: Disable twitter's keyboard shortcut
For the simple reason sometimes I want to search the timeline using Command + F and when I try it some shortcut will be activated and I'll be moved away from the timeline after having loaded many pages of it. Really, really annoying stuff!
So, how can we disable it without moving back to the old interface? Is there any way? Though I do use Safari some times, a Google Chrome extension or a greasemonkey script would suffice here!
Funny thing on gmail I like to leave the same feature on, but there I can disable it very simply if I wanted to! :-|
AI: The problem is for non-windows users I believe. Windows users use Ctrl + F and it works to open up the find interface. But when you're using a Command button with other systems, it seems that it is not registering the Command, just the f which "favorites" the message. Is that the issue you're having? Here is a list of the new keyboard shortcuts.
There is no way to disable them without going back. But if the problem I mentioned is the correct one, you might try de-activating selection of the current message. Push Esc first. |
H: Torrent to direct-link converter
Which are the websites which help to direct download BitTorrent files?
One such service is Torrific:
What torrific does is, when we give the
url of a .torrent file, it will
download the file on its server and
give us the direct link for the
downloaded file.
Since Torrific has a bandwidth limit of 10GB per day I am looking for other free alternatives.
AI: Fetch.io
Lets you stream media on the site, pretty new. |
H: Is it possible to search Wikipedia including deleted text?
It is possible to perform search on Wikipedia, which includes history along with current page content.
It would be especially good to search in deleted articles or deleted passages of articles.
(If no, is it possible to do so with at least Mediawiki engine?)
AI: There is a Wikipedia Revision History Search here;
http://wikipedia.ramselehof.de/wikiblame.php?project=wikipedia&lang=en
Hope this helps. |
H: Transferring all YouTube videos to another video hosting site?
For past few years I have favorited many videos which were very good. But I have seen plenty of videos get removed, either by their owner, or due to copyright matching.
Some of these videos are very rare and hard to find. So I am thinking of saving every video either to my personal YouTube account and make it private, or finding another video hosting site and copying the videos there.
But I don't know how I can copy videos from YouTube automatically. I don't want to manually download each video and then upload to new site, one by one.
Is there any automatic way of transferring all the videos on a YouTube account to another video hosting site?
Or, if someone can recommend another video hosting site that supports some form of YouTube account import, that will work as well.
AI: Full Disclosure: I am the lead developer on the site I'm mentioning...
If you can get the URL to the .FLV file (just google 'how to get FLV URL youtube'), Upload by Transfer is what we call it. That feature gets released next week on our platform (see blog post for details). You provide the URL to the FLV, and the cloud service pulls it off and transcodes it.
Edit: Just tried this with the KeepVid suggestion in another answer. Just picked a popular YouTube video... http://play.nimbushd.com/view/lfsv
This is normally meant for production shops with automated workflows (HTTP/FTP servers) but FLV is supported and it's no different. And in the interest of neutrality I suppose you could also do this with encoding.com if you had a destination for it (an FTP server or something).
If you're not looking for a cloud service/hosted platform, then of course there are YouTube downloaders and you can just save the .FLV files off to your hard drive. |
H: Why are place names in London showing up in Japanese on maps.google.co.uk?
This is rather odd - I noticed recently that various street names and places in London are being labelled in Japanese (Katakana) on Google Maps (on maps.google.co.uk).
For example, Vauxhall:
I found mention of the same issue on this local forum from a few weeks ago (for Southwark station in that case).
Is this an experimental feature that I've got enabled by mistake?
Is is possible to switch it off?
AI: Most likely because it was added that way (in Japanese) by a user, by editing the place (http://www.google.com/help/maps/edit/). |
H: How to list most viewed recent videos?
I would like to get the list of most viewed recent videos on YouTube without specify a tag or a keyword. Is it possible?
AI: You can use YouTube Charts.
This gives the most viewed videos by
Today
This week
This month
All time |
H: Duplicate e-Mails in Mail (Mac OS X) in GMail inbox
I'm using Mail (the Mac OS X app, v4.5) to access my Google Mail account, but every mail sent to my Gmail address arrives twice in Mail.
In the global inbox for the Gmail account
And one in the IMAP folder for the Gmail account in the "All messages" folder
(In my German version it's the "Alle Nachrichten" folder)
I thought it was because I used filters and labels in Gmail to pre-organize my Mail, but I disabled both filters and labels and the issue still persists.
I want to avoid deleting the "All messages" folder in Mail since I'm afraid I won't be able to access all my mails in my Gmail account from Mail anymore.
Is this a known issue? I know people who use Gmail with Mail who don't have this problem, but I couldn't find out what they had set differently.
EDIT: It appears matthiasr is right. Apple Mail simply can't handle Gmail. I tried "Sparrow", another e-Mail client for Mac which can, however, handle GMail quite nicely. Works like a charm.
Unless anyone can provide a workaround of some sort for Apple Mail, I would mark matthiasr's answer as accepted.
AI: This is the expected behaviour of GMail via IMAP, and is documented here.
The underlying problem is that the GMail paradigm of having one gigantic pile of mail (All Mail) with tags (and INBOX is just another tag, just one that every new message has attached) does not map well to the folder paradigm underlying IMAP.
Inside GMail, it's completely normal to have a mail show up in Inbox, All Mail and a bunch of other tags as well. IMAP clients (including Apple Mail) don't really expect this and do not realize that these are the same message.
Not much you can do about it, other than hiding the [GMail] hierarchy of folders. |
H: Find an optimal route between multiple map locations
For me the ideal app would push the route to Google maps so I could save it to My Maps and use Google Navigation in the car to travel the route. Any solution would be good though.
Here's an example of what I'm trying to accomplish:
We're in a completely new city/state, don't know the area, looking to buy a new home. Before we ride around with an agent we'd like to drive around to say 10-15 houses and check out the neighborhoods so we can focus our initial search with the agent.
Ideally I could plug 15 addresses into Google Maps and it would optimize the route. (FYI, this is the "traveling salesman problem"). However, Google doesn't attempt to optimize the route and just takes the order you feed it.
AI: Found one! This is simple and actually does exactly what I'm looking for.
It is called Find the Best Route
Enter addresses.
Optimize route.
Export to Google Maps.
The limit is 24 addresses. |
H: Need messages in Gmail Trash to last longer
Is there a way to make Gmail store messages up to three (3) years in "Trash" before they really remove it?
Currently, emails sitting in Trash are automatically deleted after 30 days. I would like this to be longer. I'm okay if they do that at the expense of my storage space.
AI: Archive your messages instead of deleting them/moving them to the trash.
Alternatively, you could create a "Trash" or "Deleted" label, then change the label settings to not "show in message list". Move your "deleted" messages to that label/folder and purge every few years! |
H: Where did Facebook spy to find out I was interested in some video game?
So, I read a Cracked.com article about a certain popular video game (that shall remain nameless but involves going into blue things and emerging out of orange things). I knew nothing about that game before. (Why, yes, I do live under a rock.) I get curious and I visit that game's articles on Wikipedia and TVTropes. I watch some gameplay of it on YouTube.
Hours later, I open up Facebook and lo and behold, it saw fit to suggest I "like" that game's FB page. Even though I never typed its name on FB, and none of my FB friends have liked it.
Do they snoop my browsing history with JavaScript or something?
AI: It's called Behavioral Targeting and it's being used pretty much everywhere. Here's an article about Facebook-specific behavioral targeting: http://www.switched.com/2010/04/19/facebook-launching-ads-based-on-your-browsing-history/
You can opt-out of behavioral targeting from most major online marketing companies by using the following page: http://www.networkadvertising.org/managing/opt_out.asp |
H: How can I “unlike” a page on a website that’s external to Facebook?
