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H: How to display Map Pin's of a website on the larger Google Maps?
There is a website displaying pins on a Google map included into one of its pages, but so framed that it's almost impossible to use and print. I'd really want to be able to make a screenshot of this map to be able to find bike-stations when I'm on my bike (without internet access). A large screenshot would be enough.
Is there a way to display those pins on the Google Maps website itself (or anyway to enlarge the Google map view)?
AI: Big enough? I don't have a bigger screen available right now, so that's the most I could do.
If you have a large monitor and you are comfortable with Firebug, use it to alter the page layout and make your screen shot as big as you need.
To do that:
Click right close to you map
Click Inspect Element
Search for a <div> with the id="105648"
Click on it in order to select it as in the above picture
In the right side you will see the CSS values for the height and width of the element
Click on each value and alter it
Close Firebug
DO NOT REFRESH THE PAGE until you are done |
H: How did this guy hack Twitter's 140-character limit?
Today I was surprised to see that a guy has hacked Twitter's 140-character limit. The message consists of 930 characters. How could this be possible?
The direct link to this tweet is here. For convenience, I'm copying the screenshot of full tweet below:
AI: The message contains Unicode surrogate code points that are improperly encoded as UTF-8. This kind of improper encoding is also called CESU-8. It appears that some Twitter interfaces will accept the CESU-8 encoded surrogate code points as characters (for the purpose of the 140 character limit), but for display purposes it expects valid UTF-8 and these are not valid UTF-8 sequences. So it instead displays the 3 bytes of each of these sequences as 3 C-style octal escape sequences of 4 characters each, and each surrogate code point ends up being displayed using 12 characters.
For example \355\240\265\355\263\220 when decoded as C-escaped UTF-8, without rejecting surrogates as would normally be done when decoding UTF-8, decodes to the surrogate pair U+D835 U+DCD0. Treating this surrogate pair as UTF-16, as would be done when decoding CESU-8, produces the Unicode character U+1D4D0 MATHEMATICAL BOLD SCRIPT CAPITAL A ().
If the C-style octal escaping is decoded and then the result is interpreted as CESU-8, it comes out to:
Твиттим и не ограничиваемся людиии!!!!!! 140 не предел!=))))
Here it is as an image, for those without a full set of Unicode fonts installed: |
H: On Facebook, can I find out who else likes a page?
I can see that 103 people "like" a page but how can I find out who they are?
With the old "group" system this was so easy!
AI: The list is only available to page admins. You can only see which of your friends liked the it. |
H: How to add my Ask Ubuntu Flair HTML code to blogger
I am about to launch a personal blog on blogger and I have been told I can add my Ask Ubuntu Flair code to my 'About me' column. I am a newbie to these HTML stuffs so how do I add this code to my blogger blog? If it helps I will be using a custom template and not the default ones
AI: Firstly go to your Ask Ubuntu profile (by clicking your username on the top) and click on flair. Copy the HTML code. The go to the design page of your blog (page elements tab) and add a new gadget. Choose the HTML/JavaScript option and paste the flair code in there. You can move the gadget freely into every available space there. Note however that I'm unsure whether any custom template supports adding gadgets but it's worth a try. |
H: Go Back to Default Tumblr Layout
So after gratuitous theme installations and customizations my tumblr site just isn't looking how I want it to. I've decided to just do the theme myself, but now I have one on there with all this extra stuff.
How can I go back to default layout so I have a clean slate to work on?
AI: Go to http://www.tumblr.com/customize (you can get there by clicking the cog wheel in the backend and then Customize your blog). Click Themes in the upper left, then search and click on Optica, which is the default theme. Click on Use to take the theme. |
H: How should I tag on Letterboxd?
I wanted to rate a movie on letterboxd and I was not sure what I should be tagging the movie with. Should it be organization for me or for others to see? Should genres and actors be going in there?
AI: Tags on Letterboxd are primarily for your own use, although they are also visible and searchable by others. Tags added to a film by you are not added to the film for other users, so they're more useful for you to categorize films for your own use, where or with whom you saw the film, etc. (Separate views of a film by you can have different tags too, for example "dvd" vs. "cinema".) Actors need not be tagged unless you want to, as they are listed and cross-referenced on the film page. We have genre information from TMDb, although we're not surfacing that on the site at present, as it can be a bit patchy, so tagging your own films with genres can be useful for the future. |
H: How to replace default blogger template with a custom blogger theme
I want change the default blogger template to a more eye candy custom template. How do I go about this process (total newbie here)
AI: You need to edit the template HTML.
Click the Design tab
Click "Edit HTML"
Check the "Expand Widget templates" checkbox
Copy the entire contents of the textbox into your favorite HTML editor
Edit to your heart's content
Paste back into the box (replacing the old content)
Click "Preview", if here are errors or visual problems, go to 4
Click "Save Template"
Good luck |
H: Who can see a comment I write in Google+? Does it depend on who can see the original post?
In Google+, I'm not sure who can see a comment I make on a post. Is it open to the world, or just to people that can see the original post? (I realize that the set of people who can see a post can expand over time.)
AI: Only the people that can see the original post can see the comment.
See Who sees the content you post in the stream:
When you +1 or comment on a post, whoever can view the original post will be able to see your +1 and comment as well. |
H: Gmail unusual activity, does it mean a successful connection has been made?
I've noticed an unusual activity on my Gmail account:
Inconnu Viêt Nam (fpt.vn:118.71.51.26) 14 nov. (il y a 1 jour)
What does it mean exactly?
that a successful login has been made with full access to my account;
a successful login has been made to the account, but Google has blocked the access before any access were possible;
only an attempt, but the credentials have not been validated.
... or something else?
AI: From Gmail Help:
Last account activity 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. We'll list the IP address that accessed your mail, the associated location, as well as the time and date.
That means your mail was definitely accessed. Gmail will not list any unsuccessful attempts, therefore you should immediately change your password and follow the security checklist! |
H: Edit labels in Trello
It seems it's possible to change label's name, but I can't figure out how.
I found the label list in the board preferences, but the names aren't editable, they turn from grey to black when my mouse comes over, but that's all.
How can I change those labels' names?
AI: It seems that you don't have the permission to change them.
Try to take a look at the ownership of the board, you should be a co-owner or the creator to be able to have them changed. |
H: How do I save a link to an email in Gmail?
I want to save a hyperlink so I can access an email easily in the future. How can I do this in Gmail?
AI: You can create a List to save frequently accessed hyperlinks within Tasks in GMail. You can also star & assign labels to special emails. |
H: Service that shows most popular queries/keywords related to a specific topic X?
I know Google Trends/Zeitgeist. But what I'm looking for is a service where you can enter, for example "Politics", and then the service gives out the most popular queries containing "Politics"-keyword in the query, so I can see the other keywords people are using in combination with it.
AI: Use Google Insights for Search (Beta).
Just enter your search term(s) in the search box and hit Enter. You will see the top searchs and rising searches about your search term listed below. |
H: Can I dismiss Gmail's warning about my filter forwarding my mail?
I set up a filter on my personal gmail that forwards all mail from a certain domain to my work email. When I saved the filter, the following notification popped up at the top of my window:
("Your filters are forwarding some of your email to [email protected]. This notice will end in 7 days.")
Can I dismiss this message? Or must I look at it for 7 days? I clicked both "Review Settings" and "Learn more", and it's still there. There is no X or Dismiss button all the way on the right. Am I stuck with it for a week?
AI: It's going to be there for a week, but will only appear at login for a minute or two so you don't get banner blindness.
It's a security feature that should help remind you to double-check for any dubious forwarding filters during that time.
How long will I see this notice?
For about a week, this notice will appear for a few minutes each time you sign in to your account. Displaying the notification in this way helps ensure that you have a chance to see the notice, rather than someone who might try to gain unauthorized access to your account and use this setting improperly. The notice will disappear immediately if you choose to disable the forwarding filter setting, but that decision is up to you. |
H: Adding a label to outgoing mail, Gmail also moves it to the inbox
I have a filter which adds a label, applied to both from: and to: addresses.
When I compose a new mail (not reply) matched by that filter the label is correctly applied, but the mail also ends up in the inbox.
Is there a workaround?
AI: Perhaps you could try creating a separate filter, where you specify that mail with you as the sender skips the inbox. |
H: Discovering accesskeys
Is there some way to discover whether a site supports @accesskeys, short of brute force hammering on the keyboard or searching in the markup? I can't remember even once seeing a web site advertising their @accesskey keyboard shortcuts (Google and Stack* use non-standard keyboard capture) for such things as navigating to the previous/next page in a sequence (every webcomic ever comes to mind). Is there some way to discover @accesskeys with for example an unobtrusive Firefox extension?
AI: I'm not familiar with the @accesskey syntax, but You can use this Userstyle to make access keys defined as HTML attributes visible in Firefox, Chrome, and Opera.
http://userstyles.org/styles/10407/show-accesskeys
There isn't really any general way to reveal access keys defined using Javascript keypress listeners since the system doesn't know what's going to happen until the Javascript is actually being run. |
H: Twitter shortens my already shortened URLs. Will this affect my bitly statistics?
For some time now, I've happily been using bitly with a custom domain to shorten URLs on Twitter, but recently Twitter has decided to start shortening my already shortened URLs.
