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H: Using multi-line formatted text in wiki syntax
Using multi-line formatted text (using the <pre> tags) inside of a list in Mediawiki is giving me problems.
What I would love to do is something like this:
# Text in a numbered entry
#:<pre>Formated
Text
Goes
Here</pre>
# Next numbered entry
However, this will only place the first line of text in the list, and will not format the rest of the text.
If I leave the #: out, then the list will restart (at 1) for the next entry:
# Number 1 in list
<pre>Formated
Text
Goes
Here</pre>
# Also 1 in list
This question is discussed on Wiki's meta, but I have been unable to find an acceptable solution to my problem.
Does anyone have a work around or something for my problem?
AI: You can use standard HTML syntax (which is totally valid wiki-syntax):
<ol>
<li> Text in a numbered entry</li>
<li><pre>Formated
Text
Goes
Here</pre></li>
<li> Next numbered entry</li>
</ul> |
H: Evernote alternative
Been using Evernote for two years and as much as I love the ease of use and Twitter integration I find the UI ugly and hard to use.
Anybody know of an alternative with social media and email integration?
Please limit your answers to apps that are under active development.
AI: Memonic
reQall
diigo
All have iOS apps; reQall and diigo have Android apps, as well. |
H: Online antivirus webapp?
I was wondering whether there's any webapp that allows you to upload a suspicious file and have it diagnosed without having to install anything locally.
I'm fed up with the performance impact most of my AV software has had on my system and I've decided not to have any installed anymore, but there are situations when I'd like to double-check certain files.
A simple Google search didn't work for me, so I thought about asking here.
AI: VirusTotal
VirusTotal.com is a website that provides free file checking. It uses up to 41 different antivirus products. Files can be sent either through the website or via email. The variety of products used by the website allows a user to check for viruses that the user's own antivirus solution may have missed, or to verify against false positives. The drawback to using VirusTotal is that it can only scan submitted files, and cannot perform system-wide scans on the user's computer. Another restriction users would face is that the size of the file uploaded or emailed to virustotal for scanning is up to 20 MB.
This site just uses different anti-virus engines to scan the file(s) you upload and tells you which engines detected the file as malware and which ones did not. |
H: Display only subscribed items in Google Reader Play
Google Reader Play seems to be showing 'suggested' items for me.
I can click on the settings and select different categories but I'd rather have it displaying my unread items from Google Reader.
Is that doable?
AI: You can choose "View in Reader Play" from any folder's settings menu, but you can't do it for all of your folders or even an individual feed.
http://googlereader.blogspot.com/2010/03/and-now-for-something-completely.html |
H: Is it possible to include a hyperlink in a Facebook wall post?
I want to turn a word in my Facebook wall post into a hyperlink, like this. As far as I can tell, your only options as to include the plain text of the link in your post, or "attach" the link to the bottom of your post. Neither is a good solution for me, I want to link from specific words (so I can say things like "Go here for foo.").
Is this possible to do on my Facebook wall? I know that it is possible in "Notes", using html-style tags (<a href="http://example.com/">foo</a>), but this doesn't work on my wall.
AI: No you cannot. You are asking about using the Links feature within the publisher so this will appear in your Links section.
The ability to embed HTML using the
Links application is not currently
available.
http://www.facebook.com/help/?faq=14486
I think you are going the right way with Notes (especially for long messages). Abuse the CheatSheet. If you are publishing to all your friends, this should appear in your friends' News Feed.
I have seen my friend use the Advanced Wall application. From what I remember it looked like it worked but like all most publishing applications ended up being prone to sending spam. You also have to be aware that once a friend blocks/hides an application for one friend , it is applicable to all.
A second way I would recommend is to shorten your links with bit.ly or other url shortening services. So your above example would be,
"Go http//bit.ly/xxyy for foo."
At least you can shorten long links here. Additionally the Publisher allows one link to be featured under your post, so if you want something to stand out, click the X next to the featured link to traverse through all the links in your update.
A third way I used to do sometimes especially if there is an entity on Facebook that already represents the website is to use the @ mention feature. |
H: Are there any tricks to prevent last second losses on eBay?
So you're the winning bidder all week until the last 5 seconds when someone shoots in and outbids you. Is there anything to help prevent that from happening or is that just a fact of web auctions?
AI: Bid the real maximum price you're willing to pay, then if you lose you don't mind because you didn't want to spend that much anyway.
As for a real answer, I don't think there's a trick beside bidding at the last second too. |
H: Reply to all mail under a label or filter in Gmail?
Recently I've helped host a contest, during it several hundred email were sent to our gMail inbox.
Sorting through all of these emails to deliver replies individually would take forever, and we wouldn't be able to respond by our deadline. So I am wondering if there is any way to respond to everyone that has contacted us quickly.
I know this is possible through use of a macro in outlook (either by scraping the emails of everyone or sending a reply to each individual email but only once) but I don't currently have access to outlook so I wouldn't be capable of this.
If there is a way to do it with Windows Mail, Thunderbird, or the native mail application on a mac computer I would be open to that as well. But ideally, I would only like to use gmail.
AI: Here's an idea:
Create another gmail account ("new account").
Add the old address to the new account so you can send mail from it.
Make it the default account.
Create an auto responder on the new account, which has the text you want to send to the users.
Create a rule on the new account which trashes all messages that shouldn't get this reply.
Set up the old account to read the mail from the old account via POP3.
As the mail is read in the new account, the ones that shouldn't receive a reply should be trashed and only the valid ones should go through (if this part doesn't work, you will need a 3rd account which forwards to the second based on a rule). Next, the mail that does go through should get auto replied via the auto responder, which should use your old account to reply.
Note: As you probably guessed, I haven't tried this. I would recommend trying it out first. Another problem that might happen is this new account might be revealed to the people getting the message via an "on behalf of message". |
H: How do you change your Microsoft Live global account information, like primary email address?
I've had my .NET Passport -> Windows Live ID for a very long time. Since that time, I've changed my primary email address and would really like to not have to use my email from highschool to still get access to everything in the Microsoft world. My MSDN account is tied to it, as well as SkyDrive and Xbox Live. Can I change my login email to use a different one, without having to start a new account? If so, what are the steps I need to take and places I need to go to get that changed globally for all of the Microsoft webapps that I use?
AI: Go to https://account.live.com
You should see your account information. In the line that shows your email click on the Change link and follow the prompts:
Windows Live ID: [email protected] Change
You will only see the change link if you did not use a @hotmail.com or @live.com address to sign up. |
H: How can I find the subscribe URL from the Google Calendar embed source code?
If I have the embed HTML for a Google Calendar, can I extract the URL I would use to subscribe to the calendar?
For example:
Embed code (linebreaks added for clarity):
<html>
<iframe src="https://www.google.com/calendar/hosted/example.com/embed?
height=600&wkst=1&bgcolor=%23FFFFFF&
src=example.com_ecafa7el7kc4du1ervkdff4x6a%40
group.calendar.google.com&color=%23AB8B00&
ctz=Pacific%2FApia"
style=" border-width:0 " width="800"
height="600" frameborder="0" scrolling="no">
</iframe>
</html>
the juicy bit is src=example.com_ecafa7el7kc4du1ervkdff4x6a%40group.calendar.google.com but I can't seem to get it into a format I can use in Add -> Add by URL in my Google Calendar.
AI: Given the following URL:
www.google.com/calendar/hosted/example.com/embed?height=600&wkst=1&bgcolor=%23FFFFFF&src=example.com_ecafa7el7kc4du1ervkdff4x6a%40group.calendar.google.com&color=%23AB8B00&ctz=Pacific%2FApia
You want to place the bold part in one of these templates:
XML: http://www.google.com/calendar/feeds/HERE/public/basic
ICAL: http://www.google.com/calendar/ical/HERE/public/basic.ics
HTML: http://www.google.com/calendar/hosted/HERE/embed?src=HERE
instead of the word HERE.
For example, if you wanted to use XML, use:
http://www.google.com/calendar/feeds/example.com_ecafa7el7kc4du1ervkdff4x6a%40group.calendar.google.com/public/basic
This requires the calendar to be public, which I assume it is, since there is an embeded version of it available. |
H: How do I change the time interval displayed in Google Calendar?
In Google Calendar's week view, the time of day is listed down the left side of the panel. Each hour is divided into two blocks.
Is there a way to change this to "squeeze" down the time so it only displays 1 block per hour? Or perhaps expand this to have 4 blocks in an hour?