I’m helping to develop a website that implements the Facebook “like” button. During testing, I’ve liked a couple of pages on the website with my Facebook account using the like button. I want to “unlike” these pages, so that I can see the like button in its regular state again.
However, I can’t see any record of these likes in my Facebook account. The like button itself doesn’t provide any “unlike” option either, even though it shows the “like” count of the page as 1.
How can I remove my like of these pages?
AI: Ah — now it looks like it does let me reverse my like of the page.
When I hover over the button, a little cross appears. Clicking on the cross reverses my like of the page.
This cross may have been present before, but I didn’t notice it. Or it may be that when a URL is liked for the first time via the like button, it takes a while for the un-liking functionality to become available. |
H: Change language on Get Satisfaction?
Is there any way to change the language of page / widget on Get Satisfaction?
It's set to English by default, but we'd like to change it to German.
AI: GetSatisfaction only supports English right now. At least according to Wikipedia. |
H: Open-source Campfire alternative
I've used Campfire by 37Signals and thought it was pretty cool. A bit pricey for me though and I would only use it with friends so I want a free alternative. Found TalkerApp and they offer a do a free version but it only offers public chat rooms.
Google Chat and Skype would've been great but they don't offer persistent chat rooms ( as far as I know) and I would like the option to have the transcripts of conversations.
AI: There's a list here:
http://alternativeto.net/software/campfire/
That might be useful.
Echowaves might fit the bill (open source)
Hope this helps. |
H: Archive all my current messages in Trash in Gmail
I want to archive all my current messages in Trash in Gmail, but can't find the archive button anywhere.
How do I archive trashed messages?
AI: Only way I can think of is mark all with a label and put them back in your inbox then filter by the label you created select all and archive
EDIT:
Filter by typing label: trashlabelname in the serach box, or the label should be on the left hand menu |
H: Is there a way to search and replace a regular expression in Google Docs spreadsheets?
The problem is that I entered a lot of formulas like =round(x+y) into a Google Docs spreadsheet. Now I need them exported to MS Excel and the latter only accepts =round(x+y,0) as a valid format. Since the doc holds a few 10s of this format - any suggestion on how to convert these would be highly appreciated (like if it can be done in MS Excel that's OK as well).
What I was thinking was a awk script sort of thing: find all round(*) replace with round(*,0)... of course this will have to ignore all the round(*,2) that I also have.
Tried to use the find and replace menu but it doesn't find round at all (and believe me it is there).
AI: You can find them using find and replace if you go to view -> all formulas (ctrl+') and then do you "round( " find this will at least cut down on the manual labor of it all
I couldnt find a way (using find and replace to search for wild card value though
EDIT:
Try out the script below
REF: http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Google%20Docs/thread?tid=288d77c8c9ad7696&hl=en
function SearchReplaceInFormula() {
var pattern = Browser.inputBox("Enter the search string:");
var replacement = Browser.inputBox("Enter the replacement string:");
if (pattern == "" && replacement == "")
{
Browser.msgBox("Nothing to search and or replace");
return;
}
var formula = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveRange().getFormulaR1C1();
var range = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveRange();
var crows = range.getNumRows();
var ccols = range.getNumColumns();
var row = 0;
for (row = 1; row <= crows; row++)
{
for (col=1; col <= ccols; col++)
{
var cell = range.getCell(row, col);
var formula = cell.getFormula();
var updated = formula;
while(-1 != updated.indexOf(pattern))
{
updated = updated.replace(pattern, replacement);
}
if (formula != updated)
{
cell.setFormula(updated)
}
}
}
Browser.msgBox("Done replacing " + pattern + " with " + replacement);
} |
H: I'm not receiving the verification email when configuring Gmail with an additional "Send mail as:" address
My non-Gmail corporate email is example.com and I'm [email protected]. I created a new Gmail account (regular, not Google Apps) and added [email protected] as an additional "send mail as:" address and I never receive the verification email at [email protected]. It's not in any spam folder. Note that example.com uses Gmail/Postini as the initial filter (possibly relevant that I'm using another Gmail service?) and the message isn't caught as spam there either.
Adding any other email address such as Gmail, Yahooor Hotmail works fine - I get the verification email. Seems too much of a coincidence that I receive the verification message at my personal email addresses but not my corporate one.
What am I missing?
AI: I was't receiving the email because I had a previously-created-forgotten-about-and-not-in-production Google Apps account for example.com. As a result Gmail was delivering the verification email to the Google mail servers since from Google's point of view that domain's email is hosted by them rather than to my external example.com mailer. |
H: How to unsubscribe from "LinkedIn Network Updates"?
I still receive "LinkedIn Network Updates" emails even though I configured my settings to not receive them:
"Network activity" set to "No email"
"Network activity discussions" set to "No email"
"Top articles news digest" set to "No email"
"Turn on/off LinkedIn announcements" set to off
Did I miss some settings somewhere?
UPDATE
Following on from the answer posted by Barry, I received this response from LinkedIn Support:
Hi Nicolas,
Thank you for contacting LinkedIn
Customer Service. I sincerely
apologize for the inconvenience this
has caused. Please know that we are
fully aware of this issue and have a
team of dedicated, highly qualified
individuals who are working diligently
to resolve this. As a workaround, for
the time being, you can try and reset
to turn on Weekly Digest Email and
Save Changes, then set to No Email and
save changes again.
I appreciate your patience and support
as we attempt to resolve this matter.
Regards,
LinkedIn Customer Service
AI: I am pretty sure you haven't missed anything. Those are pretty much the same settings that I have and I don't receive any emails from them.
You may well have to contact LinkedIn Support directly. |
H: Google Ad Words Vouchers
I have three Google Ad Words vouchers but no account yet. Is it possible to combine these vouchers when I open my new account?
AI: Not as far as I know. You can only use one voucher for one account. You could create 3 accounts and redeem one voucher on each account.
However in doing this, you are violating Google's terms and conditions. So although it will let you do this, your accounts will most likely be suspended.
I would just use one voucher :)
This post by a Google Employee touches on the subject of using multiple vouchers for multiple accounts here.
To put it another way, the same
advertiser opening multiple accounts
to use multiple vouchers is not
acceptable - and it is the sort of
things that might lead to accounts
beings shut down. |
H: Google Docs is altering my formatting, how can I avoid this?
I don't have a printer and I need a document printed. Thus, I've shared a very basic Google Docs document with someone who does have a printer.
Over here the formatting looks fine. Tabs are correct, spaces are where they should be, etc. Over there the formatting is all out. We've all seen it before. Your once perfectly constructed document is now a sea of confusion.
Was I naive to think that such formatting issues would disappear 'in the cloud' so to speak? Shouldn't the way the text is displayed be OS/browser agnostic?
In any case, is there a way I can get my shared Google Docs document to appear the same way at both sites?
AI: It's a big problem with Google docs. The new version that the Google Apps team released last week is better with formatting, but for printing purposes, I usually just export to a Word doc and work from that. |
H: How to show all archived messages in Gmail?
How do we search for all our archived messages in Gmail?
Non-archived messages should not be displayed,
Only the archived messages should be shown.
AI: In the Gmail search box, type
-label:inbox -label:sent -label:drafts -label:notes
and press enter. That should give you all your archived messages. Once there, select All and then click Select all conversations that match this search to ensure that all messages are selected. Click Delete.