Will this affect my statistics on bitly?
AI: Yes*, it will. Consider this tweet of mine which was shortened to ( http://u.sbhat.me/rwa550 ) & which twitter wrapped with the t.co URL ( http://t.co/X3V8Hhsp ) & posted to my timeline.
Checking on the stats confirmed that the referrer was t.co.
*I believe, the reason there are couple of twitter.com & hootsuite.com referrers comes down to the way clients handle the API - twitter API provides both the t.co & the "long" URL(in this case, the shortened URL). If the client shows & sends request directly to the long URL, the obviously, the referrer won't be altered. However, twitter webpage shows the long URL but is actually linked to the short one and hence the referrer remains the short, i.e., t.co one. |
H: On GitHub (gist) what is the star button used for?
What does the star button do on GitHub's gist section?
For example: https://gist.github.com/1372818
I have three buttons in the headline, they are:
edit - download - (un)star
With the last one changing from star to unstar as I click on it.
At first I thought it was an upvote system. But I can star my own code, and it doesn't mention some star appearing elsewhere.
The next idea was a favorites icon or a bookmark. I can select "starred gists" but the page came up even before I starred it.
The GitHub help didn't have anything about "star", and the search box is for searching in code and in pages - not to search the help pages of github::gist.
AI: It's for you to keep track of gists that have made you smile or caught you off guard and you want to have a list of them stored at Github.
It is just like a bookmark system. You mark a star on a gist you find interesting or like and then you can find them at a glance under your account at starred gists.
The link to your starred gists will be there for your account, but if you have nothing, it will simply prompt you to create a new gist. One that you may star yourself. |
H: What does 'MT' mean in Twitter?
I keep seeing 'MT' used in much the same way that 'RT' is frequently used.
What is the difference? Should I be using 'MT'?
AI: MT: Modified Tweet
The user edited the original tweet in some way to stay within the 140 character limit.
RT: Retweet
The user rebroadcasted the original tweet without changing or editing it.
You should continue using RT and use MT only in exceptional cases where you know the meaning of the original tweet may get lost when trying to get the message under 140 characters. |
H: How can I change a LinkedIn group's email digest from every day to every week?
Can I change the email digest for a LinkedIn group to be sent less frequently instead of every day?
Being a member of many LinkedIn groups, I get flooded with emails (potentially drowning out important emails) and would like reduce the frequency.
AI: Yes, that is possible. There is a per-group setting to control the frequency of digest emails. There is an overview for all groups from which it can be set in a batch-like fashion:
Settings (upper right, in pop-up under your name) -> "Email Preferences" -> "Set the frequency of group digest emails".
Change the popup for one or more groups from "Daily digest email" to "Weekly digest email".
It can also be set under each group:
Open a page that is in group context (for example, a discussion in the group or menu "Groups" (in the same row as "Home", "Profile", "Contacts", "Groups", "Jobs", "Inbox", "Companies", "News", and "More") -> "See all" -> click on a group)
Then menu "More..." (in the same row as "Discussions", "Members", "Promotions", "Jobs", "Search") -> "Your Settings"
Under "Contact Settings, Digest Email" change the popup "Delivery Frequency" from "Daily digest email" to "Weekly digest email".
Press button "Save Changes"
And to really cut down on the LinkedIn spam:
Uncheck the option Send me an email for each new discussion in the same window. |
H: Google cache gone and relevant to instant preview
Where is Google cached versions of pages?
I saw this link, that it's within "instant preview" but I can't see instant preview anywhere.
AI: When you hover over one result, you should see an arrow block at the right side, as in the picture below:
Click on it and the preview of the page will open to the right. Then click on the Cached link:
More details on Google's Web Search Help page. |
H: Post to Twitter, Facebook and Blogs in one App
I'm looking for an Web Application which manages multiple WordPress blogs, my Twitter and my Facebook.
If I want to post something I can choose which Blog(s) to post to, which Facebook Page and Twitter.
It would also be pretty neat if I could modify the post for Twitter/Facebook (if I have a longer blogpost, I only want a short excerpt on Facebook and only title+link on Twitter).
AI: I think I found a solution that fits my needs: http://posterous.com
The Autopost Option looks pretty neat! |
H: How do domain availability check services work and is there a free one?
I'm looking at different websites like http://www.domainavailabilitycheck.com/ and would like to know what is their source of data.
Do they use WHOIS information or is there a public API for that?
AI: Those websites most likely use a standard WHOIS command as defined in RFC3912. This is in fact a public api the domain registrars provide. Please note that some of those websites are known for registering likely to be used domains to squat them. |
H: If I block someone from Gmail chat, will it block them on Google+?
Somebody I have added to my Google+ circles is now showing up as chattable in my Gmail chat sidebar. I don't want her to be able to see me as online whenever I've got a Gmail tab open - just when I'm using Google+.
But if I block her from regular Gmail chat, will it perform all the "block" functions on G+ as well (removing her from my circles, etc)? I want to continue our association on Google+ - I just don't want her to be able to chat with me on Gmail.
AI: According the Google chat help, no:
Blocking someone from within the Chat list or a Chat mole does not also block the person in Google+. So, although they won't be able to chat with you, they'll still be in your Circles and be able to see your content. However, if you block the person in Google+, in addition to being removed from your circles and extended circles, they will also be unable to chat with you in any Google Chat property (i.e. Gmail, orkut, iGoogle). |
H: How to move Gmail sub-label out of hiearchy
In Gmail, I have some hierarchical labels:
A/B/C
I want to make C a top-level label, but can only find a way to rename it in its current position in the hierarchy or introduce a new hierarchical level.
I suppose I could apply a new label to all the mails in C, then remove the old hierarchical label, then rename the new label, but I wonder if I'm overlooking a more direct way?
AI: Go to Mail settings
Go to Labels
Search the label you want to un-nest
Click on the Edit link in the right side
Uncheck Nest label under:
Click Save |
H: Does Twitter have search operators like Google?
Twitter has an Advanced Search page but can we also use search operators on Twitter like Google?
AI: I found the following list which lets users fine-tune their search query. |
H: Do calculated distances include uphills?
Consider a route on a map between two waypoints. Google Maps will calculate the distance between the two, and display it for you. This is very handy. Thank you Google Maps!
Consider a route where the route is straight, and the distance 'as the crow flies' between those points is 1 mile. Change that scenario to include a hill at a 30 degree slope between each point.
If the route contains hills with significant inclines or declines, does the calculated distance represent the true distance?
AI: Yes. Based on several trips through the mountains that the Google map directions were accurate for the trip |
H: How can I reset all public posts to be friends-only?
I recently found that despite my default posting privacy level being "friends" all of my recent posts are "public". Is there some way I can quickly move these posts back to "friends" or otherwise delete them without removing all my posts?
I turned off public subscriptions but I would rather make all the posts friends-only.
AI: Click on the triangle in the upper right corner of the blue bar at the top of the window, then Settings, then Privacy in the left sidebar, and then Limit Past Posts on the right to expand that section. Then click the Limit Old Posts button to limit your past posts to (at most) your friends.
You can also change the privacy setting on each post individually by clicking on the globe icon next to the public post. |
H: How do I download all my blogger posts?
Is there any way I can download all my posts from blogger?
AI: You can use this tool called Blogger Backup. Its free and open-source. |
H: How to ensure that the owner of a Google Doc does not remove the document?
I often use Google Docs for collaboration with a range of parties. My question is therefore regarding information safety. In the cases where I am not the owner of a document, how can I ensure that the owner does not remove me from the sharing list, meaning that I can no longer access the information that I contributed to?
AI: I would say don't assume anything and backup. Even if there was a way, you never know when Google (or any services) will change there mind on how things work.
I am personnaly using Backupify to backup a lot of my web services. |
H: How to edit a table (created by Lotus Notes) in the email reply (in Gmail)?
I've received an email with an embedded table. I want to put some marks inside that table (i.e., edit the content of the table) and send it back.
Unfortunately, the Gmail interface doesn't seem to have table editing capabilities: after I hit reply, I see the table in the quoted text of the original message, but is not editable...
If this is not possible in Gmail, how do I export the HTML source of this messsage and edit in another installed word processor?
AI: Probably, the way to go would be
either to use the built-in facilities for editing tables in the Gmail interface (which are actually present, according to the answer by billc.cn),
or try to copy the table by selectiing and pasting it into another editor (as suggested by the answer by billc.cn),
or press button "show original" and copy the (unfortunately, escaped/encoded) HTML source,
or [press button "create a document" (enabled in "Google Labs" parameters)] and work with that document in Google Docs (or export it)](https://webapps.stackexchange.com/q/1642/15124),
or acccess the mailbox via IMAP to save the HTML source of the message (which is the sanest way, but requires more set-up),
unless it were an image in my case (created by that crazy Lotus Notes), no real data -- as SJuan76 has correctly guessed! The source shown by "Show original" in GMail reads:
<FONT face=3D"Default Sans Serif,Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif" size=
=3D2><div><br></div><font color=3D"#990099">----- =F0=C5=D2=C5=D3=CC=C1=CE=
=CF =CF=D4 A&B Company/ab-com =CB 11.24.2011 09:24 PM -----<br><br><=
/font><blockquote style=3D"padding-right:0px;padding-left:5px;margin-left:5=
px;border-left:#000000 2px solid;margin-right:0px">=EB=CF=CD=D5: A&B Co=
mpany <[email protected]><br>=EF=D4: A&B Company/ab-com<br>=
=E4=C1=D4=C1: 11.24.2011 02:08 PM<br>=F4=C5=CD=C1: =D3=D0=C9=D3=CF=CB =C4=
=CC=D1 =D0=CF=DA=C4=D2=C1=D7=CC=C5=CE=C9=CA. =DE=C1=D3=D4=D81 (=C1-=DA)<br>=
<br><img src=3D"cid:=5F1=5F0652CFAC0652CE5C003C3D3444257952" >=0D=0D</block=
quote><br></FONT>
(Note the IMG tag! :-( )
In this case, ask the sender to send you the table in the source formal (perhaps, .xls), if he wants you to send an edited version back. |
H: Export GitHub impact graph to image
I really like GitHub's impact graph about my Open Source project. I would like to include it in a presentation, so I would like to download it as an image.
