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H: Where can I report a bug relating to Google Plus?
I think I have some bugs to report when I use it but I wonder where to report those bugs. Where should I report a Google Plus bug?
AI: Update (19/09/2012):
This procedure has changed. To send feedback regarding Google+ follow the steps below:
Click on the cog wheel button in the upper-right part of the page
Click on Send feedback
Follow the steps in the window that will appear
Source.
Go to you Google+ account.
In the bottom right corner you have a Send Feedback button.
Click it
A form will open allowing you to submit a bug.
To report an issue, go to Google+ and click “Send feedback” at the bottom of the page.
From here: http://www.google.com/intl/en/+/learnmore/forum/ |
H: How do I restrict Google search site operator by excluding subdomains?
Let's say I ran the following query in Google's web search:
site:"superuser.com" "windows 7"
This will return results on the blog.superuser.com subdomain.
How can I restrict results to only be from the superuser.com domain and not any other subdomain?
AI: This will do the trick:
[ "windows 7" site:superuser.com -site:*.superuser.com ]
This method has varying results and does not work for sites such as
stackexchange.com
cnn.com
fox.com
internet.com |
H: How to format footnotes with Markdown on Tumblr?
I'm not sure I can get proper documentation on this, I've been to this tumblr help center and this discussion on Meta SO about Markdown footnotes, I saw interesting comment from Arjan that Drupal made it possible.
How can I write Markdown footnotes in Tumblr?
I tried <sup>1</sup>, which works on SE sites like so, but it doesn't work on Tumblr.
AI: Make sure you've got Tumblr set to format your posts with Markdown here. Then, the syntax is:
That's some text with a footnote.[^1]
[^1]: And that's the footnote.
As noted here. |
H: Can I add users to a Twitter list without going to their individual profile pages?
I have a Twitter list to which I would like to add about fifty user accounts. I have a handy (non-twitter) list of these user accounts, and I would like to be able to add them to the Twitter list without going to twitter.com/username and using the dropdown menu.
Is there an app or extension that will help me out with this? In the ideal picture in my mind, I can just type the username and hit enter, and that account will magically appear on my list.
Possible?
I have tried the solutions mentioned in this answer, but I do not follow the accounts I want to add to this list, so I haven't had any success.
Clarification:
I would like to be able to add users to a twitter list without loading a separate page to find each user. So I would like to avoid going to their user page, but I'd also like to avoid having to load a page of search results (whether on twitter.com or on an external app) each time, as well.
AI: I would like to be able to add users to a twitter list without loading a separate page to find each user. So I would like to avoid going to their user page, but I'd also like to avoid having to load a page of search results (whether on twitter.com or on an external app) each time, as well.
Using Hootsuite you can do so |
H: Searching old news articles
Google News advanced search only lets me search news article by date from the last month.
Is there any similar site where I can search for news articles or trends by date for the last decade or so? I'm especially interested in times of early Iraq War (2003-2006).
AI: When you search for "Iraq war" on News.google.com, you'll see "Archives" option on the left pane under "Any recent news".
Clicking on it will bring new options as follows:
You can either click on any year or click on "Custom Range..." to select a range. This is the result for your case: |
H: How could I export my Google Bookmarks in lists?
I use Google Bookmarks and all of my bookmarks are organized into lists.
When i hit export.. this is the file. and this is all i get:
<!DOCTYPE NETSCAPE-Bookmark-file-1>
<META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
<TITLE>Bookmarks</TITLE>
<H1>Bookmarks</H1>
<DL><p>
</DL><p>
How could I export my Google Bookmarks ?
AI: The problem is that you are using lists.
You cannot export lists.
As seen in the following example
<!DOCTYPE NETSCAPE-Bookmark-file-1>
<META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
<TITLE>Bookmarks</TITLE>
<H1>Bookmarks</H1>
<DL><p>
<DT><H3 ADD_DATE="1269610508467000">Unlabeled</H3>
<DL><p>
<DT><A HREF="http://users.powernet.co.uk/eton/kandr2/krx1.html" ADD_DATE="1288705980381398">The C Programming Language Answers To Exercises - Chapter 1</A>
<DT><A HREF="http://books.google.ca/books?id=9DHsQ0CQNucC&lpg=PA204&ots=sNQz8F9iPn&dq=wet+scrubber+design&pg=PA204#v=onepage&q=wet%20scrubber%20design&f=false" ADD_DATE="1269610508467000">Air pollution control engineering</A>
</DL><p>
</DL><p> |
H: Search for "google+" on Twitter without regular "google" in results
How do you search for "google+" on Twitter without results also showing the form without the plus sign (+)?
I want to search for the literal google+ on Twitter. Unfortunately, the plus gets encoded and the Twitter search API does not find any results. Results appear the same as if there was no plus sign.
AI: This seems to be your best bet for now within Google Search as Google may have added it as a special reserved word in a similar format to say c++
site:twitter.com inurl:status google+
The following seems to search Google and Google+ but if you look at the results in realtime, there are also results that do not make any sense.
twitter.com/?q=google%2B#!/search |
H: Removed contacts reappear in Yahoo! Messenger (in webmail client)?
I've accessed Yahoo Messenger from it's web interface (within the Yahoo! webmail client) and now I see some contacts I've removed a long time ago from my list (using the Windows client).
Any idea why is this happening and how can I get rid of these contacts?
AI: As I know, You need to delete them from "Contacts" tab in your Yahoo mail.
Check the box next to each contact that you want to delete.
The right side of the page lists several options.
Click the Delete option, and then confirm the deletion.
The names are moved to your Deleted Contacts where you can restore them if you like.
See How Do I delete a contact?. |
H: Delete photo in Gmail/Google profile without uploading another?
I want to delete the photo associated with my Gmail account without adding another photo. I tried doing this in Google profile, but I could only find the option to upload a different photo (which I don't want to do). Any ideas?
AI: Gmail > Settings > General > My picture > Change Picture > Select No picture |
H: How can I upload images to Google+ via email?
Is it possible to upload an image to my Google+ profile via email?
All other social services seems to have this feature available, but I can't find it on Google+.
AI: You can't.
It's unfortunate, because there used to be a workaround using Picasa (details below), but it no longer works.
This is all moot anyway with the move away from Google+ Photos to Google Photos. Google Photos doesn't have an email option either, but there are other ways to automatically get photos in there.
The steps below no longer work, but are left as a legacy.
It used to be possible. The key is that you don't do it through Google+, but rather Picasaweb (soon to be Google Photos)
Go to Picasaweb
Click the gear in the upper-right corner and select "Photos settings"
On the "General" tab, there is an option for "Upload photos by email:"
Click the checkbox and select a "secret word". The combination of the secret word and your user ID will create a special e-mail address (i.e., {userID}.{secret}@picasaweb.com)
Use that e-mail address to e-mail images to your Picasaweb (and, thus, Google+) photos
The photos appear in the "Drop Box" album, which is the default for newly uploaded photos, and the e-mail subject is used as the caption.
From here, you'll want to move the image to an album you're already sharing or, if you want to share every image you send via e-mail, you can share the Drop Box album with whatever Circles you want and it'll appear in your Stream.
Note: Google recently changed picasaweb.google.com to redirect to your Google+ Photos. While they do provide a link to get back to Picasaweb without redirecting there's no telling how long they'll keep that link around. There is not, at this time, a way to upload photos to Google+ via email. |
H: Is there an upper bound on the number of concurrent connections to Gmail?
Just what the title indicates, is there an upper limit on the number of concurrent sessions for a Gmail user?
AI: Gmail support indicates that it currently has a limit of 15 simultaneous IMAP connections per account.
According to the Gmail Terms of Use, each user account is intended for
single use. This means that if you have multiple users frequently
accessing the same account or more than one IMAP1 client accessing
Gmail at the same time, you may reach a connection threshold and
receive the error message, 'Too many simultaneous connections.'
Gmail currently has a limit of 15 simultaneous IMAP connections per
account
Hope that helps. |
H: How to link directly to a Google+ Hangout?
If I start a Google+ Hangout, is there anyway to send my friends a link directly to that Hangout post? I couldn't find any options.
So I have to send people a link to my profile, and let them click on the join hangout button. I prefer not to do that since the hangout post may be buried by my other updates.
AI: When you create a hangout, just copy the URL at the top of the pop-up window that opens up. Send it to anyone you want. They need to sign in with a Gmail account (that is associated with a Google+ profile) and they will be added to the hangout. |
H: How do I search within an attachment in Gmail?
Gmail allows me to search using the operator as
has:attachment *.txt
How do I further filter this to search for a specific word in a file?
E.g. to search for a PDF that contains the word ATLANTICO, I've tried this without success:
has: attachment *.pdf ATLANTICO
AI: I'm afraid you can't. Looking at Gmail help, there's nothing related to searching within attachments.
You can specify a file name, but that's it:
filename:physicshomework.txt
Or you could save files you want to search through to Google Docs.
The simple explanation why it's not possible is that it would require a tremendous amount of indexing to be done. Gmail search isn't that fast to begin with, and I can imagine it'd take far too long to search within attachments.
Also note that this is a feature that even most desktop clients don't do.