They'd still go the the Trash though so you'd have to empty the Trash as a final step. |
H: Build a cell reference without knowing Row # (number)
This can't be a more basic spreadsheet question but I have always been a SQL kinda guy...
How do I build a formula where a value will be pulled from another column on the current row. Can't be the conventional 'E2' because the current row might be 3.
The problem boils down to defining a formula where the ROW designator is relative. $E2 works when the formula is evoked on Row #2 but fails when evoked from Row #3. I'm creating Rows thru the API - my code can't know what row number is being inserted.
AI: The ROW function returns the row number of any cell or range.
The syntax is: Row( reference ) but if the reference parameter is omitted, it assumes the cell in which the Row function was entered.
This can be used to refer to cells using indirect, for example =indirect("C" & row()) refers to column C in the current row. |
H: Does Facebook really enforce that your profile picture be a photo of yourself?
As in the subject line -- does Facebook really enforce that your profile picture be a photo of yourself? If so, where have they historically drawn the line with respect to gray areas (such as a photo with only your shoe, or a cartoon-ized or photoshop'd image of yourself)?
AI: From seeing the swathe of cartoons, bikes, other people, group shots, landscapes and whatever else, it looks like pretty much anything goes.
Just so long as you abide by the Facebook Terms of Service and that you have the right to distribute the photo (i.e. you own the photo) you're fine to use whatever photo or image you want. Though even the latter stipulation isn't really regulated.
If it's the kind of image that would be on the line for obscenity, nudity or vulgarity, then it would be a problem if other users flagged the profile photo.
No, it doesn't look like they enforce the rule that it must be your actual face on the profile. |
H: Display sheet name in Google Spreadsheets
Is there any way to display a sheet name as the result of a function in a Google Spreadsheets (exactly like this question, except in Google Sheets)?
AI: Someone has written a script to do this. It is available in Tools > Script gallery.... Search for "sheet name" and install the script, then use it with =getCurrentSheetName(). |
H: O Google, where art thou Linux special search?
Google Linux search has disappeared. Were there any announcements by Google regarding it?
google.com/linux was a Linux specific search, part of a set of Special Searches along with UncleSam and BSD. It helped filter out non-Linux results when search. (All the other special searches are gone as well.)
What happened to google.com/linux?
AI: Looks like they've done away with the "special searches" feature they used to offer, which affects /linux and /unclesam among others. You can read more here:
http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Web%20Search/thread?tid=68eef4f9581f51bf&hl=en
Unfortunately it does not explain why it just states that going to /webhp is the intended behavior and not a bug / misconfiguration.
For those that don't know, you could go to google.com/linux and perform a search that returned linux-centric results. |
H: Are Twitter replies from protected accounts visible to those not following?
I have a protected Twitter account. If I reply to a tweet from somebody I'm following, and they're not following me, will they see the reply?
AI: They will not - taken from the What are @Replies section from the Twitter FAQ
Please note that if your account is private, users who are not following you will not see your @replies or mentions. |
H: What is the best Google Chrome extension for Delicious?
I use a Chrome extension which works very well with Google Bookmarks, allowing syncing with local bookmarks and easy adding and reference to existing Google bookmarks.
The Delicious extension that I am currently using only offers an easy way to make bookmarks, but not use existing ones.
Does anybody have any better Chrome extensions for Delicious? It looks like there are quite a few, so I am looking for recommendations.
AI: Delicious Bookmarks Extension (Beta)
Delicious Bookmarks is the official Google Chrome extension for Delicious.
This extension has the support to add new bookmarks as well as search existing book marks. |
H: How to restrict a Google search to results of a specific language?
How can I restrict the results of a Google search to only a specific language? Is there an operator like language:english?
AI: You can do that using the advanced search options: http://www.googleguide.com/sharpening_queries.html
I also found this, which might work for you: http://www.searchenginejournal.com/how-to-see-google-search-results-for-other-locations/25203/ |
H: Is the official Twitter search widget subject to the API rate limit?
I have been told by a development partner that we cannot use the normal Twitter search widget - found here - https://twitter.com/about/resources/widgets/widget_search because of the API rate limit. My understanding is that the rate limit applies to the API as used by app developers, and not to the official widgets. Who is correct?
AI: This page - http://dev.twitter.com/pages/rate-limiting - has information on this (important stuff highlighted in bold below)
Requests to the Search API, hosted on search.twitter.com, do not count towards the REST API limit. However, all requests coming from an IP address are applied to a Search Rate Limit.
The Search Rate Limit isn't made public to discourage unnecessary search usage and abuse, but it is higher than the REST Rate Limit.
We feel the Search Rate Limit is both liberal and sufficient for most applications and know that many application vendors have found it suitable for their needs.
The API limit is linked to an IP address but does allow 150 requests per hour.
OAuth calls are permitted 350 requests per hour.
Also see;
https://support.twitter.com/groups/31-twitter-basics/topics/114-guidelines-best-practices/articles/15364-about-twitter-limits-update-api-dm-and-following
Hope this helps |
H: Is there a way to quickly ignore all future email from a sender in Gmail?
There are some companies that will email me and make it nearly impossible to unsubscribe.
I'm looking for a way to create a rule to auto-archive or delete their email. The problem is that creating a rule like that takes too long and gets me out of the flow of answering email.
Is there a way to quickly create this kind of rule -- ideally with a single click?
AI: more actions-> filter messages like these
The follow the on screen instructions (note there is a test filter option)
http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=78127 |
H: Is it possible to access multiple Gmail accounts concurrently?
Related:
How to Manage Multiple Gmail Accounts on the Same PC/Browser?
I used to be able to access my primary Gmail account, as well as two Google Apps accounts concurrently in the same browser as separate tabs. Now, I can't do this anymore.
Is there any workaround other than using multiple browsers?
AI: Go to account settings (it's in the top right corner of Gmail, accessible from the drop down menu), and turn on "Multiple sign-in". You might need to do this for every account. |
H: How to show someone who you previously marked for Facebook to hide from yours news feed
I previously marked someone for Facebook to hide from my news feed - how can I undo that process and see their updates in my news feed?
AI: Go to your news feed and hit the End key to navigate straight to the bottom of the page.
click the Edit Options links on the right hand side
a pop up will be displayed with a section called Hide posts from: then a sub section called Friends.
Click the x next to the friends name who you no longer want to hide.
Click Save |
H: Username for Facebook app profile page
We have a bare bones "app" on Facebook, mostly so we can allow users to login to our site with FB. We also include a Like button on our site; right now the Like button points to our app profile page, where we occasionally post updates for our users.
https://www.facebook.com/apps/application.php?id=190439350983878
Our app profile page has a couple dozen Likes now, so we were hoping to be able to give the page a short user name like http://www.facebook.com/blahblah.
Is there a way to get a user name for our app? (I know it's possible to claim an URL on apps.facebook.com if we implement a Canvas page, but we don't have a Canvas app and don't see why we would.)
AI: Visit https://www.facebook.com/username/ and choose your app's profile page in the drop down list. |
H: Free SSH server to test upload of files over SSH
I am looking for a free web-based SSH server which I can do a quick test of file upload over SSH.
AI: You can get a free shell account at Shellmix. It has free 200 MB of hard disk space. Should be adequate for your needs. |
H: Gmail grouping messages with the same subject?
I had a mail chain with a subject "Hi". Later I got another email with the same subject but unrelated to the previous mail chain. Gmail grouped these two together.
How can I avoid 2 different mail chains being grouped together based on just their subject in Gmail?
I do not want to disable grouping as it makes mail management easier. Just that 2 completely different chains shouldn't be grouped!