How to export this graph to an image?
Anything smarter than taking hundreds of screenshots and assembling them?
That's the lame method I used last year to produce the image below (out-of-date):
AI: If you don't need the textual labels (which are drawn as <p> overlays), you could just right-click the graph in Firefox and choose "Save Image As..." (It's a <canvas> element and Chrome doesn't yet offer a save option for those).
If you do need the date labels, I'd suggest looking for a Firefox screenshot extension capable of grabbing a complete screenshot of a scrolling sub-element in one go. (I know they exist for <iframe> elements, so being able to do it for a scrolled <div> isn't outside the realm of possibility) |
H: Make photo tags visible in my profile without including old photos
In the past I disabled the option of showing photos that I was tagged in on my profile. Now that facebook introduced the option of first approving tags before they are placed on your profile, I would like to enable them. But when I turn this feature on, I suddenly get all photos I was ever tagged in on my profile. Is there a way to turn on this "approve tags" feature without automatically approving all my old photos?
AI: This isn't going to be the answer you'd like to here but sadly no. It's not possible. That setting only works going forward so you'll need to sort out your old tags manually. |
H: Gmail web, is there a plugin to tag email with a direct button?
Do you know a browser plugin (or something else ?) to add some labels as direct button (no menu) in the web interface ?
For example, I would like to mark my email in gmail and directly click on a button mycompany on the right side of "Mark as read" button or "More" button.
AI: A way to quickly add labels to your messages in Gmail without having to install anything is through keyboard shortcuts.
When one or more messages are selected in your Inbox, you can press the L key, which will automatically open up your list of labels. If you type the first few letters of the label you want and then press Enter or Return (whichever it's called on your computer), the label that matches those letters will be added to all selected messages.
This is a very quick method, as you only need to type the first few unique characters of the label name. For example, if you have three labels starting with "b" -- belugas, business, and bunnies, you would only have to type:
b and Enter to add the Beluga label
bu and Enter to add the Bunnies label (it's ordered alphabetically)
bus and Enter to add the Business label
So, to add a label to all selected messages, you could potentially do it by barely lifting a finger with three quick keystrokes:
L to bring up the label function,
m to add the label "mybusiness" (or you could add a number to the beginning like "1 mybusiness" if you have a bunch of other m-labels)
Enter
Or you could just press m and then use your arrow keys to navigate through the list from there, if you wanted to be less efficient. :)
NOTE: To use this method, make sure your keyboard shortcuts are turned on. To do this:
In Gmail, click on the Gear in the top-right corner
Select "Mail settings"
In the "General" section, select the "Keyboard shortcuts on" option (near the top of the list)
Click "Save changes" at the bottom of the page
Tips:
If you want to use your keyboard to navigate through your inbox and select messages for adding label (instead of using your mouse to click the box on each message you want selected):
press j to move down the list of messages, and k to move up the list
once navigating through your inbox, you can select/check-off a message by pressing x
for more keyboard shortcuts, press ? while in your inbox for a menu of all the commands |
H: Copyrighted audio disabled from YouTube video - how did they know?
I posted a video on YouTube (SFW) nearly two years ago, with an ambient soundtrack taken from an Aphex Twin song (which I credited at the end of the video). After nearly 3000 views, it has had the audio stripped out and a copyright notice attached on behalf of the content owner (WMG). It says, "Matched third-party content." That's fair enough.
What fascinates me is how did they work out that the audio was, well, dodgy? Does anyone know how that happens? It can't be a manual process, can it? Someone playing all the videos and suddenly going, "Hey! I know that song!"?
EDIT: See 'Google seeks to turn a profit from YouTube copyright clashes' which seems to support Olly's answer, which is why I'm accepting that one.
AI: My guess is that they're comparing the audio in the videos to some sort of acoustic fingerprint database. When they find a match to something they know is copyright, they disable the audio. |
H: Imported from Google Notebook?
Today I logged in to my Google Docs and saw a mysterious looking file Imported from Google Notebook - My Notebook.
I have no idea what is Google Notebook or how it got there.
The content of the document seems blank.
Is it a bug, or I am hacked or something?
AI: Google is closing the service called Google Notebook. All documents are automatically imported from this service into Google Docs. If you don't remember using it don't worry about it. You can safely remove this document. |
H: What happens when I remove someone from a Trello board?
I'm about to remove members from my Trello board and the organization they and the board belong to. The members have been active in creating cards, being assigned to them and making comments, etc.
I would like their profile or at least their name connected to the actions they made on the board. So for example that a comment from them on a card is still visible and their name is attached to it.
What happens to these 'profiles' inside cards? I guess they are unassigned from cards. But what more?
AI: They will be unassigned from cards, and that's about it. Their actions will be preserved, as will the fact that they performed the actions. |
H: How to escape double quotes inside a phrase search?
With Google I can do exact match searches like this:
"exact match phrase"
What if I would like to include double quotes like this?:
" "exact match" phrase"
Is this possible? Can I escape somehow?
AI: Google ignores punctuation, so this isn't possible.
Refine web searches
You can use symbols or words in your search to make your search results more precise.
Google Search usually ignores punctuation that isn’t part of a search operator.
Don’t put spaces between the symbol or word and your search term. A search for site:nytimes.com will work, but site: nytimes.com won’t. |
H: How do I share a search query from Google?
Let's say I want to share the results from my query. There seems to be a lot of meta data in the query string.
Which variables can be removed from the URL to still give a functioning Google search?
AI: I tried removing all the variables except the q string. It seems to work fine. One thing to note is that Google uses the # symbol, instead of ? which you normally see with query strings.
So, as an example, the URL would be: http://google.com/#q=my+query |
H: Changing Gmail account belonging to my Google+ account
I've had the same Gmail account now for 5+ years. I have a Google+ account associated with that Gmail account. I want to change my email address, so I created a new Gmail account. How do I associate it with my Google+ profile?
AI: It is not possible. Here is the error that I received.
And the full page in the settings menu. |
H: How do I get the sidebar in Gmail to expand like old times?
I recently switched to the redesigned version of Gmail (aka Gmail's new look) and I'm loving it.
However, one of the changes I noticed is that the bar on the left side (which has a list of all my folders and labels) automatically shrinks down to two buttons. It will only expand when I hover my mouse over it.
This is very annoying. Is there any way I can tell Gmail to stop it?
AI: You should be able to grab the horizontal line (with three dots) below "Buzz". You can use that line to resize the area of the sidebar used for labels. |
H: Log into Gmail without SSL
How do I log into or use Gmail without having to go through the HTTPS or SSL version?
Since the 443 ports for HTTPS is filtered in Iran, is there any alternative method of logging into Gmail which does not require the use of this port?
AI: First of all:
If the filtering is really only based on port numbers, then things are quite easily, and securely solved by using the official HTTPS URL via Tor, or via a proxy server (in another country) that supports "CONNECT" for SSL requests. For such proxies the SSL data is transferred over the port the proxy operates on (like often 81, 3128, 8080, 8181, 9090), not on the default HTTPS port 443.
(For whoever wants to set up a proxy to help fight censorship: see for example Create anonymous Squid proxy for Iranian election protestors. The good thing about that article is that apparently, in June, communications through proxies were indeed not blocked? Or is nobody using HTTPS through those proxies?)
Unfortunately, filtering is probably based on protocol, not on port numbers. Tools like Wireshark show how easily SSL traffic is detected, even when running through non-default ports. (Use display filter "ssl", and see what port is used in the TCP data. Or, when using a proxy, use display filter "tcp.port eq 443" and see nothing is found.)
Some web based anonymising proxies support HTTPS over HTTP. For example: Hide My Ass Gmail proxy uses only HTTP. Of course, both a censor and the folks operating the proxy can peek into the communications.
Some project called Haystack was introduced (and withdrawn) in 2010:
Haystack is a new program to provide unfiltered internet access to the people of Iran. A software package for Windows, Mac and Unix systems, called Haystack, specifically targets the Iranian government’s web filtering mechanisms.
Similar to Freegate, the program directed against China’s “great firewall,” once installed Haystack will provide completely uncensored access to the internet in Iran while simultaneously protecting the user’s identity. No more Facebook blocks, no more government warning pages when you try to load Twitter, just unfiltered Internet.
