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H: Facebook messages to multiple people: do they all know who I sent it to?
When I send Facebook messages to more than one person by adding them all to the to field, does everyone who receives the message see that I've sent it to more than one person? Can they see who?
AI: Yes, it will be just like an email where you can see everyone the message was sent to and will be able to reply to the sender or reply to everyone the message was sent to. |
H: Netflix keyboard shortcuts
Is there any way to get keyboard shortcuts in Netflix?
I know I can use the space bar to pause and play, but what about skipping forward and backwards?
AI: The Netflix movie player (Silverlight version) implements at least the following keyboard shortcuts:
Space – Toggle Play/Pause
Enter – Toggle Play/Pause
PgUp – Play
PgDn – Pause
F – Full-screen
Esc – Exit full-screen
In full-screen mode:
Ctrl+Space – Fast-forward/rewind mode. Initially this key stroke pauses the movie to enter key frame (aka intra-frame or i-frame) fast-forward/rewind mode. The right and left arrow keys then fast-forward and rewind.
The following Ctrl+Shift+Alt+* shortcuts (Ctrl+Shift+Option+* in Mac OS X) toggle information displays on/off when the player is NOT in full-screen mode. The displays will remain on, however, when full-screen mode is activated.
Ctrl+Shift+Alt+M – Menu
Ctrl+Shift+Alt+C – Codes; frame rate plus other (unknown to me) info. Also makes other overlays green.
Ctrl+Shift+Alt+D – Display A/V Stats on-screen
Ctrl+Shift+Alt+L – Logging window
Ctrl+Shift+Alt+P – Player Info
Ctrl+Shift+Alt+S – Stream bit rate and manual rate selection
Source: Netflix Movie Player Keyboard Shortcuts |
H: How do you change the Gmail logo?
I've seen some Gmail accounts that have either a custom image where the gmail logo would be, or, no Gmail logo at all.
Just curious how this can be achieved.
AI: Google offers Google Apps for your domain - a way to use Gmail and other Google applications with your own domain name. You can customize some of the user interface.
Another option is to run a userscript or Greasemonkey script that changes the logo.
Lastly, there are many skins you can apply that remove or change the logo, and you can write your own skin as well. |
H: Why is the option to add a location to a Blogger post intermittently missing?
You can add locations related to a post on Blogger.com: A widget lets you search Google maps for a geographic place to associate with your post. I just did it a few minutes ago.
However, the option to add a location is not always there, even on posts that have a location associated with them.
Why is the location option missing when drafting a Blogger post, and how do I ensure it's there?
I have tried:
using both Blogger in draft and the regular dashboard.
different browsers like Chrome, Opera, and IE.
The blog I am trying to add locations to.
AI: The option is still in Blogger-in-Draft (blue-logo blogger in the picture you've quoted), it hasn't been released to production Blogger as yet.
Tools that are in BID sometimes get withdrawn and then re-instated, as part of the process of pre-production testing. That's just one of the disadvantages of using BID. |
H: Graphs with Google Spreadsheets - collapse data into one 'category'
I have a set of data which is similar to the following:
Groceries 5.00
Groceries 14.75
Groceries 6.37
Dinner Out 43.50
Dinner Out 15.00
I'd like to be able to use this data to create some graphs, such that (in this case) I'd have two categories, and the graph displays the sum, namely Groceries -> 26.12, Dinner Out -> 58.50. etc etc.
Is this possible to do automatically, without me collapsing these rows into one sum per category?
AI: In Excel you would use a Pivot Table and in Google Spreadsheets you would need to use a Gadget. I tried it with the "Table by Google" gadget and it was straightforward though, I've used pivot tables before so it was very familiar.
Here is a more complicated example using a gadget I couldn't find. |
H: How to see which contacts aren't in a group?
In Google Contacts/Gmail you can assign a contact to a group (or more than one group). I use this so that on my Android phone I can filter the list of contacts down to just work colleagues, just family, just people I know through a hobby or sport, etc.
I'm pretty disciplined about always adding people into a group when I add them through the web interface at a PC, but I often forget if someone gives me their phone number when I'm out-and-about, for instance.
I can filter the list of contacts in the web interface by clicking the group name to see people in that group, but there doesn't seem to be any way to filter to just see people who aren't in any groups?
Mine is a Google Apps account, in case it matters, but I'd be happy with an answer that only works on the main Gmail on the basis that these features come to Apps accounts eventually.
AI: On the old version of contacts, in the list of contacts you can see what groups they're each in on the right hand side:
Contacts that are in no groups show an empty space.
Disclaimer: this is how it appears in my normal Gmail account. |
H: Sign in to Gmail after typing email
I just tried to send an email in Gmail, and then it said that I needed to sign in. Since on the screen I was signed in, there is no sign-in link.
How do I sign in without losing the email?
I've gone ahead and copied it for now, but I'd like to hope that there's a better solution.
AI: If you are using a browser that supports multiple tabs then you can open another tab and sign into Gmail in that tabbed window. Then you’ll be implicitly signed in on the tabbed window where you are composing the email, and you’ll be able to save or send it as required.
You can also recreate the condition that you originally discovered by opening two tabbed windows, signed into Gmail. Then start composing an email in one window and sign out of Gmail in the other tabbed window. That will put your composing email tabbed window into the state that you originally discovered (and you can recover it using the above technique). |
H: Google Bookmarks and Chrome Bookmark Sync -- Different?
There appears to be two distinct sets of bookmarks maintained by Google. If you visit Google Notebook or Google Bookmarks you get one set. And if you sync Chrome accounts you get another. My question is: how can I get one set of bookmarks maintained on Google's web apps and through Chrome? I want to be able to access the bookmarks I have synced with Chrome from a web app when I'm using a public computer.
AI: Chrome Bookmark Sync is stored in Google Docs, under My Folders. Look there. |
H: Trusting apps from Google Apps Marketplace
From my experience with third-party Facebook apps, I'm wary of adding apps from the Google Apps Marketplace to my Google Apps installation.
Can I trust apps from the from Google Apps Marketplace? Does Google vouch for them or review them in any way? Or should I only trust companies that I already trust?
AI: As a developer of one of these apps (DokDok.com) I'd say commparing Google Apps Marketplace to Facebook apps isn't really fair. Data access is needed in order to provide real value to your existing Google Apps. The objective isn't to spread as fast as possible among your friend list for some sketchy reason.
That being said, I don't believe there's any official audit from Google so people with bad intentions could probably get their way for some time until the word gets out. An important point to keep in mind is that Google Apps APIs are accessed through OAuth (even email data). This means that as a 3rd party app, all queries on your data are made using a unique secret token that doesn't require knowledge of your password and, most importantly, can be traced back to my app.
If you're hesitant on a given application, read their privacy policy and terms of services which should explain what they do with the access you grant them. Also, don't hesitate to email the developer for more information. Some of our users did ask for precision and we were happy to explain in greater details what data we were accessing, when we were accessing it and our caching policies on that data. |
H: How can I create a barcode without text on barcodesinc.com?
I'm trying to create a barcode on barcodesinc.com's Free Online Barcode Generator. Under advanced options, I see that there is a checkbox for "Draw Value Text", when I uncheck it and regenerate the barcode, though, it is still checked.
When you generate a barcode, e.g.:
It uses a URL such as the following:
http://www.barcodesinc.com/generator/image.php?code=123456&style=197&type=C39&width=200&height=50&xres=1&font=3
When I change the other comboboxes, I notice that the parameter that is changing is style. It stands to reason that I can send a style value which will not include the text underneath the barcode. The question is which style value do I need to use?
style border text stretch negative
----- ------ ---- ------- --------
??? no no no no
197 yes yes no no
709 yes yes no yes
453 yes yes yes no
965 yes yes yes yes
AI: The style with everything set to no is 68. I found this out by noticing that it says "Powered by Barcode", and then I tried the sample generator on that site, and examined the style parameter. |
H: Any free online service which keeps track of all the passwords automatically?
I don't want to enter the password to a site to keep the record. I want a service which automatically catches the passwords and stores it.