AI: looks like your need to increase the number of blocks in the daily view is a popular, yet unexecuted, feature request:
http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Calendar/thread?tid=2bbf77cd9466983c&hl=en |
H: How to Determine if Gmail Forwarding Rule Worked
I have a user with a Google Apps mail account that forwards every mail received to another email address. I sent him an email that he says he never received. I can see that the email made it into his GA mail account, but I don't know how to determine if it was ever forwarded. Is there a way to know if the rule worked or if the email was forwarded? There was nothing in Sent Items, so I assume GA mail doesn't put forwarded email there when it's done by rule - but not sure about that.
More Info: It turns out that the email that was not being forwarded was email that was BCC'd to the recipient. The rule said to forward mail that was "To: [email protected]" but did not contemplate BCC. Nevertheless I have not found a way to determine if a mail was processed by a rule other than checking what the results would be if it were.
AI: If you don't have access to the receiving account, you could change the rule to forward to an address you have access to, test it, and then change it back. Remember, gmail doesn't forward an email back to the sender, so you can't send from [email protected] and hope to receive it at [email protected]. |
H: How to know the position of your website in Google?
How to know the position of your website in Google search.
AI: At Google webmaster tools
Setup you site there and wait a few days.
https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/ |
H: Allow People to View/Edit Google Docs with a non-Google Account
Is there any way I can allow someone who does not have a Google Account to view/edit my Google Docs?
Note that I am not saying I want to allow everyone to edit/view the documents. I want only to allow people with a certain non-Google email addresses to edit/view the documents.
Any idea how to do this?
AI: You can actually set view/edit permissions to any e-mail address by clicking the Share-button in the upper right but the persons who gets the permissions needs a Google account to use the document. |
H: Ping pong tournament organization
I would like to organize a ping pong tournament in my company. Does someone know a webapp witch allow to do this?
AI: Konkuri seems to be doing just that, but it seems to be only in french.
The website is in french, but you can change the language by choosing your preferred culture in the footer (thanks neo). |
H: Can I get Gmail to find contacts in LDAP?
My company directory is in LDAP, but I use Gmail to read my work mail. Can I get Gmail to offer me company contacts by connecting the LDAP to directory to Gmail somehow?
AI: Don't know if you can get Gmail to search in LDAP, but you can import LDAP contacts to Gmail contacts and search it there with help of GCALDaemon.
For more info: http://gcaldaemon.sourceforge.net/usage4.html
But I read at some forum that it has been broken. Don't know if somebody has already fix it or not... :( |
H: How do you share a Facebook photo album with people that don't want to register for Facebook?
I recall seeing this option when I created my album, but I don't know how to get back to it. If you email the photo album to a friend, it makes them sign up before they can view it.
AI: The correct way currently is via Alex answer of going to the cogwheel and selecting share.
Previously
Go to the album link by going to My Uploads, and click on
the album you want to share. The link should be something similar to
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?id=[userid]&aid=[albumid] Then scroll to the bottom of the page , there you should
find the public link
Share this album with anyone by
sending them this public link:
http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.999737156697.2491284.13608786&type=1&l=a91b17b9fa
The above is mine , logout of Facebook and you will see you
can access it. Also your Album Privacy should be set to everyone
for this to work. |
H: How can I import an hResume into LinkedIn?
I have a public CV at careers.stackoverflow.com which supports the hResume format.
I understand that LinkedIn supports hResume format.
How can I import my careers.stackoverflow.com resume into LinkedIn so I don't have to copy and paste the content of the resume into LinkedIn?
AI: It looks as though the support for hResume you read about for LinkedIn is only in how your profile is viewed. This is not a feature for importing your hResume content.
Source: LinkedIn Launches hResume
In my own interest, I submitted this question to LinkedIn support for clarification and the final response confirms that hResume formatted importing is NOT supported.
The exchange between LinkedIn support and myself was fruitless and rather annoying. The gist is that it isn't supported, but you can read for yourself if you're interested.
Here is the exchange between LinkedIn support and myself via email:
Me
Is there a way to import my hResume content into LinkedIn? I searched and couldn't find a way to do this.
LinkedIn (Terrance)
Hi Michael,
I believe the link below from our Customer Service Center might best answer your question.
Answer Title: Import Information from Your Résumé to Build Profile
Answer Link: http://linkedin.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/linkedin.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid=1815
LinkedIn provides two areas on the site that are available 24/7 which allow you to access the information you need when you need it. You may want to explore our LinkedIn Learning Center at http://learn.linkedin.com (found under ‘More…’ at the top of your LinkedIn home page). It offers self-paced video training resources created to maximize your LinkedIn experience. Our Customer Service Center ( http://linkedin.custhelp.com ) found at the bottom of your home page also has hundreds of other Frequently Asked Questions and searchable topics.
It is truly my intention to provide you with the best information possible. If this does not address your specific issue or you need additional information on this topic, please do not hesitate to reply to this message and I will be happy to assist you further.
Regards,
Terrence
LinkedIn Customer Support
Me
The "Import my Resume" feature only seems to permit Word, PDF, text or HTML. If uploading from the hResume format is not possible, please be clear and direct about it. Yes (with link or instructions) or no.
LinkedIn (Terrance)
I’m sorry for the inconvenience you experienced attempting to use our Résumé Importer. Our Résumé Importer tool was built to extract key elements from your résumé and suggest places for it on your LinkedIn Profile. Unfortunately, because résumés have different styles and formats, it may not always work or properly recognize every piece of information on a résumé. After importing a résumé, the post-import review page allows you to make adjustments before saving changes to your Profile.
I’ve found that résumés created in simple structures using Microsoft Word® or Adobe PDF® formats tend to work best with the Résumé Importer. Some résumés may not import for other various reasons listed below:
The résumé is not written in English.
The résumé doesn’t identify sections with words like “experience”, “education”, and “dates of employment”. If these sections are not used, your résumé information may not import properly.
The information runs together. It is helpful if each piece of information like Company Name, Position Title or Dates of Employment has its own separate line.
Because the tool won’t work for all résumés, you can manually build your Profile by clicking “Edit” next to the appropriate Profile section. If the information I’ve provided doesn’t explain why it didn’t work for you, please reply with your résumé document attached. I will be happy to review it for you to identify the cause.
Me
Noticing my challenge and anticipating my problem by offering a "helpful" solution in your first response was nice even though you did not answer my initial query. In your second email, you are still trying to solve a perceived problem which I never said I had and side stepped my initial question. Instead of being helpful, you are frustrating me by not answering my direct question TWICE in a row. This is not customer service.
I will assume that importing resumes in an hResume format is NOT supported by LinkedIn unless you respond saying otherwise. Next time, don't ignore your customer's questions by guessing what they really want. (Or at least include the answer they are looking for IN ADDITION to your proposed solution.)
I don't want to hear your apologies. Fix this.
LinkedIn (Terrance)
Unfortunately, at this time we do not have this functionality available to support hResume. Your feedback has been sent to our research and development team for future consideration.
Even though we’re not able to respond individually to numerous recommendations we receive, we’d like to invite you to subscribe to the LinkedIn Blog ( http://blog.linkedin.com ) to begin receiving the latest notifications on site improvements. It’s our way of keeping you and our other members informed on all the exciting work we’re doing behind the scenes.
We appreciate the feedback and believe that together we can create great products for everyone! |
H: How to display RSS feed link on WordPress site?
I have a WordPress site running WordPress 3.0.1, and I'd like to know how I can display an RSS link on my site so that my readers can subscribe to my update feed.
I'd like something like the one at the very bottom right corner of the Wordpress.org home page that says:
Blog RSS
http://wordpress.org/
Is there a option I can enable to add this?
AI: The answer turned out to be pretty straightforward with no programming necessary:
1. Go to Site Admin.
2. Select Appearance on the left.
3. Select Widgets
4. Drag the Meta Widget over to the Primary Widget Area on the right.
Although this didn't put it at the bottom of the page, it is an easy way to show a link to your site's RSS feed. |
H: How to import pages into WordPress?
[From ed.talmadge]
I have a site that would like to migrate to WordPress. My current site contains about 1,000 pages that contain just information. No blog articles, ecommerce or anything fancy.
I am aware that WordPress allows the importing of pages. All the tutorials I can find deal with migrating an existing blog (example, Blogger) to WordPress.
I would like to create some type of feed (.xml, RSS, .csv, or whatever...) from my existing site and import that into WordPress. I would like all my current pages to be "WordPress Pages" (not posts).
What feed format and content do I use to ensure that the proper page titles, descriptions, permalinks, category associations, etc get correctly transferred to WordPress?
