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H: Why is it when I changed my primary e-mail address on Facebook I didn't need to log back in on my phone?
I changed the e-mail address I use to log into Facebook but I didn't have to change it on my phone (until I logged out and logged back in). Does Facebook keep a record of past log in credentials?
AI: Upon successful login, many sites, including Facebook, store authentication cookies on your browser, which explains why you were able to keep using FB on your phone until you logged out and attempted to log in again. |
H: Change gender in Facebook
I created a Facebook account and during registration I must have checked the gender as "male". I realized this, when people told me they see messages like "Suggest friends to him".
Is it possible to change this gender setting? Or will I have to remove my account and create a new one?
AI: Login to Facebook
Click on your name in the upper-left corner
Click on Update Info
On Basic Info click Edit
On the drop-down menu, change your sex
On the same drop-down, click Save |
H: How can I set which Google calendars are being synced to my iPhone?
I've set up my iPhone (with iOS 5.1.1) to synchronize contacts and calendars from Google via Google Mail.
However, I only see the Default calendar on my iPhone, whereas all my other private calendars from Google Calendar are missing as an option.
A couple of months ago, there used to be http://m.google.com/sync, as explained here, but it doesn't appear to exist anymore.
Where can I select those calendars?
AI: This option still exists, but the new URL is:
https://www.google.com/calendar/iphoneselect
Here, you can enable all calendars that exist. |
H: Is there a Gmail filter for creating Chrome bookmarks using URL links in an email message?
When I am surfing the web (either from my iPhone or laptop), I would like to send links of the webpages I want to read later as emails to my Gmail account. Is it possible to use filters (or any scripts) to parse for URL links in the email and drop it into a specific Chrome bookmark folder?
AI: If you use Chrome on all those devices (it's available on iOS now), the simplest option would probably be using Chrome's built-in bookmark synching feature. Just make sure you're logged in the same Google Account on those Chrome instances and you'll see bookmarks and web opene tabs from other devices.
If that cant work for you and you can do a bit of code, it's something that can easily be scripted through Context.IO. |
H: Google Maps latitude and longitude search without markers
When I search a latitude and longitude in Google Maps like:
https://maps.google.com/maps?q=-25.454435,-49.33136
It always return me the locations nearby with those ["A", "B", ... ] pins:
Is there any way of getting only the green pointer created by the q parameter and hide everything else (using some other URL parameter, perhaps) ?
AI: Put loc: in front of the coordinate, like this -
https://maps.google.com/maps?q=loc:-25.454435,-49.33136
Here's what you get -
When you don't use loc:, Google shows the nearest possible place for the convenience of the user as it's a random point. But when you're using loc: Google knows that you are looking for just the location of the point, nothing else.
Update:
If you want to show a info bubble on that certain coordinate, you can also do it this way -
https://maps.google.com/maps?q=LocationName@-25.454435,-49.33136&iwloc=A
Here it'll point to that certain location with a red marker A and you can set information about it inside a info window + with iwloc, you can say that it needs to show the info to the red bubble marked A. Output - |
H: Visibility of Google Plus posts marked public viewable
If I mark a post to be viewable by public, does it mean it is viewable to all my circles? Or should I add the post to my other circles even after marking it as public?
AI: Yes.
Public posts on your Google+ stream are visible to:
all users in your circles
other users you have never interacted with
anonymous users who don't even have accounts
Who can see your posts
When you post publicly, people who've added you to one of their circles will see your update on their Home page. Your public posts will be displayed on the Posts tab of your profile and are viewable by anyone who wishes to see them. They also may appear in search results.
It is not necessary to add people to circles if you want them to see posts marked "Public". |
H: Using Dropbox, can I create a public link from a shared folder?
When I have a folder shared between me and my collegue(s) via Dropbox, can I generate a public link of it (maybe by using Dropbox for Teams)?
I know there is the possibility to "Get a link" via right-clicking from the shared folder, but thats not what I want. The "Get Link" will create a link to the Dropbox website, where one has to download that file. But I need a "raw" link, that directly opens the file and is wget proof (The Dropbox download site relies on Javascript to work).
AI: The link generated for a file is something like this:
https://www.dropbox.com/_someRandomStrings_/_theNameOfTheFile
If you replace www with dl it will take you directly to the respective file. Alternatively, adding ?dl=1 at the end of the link above, will redirect it to the dl.dropbox.com URL.
Now, if you have the link to a folder and you add ?dl=1 at the end, it will start downloading it as an archive.
Source. And the official source.
(I have tested the method and it works.) |
H: Posting messages in Facebook groups causes message to be seen by all friends
When I post something in one group, it actually not only visible to that group but also to all my friends in friends list. More or like posting myself in a wall.