AI: Take a look at lastpass.com - I have no connection to them other than as a satisfied user. |
H: Google Voice and Gmail call phone - one and the same thing?
I registered for Google Voice about a half an year back and have been using it to call Canada from US. It DOES consume my normal T-mobile minutes. Just yesterday I heard about the Gmail phone call thing and found that calling with gmail phone call leaves a history in your Google Voice account. So does that mean using Gmail phone call (calling from computer) would consume normal minutes from your phone registered with Google Voice number assuming these both services are same?
AI: When are you consuming the minutes? In US (simplistically speaking), you pay when you are using your cell phone handset, both for incoming and outgoing calls.
If the call is not ringing your phone, but is using computer, I would say there would be no charge.
The backend architecture is the same. The Ggoogle Voice was an acquired company (Grand Central), which was slowly being integrated into Google architecture. Makes sense to not reinvent the wheel.
You don't have to use the cell phone either. Used to be you could route the call to Gizmo5 VOIP account and then connect directly to it over the internet. Now Google bought Gizmo5 as well (though my VOIP phone still works with it). |
H: Web app for converting video files, mpeg, wmv, avi to flv?
Is there any web app, where I can upload videos (formats: wmv, mpeg, avi, 3gp etc) to flv?
AI: Media Convert supports lots of formats and 100% free. |
H: How to move your emails away from Gmail?
A friend uses Gmail with her own domain. All her emails are stored with Gmail.
However, she's not too satisfied with Gmail. Should we decide to let her to move back to a dedicated client or another webmail app hosted on her domain, is there a way to move the actual email data (contacts, folders, emails, etc. etc.) out from Gmail and into the new system?
I am a developer, so I am not afraid to have to code something ad-hoc for the transfer.
My question is twofold:
Is there a way to export all the raw data held by Gmail?
Is it easy to do or do tools already exist to move away from Gmail, or I'll have to code things for myself?
AI: The Data Liberation Front is a quasi-independent effort at Google to help you free your data if you desire.
It's easy to use a different email
reading program with Gmail using
either IMAP or POP, or to get all your
mail out to take to a different
provider. Go to the Settings page
(link at top right of Gmail page),
Forwarding and POP/IMAP tab. |
H: Is Twitter site only in English?
Is Twitter site only in English?
AI: It's in Japanese also: http://blog.twitter.com/2009/10/coming-soon-twitter-in-more-languages.html
Actually, you can choose between Italian, Spanish, French, German and Japanese: |
H: Subscribe to custom Twitter RSS feed?
Does there exist a service that will allow me to create a twitter search (i.e. "find all tweets with the tag '#aardvark' that are emitted by someone whose name contains the string 'pete'") and then "subscribe" to this query (for instance through RSS)?
AI: Twitter Advanced Search has some of what you're looking for -- f'r instance, here's the feed for tweets with the tag '#aardvark' that are emitted by someone named 'pete' (which has no results, sadly)
Unfortunately, there are no wildcards that I'm aware of, so it's an exact-match on the tag and name.
There are a lot of other options available, though.
Perhaps it might be possible to magic-up some google-fu to do this -- and then set up a google-alert for the RSS feed.
Again, I could not find a way to limit it to a specific sender, nor to hashtags (since the "#" is ignored) |
H: How to search something on across multiple sites with a single Google query?
I tried
(search term site:stackoverflow.com) OR (search term site:superuser.com) OR (search term site:stackexchange.com)
search term site:stackoverflow.com,superuser.com,stackexchange.com
search term site:stackoverflow.com site:superuser.com site:stackexchange.com
None of them works. What is the correct way to search?
AI: After a bit of experimenting, it appears you can do this by putting the OR operator between the sites:
search site:stackoverflow.com OR site:superuser.com OR site:stackexchange.com
This gives you results from any of the sites.
If you do this kind of search frequently on the same set of sites, you can create a Google Custom Search. You add the sites you want to search to it and it gives you a url to go to when you want to do a search. All searches from this url only contain results from the configured sites. |
H: How can I forward Google Voice to my iPhone but still use the iPhone's visual voicemail?
I have a Google voice number which forwards to my iPhone's number. I'm wondering if there's any way to make AT&T handle the voicemail rather than Google Voice. This way I will be able to use the Phone app to view voicemails rather than having to open a browser with Google Voice.
I understand that if I use it this way I won't get transcribed voicemail. That's fine, that's not the reason I'm using Google Voice.
Ideally I want Google Voice to handle voicemail when my phone is off or in airplane mode, and when my phone is on and I have a signal, I want it to use my phone's answering machine. This way I get notified of voicemail via WiFi when airplane mode is on, but when my cell signal is on, I get to use the nicer interface of the Phone app.
AI: In order to do this, the iPhone's voice-mail system must pick up the call before the Google Voice voice-mail system does.
If you don't respond to a call within 25 seconds (by accepting, sending to voicemail, listening in on voicemail, or accepting and recording the call), Google Voice will send the caller to Google voicemail.
Source
You can set your iPhone to ring from 5-30 seconds (unless it has been changed since I've looked at this). The default is 20 seconds I think - have you previously lengthened it?
This page has instructions on how to change the length. |
H: How can I view Facebook chat history?
I wonder if Facebook stores its chat history anywhere or if there is a way to enable chat history. Do you know a way to get the chat history?
I have tried with:
javascript:buddyList.itemOnClick(_ID);
it opens the chat window for the user, but it doesn't show any history.
AI: It doesn't.
How do I delete or look through my Chat History? Is it saved permanently?
You can view recent conversation history by opening a chat window with your friend. At this time, you cannot view older conversations or conversations with friends who are not currently online.
(emphasis added by me)
From here: http://www.facebook.com/help/?faq=12886
However, you can use some browser add-ons or extensions. You can find a tutorial here: http://www.neurosoftware.ro/programming-blog/facebook-web-design/tutorial/how-to-save-your-complete-facebook-chat-history/ |
H: Read It Later backup
I have a Read It Later account which has around 180-200 links. I want to take a backup of those links.
Is this possible?
AI: For now you can do this using JSON/XML |
H: Gmail call, available or not?
I tried the new Gmail call feature and it worked fine the first time. I have 2 Gmail accounts. At first, the call button was only showing in one account. Now it isn't showing in either.
Any idea why?
AI: I read on the BBC news that Google announced this feature and mistakenly enabled it for every user, only to then remove it from non US accounts later that day:
"Unintentionally we briefly made the service available to non-US English users," a spokesperson said. "We do hope to bring it to our international users soon."
When it rolls out the product link will appear on the left hand of the Gmail page within the "chat" window. A "call phone" option will pop up along with a number pad to let you dial the number of the person you want to talk to.
If your account is not US based, it may explain why you could do it but now cannot. |
H: Filtering tagged and untagged Gmail messages
I am currently switching over to using "tagged" Gmail addresses - for example, using [email protected] for my Amazon email, [email protected] for my Newegg account, etc. However, because I am sure I won't remember to change all of my existing email subscriptions, I want automatically to label all emails with a "uncategorized" label for further sorting. When I create a filter for just [email protected], all of my emails show up, and since + is a reserved symbol I can't just search for that. Regex also does not seem to work.
I am trying to create filters for emails without tags (ex: [email protected]). Simply searching for [email protected] does not work as it returns all emails received.
Has anyone else had/fixed this problem?
AI: What you want to do is search for email without labels (tags as you call them).
For this you need to search for "-label(yourlabel1 OR yourlabel2 ... OR yourlabelX OR sent)", where yourlabelX are the names of your current labels.
I created a search and saved it to my Gmail using the Quicklinks Labs item. |
H: Why does a Twitter API request for a user's timeline with count=40 return about half the number of results that it should?
Why does
http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline.xml?screen_name=erikvold&page=0&count=40
return approximately 15 results?
Should it not return 40 results?
AI: I was reading the documentation for the new API on api.twitter.com and using the old API, twitter.com, and the old API didn't include the include_rts parameter because retweets didn't exist back then.
The old API is basically useless now. I just had to use api.twitter.com and it worked. |
H: How can I clear my Netflix recently watched movies list?