That being said, there seems to be a startup that focuses on what you want: attachments.me
Attachments.me indexes your email account and presents an attachments-centric view of it. We create thumbnails, let you search within attachments, and, above all, make your email better |
H: Keyboard shortcut to sign out of Gmail
Is there a keyboard shortcut that will sign me out of Gmail?
AI: Unfortunately, there isn't a shortcut to use in Gmail for signing out.
But you can copy the sign out link https://mail.google.com/mail/?logout&hl=en and assign a keyboard shortcut to it, or add it to your bookmarks.
Example:
Assuming you are using Google Chrome, use ClickLess, a Chrome extension, to assign a shortcut for the link of sign out, which is mentioned above.
Go to the options of this extension and add the shortcut.
Now whenever you need to sign out. Use Ctrl+Alt+S, a small windows will pop out, press now s which is the shortcut key for signing out from Gmail. |
H: Gmail Logout/Redirection via YouTube
When Signing out from Gmail, I am redirected to various other Google/Gmail pages and then finally to the main page. The flow goes like this:
First Link
Second Link
Third Link
And then finally the main page appears.
What may be the possible reason for Google doing so?
Also the third link in the redirection flow points to YouTube, which is blocked in my college. So I can never logout from my account successfully in college.
Is there any way to avoid/skip this and what may be the possible intention for such kind of redirection?
AI: When you sign out of your Google Account, they want to make sure that they sign you out of all your Google services. Therefore they have this flow to ensure that you get logged out of google.
Your domain admin can whitelist accounts.youtube.com, which will stop you from seeing the error while allowing your network to continue blocking videos. You could also, according to some sources, try a different browser. |
H: How to highlight emails from particular friend in Gmail?
I want to highlight all the emails that came from a particular friend. How can I do that in Gmail?
AI: Just use labels and a filter.
At the top of your inbox click labels.
Click Manage Labels.
Click Create New Label.
Enter a name, let's say "Emails from my friend."
At the top of the screen to the right of the search click Create a filter.
In the from field enter your friend's email address, e.g. [email protected]
Click Next Step.
Tick Apply the label: and choose "Emails from my friend" or whatever you named your label.
Tick Apply filter to x conversations below then click Create filter.
You will now have a label on the left hand side of your inbox. Clicking this will show all emails from your friend. It will also add the label to all the emails from your friend in whatever folder they are currently in (e.g. your inbox).
Have a look at changing the colour of the label to make it stand out. As an example this is what two of mine look like: |
H: Following multiple Twitter searches efficiently
How can I efficiently follow a bunch of Twitter searches, and see live results come up? They removed the RSS functionality so I can't just plug in a bunch of searches to my RSS reader like I used to be able to.
Keep in mind that I'm trying to follow search terms, not specific users or tags.
AI: It's hard to answer this question without knowing more about your particular needs.
Tweetdeck is a popular application (recently acquired by Twitter) that allows you to subscribe to multiple searches and follow them in real-time:
http://www.tweetdeck.com/features/follow-topics-in-real-time-with-saved-searches/index.html
However there are, like, a thousand Twitter clients, so there may be others that suit you better. |
H: Does a Gmail account ever expire?
I have a Gmail account and I never login by visiting Gmail's website. However, I do check emails via a custom script which does need a username and password.
Is there an expiry date on my account?
What would that be if there was? As I access my account via script I was wondering if that would that be counted as an activity.
AI: As far as I know, Gmail accounts may expire if they aren't used in 9 months. Beyond that, it is up to Google's discretion whether they choose to delete accounts or not. There is no guarantee of that.
As for the script, you should check the 'Last account activity' in Gmail. It shows you information about recent activity in your mail. Recent activity includes any time that your mail was accessed using a regular web browser, a POP1 client, a mobile device, etc. They will list the IP address that accessed your mail, the associated location, as well as the time and date.
To see your account activity, click the Details link next to the Last account activity line at the bottom of any Gmail page. Using this information, you can confirm if your script is counted as an activity. |
H: Why do none of the web apps I use open in full-screen Safari mode when I add them to my home screen?
Evidently, there's a way for web app designers to add a meta tag to their web pages so that on the iPhone,
...if you use the Add to Home Screen feature, it will launch as its own standalone app, with no Safari browser chrome. It’s a way to make site-specific browsers for the iPhone. They run as their own processes, outside MobileSafari.
I've tried adding several web apps to my home screen in this way, but when I launch them Safari still seems to have all the normal chrome:
I was assuming that the URL and search bar at the top would disappear, as would the navigation bar at the bottom. If that's not what full-screen Safari means, then what is it?
Next, I suppose it's possible that the sites I've tried don't use the tag; here are some of the mobile sites I've tried:
CNN
Gmail, Reader, Docs
Fox News
iPhone Users Guide
Stack Exchange
AI: The reason that the sites you mention don't take advantage of the feature is because it doesn't work quite like you'd expect.
It's true that that app will open in full-screen if you set the metatag, but any clicks that request a new page will launch Safari to display them.
So in order to stay within the web-app, all your links need to open via ajax. Too much effort for most developers, I think - CNN, Fox News and Stack Exchange are all based around a 1 page = 1 URL = 1 new request and to change this behaviour would require massive re-architecting.
Here's a demo of a site that will launch in fullscreen mode from the home screen:
http://webapp-net.com/demo/ |
H: Zip attachment for Wordpress
I noticed that there is no option to upload .zip files to wordpress.com. Lots of blog services give permission to their users for this. I'm a programmer and a lot of my blogs contain code samples. How can I attach my codes to my blogs?
AI: You can use a free account at http://box.net or Ubuntu One to upload and share .zip files, but unless you have a LOT of code that you want to share, you're probably better off embedding your code samples into your posts.
Wordpress now supports posting source code on blogs hosted through their site:
While WordPress.com doesn’t allow you to use potentially dangerous code on your blog, there is a way to post source code for viewing. We have created a shortcode you can wrap around source code that preserves its formatting and even provides syntax highlighting for certain languages [...] |
H: How do I download all videos directly from a given channel from YouTube?
Is there any way to download all videos available from a given channel?
Suppose there are 16 videos, how can I download all videos at once?
Currently I have to download one after another.
AI: Maybe BYTubeD - Bulk YouTube video Downloader is what you're looking for.
You can read more about it here |
H: Creating a second Gmail account for support and to keep email separate
I want to create a second Gmail account to help contain some of my freelance/side work versus it all going to my main email address.
Stories like this http://www.zdnet.com/blog/violetblue/google-plus-deleting-accounts-en-masse-no-clear-answers/567 - where they are disabling accounts that aren't using 'real names' scare me. I don't want to create a second email account for side work, and then it get disabled.
The other account I was going to just have a name of [email protected] where xxxxx would be my company name, etc. I was going to have the name as 'XXXXX Support', but would that violate any terms? And if so, where are the terms that force you to use a real name located?
AI: I don't think you have any issues there. You'll only run in to trouble if you create a Google Profile with that account. Gmail ≠ Google Profile. (That said, have you considered Google Apps?)
I have several Gmail accounts. One I use to keep my gaming separate from my regular e-mail. Others a placeholders for my kids. Only my main account has a Google Profile. |
H: What is considered "media" when referring to Facebook Pages autoplay policy?
Facebook Pages policy states that media auto-play is not allowed on a Facebook Page. Now I wonder what is considered media? JavaScript with setTimout/setInterval as well?
If I put a jQuery carousel/slider/fader on my Page's custom tab that rotates some HTML text elements every 10 seconds and starts cycling the moment Facebook Page's loaded. Is this regarded as media? It's Javascript that rotates text so to me this is not media...
See it here and tell me whether this can be considered media...
AI: Media generally refers to video and audio elements. The auto play ban is in reference probably to when it was popular for people to throw audio and video clips on their site that played as soon as a user opened the page... which then and even more so now was considered to be bad design and bad for the user experience.
What you are describing doesn't fit into that situation so you will be fine. |
H: Is there a free web app similar to Animoto?
Is there any free version of the web app which creates video from photos with background music? To be exact, I'm looking for a web app similar to Animoto.
AI: There is no free substitute of Animoto. All of its alternatives are commercial products with a very limited trial functionality. These alternatives are:
Flixtime
Slide
Stupeflix
One True Media
Toufee
ProShow
Their payment plans can be found after clicking 'Learn More' links. For example, payment plan for FlixTime can be found here.
However, I've found a totally free service called Clip Generator. The downsides are:
You have to choose your music from their list (no user upload).
Total size of images per file = 20 MB. |
H: What's the difference between a list and a group on Facebook?
What is the difference between these two features also why can't I create a group "Military"...?
I did a couple quick Google searches, I couldn't really find a place that explained those two features in much depth.
Another thing if anyone knows where there is a guide or cheat sheet to Facebook's privacy settings/features could you please share.
AI: The Difference Between Groups and Lists on Facebook:
Conceptually, both of these features are similar. Both give you the
ability to create filters and add people to them. Example: you could
create a List called Family. You could then add your family members
you’ve friended. However, that’s about where their similarities end.
Groups are a way of creating filters for viewing your wall. Say
that you created another group called Work Colleagues, and added
people to it. When viewing your Wall, you could then select the Work
Colleagues group to only see their posts. Groups are also shared with
your Friends – they, too, can see these filtered posts in this way.
Groups, though, do have a security setting:
Open. Everyone can see the members of this Group and read its
contents.
Closed. Members are public but the content is private.