AI: Currently, this is not possible with Gmail. It uses the subject line as the unique identifier of a conversation and nothing else. A lot of people have been requesting this feature for several years however.
You can't even label individual messages in a conversation... which would be a possible temporary solution to your problem. |
H: Is it possible to find the thumbnail of an existing Imgur image?
There's a rather large image in a Stack Overflow post that I'd like to replace with its thumbnail and a link to the full-size image.
I know Imgur generates thumbnails for its images when you upload, but since I'm not the original uploader, is there any way for me to find the thumbnail image by URL hackery or some such?
AI: I can't actually find it documented anywhere, but I uploaded an image and played with the "More Sizes" list:
Original
https://i.stack.imgur.com/YdJZt.jpg
I haven't included the image inline, because StackExchange would automatically scale it down. To view the original at its full size, click the link.
Large thumbnail
https://i.stack.imgur.com/YdJZtl.jpg (added an l after the image ID)
Small square
https://i.stack.imgur.com/YdJZts.jpg (added an s after the image ID)
It doesn't always handle transparency well, but "small square" is probably what you want.
Image by digitalART2, licensed under CC-BY-2.0, available here. |
H: Is this a genuine Facebook link?
http://www.facebook.com/confirmemail.php?e=user%40email_address_removed_for_security_reasons.com&c=175274284&report=1
I got this in an email and wanted to know if it is a genuine Facebook link, or is someone trying to fake it?
AI: The important thing is the domain of the link. When you hover on that link, if the URL that shows up (usually at the bottom left of the browser window) starts with http://facebook.com or https://facebook.com, then it is safe no matter what follows the site root.
That being said, the link you gave opens a Facebook page to Report Mistaken Email. It says:
If you are receiving notifications at
user@email_address_removed_for_security_reasons.com
for a Facebook account that you do not
own, please report this account for
potential abuse.
and there is a button named "Report Abuse" below the message. |
H: I cannot register a new account on Live Azure
everytime I go to http://msm.live.com/app/default.aspx, a certificate error occurs.
Does anyone know if there is another way to register an application in order to use Windows Live SDK?
AI: The certificate error can be ignored – the certificate expired yesterday (June 9th) but is otherwise valid.
The second, "Server Error" is misconfiguration at Microsoft's end, and there is nothing you can do here. You'll have to wait for Microsoft to fix it.
There does seem to be another way to register an application: Go to https://live.azure.com/, sign in with your Live ID, and you will get redirected to an "Add Application" page (at https://manage.dev.live.com/AddApplication.aspx). |
H: How do we see the YouTube history page of another user?
When we visit http://youtube.com/my_history, we can see our own YouTube browsing history.
Is there a way to see the YouTube history page of another user?
AI: This would be a direct privacy violation, therefore such feature mustn't be available, and isn't.
However, we can see others' favorites (unless it is disabled) and under some circumstances (such as sharing your activities on Twitter, Facebook, etc.) Liked videos. |
H: Searching Multiple Tumblr Tags
I know that say one wanted to search for posts tagged with #LOL you can use the following,
http://www.tumblr.com/tagged/lol
and for #GIF you can use
http://www.tumblr.com/tagged/gif
A tag with a space could be for example, Emma Watson
http://www.tumblr.com/tagged/emma+watson
So my question is, if I want to search for #LOL and #GIF how can I accomplish this task?
It seems that just lol gif returns
http://www.tumblr.com/tagged/lol+gif
But I do not think this is right / I am not exactly sure what is the query here.
AI: You can't.
You have the correct syntax. But its current architecture only allows multiple tag browsing when the tags are single words. It will break or return nothing if you try and combine tags where at least one consists of more than one word.
Valid for "food" and "pizza":
http://www.tumblr.com/tagged/food+pizza
No hope for "paper art" and "stars"
http://www.tumblr.com/tagged/paper+art+stars |
H: Correctly Identifying Spam Messages
I have currently two messages in my inbox that passed the spam filter.
The interesting thing is that there are not like the regular ones that you would see in the Spam folder.
Subject: [My Home Address]
Hey [My Name]
I guess your job is going well. I just
wanted to tell you about a superb job
opportunity in New York. Philippe we
have had many of our clients take this
opp & I have heard some fantastic
stories.
The newspaper has story featuring one
of our clients, Kelly Richards. It
will also give you all the relevant
information you need to get started.
[My Name] the link is
[Digg link that links to a "get money from home" site] and I believe
the story will be featured on the
homepage until tomorrow.
Best regards Sandra Heavlin
It looks like I may have signed up at one point to something that did not offer Canadian residences and used a silly New York postal code instead. Though this is the first time I am seeing spam in this format.
And the second one
Subject: RE:[My Home Address]
[My Name] Day before today I spotted they are handing over out their grant
green notes in New York
The heavyweight reason why this is
they are needing to seriously cure
economy
Simply search "[search query]" in Google to
take a look at how to secure it for
your family.
Respectfully yours Gary Edelman
The first result in the query is again a fake site.
I want to just report these conversations as spam, but I am not sure how they will affect the rest of my messages with my address in the subject line. Ideally I would like to trace this back to source and remove my information from there, but most likely this is not possible.
AI: Reporting as spam emails with "good" keywords (the kind that looks like it is actually written by a human being) is difficult because of the concern you are obviously voicing. However, most spam intelligence will not only look at the message itself, but other components like who sent it, where it came from, and who it was sent to.
By reporting as spam you are providing the community a service in that you are reinforcing the identification of those other components as spam-ly behavior
You can attempt to remove your name from wherever it came from, but in all likelihood that is like feeding trolls. |
H: Does Tumblr ever show adverts on your blog?
If I create a blog on Tumblr will they display ads on the public pages of my site?
(For context I'm coming from WordPress.com which sometimes does show ads and they have a paid option to remove them.)
AI: Nope, tumblr as a service will not automatically put ads on your page, but you can always ad them in yourself via their 'additional html' box or if you create your own theme you could put the code for ads in there too. |
H: Google +1 and privacy
What happens when I press Google +1 button? Who can understand and view that I liked that article, news or whatever? My friends only, all internet users? Are there any settings to fine-tune this privacy issues?
AI: Google has an official page for the service: Google +1 Button.
This page explains the details about privacy and fine-tuning settings: Google +1 button privacy policy. |
H: Blog site with existing domain name
I would like to have a blog site, though I have created my own by writing the code. Huhhh... hosting cost is killing me. I have my domain name with me and I just wanted to get the blog where I can use my unused domain name.
My blog will me 80% technical (i.e. I will show peices of code and downloadable content to my user). Which blog will be useful for me. I just don't want my URL look like http://mysite.hosterName.com
I want it like this http://www.mysite.com
AI: WordPress, Blogger, Posterous & Tumblr - all provide hosting with custom domains. I believe WordPress charges extra for custom domains, while Blogger, Posterous & Tumblr do not. |
H: How to deal with Facebook real name policy?
I used to have a Facebook profile for my store. It had 3000 friends and still brings lots of visits to my web site.
Now, when I open my Facebook account, it asks for my real name and won't let me go further. I tried a couple of variants, without luck. It now says that I only have one try before locking my account.
How does Facebook know whether a name is real? Should I use my real name (noting that I already have another profile with that name)? A lot of people know the name of the shop, not mine, so I'd like to leave the old name, but I'm afraid my account would be locked if I do. Any suggestion?
Edit: I also have a fan page for the shop, but with only 300 friends (10%). If I really need to use the fan page, is there a way to transfer all existing information (photo albums, ...)?
AI: See if this works: Facebook Migration Tool from Profile to Page.