Which compared itself to Tor:
Tor focuses on using onion routing to ensure that a user's communications cannot be traced back to him or her, and only focuses on evading filters as a secondary goal. Because Tor uses standard SSL protocols, it is relatively easily to detect and block, especially during periods when the authorities are willing to intercept all encrypted traffic.
On the other hand, Haystack focuses on being unblockable and innocuous while simultaneously protecting the privacy of our users. We do not employ onion routing, though our proxy system does provide a limited form of the same benefit.
Bad security holes though:
Then in Sept. 2010, security experts discovered a problem: Iranian authorities, the very ones Haystack was supposed to circumvent and shield against, were exploiting massive holes in the encryption scheme to snoop on dissidents.
When all does get filtered or is otherwise unavailable, then maybe your only hopes are someone outside the country who can run a HTTP-to-HTTPS gateway, using for example DeleGate. Again, the censoring government (and whoever is running that DeleGate server) can then monitor all your traffic. (Google might be smart enough to hash your password, even when Google thinks you're using HTTPS. Still, even if the password is secure, then all other text can still be read, and cookies can probably be stolen.)
NOTE: the following does not work (yet?). I can show the Gmail login page, but after logging in, the many redirects (from gmail.com to www.google.com/accounts, to mail.google.com) confuse DeleGate. Maybe some smart MOUNT or some entries in hosts are required after all. Maybe it can put someone on the right track tough (if no easier solutions are found, like: ensure that does not work!).
See Force web address to go through https for a full explanation on mapping http://twitter.com to https://twitter.com. For a generic HTTP to HTTPS gateway, the command would not include the Twitter-specific MOUNT parameter, so:
sudo ./macosxi-dg -v -P80,443 SERVER=http RESOLV=cache,dns \
STLS=-fcl,fsv:https [email protected]
No need for adjustments in hosts either; instead you can then use URLs like:
http://127.0.0.1/-_-https://www.google.com
(Where 127.0.0.1 needs to be replaced with the IP address of the DeleGate server.)
(Hmmm, if no easier solutions are posted then I might see if I can set up something like the above.) |
H: Does Trello maintain a list of "Favorite" boards?
I view a handful of Trello boards daily. Some, I own and show up on my "Boards" button. I'd like to add other boards (that I do not own) to this list for quick linking; a list of "Favorites," if you will.
I could not find this feature after a brief tour of the guide.
Does this feature exist?
AI: Trello doesn't have "Favorites" exactly, but you can control which boards show up in your boards menu by "pinning" (or "unpinning") a board
If there is a board that you aren't a member of, but you'd like to keep an eye on (e.g. the Trello Development Board), you can add it to your Boards Menu
Click the icon next to the board title (or click the Board Profile button on the right)
Click "Pin to Header Menu"
(The Boards Menu is the list of boards you see when you click the "Boards" link in the upper right)
You can also use that menu to unpin boards that you don't want in your header. (e.g. if you're a member of a board, but you don't check it very frequently)
A list of all of your boards, including the ones that are not pinned, is available on your boards page |
H: How do I get rid of the big blue bar at the top of Google?
How do I get rid of this big blue bar at the top of Google:
It is really annoying!
I am running Google Chrome on a Mac.
AI: Note: I've only tested this on Windows but I'm assuming it should be the same on the Mac.
It's possible to do this with AdBlock Plus. Get it by going to http://adblockplus.org/en/ and clicking the big green button. Be sure to click the little Continue button that appears at the bottom to confirm that you want to install it.
Once installed there should be a red stop icon in the address bar. Right-click the icon and choose Options, then go to the tab called Add your own filters. Enter the following:
###mgmhppd
This tells AdBlock to remove the element with an ID of 'mgmhppd' (the blue bar). Click Add filter to confirm.
If you find AdBlock interferes with any other sites you can disable it for that site by left-clicking the icon and unticking Enable for this site. |
H: How to control who add me in their circles in Google+?
I am annoyed everyday. Unknown people are adding me to their circles. How to allow only the people in my 'Extended Circles' to add me to their circles?
AI: You can't stop people from adding you.
If you don't post public you have nothing to worry about, they will never see a thing. If you post public even people who have not added you to their circle will see the post if they visit your profile. Even people who have not joined Google+ will see it. Public really means anyone.
So either way you have nothing to worry about people adding you to their circles. It makes no difference at all. |
H: How to get rid of Google's language detection permanently?
Possible Duplicate:
How can I access google.com outside the US?
Using Chrome 15 on Windows (all tho' I've learned it doesn't matter what browser you use), when using a Google product it automatically either translates or redirects to my native language. If I go google.com, I excpect to get the English version of it - that does not happen, instead I have to click on the bottom of the page on the link "Go to Google MyLanguage" and it still does the same thing after closing and opening the browser.
Hence my question, how to disable (get rid of, for good) Google's language detection? Maybe there's a work-around?
AI: The URL string hl sets the interface language for Google Search and many other Google services. You can do same as I did and create different search engines for different languages. When I search for "something" without a keyword, or with the "g" keyword, my browser goes to
http://www.google.com/search?&tbo=1&prmdo=1&hl=en&q=something
When I search for "something" with the "b" keyword, my browser goes to
http://www.google.com/search?hl=pt-br&btnG=Search&tbo=1&prmdo=1&q=something
Notice the different hl codes for English and Brazilian Portuguese, and the different results they provide. I use Opera, but Chrome also lets you create new search engines just as easily. You just need to do some search with your own language code, access the Chrome search engine options window and set a keyword for it. |
H: Can I share labels within Google Apps for Business?
Can I share labels (= emails with particular labels) across Google Apps for Business users?
I have created a label called “testing” and I want to share the emails that have this label with other team members.
AI: Assuming that you're applying labels to the email based on a certain condition, you could edit the existing filter which applies the label to forward the email to your team members. |
H: How do I find on the Internet hits for a word with a dash in the middle?
Background: I tried to find information about the tool python-config, but a Google search brought up mainly hits for python's config module.
Digging a bit deeper, the issue is that Google treats the character "-" in search terms as a stop character and word separator. So even with a Google Advanced search I was not able to find only pages contain "python-config" (with the dash). Then I tried briefly Bing and Yahoo with no more success.
On this site here I found How can I search for a keyword with special characters in Google Search?, but the search engine suggestions contain mainly code search sites.
So my question remains: How do I find with Google hits for a word with a dash in the middle, e.g. "python-config". What is the best way to do this?
ps: Meanwhile I did find out what the python-config tool is for - by reading through the python.org documentation, but not by searching the python.org site, because it uses a custom google search...
AI: Use Google's Verbatim search to make Google not to interpret your search terms and do a search as it is.
Search results based on Verbatim. |
H: Labelling Several Cards in Trello
Is it possible to add label colours to several cards at once?
Perhaps some kind of select all option?
AI: No, it is not possible to select multiple cards and apply a label to them; you have to add the labels individually.
Using the 1 - 6 keyboard shortcuts can make this easier, because you can add the label without having to open the card or the labels menu. |
H: How can I create a fixed column header in Google Spreadsheet like the first sheet?
How can I create a fixed column header in Google Spreadsheet like the first sheet?
AI: Up to ten rows of each sheet can be designated as the column header. This is called freezing rows. Every sheet has a horizontal guideline which separates header rows from the rest of the sheet. This guideline has a gray handle. The gray handle initially appears above row “1” on the left hand side of the sheet. To set the number of rows in the column header, drag the handle up or down using the mouse.
Or you can set the number of rows using the menu option View → Freeze Rows.
There is also a vertical guideline which works in a very similar manner, and lets you freeze as many as five columns as row labels.
When you create a blank document, it comes with an initial sheet. This sheet does not have a column header.¹ Additional sheets, if you create them, are the same: they do not have column headers to begin with.
The Android app imposes a limitation on this feature. While it does show frozen row and column headers properly, it does not let you control which rows or columns are frozen. You need to use a PC based browser to change your row and column headers.
Notes
When the question was originally asked, the first sheet in a new untitled spreadsheet had one header row: row 1. This is no longer so. But it is why the question was asked the way it was. |
H: Search Google images filtered by date range
I am trying to find recent images (e.g not older than 1 year) using a specific search term.
Is it possible specify a date range when using Google Images Search?
AI: Yes, it is possible by URL Tweaking.
Google’s image search feature includes an option to sort images by
date. The default options in Google’s left-hand menu only cover
results from the past week, but you can get additional results by
tinkering with the search URL.
Google Operating System notes that by clicking the ‘past week’ URL and
editing the section that says qdr:w, you can get other ranges. Options
you can include:
qdr:h – Past hour
qdr:hn – Past n hours (e.g. qdr:h2 for past 2 hours)
qdr:d – Past day
qdr:dn – Past n days
qdr:w – Past week
qdr:wn – Past n weeks
qdr:m – Past month
qdr:mn – Past n months
qdr:y – Past year
qdr:yn – Past n years
While searching by date can be useful, it isn’t infallible. Google
often uses the content surrounding an image when determining the date,
so an older image will show up at the top of the list if it’s been
featured in a recent news story or blog post.
Source: LifeHacker |
H: Can a card in Trello display a table?
The markdown syntax says that you can use regular HTML and specifically mentions <table> as being possible. The only restrictions being that you have blank lines before and after the table, and that the <table> and </table> tags are not indented.