Secret. Members and content is private.
And Groups have customizations. You can add a specific picture to
represent the Group, and, you can select which members are admins to
the Group. You can also set up an SMTP (email) for the group so that
stuff emailed to the custom address will automatically post to its own
wall. In these ways, Groups almost look like Pages except you can’t
have those security settings.
Lists are a bit different. Using a List, you can also create an
object you can add people to. As a matter of fact, this interface for
adding people to a List is much more sophisticated than the one for
Groups. But it’s not used as a filter against your Wall. Instead, it’s
used for security settings on your posts and for your Trust Settings.
Example: if you were to create a List called Circle of Trust and add
people you really, really trust to it, you could then select that List
when you write a status update by selecting the Lock, hit Customize;
then select Specific People; then start typing the name of your List –
like, Circle of Trust. Only these people could then see your update.
You can also tie Lists to Facebook’s Privacy Settings. In the
upper-right hand Account drop-down, select Privacy Settings, select
Custom, then Customize Settings. On the Things I Share List, you can
then follow similar instructions as above to restrict these specific
items to your List.
It’s also noteworthy to mention that when you create a Group and add
people to it, that fact is broadcasted to your wall… even if you flag
the group as Secret, which seems kinda counter-intuitive. No such
notification happens when you create Lists or add people to Lists.
Conclusion: Too bad that Facebook didn’t see it fit to combine
these options because they seem really similar to me, too, and the
word ‘Groups’ also describes mailing lists in Facebook, so it adds
just another layer of conceptual complexity. But there it is.
As for the Privacy Settings, check the following pages out:
Facebook Privacy: 10 Settings Every User Needs to Know
Facebook Help Center: Privacy |
H: Google maps showing correct location with latitude longitude but also shows nearest road
I am using Google Maps to show the user location based on the latitude and longitude passed in the query. It shows fine with a green arrow. But the map also shows a letter pin with the nearest road/address.
How do I hide the letter pin and ensure only the green arrow is shown? The URL I use is:
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=latitude,longitude
AI: Found the solution, might help someone else.
Using this url: http://maps.google.com/maps?q=loc:latitude,longitude
will ensure the letter pin only shows at this location and does not find the nearest road/address.
Thanks. |
H: Why won't a YouTube video found in search show in Uploaded Videos?
I found a video, You Ask- PM Netanyahu Answers!, and it comes up in search too.
But I don't see it in the main channel uploads.
Why would it not appear there?
Is there a way to really display all of a channel's uploads?
AI: It does appear:
I found it by going to http://www.youtube.com/user/IsraeliPM , clicked on Videos and then on Uploads.
The above works for the new interface. For the old one, see below:
From your link, click on IsraeliPM below the video
Click on Uploads above the video
Scroll the list on the left to about the middle and you will find it |
H: How to add email signatures to the end of email message
Gmail has settings to add signatures at the end of the email thread (i.e. right at the bottom of the email thread). Would it be possible to add the signature immediately after we type the subject / message.
AI: Yes you can quite easily with signature tweaks in Gmail.
Click the cog button on the right
From the drop-down menu, click Settings
Click Labs
Search for "Signature tweaks"
Enable Signature Tweaks
Save Changes
Now when you reply to an email, the signature will be directly after the subject line.
Here is a description with some images. |
H: Gmail themes for Google Apps
I am using Google Apps free version. In the Gmail, I don't have themes. How can I use themes?
I followed the following address
https://mail.google.com/a/yourdomain.com/#settings/themes
as seen in this link
but no luck.
Am I out of themes, because I am a free user?
ADDED
I do not see the "Themes" in the "Mail Settings". I have checked with two Google Apps domain; both do not have Themes. Am I the only one? How may I complain?
AI: In Gmail click on Mail Setting and then Themes. You can choose from some pre-created one or create your own.
EDIT:
Try this link on which you have a button (Explore themes) to access the Themes settings under gmail (make sure you're logged in to gmail): http://www.google.com/support/bin/static.py?page=guide.cs&guide=28576&answer=180095 |
H: How do I delete my Experts Exchange account?
Many years ago, I created a free account with Experts Exchange. It has been very useful over the years. Recently they changed to a different model that required subscriptions, and I was no longer "grandfathered" in.
While I could have my employer pay for it, with the Stack Exchange network, there is no need. Why pay for an inferior product when Stack Overflow and Programmers are much, much better and are free? I know I'm not the only one to have abandoned that service.
Does anyone know how to delete my account without having to spend half an hour on the phone with these people?
I know I can change my email settings, but I would like to just delete my account and I can't find any reference on their website about deleting an account.
Update
After posting the message a moderator replied
Your account will not be billed, but is still "active", as EE does not
have deleted/deactivated accounts. You can return anytime to further
use it, within the restrictions you have as non-paying member.
So I just changed my email preferences. I was never, and will never be a paying memeber.
AI: Some time ago, an Experts Exchange user asked how to delete his account on experts-exchange.com, and the following answers were posted:
You need to post your question in the following link:
http://support.experts-exchange.com/
You need to post a 0-point note in Community Support board and ask an
EE Admin to delete the account. Community Support link is in
the left menu. |
H: Is there a way for me to share my Evernote notes with the public?
Or ways to get the public to edit my notes there?
AI: You can share your notebooks for sure.
In your Evernote Web account, you will see a new, blue Sharing section in the navigation panel. Click on “sharing setup” to begin the process of sharing your notebooks. Select the notebook you wish to share, then decide whether to share that notebook with individuals or the world.
There are two additional options under the “Share with individuals” category:
Share with individuals (view only)
Share with individuals (view and modify) – Evernote Premium feature
For added security, you can require log in, which means that the unique link in the email your invitees receive can only be used by a single person and they’ll be asked to log in before seeing your notes.
From here: http://blog.evernote.com/2009/06/25/notebook-sharing-phase-1/
Now, if you want to share just a note, you could make a notebook just for this purpose. |
H: How can I remove certain email addresses for someone in a Gmail contact group?
I just created a group based on an email which worked great but I am trying to figure out how to remove multiple email addresses per person (just within this group list). The issue I have is that there were some duplicates so when I look at the group in Gmail, there are a few names that have a (+1) or (+2) next to the email address (meaning that a single person has multiple email addresses on this group)
As an example, lets say I have a contact name Joe Simpson. He has two email addresses: [email protected] and [email protected]. In the Group MyNewGroup, both email addresses are listed so when I look at that group I see Joe Simpson listed there with one of the emails and a (+1) next to the email.
I only want to have this group send to [email protected] but I don't want to delete the fact that Joe also has this work account.
How can I remove an email address for a person from the group without actually deleting the email address for the person in general?
AI: When you add a contact to a group you choose the email address that you want to add to it and not the actual contact.
When the contact are displayed in the group list you will have the email you have chosen and +x depending on how many other email address the person has, however, when you send an email to that group it will be only sent to the email address you have added to the group, not all the emails belonging to the contact. |
H: Service to check if an email address is valid
Is there any online service to check if a given email address is valid? I don't want to use my private email address to verify an email address by sending a trial message and waiting for a non-delivery message.
AI: You can try Verify Email Address or the checker from IP-Address.org. |
H: Facebook not displaying photos
Currently I have some problems with Facebook as all photos of my friends are not loaded!
Screenshot:
The same error occurs on my Mac with Safari, on Windows with Firefox and on Ubuntu with Chromium! Has anyone run ever into this problem? Any idea what I can do to solve this problem?
AI: I found a solution, however i don't know why this happened to me! (Furthermore it could be coincidence if the Facebook servers start working properly!) Deactivating Ad-Block, restarting Firefox and again activating Ad-Block and it is working now... yet i am confused why. |
H: How to search Wikipedia for all pages of a certain thing?
I'm trying to find a list of all Wikipedia pages for "martial artists" (persons).
One example is the Wikipedia page for Cain Velasquez.
All of these pages have an infobox template named "martial artist", so if there is any way to search for all pages with a specific infobox this would answer the question just as well.
Any search technique would be acceptable if it could be a complete list.
AI: If you go to the page for the Infobox Template, the "What links here" link in the toolbox will tell you all of the pages that use that template. In this case...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:WhatLinksHere/Template:Infobox_martial_artist |
H: Subscribe to a post on Blogspot?
If I comment on a blog post on whateverblog.blogspot.com, and I want to get an email notification when there are further replies / comments on that post, how would I go about that?
As an example
http://atheistexperience.blogspot.com/2011/07/god-based-abortion-policy-fail-open.html
AI: This largely depends on if the Blogspot user allows people to subscribe to the comments. If they do, you will see the option when you click through to view the comments for the post.
At the bottom of the page (or on the side depending on their layout) there usually is a link in the form of:
Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)
That will lead to a link of the RSS for the comments on that post. It's in the following format:
http://example.blogspot.com/feeds/{generated-post-ID}/comments/default
Use the above as the RSS feed URL for your reader. Or if you want to have it sent to you through email, find a feed-to-email service that suits your needs. |
H: How to subscribe only to a specific category of videos in a YouTube channel?
I find most of the Tobuscus YouTube videos boring. But I like the "Cute Win Fail" ones. Can I be notified only when he uploads such videos, instead of subscribing to them all?