And the reverse: Facebook Migration Appeal just in case you changed your mind. |
H: Google Mail Keyboard Shortcut for delete on Mac
I use the Google Mail keyboard shortcuts a lot and I've just started working on a Mac. One shortcut I use a lot is delete, which Google Mail listens for the # key.
However, when I press the equivalent on the Mac keyboard (Alt+3) it doesn't work. I've tried pressing backspace and Fn+Backspace but no luck.
Anyone out there know the solution?
AI: It is Shift+3 within a message for Mac.
It is the same in the inbox as well
You must move to the message with j/k
Select a message with x
Then press Shift+3
It could be that your keyboard layout is different.
Using a UK layout, it would be Option + 3 : ⌥ + 3, but this does not work (Not sure why).
You can also remap your keys with the Google Labs feature : Custom keyboard shortcuts |
H: Where can I find usage statistics about Google App Engine?
Does it still have scalability issues ? Is a good choice for the development of a service with thousands of users ?
AI: I'm not a developer but I've just made a quick search to try answering your question.
The following is a good review for
GAE: Google app engine review (Java
edition)
This is the official developer blog
for GAE: Google App Engine Blog
(News, notes, tips, and tricks from
the Google App Engine Team)
Google App Engine Official Online
Docs
Hope that helps. |
H: Does Google log your search to your Google account?
When I go google.com and do a search while being logged in to my Gmail account (or Google account). does Google log that search to that specific account or will it only log that search to the browser?
AI: There are two ways Google 'logs' your searches. Google keeps server logs and there's a feature to log your searches in Web History.
Server Logs
Google stores search information like your web request, Internet Protocol address, browser type, browser language, the date and time of your request and one or more cookies that may uniquely identify your browser anytime you visit the site. Some of this information is tied to your Google Account, if signed in.
It's important to note that IP addresses are anonymized after 9 months and cookies in their search engine logs are anonymized after 18 months.
Additional information can be found in Google's privacy FAQ.
Web History
Google can save your Web History to your account if you have a Google account.
Visit your Web History settings to turn it on or off.
Your Web History includes searches
you've done on Google and pages you've
clicked in search results. Web History
allows you to:
See personalized search predictions as you type.
Get results and recommendations that are tailored to your preferences.
Search the full content of pages you've already seen.
You can view and edit your Web History
from any computer by signing in to
your Google Account.
Learn more about Web History. |
H: Maximum limit of Retweets on Twitter
Say if I retweeted everything in my Twitter stream, is there a limit per day that I would reach?
If so, should I untweet some of these posts to stay under the limit?
AI: Depending on how many tweets you retweet and send then, yes.
You are limited to sending 1,000 updates per day broken down into semi-hourly intervals. If you hit your account update limit, you will have to wait until you have passed the limit-period before you can send further updates. Retweets are classed as an update.
You would also be limited by the API Rate Limits - currently 150 unauthenticated API calls and 350 authenticated API calls.
Other Account Limits are as follows:
Direct Messages: 250 per day.
Updates: 1,000 per day. The daily update limit is further broken down into smaller limits for semi-hourly intervals. Retweets are counted as updates.
Changes to Account Email: 4 per hour.
Following (daily): Please note that this is a technical account limit only, and there are additional rules prohibiting aggressive following behavior. You can find detailed page describing following limits and prohibited behavior on the Follow Limits and Best Practices Page. The technical follow limit is 1,000 per day.
Following (account-based): Once an account is following 2,000 other users, additional follow attempts are limited by account-specific ratios. The Follow Limits and Best Practices Page has more information.
Further information on Account limits (DM's, Updates, Following etc) can be found here |
H: Google Calendar - Is there a non-manual method for moving events from one calendar to another?
I would like to move a few dozen events from one calendar to another.
Is there a way to do this, without having to delete each event and re-create them on the new calendar?
Clarification
By non-manual method, I mean not having to delete each event, then having to recreate each event with descriptions, times, invitations, etc. Perhaps this wording was poor, but the accepted answer does utilize Google's system for moving an event rather than me having to simulate the effect via delete/create.
AI: When you edit the event, you can change which calendar it is on: |
H: Disable Google +1 functionality
How do I disable Google +1 functionality from appearing in my searches?
I want to remove "+1" icon from Google Search results. Is there a way to do so?
AI: Download Adblock Plus
Add filter ##button.esw
Goodbye Google PlusOne icons. |
H: Webservice to aggregate the online services I use
I'm searching for a simple webservice to aggregate and show the online services I use. I just want to have one link to post and a user who follows it will see all the services I use. Like my Blog, Twitter, Facebook, Dribbble, Grooveshark, you name it.
Of course there are other ways to achieve it, like setting up a blog, but isn't there a simple service which I can use?
AI: I recommend flavors.me. |
H: How do I change my portrait photo on Tumblr?
Before the UI change in Tumblr, the option to change the profile picture could be found in the same place where one customizes their blog.
Where has the option moved to now ? I tried looking in the preferences and it is not there either.
Which only takes me to ways to change my email address and password.
So how do I change my photo?
AI: You should be able to see this under the Settings page of your tumblelog.
From the Dashboard, click on the name of your tumblelog
Click Blog Settings on the sidebar to the right
This page will allow you to upload the Portrait Photo.
The URL of the page will look something like this:
http://www.tumblr.com/tumblelog/[example]/settings
Which gets redirected to this:
http://www.tumblr.com/blog/[example]/settings |
H: Facebook is not showing any of my messages
So for some days now I can't view any of my messages on Facebook. The chat in the bottom works, but when someone sends me a longer message/non-IM message here's what happens:
I get a notification on the top, under messages
I click the notification
I get taken to the messages screen, the title is displayed and no messages. Even if there used to be multiple ones, there is nothing now.
I get email notifications for all Facebook message activity, so I can still read and reply, but I can't actually view it on Facebook itself. If I click the link in the email it gives me the same result: no message.
Here's a screenshot of a message thread that has over 8 messages:
I am using Chromium 11.0.696.71 (86024) on Ubuntu 10.04, and both Ubuntu and Chromium tell me that I am up to date. I have cleared my cache and rebooted several times, nothing works.
AI: I would check the following:
Check that the build of Chrome you are using is stable. If not, use a build that is stable.
Check if the problem still exists when using a different browser
Check if the problem still exists when using a different computer (if possible)
Disable any plugins that you may have installed.
If the problem still exists then according to this Facebook FAQ Article you should report the problem by completing this form (You must be logged in to Facebook to see this form.)
Facebook Help Article for completeness:
My Messages are not loading.
If you are seeing a blank page when
accessing your Messages, please follow
these steps:
Make sure that you are using the most recent version of your internet
browser. Click here for information
about updating your browser.
Try manually refreshing the page a few times (Ctrl+r on PCs; Cmd+r on
Macs).
Check if this issue is occurring on a different computer as well.
If the problem persists, please submit
a report here. |
H: How can I stop Gmail from serving me auto translations based on my IP address?
When I go to Gmail website (FireFox, if this info is needed) with a different IP (IP from Germany), they automatically translate the page to German.
How do I stop this behavior (in other words I want English no matter what)
Like even before I login to my account, the login page is already in German!
AI: Add hl=en at the end of the URL, after a ? if there isn't already an ?, after & otherwise. |
H: Is there any way to easily merge two Pandora stations into a single station?
I have two stations that I'd like to merge. I essentially want all the seed, thumbed up, and thumbed down songs from one station to be added to the other.
Is there any way for me to do this?