AI: The Import HTML Pages plugin might help you. If you haven't installed WordPress yet, you might want to start with WordPress 2.9.2 (the current maximum version tested with the plugin) and then update to 3.0.1 once you've completed the import.
Potentially the plugin could have problems with HTML that isn't well-formed, but you can use HTML Tidy and/or the W3C Validator service to help check and clean up your pages before you import them. |
H: How can I change the smileys in WordPress?
I chat a lot in Facebook and like the appearance of their emoticons. I want to change it from the current one.
How can I get this appearance on my blog?
Can I add more emoticons to the list as well?
AI: Following the instructions here, you can upload new smiley images to be used in your /wp-includes/images/smilies folder. |
H: Photoshop-like web apps
Possible Duplicate:
What online image editing / image manipulation web applications exist? Features?
What are some good (if any) web app alternatives to Photoshop?
I am aware of SketchPad/DarkRoom, Aviary and Thumba, but of those only Aviary suite comes close, and even it is lacking a lot of essential effects (or I don't know where those are).
AI: Photoshop.com
Pixlr
Picnik |
H: Deleting the Uncategorized Category
I like to categorize all my posts. Is there a way that I can delete this category ? If not Why ?
AI: To delete the "Uncategorized" category:
Use the category dashboard under Posts > Categories to create a second category (if you haven't already)
Select a new default category on the Settings > Writing panel
Return to Posts > Categories and use the checkboxes & drop-down menus to delete "Uncategorized"
You can also just edit the "Uncategorized" category's name and slug. I changed mine to "Miscellaneous" (/category/misc/). |
H: Customize Google Apps menu
Is the Google Apps menu found on the top lefthand side of the screen at all customizable? I'd like to remove links to Apps I don't use.
How can I add/remove menu items?
What other customization options are available?
AI: In Chrome you can use the Google Gbar Editor extension. |
H: How to retrieve forgotten WordPress admin password?
I want to get my WordPress blog up and running again (change the theme) but I have forgotten my password. I do not remember the username or email either.
Is there a way to retrieve this without having to reinstall WordPress and lose all my posts?
AI: Do you remember your FTP account password or your browse filesystem password? If so, FTP into the site, go into the directory you installed WordPress in and look for wp-config.php file. That contains your database's password in clear text.
Not sure what protects phpMyAdmin, but if that's .htaccess or .htpasswd, you can edit or delete that one. |
H: Programatically change subject line and forward mail
Gmail groups email with the same subject line into a conversation view (threaded).
I've never had an issue with this functionality until I began using an online fax service (myfax). I can't label / store email from the fax service into different folders because it is all grouped up.
I am looking for a way to programatically break conversation view for incoming mail from a particular sender. I've gone through all the filter settings and looked at a lot of the Google Mail API.
Is there a simple script I can run to pop and account by itself perhaps, add a time-stamp to the subject line and automatically forward it on? (MyFax gives me the option of changing the mailbox incoming fax notifications are sent to)
This shouldn't be too hard but I'm finding nothing in the way of doing this. Please help!
Note: MyFax does not allow any configuration of their outgoing emails (i cannot set it up on their end).
AI: Gmail now has a feature to disable conversation view. Its under the General tab in settings. Unfortunately it disables conversations for the entire account. There's no way to selectively break conversations. The best you could do would be to use IMAP to access the problematic messages and rewrite them. |
H: OpenID Security
Couldn't any webapp that requires an OpenID login just secretly store my password and get access to my account(s)?
If not, why not?
AI: They can't, as you only send your password to your OpenID provider. However, there is a risk that a site could send you to a fake provider that collects your password, so it is important to double-check that the URI you're on is correct before entering your password. |
H: How to "Retweet" on Facebook?
I can re-tweet on Twitter. I heard Facebook has similar features. How can I do this ?
AI: It isn't quite the same as re-tweeting. There are 2 related options shown underneath posts: Like and Share.
Like: This will add a comment to your news feed saying "<you> likes <title>". It is only a link to the original post - it doesn't add the actual content to your profile/feed.
Share: It doesn't work for a regular status posting, only if it is a link someone else has posted. Underneath the post, with Comment and Like there will be a Share link. This will have it show as a post from you with "via <name>" to indicate the original post came from someone else. |
H: Twitter email notifications but no new followers
I can't figure out Twitter's follower statistics. I get emails from Twitter that somebody has started following me but when I go to my profile, the number is same, that is 210 and sometimes it increases by 1, a reason why it is at 210 by now.
Why is it so?
AI: Somebody joins, somebody leaves...
Most probably whoever started following you was a spammer hoping you will look on their profiles and/or follow them. By the time you got to Twitter, somebody else marked them as spammer and they got blocked.
Easy enough to confirm that - if they follow a lot of people but are not at all followed back, they are probably a spammer. You can also click on their name you got in your Twitter email and check who they follow and whether they are even still on the system.
Finally, just make sure those emails are not a scam themselves and do go to Twitter. Otherwise, they might be phishing for your Twitter password. |
H: Using Chrome, how can I remove text advertisments from Gmail
I use AdBlocker as an extension for Google Chrome. It does a very good job on removing commercials, but doesn't remove the text advertisements in Gmail. Is there some way to also remove the text ads in Gmail?
Edit: Actually the problem was Web Clips and not ads. I installed Better Gmail and it tooled me about Settings -> Web Clips which I could turn off.
AI: The Better GMail extension has an option to do this. |
H: Email POP3 forwards from Hotmail to Gmail take too long?
I am forwarding email from my Hotmail to Gmail account. Typically it's taking at least an hour before it arrives in my Gmail after I have received it in my Hotmail.
Can anyone suggest a solution to this?
AI: When you add POP3 Accounts in gmail it checks them periodically. If I am receiving mail frequently (based on the last checks gmail made) it might check every 20 minutes otherwise it might check once an hour.
You can manually request gmail to check your accounts by going to Settings > Accounts and Import > scroll down to "Check mail using POP3" > then click on "Check Mail Now" |
H: Instant notification for RSS feed?
I have an RSS feed I'm monitoring for changes. Is there some web service that provides a way to be notified by email immediately** when a new post is added?
** When I say immediately, I mean within 1 - 2 minutes.
AI: George, you need to check if the publisher's feed is pushing its RSS feed with some push protocol; PubSubHubbub for example.
PubSubHubbub is an open protocol for
distributed Publish/subscribe
communication on the internet. The
protocol extends the Atom and RSS
protocols for data feeds. The main
purpose is to provide near-instant
notifications of change updates, which
would improve on the typical situation
where a client periodically polls the
feed server at some arbitrary
interval.
Here an hub hosted on Google App Engine.
Give it a try.
You could also register to Superfeedr that handles pushed contents via PubSubHubbub, RSSCloud, XML-RPC or SUP.
Answering some comments, if your feed's publisher does not use this kind of push technology, superfeedr (via polling) guarantee delivery of new entries within 15 minutes of their publication. |
H: Is there a reverse-searchable dictionary?
I use Merriam-Webster and Wiktionary. I'm looking for a way to search within definitions and do other searches on either of those sites or a site where these kinds of searches can be performed.
search for all words that contain a word or phrase in their definition
search for all words that match a pattern: eg. un*ly or *just*
not essential: search on parts of speech or etymology
Boolean combinations
I once had some desktop software that would do this. I know the patterns can be searched in scrabble dictionaries, but they don't often have full-text definitions.
AI: Yes, it is called OneLook. |
H: How do I insert acronyms/tooltips in Blogger?
I have Korean words on my blog, and I would like to show the romanization either in the status bar or as a tooltip on a mouse-over. This text does not hyper-link to anything.
On certain websites I have seen acronyms that have a special dotted underline. When you place the mouse over these words the full, expanded word is shown in the browser status bar. I would also be happy if a tooltip popped up with the romanization.
How can I achieve this effect simply on Blogger? I am using MS Live Writer to compose my blog entries. In your answer, please include how well browsers support your solution.
Update: I modified eagle's solution slightly:
span.korean {
border-bottom-width: 1px;
border-bottom-style: dotted;
}
and added it to Blogger Template Designer's "Add custom CSS." The result looks like this.
AI: This is an HTML feature. You can either use the <acronym> tag, or a <span> element. If it's not an acronym, I'd recommend using <span> with a custom class attribute. The trick is to place the text you want to appear in the hint as the title attribute.
Here's an example of the HTML:
Can I get this <span class="myclass" title="as soon as possible">ASAP</span>?