AI: It's not possible anymore. It used to be, but they removed this functionality when they updated to the new playlist format/layout. |
H: Change my Gmail sender address from firstname.lastname to firstnamelastname
When I created my Gmail account, I used firstname.lastname as my username.
But now I would prefer to use firstnamelastname (without the dot in between) for everything - so it's the very same username according to Gmail's own rules.
I know that this doesn't make any difference for receiving mails (I know that mails to fi.RstnAm.elAs.tnaMe would be delivered to me as well)
How do I change the sender/"from" address in Gmail?
When I send mails, the sender displayed is always firstname.lastname. I tried to set up firstnamelastname as a sender in Gmail, but Gmail doesn't let me.
The error message is:
You can't send mails from [email protected].
Setting up different senders works perfectly with addresses from other domains (I have set up a few successfully), but apparently Gmail doesn't allow to set up different "spellings" of the same Gmail username as senders.
Any idea if this is possible at all?
AI: In Gmail go to Options (cog) → Settings → Accounts and Import
Under "Send mail as:" click on "Add another email address you own".
A popup will come out and under Email address, enter your "new" email address [email protected] and click next step.
This should close the window and now you should be able to send emails from your "modified" email address.
I've just tested it and it worked fine. |
H: Internet Bookmarks
In Firefox I have on the order of 10^3 bookmarks. I need a tool which provides the following features:
Grouping (tagging / categorization - either is acceptable)
Browser (prefer Firefox) integration (can use standard tools to cross browsers/systems)
No vendor lock-in (can export my data in standard formats)
These all come standard, though grouping is buggy, in Firefox. I would like:
Automatic offline archival of website content (ie, text of blog post)
Social shareability is a plus
FOSS is a plus, as is free-as-in-beer
personal knowledge base integration is nice
Have considered:
Fx bookmarks (buggy, most likes short)
Write myself (effort duplication?, buggy, incomplete, more interesting problems)
social bookmarks backend (ie, digg, delicious, etc)
Tiddywiki (+is current knowledge base, -not integrate with web browser)
Of those three, the second is the only one that effectively meets my core requirements, while still possibly meeting some of the wants. However, a theoretical panacea is valued far below a practical cure.
What applications/tools have I overlooked that best meet these challenges? I am not adverse to a little cash, or a little scripting, to make it work.
Migrated from: https://productivity.stackexchange.com/questions/826/internet-bookmarks.
AI: You mentioned Delicious, which may have everything you are after,though I am not sure they offer is the offline archiving, but you could probably do that with another application. Otherwise, it's got the social shareablity, grouping, integration (I know of at least 2 plugins for Chrome, so I imagine they have more than that for FF.
It's also backed by [correction: AVOS, see below], which gives it some stability over the long haul. I can't remember what their plans are for it, but as far as I know they are keeping it around.
XMarks is a good option if you don't want the social aspects of Delicious, and it provides more of a hierarchical organization rather than a tag-based one.
Both of these solutions work across all major browsers, so you can have access to the same bookmarks in a different browser on the same machine, or wherever you are. |
H: Getting a Google Plus profile unsuspended
Google+ has suspended my profile for using an invalid name.
I changed my name but my profile is still suspended. How do I get it unsuspended?
How do they check if the name entered is real or not? (Each language and people in different parts of world have different kind of names.)
Will Google ask me to put a "real" photo on my profile to avoid fake profiles?
AI: You should use the "Contact Us" form from your profile page and ask for your profile to be reviewed.
Found this on the Google+ support forums:
If your profile has been suspended, rather than start a new forum
thread to request an appeal, use our contact form linked from your
Google profile or visit
http://www.google.com/support/accounts/bin/request.py?hl=en&contact_type=suspended.
We don't currently have an option to check the status of your appeal,
but our support team reviews each profile. This may take some time,
and we appreciate your patience. |
H: Is there a good way to juggling a Google Apps account with a personal one?
I have my personal account and a Google Apps account. Despite Google now allowing multiple logins, I'm having trouble making different Google connected services use the right one. Is there a way to:
Always have YouTube be associated with my personal one so I don't have to log out of the apps one (which seem to log me out of everything)?
Not have to log out of Google Analytics to switch view from one to the other?
AI: Your youtube issue is simple answer of logging in with that account first.
The analytics issue however is the real problem as it doesn't currently support multi-sign
So the only options I can think of are using an private session(or what ever the browsers call it) for the anayltics and do as normal for mail and youtube. |
H: my google contacts do not have All Contacts
This is funny, people are claiming (http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Google%20Mobile/thread?tid=04935f1855c27f2a&hl=en) that there is something called All Contacts group in Google Contacts.
But I don't have it in my account:
AI: That feature/category is gone for a while. Now your contacts are grouped into My contacts and Other contacts plus all the groups you have created.
All Contacts used to contain your contacts plus other contacts, which are contacts that you emailed but you didn't add to your contact list. |
H: How to mark a post as Question on Yammer?
As I have read on Yammer website and other sources, Yammer is having a Questions application where we can mark a post as question and other members can answer that. But I could not find a option to mark a post as question. If anybody has done that please let me know.
For reference -
https://www.yammer.com/about/applications
https://www.yammer.com/apps/questions
AI: Questions are special posts in Yammer. You cannot turn a regular post into a question but you can create a new question either by:
Looking for the “more” link under your Company section in the sidebar. Questions are somewhere down the list of application links.
Or select Question from the Share a... menu on the website.
Note that this is valid for the main Yammer website.
Yammer clients need to handle questions in their own way to allow you to post a question instead of a regular post. |
H: Is there a CRM like tool for managing offline social personal (non-business) use?
Lately I found the need to more and more to take notes of my offline social interaction so I can go through them later. People's name, their child, what they do, hobby, etc. Just like CRM in business. Are there any webapps + iphone app that can help me with this?
AI: Seems so far the closest fit that I could find on a Personal Relationship Management is Nibble http://www.nimble.com/ |
H: Remove email address from suggestions in To field on Gmail
Gmail keeps populating the To field with an out of date e-mail address that I no longer contact.
The email address isn't in my address book but I did use it a lot previously (the contact has since changed company and email address).
How do I tell Gmail to never show it to me again?
AI: Delete their email address in Google Contacts. |
H: Regain access to my broken Gmail account from Temporary Error 500, Numeric Code 93
Since August 1st I've been getting this error when trying to login to my gmail account:
Temporary Error (500)
We’re sorry, but your Gmail account is temporarily unavailable. We apologize for the inconvenience and suggest trying again in a few minutes.
If the issue persists, please visit the Gmail Help Center »
Try Again Sign Out
Hide Detailed Technical Info
Numeric Code: 93
I've emailed Gmail support several times with no response after their autoresponder, and I've posted to the Gmail help forum.
Absolutely no response. It's been more than 10 days now, and I'm starting to get desperate!
Can anyone give me any ideas for how I might get this issue resolved. If any Googlers happen to read this – you'll receive much good karma if you notify one of the engineers of my plight! :-)
AI: Occasionally a 500 error can be caused by corrupted code in your browser, but most often these are errors that need to be fixed by the Gmail team.
You can try:
Clearing your cache and cookies
POP or IMAP
The basic HTML version of
Gmail
If none of these work, then the error is a problem affecting your account and which needs to be fixed on the Google side.
I am sorry we missed your post in the Help Forum and I have replied there. |
H: Gmail account hacked
Recently a few friends emailed me to say they received spam from my gmail. Gmail altered me to the fact my account was being access from China, and in the drafts folder I found another spam ready to be sent to my entire address book.
I'm a web developer but no expert on security. My password was 8 characters containing letters, numbers and special characters. Does this mean they found my password somewhere in plain text?
Now I'm worried they may have found, among the 10000's of emails since 2005 that are in my inbox, other passwords I use to access various servers, and other important personal data.
Password was changed immediately of course.
How could my account have been hacked?
How worried should I be?
AI: You could be in one of the following situations:
you could have a keylogger/trojan on your computer;
you could have logged in from a computer that had a keylogger/trojan installed;
you could have been a phishing scam victim;
you could have used a service that required your gmail account password (less likely) and they either store it in plain text and got hacked or were just rogue and sold/used it.
Now, you should:
change all the passwords that you received on your gmail account, for each service/server;
get in touch with any financial organization (e.g. banks) that might have sent you sensitive info on this email - if that's the case, follow bank account and credit card movements.
And last, you should switch to 2-step verification for your gmail account. Details are on gmail blog: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/02/advanced-sign-in-security-for-your.html
Also, make sure your computer is clean - no viruses, trojans, keyloggers.
Edit:
It's also possible that you have the password stored in plain text and that file got somehow misplaced (trojan, file sharing error). |
H: Block prescence from a user auto subscribed through Google Talk
Google Talk has a feature that auto subscribes some contacts that I have been talking with. It's a ok feature, but sometimes I'm not interested in having the person view my online status. How can I prevent this? Do I need to block him or is it good enough to remove him from contacts?
AI: GTalk in Gmail
You can't set individual available/invisible status for each user in your list. What you can do is either block/unblock individual users whenever you need to (this means they can't contact you while they are blocked), or turn off the auto subscribe feature and manage the list manually.
To turn off auto subscribe:
Log in to Gmail.
Click the gear icon at the top of any Gmail page.
Open the Chat tab, and select Only allow people that I've
explicitly approved to chat with me and see when I'm online.