AI: Currently, it is not possible. This was asked in Pandora support forum a year ago and the official response was:
Another cool idea, Sheldon. Thanks! We
appreciate your 10 cents.
For now, you can always QuickMix any
of your stations together.
:) Lucia
The latest message on this page is 19 days old and it seems they still haven't added this feature. So your best bet would be using QuickMix which can temporarily merge two stations.
QuickMix is a feature designed to allow you to listen to
more than one of your stations at
once. For those who'd like to merge or
combine two stations, QuickMix can
temporarily give you that effect. |
H: How can I create a Facebook fan page that displays content only after user joins it?
I'm sure everyone using Facebook is familiar with this type of fan pages, where you have to click the "Become a fan" button before it will display any content to you.
How can I do this on my own fan page? I've tried to google it, but I don't really know what to look for.
AI: What you are looking for is something called a Fan Gate.
A Facebook fan gate is also known as and often referred to as the reveal tab or welcome tab. Sound familiar? In fan pages for Facebook, the fan gate is the initial tab (or landing page) new visitors to your page land on. It’s not for returning fans, strictly for new visitors. Once they “Like” your fan page for facebook, and become an official fan the fan gate tab turns into different content that is available to fans only.
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You use to be able to make them yourself with some FBML and the FBML app on your page, but that app is no longer available and has been replaced with the iFrame app.. thus requiring a bit more coding to get it to work.. or going a pay solution.
Here is a link to a step by step php iFrame free solution
http://www.chilipepperdesign.com/2011/02/15/reveal-fan-gate-like-gate-facebook-iframe-tab-tutorial-with-php
Here is a link to a step by step solution provided by Wildfire http://www.marismith.com/iframes-facebook-app-fan-gate-wildfire/
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H: Comment tracking for a site using Facebook Comments social plugin
I have a website that I run and on said website I use Facebook's Social Plugin: Comments.
People come to my website and sometimes they leave comments. What I am looking for is a way to see the 'latest' comments.
Ideally to push them back to my site so other users can see them, but mostly I just want to be able to see them so that I can respond.
The two places I have checked are...
The Social Plugin: Activity Feed
The Insights page for my app
When I check the Activity Feed it shows me 'activity' that happened long ago. In fact 3 months ago is the most recent thing it shows, so thats not helpful or correct
When I check my insights page, specifically in the comments section it will show comment count, but it will not show me what the comments are or where they are... So thats annoying.
Am I missing something?
Oh and because people always ask here are some urls for if you want to check stuff for yourself.
The site is http://gameachievements.org ( if you throw that domain into http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/plugins/activity/ you can see the dated activity )
And for some recent comments so show that there are indeed comments http://gameachievements.org/achievements/view/7457
AI: This page has an FAQ section:
http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/plugins/comments/
which contains:
How do I access the comments left on my site?
The comments for every URL can be accessed via the graph API. Simply go to: https://graph.facebook.com/comments/?ids={YOUR_URL}
For example, the comments on this URL can be accessed via: https://graph.facebook.com/comments/?ids=http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/plugins/comments.
Also there is a link from that page to this blog post. |
H: Short URL services not working properly
any idea why short URL services fail very often?
Mozilla shows a "Problem loading page" error page:
Server not found. Firefox can't find the server at www.t.co.
This is especially true for t.co for example.
If I refresh continuously over a large period of time, it will eventually redirect.
AI: t.co is run by Twitter and like twitter.com itself it suffers from overloading. The same could apply to other popular services. |
H: How does Google keep web history?
Say I search for something in Google and click on a few results. After some time, if I again search for same thing, the search results show the earlier clicked links with different colours and date/time of visit. And, I know that this is associated with my Google account and not with the computer as such.
I had in mind that after the search, Google returns us with a page and clicking on those search results does not go through Google. So how does Google keep the web history?
AI: A basic description of how Google Web History works:
http://www.google.com/support/accounts/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=54068
[...]
Note: Depending upon whether or not you're signed in to a Google
Account when you search, the
information we use for customizing
your experience will be different:
Signed-in personalization: When you're signed in, Google personalizes
your search experience based on your
Web History. If you don't want to
receive personalized results while
you're signed in, you can turn off Web
History and remove it from your Google
Account. You can also view and remove
individual items from your Web
History.
Signed-out personalization: When you're not signed in, Google
customizes your search experience
based on past search information
linked to your browser, using a
cookie. Google stores up to 180 days
of signed-out search activity linked
to your browser's cookie, including
queries and results you click.
To change Web History settings for your account go to:
https://www.google.com/history/ |
H: Online count down timer/alarm clock that gives a nudge when a set time is up?
Is there an online count down timer/alarm clock that gives you nudge when a set time is up?
I do not want it to play a sound, but rather give me a notification that I can see (like when you get a msn message)
AI: Check out Aero Timer extension for Chrome
You can either do a count down or set a time for the alarm to go off. The extension icon shakes when the time is up and it also sends you a desktop notification. The only down side is that does play a sound as well, which at the moment, you cannot turn off. |
H: Using multiple email via Gmail
I have had a Gmail account for years. Now I have bought a domain which I set up with Google Apps and want to use a couple of email addresses for one Gmail account.
I have email addresses like:
[email protected] //setup by Google Apps
[email protected]
[email protected]
I want to use one email account to send/receive those multiple emails. When a email comes to [email protected] and I reply to the receiving end the mail should still be received from [email protected].
AI: If you go into "Mail Settings" and click on the "Accounts and Import" tab, you will see a section where it says "Send mail as" and you can add any and all emails you wish to send from. Add your emails, and forward your other accounts to that email as well.
The downside of doing this is that, when you send an email from the central account, it will tell the recipient as such.
For example: you use the @gmail account as your central, and forward everything to it. When you send emails from contact@mydomain, it will say "[email protected] sent by [email protected]" or something to that effect.
It's been a while since I've used it like that, so perhaps they have changed it. Give it a shot and find out! |
H: Move YouTube videos from Favorites to Watch Later list
How do I move all the videos I have in the Favorites list in YouTube to Watch Later?
At the end of it I want nothing left in the Favorites.
AI: You need to go to http://www.youtube.com/my_favorites then
click the check box next to the Add to button.
click the Add to button and
check the check box named Watch Later
click Add videos button
click the check box next to the Add to button.
click Remove to remove the videos from your Favorites. |
H: Is Gmail for business still free
Possible Duplicate:
Free Google Apps could not be found
I remember a while back Google offered free email to businesses, where you host your email with them and still use emails like [email protected]. I can't seem to find this now. I only see a paid subscription. Is it still available? where?
Related:
Free Google Apps could not be found
AI: It's still available for 10 user accounts. Get started with Google Apps for free |
H: How to integrate Basecamp with Dropbox?
How do integrate project attachments and messages and between Basecamp and Dropbox?
Is there an application which can integrate Dropbox with Basecamp in such way so that I have all Basecamp attachments and messages inside my Dropbox? I.e., if just edit a file in Dropbox it will be uploaded into Basecamp automatically?
AI: I haven't used their service, but CloudHQ seems to offer what you need.
From their website about the Basecamp / Dropbox integration:
CloudHQ simplifies management of Google Docs, Basecamp, and Dropbox files
Manage all your Dropbox and Basecamp files directly from a Google Docs interface
CloudHQ will continuously synchronize Dropbox, Basecamp, and Google Docs
CloudHQ can also backup Basecamp projects and Google Docs to Dropbox |
H: Where can I host EXE files?
Where and how can I host an EXE file (basically an installer for our desktop product) for users to download (e.g. for trial)?