Is there a way to clear the list of recently watched movies on Netflix?
AI: There is no way to do this currently.
I was trying to find an official statement about it, which I'm pretty sure exists since I remember reading about it a while ago, but it seems that the Netflix help has changed and it's hard to find what you are looking for.
A simple search reveals a bunch of threads asking for this same feature. |
H: Is there a way to display the number of messages for any label in the Gmail label list?
The Gmail sidebar displays the list of our labels (or some of them, according to settings). Next to every label name there is a number showing how many unread messages we have for that label.
Is there a way to display also the total number of messages for each label?
Example:
[to answer] (0/36)
[to do] (0/55)
[waiting answer] (0/7)
cooking (2/48)
family (6/352)
friends (1/1828)
website (2/412)
work (12/12801)
AI: There doesn't seem to be a way to do this currently.
The best places to look for this feature to be implemented is one of the following:
An official Gmail setting accessible via the settings page.
A Gmail labs feature.
A 3rd party Gmail gadget which can be added via the "Add any gadget by URL" Gmail lab.
A Greasemonkey scirpt.
The first two would require Google to implement the feature, which you could suggest here for it to be implemented in the official version, or you could suggest it here for it to be implemented as a lab. The last two could be implemented by anyone with the knowhow.
I couldn't find anything that is already implemented by doing a simple Google search. |
H: Gmail keyboard shortcut for "Display images below"
Is there a keyboard shortcut in Gmail for the "Display images below" or "always display images from" links in emails?
AI: Not at this time. A list of existing keyboard shortcuts can be found here. |
H: Media purchase and download website that doesn't use proprietary software
The thing I hate about Itunes is that you have to use proprietary software. What website can you buy the same (mostly) commercial music, and just download mp3's or whatever through a web browser?
AI: Amazon offers this, but only for music. Also, as GAThrawn said, you can only download your purchase without proprietary software if it's a single track and not an album. |
H: Is any way to pass WebSense?
Is any way to pass WebSense ?
AI: Presumably this is a Websense filtering service at your company/school/library/somewhere-someone-other-than-you-pays-for-bandwidth-and-PCs?
There will be a way for authorised people at the company who have a legitimate reason to bypass part or all of the Websense filtering to do so, if you do have a legitimate reason then you should be able to apply to get on that list.
Otherwise the filtering is there for a reason and any attempts to bypass it are against the wishes of the legitimate owners and maintainers of the resources that you're using and not really something that should be discussed here. |
H: Mobile version of Gmail on desktop Firefox
It would be useful to be able to check the mobile version of Gmail when my internet speed gets capped. I tried switching my user agent to iPhone 3, but this didn't display properly (appeared in a tiny box). Is there another way I can do this?
Note: I am using Firefox 3.68 on Mac.
AI: Have you tried going to http://m.gmail.com to access the mobile site directly?
This takes me straight to the Gmail mobile interface with no user agent switching required. |
H: How to use old Google image search instead of new one?
I frequently use the Google image search. Here in Central Europe they recently deployed a new UI for image search with some fancy pop up windows. Can someone tell me how to switch back to the old style?
AI: Disable new Google Images search style
add the string &sout=1 at the end of the search URL, eg. http://google.com/images?q=sunset&sout=1
OR
scroll to the end of the search results page and click the link called “Switch to Basic Version”
Hope this helps. |
H: How do I set a 'budget' in Mint?
I don't get how Mint determines your 'budget'. It has all kinds of weird numbers for me that I don't remember setting. Is that something they do automatically based on past spending in those areas, or is this something I can control?
AI: Mint Budgets uses averaging based on past spending initially. You are able to control the value of the budget for each category though. If you are on the Budgets page, hover over the specific budget you want to adjust and click Edit Details. A dialog will come up that allows you to set the frequency, amount, and whether or not the value rolls over to the next period. You can also delete an existing budget from this dialog.
On the Budgets page, there is a Create Budget button you can use to add a new category budget. |
H: How do I update street information for Google Maps?
As the result of the end of some works, a street has changed its direction of travel.
Is there any way I can notify Google of the change?
AI: In the bottom right corner of the map, you'll see a tiny link: . This will bring up the Report A Problem dialog.
More information can be found here (it's the Learn More link in the dialog).
EDIT: Here is a page with a bit more information with other links and ways to edit information: Google Maps: Fix a problem
If this still doesn't work, the map provider is always listed at the bottom of the map. Chances are good that they will have their own way for submitting corrections. You'd need to identify the provider and then do a search. |
H: Show a number as binary in Wolfram Alpha
Is there any way to see a number as it's individual bits (i.e. base 2) in Wolfram Alpha?
For example, given the number 255, it should show: 11111111
Similarly, the number 4 can be shown as: 100
AI: I just guessed, and found out that you can use <number> as base 2.
Example: 255 as base 2 outputs: 111111112.
Other forms that work as well:
255 as base2
255 base 2
convert 255 to base 2
255 to binary
255 to base 2 |
H: Is there a good online French dictionary?
It should be accurate and well made. Search history would be nice.
AI: For a monolingual dictionary, the standard online reference is the
Trésor de la Langue Française (TLF). You can search by pronunciation and browse the list of words. It's a reference dictionary, somewhat lacking in recent words.
A good list of resources for French from countries other than France is http://www.lexilogos.com/francophonie_dictionnaires.htm
Tennessee Bob's Famous French Links links to various resources on France and French.
CRISCO has a dictionary of synonyms.
Multiple-language resources include Wiktionary (the French entries tend to be very basic, even in French), as well as LOGOS.
For English-French bilingual resources, start with the Language Portal of Canada and EU portals such as the Translation and language help for small businesses and the Language resources and useful links for French.
For translations of technical terms, your first stop should be Wikipedia. Another good resource is IATE, the EU's multilingual term base. |
H: Netflix -- How to Stream in Different Language?
There are lots of DVDs that have foreign language audio on the disc (ie foreign films might have English audio). Is it possible to stream a movie on Instant Play with an alternate language? Or do they only support native languages?
AI: I believe that they only support native languages. As far as I have been able to tell there is no alternate audio stream associated with the streaming videos. |
H: How to post source code in Blogger?
I noticed that when I post source code in a Blogger post, the code wraps to the next line if it's too long. I use the pre tag to post the code and I used different styles (overflow: auto; white-space: pre), still the code wraps in all browsers except in FireFox.
Is there a way to post source code without having the code wraps?
AI: Set the word-wrap property to normal. |
H: Facebook App for Arbitrary HTML?
I'd like to find an application on facebook which would allow me to add a tab to my page that contains simple HTML - like a list of items, or a couple paragraphs, etc. Is there a good solution anybody else has found success with?
AI: The Static FBML (defunct) http://www.facebook.com/apps/application.php?id=4949752878 application allows you to add a tab on your Facebook Page (not your personal profile) containing static FBML. FBML (Facebook Markup Language) is Facebook's own variant of HTML. Many common HTML tags will work, if you do not use Javascript. There are also some Facebook-specific tags, which help to make up for the lack of Javascript and allow for better integration with Facebook. |
H: Can YouTube be started in pause mode?
Is there a URL parameter for youtube.com that makes it possible to open a video and not have it start playing automatically?
There is a parameter for the embedded player (autoplay=0), but this does not seem to work with the full site.
AI: The TubeStop extension for Firefox prevents autoplaying YouTube movies whenever they appear (within Firefox).
The extension developer also provides a version for Chrome, which I haven't checked. |
H: How to "contact" Facebook page "fans"?
I have a Facebook page for my website.
I wish to contact the people who became fans of my page. I know that sending a message is not a possibility (only for Facebook groups), but what can be done to contact them?
In other words, what feature of the page connects to what information stream in the "fan" Facebook profile?
AI: Post on the page. That should feed into every fan's homefeed (unless they've "Liked" your page but have "Unfollowed" your updates). |
H: Filtering large files from Dropbox
My fiancee would like to use Dropbox, but she has this issue with it: She would like to exclude some files from being stored on dropbox, because they are too large.