Click Save Changes.
From the man page: http://www.google.com/support/chat/bin/answer.py?answer=29795
To block/unblock a user:
Blocking a contact:
Type the name of the contact you wish the block into the Search box
at the top of the chat list.
In the box that appears, click Chat to open a chat window with
that user. They will not be notified unless you type a message into
that window.
In the chat window click Actions menu.
From the menu, select the option to Block the specific contact.
Blocking a contact will block them across all of Google's network.
Unblocking a contact:
Type the name of the contact you wish to unblock into the Search
field at the top of the chat list.
In the box that appears, click Unblock (or uncheck the
Block option in Gmail).
Alternatively, you can unblock a contact through the
Options/Actions menu at the bottom of any open chat window.
From the man page: http://www.google.com/support/chat/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=161879 |
H: How to close mail in Gmail while using "Preview Pane" split mode?
I have started using split screen using "Preview Pane" in Gmail which is a new feature in Gmail (according to me).
How to close opened mail ?
Suppose I have clicked on a mail, that mail will be opened below mail list. I am not able to close that mail.
I want the screen as follows. Currently I am refreshing entire page to get such result.
AI: You have to enable keyboard shortcuts.
If you have the feature enabled, after you previewed an email, to "close" the preview, click u. |
H: How do you make a redirect page on Wikipedia?
I have found the article I was looking for on Wikipedia with the message This article is an orphan. at the top. I have also found another page with the topic of this article highlighted in red, as if the link should exist but has no target page. The complication is that the term used in the attempted link is not identical to the page title on the article but both are valid and should corefer. How can I make a redirect page whose title is the dead link to solve this problem?
(I hope I explained this clearly enough.)
AI: Check out this wiki page on redirecting wiki pages: Help:Redirect.
A redirect is a page created so that navigation to a given title will
take the reader directly to a different page. A redirect is created
using the syntax:
#REDIRECT [[target]]
where Target is the name of the target page. It is also possible to
add a section anchor to make a redirect to a specific section of the
target page.
A page will be treated as a redirect page if its wikitext begins with
#REDIRECT followed by a valid wikilink or interwikilink. |
H: How can I send letter mail online?
Is there a webapp that will allow me to send someone a physical letter from a PDF file on my computer?
They would print the file I upload, and send the letter to the address specified.
AI: Snailmailme is a service that does what you are looking for, but it's not free.
Snailmailme.com™ is a fun and unique way to stay in touch with your friends and loved-ones using letter mail. In a few simple steps you can create a fully customized letter or postcard that we will physically print and deliver for you to virtually any serviceable mailing address in the world!
click2mail is another one.
snailmailr is yet another one. |
H: Default "From" mailing address in Gmail Compose Mail
My personal Gmail account also sends and receives mail through my work address, same set-up as this guy. When composing a new email, the default "From" address is my personal account. Is there any way to change the default to my business account?
AI: Goto your mail settings, accounts and import and you see "Send mail as:" from all your eligible mail accounts. Click the "Make default" link next to your desired id.
If you don't see your preferred mail id then please follow this link |
H: Move the chat window to the right side of Gmail with the preview pane enabled
I am using Gmail with too many labels with multiple levels. I also have the Preview Pane lab enabled.
I want to move the chat window to the right side. It was previously there. But I am not able to move it now. Please guide me to do the same.
AI: I don't think it's compatible with the Preview Pane feature. Even if you have them both enabled, the Preview Pane has precedence and it moves the chat list to the left side.
You can disable the Preview Pane lab: Go to Mail settings -> Labs -> Search for Preview pane in the page -> Set it to Disable -> Click Save Changes at the bottom of the page.
To enable the right side chat window: go to Mail settings -> Labs -> Search for Right-side chat in the page -> Set it to Enable -> ClickSave Changes at the bottom of the page. |
H: Does Gmail still have the option to import email from other email accounts?
I recall there was an option in Gmail email settings to import emails from another email account but I no longer see it.
Is this option still available?
AI: Yes.
Go to Mail settings
Go to Accounts and Import
You have the Import mail and contacts option |
H: Is there a more efficient way to Google search by image instead of dragging?
Google has released their search by image functionality and I tend to use it a lot. The problem lies with a quicker way to search than dragging or pasting the URL.
Ideally I would like an extension that I can right click on the image and search immediately without the two step issue.
AI: There is an extension for Chrome called Search by Image which is provided by Google. This allows you to right click an image and initiate a Google Search. |
H: How do I add Yahoo contacts to Google Chat?
I have several people who don't have Gmail accounts and I'd like to be able to chat with them via Google Chat in my Gmail inbox.
AI: I'm pretty sure it's not possible to do it using the native Gmail client. You could achieve this using a third party client like Adium (on Mac) or Pidgin (on Mac or Windows).
There is also this tutorial that explains how to import your contacts via PSI messenger, but I find it rather cumbersome. |
H: How to make a self referential (recursive) tweet on Twitter?
One of the tweets by Notch (MineCraft creator) was as follows:
I love recursion, as seen here: https://twitter.com/#!/notch/status/103165179721814016
I am using the long url format instead of the shortened link but the link redirects to the one mentioned above
How was this accomplished? It is made via the web interface, so I assumed it is just a simple trick with Tinyurl custom links.
AI: I would imagine that there was a slight delay between the Tweet being posted and the TinyURL being created.
TinyURL lets you choose a custom alias so I would think the steps would be:
Go to the TinyURL website.
Choose a custom alias using letters and numbers. In my case I picked http://tinyurl.com/r3cur510n. It can be anything really, you just need get lucky and make sure the URL has not been used before.
Post the tweet on Twitter with the TinyURL link you have thought off.
Once the tweet has posted then grab the full URL. Quickly paste this in to the Long URL box and click Make TinyURL
The trick is to not let Twitter auto generate the short URL. I have followed these steps to create a copy of the "recursive" tweet here. |
H: How to search similar sites with Google?
One addition to Firefox provides button to search similar sites with Google, not pages. I've forgotten its name and I can't look at its query.
So how can I search similar sites with Google?
AI: Use the related: operator.
For example:
related:google.com |
H: How do I remove all shared items from Google Reader?
My shared items feed was private, and I want to make it public, so I decided to remove all it contains.
How can I do this?
AI: Unfortunately, there still isn't a way to bulk unshare items in Google Reader.
The solution offered is to use keyboard shortcuts to make it a bit easier.
While viewing your shared items
Press shift+s to unshare the item
Press j or k to move to the next or previous item
Return to step 1; Repeat as necessary
I expect you could use something like AutoHotkey to automate this further.
Note: Since the Google Reader change to utilize Google+, this is no longer possible. |
H: How can I stop Google Sheets formatting a Forms response as a date?
I have a Google Forms with a question that contains a drop-down box with the following values:
- Fewer than 10
- 11-25
- 26-50
- More than 50
If the user selects 11-25, Google Sheets renders the response data like this:
Under the formats dropdown in the toolbar, selecting "Plain Text" has the cell render as this date. Selecting "Normal" gives just 40,872, and selecting any other type of format gives $ 40,872.00, 980928:00:00, and other various numbers that aren't anything like 11-25, depending on what option I choose.
The workaround is to change the Forms response option to 11-25 apples, or to recognize when manipulating my data that '11/25/2011' really means '11-25 apples'.
But is there a way to get Google Sheets to stop turning 11-25 into a date?
AI: You have to format the column in spreadsheet mode before any data is entered.
Here we have a form about waffles. The cells have been formatted before sending it to the recipients.
And here is the result after a user fills out the result. |
H: Website for timezone conversion
I am looking for a website that allows me to convert time between different timezones in an ubiquitous way.
Most websites have input restraints that only allow me to type in a specific city or to select a time zone from a pre-determined list. I am searching for something that has a set of features similar to these:
Automatically detects my current location
I can type in a city and a timezone and it will show the time difference
Accepts a broad range of timezone formats (EST, UTC, GMT, etc.)
These are just general guidelines. The basic idea is that I want to know when will something happen without knowing much about timezone abbreviations.
AI: You can use the compare feature from time.is
For example,
Comparing New York and GMT at 9:00 gives the following
When the time was 09:00 on Tuesday, August 16 in New York, it was
13:00 in GMT.
Time since then: 7 hours, 18 minutes and 24 seconds
New York is 4 hours behind GMT.
New York GMT (+4h)
Tue 09:00 Tue 13:00
Tue 10:00 Tue 14:00
Tue 11:00 Tue 15:00
Tue 12:00 Tue 16:00
Tue 13:00 Tue 17:00
Tue 14:00 Tue 18:00
Tue 15:00 Tue 19:00
Tue 16:00 Tue 20:00
Tue 17:00 Tue 21:00
Tue 18:00 Tue 22:00
Tue 19:00 Tue 23:00
Tue 20:00 Wed 00:00 |
H: Do up and down arrow keys navigate Gmail messages?
It was the case until recently that I could scroll up and down either within a Gmail message or on the page containing the message by clicking there (just to make sure the cursor/focal point is there) and then pressing Up Arrow and Down Arrow. I am no longer able to do this. Has this feature been intentionally removed, and if so, why? Is this an anomalous bug? Have others experienced this behavior?
Page Up and Page Down still work. I am using Google Chrome.
Update: Magically the feature is back on in Gmail! But still off in Google Apps mail.