My company uses Google Apps for nearly everything (at least for now). We have our website on Google Sites. Google Sites does not allow uploading an EXE directly, we need to zip it up and upload it, to host the installer EXE on the website itself. While this is a fine alternative I wonder if there is a way to upload an EXE directly to a hosting service that we can link to on our website. We tried to upload the EXE to Google Docs (as it can host any file-type now), but the user experience is poor, since it redirects the user to a http://docs.google.com page that informs user that the file was not scanned and may contain viruses and asked if they wanted to download anyway.
Some nice to have functionality:
It would be nice to allow linking to the EXE from the company URL e.g. http://my-company-url.com/installer.EXE
It would be nice if an online hosting service provided this. I know I can install a Linux+Apache on our own physical server and serve content, but I would rather not go this route, as I can upload the .ZIP of the EXE to Google Sites
It would be nice if the hosting service was cheap (free if possible) if only a small number of downloads were initiated.
AI: You can store your file on Dropbox and link your file. There are download limits for users but these seem high enough (10GB/day for free users, 250GB/day for paid users).
There are also numerous other file hosting services (sort for Direct access).
This will not give you an URL from your domain, however you can create a 301 redirect (this script may need to be tweaked a bit but you get the basic idea). This should work for all other hosting services, too.
Another possibility is to store the files on Amazon S3 which is paid only (cheap enough and you pay only if users download (and a tiny bit for storage, click on S3 to calculate)) but can give you a subdomain on your own domain and has a higher rate of stability than most file hosting services (which can be switched of from one day to another). |
H: Hiding New Friends Activity on Facebook
Is there a privacy setting on Facebook that will stop the posting that is made on your friend's wall when you make a new friend?
I do not want this to appear on my friend's wall when I make a new friend
AI: I do not think there is a setting that will prevent you from appearing on your friend's wall, but you can control what shows up on your own profile (via Facebook help page):
You cannot completely turn off Recent
Activity stories; however, you can:
Prevent people from seeing certain Recent Activity stories on your
profile by editing individual privacy
settings.
Remove Recent Activity stories by clicking the "Remove" button that
appears to the right of the story
after you move your mouse over it.
You can also find more information about preventing people from seeing recent activity stories from this Facebook help page. |
H: Is there a way to download a list of all Wikipedia categories?
Is there a way to download a list of all Wikipedia categories?
AI: You can download the Wikpedia categories from here. Here is the latest categories in SQL format.
This is a duplicate of this SO question. |
H: Is there a way to force Google Maps to show Traffic by default?
When I hit up maps.google.com, it goes to my default map. Is there way to force it to show me traffic so that I don't have to hit the Traffic button?
AI: Use this link instead:
http://maps.google.com/maps?layer=t
The trick is in the ?layer=t query string ;) |
H: Creating folders in Gmail like Yahoo! does
Can we create folders in Gmail the same way as it happens in Yahoo!?
Gmail provides the "label" feature but Yahoo! folders easily separates the messages as categorized.
AI: Sorry, but you are looking for a feature that simply does not exist in gmail. You will not be able to change that behavior unless you download your e-mail to a local client like Outlook and use it to sort your mail.
http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=10708 |
H: Stop a YouTube video from buffering
If I land on a page embedded with more than one YouTube video, I may not watch them in order or all the way through but they will continue buffering even if I no longer want to watch them.
Say I start the first video and after few seconds I don't want to watch the rest of it. If I want the second video to play instead I will pause the first. But the first video will still buffer as I'm trying to view the second.
How do I stop buffering a YouTube video?
What I usually do is just refresh the page before going to the next video.
Is there any other way?
AI: Right-click on the video and select Stop downloading. To start it up again click the pause/play button.
Another way is to move the slider all the way to the end or near end of the video timeline. That way only the few remaining seconds left to play will end up streaming down to your computer and when it finishes, that's it. No more buffering or loading. |
H: Which emoticons will Gmail automatically automate?
I was recently poking around all of Gmail's settings, and I noticed an option labelled Emoticons. Supposedly, when the option is selected, certain typed emoticons will "automatically animate". This led me wonder: which emoticons will be animated (and, [pseudo-question], into what images)?
AI: The following link has a key to emots in gmail
http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=34056 |
H: How can you get Facebook to allow you more than 5000 friends?
Facebook maxes out your friends at 5000. Is there some way to get around this without just creating a second page?
Note: I'm not even close, but I have friends who have maxed out and have to kluge other accounts to try and manage things.
AI: One option would be to create a fan page for yourself and use that. Fan pages have no limit to the amount of "fans" |
H: Disable Facebook facial recognition
I recently noticed that Facebook was tagging me in my wife's photos that she did not tag me in. Apparently Facebook now tags people automagically by facial recognition.
How can I disable this functionality?
AI: Go to Account > Privacy Settings
Choose "Custom" and then "Customise Settings"
Under "Things Others Share", next to "Suggest photos of me to friends", click "Edit Settings"
Next to "Suggest photos of me to friends", choose "Disabled" |
H: How to retrieve a LastPass auto-generated password?
I used LastPass to register a Gmail account. I need the password to enter it into Mail.app, Apple's email client, but I don't know the password. Help!
AI: This is very easy to find out.
You need to go to http://www.lastpass.com and sign in. Once signed in you will be shown your "LastPass Vault". In the list of passwords their will be your GMail account. Click the edit link.
Next to the password box, click Show. It will then display your password in clear text.
Note: If you have the LastPass browser extension installed, you can access your vault using this rather than browsing to the LastPass website. Either way will work |
H: Post to Tumblr via email
How do I post to Tumblr from email?
My login/account screen doesn't have the "Goodies" button at the top as shown in this help page for Tumblr:
http://www.tumblr.com/docs/en/email_publishing
AI: To publish to your tumblr you can send an email to a private email address which can be found out by following these steps:
How do I find my email address for mobile + email publishing?
Click your blog's name at the top of your Dashboard or under the list icon at the top right.
Click "Blog settings" on the right side of the page.
You’ll find your private email address in the “Post by Email” section. (You can always reset this if you’re having issues publishing.)
The settings page has a URL looking like http://www.tumblr.com/blog/<name>/settings.
More information on post by email can be found in the tumblr help. |
H: Can I re-order my issues in Bitbucket?
I’m using Bitbucket’s issues feature to track bugs and enhancements on a project I’m working on.
By default, it seems to sort the list of issues by last updated, or similar. This is a bit annoying when I want to quickly note down an issue, but deal with it after a few other more pressing issues, or put e.g. three issues in order of priority.
Can I order the list arbitrarily?
AI: Clicking the “Bump!” button at the bottom of each issue puts that issue to the top of the default sort order. |
H: Create a table of contents with hyperlinks in Google Docs
Is there a way to create a table of contents in Google Docs like you would in a wiki?
I have huge documents with many sections. I currently use block quotes to separate those sections and keep things in perspective.
However, it would be nice to have some tag that I can give to titles and then those tags appear as a table of contents at the top. That way I can easily browse though different things.
Is there any way to do this?
AI: You can create a table of Contents in Google Docs;
Add headings to your document by clicking Format > Paragraph styles in the toolbar, and selecting a heading.
Click Table of contents from the Insert menu. The table of contents appears wherever you've clicked in the document, so make sure you place your cursor where you want to add the table of contents. If you need to move the table of contents, select it as you would select text and either move it with your cursor or cut it and paste it.
You can continue to add headings to your document or change current headings. However, if you'd like a change to become part of the table of contents, you need to click first the table and then the Update now button.
Each item in your table of contents links to the titled sections of your document that use the heading styles (that you added in step 1 above).