Now to get it formatted with an underline, you need to add this style anywhere in your HTML, preferably only once in your template:
<style type="text/css">
.myclass {
border-bottom-width: 1px;
border-bottom-style: dashed;
}
</style>
This should work in all of the major browsers. |
H: Is It Possible To Hide A Google Analytics User ID From Source
I have a client who has registered a domain name with privacy and wants to build out the site but not expose their Google Analytics ID at this time. It generally looks like
_uacct = "UA-xxxxxxx-x";
Their fear is that their competition might be able to spot them and even though their registration details are private, they could compare the Google Analytics ID on their [private] pages with the ID in their other sites' pages.
They want to be able to compare traffic and would like to stick with Google BUT they are willing to go to another traffic analytics provider if that ends up being the best course of action.
Is there any way to hide that ID?
AI: Ultimately, there is no way to hide it. Worst case, the competitor can just look at the address of the analytics image loaded on the page.
But what's stopping them from creating a separate email address, registering a separate google analytics account and then just adding their original email as full-access co-administrator? |
H: Stack Exchange User Flair on Tumblr?
Is there a way to get the Stack Exchange user flair html snippet within my tumblr home page?
AI: Go to the Tumblr manage blog page and put in the flair html snippet into the box for sidebar content. I don't exactly remember what it was called, but if you don't find it, I'll check on it. |
H: How can I change the input format for dates in Google Docs' spreadsheet?
The input string for dates in Google Docs's spreadsheet app seems to be set to en_US, which is quite unnatural to me.
How can I change the input format?
AI: Under File > Spreadsheet settings....
Updated:
Select the locale with the date format you want (for example US is mm/dd/yyyy and UK is dd/mm/yyyy).
Updated: |
H: Web server stress testing tool
I am looking for a free web server stress testing application/tool/website.
I have used Paessler Webstress, it is good enough, but only free with restricted functionality.
AI: Have you looked at Apache JMeter? It is software.
I am not aware of any legal stress testing tools such as a web-app, though if you are desperate, you can try renting those spambots machines (joking).
There are a couple of services that do single/double retrieval with detailed statistics. This might be useful to do while you are using JMeter to simulate the rest of the load. See, for example, WebPageTest. |
H: How to turn off Twitter's Suggestions for you / Who(m) to follow?
I am looking for a method/option to remove the new Twitter's suggestions feature.
Assuming it works in a similar fashion to Facebook ... if I keep hiding users ... will it eventually go away ?
AI: If you're using Firefox, a custom CSS for twitter.com to hide <div id="recommended_users"> should work.
Updated: Or just use this script: http://userscripts.org/scripts/review/83086 |
H: Which Google services have I signed up for?
I have three Gmail accounts. All of them have been used to sign up for different Google services. Is there a page somewhere that tells me which services are associated with my accounts?
AI: You can check all the information Google has on you on the Google Dashboard. |
H: Opt out of Facebook comment updates
Is there a way (at the Facebook end, not via filtering my end) to opt-out of receiving notifications every time someone else adds a comment to a thread I am involved in?
AI: Click on the "Account" drop down menu (upper right hand corner of the page) then click "Account Settings" and go to the "Notifications" tab. Go through the list of notifications and deselect any notification you don't want. Fifteen out of the sixty-six notifications represented on this page are triggered by comments.
To opt-out of notifications for treads you're involved in, deselect the six notifications that start with: "Comments after me..." |
H: How can I see all the albums that have been shared with me in Picasa Web Albums?
I can't find the page where I could see all the albums other users have given me access to.
AI: This information used to be buried away under favorites, and could be accessed as follows
http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/favorites for what appears to be a full
list.
Unfortunately, with the blurring of the line between picasaweb and google+, this information is no longer obviously available. |
H: Distribution Lists in Google Apps?
I have a (standard edition) Google Apps domain, and I'm looking for the best way to add a few standard email addresses (admin@, webmaster@, etc.) without using the catch-all approach (I want to catch a few specific addresses, not the entire spam-world).
From what I have seen, I have a few options.
I could create accounts for each, optionally forwarding to my main inbox. (Not ideal
I could create groups for each, adding my main account to each group.
Are there any other ways of doing this?
(Possibly related to Creating Aliases in Google Apps Email for Non-Users except the accepted answer doesn't fit my situation, and the question was for multiple domains.)
AI: We needed to setup a distribution list where there were many aliases but they all were delivered to the same users. The best approach we found was creating a fake user account, setting up aliases on that account, forwarding the email to a real group, and using the group membership function to setup the distribution list. Works reasonably well, but having aliases for a group would be better.
Looks like you can also nest groups within groups. There is at least one help topic that recommends this approach. The above mentioned approach does give a few other features however, such as vacation responders and the ability to backup mailing list email using POP/IMAP. |
H: How can I tell if I've already 'liked' a Facebook page?
I go to some Facebook pages, and I can't find a 'like' link and I'm not sure if I had hit it before or not. Is there an easy way to tell if I've 'liked' something?
AI: There'll be a small "Unlike" link on the left hand side under the "n people like this" box:
(source: free-online.co.uk) |
H: How to edit a person's name in the new Gmail chat?
Previously in Gmail chat, I was just able to click on the name of a person to edit his name. Now, the name acts as a link which opens Contacts, where the editing can happen. the old way was faster. Can I edit the names the old way somehow?
For example, here Aardvark is a link, and is not directly editable.
AI: I don't think there's any way to do this directly in Gmail. More detailed instructions: Hover on the name in the chat list, then a pop-up window will appear. Click on the arrow in the lower-right corner of this window, that'll bring up the contact. You can edit the name there.
However, Google Talk will let you do this. Right-click on the name, and there's a "Rename" option. |
H: How can I delete my Hunch account?
I want to delete my Hunch.com account that I created with facebook because I've also create an account with my twitter login. How can I delete my Hunch.com account?
AI: Steps:
Log in to Hunch.com using the account you want to delete
Click Settings in the upper right
Scroll down and click the "Delete my account" link near the bottom of the page
Fill out and submit the deletion form |
H: Event-driven email actions
Is there a way to send event-driven emails. For example,
If I don't hear a response in three days, send this email
Send this e-mail in three days (delayed response)
Follow up with this e-mail in five days (CRM-type alert to get a status update)
Send an e-mail to A,B, & C a week before an event in my Calendar has a location in NYC.
When I get a response to Email A, put the e-mail thread from Bob re:Update in my inbox
I'm sure there's other events that could trigger e-mail, but these are the ones I'm most interested in. Additionally, I would like an API that could allow me to say "Send {E-mail} when/if {this happens}"
AI: The closest thing I have seen that does something similar to this is Syphir Rules. I haven't checked if it can do exactly what you want, but it might, since it allows you to define your own rules. |
H: Is there a way to increase the size of the post editor in WordPress?
The editing textarea in WordPress is too small for anything but short posts. How do I make it bigger?
AI: In the settings for writing, the first option is "Size of the post box", juste increase this number.
You can also just drag the bottom right corner down to increase it directly when writing a post. |
H: Importing RSS items into Facebook
I want to import my (Wordpress-based) blog entries into my Facebook account to share them with my FB friends.
FB already has a built-in function to create Notes based on RSS items. The problem is that it's not automatically refreshing for me, ever. Even though FB claims that it was refreshed on a recent date/time, I don't get new Notes unless I go in and manually trigger a refresh. That's a pain.
So, I'd like to know what the best way to get my content into FB is. Is there some trick to making the built-in FB importer work properly? Or are there better 3rd-party tools that I could use and avoid the headache?
AI: Not sure if it will work for you but I just found an app on Facebook called RSS Graffiti which lets you do pretty much what you asked above. I'm using it for a Fan page wall and my Classified ads based Wordpress site. Now my users post an ad on my site and they get double the exposure. |
H: How can I speed up LinkedIn on the client end?
Does anyone know if it's possible to speed up a site, such as LinkedIn, on the client end?
The site is incredibly slow in Chrome, and not much better in Firefox. I've noticed that LinkedIn loads pages more quickly in the Chrome Canary build, which leads me to believe that it is possible to speed things up on my end.
I'm running Chrome on Windows 7 Starter on an Asus Eee, but I get the same slowdown issues in Firefox and also on my Mac. I suspect the true issue is the site itself -- I'm not the only person to complain about the site -- but I'm hoping that there's a band-aid that'll get the site to a usable level of speed.
AI: Guess there's nothing much you can do on the client end specific to a site. Except perhaps ensure that you have enough RAM and processing power free. |
H: Set Gmail label width
Is there a way to increase the width of the left-side label menu in Gmail? Maybe with the help of some Greasemonkey script?
AI: Edit:
Okay completely misread the question the first time. Let's try again!