But this doesn't appear to work in Trello.
Is this just not supported, or is there a way to do this that I'm missing?
AI: There are two common ways to render tables inside markdown content:
By embedding HTML using <table> <tr> <td> tags
Using special table syntax, which is not an official part of the markdown spec, but is supported in certain libraries including Github Flavoured Markdown (GFM)
Unfortunately the markdown library used by Trello doesn't support either of these options - so no tables in Trello for the time being.
As others have partly mentioned, the imperfect workarounds are:
Fake tables by using a code block
Upload/embed an image that displays your table
Link to a Google Doc/Spreadsheet or some other URL |
H: Gmail crashing in Chrome?
Since the change in Gmail's interface, I've noticed that the Gadgets I use have disappeared. When I tried to expand Gmail's sidebar there were no line with three dots to grab and today I couldn't attach a file, so I tried in Firefox. In Firefox, I found the Gadgets, the line to expand the sidebar and I could attach a file. I've disabled every extension and script in my Chrome but these problems persist.
Someone else is having similar problems?
There's anything I can do to have, at least, my Gadgets again in Chrome?
AI: Make sure that you are using the latest stable build. The beta version may have issues with certain features. Also I would advise trying to clear your cache and cookies in Chrome and try again and see if the problem still exists. |
H: Link to an anchor (headline id) inside a SourceForge wiki page
I develop an open source application under the SourceForge web. I would like to be able to link to anchors (headline ids) inside a wiki page. The Markdown Syntax Guide does not mention how to do that. I looked at the HTML code of one of my existing wiki pages and there are no ids assigned to headlines by default.
I suppose there might be a way to do what I want as this seems to be an important feature. Besides, the Markdown Syntax Guide itself has ids assigned.
AI: You can use standard HTML to insert an anchor to the text:
<span id="myHeading">My heading</span>
======================================
and then link to it like this:
[My heading](./#myHeading) |
H: Collecting identifying information about users filling in a Google Docs forms
How can I get Google Docs to register IDs of people taking a survey generated from by the form?
I have a database of users and I'd like them to take a survey and also have the form link with their ID so I know which of my users completed the form.
Is it also possible to style a Google Docs form or do I have to stick with one of the few styles provided by Google?
Is all of this possible with Google Docs?
If not, I may look into SurveyMonkey if it provides these features.
AI: I only seem to have some bad news for you.
It is not possible to customize Google Docs Forms in another way than using the provided themes. (See Google employee AnaLikesLattes' answer)
It is not possible to enforce one-submission-per-person but you could maybe use required fields asking for first/last name or email. (Google Docs Help discussion)
I'm not sure about SurveyMonkey (haven't used it) but for more advanced surveys I'd suggest using SurveyGizmo. They offer a free account with 250 responses per month. Comparison of their plan features here. |
H: Copy data down into next set of blank cells, if any, for whole column?
I have some text that I've taken in from a pdf, however the columns are not lined up the way I need them to be:
I want to duplicate the column A and D values down into any empty spaces/rows. So in the end, all the spaces in those columns would become like this:
Is there any way automatically to do that to those columns in general?
An automatic way to delete the rows with blanks at the end would be really useful as well.
AI: You can do this with a simple formula. Given the range shown in your example, insert a new column to the right of column A. In this new column B, write:
B136: =A136
B137: =if( isblank(A137) ; B136 ; A137 )
Duplicate the formula in B137 into the cells below it.
Let's unpack this:
B136 looks to the left for its value (A136).
B137 looks to the left for its value (A137), but if blank, uses the previous value (B136).
B138 looks to the left for its value (A138), but if blank, uses the previous value (B137).
… and so on.
Depending on your needs, you might be done at this point. Optionally, you can hide column A. Or you can copy column B, "paste values only" into column A, and delete column B.
You asked to do the identical operation with the data in column D, so the solution will be the same.
E136: =D136
E137: =if( isblank(D137) ; E136 ; D137 )
…
Please post your followup question about rows with blanks at the end as a separate question, and provide more detail. It's not clear what the problem is. |
H: Options to get a higher email send limit
I realize there a lot of bulk email services, but what I'm trying to do doesn't feel like bulk email; though maybe I'm just thinking about it the wrong way. Case in point, I attempted to create an account on MailChimp and it wants a subscriber list.
I'd send one, and only one, email per address. For example, replying to job postings on Craigslist. I'm not sending follow-up emails, and basically the first email I send is the last to an address unless I get a reply.
Sometimes the email I send is based on a template, other times they've asked for something, and I customize the email. I've automated creating résumés and sending emails in the past, but currently the fastest way just seems manually to do it, meaning I can't imagine sending more than 500 emails in a single day.
As far as I'm able to tell, Gmail, Yahoo, Hotmail, Lycos, AOL, etc. do not offer the service of paying per email over the send limit, since I'd be willing to pay for the service and be done with this, as it's taking up a huge amount of time and overhead to deal with.
Currently, although I've seen sites giving higher numbers, most of the providers appear to limit emails sent to 20-40 a day; possible I'm doing something wrong, but if I am, I don't understand why these limits are not easy to see within an account, so I'm either able to stay within the limits, or see the service is not a good fit for my needs. Currently I just get random error-messages, locked-out, etc.
(If needed, and the setup doesn't take more an a few hours, I'm more than willing to deal with configuring scripts, CSV files, templates, etc. on my computer - as long as they're well documented and the end result addresses the issue; meaning that if I have to send a one-off email, I just copy the template, make the changes, and point to the email. The system must also support attachments, since every email has at least one attachment; best solution would be if I'm able to load an attachment once to the system, then alias it in the local script.)
AI: If each email you send is unique (i.e. you aren't sending the same email to a large distribution list) have you considered getting your own "proper" mailbox.
Most web hosting companies offer this service, you buy a domain name and set up a mailbox and as long as you don't use it to spam people there wouldn't be a problem sending 500 emails a day. The limits on these mailboxes is normally a limit on the amount of email you can store in the mailbox - but bolt on something like Outlook or Thunderbird to download the emails to your desktop to keep the server clear and you'd be up and running. |
H: How to add people with the new YouTube profiles as friends?
It's easy to add people with the old YouTube profiles as friend, as you just click the link:
I see no such option where the other links are on the new profiles though:
Is there still a way to do that, or did they just remove it?
AI: They seem to have removed the button, but there is a workaround.
Copy the username of the person you want to add as a friend (just under Created by; 'GamingSE' in your example), and then go to your Inbox > Address Book. Click on New > Contact... and type in the username inside the Username box on the right pane. Now click Save, select that user, click Add to Friends on the above bar and you're done. This is the only way to add someone as a friend at the moment. |
H: How to find the oldest article on Slashdot?
I just clicked on a link that was an article posted on slashdot in 2003. It discusses Python vs Perl and it was quite interesting to read the comments from that time. How can I find the oldest articles posted on Slashdot?
AI: It seems that Slashdot articles have the article ID in the URL, which is incremented with each article, so just taking any article, and putting "1" where is the article id in the URL will reveal the oldest one.
This one might be it: http://slashdot.org/story/1/
There is some discussion about the very topic there, and there seems to be some error.
Then it seems there is a tag for the first post on Slashdot:
http://slashdot.org/tag/firstpost
Which links to an article from December 31 1997:
http://slashdot.org/story/98/01/01/012000/become-007-on-the-internet |
H: Switching to old Gmail UI
About three weeks ago Gmail told me I could switch to a new look. I did, and it was terrible to say the least. Luckily Gmail let me revert back to the old look and I quickly went back. I was using the old look until now, but this morning I logged into my Gmail, and see that my Gmail opened with a new look. Besides I am unable to find the option to switch back to old look.
Can anyone please tell me how to do that?
This new look is barely usable.
AI: There is a gear icon on the right top. Click on that, you will find the link to go back to old version.
or just follow the link
http://techzoom.org/easily-revert-back-to-gmails-old-look-from-new-cool-interface/ |
H: Circular dependency detected even while using IFERROR
I have the following function in the cell B2:
ARRAYFORMULA(SUM(IFERROR(Purchases!B3:B, 0)))
And the following function in cell C2:
ARRAYFORMULA(SUM(IFERROR(Purchases!C3:C, 0)))
Basically, the first column (Column B) are prices in USD, and the second one (column C) are prices in LBP (Lebanese Pounds)
In the rest of the cells in Column B and C (i.e from B3/C3 till the end) i have the following:
+------+----------+----------+
|COL: A| COL: B | COL: C |
+---+------+----------+----------+
| 1 | text | text | text |
+---+------+----------+----------+
| 2 | text | SUM | SUM |
+---+------+----------+----------+
| 3 | text | =C3/1500 | =B3*1500 |
+---+------+----------+----------+
| 4 | text | =C4/1500 | =B3*1500 |
+---+------+----------+----------+
| 5 | text | =C5/1500 | =B3*1500 |
+---+------+----------+----------+
| 6 | text | =C6/1500 | =B6*1500 |
+---+------+----------+----------+
I will try to explain the spreadsheet:
Column A, is the description of the product purchased, which is just plain text.
Column B and C are the price of the product in USD and LBP respectively.
Now, when I buy a product, sometimes I purchase it in USD, sometimes in LBP. So I want to add in its respective column, and when doing so, the other column will be automatically calculated and filled.