AI: We have a bug right now. Check out this forum thread for more information. |
H: Gmail switch accounts - How to save accounts?
I recently discovered Google "Switch Accounts" feature. It works great and is pretty much what I need ... however I have to log in to the accounts I want to switch between each browsing session.
Is there an easy way to save this data so that my default account is always linked with my other accounts?
Also if anyone has any other nice tricks to use two accounts simultaneously in Chrome, I love to know.
AI: Sorry, we don't have this feature right now. But thanks for the suggestion! |
H: Labels are gone in Google Bookmarks
Does anyone use Google Bookmarks?
The instructions on their support page says that when we click Edit beside the item URL, we can see a way to add Labels; but there isn't any for me.
I need a solution, definitely lack of tags is making it impossible for me to organize my bookmarks!
AI: You look to be in the lists editing area of Google Bookmarks.
Follow this link;
https://www.google.com/bookmarks/l
To go to the main bookmark area, clicking the edit link here will allow you to add labels.
Hope this helps. |
H: Get count of all emails sent from an address in Gmail
Just for fun I wanted to know how many emails a friend has sent me over the years (in Gmail). I tried doing a search but the total only shows x to y of z where z is just an estimate. I then tried to go to the very last page (modified querystring) but realized Z is just number of conversations, which is not a true count of individual emails sent. I then tried creating a filter to see if that would give a more precise number, but it is the same.
Is there any built-in way in Gmail to find a real total of how many emails a user has sent?
My guess is the only way to get this is to import the email into a desktop app and use its counting mechanism.
AI: Try disabling conversation view and try running the search. That may help |
H: How to leave/make Facebook interests blank?
When I got a Facebook account, I remember filling out the bare minimum necessary and I left all the fields like sports, music, etc blank. But, taking a look today, it looks like it's been populated with things I've never heard of.
QUESTION: How do I get rid of these items? I want the area to be completely blank.
That is, I don't want Jason Sissel in there. I have no idea who he is and didn't put him there in the first place.
AI: You have to click on the item first and then you can press 'DELETE' on your keyboard, or click the 'remove' link that appears. |
H: Rogue FaceBook Like
I've been getting a lot of news items in my Facebook news feed from things I've never heard of lately. I sent FB a bug report but they haven't responded. Today I found a way to look at all the pages that I had liked and out of 8 legit items, there were 30 or so that I've never heard of, some quite racy, the same ones in my news feed.
What's going on? How did they get there? I know I didn't press the like button for them because I've never even heard of them and rarely press 'like' anyways. Is this some kind of spam trend? How is this happening?
AI: Some sites try to Clickjack facebook likes (see, e.g., new facebook clickjacking attack) by hiding the like action behind an innocent-looking button.
Blocking scripts (NoScript on Firefox, NotScript on Chrome) can prevent some of these attacks. |
H: Google Reader bookmarklet insists that I'm logged out
For a few days now, I can no longer use the Google Reader bookmarklet (the one shown on the 'Your stuff' page in the upper right) on one particular machine with FF5.
Whenever I do activate it, the usual frame pops up, but it says:
Oops. You're currently signed out.
Please take a moment to sign in to your Google Account to share this page in Google Reader.
When I follow the link and do that, I get back to the same page with the same message.
I've tried logging out of my Google account and back in. I deleted all the Google-related cookies I could find and logged back in.
I asked someone else to try it with his account on his machine and it does. I've tried it on another machine with my own account (FF5 as well) and it works there. I've tried it on the same machine with another browser and it works.
Anyone got an idea how to fix this for my main browser on this machine?
Update: I'm still having this problem with FF6.
AI: It seems like this was caused by the ShareMeNot add-on. Since disabling it, the problem has no longer occured.
I'll give it a few more days to see if that was really the cause (after all, it did work before, and once after the FF6 upgrade, with ShareMeNot enabled), then file a bug report. |
H: How to choose a circle for default stream in Google Plus?
How can I choose a specific circle for the default stream in Google+ ? Many extensions don't work, and are not comfortable if using another PC.
AI: Streams of Circles are just web pages, you don't need an extension to do this.
I hope that there will be a feature in Google+ to do this.
But what I do is that I copy the link of the circle, it will be something like this:https://plus.google.com/stream/circles/p6a5598f68a00498712 , and I add it to Bookmarks. |
H: How to filter messages in Hotmail?
I am forwarding my Hotmail account's email to my Gmail account, and it's working fine.
Does anyone know to add filters like Gmail does?
For example: like when it forward the email to any other services it should be marked as read ...
AI: Go to the "Options" menu, select "More Options," then under "Customizing Hotmail" select "Rules for Sorting New Messages." You can then set rules for emails to forward, organize, delete and a couple more options. EDIT: It seems like the rules are rather limited, so you may be limited to 1 rule per condition. Ie. if you forward emails from a certain recipient then you can't also copy those emails to a folder.
From the second part of your question it sounds like this isn't exactly what you want(in fact you may be doing this already to forward your emails). You may want to actually manage your hotmail from GMAIL, in which case you want to go to your GMAIL "Settings", "Accounts," and pick "Add a Mail Account You Own." Then use your hotmail account settings & the Hotmail POP settings to finish the setup. |
H: Recover the title from removed video from its YouTube ID
Is there any way to get the title for a YouTube video once it has been removed?
For example, I'm looking for a video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chGl0_nFyqg) that was removed by the user. I'm pretty sure I can get an updated link for the video, if I'd known what it was in the first place.
Internet Archive comes up blank.
Any other ways to get the meta info?
AI: I am not sure if this is what you're looking for but a google search of chGl0_nFyqg returns Magic Pad as the title.
When searching any of the Youtube video IDs (provided in the youtube link) on google it returns the videos titles so I would guess this one is right as well. |
H: How do I add free songs to Google Music after already registering?
When creating a new Google Music account, they suggest some free songs for you to add to the library. I've added some free songs to the library, but not all of them. Now I would like to add some more. How?
AI: You can add the free songs you're talking about from Magnifier.
Visit the Magnifier home page and the Free Song Archive to access all of the available free music.
Select 'Add free music'.
Log in to Music Beta (if you're not already logged in).
Click the 'Listen Now' button that appears, and it will take you directly to the 'Free songs' playlist in Music Beta.
From the help page.
Note that you can't add a specific playlist, artist, or track. |
H: Create documents with plain text formatting in Google Docs
How do I make documents in Google Docs with plain text format?
Sometimes I make changes to text pages on my site and upload them to the website. The files are PHP and I prepare the pages in TextWrangler.
I don't type documents in TextWrangler but use TextEdit instead. I ensure they are in plain text format, so that there's no formatting or extraneous stuff, and then I copy-paste into TextWrangler.
I'd like to try using Google Docs instead of TextEdit and copy-paste text from Google Docs directly into TextWrangler.
There's a menu item 'Clear formatting' in Google Docs, and this clears things like font choices and font sizes. But links remain links, and I'm not sure that it's as basic a format as 'Plain' text created in TextEdit.
Is it possible to make text "Plain" in Google Docs?
AI: It sounds much faster to just copy to notepad, then paste back in. |
H: How do I link my Google Profile to my blog?
Google search results show a link to the Google Profile for the author of appropriate search results, how do I ask Google to do this for the content I've created?
I have a necessary parts (blog + Google Profile).
AI: Add <a rel="me" href="https://profiles.google.com/your_ID">Author Name</a> to your About me page. If you don't have one, create it.
Add <a rel="author" href="http://yourwebsite.com/about/">Author Name</a> to each post/page you create.
Sign in to your Google Profiles account and under links, add a new custom link that points to your "About Me" page. Tick the option that says "This page is specifically about me" and save the changes.
Here are some tips.
Jeff Atwood does it by adding <a rel="author" href="https://profiles.google.com/codinghorror1">Jeff Atwood</a> to its pages. |
H: Prevent receiving all mail: *@mydomain.com in Google Apps, being Super Administrator
I'm a Super Administrator for a domain associated with Google Apps. For some reason, I'm receiving all mail that is being sent to this domain.
Here's what it says in the Account Settings of my Super Admin's Google Apps mail:
Email addresses:
[email protected] (Primär e-postadress)
*@mydomain.com
I'd like to remove *@mydomain.com to prevent receiving everything being sent to @domain.com, but I can't find a way to do it.
AI: To bounce messages addressed to non-existent recipients:
Log into the Google Apps control panel for your domain.
Click the Settings tab and then select Email in the left column.
(Free edition) In the Catch-all address section, select the Discard radio button.
(Other editions) In the Email routing section, select the Discard radio button.
4 .Click Save changes.
Taken from this Google Help Article |
H: Switch off drag and drop feature of Google image search
How do I turn off Google's drag and drop image-based search feature?
When you go to the Google Image search engine, people can drop a picture into the search box and the results of the search will be displayed.
How do I switch off this feature?
AI: A couple of suggestions:
The Advanced Image Search doesn't have drag-and-drop, so you could block access to the Image Search home page and force everyone to use advanced.
You could whip up a page that uses the (deprecated) Google Image Search API. It provides a JavaScript interface to embed Google Image Search results in your website or application.
Example from the Code Playground: http://code.google.com/apis/ajax/playground/?exp=image#size_restriction
Search by Image is Firefox and Chrome only. You could make everyone use Safari, or... another browser.