Please tell me what settings have to be changed to make texts visible to group members only.
AI: It sounds like it is currently an Open group, but you want it to be Closed or Secret. This setting can be changed by a group admin, if the group has less than 250 members. |
H: How do I remove Maps from Facebook?
The Maps feature on Facebook Timeline is nice, though recently I have established that I am location paranoid and wouldn't like people seeing all the places I have been to, so I want to disable and/or remove it entirely from view on my Timeline.
Facebook with Maps
Facebook with no Maps
As you can see from the first image, I have ~700 spots tagged as Places, ideally I don't want to delete this metadata, but if that's what it takes to remove Maps, sure I can take the sacrifice. At best I just want to disable the Maps tile, no need for people to map out where I am like Carmen Sandiego.
I don't see an option under Facebook Apps or within privacy settings to remove the Maps, so how can I can disable Maps from Facebook Timeline? Is it also possible to remove the Maps altogether?
AI: Go to your Timeline
Click on Activity Log
Click All at the top of the page
Click on Posts with Location
Hide from Timeline all that shows in the list
To hide the map from favorites:
Go to your Timeline
Click on the arrow at the end of the favorites row
Hover over the Maps box
Click on the edit icon that appears in the upper-right corner of the box
Click on Remove from Favorites
Source. |
H: Link to old Google Contact Manager
Is there a link by which I can open the old Google Contact Manager (the one with 3 columns layout)? It allowed instant search and the ability to view contact details on the same page.
AI: At the bottom of the screen is a link to "older version", which points to https://www.google.com/contacts_v1
So, the old version is still around, at least for a little while.
I would expect that there may be some incompatibilities with the new contact manager (some fields not supported for instance; Google+ Circles are definitely not there) and that they may finally kill it altogether. (They've done similar things with other products.)
2013-12-02: As predicted, the original version of Google Contacts is no longer available. (I don't know exactly when they took it away.) |
H: Blogger options missing
I see some of the options missing in the new post wizard of Blogger, as in the image below.
There I don't see text alignment to center/left/right and Numbered List or Bulleted List etcetera. My friend told me he can view them all. How can I get those options?
AI: As the screenshot shows, you're currently in HTML editor view, which has only the options that you see. Click on Compose on top left of the editor to see other options. |
H: Where should I report a bug relating to Google +1 button?
This is not Google+ directly, so I'm not sure if the answer for Google+ is relevant.
AI: I've had a great time working with you all in the Webmaster Central forum, but it's time for a small change. As the Google+ platform grows and the +1 button social plugin becomes a more integral part of that Google+ platform, we'll be moving the primary support channel for questions about the +1 button on your site to the general Google+ platform forum.
From Webmaster Central on Google Product Forums, filtered for “Google +1 button” category.
So in my opinion, you can either use these forums or the Send feedback form from Google+ pages. |
H: Multiple Conditions on a CountIF?
I have a spreadsheet that is essentially a todo list for different groups. I have a column for Group and Status. Both have data validation drop downs so I can reliably match the text content.
I have a stats area at the top. I have easily been able to use a simple COUNTIF to count up the total incomplete tasks:
=COUNTIF(Status, "New") + COUNTIF(Status, "In Progress")
I would like to have a similar count, but it should be specific to the group. "Count all rows that have the value, "Group 1" in the named range, Group, and have the value "New" or "In Progress" in the named range, Status.
Here it is in c-ish pseduocode:
n = 0;
if ((Status == "New") OR (Status == "In Progress")) AND (Group == "Group 1")
{
n++;
}
return n;
Is this possible?
AI: Here is the solution that ended up working for me:
=ArrayFormula(sum(countif(if(Group="Group 1",Status),{"New","In Progress"}))) |
H: Send Gmail emails from Facebook address
Is it somehow possible to link Facebook address each username is given to Gmail? Obviously, there is the "Accounts, Send mail as" feature, but that used to return an error
...
Final-Recipient: rfc822; myusername@facebook.com
Action: failed
Diagnostic-Code: smtp; 550 5.1.1 RCP-P2 http://postmaster.facebook.com/response_codes?ip=209.85.210.181#rcp Refused due to recipient preferences
You have requested to add myusername@facebook.com to your Gmail account.
Confirmation code: XXXXXXXX
...
The XXX part is actually how the email actually reads, the daemon does in fact obfuscate the code prior to sending it back.
I tried again recently, but Facebook mailer does not even return the error message nowadays (alas, it doesn't show in the message center either).
So, how is it possible nowadays?
PS: I can add aliases to gmail. The matter is that Facebook never delivers the verification email.
AI: I have tried sending from Gmail using another account (not facebook) and it worked.