The circular dependency in these cells are not a problem to me and totally understandable.
Issue
My problem are the cells B2 and C2, the first time I wrote the function, it worked like a charm. But after closing the document, the result of the function is a #REF Error. But if I edit the cell, and rewrite the same function, it returns the correct value. This has to be done, every time I reopen the document.
Am I doing something wrong? Or is this just a bug?
Is there another/better way to accomplish what I want? (Which is, price is available in both currencies, and if I input one currency, the second one is calculated automatically. And a cell with the total value of each currency)
P.S.
I tried inputting the formulas this way too:
SUM(ARRAYFORMULA(IFERROR(Purchases!B3:B, 0)))
instead of
ARRAYFORMULA(SUM(IFERROR(Purchases!B3:B, 0)))
But I get the same issue.
AI: The pure spreadsheet answer is to create columns D and E to display your information. An example row:
A3: text
B3: (enter USD if known)
C3: (enter LBP if known)
D3: = if( isblank(B3) ; C3/1500 ; B3 )
E3: = if( isblank(C3) ; B3*1500 ; C3 )
The other way you can solve this is with JavaScript, if you know it, using the onEdit trigger. In that case the JavaScript would detect the edit to B3 and automatically add the formula in C3, or vice versa. |
H: How can I show labels by default in the new Gmail?
Gmail has a new look - kind of sleek, but I think I liked the old look better. As far as I know there is no way to revert to the old look, so is there at least a way to show all the labels that used to show up under "Inbox" and "Starred" by default?
AI: better use HTML basic or try reverting to the older look you can do so by using the settings {gear icon} dropdown just above your inbox on the right hand side
or in new Gmail look go to the settings in settings dropdown menu then to labels tab and in labels click on show against each label you want to have on Gmail home screen
for old look {if it isn't available in the settings menu}you could just go to settings menu and select compact to have a similar look though you can make it more akin by using an appropriate theme |
H: Calendar and Chat widgets in new Gmail
In Gmail's new look, is it possible to bring back the Chat and Calendar widgets? They are turned on in Settings, but aren't showing. Am I missing something or this is normal behavior for now?
AI: Partly - you can bring them back but not both at the same time it seems. You can display them one at a time by clicking on the Calendar / Gadget icons at the bottom of the left column and resize using the top resize bar. |
H: Can't get Planets theme back in new Gmail?
I just switched to the new Gmail design today.
In the old design, I was using the Planets theme. When it switched to the new design, it still had the Planets theme. But then I decided to see what some of the other themes looked like.
But apparently they don't let you choose the Planets theme anymore (even though it worked when I first switched?). Is there any way to get it back?
I've already tried reverting to the old design, changing the theme and then changing it back to planets, and then switching back to the new design. It kept what I had previously saved last time in the new design.
As a temporary fix I'm just using the dark theme.
AI: Apparently they just added the HD version of Planets to themes and it is now selectable again. |
H: iGoogle doesn't use new theme in Opera
Google implemented a new design for nearly all websites, including iGoogle. It now uses blue and red buttons, and the the classic iGoogle theme has grey title bars for the widgets. This new design shows up in all the browsers I've tried (IE9, FireFox 7 and 8, Chrome 15) on both my home computer and my work computer, except in Opera (10.5 through 11.6).
On Opera the search buttons are the standard browser form elements, the widget title bars are still blue and the widget menu on the left is still expanded instead of minimized. Does this only happen to me, or does Google use different styling just for Opera browsers? How can I get the new theme in Opera?
EDIT: I actually found a way to get the new design. You can identify Opera as FireFox or IE by navigating to iGoogle and performing the following actions in Opera: Opera->Settings->Quick preferences->Edit site preferences->Network->Browser identification. If you set this dropdown to 'Firefox', everything will be fine. Incidentally, this solution also fixed my problems with Google Calendar in Opera.
This all seems rather childish to me. I remember Microsoft doing this sort of thing for their MSN website. I though Google would be better than this.
AI: Yes, Google is using different styling with Opera. I was able to reproduce your problem on Windows 7 with Opera 11.52. |
H: How to play YouTube videos without silence at start/end in a playlist?
I have some videos in a music playlist whose playtime is longer then the length of the sound. Usually it's several seconds at the end where it's just silence.
Is there anyway to fix this? The videos are not mine.
AI: There is no such feature available in YouTube, nor have I ever heard of a addon for this. You could go out of your way and download the videos though and edit them yourself. If the video's liscense is under creative commons you can upload it to your own channel and then use the YouTube Video Editor |
H: In Gmail, is the "always display images from" option safe?
I know that it is possible for a spammer to generate an email that claims to be from a certain sender, regardless of whether it actually is. They could use that to send me mail purporting to be from something well-known (like my bank) and thus force my browser to download an image file from their site.
I'd happily approve an option that said "always display images from this site", but it's from the SENDER which can be spoofed, so I'm afraid to use this feature.
Am I overlooking something? Does Google do something here so that this is actually safe? Is there a better way I can handle this than downloading images on each message individually when I go to view it?
AI: Most of the time when a email address is faked Gmail will warn you. The image is most likely being only allowed if it's from a certain URL anyway, so if it isn't, it's pretty likely Gmail would either warn you it's not from the sender or ask if you still want to view it. |
H: How do I see how many views a YouTube playlist has?
I created a YouTube playlist. How do I see how many views the playlist has acquired? I don't want to see how many channel views I have, I want to see playlist views.
AI: YouTube has removed this in the latest UI update. Most likely it was underused and didn't fit anywhere in the new UI so they removed it. |
H: Where did the dedicated "Recommended Videos" page moved on YouTube?
The latest update of YouTube doesn't seem to include the single-panel "Recommended Videos" - just a short list on the right-side panel.
Do you know if this recommended videos page is still available somewhere and if so, at what URL?
AI: Well I have not found the recommended videos but I have found the recommended topics which can be found here:
http://www.youtube.com/videos
Scroll to the bottom and you should see something like this:
I assuming recommended topics is the same thing but maybe more general or just renamed. |
H: Are there differences between Google Docs as a standalone vs. when it's included in Google Apps?
I started using Google Docs and I like it a lot for simple documents and spreadsheets I collaborate on. I still use Word/PowerPoint/Excel for the heavy lifting. I'm using Outlook with Exchange Online for email and I'm happy with it.
Now my question is: will I get more out of Google Docs if I pay for Google Apps? I have a small team so the price doesn't bother me, but since I'm not interested in Google Sites, Calendar or Mail, I wonder what benefit is there for the Google Docs user like me.
AI: I use Google Docs with Google Apps (the free version), and they are practically identical. There are a few marginal benefits:
You can set all documents to be shared within your team by default
You can block users from sharing documents outside your team
There are also some drawbacks:
New features often take a while to be available in the Google Apps version of Google Docs
You cannot transfer ownership of a document to someone outside your team (this one has bitten me a few times)
If you already own a domain name, and you don't need more than 10 accounts for your team, you can try Google Apps for free. |
H: Is there a way to provide someone a link to a specific query placed on this page?
I want to search for a doctor by her name through this public FORM. Is there a way to link to the specific search results?
http://www.idfpr.com/LicenseLookUp/LicenseLookup.asp
AI: Yes, there is.
For example, let's select Profession as "DOCTOR-PHYSICIAN" and Last Name as "HAMILTON". Click SEARCH and on the resulting page, you'll see a link named Printer Friendly View. It has got the link to the search results, which is:
http://www.idfpr.com/LicenseLookUp/printthispage.asp?page=1&pro_cde=0036&lnme=hamilton&initial=&type=NAME&checkbox=on
Now you can easily find the direct link to the search results using the above line. Just change printthispage.asp with results.asp, and you're done:
http://www.idfpr.com/LicenseLookUp/results.asp?page=1&pro_cde=0036&lnme=hamilton&initial=&type=NAME&rowcount=15&checkbox=on |
H: Renaming links in Facebook comments
I tried to search but I couldn't find how to do it.
Is it possible to rename the links in Facebook comments so that instead of seeing http://www.google.com, for example, someone would see click here?
AI: No I don't think it's possible, nor do I think Facebook will implement it. It could lead to, many people being tricked into clicking a link. You should consider using a link shortening/ renaming service such as Bitly. |
H: Require exact matches for Google Alerts?
I've got a Google ego-Alert set up for "billpg". It keeps finding alerts for "Bill Page". Is there any way, please, to have an alert for exactly billpg and not Bill Page who I'm getting throughly sick of hearing about?
AI: Google Alerts use the same search syntax as when you use Google Search. So if you don't want certain words or phrases appearing, you can exclude them with the minus (-) operator.
Here's an example that alerts to traffic, but excludes those that concern safety:
Search query: traffic -safety
To exclude a phrase, wrap it around quotes. In your case it would be:
Search query: billpg -"bill page" |
H: How to check in using Facebook's mobile site?
I am using Android. Without a Facebook app, is it possible to check in via http://m.facebook.com
AI: Yes you can.
How do I check in to a Place on my mobile device?
Tap
Select Nearby
Tap Check In (top-right corner)
Tap a nearby place or type the name of the place in the search bar
Write a caption, tag friends, or add a photo
Tap Post
Taken from this Facebook FAQ Article |
H: How do I force images to hide in Gmail?