Hopefully one of these methods should suit. |
H: How can I revoke rights for all Facebook applications?
I know I can disable and revoke rights for specific application, but I have so many applications that will take so much time to remove them all.
Is there a way that I can revoke all these applications together and more easier?
AI: Go to Facebook.
Click on Account then click Privacy Settings.
Look at the bottom left of the page, click Edit your settings under Apps and Websites.
Click on Turn off all platform apps.
From the main page.
Note from the Facebook Help:
Note that you may lose all existing Platform information and settings you've saved and friends won't be able to interact with you using any applications or websites, and this cannot be recovered. |
H: How to view the worldwide most subscribed channels in YouTube?
When I access YouTube's most subscribed channels, I only see the most subscribed channels by the users of my country (Brazil). I want to see the worldwide most subscribed channels, or at least US most subscribed channels. I think YouTube is (reverse) geocoding my IP or getting it from my "User Agent", because in my YouTube profile I set the country to "United States" but this setting is ignored. My browser (Chrome) is also set to accept pages only in English.
AI: Go to the youtube homepage, and then scroll down to the bottom. Click on the location link (in your case it will say Location: Brazil) and then from the menu that appears choose Worldwide: All. Go back to the most subscribed channels page and... voila! |
H: How does one prevent Facebook from automatically combining uploaded photos in the timeline?
If I use the secret email address to upload photos to my Facebook timeline, the photos will automatically be shown in one single post if I upload them within a certain timespan (after a day or so, Facebook will create a new post. Apparently the engine assumes that images uploaded one after the other somehow belong together).
Is there a way to always make Facebook use one post per image, even if the images are part of one album, no matter how short the timespan between each upload?
(I know I can use different albums, but I don't know how to do that using the email function. And sorry if I didn't get the terminology right - I'm a Facebook newbie AND German)
AI: If the photos are part of the same album, I do not see the need to clutter friend feeds with multiple posts. Facebook clumps events, they have even started clumping interests (friends talking about Harry Potter) to clear up the streams. So I do not think separate posts for the same event (i.e. adding photos to the same album) is possible.
Using the personalized email address all photos will be sent to the Mobile Uploads album. You then need to access the non-mobile site from a browser and make your changes to the appropriate album. So edit the mobile uploads album and move the photos to the appropriate album. The events (posts) will then re-adjust themselves to the new events such as
phwd added 3 new photos to the album Pancakes
phwd added 2 new photos to the album Running
instead of
phwd added 5 new photos to the album Mobile Uploads |
H: Add editors to Google Docs without allowing them to see the document
For our organization I'd like to have an online Google Docs Spreadsheet to which all co-workers can submit info, but only the owner (in this case me) can see the document.
I've taken a look at the privacy and sharing settings, but the only thing I came across, was the drop-down list that allows you to set someone as either a Viewer, Editor or Owner.
I presume this means I can't accomplish what I'm trying to do here, but I'm just asking to be sure.
AI: You could do it as a form, like this one: https://spreadsheets0.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dEN6SDhuY3J1dVZxb09DcURqcU8tdEE6MA
Otherwise, as soandos said, it doesn't make sense. |
H: Can I make a Google Voice phone call using Google Talk?
I have this dialog in GV with an option to use Google Talk. But nothing happens in GT. Is this a problem, or is it not possible to make a call with GT?
AI: Try opening Gmail in a tab along with Google Voice. Also, make sure you have the plugin installed. |
H: Exchange calendar resource sharing externally
We are about to move into a shared building where we will be required to share meeting rooms with a few other small companies.
We currently use exchange on a small business server but will be moving to office365 for email soon. Is there any way to share a calendar resource with external users?
AI: Have a look at Internet Calendar Sharing. It sounds like what you want, but give Exchange 2010 SP1 and Exchange Online (Office 365) Calendaring FAQ a read over (from the Exchange team blog) and see if it is what you're looking for. |
H: How to export/download my Amazon wishlist?
How can I export/download my Amazon wishlist?
AI: http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/17278
Script Summary: Adds 2 buttons to the Amazon Wishlist page: 1 for a printable version of the page, and another for CSV export.
Here's how to install userscripts. |
H: How can I contact Gmail support team?
I've been trying to contact the Gmail support team. I'm a paying customer, using their Gmail for small business.
I cannot in the life of me figure out how one can contact them (by email or phone). I do not live in the US.
Does anyone have any experience with this?
AI: The numbers are pretty visible on Google App's Get Support page
Business and Education editions, 7 days a week, 24 hours a day
Available for system critical event emergencies
U.S. Technical Support: 1-877-355-5787
International Technical Support: 1-404-978-9282
Email support |
H: How to get granular privacy control per Facebook application?
Facebook offers privacy control over apps, so I decided set up the Twitter application to post updates to my wall.
But I would also like not to let everyone see these updates (that would be annoying), I have set the privacy for the apps in the Game and app activity section, yet when I tested it, the post still showed as set to "Friends". Twitter is a Facebook application but it also acts an update right?
So which settings should I be using to control just Twitter updates on my wall for specific people?
AI: The Twitter updates go to your wall at the default level of privacy for wall posts. I think the people who created the Twitter app are responsible for adding the granularity for the privacy.
However, it doesn't matter, because the Twitter app cannot read your Twitter updates and repost them to Facebook unless your Twitter posts are public in the first place - public as in anyone can see them. |
H: Can I make columns in a Google document?
I am using Google Docs and have a document file. I would like to add columns within this, and was wondering if that is possible. I can't find how to do it internally.
AI: No. The closest thing you can do is use a table. |
H: How do I share my badges after completing the exercises in Codecademy?
I have finished the exercises in Codecademy and I would now like to share all the badges the site notified me about during the course, via social channels (such as Facebook and Twitter). How can I share my progress?
AI: There doesn't seem to be a way to do this. The only way to share your progress via social networks is when you actually receive the badge. (Via the banner that appears at the top of the page) |
H: What is the maximum number of characters allowed in Facebook status box?
People often update their status on Facebook, but what is the maximum number of characters allowed in Facebook status box?
Any ideas?
AI: According to this article, 420 characters, but I can't test it for the moment, since I don't have access to Facebook from my current network.
I have just tested it and the latest iteration (late August 2011) allows for Status updates of up to 500 characters.
UPDATE (10/11/2011):
Facebook increased the status updates character number to 5.000. See screenshot below.
UPDATE (30/11/2011)
Facebook just increased the status updates character limit to 60.000.
In September, we increased the character limit on status updates to 5,000 characters. Today, we're announcing that you can now write posts with more than 60,000 characters.
Source. |
H: How is YouTube's "Safety Mode" enforced by network administrators?
My company uses a web filtering software from an unknown (to me) vendor. I noticed the other day that YouTube automatically defaults to "safety mode" and that I am unable to change this setting. Instead, YouTube displays the message
SafetyMode is enabled by your network administrator
I assume the filtering software is setting the flag, but how is it enabled? I've looked through Google's help pages, but I didn't find anything about this. I'm asking mostly out of curiousity, because I have never seen a website prevent a visitor from doing something due to a network policy on the client side.
AI: Here is your answer, sir. I’m going to paste the v2 rule set, and just link to the more complex v4.
YouTube Enforce Safety Mode v2
[Ruleset for enforcing YouTube Safety mode. Only applies to hostnames that match
in the YouTube Hosts wildcard list. Note that cookies must be enabled for youtube.com,
otherwise attempted access to any video will be blocked.]
Enabled
Applies to Requests: True / Responses: False / Embedded Objects: False
1: URL.Host matches in list YouTube Hosts
Enabled Rule Action Events Comments
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Enabled Allow URL Paths in Path List No Cookie Stop Rule Set Optional rule to allow base path when no cookie is set.
1: URL.Path is in list Path List No Cookie Handles first user visit without blocking,
2: AND if cookies are not enabled.
Header.Request.Get("Cookie") does
not match in list You Tube Safety Cookie
Enabled Allow Set Safety Mode Stop Rule Set Allow any requests that set safety mode to true
1: URL.Path equals "/set_safety_mode"
2: AND
URL.GetParameter("safety_mode")
equals "true"
Enabled Block Disable Safety Mode for YouTube Hosts Block<YouTube Safety Block if no cookie or if attempt to disable safety mode
1: (URL.Path equals "/set_safety_mode" Mode Block>
2: AND
URL.GetParameter("safety_mode") does not
equal "true")
3: OR
Header.Request.Exists("Cookie")
equals false
Enabled Enforce Safety Mode for YouTube Hosts Redirect<YouTube Any requests that don't have a cookie for safety mode
- Using Redirect Safety Redirect> are explicitly redirected. This is the preferred method
1: Header.Request.Get("Cookie") does not to use for the redirect as it is more likely to be compatibile
match in list You Tube Safety Cookie with most browsers. A URL rewrite using a Set URL event
would also work but results in the browser receiving a redirect
to the same URL that was originally requested and some browsers
won't accept that.
I know, it's a short answer, but the explanation is rather lengthy and I preferred to link to it instead of copying it here. You can find the first set of rules at the aforementioned link — it’w way to lengthly to be copied here. Anyway, here are the links to the two rulesets from the article: ruleset v2 and ruleset v4. |
H: Someone did something in Google+, but what did they do?