She would like to store a unified folder structure of her work, but some of her files are too big. She wouldn't like to store them separately, but doesn't mind if they're not uploaded to dropbox. In fact, she prefers that they won't be uploaded so they don't clog up her space.
How would you solve this issue? Windows shortcuts?
AI: There doesn't seem to be a way to do this at the time. Using Windows shortcuts is one possibility to make it as though the files are located in the same folders, however, it seems like it would get a bit complicated if there are a lot of folders.
There is a feature request for this exact issue, which you can vote on.
Other features you may want to look for is the ability to watch any folder, which you might be able to use in conjunction with your file system to create a limited set of folders to sync. Another one that might help is excluding certain file extensions, this would help if all the large files are of the same type (e.g. .exe, .avi, etc.). |
H: How do I check my available storage in Yahoo Mail?
I want to know how much I have used from my storage and how much I have left. Where can I see that?
AI: Yahoo! Mail features unlimited storage.
From here: http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/mail/yahoomail/tools/tools-08.html |
H: Searching Gmail for messages without a particular label
I need to find, in Gmail, a list of all my unread messages — which I can get via is:unread or label:unread or l:^u — which do not have the label "ZDNet."
In other words, my requirement is this:
I have 185 e-mails which are "unread" in my Inbox.
I have 174 "unread" e-mails which are labeled "ZDNet."
I need to find the 11 e-mails in my inbox that are not part of the group of 174.
How can I do this?
AI: is:unread -label:ZDNet |
H: How can I rename a tag in Delicious?
Is there a way to rename a tag in Delicious?
AI: Click Settings in the upper right.
In the Tags section of links, click Rename Tags. Direct link
In the dropdown, select the tag you want to rename.
Enter in the name you want to rename to.
Done! |
H: How to set Google Calendar in Gmail above chat?
If the chat window is too long, then its hard to see the calendar at the bottom of the chat. This makes it difficult to see the calendar and often miss the alerts given by calendar by making the font bold.
AI: If your problem is the chat window being too large, move it to the right side by using the corresponding Labs feature "Right-side chat". Then, the calendar will always be visible on the left directly below the labels. |
H: How to Upgrade Gmail for Google App Users
We had switched to Google Apps a year back and have been using the Gmail Google App since then. Recently, Google upgraded the look and feel of Gmail service and introduced new features like the integration of Buzz and most recent, Priority Inbox, but these features and additions are not availabe in Gmail Google Apps.
How do we upgrade the Gmail Google App to the latest version of Gmail? Do we have to go through some procedure to get this done?
AI: Google generally does phased roll-outs, so you generally may not see everything when it is first released. Roll-outs to GAFYD are generally later also.
However, Google differentiates between full release publishes and beta pre-release publishes. By default, Google won't push pre-release features on you. This is something the administrator for your domain will need to do.
More information
Pre-release Features
By selecting this option, your users will be able to see and use new services and features at the same time as consumer users of Google's applications. We sometimes delay the launch of features like group chat and colored labels to Google Apps accounts because we want to ensure that all the features we bring to the Google Apps suite are useful and stable before providing them to our business, education and organizational users.
To opt-in for pre-release features:
Log in to the Google Apps administrator control panel.
The URL is https://www.google.com/a/cpanel/primary-domain-name, where primary-domain-name is the domain name you used to sign up for Google Apps.
Click Domain settings.
Under the General tab, and in the New services and Pre-release Features section, check the box next to Enable pre-release features.
Click Save changes.
Your users will have access to a new feature at the time of the initial launch, rather than when it rolls out to all Google Apps accounts. These features should be considered in testing for Google Apps, and we are unfortunately unable to offer support for these specific features.
Please note that you can edit your selection in the future. It may take up to a day for the change to take effect in your users' accounts. |
H: Email service that can limit number of times I can check my emails?
I constantly waste time checking email jokes and so that people send me, so I created an email account only for friends, leaving the existing one for work only. Yet I still spend too much time checking the friends' account.
Is there an email webapp that can be configured to only let me check my email once per week?
AI: I don't think there's a service that will do this.
Are you really convinced that you're spending too much time on your play email account? If so don't you think you would have stopped? You should use an Internet usage monitoring program so you can see for yourself how much time you're really wasting there. Perhaps the shock will give you the self discipline you need!
Ultimately it is self discipline you'll need since if you really want to you can bypass any limitations you attempt to impose on yourself.
Of course if you're wasting time at work, you can approach your system admins and explain the problem you're having to them and see if they can block the problem sites for you. Sure, if you really wanted to you can get around this too, but maybe knowing that other people (at work, no less) know you have your problem you'll be able to control yourself. |
H: Permanently delete a shortened link from bit.ly
I want to delete a shortened link from bit.ly that was created by me.
How can I do that?
AI: This is not possible at this time. You can archive a link such that it won't show in your Manage listings, but that won't prevent the link from being used by someone who has the link already.
Source
Can I delete a bit.ly link?
We believe that being a legitimate shortening service means offering permanent URLs. Our users can feel confident that the bit.ly links they create don't unexpectedly disappear or expire.
How do I remove or archive links from my bit.ly History page?
You can remove a bit.ly link from your history by opening the Options drop down menu and selecting the Archive link from the choices there (the other choices are Share, Copy, and Edit). Remember that links archived from your public history are still permanently functional and will always redirect to their original destination. Note: for some related bit.ly basics, see: http://bit.ly/Ovnvf |
H: List based privacy setting in Facebook
I am able to create lists in Facebook. Is it possible to apply a set of privacy setting for each list?
AI: I'm not sure if that's what you mean with "privacy setting for each list" (the lists are not public so you're the only one that can see them) but you can use the lists in your privacy settings to show/hide things for/from people on these lists.
Go to Privacy Settings → Customize settings
Click on a dropdown list and choose "Customize".
You can then enter persons or lists in the "Hide this from" textbox as well as the textbox that appears when you select "Specific people" in the "Make this visible to these people" dropbox. |
H: How to change measuring units in Google Docs?
In a Google Docs document, I would like to be able to specify the page margins (File → Page Setup) in millimeters instead of inches.
Is it possible to switch between imperial and metric units?
AI: Go to Settings → Document Settings on the top right of the page and change the language to English (UK).
Rulers and margins will now both be in centimetres (cm).
You may need to log out and sign back in before you see the changes take effect. |
H: How to reduce the unused space when Priority Inbox is empty in Gmail?
When the Priority Inbox is empty I see this annoying message:
Woohoo! You've read all the important messages in your inbox.
Is there an option or another way (working in Firefox possibly) automatically to remove that message?
AI: Click on the section header (with the arrow at the end) and check Hide section when empty. |
H: Did Google just get rid of search history?
Google Instant is making me a little sick to my stomach. Does anybody know if they're logging all your "potential" searches? And whether or not your old search history still exists?
AI: Search History is still there. Here's an example with Google Instant:
8:54pm Searched for google instant messenger
8:53pm Searched for test
8:51pm Searched for instant google voice invite
8:51pm Viewed results for instant messenger (paused for at least 3 seconds with no click)
8:51pm Viewed results for test tube (paused for at least 3 seconds with no click)
8:51pm Searched for test
It's not very accurate. I only typed "Google Instant" and it showed results for "google instant messenger" and logged this wrong query. |
H: How can I increase the likelihood of having Google Apps Accounts upgraded to Google Accounts?
I currently have the standard edition of Google Apps, and I'm eager to have my Google Apps accounts function as Google Accounts. It's my understanding that this is a phased deployment by Google, with people being contacted via email when they can upgrade to this service.
I'm wondering if there are any settings I should enable to increase the likelihood for my domain to be upgraded, or if it is purely based on random selection by Google.
Here are some of the settings available in Google Apps:
Now Services and Pre-release Features:
Automatically add new services when they become available
Enable pre-release features
Control Panel: Current version or Next generation.
News, feedback and promotions:
Receive occasional email notifications about new services or features.
I am willing to be contacted about this product and my experiences.
Unsubscribe from all marketing and non-transactional emails.