In Gmail, e-mails from "strangers" automatically have their images blocked. I accidentally selected to always display images from the sender. However, I would like to undo this decision and begin hiding the images again.
Is there any way that I can tell Gmail to block images from a particular sender?
AI: Load up the email and in the email header click the little drop down arrow:
Then click the Don't display from now on link |
H: Disable all Facebook apps posted on my wall
How can I disable the Facebook apps that appear on my wall all in one go?
I can disable applications individually on my wall (the applications that my friends posted), but how can I disable them all?
AI: There's no way to disable them all at once. You can, however, block all invites coming from a person, so if there's one person sending all the app invites, you can add the person to the blocked app invites list available in Privacy Settings. |
H: How to have auto updated current time cell in GoogleDocs / Excel
I am trying to create a spreadsheet that will allow me to track my clients' timezones.
I am using the useless NOW() function to calc current time, and then factor in the time zone value (+/- a #) as so:
=NOW()+(E2)*TIME(1,0,0)
But the cells dont update when I refresh. They just stay at whatever time was calculated or recalculated.
How can I get the current time to recalculate when I refresh the page so that all the times will be accurate?
Is there an HTML solution for this that I could use instead?
AI: Maybe try using this function instead of NOW()
=GoogleClock()
GoogleClock()
Returns the current date and time according to your computer system.
Updates automatically each minute on the minute (unlike the NOW
function). No arguments are used in this function.
EDIT:
GOOGLECLOCK is not available in the new Google Sheets. To get the same
results, use the NOW function and change your recalculation setting to
"On change and every minute" in your spreadsheet at File > Spreadsheet
settings. |
H: How do I add a custom tab to my Facebook profile (not to a page!)?
There are plenty of apps and tutorials out there for adding custom content into a tab for a page.
But how do I add a custom tab to my actual profile?
AI: Facebook removed the ability to add custom tabs to a personal profile page some time ago. (They can still be added to a Page.) However, Facebook is in the process of rolling out Timeline, which replaces your personal profile page, and which does allow apps that are specially built for Timeline. Once you have switched from a profile page to Timeline you will be able to add these apps to your timeline.
Further details can be found here:
https://www.facebook.com/help/?page=105925952849619 |
H: Using filters to delete all messages that match
Possible Duplicate:
How can I perform the same action on all results of a label/search in Gmail?
In Gmail, I have a bunch of messages under a label that I want to delete (basically all the "unread" messages).
I can filter for and select "unread" and then delete them, but it only applies to the first 25 items and I have hundreds I want to delete.
What I'd like to do is to apply a filter, select the matches, and delete all the matches even if they're not in the top 25.
Is there a way to do this?
AI: Here is the algorithm:
Perform the search in your mails.
Go to the selection of your messages (checkbox icon with small down arrow) and choose "Select all".
As long as there are some other messages the GMail will prompt you with a message above your mailbox (see picture).
Just click on this message and you now can delete/move/mark as spam all these messages. |
H: How can I set up a contacts "group" in Gmail?
I have a group of about 5 people that I email on a regular basis. How can I set up Gmail so I can easily email everyone in this group without having to type in these five addresses (granted there is autocomplete) every time I want to send a message to them?
AI: If you already have the addresses in a group, two methods come to mind.
Open the contact manager and select the group you want to send to. Click the "select all" checkbox to select all members of the group, then click the email icon that then appears.
Start to compose a message. In the to field, start typing the name of the group. Before you get too many characters in, you should see the group listed in the drop-down menu. Select it and the email addresses for the whole group will be put in the to: field.
If you'd just rather type one email address and have it go to everyone, there are a multitude of services where you can do that. Google Groups is one. (But that's probably overkill for five people.) |
H: Is there a web interface for the email groups capability exposed via Google Apps
Is there a web interface for the email groups capability exposed via Google Apps, since we would like to have the capability to search later on? We are probably on the starter edition of Google Apps.
AI: It's
http://groups.google.com/a/<your-domain-name> |
H: In new Gmail, how can I prevent label list from autocollapsing?
In Gmail's new UI, is there a way to prevent the "label list", or whatever you call it, from automatically collapsing whenever I'm not hovering over it with mouse/trackpad? This is what I mean (here shown collapsed):
I find it annoying to have to hover over a quite small area, in this case the "Starred" text, to be able to see & click on my labels and stuff like Sent Mail, Drafts, and All Mail.
I looked around in Settings, but didn't find anything that affects this. (In case this is some kind of bug, I'm using Chrome on a Mac.)
AI: Hover over the line under Starred. Upon hover, three little dots will appear (see screenshot below). Click on it/them and then drag downwards.
Normal state: Hover state: |
H: How can one use Google Sites as a Wiki?
Is it possible to use Google Sites as a Wiki where everyone can edit without first asking for the owner to allow them?
AI: Actually, I found the answer myself. One can use it as a Public Wiki by using this trick.
Create a Google Group so anyone can join: http://groups.google.com/groups/create?lnk=gcphp
Invite the Group to your Site as a collaborator using its email address, e.g. [email protected]
Put a link to your Google Group on your Site, preferably on your homepage or sidebar, and a notice inviting those who are interested to
join.
Now anyone who subscribes to your Group automatically gets to edit your Site too. |
H: How can I visualize post shares on Google+?
At one point everyone was passing around a visualization tool for Google+ posts. The tool made a graph/map of the circles that a post had been shared with. You could click on a circle to show more detail of the other circles, but it only worked for public posts/shares.
What was this tool, and where can I find it?
AI: You're thinking of Ripples. It only works with publicly shared posts. Click the drop down arrow at the top-right of the post and select View Ripples. |
H: Blogspot post export to PDF
I need to read my own blog post that I published in Blogspot a long time ago.
How do I export my Blogspot post to PDF? So that I can read it in any places that don't have internet connection?
What I found when I searched for this was always about importing many posts into a book and usually their service is not free. I don't need to import many posts at once. I just need my one blog post.
AI: If you wish to have a Print as PDF option on each of your blog posts for you & your readers, you can configure the service from Web2PDF
If it is just for yourself, you can turn to Chrome browser which now lets you print a page as PDF from the regular Print menu option.
NOTE: If you are using a Mac, almost any page can be printed to PDF by simply selecting "print" in the browser, then "Save as PDF" in the bottom right of most printer control panels that appear. |
H: Flickr has 300MB bandwidth limit for photos, what is the meaning of this?
300MB bandwidth limit for photos on flickr, how do they calculate that exactly?
Is it: size of image X number of views?
AI: The "bandwidth limit" is how much data you can upload each Month to your account. It is based on both pictures and video. http://www.flickr.com/help/limits/#65 There is no limit to how many times it can be viewed.
There are many other limitations to the free hosting as usual. http://www.flickr.com/help/forum/en-us/72157627629706032/
Bringing people in to watch thier adds :-) usually isnt one of the issues :-) |
H: What is the Google Sync URL to choose which Google Calendars to sync?
You know how Google Calendar lets you have multiple calendars, i.e. weather, etc?
There is an obscure page that looks like it's designed for mobile devices that lets one choose which calendars to sync with Google Sync.
I can't seem to dig it up. Does anyone know where it is?
AI: You should be able to do all the changes from: m.google.com/sync directly from your device.
This is the actual page to select multiple calendars: Google Sync Settings |
H: Is there a way to get email notifications when someone tweets?
I would like to know if there is any way in which I can get email notifications when only "specific" people tweet on Twitter.
Further, would it be possible to filter these alerts based on some hashtags or specific words that they use?
AI: IFTTT has a trigger in the Twitter channel, "New tweet by specific user", which seems to be exactly what you're looking for.
Zapier has a trigger like that as well and provides the exact recipe you want for this purpose:
If you’ve got a Twitter user that you want to keep an extra special eye on, Zapier can provide a big assist. Get an email when a specific Twitter user posts a new update. With our Twitter integration, anytime that user tweets, you'll get notified via email.
Zapier's Twitter integration, offered free at one point, now requires a paid plan. |
H: Do emails auto-forwarded from one Gmail account to another stop if marked as spam?
What happens to mail that I've set to auto-forward from one Gmail account to another when I mark a message as spam? Does that mark the forwarding account and block it from sending in the future?
I have two Gmail accounts (A and B). I only check A; B forwards all its messages to A. Also, Google knows that B is my second email, so while logged into A I am able to send emails as if they come from B. I didn't enable one-click switch between accounts yet.
Now, sometimes messages which I consider to be spam arrive at B and get forwarded to A.
When I check my email in A, what happens if I mark those messages that got forwarded from B as spam? I am afraid that Gmail will then think that B is unreliable and stop accepting any messages from B after that.
For now, I am always going to B and marking those messages as spam there. In A I just delete them without marking them as spam.
AI: I have a similar setup and never had problems marking messages as spam.
I am sure mark as spam doesn't work that way.
Google can keep a track that you have enabled auto forwarding, and any emails that you mark as spam will be registered against the original sender and not your email ID.
Mark as spam is a one step process and if you ever mark a mail that you specifically sent from B to A you will never see another email from B. So don't worry and keep marking mails as spam if you feel so. |
H: Ctrl + F not working for browser page search when using Google Docs
When I do Ctrl+F in Google Docs, it shows the "document find view". What I would like is the "browser find view" when in Google Chrome.