Related help article: Add a title, heading, or table of contents in a document
Hope this helps. |
H: Forwarding as attachment instead of inline using the GMail web client
Everytime someone sends a mail to my company's support email address, it reaches my boss. He then forwards the mails to whoever of us he thinks could be helpful, usually with a message like "Could you check this and follow up with him?".
However, he always forwards me the emails inline, not as an attachment, which makes it impossible for me to reply; I can only compose a new mail to the original sender.
I've asked him to sent the forwarded emails as attachments instead, but there seems to be no obvious way to do that in the GMail web client he's using. However, the comment on this question seems to suggest that it's possible (and I would imagine so, as it's a fairly standard email function).
So, how can he enable forwarding as an attachment in the Google webmail interface?
AI: After some googling this is the best answer I can give you
Click on "Options" then click on "Show original":
The view source of the new window and then save that to a file that you can then attach
readnotify send as attachement (gmail) |
H: How can I determine the source (computer) of an event in DropBox?
I have the DropBox windows app installed on multiple computers. Each of them link to the same account.
Somehow, my account was disassociated with a shared folder. I see it in the event log as
You left the shared folder Folder Name.
Is there any way to determine which computer the event was triggered from?
AI: Not through the web interface or any other DropBox application.
However, I submitted a ticket to DropBox support and they were able to tell me the source of the event. Then the following exchange occurred.
Me: Is there any way I could have figured
this out on my own or is this info
available only from the back-end?
DB Support: It's only available to us here in tech
support. |
H: Substitute for FeedBurner's "sending the feed to Twitter" feature?
I am using FeedBurner to send my feed to this Twitter account: http://twitter.com/#!/rbloggers.
I see that it stopped working about a month ago.
Is there an alternative service I could use?
AI: twitterfeed seems promising, although I haven't tried it yet. It even lets you manage the format of the tweets and supports post filters.
There are also a few plugins for Wordpress such as WP to Witter and WordTwit. For Wordpress.com you can use Publicize which is included by default. |
H: How does Facebook know where I live?
How does Facebook know where I live, when I have never provided anything about my address (or even city) to Facebook (or such companies)?
(My correct city was in the "anonymous" Sponsored "survey".)
(Also, slightly unrelated: Where is the best place to report this privacy violation?)
AI: It will almost certainly use your IP Address to locate the general area of where you live. It is quite a common thing to do these days.
There are many services that can provide this information, a simple Google search returned http://www.ip2location.com/
Taken from this Wikipedia article on Geolocation Software
The primary source for IP address data is the regional Internet registries which allocate and distribute IP addresses amongst organizations located in their respective service regions:
American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN)
RIPE Network Coordination Centre (RIPE NCC)
Asia-Pacific Network Information Centre (APNIC)
Latin American and Caribbean Internet Address Registry (LACNIC)
African Network Information Centre (AfriNIC)
Secondary sources include:
Data mining or user-submitted geographic location data. For example, a weather web site might ask visitors for a city name to find their local forecast. Another example would be to pair a user's IP address with the address information in his/her account profile.
Data contributed by internet service providers.
Merging databases from different suppliers.
Guesstimates from adjacent Class C range[2] and/or gleaned from network hops.
Accuracy is improved by:
Data scrubbing to filter out or identify anomalies.
Statistical analysis of user submitted data. |
H: Every 4th Monday?
Is there any way I can set up Google Calendar to remind me to pay rent
every 4th Monday (= every 28 days)?
Not monthly and every 4th Monday.
That's why I missed my last payment ....
AI: Every fourth Monday of each month:
Choose the 4th Monday of a month and set a new event there.
Set the repeats to Monthly
Set Repeat every: 1 months
Set Repeat by: day of the week
The calendar will show you Summary: Monthly on the fourth Monday
The first step is very important since it will be the starting point and the event will repeat according to that particular day.
Every four weeks on Monday
Set the repeats to Weekly
Set Repeat every: 4 weeks
Set Repeat on: Monday |
H: Is there any place on Grooveshark systematically to flag songs that are "bad"?
I find a lot of songs refuse to play at all, or cut out halfway through.
AI: You need to flag the song by doing the following:
Hover your mouse over the song until you see the options menu come up.
The options menu is represented by a "+" with a down arrow next to it.
Click the gear, choose the "Flag Song" option and select what is wrong with the song from the menu.
You should flag a song if it will not play, skips, is low-quality, mislabeled, contains explicit lyrics, or has the wrong album art.
Taken from this Grooveshark Help article |
H: I no longer see the 'cached' link in Google search results
Possible Duplicate:
How can I bring back the Google “cached version” links?
Until recently when I did a search on Google, many of the results would show a 'cached' link beneath the main title that when clicked would load the page as was cached by Google's web crawler.
Now this 'cached' link no longer appears.
I have tried a number of different search subjects in case for some reason the issue was restricted to the certain sites returned in my initial search results but none of the results show the link.
I also looked at the search preferences and couldn't see anything about this. Am I missing something - where has the link gone?
UPDATE: This is the same effect as using the 'cache:' command in Google. For example entering the following in the Goolgle search box:
cache:www.bbc.co.uk
will display Google's cached copy of the page.
This used to be available as a link in the search results
If it has simply been removed by Google then fine. However I have posted the question in case I can re-enable it thorough a preference or setting somewhere that I have missed.
AI: Hmm I am using Firefox 3.6.2 and for some reason the cached link does not appear. Neither does the 'Similar' link.
However when viewing the same search results in IE, both links are there.
So I can only assume something odd is happening in my local installation of Firefox or for some reason that particular version of Firefox removes the links.
Anyway, thank you to everyone who attempted to help and apologies for leading you on a wild goose chase. |
H: Approve or decline Twitter follower requests without protected tweets
Is it possible to approve or decline Twitter follower requests if I don't check "protect my tweets" checkbox in my Twitter's setting?
I currently have 233 follower requests, I just approved 2 people that I'm sure I know of. I need to open my tweets publicly, but it's just really really annoying if I directly get more than 10 followers every day that I don't prefer them to follow me, and then I must block them one by one.
AI: You are missing an important point of what is the purpose of Twitter.
It's a micro-blog, the act of "tweeting" is by default by public.
So you can block users, but it cannot change the fact that they will still be able to see your tweets, while not logged in.
twitter.com/<username>
is viewable by all and does not reach a privacy barrier in the same way as for example Facebook
facebook.com/<username>
So the answer is no, the only proper way would be to protect your tweets. |
H: Do Google Analytics track both HTTPS and HTTP traffic?
I have a few Chrome plugins published on the Google webstore with analytics and I noticed today that the protocols for the URL different depending on what I happen to have copy pasted. Will Google Analytics detect visitors to these pages on both HTTP and HTTPS?
AI: Short answer: yes.
Long answer: it depends on which version of the tracking code you are using. Meaning that if you are using an older version (urchin.js), you need to copy/paste a different tracking code into your secure pages. (Here is the man page: http://www.google.com/support/analytics/bin/answer.py?answer=55483) |
H: Place to recruit beta testers
Where can I find a place to recruit beta testers for our web apps?
Is it best to create an holding page which collects name, email etc or is they a site where I can go to etc?
AI: I'm not saying that this is the best way to do it, but here is how I'm doing it right now.
I have a website (step1tuts.com), where I announce the project I'm working on, and saying that it's coming soon. At the bottom, I just have a form generated by google docs spreadsheets, where people can sign up to be a beta tester. When I think that my site's prototype is ready, I'm going to feed the csv file into my database to insert the first users. |
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