I have the first three options enabled, but the last three about contacting me disabled. I'm wondering, for those of you that did get upgraded, if you had these last 3 settings enabled or disabled. Or, if you know any other settings that should be enabled/disabled in order to increase my chances of being upgraded.
AI: Here's the volunteer sign-up form: https://spreadsheets1.google.com/a/google.com/viewform?hl=en&formkey=dGdfTTA2eGhFT0c0SDVLXzMzMFNwUUE6MA#gid=0 |
H: Can I use Gmail on Google Apps as OpenID provider?
We use Gmail on Google Apps for email for our small company using our on domain-name. Now I would like to use the email-addresses with OpenID.
Is there any way I can use Gmail on Google Apps as OpenID provider?
I can not login on gmail.com with these email-addresses, and the URL to the Google Apps Gmail wasn't valid as a OpenID provider here on StackExchange.
I would like to use the Google Apps as a provider, so the users just have to manage one password for email, and login to other sites.
AI: It seems like this was enabled last year. Here is the blog-post:
http://googlecode.blogspot.com/2009/07/google-apps-openid-identity-hub-for.html
Note: The Federated Login Service is
disabled by default for Google Apps
Premier and Education Editions. The
domain admin can enable it from the
Control Panel at
http://www.google.com/a/cpanel/<your-domain>/SetupIdp.
The OpenID URL for Google Apps is something like:
https://www.google.com/a/<your-domain>/o8/ud?be=o8 |
H: How to Find Twitter Accounts by Location?
I've met some wonderful people on Twitter and would like to meet more people from different places; it's great to read local tweets from all over.
I'd like to follow some non-celebrities from different parts of the country/world but the only online services I've found so far to find Tweeters based on location only show those with high follower counts. I'd like to find "regular" people, people with lower follow counts but who are interesting.
Is there any service or way on Twitter to read Tweets from specific locations or find Twitter accounts in regions?
AI: Streamd.in:
Twitter client that connects you with other Twitter users in your local city or town.
In the picture below you can see it is paired with Google Maps. |
H: How can I make my shared items in Google Reader publish automatically into Twitter?
Google Reader's Shared Items published a RSS feed. Can I somehow import that automatically into Twitter, so when I share something in GR it becomes a tweet?
I know there's a Send-To solution, but that's not what I'm looking for.
Edit
Ok, some googling came up with Twitterfeed, which does just that.
AI: Go to http://www.google.com/reader/shared/[your username]
Click on "Atom Feed" and copy the URL
Go to feedburner.google.com and add your feed.
Go to "Publicize" → "Socialize" and add a Twitter account
Check the formatting options to see how your feed is going to be tweeted |
H: How can I delete images uploaded to TinyGrab?
How can I delete images uploaded to TinyGrab?
AI: According to the TinyGrab FAQ:
Q. How can I delete a grab from the
TinyGrab server?
Visit the TinyGrab
online control panel at
http://tinygrab.com/go/panel to delete
an image that you've uploaded to
TinyGrab. This is a Premium service
only. Only under special / certain
circumstances will we respond to
support requests to delete images from
our service. Free TinyGrab accounts
are intended as a trial and not to be
used as a replacement to TinyGrab
Premium.
You can submit a support ticket requesting them to remove a specific screenshot, but they will only do so under special circumstances. I've done this before, and they removed it pretty quickly. |
H: How can I find out why Yahoo! classifies my mail as spam?
I've a Yahoo! email account and when sending emails from my company to it, they always at first get into Spam. It's not about that I can't find the "No spam" buttons, but whenever someone from our company sends someone at Yahoo an email, until it's properly flagged, they all at first are getting disposed, and missed, into the Spam folder.
Alas I'm not able to figure out what kind of policies are responsible for classifying those emails as spam. We're running out own Microsoft 2003 Exchange based email server, but don't have such problems with others (Hotmail, Gmail, web.de, etc.).
Is there any chance to find out what's troubling Yahoo!?
AI: I don't think you'll get any direct information out of Yahoo! as that would potentially give spammers an edge in the never ending war between the spammers and spam filters.
Have you analysed the headers as received by the Yahoo! account? They might contain some information inserted by the spam filter.
Other than that, contact Yahoo! and explain the situation. They might be able to add your domain onto their white list. |
H: Website to store notes with an index cards like interface?
Possible Duplicate:
What are some good online note annotation sites?
I'm looking for a website to store notes with an interface like http://webkit.org/demos/sticky-notes/. I really like the possibility to move and reorder notes like index cards on my table. +1 if you could use some wiki/markdown like markup in the notes and if you are able to tag and search notes.
AI: http://taskless.appspot.com/ has the interface you are looking for, tagging, and stores all of your data in the cloud.
http://stickr.com/ is good for taking notes on webpages and seems to be more social-networking oriented.
If you are looking for a more study-oriented way to figuring things out, lifehacker lists several index study card webapps. |
H: What do starred downloads mean in google code?
Besides expressing my interest in the download and being added to a counter, what other effects are there when starring a Google Code download file?
Starred download http://img691.imageshack.us/img691/5161/googlecodestarreddownlo.png
AI: In the case of a download from Google Code - none, actually. Starring a download really is just a way to indicate your interest in a particular download, compared to the others within a project.
For projects with a single release this isn't the most usable feature; for example, just because 500 users starred the last release while only 5 have done so on the latest may just mean that people haven't bothered to un-star the previous version. For projects with multiple files - for example, a version with separate APIs for Windows, Mac, Linux, etc. - it could show which API is more favoured.
Unlike starring a project - which lists it in your favourites and list activity in your updates, or starring an issue that will send you updates when new comments are added (or showing your interest in said issue), there aren't any other benefits to starring a download, since new releases are typically added as separate downloads. |
H: Does Google Checkout support subscription payments (e.g. monthly)?
Can Google Checkout be used to automatically charge a monthly subscription fee from customers?
AI: Yes, in beta:
http://checkout.google.com/support/sell/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=63440
From the page:
The ability to process recurring charges or subscriptions using our API is currently available in beta. Subscriptions will allow you to charge customers on a regular basis with out additional input from your customer. If you'd like to implement this functionality, please view the integration tutorial in our Developer's Guide Beta Features page. |
H: Convert weight of food to volume in Wolfram Alpha
How can I use the volume of food in equations on Wolfram Alpha?
For example, if I type: 60g flour, I see that at the bottom, it says:
serving volume: 3.5 fl oz.
How can I use this value in an equation to get the amount of cups, for example?
I want to be able to enter in a single query such as volume of 60g flour in cups. I have tried that query and several other combinations, but couldn't get any to work.
AI: This one works: 60 gramm/density of flour/cups |
H: Free hosting of public files
What applications will allow me to freely host and share a variety of files or documents? What are the limitations?
AI: All you need is Dropbox. You can easily share big files with your friends and there is also an option for public shares. One folder that whatever you're putting there has a public link to it, so you can share it.
The only limitation is the 2GB for free accounts, but you can go up to 10GB if you'll invite people with a special link. Both you and who ever is registering via this link are getting +250MB for free. |
H: Link to the Google Contacts page with the focus on the search box?
Is there an address that will open the 'Google Contact' page with the focus on the search field so that I can directly start typing the name of the contact I'm looking for? This opens the page, but the focus is not to the search field.
AI: I don't think that you can do that, unless there is a script for that. But you can simply press the / to send the focus to the search box (? for more shortcuts). |
H: Free, private repositories where I can store and manage project files?
Are there any good free repositories where I can store and manage my project's files?
I know of some, but I've heard that anyone can edit your files.
Do you know of any good repository which is free and where only we have the right to edit or make any changes to the stored files?
Please mention the pros and cons of ones you suggest, and also if possible, explain the procedure of usage of that repository.
AI: bitbucket offers a free plan that allows you to have unlimited private and public repositories shared between 5 users maximum. You would need to use Mercurial or Subversion to manage the files though, but if you're familiar with source control tools it should be easy enough.
Pros
Unlimited space and repositories
Integrates with other services (ex: with Basecamp)
Comes with its own Wiki
Now owned by Atlassian (there should be some features to integrate the service with Jira and Confluence some day)
Cons
You need to use Git, Mercurial or Subversion to access it (you could read the files with a browser, but to add and edit you would need one of those tools). |
H: What is the different of dropbox and box.net?