What keys do I need to press to do a browser Ctrl+F in Google Docs in Google Chrome? Currently the web app will take control of that hotkey combination when opened.
AI: You are looking for a keyboard solution that will open the Chrome find bar even when Ctrl+F is redefined on the page.
Judging by the keys you normally use, you are a Windows user. On Windows, press Alt+F, then press F. This solution uses menu shortcuts to open the find bar.
Alternatively, you can mouse click the wrench button and mouse click "Find...". |
H: How to save my current location in Google Maps or Google+ Android's app
I used to have some app that would find my car, but now what I do is use Google+ and "Check In" wherever my car is at, or whenever I just want to remember a location (a friends house, etc...) and select at the bottom of the list "Add new location" (or something like that) since this is not a restaurant or any other public place.
I'm sure this is not the way this was meant to be used but it works. I wonder if there is another explicit way to do this with Google+ or Google Maps. I think is very silly that they don't add this feature since it's almost already fully implemented.
I can't find a way to save custom locations to my favorite locations either. Can't find this kind of feature in Google Maps either. I also don't want to install a new app unless is some kind of Google Maps addon, since I already can do this with Google+ the way I described above.
AI: In Maps you can star places. That's how I would do it.
Just tab your current location and mark the place with a star.
When navigating back, you'll see the star on the map, or you can select it as a navigation destination |
H: How to see the "receiver address" in Gmail?
I receive e-mails for multiple e-mail addresses on my Gmail. In my Inbox, how can I see what e-mail address the specific e-mail was sent to?
If I choose "show original", the only relevant information I get is this line:
To: Undisclosed recipients:;
But that tells me nothing.
AI: It is not always possible to know. I'll explain why, and how, when possible, to find the information you want.
First a bit of necessary background. When you "show original", you see the e-mail exactly as it was transmitted over the network. But what you don't see is the envelope. The envelope is like a paper envelope. It has a recipient address and a return address, and contains an e-mail. The envelope is discarded on receipt.
One way that you can receive e-mails for multiple e-mail addresses in Gmail is from a remailer, also called an autoforwarder. This covers a wide variety of circumstances. Mailing lists are one example: an e-mail addressed to the list is remailed to the list membership. Mail systems which let you give a forwarding order are another example.
These remailers take the e-mail out of the envelope and put it in a new envelope addressed to the forwarding address. The e-mail still reads as it did when it was sent. This is why, when you "show original", you don't see your Gmail mailbox in the recipient list. The sender addressed the e-mail to a different mailbox, so that's what you see.
You are in the same situation when you receive a blind courtesy copy (bcc) of an e-mail. The e-mail itself doesn't list the recipients of blind copies: that's what makes those copies a secret. This is why, when you "show original", your mailbox is not shown as a recipient.
E-mail often goes through several mail servers, like postal distribution centers, on its way to the recipient. Each one is a remailer. Each one discards the envelope, stamps the e-mail Received, puts the e-mail in a new envelope, and hands it off to the next mail server. The stamp shows the date and time and other tracking information. Some (but not all) mail servers include the recipient address from the envelope that it discarded. You can view these stamps when you "show original". Look for the for clause:
Received: from transmitting server by receiving server with protocol id unique id for → recipient address ← ; date and time
For more information, start with RFC 5321: Simple Mail Transfer Protocol, section 2.3, SMTP Terminology and section 4.4, Trace Information. |
H: Make Gmail send automatic canned responses for email it gets via POP
I have email from my personal domain POP'ed by my Gmail account. It works beautifully, except that it can't seem to do auto-replies.
That means that I can't have an away message when I'm on vacation. And it means I can't create filters using canned responses.
(I know that Canned Responses only apply to new, incoming messages that arrive through SMTP [directly sent to Gmail], not to messages fetched through POP3.)
How can I make this work within Gmail?
If I don't have access to mail forwarding on my old account, what other options do I have?
AI: Short answer
Instead of using POP use email forwarding from your other account to be able to use Filters and Canned Responses in Gmail
Explaination
it can't seem to do auto-replies
I beg to differ.
Make sure Canned Responses is activated:
Then you create a filter for emails that are sent to your old email address:
to:([email protected])
EDIT: Note that this will not work for mails fetched through POP3, only for forwarded messages. If your old account has an auto-forwarding feature, that's the way to go. (The other answer here pointed this out.)
You call the filter, say, Old. Then you select a canned response for that filter. Actually, you don't even need to do that. You can autorespond to these emails just the same just by creating a filter for them.
Look at this screenshot: |
H: Retrieving past application specific passwords
I'm curious if there is a way to view past application specific passwords under Google's two factor authentication.
Otherwise I figure they were for one time use and you can just keep cranking out more.
AI: No, there is no way to retrieve application-specific passwords. They are - indeed - for one-time-use - I was not able to use the same password on more than one app without getting a password invalid message. The number of application specific passwords is unlimited. |
H: What are trips on Facebook's Timeline map page?
Go to a Facebook Timeline profile, click on the Maps icon in the info header section, and below the map are five sections: All, Places Lived, Trips, Life Events, and Photos.
Where does the Trips part come from? I actually would like to fill that part out. Facebook help has nothing on it that I could find.
AI: Go to your Timeline. Click on the Life Event tab where the status update box is.
Life Event will give you the following options:
Work & Education
Family & Relationships
Home & Living
Health & Wellness
Travel & Experiences
Click on Travel & Experiences --> Travel.
You are ready to chronicle your trips. |
H: Can I link to a YouTube video and turn off annotations?
Tacking #t=XmYYs to the end of a YouTube link will direct it to start from X:YY into the video, but can I do something similar to have the annotations off when using the link?
More generally, what arguments can I pass the YouTube player after a hash (#)?
AI: You can't turn off the annotations in the URL but you can in the embed link by adding iv_load_policy=3 as parameter. Source.
For your second question, other parameters can be found here as well, though note that the scheme is ?firstparam=1&secondparam=42&..., the hash is generally not used. |
H: How to highlight code in Blogger?
I am using Google Blogger and would like to highlight the code. I tried a couple of ways, but not satisfied with the results.
Can anyone share how they have done it?
AI: Alex Gorbatchev's SyntaxHighlighter is one of the most commonly used by software-related blogs for code highlighting. It lists several blogs that provide steps how to integrate it with the Blogger service. |
H: What's the difference between All, Most, and Only Important updates on Facebook?
When you are friends with someone on Facebook you have the option of showing all, most, or only important updates from them. What's the difference between the three?
AI: All Updates: Every single update.
Most Updates: What you usually see on your home page.
Only Important Updates: Network events that really matter – if a friend or family member gets a new job, changes relationship status, attends a new university or updates their profile with the joyous news of a new addition to their family. |
H: Why do I get the "Your computer appears to be infected with a malware" message?
When trying to log in to Facebook, the message comes up:
Your computer appears to be infected with a malware
I've tried different browsers, same result with all. Apparently the session thinks my computer is infected. I really did not know that it was infected. It's a Mac. If that's the case it's only this user. Might be something else the browser is complaining about. I'm on OS X 10.6 with Firefox 8.
How can the browser know that my computer is infected?
Update:
It turned out that Facebook has shut my account down without notice, NOT telling me, right. The least they could do is send me an email telling me but I guess they don't bother. The error message is pointless.
AI: Firefox uses Phishing and Malware Protection, which is a Google service. Basically, it checks the sites that you visit against lists of reported phishing and malware sites. This link explains the technical details of the Safe Browsing protocol.
Google has an support article on this notice as well.
Why does Google think my computer is infected?
Some forms of malicious software will alter your computer settings to redirect some or all of your traffic through a proxy controlled by the attacker. When you use Google, the proxy forwards your query to the real Google servers to fetch the search results. If our system detects that a search came through one of these proxies, we display the warning. |
H: How to block non-friends from commenting on my Facebook photos?
I posted a photo and tagged a friend. Her friend (whom I don't know) commented on it. I don't like that non-friends can somehow comment on my photos just because they are friends with my friend. Is there a way to block (at least) the comment part? Do I have to un-tag my friend to disallow comments?
AI: If you post to "Friends" or more (including "Friends of Friends" or "Public"), then the friends of the people that are tagged will also be able to see, like, and comment on your post.
When I tag someone in a photo or post, who can see it?
When you tag someone, it may be visible to:
The audience you selected for your post.
Friends of the person you tagged (if the audience is set to Friends or more).
People who can see your photo or post can also like or comment on it.
You can get around this by posting to a friend list instead. If you create a friend list with all of your friends on it and post to that list (by entering the list name using the Custom setting), then you can post to all of your friends without automatically including the friends of the tagged people. However when you add new friends you would need to remember to manually add them to that friend list. |
H: How to create Twitter vertical count button?
I saw vertical button by Twitter in some pages and tutorials but I couldn't find out how to get the code for it. How can I make it look like the first widget on this image?
AI: <a href="https://twitter.com/share" class="twitter-share-button" data-url="https://dev.twitter.com/pages/tweet_button" data-via="your_screen_name" data-lang="en" data-related="anywhereTheJavascriptAPI" data-count="vertical">Tweet</a>
<script>!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js";fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document,"script","twitter-wjs");</script>
source: Tweet Button | Twitter Developers |
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