This can be done using the stylish extension for firefox. Once installed (it's in the status bar) use it to write a new blank style. In the content area put:
@namespace url(http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml);
@-moz-document domain("mail.google.com") {
.Bs.nH > tr > td.Bu:first-child > .nH { width: 250px !important; }
}
Obviously you can change 250px to however wide you want the labels menu. Save that and you should be good to go. |
H: Calculated range based upon some criteria
Given this layout:
+--------+ +--------+
| A | B | | A | B |
+----+---+ +----+---+
| 1 | | | 1 | 6 |
| 2 | | | 2 | |
| 3 | | => | 3 | |
| | | | | |
| 4 | | | 4 | 9 |
| 5 | | | 5 | |
| | | | | |
+----+---+ +----+---+
I want to have the sum of A1:A3 in B1 and the sum of A5:A6 in B5. This is trivial. what i really want is a formula which calculates the range A1:next_free_cell_below_in_a and A5:next_free_cell_below_in_a.
Bonus: Can I use some other "patterns" / "criterias" as well?
How to achieve this?
AI: it took some time but here it is:
=SUM(OFFSET(A1,0,0,INDEX(ROW(A1:A),MATCH(TRUE,ISBLANK(A1:A),0))-ROW(A1),1))
how it works:
we want the sum of a range. OFFSET provides a range, based upon a starting point (optional offset in x and y) and then some dimensions.
A1 is the reference corner, 0 and 0 are the offsets (we want to stay in the A column). the 1 at the end means 'only the A column'.
the 'height' parameter of the OFFSET function is calculated by row of empy cell - ROW(A1) (which is the starting cell)
INDEX(ROW(A1:A), MATCH(TRUE, ISBLANK(A1:A), 0)) calculates the rownumber of the first empty cell below A1.
if someone could explain the reason why 4. works as it does, please comment my answer. |
H: Which Gmail domain names are available?
Am I right, that Google Mail’s default canonical domain name is:
googlemail.com
and that’s the only one? Are there any country-specific TLDs used?
AI: There is also gmail.com.
See "googlemail.com domain for certain countries" for more details. |
H: How to filter messages from people not in my contacts?
Suppose someone sends me an email. If he is not in my contact list, I want his mail will go in a "Stranger" label.
How to create filter for this this label?
AI: You can do this:
Go to your contacts
Choose to compose email to your whole contact list
Copy the "To:" field
Paste it here: http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2006/08/create-email-blacklist-in-gmail.html
This will convert the list of emails to from email OR email OR email and so on
Copy the converted line
Make new filter
In the "Has the words:"-field write "-from: {paste here that copied line}" (without "")
Click Next Step button.
Choose to add label to this filter
Finish!
You can also add whole domains inside like *@domain.com inside the {} just remember to add extra OR between every address.
Little tricky but should work. I hope this helps! :) |
H: Font Search App
I read about an webapp that you can point at an image that contains text and it will tell you what font was used to create it.
Unfortunately I can't remember what it was called ... does anyone have a link?
AI: I'm using WhatTheFont. |
H: How to import Nokia N70 phone book into Gmail?
Any idea how I can import my phone book from Nokia N70 into my Gmail account?
AI: First, you are going to want to export your contacts from your N70 into either a comma-separated value (CSV) file or a vCard file. I don't have an N70, but a quick Google search turned up this freeware application that you can use to create vCards from your N70 contacts. As an N70 owner, you might already have tools that can do this, you can try to find one, or someone can point you in the right direction. If you want to ask around about tools, you can try the Electronic Gadgets Stack Exchange - I'm sure people there are familiar with the N70.
Once you have the vCard or CSV file, go to your Contacts and click the Import link. Upload the file and done. |
H: Does Gmail have a problem sending to emails with dashes in them?
Gmail keeps hanging on me sending an email to [email protected].
Does Gmail not like dashes in the "To:" field?
EDIT: In this case I finally got it to send when I opened the email to a large window, but I'd still like to know what's up. There's mention of punctuation causing problems in Gmail help, but no solutions (or even acknowledgement).
AI: Dashes are valid in e-mail addresses.
It is very, very unlikely that it's the cause of your problems. |
H: Is anyone else having issues with Google’s browser search?
For some reason, each time we do a search, Google displays the following message:
We're sorry...... but your computer or
network may be sending automated
queries. To protect our users, we
can't process your request right now.
Is this just us, or are others experiencing the same problem?
AI: This error message is most commonly seen when the IP address you're using is sending too many queries to Google, or when your browser's user-agent is not reporting correctly.
If you are in a large corporate environment which uses NAT to share a single real-world IP to the entire company, or sends all web traffic through a proxy server, you stand a much greater chance of seeing this message. In these situations, Google sees all of the corporate traffic as being from a single computer (IP Address).
If your security software likes to hide your user-agent header, you can also trigger this. Google's terms of use explicitly disallow using software to search for you. As a result, a nonexistent or unverified user-agent header can trigger this error. |
H: Online viewing of published iCal calendars
I have a webcal URL to an iCal calendar I need to check out.
webcal://ical.mac.com/user/schedule.ics
Is there an online web service or something that will allow me to see that calendar without having to install anything or register anywhere?
Ultimately I'd like to just give that URL to a web service and get it back as HTML tables or something.
AI: http://ical.me.com/USERNAME/calendar_name
eg. http://ical.me.com/user/schedule |
H: Manage users in Trac
Is there a convenient way to manage users (add user, change passwords, etc.) with Trac?
Adam
AI: Yes, there is. AccountManagerPlugin. From the docs:
allow users to register new accounts
login via an HTML form instead of using HTTP authentication
allow existing users to change their passwords or delete their accounts
send a new password to users who’ve forgotten their password
administration of user accounts |
H: security and google id
There are lots of apps (on my phone, on the web, etc.) that want to use my google id for authentication and to sync data -- news readers, contact info, notes to google docs, etc. In general, they ask for your google uid and password directly, which seems like a huge security hole to me -- I basically have to trust each app developer with my email login. I'm currently using a secondary gmail address for this sort of thing, but that can be inconvenient.
Is there some way to restrict the kind of access that I give the apps?
Assuming I'm not missing something, what's the best place in the google universe to post a feature request for better control over this stuff?
AI: The current defacto solution for this problem is OAuth, which Google supports. Applications using OAuth don't need your google ID and password to get authorization from Google to access your data.
http://code.google.com/apis/accounts/docs/OAuth.html
http://code.google.com/apis/accounts/docs/OAuthForInstalledApps.html
I'd suggest to the app developers in question to migrate to OAuth. |
H: Can I combine multiple domains under one Google Apps account?
I have one domain for which I use Google Apps (Standard Edition) to provide email. I've recently started another website at another domain, and I want to use Google Apps (again, Standard Edition) also to provide the email for this new domain.
Do I need to go through the entire registration process again and create a whole new Google Apps account for the new domain, or can/should I add it on to my existing services?
AI: Short answer: Yes.
However, there are some things I think I should say about that approach.
For completely unrelated sites, it's probably best to sign up for completely unrelated Google Apps accounts. Domain aliases will work, but all sites will share the same limitations on how many users can be created (quotas). Separate accounts will each have their own independent quotas.
If you alias, you'll have 50 free users to divide among all the domains. If you create separate accounts, you'll have 50 free users per domain.
Hope that helps you. Personally, I'd create a new account. |
H: Can I schedule to send mail later on with duration on Gmail?
Possible Duplicate:
Can I set an e-mail to send on a timer within gmail?
I'd like to schedule an email at a later time and date with Gmail.
Is this possible?
They have many goodies in their labs section of Gmail preferences, but I do not recall seeing this labs add-on.
AI: Try the Boomerang extension |
H: New Gmail Contacts needs room on left
I like the new Gmail Contacts, except for the fact that long group names get cutoff and I can't figure out how to resize things so they fit, as per this image:
Any ideas on how to do this, am I missing something obvious (tried to drag)?
AI: My wife is having similar issues. It looks like they didn't test with a variety of font sizes before releasing it. Have you tried reducing your font size?
It looks like you can still get to the old contacts app by using http://www.google.com/contacts |
H: How to Tweet by Proxy?
I was looking at the Home Depot Twitter Account ( http://twitter.com/homedepot ) and I noticed that its tweets are tagged as follows:
about 2 hours ago via web by sarahsambuca
How can I achieve this functionality for my business twitter accounts?
AI: You will notice that this is a business account, and that it is "verified".
One of the features of verified accounts is "Allow contributors so multiple people can tweet from your account".
You can find out more on twitters own website, but this service is in beta and is not generaly available yet.