The first difference I mention is the free storage they give away to user:
dropbox.com 2Gb - 10Gb (after doing the referencing)
box.net only 1Gb
What else do you know?
AI: Desktop folder sync
Not everyone can sync a (windows) folder with Box.net (yet):
"We are currently rolling out Sync in waves to our Business and Enterprise customers"
Dropbox sync tool works fine with windows folders
2 Notes:
doesn't work through our corporate firewall.
The installation of the Dropbox sync tool doesn't ask for a location: the application gets installed inside your user profile somewhere. Which is too small for our corporate profile.
But @ home it works just fine! |
H: Can I rename an email address in Google Apps?
I have a .pl domain with Google Apps for your domain - mostly for email management. Now one of the users in this domain want to change her email address to a new one (surname change).
What is the easiest way to do it? I haven't found any 'rename' email address option.
AI: This is possible, but apparently only through the Provisioning API, witch is only available to Premier and Education Edition domains.
If you don't have one of those, you could simply create an alias for that account and set up a custom from address, so new mail is sent from that alias. |
H: How to ignore a friend on Facebook?
I want to "delete" some friends from Facebook without them noticing. Is that possible?
Is possible at least to hide them from Facebook chat?
AI: If you remove someone as a friend they will not be notified, but they may notice that their friend count went down and that you are no longer on their list of friends.
To hide someone from Facebook chat, see How do I stop someone from seeing me on Facebook Chat?.
To hide their updates from your News Feed, move your mouse over one of their updates in your News Feed and click on the X that appears to the right; then click the Hide button. Alternatively, when the News Feed is set to Most Recent, scroll to the bottom of the page and click Edit Options and type their name in the Hide box.
To hide your updates from their News Feed, go to Account » Privacy Settings » Customize Settings and change Posts by me to Customize. In the Hide from these people box enter the person's name or a friend list.
You can also alter other Privacy Settings to make these people similar to non-friends. Go to Account » Privacy Settings » Customize Settings and change each setting that is set to Friends Only. Choose Customize and in the Hide from these people box enter a name or friend list. If you do not allow them to see wall posts by friends then they will not be able to post on your wall either; they may notice that if they go to your profile. They may also notice if you do not allow them to comment. If you have some of your Basic Directory Information or album settings set to Friends Only then you may want to update those settings as well. Use the Preview My Profile button and enter their name if you want to verify what they will be able to see on your profile. However, it sometimes takes some time (a few hours) for changed settings to propagate.
Unfortunately it is not possible to revoke all of their friend privileges through the Privacy Settings. For example, they will still be able to tag you in their photos unless you remove them as a friend. |
H: What does Gmail mean by the yellow arrows for priority?
My priority mail has three kinds of yellow arrows:
1. >>
2. >
3. blank with a yellow marker.
What do that mean and can I increase/reduce the arrow count?
AI: >> ------ Messages sent only to you
> -------- Messages sent to your address (not a mailing list)
blank---- Messages sent to a mailing list inclusive of your address
The addition of the yellow arrow is the new important and unread feature. So for example the third will be for important messages by mailing lists. Whereas just a yellow border represents an important read message.
You can of course change which is important via filters.
Also you can remove the yellow arrows.
To remove the >> and > go to your settings and turn off personal level indicators.
As far as I am aware these are the only ways to modify the arrows. It is not possible to change the number of arrows. |
H: MediaWiki attempts to login after entering several wrong passwords
When requesting a new password from MediaWiki, but failing to enter the correct password, the account will be locked for a day before allowing a request for a new password again. During this period, even administration account can't do anything to unlock the account.
Is there any way to unlock the account right away?
AI: You can run a maintenance script:
php changePassword.php --user="username" --password="password"
More Info about running maintenance scripts
Or modify the database:
UPDATE user SET user_password = CONCAT(':B:somesalt:', MD5(CONCAT('somesalt-', MD5('somepass')))) WHERE user_name = 'someuser';
Alternatively you you can install an extension which allows other administrators to reset your password. |
H: Copy/Paste original text without linebreaks in Gmail?
Sometimes after I write an email I want to go back and copy/paste the text. In my sentbox after opening the email I get the text formatted to a width. In the reply it is also formatted to a specific width.
How do I get the text in a way so I can copy/paste it to a Word document as normal paragraphs instead of a Gmail formatted width email?
AI: You can simply click Forward (or press F if you have Keyboard shortcuts enabled) and then the Plaint Text button from the toolbar.
Or if your text is already in Plain Text, then GMail by default breaks long lines in a specific width by adding end line character. In order to remove these breaks you have to do it manually from Word (unless you have any other text editors that have this as an option) like this:
Select one paragraph
Ctrl+H to Search and Replace
Put ^p in the Find field
Put a single space in the Replace With field
Click the Replace All button
Continue with the next paragraph |
H: Google App for Business Gmail vs Classic Gmail
We are in transition to move on to Google Apps. I and also my coworkers have been using Gmail for quite some time now. We imported email our company mail accounts in our Gmail and things work smoothly.
I created standard account for Google Apps for Business to give it a try before migrating to Premier Edition. But there are couple of thing bothering me. They did such a good work with classic Gmail. Especially with contact management and GUI is also very comfortable to work with. But in Google Apps for Business Gmail frontend is like Gmail 2 years ago. Is there any good reason for this? Will this stay this way? Because its really unorthodox to have classic Gmail for free with all these features and when you pay you are transported back to the past. I haven't tried Premier Edition but I guess it has the same user interface. Do any of you have insight in this topic?
AI: Google Apps Gmail is updated quite regularly (mine just had the Priority Inbox feature added, and I can remember a few layout changes this year and things like labels being updated, my calendar's also been updated a few times) but it is always a bit behind the free Gmail.
I think that you may be looking at this the wrong way round. The paid for Google Apps version is the tried and tested rock-solid stable and safe GMail, whereas the free GMail is the experimental one. Think of the free users as experimental guinea pigs for your paid account, they find the problems with new features and designs, which are then either fixed or removed before they make it to the paid Gmail.
There are ways to make sure that your domain is one of the first to get any changes rolled out to it, firstly make sure that you're set to the English US as your domain's default language as all changes are rolled out to that language first, secondly sign up for your domain on the form at http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2010/05/more-google-applications-coming-for.html to volunteer for some experimental changes to be tried on your domain. |
H: App for live blogging from Blackberry to WordPress
I'm looking for an app that will let me post content to single WordPress post, inserting each new "post" either at the top or bottom of the article, with a timestamp. I know there's already an WP app for Blackberry, but I'm looking for something specifically set up for live blogging. Any ideas?
AI: You might look into the app CoverItLive. They have software that will run on mobile devices and allow you to publish to a variety of mediums.
From what I can see, there isn't a "direct" WordPress integration, but you embed the CoverItLive feed you create into your blog. That way the users have a static location, you can update your content live that goes into the CoverItLive feed, and that way people can still comment in the normal comment section if they so desire.
Basic accounts are free. |
H: How do I select unread messages in Gmail without having to click on the arrow next to the checkbox and then click unread?
A lot of the time the unread messages in my Inbox just need to be archived and I'd rather have a 'quick' way to do it that doesn't require hitting that small arrow next to the master checkbox and then require moving my mouse down to 'Unread'. Is there another way to select unread messages that just requires one click or a keyboard shortcut?
AI: From Gmail Keyboard shortcuts help:
* then u
One trick I've recently figured out is if you first collapse your "Important and Unread" section (by clicking on it), THEN do the *u, it will leave your important messages unchecked. Previous to this I was unchecking all my Important/Unread messages before archiving. |
H: What does "This post is super-awesome" when creating a new post mean?
I see the checkbox "This post is super-awesome" but not sure what it means. Please explain.
AI: A search for
wordpress "this post is super awesome"
with the quotes revealed some blogs about the "Surprise Me" option that has been added to Wordpress. Checking "Surprise Me" enables this checkbox on posts.