What actually happened when the Google+ notification says a contact "did something"?
Here's a screenshot of the notification I see in Gmail about G+ activity:
Rahul yadav added you on Google+.
Gaurav Tripathi & Nilesh did something.
But what did the contacts on the second line actually do? Does this wording mean anything in particular?
Another example:
Edit : Now, That notification is modified as follows.
I assume
"They did something = They added me into their circles"
AI: I got this notification in GMail, while on Google Plus I got a notification those contacts added me back.
It is possibile that this is a new notification type previous versions of the notification counter didn't have support for, and thus "did something" is what they fall back onto. |
H: Create filter if body of message contains my name
I have a couple on-going conversation threads in Gmail with a number of different people. Is there a way to setup a filter so that it will add a label if the body of any new, unread email contains my name? Then remove the label once I've read the email?
AI: Remember that you can use any Gmail search operator in a filter via the Has the words: textbox since Gmail just AND's together the operators that are filled in via the filter dialog.
I'll suggest you start by trying this:
Create a filter that finds new emails with your name in them and applies a temporary label. The search operation you would use in the filter is:
is:unread AND body:"Your Name"
Create a filter that finds read emails in the temporary label and removes the label.
label:templabel AND is:read
Unfortunately, while filters can operate on read emails, they cannot currently remove labels, we are at a stopping point.
-
Sorry can't help more, but until Gmail filters can remove a label, you will not be able to accomplish this via filters.
Potential workarounds would be:
Setup an IMAP client with the equivalent filtering where instead of adding/removing a temporary label you would be copying/deleting the email from the temporary folder.
Google recently introduced a new scripting framework for Google Apps.
One really crude hack for step 2 would be to have the filter forward the email as well as delete it. You would forward to your own email address with a plus extension, e.g. [email protected].
Then a new step 3 would be to catch those emails using the deliveredto:[email protected] search string, and reapply some label.
Not sure how cleanly this method would work, especially because you would get header cruft from the forward (vs. redirecting).
Personally, I would look at #2 since learning scripting for Google Apps would pay off in the long run. |
H: Post a photo from an album to Facebook wall without losing comments
In Facebook I have an existing photo that I uploaded to an album. The photo has people's comments and tags, etc.
Is there any way to post the photo on my wall without re-uploading the via my status?
I don't want to lose all the comments and stuff. I just want to photo to appear as a post on my wall.
AI: Just click "Share" in the bottom right menu
If you are in the overlay display, or bottom left if you're on the picture's page |
H: There's a specific website like jsFiddle, but i can't remember the name/url. Can you help?
A while ago i found a website much like jsFiddle, focused on collaborative editing. It has forking and it's full of HTML5 experiments. Unfortunately i can't remember the name; do you by any chance know which website it is?
EDIT
It's not jsbin.
AI: For Flash, there are these two sites, both related:
http://wonderfl.net/
http://beautifl.net/
More canvas-related is Aza Raskin's http://azarask.in/projects/algorithm-ink
More JS-related: http://jsdo.it/ |
H: Need to change email address but want to keep connected YouTube, Google+ and miscellaneous accounts currently associated
I currently have a Gmail account that is associated with many other Google products such as Google+ and YouTube. My email address currently contains my last name and as I am not getting married I want to change it to reflect my new name.
From another question posted on this forum I understand that you can forward your emails from your old account to your new one and can export/import contacts and filters from the previous account. What I am concerned with is having my Google+ and YouTube account connected to my new email address and being able to use the new address to log in to any Google products. In addition I use OpenId on several third party websites (like here!) and I want those sites to still be able to log me in.
Just to be clear I haven't created a new email account yet.
AI: According to Google, you can sign in with multiple Gmail accounts using the multiple sign in feature. This feature has been around since 2010.
You should be able to use your old account to maintain your Google+ and Youtube accounts, while using a new gmail email address if desired. Hope this helps! |
H: Embed YouTube video on Tumblr
I've been searching but what I've found was always about uploading a video to Tumblr or about adding audio only on Tumblr. None of the results has a solution for my problem. I just want to display a video that's already uploaded on YouTube, not uploading it to Tumblr. How do I embed YouTube video on a Tumblr text post?
AI: I think you misinterpret what the user interface is saying.
There are two options in the video interface.
Embed a video
Upload a video
You want option 1. If you want to add some text you can use the caption.
Another way to do this will be a regular "Add a Text" Post
From there you can use html and YouTube embed option (using the share link at the bottom of a YouTube video) to place it where ever you wish.
Example
<p>Go for text</p>
<iframe width="560" height="345" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/IwX3FdwMCUs" frameborder="0"></iframe>
<p>And here goes the rest.</p> |
H: Where does an email go after removing a label in Gmail?
I will try to walk through the scenario which leads up to my questions.
Steps:
I get an email in my inbox
I drag it over to a label. So the email is removed from the inbox and shows up when I click on the label.
Now, when I am looking at the detailed message and I see the labels listed at the top of the mail. If I click the X on the right of the label in the email to remove it, that works but my question is :
Where does this email go now? I don't see it in the inbox, it is no longer in the view of that label.
Where does an email go in this situation?
AI: All mail in Gmail is in the All Mail label, unless the message is deleted. Even Inbox is just a label. When you add or remove a label, the email is still in All Mail, it just also shows up in the other label if it's labeled.
Note: even All Mail is a label, it just is the only one that can't be removed (except by deleting the message). |
H: A filter for Gmail emails that come from x and have the subject either starting with y OR ending with z
I want to create a filter for messages that come from x and have the subject either starting with y OR ending with z.
I know the process of creating filters, however how do I specify starting with y OR ending with z?
PS: Currently I'm using y | z which is working "halfway" because it selects either y or z.
To rephrase the question, what should I type in the Subject box?
AI: I am not sure that I understand the question, but try:
from:x subject:y OR subject:z -subject:(y z) |
H: Tabbing out of the "to:" field in Gmail
I noticed recently that I can't seem to hit Tab to move on to the Subject field in Gmail. Pressing Tab simply inserts a tab, which is rather useless in the To field.
Is that new or have I just not noticed it up until now? Is there a way to fix that?
It's possible that this is affected by a lab setting, but I don't think I have any related labs enabled. Still, just in case labs are relevant, here's the list of the ones I have enabled:
Mark as Read Button
Quote Selected Text
Send & Archive
Sender Time Zone
Title Tweaks
Undo Send
Unread Message Icon
If all else fails, is there a shortcut to focus on the Subject field?
AI: As it works for me with the same list of labs and Chromium 13.0.782.215 and you said you're using the same version, I suspect it'd either be something else in your GMail settings (which you ruled out when the Incognito Window didn't exhibit the problem) or something in your Chrome profile.
I can see three potential sources for the problem on the client side:
Flawed extension. (Fixed by a new profile. Fixed by an Incognito Window unless you've chosen to allow the broken extension in Incognito.)
Corrupted profile. (Fixed by a new profile. Anybody's guess whether a given instance of corruption will be fixed by Incognito Window.)
Strange config tweak in your Chrome. (Fixed by a new profile. Not fixed by Incognito Window.)
Chrome has primitive support for running with multiple profiles which you can use for testing. There's a quick-and-dirty approach and a cleaner approach for long-term use.
Since you said the Incognito Window fixed it and you didn't mention any other problems in your Chrome, my guess is that it's probably a bug in one of your extensions that's causing the extension to grab the Tab keypress but then make the flawed assumption that injecting a tab character is the way to say "on second thought, use the browser's native handler after all". |
H: Does the German Wiktionary have a way to request words to be added?
I'm a long time contributor to the English Wiktionary but I'd like to request an entry for a word current not in the Germany Wiktionary for the first time.
For those not aware, while all Wiktionaries run on the same MediaWiki software, content-wise they all evolved separately so things such as entry formats, category structures, templates, and pages that implement certain features are all totally different.
To ask for a German word to be added on the English Wiktionary I can add a request to this page. But I don't know if the Germany Wiktionary has a way be it the same or totally different.
AI: The wishlist for adding a request for a German word in the German Wiktionary seems to be http://de.wiktionary.org/wiki/Wiktionary:Wunschliste.
If you are looking for the German Wiktionary to add a word in English or other foreign language, the correct page is http://de.wiktionary.org/wiki/Wiktionary:Wunschliste/Fremdsprachen. |
H: Where can I find a list of the sites I've +1'ed?
If I go to my Google dashboard I can see the most recent +1 I made (below), but where can I find all the other websites/pages I've +1'ed?
AI: In the new Google+ pages,
You can go back and see posts and comments you've +1ed by checking your Activity Log. You can also remove your +1 using the Activity Log.
To do that, go to Settings and click on the Activity Log link.
From there, you can see all your +1.
If you want to see posts you’ve +1’d on Google+, check out your Activity log. If you want to see the things you’ve +1’d outside of Google+, you can visit the +1s tab on your Google+ profile.
Computer
Open Google+.
Near the top left corner, click the drop-down arrow > Profile.
Under your cover photo, click the +1’s tab.
Android app / Mobile browser / iPhone/iPad app
You can’t see your +1s on a mobile device just yet. Please check out the +1s tab from a computer.
Source.
You'll find your full list of +1's in a special tab on your public Google profile.
From here.
So basically, go to your Google+ profile and click on +1's |
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