I'm using Twitter for business. Can I verify my account? Not yet. Twitter is alpha testing verification for businesses and we hope to have more information soon. Check our business section for more updates!
This servie is due to be rolled out this year I think... |
H: Do messages in archive count to your inbox space?
Pretty much as the title says, do messages in archive count to your total inbox space?
AI: Yes, messages that are archived count towards your storage quota.
Even messages in the trash and spam are counted. The only difference is that messages in the spam and trash will probably be permanently deleted within 30 days, which automatically frees up space in your account.
According to Google:
Your storage use is based on the size of all of the messages and attachments in your mail, including those in Spam and Trash. |
H: Can I get a "network graph" of my LinkedIn connections?
I've just got back in touch with an old friend via LinkedIn.
Prior to accepting the connection I saw that he was already a 3rd degree connection of mine and some of the connections were unexpected. So when I first clicked on his profile I saw:
you
|
V
John Smith
Peter Jones
...
|
V
My friend's connections
|
V
My friend
So, just to repeat, some of the people who are 2nd degree contacts of my friend were completely unexpected. For example I worked with "John Smith" in the last couple of years and can't see how he's connected to my friend who I haven't seen in at least 10.
So I need a way of seeing "John Smith's" and my friends common connections.
AI: If he was your 3rd degree connection, this does not mean you now have 'friends in common'. That would have made him a 2nd degree (you->common friend -> him). What you are looking for is a person whom he and another one of your friends have now in common.
Or to put it in different words - a 2nd degree connection which at least two of your friends share.
I don't know of a way to get this through to the interface. The nearest is to go to Advanced Search, chose 2nd connection and sort by connections. This should show at the bottom how many connections you have to that person. You are looking for two or more. But that's still thousands of people in the 2nd degree network. And you have to expand the connection list every time to check whether your new friend is one of those two+ connections.
Otherwise, you have to use LinkedIn API but that does not seem to be a very friendly interface. |
H: Why do people post "I don't own this song" on YouTube videos?
I've noticed that for videos that feature music, a new trend has appeared where users post something like "I don't own the music".
What's the reason for this?
Does it really prevent YouTube from removing the video?
Does it have any legal merit at all?
Is it simply a viral thing where they see other people post it so they do it themselves?
AI: Note: I have no legal background, other than spending time reading up on some of the cases concerning copyrights and the DMCA.
It is most likely from a lack of education concerning copyright infringement and the viral nature of YouTube. It does nothing to prevent YouTube from removing the content if the true copyright holder can prove the infringement. Plus there's no legal basis for it as they are still technically committing copyright infringement.
As Ivo commented, the best they're doing is admitting they have no rights to the song. |
H: How can I see who recently viewed my Facebook profile?
Is there any way we can know who viewed our profile recently on Facebook?
I remember Friendster had (has?) this function, but I'm not sure whether Facebook does.
AI: No.
Taken from Facebook's FAQ:
Facebook does not provide applications
or groups with the technical means to
allow people to track profile views or
see statistics on how often a
particular piece of content has been
viewed and by whom. If an application
claims to provide this functionality,
please report the application by going
to the application’s About page and
clicking "Report Application" at the
bottom of the page, or by clicking
"Report" at the bottom of any canvas
page within the application.
Applications you use may ask for
permission to access content from your
News Feed and Wall. Granting this
permission does not allow applications
to see who has viewed your profile. It
simply allows applications to see
which friends have interacted with
posts, such as which friends liked or
engaged with a particular wall post.
Source |
H: Disable update tips from wp-admin page in WordPress site
How can I disable update tips from wp-admin page? My WordPress wp-admin page showing this warning:
An automated WordPress update has failed to complete - please attempt the update again now.
But "Update" section of "Dashboard" shows that my WordPress, theme and plugins are up to date. How can I remove this warning? Also help me to completely disable this type of tips from my wp-admin page.
AI: This message is generated from a file called .maintenance in the root of your WordPress installation. To remove the message you simply need to delete the file.
source: http://www.wpmods.com/forums/topic/an-automated-wordpress-update-has-failed-to-complete
Edit: To remove all udpate tips from now on, paste the following code in your functions.php file:
if ( !current_user_can( 'edit_users' ) ) {
add_action( 'init', create_function( '$a', "remove_action( 'init', 'wp_version_check' );" ), 2 );
add_filter( 'pre_option_update_core', create_function( '$a', "return null;" ) );
}
This code will remove all update notifications for all the wordpress users with rights to edit other users (usually administrators) |
H: How Gmail and other mail services detects a mail as a spam?
When I am sending a mail from my one mail account (Yahoo) to other (Gmail), Gmail automatically puts my mails into the Spam folder. What is the basic criteria to send an email by which mail servers cannot treat my mail as a spam?
AI: While the list of criteria used by GMail's spam filter is a trade secret, most spam filters are quite similar.
The list of spam criteria used by a very popular Spam Assassin spam filter is made public, together with weights.
Some of the most important ones, cherry-picked by me:
Character set indicates a foreign language
Body contains a ROT13-encoded email address
Message body has many words used only once
Message body mentions many internet domains
Received via a relay in Spamhaus XBL
Received via a relay in list.dsbl.org
Subject contains a gappy version of 'valium'
Subject contains a gappy version of 'viagra'
Attempts to disguise the word 'viagra'
Relay HELO'd using suspicious hostname (IP addr 1)
And so on.
There are some services that allow you to test your message for compliance with the spam filters and see what exactly is wrong with it — http://spamcheck.sitesell.com/ is one of them. |
H: How can I purposely send a message that will be marked as spam in Gmail?
I'm trying to test out forwarding, filters, and spam. I want to see how a spam message will be affected by my current configuration.
I want to send myself a message that will show up as spam in my Gmail address.
How can I do this?
Notice how this is not asking how to send a spam message that won't be caught by the gmail filters... it's asking the exact opposite.
Ideally, the solution shouldn't cause my email address to go on some global black list on gmail's servers. If your method does cause this sort of thing, please mention it so that people trying it out will take care to use a test account they don't actually use.
Please don't offer a solution which doesn't answer the question above and instead focuses on a solution for this specific example. The reason being that my criteria could change tomorrow and I might have some other reason to test spam messages.
Things I have tried which didn't work:
Sending an email with no subject and no body
Using "viagra" in the subject line
Using random symbols in the subject line
Things I don't want to try:
Reporting a message as spam on the receiving account. I'm afraid Google might think it's actual spam and because I'm using a gmail address to send the message, I might be in violation of the agreement, or they may report my information (e.g. IP address I used to sign up for gmail) to some other authority.
AI: What I ended up doing, which worked really well, was creating an email with some text in the body:
This is a test of the email system.
This is not a real spam message, but
rather one that is trying to purposely
get into the spam folder of another
account. This is so that I can ensure
that my Gmail filters are setup
correctly.
... and a subject line such as:
Test Spam Message 1
I always incremented the number at the end of the subject for each message I sent. This way it doesn't look like a duplicate to Gmail and is actually delivered.
Next, on the receiving account, I decided to go ahead and mark the message as spam. I read in the help that it mentions that marking a message as spam is reversible. They even give an example of how a user might accidentally mark a message as spam, then undo it. This is exactly what I am hoping to emulate.
After marking the first message as spam, all the others (which contain the exact same body and only differ in the subject by one letter) are sent to spam as well.
Once I was done with the testing, I marked all the messages as non-spam. Hopefully Gmail treats this as a user accidentally marking a message as spam and doesn't resort to blacklisting the address or doing something worse.
Update: After trying this again, I had to mark a message as spam twice before anything started happening, and then I noticed weird behaviors on the account that was sending the "spam". The account was automatically logged off, and I couldn't log back in for a while. This might be an automated measure Gmail takes when users report other Gmail users as spammers. |
H: Web-Application to create organization/group website
Suggest me a good, free, open source, downloadable web application in php to make a good website for a organization or group having more than one member. Only administrator(s) can change the content of the website. Please do not suggest me any forum/blog applications like WordPress, phpBB etc.
AI: Use one of the better-supported open-source CMSes for this reason.
I would suggest either Drupal or Joomla, both written in PHP. I am a strong Drupal fan, but Joomla has a lot of supporters as well.
Just some main bullet-points from the website of Drupal to show how versatile/powerful it is:
General features
Collaborative Book - Our unique collaborative book feature lets you
setup a "book" and then authorize
other individuals to contribute
content.detailed information
Friendly URLs - Drupal uses Apache's mod_rewrite to enable
customizable URLs that are both user
and search engine friendly.