A lot of the posts mention that if you check this option something happens after you hit "Publish" but are coy about what that "something" is.
The comments on this thread on the WordPress.com forums indicates you get to see a video. |
H: How can I remove a Twitter avatar and reset it to default?
I'd like to remove my current Twitter avatar and have it revert to one of the default avatars/profile images.
How do I do this?
AI: Settings > Profile > Picture > Delete this image. |
H: How can I send email from a GMail alias (one with the "+" symbol) address from a different account in Gmail?
I know that I can send email from the same account with a plus address, but how can I do the same from another account or device?
When I try to use a plus address, it ignores it and sends the mail from the real address.
AI: You need to do the following:
Set up the plus address on the original account (even though you won't be using it directly from that interface).
Add the account's SMTP information, using the following settings:
Email: Your plus address ([email protected])
Username: Either your plus address ([email protected]) or your base address ([email protected]) will work. In fact, it completely ignores anything afer the +, so even an address that wasn't added as a "Send As" in step 1 ([email protected]) will work.
Password: The password for [email protected].
If you don't do the first step, the account isn't permitted to send mail via that plus address and any attempts made at sending via that plus address ([email protected]) will actually be sent from the base address ([email protected]).
Note: the plus address will appear in most headers when the email is sent (e.g. Return-Path, From, Received) but the base address will still be shown in the Sender field. However, most clients should show the From field and hide the Sender field from the user. |
H: Startup Folder in RememberTheMilk
Can I get RememberTheMilk to start in the "All Tasks" folder when I log in?
AI: You can start by skipping the start page.
Always skip this page
Then go to your settings and Lists Page
http://www.rememberthemilk.com/home/[your username]/#section.settings
Select All Tasks go to more Actions and set as default.
This should work.
My default was Personal and I tried using All tasks (logged out and cleared cache). |
H: How can I send mail from an alias in Google Apps?
I'm using Google Apps Standard.
I created an alias ([email protected]) for my account ([email protected]). When people email me at [email protected], it correctly arrives at my [email protected] email address.
How can I send mail using this alias address? That is, the [email protected] address should appear as the sender to whomever I email, and my real address ([email protected]) should never be revealed to them.
AI: Apparently, you must add it as a Send As email on the account where the alias is defined. This must be done even if you are going to use a separate account to email from this address. This is exactly the same behavior as sending from a plus address.
For the authentication, you should use:
Email: Your alias (e.g. [email protected])
Username: Your email address (e.g. [email protected]). Note: this is different from using a plus address in that you cannot use the alias as the username, you must use the real email address.
Password: Your email address' password |
H: How to find out main page of a website
When a website's main page cannot be opened as in this example, is it possible to find out the full address? In this example, I tried /index.htm and /index.html without success.
AI: In the case of the above URL, you're seeing the Apache "test page", which is displayed when you start the daemon without either placing files within your web root, or customizing your config file. It's because the default DirectoryIndex doesn't find a matching file, which would normally be the main page of a URL ending in a slash.
The above file is actually just an "ErrorDocument" rewrite, that says if there is no content the server should display the file under /error/noindex.html; so in the above case you can see the actual file under http://www.cetmiolive.com/error/noindex.html to verify it's HTML.
To normally find the type of engine rendering a page on a website, I usually use the same method as you (try index.htm, index.html, index.php, Default.asp, default.cfm, etc.) to see if I can determine the source.
That does depend on a default installation though - if you change your handler (for example, have html files actually be processed by the PHP engine) then you can mask the engine driving the website - but still determine what the file name for the directory index is.
Now, in the case above, when rewrite rules or ErrorDocument functionality is used, it's anyone's game to find out. Those mask the URL or change the way the server interprets URL requests, making it extremely difficult to locate the file. |
H: Transitioning Blogger to new Google Apps
I just transitioned to the new Google Apps which let's you use additional services such as blogger with your Google Apps account.
I had a conflicting Google Account. Google said that when I attempt to login to a service which used that conflicting account, I would be presented with an interface that offers 3 choices: move my old data to a gmail account, move my data to a 3rd party account, or use a temporary gmail account.
When I attempted to login to my Blogger, it didn't present any of those options. It just let me create a brand new account as if I didn't have a Blogger at all. It's as if all my data is gone. I can no longer login using my old account.
How can I access my old blogger settings so that I can transfer it to my new account?
AI: Alright, so the email tells you to log off and then log in to your Google Apps account. When you do this, you are currently logged in as your Google Apps account which shows up even when you go to Google pages such as http://google.com/accounts.
In order to be presented with this interface, you need to log out of your Google Apps account by pressing log off, then go to a page that let's you login to a Google account such as http://google.com/accounts. Next, login using your old credentials, which will log you in to your old Google Account, and present to you the transfer options.
When I tried using their interface, it took me to a page that says "The page you requested is invalid.", and had the "sign in" link on the top right. Pressing that showed a temporary address with the "%" in it. Attempting to login didn't work. I had to clear my cache and then login again. |
H: Voting buttons in Gmail
In Outlook, you could attach voting buttons to a message to get a yes/no response from the recipients. I have a user asking me how to do this in Gmail after we have migrated from exchange to Google Apps. Is this possible?
AI: It's not strictly part of Gmail, but it's very straightforward to create a Form in Google Documents
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You can then mail this form and view a summary or spreadsheet of the responses. |
H: Why is Google Reader not showing site favicons?
In my Linux partition, Google Reader is not showing the site favicons, why is this so ? Is this a Google Reader or a Google Chrome bug ?
I'm using Google Chrome 7.0.517.5 dev
Here's a screenshot
And yes, I have enabled Show favicons in Reader settings
AI: It's broken: http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=54926
According to comments, it will be fixed in the next iteration of developer releases. |
H: Where can I report bugs relating to Google Search?
I'm looking for either an URL with a feedback form or an email address.
AI: Search for something, for example Webapps, and then click on the Send feedback at the bottom of the resulting page. The rest is up to you ;)
Resources
Report a problem with Google Search |
H: How come people that are not following me sometimes retweet my tweets?
Sometimes I see people re-twitting a tweet I sent, and I have no idea how they saw it as they are not following me.
Is it because they have some keyword search open and I happen to use one of those words? What are the different ways someone can see a tweet I send?
AI: You've already identified one mechanism - search, either something you tweeted or even your name.
They could have picked up your tweet from the Twitter home page.
You can see the lists of all people - not just those you are following. This shows all the tweets of people in that list.
One of your followers could already have retweeted you - though in this case you should see the original retweet too. |
H: Importing email into Gmail from Zimbra exported file
I've managed to rip myself away from Zimbra and get myself some Gmail goodness.
Unfortunately, I'm not quite ready to give up my archive of 5000+ emails from the last few years just yet and would very much like to import them into my Gmail inbox.
Because Gmail has now taken over my old inbox, I can no longer retrieve my old emails directly from it, so I've had to export them. These are dropped into a tar.gz file which contains .eml files and .meta files, and the same folder structure as I require.
Any ideas on how I'd get them into Gmail from this file? I've looked around but it seems that tools that would/could do it are no longer available or supported.
AI: If you can import the EML files into a mail client that support IMAP this will be easy.
It seems that Thunderbird can do this, but I'm not 100% sure. (Don't have a local copy to play with.)
Anyway, set-up Thunderbird to be an IMAP client for Gmail. (Lifehacker has an excellent guide to do this.)
Then, import your EML files into Thunderbird.
If necessary, move them to a temporary folder (called "Zimbra" perhaps) which will be a label in Gmail. Then just wait for IMAP to sync them all to the cloud.
After that you can delete Thunderbird, keep it around to make local archives of your e-mail, or keep using it as your main client.
I was able to do this a couple of years ago with thousands of messages from my Pegasus Mail client. (There was some pain in converting to a format that Thunderbird could read, but getting the messages into Gmail was the easy part.) |
H: Google Code shows my email [email protected], where can I change this?
I've been using Google Code as a regular User (not developer!) for some time, e.g. creating or commenting on issues.
However it always bothered me that it always shows my full email to me there: [email protected] . I'd really prefer to have been shown a short name, e.g. my first name or something. For example, when I join a Google Group I can specify a name for it.
Where can I change this for Google Code?
AI: This is not possible as of now, there is an open ticket on the same. |
H: Can I let others update one particular Facebook page via ping.fm?
I can update my "personal" Facebook page via Gtalk or Skype using Ping.fm .
Now we created company's Facebook page under my Facebook login and I wonder if I can let others update company's Facebook page via Skype or gtalk using Ping too. And of course do not let them post to my "personal" Facebook page.
AI: You will need the login details to your company's page. Logout of your personal page, then add the facebook network again, with your company page's login credentials. Once that is done, create a group containing only the company's facebook page (example: let the group name be fbwork).
To post to this group prefix #fbwork before your status to make it post to this page |
H: How to allow someone else to send emails in my name?
I want to give another person the ability to send emails in my name. This person should be able to send mail using my email address, but not be able to read my email. I use Gmail, but am willing to try others.
Does anybody know a web app or application that can do this?
AI: Gmail will be perfect for that.
In his Gmail account, tell him to follow the following steps:
Sign in to Gmail.
Click Settings and select the Accounts and Import tab.
Under Send mail as, click Add another email address.
In the 'Email address' field, enter the address from which he will be sending emails (your address)
Click Next Step >> and then click Send Verification. Gmail will send a verification message to your email address to confirm that he can use it.
Then you will receive the email verification, you just have to approve it.
Warning: Be careful though, I don't think you can remove this privilege from his accounts yourself or force him to remove your email address later on.
Source |
H: Is there any folder synchronization service?
I know you can synchronize folders using online storage services, but is there any of such sites that offer a synchronization tool? I would like to keep my folder identical to its cloud copy, in more than one computer.
If I delete a file from computer A, it should be deleted both in the cloud and then in the computer B.
AI: Dropbox does exactly what you want. |
H: Does deleting a folder from disk also remove the pics from Picasa Webalbums if the folder is synced?
I have a folder that I am deleting now to recover some space. The folder is synced to a Picasa Webalbums and the icon looks something like this (with a lot more pics):
Does synced mean that next time I run Picasa after deleting the folder, the pics would be deleted from the online storage too?
How can I keep the pics online but delete them from my disc?
AI: While the help doesn't explicitly mention this case, the 'Sync to Web' basics page has the following:
Once you've enabled the Sync to Web feature, you can sync the following changes from Picasa to Picasa Web Albums:
Added or deleted photos
So I would assume that if you delete a folder locally it would also get deleted on the web.
My approach would be to:
a) back up the photos to DVD (just in case)
b) flip the "Sync to Web" switch
c) delete the local copy. |
H: How do I change my default account with Google multiple sign-in?
After I enable multiple sign-in, and login to multiple accounts, I see that one of them says "(Default)". How do I change which of the accounts is the default one?
AI: The first account you sign-in as will be default
To set your default Google account:
Sign-out of all accounts
Sign-in to your preferred account; this will be your default
Google mentions this when you attempt to login with another account, it says the following (see below):
You can use multiple sign-in with these Google products:
Calendar
Code
Gmail
Reader
Sites
Voice
[...]
Google products not listed above will default to the first account that you signed in to using your current web browser session. |
H: What does forwarding to Google Chat do in Google Voice?
When I go to Voice Settings > Phones, I see an option to forward to my Google Chat account, what does this setting do?
Will it forward calls, texts, or voicemail? Would it work if I use a text only client such as Meebo?
AI: When you have Google Chat open (such as in Gmail) it will "ring" your Google Chat when someone calls your GVoice number. (It's literally a phone ring sound.) You can then answer the call using the voice comm feature of GChat.
It's only going to work with the web GChat and if you've downloaded the special plugin. |
H: Personal & work Google Calendar together?
I have my personal Google Calendar and I can access it from my Android phone.
I have my company's Google Calendar
and I want to merge these two together but we share our company's Calendar inside the company, so I want to make sure that nobody can read my personal Calendar.
Is that possible to do something like that?
AI: Can you access both Calendars from within your normal Google Calendar on the web?
Assuming your company has shared out their calendar, you should be able to add that calendar as an additional calendar subscription on your personal Google Calendar. In your calendar view on the web, to the left of the calendar view, you should see a list of "My Calendars" with your main personal calendar in it, then under that "Other Calendars" which will include the company calendar.
To share out the company calendar (presuming you have permission to do this), log into the company calendar account, go to Settings -> Calendar Settings, click the Calendars tab and then click either "Share this calendar" or "Shared: Edit settings" and make sure that your personal account has at leats got permission to "See all event details" then click the calendar's name and you should see the the calendar addresses. Pick the ICAL address and copy the link.
Now log into your personal calendar and under "Other Calendars" click Add-> Add by URL, and paste the address you just copied into that box.
Once you have both calendars appearing for the one account on the web, then both should just show up on your Android phone, with the appointments coloured for which calendar they're in. |
H: Bulk download of images from Flickr?
I want to retrieve some/most of my pictures from Flickr, lost a bunch when a drive went bad. I can't find a way to easily download images other than one at a time.
I looked into something called Flickrfs but it didn't work and appears to no longer be maintained.
Suggestions?
AI: You can use the following apps to download multiple images from Flickr at once:
FlickrDown
Bulkr
Downloadr |
H: Is there a way to convert categories of posts into tags?
I currently use categories to tag my posts but I found it not as convenient as using tags. So I want to convert all current categories into tags. How can I do this?
AI: Use the Categories and Tags Converter.
http://yourblog.wordpress.com/wp-admin/admin.php?import=wp-cat2tag
Also converts Tags to Categories. |
H: Is there a way to cancel LinkedIn "invitation e-mail" to my friends?
I made the mistake of inviting some friends to LinkedIn .
The result is that LinkedIn will now re-send e-mails a few more times to remind them that they didn't register yet.
Is there a way to make it not do that after the first time the invitation was sent?
AI: Have you tried the following?
Choose Sent from the Inbox menu in the top navigation bar.
Choose the Sent Invitations tab
Open any of the pending "Invitation to connect on LinkedIn" messages you've sent to your friends.
Click Withdraw (the button below the invitation, next to "Resend")
I'm not sure about it, but the "withdraw" option does seem promising. You can also "delete" sent invitations, but to me "withdraw" sounds more likely to do what you're after. |
H: Quickly see all message from a sender in Gmail?
I'm trying to move over to Gmail.
Here's something I do all the time in another mailer. I receive a message from somebody ("LYN LINDY", for example). While reading this message I want to see all of the other messages in my archive from the same person. Is there an easy way to do that in Gmail?
AI: Use the advanced search operator. In the search box, type from: lyn and you'll get an auto-complete of email addresses. Pick the one you want and you'll get all email from that person. You can also use to: lyn to see email you sent them. |
H: How do I see one Gmail status when in another Gmail account?
I have a main Gmail account that I use personally. I've just created a new specific purpose account. I'd like to be able to stay signed into my general account, but see the status (new mail count) of the other account so I know when to go read it, since it doesn't get much traffic right now.
Is there a way to do this in Gmail?
AI: There are few options that you can do.
You can enable the multiple login from the Google Account page
You can enable from your second account the Forwarding by adding a forwarding e-mail from Settings.
You can enable the POP for all mail in your second account and then adding new account in your personal mail from Settings > Accounts and Import
I personally prefer the last option because you can easily add a new label for all your e-mails from the second account and even skipping the inbox. |
H: Is there a Google Gadget for Google Groups?
Specifically, I am looking for something to tie in Discussions from a particular Group to a Google Site (to show recent discussions, say).
AI: Google Map Maker's community site integrates Google Groups in it. There's more information on how they do it at Embedding Discussions . |
H: Does Google Authenticator work with personal accounts?
Is it possible to set up Google Authenticator for my personal accounts or is it only available for Google Apps accounts?
AI: Yes. I have been using Authenticator for years, and I just have a regular Google account.
To really protect your account, it's recommended that you use Google Authenticator. |
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