Modules - The Drupal community has contributed many modules which provide
functionality that extend Drupal
core.detailed information
Online help - Like many Open Source projects, we can't say that our
online help is perfect but have built
a robust online help system built into
the core help text. Available to you
on your own site.detailed information
Open source - The source code of Drupal is freely available under the
terms of the GNU General Public
License 2 (GPL). Unlike proprietary
blogging or content management
systems, Drupal's feature set is fully
available to extend or customize as
needed.detailed information
Personalization - A robust personalization environment is at the
core of Drupal. Both the content and
the presentation can be individualized
based on user-defined preferences.
Role based permission system - Drupal administrators don't have to
tediously setup permissions for each
user. Instead, they assign permissions
to roles and then group like users
into a role group.screenshot .
detailed information
Searching - All content in Drupal is fully indexed and searchable at all
times if you take advantage of the
built in search module.
User management
User authentication - Users can register and authenticate locally or
using an external authentication
source like Jabber, Blogger,
LiveJournal or another Drupal website.
For use on an intranet, Drupal can
integrate with an LDAP server.detailed
information
Content management
Polls - Drupal comes with a poll module which enables admins and/or
users to create polls and show them on
various pages.detailed information
Templating - Drupal's theme system separates content from presentation
allowing you to control the look and
feel of your Drupal site. Templates
are created from standard HTML and PHP
coding meaning that you don't have to
learn a proprietary templating
language.detailed information
Threaded comments - Drupal provides a powerful threaded comment
model for enabling discussion on
published content. Comments are
hierarchical as in a newsgroup or
forum.detailed information
Version control - Drupal's version control system tracks the details of
content updates including who changed
it, what was changed, the date and
time of changes made to your content
and more. Version control features
provide an option to keep a comment
log and enables you to roll-back
content to an earlier
version.screenshot
Blogging
Blogger API support - The Blogger API allows your Drupal site to be
updated by many different tools. This
includes non-web browser based tools
that provide a richer editing
environment.detailed information
Content syndication - Drupal exports your site's content in RDF/RSS
format for others to gather. This lets
anyone with a News Aggregator browse
your Drupal sites feeds.detailed
information
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reading and blogging news from other
sites. The News Aggregator caches
articles to your MySQL database and
its caching time is user
configurable.detailed information
Permalinks - All content created in Drupal has a permanent link or
"perma link" associated with it so
people can link to it freely without
fear of broken links.
Platform
Apache or IIS, Unix / Linux / BSD / Solaris / Windows / Mac OS X support
- Drupal was designed from the start to be multi-platform. Not only can you
use it with either Apache or Microsoft
IIS but we also have Drupal running on
Linux, BSD, Solaris, Windows, and Mac
OS X platforms.detailed information
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knew that MySQL wasn't the solution
for everyone. Drupal is built on top
of a database abstraction layer that
enables you to use Drupal with MySQL
and PostgreSQL. Other SQL databases
can be supported by writing a
supporting database backend containing
fourteen functions and creating a
matching SQL database scheme.detailed
information
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an international audience and provides
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referrals, content popularity and how
visitors navigate your site.screenshot
. detailed information
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are captured in an event log to be
reviewed by an administrator at a
later time.screenshot . detailed
information
Web based administration - Drupal can be administered entirely using a
web browser, making it possible to
access it from around the world and
requires no additional software to be
installed on your computer.screenshot
Community features
Discussion forums - Full discussion forum features are built
into Drupal to create lively, dynamic
community sites.detailed information
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Caching - The caching mechanism eliminates database queries increasing
performance and reducing the server's
load. Caching be tuned in real time
and many high-traffic sites have
performed very well under
load.detailed information |
H: Make Gmail/Google Apps not mark wrong emails as spam
I have a site and I set all emails to go to a specific account if the email doesn't exist. This way I can have support, webmaster, and anything else go to wrongemail account. wrongemail and admin both forward emails to my personal email so I don't need to check multiple accounts.
Problem is when I email [email protected] it goes to wrongemail BUT wrongemail doesn't forward it to me and is marked as spam. At the moment I'd rather nothing be marked as spam.
How do I configure this?
AI: Create a filter. Write *. Hit next, have it 'never send to spam'. Optionally you can have it forward if everything isnt being forward already (dont worry. it will say it is not allowed in this case). Everything should work flawlessly and attachments do also forward. |
H: Market leading forum software?
Which systems are considered to be the market leaders in user numbers, reputation and features in the forum software (as opposed to hosted service) field?
AI: phpBB
and
vBulletin dominate the market.
phpBB is free and open source where as vBulletin costs a couple hundred bucks and is closed source. (but sometimes has a few more features) |
H: Change profile picture in YouTube
How do I change my profile picture on YouTube?
I never set it up and it seems to be a thumbnail of one of the videos I uploaded.
AI: You can change this via the Account setting page.
Click on your username to open the drop-down list, on which you can see the 'Account' option
Then click on the 'change' hyper link beneath the profile picture box.
Browse and select a new profile picture.
Done |
H: Can a few employees share the same inbox in Gmail?
I am administrator for a shop. We have a few employees but we use one email address for customers, [email protected]
It would be nice to organize this in some way so that the employees can have their own email accounts, but still answer on emails that is received on the shops common email.
How to organize this in Gmail for Google Apps (the company edition of Gmail)? Any ideas?
AI: Using email group is one option but if you want to be able to Send As you might need a shared mailbox. I'm not completely sure but I don't think you can configure Send As from a group.
If you are using Premier edition, you can create a shared mailbox and then give each user access to that account. They will be able to then open that mailbox from their existing mailbox via a dropdown that appears next to their email address. In that mailbox they can read and response from that mailbox.
You could also configure a new mailbox and forward messages either to a group or each user with filters. Then you'd need to configure Send As on each users mailbox.
Lots of options. |
H: Web app to find a celebrity face match for a given portrait
Is there a web app that can find a celebrity face match for an uploaded portrait?
AI: Pictriev is exactly for this purpose. You give it a picture and it will find other pictures of the same person.
I've tried a few examples using pictures from the internet with varying degrees of success - it seems to give better results if the person is "more famous" (ie. there are more images of them on the internet). |
H: Is there a webapp for VoIP?
I'm looking for a good webvapp that will enable hosting a SIP proxy. Maybe something that lets me route and setup dialins and dialouts around the world. Does such a solution exists?
AI: JaJah Web
GizmoCall
Raketu |
H: Keyboard-only usage of Google Search
How can I perform a Google search without using the mouse?
I want to be able to:
type in the search term and start the search ( possible already since I use a browser search bar );
navigate through the results ( ideally also between pages );
open the result page ( bonus points for opening in a new window );
AI: If you want a native solution, you could enable the Google Labs feature, Keyboard shortcuts.
Here are the shortcuts you wanted:
/: Puts the cursor in the search box.
J and K: Selects the next/previous result.
O or Enter: Opens the selected result. |
H: Groupon Daily Emails
Can you change the time of day groupon daily emails are sent to you?
AI: No, the emails are sent by Groupon itself at their own scheduled time. They're designed to go out just before the deals are available, queued by their own servers.
Due to their morning release schedules, they don't permit you to customize the time of day that you receive the email from them, as they send them out in bulk to all of their subscribers - not individually to users.
The only "timing delay" would be the length of time it takes their application to generate all of the emails and queue them for delivery, and the time it takes to get to your email server! |
H: Is there a non-browser based version of Pandora?
Is there a Windows based widget or something I can use to play Pandora without keeping the browser open. Like a system tray icon program or something?
AI: Though a paid app, Pandora One is the official desktop application built with Adobe Air. |
H: Fogbugz -- expanded case list?
I'm having trouble reading the list of cases in Fogbugz; is there a way to make it show the entire text of each case individually?
AI: If you Mouse Over the Case column hyperlink for each case, there is a very detailed popup dialog which includes details of the last comment/update to the case.
I think the Fogbugz list by design does not show full text each case, only part of the first line of the last comment/update to the case.
By the way there is a StackExchange site for Fogbugz - http://fogbugz.stackexchange.com/
probably you may check out if you can get other response there... |
H: How can I figure out which apps have access to my Gmail?
I authorized a few apps to work with Gmail. I want to figure out which ones and revoke permission. Do you know where I can find the list of those apps?
AI: That's probably the "Authorized Access" section in your Google Account. Go to Google Account and click "Change Authorized Websites". (For me the URL is https://www.google.com/accounts/b/0/IssuedAuthSubTokens ) |
H: Filter Twitter by application used
Is it possible to filter Twitter search results by the application used to post the tweet? For example, if I only wanted to see results from users using TweetDeck, or some other API...
AI: Yes. You can use the source operator
inception source:tweetdeck
returns http://twitter.com/#search?q=inception%20source%3Atweetdeck
For more operators check the Search Operator List |
H: How to test all the url inside your application?
Suppose you rollout a new feature and have done internal over haul in application which might have broken some links. You assume your testing team would have thrashed out the issues but that might not be case.
How to ensure that all the links and buttons are working inside your application and none of them lead to 404 error ?
AI: You need a tool that runs over your site and checks all of the links.
I use SSW Link Auditor which will run over all your links to pages and images and give you a nice report. The free version works for up to 500 links but if you have more you may need to purchase one of the other versions. |
H: View my archives in Google Voice
When I archive a message or voicemail in Google Voice, how can I see it again? Are they all stored in a particular location or folder?
AI: In the History section in the navigation options on the left-hand side. You can click History to view everything, or one of the sub-options such as Voicemail. |
H: Collaboration wiki which provides page level access/ authentication
Is there any wiki/web service like Google sites which allows the admin to givepage level access/ authentication to the users ?
AI: TWiki
TWiki Access Control allows you restrict access to single topics and entire webs, by individual user and by user Groups. Access control, combined with TWikiUserAuthentication, lets you easily create and manage an extremely flexible, fine-grained privilege system.
Quotation source |
H: Does marking an email as spam in Gmail affect the filter for everyone?
If I mark something as spam in Gmail, does that modify only my spam filter or does it affect the spam filter for other users?
AI: Gmail users play an important role in keeping spammy messages out of millions of inboxes. When the Gmail community votes with their clicks to report a particular email as spam, our system quickly learns to start blocking similar messages. The more spam the community marks, the smarter our system becomes.
From here: http://www.google.com/mail/help/intl/en_GB/fightspam/spamexplained.html |
H: How can one close a Mahalo account?
How can one close (or perhaps maximally disable) a Mahalo user account? There appear to be no provisions at all for that.
AI: According to this blog post, you can email them with your request. A feature to do it within the UI yourself is mentioned to be coming...well, weeks ago. |
H: Send urgent mail in Gmail
Is it possible to set the "urgent" flag in Gmail for outgoing mail? I'd like to be able to flag time-sensitive emails as such.
AI: Interesting.
I tested by sending an email to my Gmail acct from an Exchange account, and setting the flag urgent. Then I looked at the email in the web interface and from Outlook. In Outlook (getting Gmail) I saw the message flagged urgent. In the Web interface, I saw no urgent indication.
I replied to the message from the web interface and from Outlook. In the web interface, the urgent flag was not shown, and did not make it back to the Exchange account. In Outlook, the reply did not have the urgent flag activated, but when I activated it it was visible back on the Exchange account.
So, to summarize .. the Gmail web interface does not recognize the urgent flag, at least not as implemented by Microsoft Exchange. But the Gmail engine does not lose the header data when it is provided by another client.
As an aside .. I find the urgent flag far more irritation than it is worth. Rarely does "urgent" to you mean that it should be "urgent" to me. When is the last time that you received a message flagged "low priority"?
IMHO it is far better to indicate in the subject and body that the issue is urgent or time-sensitive.
EDIT: Google just added (1-Sept-2010) the "Priority Inbox" functionality and some kind of importance measure. I will redo my tests and update. |
H: Can I automatically post something I write for one blog to my other blogs?
I write a blog at some site. When I write a new post to that site, is there a way to automatically post it to my WordPress and Blogger blogs as well?
AI: Use a blog client like Windows Live Writer
Use email to post your blog. |
H: Google Calendar Import or Copy All Entries From a WebCal:// URL
I have a webcal:// url for a calendar with a lot of entries, I can "add" the calendar in the "other calendars" section of my Google Calendar.
But this isn't part of my calendar so will not sync with other devices that are linked to the account.
Is there a way to copy/import ALL these entries inside Google calendar, without doing them one at a time via the "copy to my calendar" option on each entry?
AI: You can do this by clicking "Add | Add by URL" at the bottom of the left nav on your google calendar homepage.
Figure: Adding an iCal to sync is as easy as adding the URL
You will be asked to choose to sync with your main calendar or a new named one, but if you stick it in the main calendar you should then get it on your other devices. |
H: Save bookmarklets in GMarks?
How can I save a bookmarklet (a javascript bookmark, like "Gmail this"..) in Gmarks?
AI: See this blog post.
into the URL field. Now, push ‘Home’
and simply add a whitespace at the
beginning of the URL field, i.e. right
before “javascript”. That’s it. Accept
the bookmark. And try it out. |
H: How can I remove a connection on LinkedIn?
How can I remove someone from my connections on LinkedIn?
Someone has been contacting people in my network saying I referred them. Not only is that annoying, it's unprofessional and makes me look bad. How can I remove this person? I've tried going to their profile but there is not a removal link anywhere.
AI: Open your Contacts page.
Click Remove Connections underneath the search bar in the upper right.
Check the box next to the contact(s) you want to delete.
Click Remove Connections on the right. |
H: Why my friend was able to facebook sign in to other people account
Recently, my friend show me that although she is using her own username and password, once a while, she will get accidentally sign in into a stranger account.
How can it be possible someone else cookie being transmitted to your computer?
I search some article : http://www.businessinsider.com/weird-att-glitch-allowed-users-to-access-other-peoples-facebook-account-2010-1
Some blame this issue to network service provider by using routing problem term.
Is it true?
If this really happen, isn't that the security will out of our developer control, by heavily depend on the network service provider?
AI: Some blame this issue to network service provider by using routing problem term.
Is it true?
Yes, this is possible. A few years ago, an ISP in Australia was mixing up cookies for their subscribers. I don't recall if it was ever resolved, but the same type of thing could happen if the routers were incorrectly programmed. |
H: Google Contact Synchronization on the iPhone 3G
I don't have my contacts stored in my Google account, but I'd like them to be in my gmail account. I figured if I set up Google Sync (basically GMail as an Exchange server) that my contacts would find their way up to GMail. Unfortunately the push only seems from GMail to iPhone.
What do I have to do to push my contacts up to GMail? Is there some other utility that will do this?
AI: It sounds like your problem is that you had pre-existing contacts on the iPhone which you want to import into Gmail....
I don't believe there is a way to do this. You will have to use one of the import methods to get the contacts on Gmail initially.
Once that is set up, you will be able to create or edit contacts on your iPhone and they will be synced to Gmail. |
H: Facebook Profile name with Fancy and Stylish Font
I have found some people are writing their profile name in fancy and stylish font. How do I write a name or add some stylish font to the profile?
AI: Facebook does not officially support changing the font on your profile. Some people manage to make it look like this by putting in script characters (Hindi, etc.) that look vaguely similar to English letters, or by combining Unicode characters.
But this does have some downsides:
A lot of people find it annoying.
People searching for your name won't see it, because your name in Facebook's database won't actually be the characters of your name that people would be searching for.
I would suggest that you not do this, but if you really want to, you'll have to look for special characters that look like letters. |
H: Change label name in Blogger
Is there a way to change the name of a Label in Blogger (aka Blogspot) directly?
Labels are essentially tags placed on a blog entry.
If I have a label, "Fun", on several blog posts, and I would like to change it to "Funny", I would now have to go to Edit Posts section, and click on the label "Fun" (on left, which lists all posts tagged with "Fun"), which then lists all blog entries tagged "Fun".
Then, I would have to go to each one, add new label "Funny" to ALL posts listed. Then once that's done, go through the same list and remove label "Fun".
This seems tedious and quite painful to do a simple label rename. Is there an easier way?
AI: On the edit posts screen, click the label to select all posts with it applied and add the new label to all of them (Label actions -> New label). Then just delete the label. |
H: Annoying guy on Gmail, how do I ignore him?
I have this annoying guy that post on a email list I'm on. Is there some easy way to ignore the fellow in Gmail?
AI: You can put in a filter that either automatically deletes the emails from him (pretty drastic) or better yet just label & automatically archive them. The advantage of the second way is that you can still easily access the emails should you wish, but they do not appear in your inbox.
Taking the person's name as "Stalker", the filter should look something like:
You can create the label at the same time as you create the filter. |
H: How to move a Facebook friend to a list quickly?
I open the homepage of a friend (their facebook home page), like it, and want to add that friend to my list, say "Favourite", but not sure how to do it quickly.
At the moment, I got to go to the Friend List manager of my own account, choose a list, and add the frined to that list - which is very annoying.
How are you adding friend to list quickly? Please share :) !
AI: In the Facebook chat, next to each list you can find a modify link. Click on it and select your friend. Easier i think ;) |
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