These are the steps to follow :
Sign to you Gmail account
Click the Gear button and choose Settings
Go to the "Accounts and Import" section
Under "Send mail as:", click on "Add another email address you own"
A new browser windows will open - follow the instructions to add the Facebook account.
Gmail will send you a verification email with a code to the Facebook address.
Copy the code to the verification window, or click on the link.
From now on, when you Compose an email in Gmail, the "From" will have a drop-down list
that allows choosing the other account. The Gmail account stays the default.
As I said, whether this procedure works with Facebook is still to be verified,
but as far as I know this is the only procedure that achieves this purpose in Gmail. |
H: Expanding photo storage for Blogger for free
Blogger blogs by default use Picassa for storing photos, which offers 1GB storage for free. Is there a convenient way to expand the storage or use some other alternative to get more storage for photos?
AI: The easiest way, which still uses the Blogger interface for uploading, is to sign up for 2nd Google account, and give that account author (or even administrator) rights to your blog: this works for now because Google account storage limits are per account, not per flesh-and-blood person. It may have some downsides, though, if you want to be a verified author of your blog.
Another option is to host your photos on another service, and link to them via their URL. However photos hosted outside Picasa will not be used as the thumbnail for your posts. |
H: Is there any way to get driving directions to a location at a specified time of the day?
Is there any way to get driving directions in Google Maps to a location at a specified time of the day?
By that I mean the map should take into account the average traffic for that specific time frame and route accordingly. I am not looking for real time traffic. I want to be able to pre-plan my trip three days prior (in the evening) and want to know the best possible route on that day at that time.
AI: New Maps
Head to new Google Maps and go to where you want to view traffic.
Clear the search box (yeah, the UX people were out that day).
Hover your mouse over the search area and underneath "Getting around" should appear with some options. Select "Traffic":
You can then select "Typical Traffic" and change the date/time of the traffic you are looking at:
Check out the map and try some different routes - avoid the red bits!
Old Maps
Head to old Google Maps and select your start and finish points as usual. Then select 'Traffic' from the dropdown at the top right:
You should then get a menu on the lower left of the map that allows you to change the date/time of the traffic you are looking at:
Check out the map and try some different routes - avoid the red and black bits! |
H: Search for special characters like “!” in Gmail subject
Does anyone know if in Gmail you can search all messages that have an exclamation mark in the subject?
I would like to create a filter that adds a red ! label to the messages that have an exclamation mark in the subject. But searching for subject:! results in all messages. I've tried things like /!/, /\!/, (/\!/), "!", but all these searches just give me all messages, not just those with ! in the subject.
AI: From the "About Gmail Search" documentation:
Gmail doesn't recognize special search characters like square brackets, parentheses, currency symbols, the ampersand, the pound sign, and asterisks.
As you appear to have already discovered, and my quick tests appear to confirm, this seems to include the exclamation mark character.
I would assume that the regular expression Google are using to match search queries with possible results simply excludes all special characters and operates only on "word characters" (you can somewhat confirm this by the fact that searches for the underscore character, _, do work - the underscore is treated as a word character in a regular expression). |
H: How can I manage the transition from personal account to professional page?
My wife has a personal page, which she uses mostly, but not exclusively, for her public persona as an author. She's been doing this for years, but it seems like now she needs a professional page. So I created one, and one for the book she has coming out. But now I'm totally confused about how to manage this.
Converting her personal account to a fan page as described in this Facebook help article, seems way too drastic:
When you convert your personal account to a Facebook Page, we'll transfer your current profile picture and add all your friends and subscribers as people who like your Page. We'll also make your account's username the username for your Page.
It sounds like she would actually lose her personal account, and I think it would offend people to be automatically converted to "fans" of an author, when they thought they were friends with a person.
What I want is a way to make her author page her public persona on Facebook AND let her keep her private account, but I can't see a way to do this? Is there one? Or even to let her keep her personal account and just use that, except that I've heard that you can't really do this, because of the 5000 friend limit, and the rules about using a Facebook account for professional purposes. Can I do this?
AI: I was just researching this exact same question for a client. I work primarily with authors and speakers, and this question comes up a lot. Here are the key things to note.
When you migrate a profile to a page:
you do lose the old profile. You have to create a new profile for your personal use. But if the idea is to clean up the profile, starting with a clean slate isn't a bad thing!
only your profile pictures and friends/subscribers are transferred over to the page. So, backup your content if you have any interest in saving it. It won't be accessible later.
other than the new likes and a profile picture, your new page is blank. Once again, not a bad issue. Just start creating content. At least you'll be off to a great start with the following.
if your profile is the admin for any groups or apps, assign new admins before you migrate.
if you have a username specified for your profile (otherwise known as a "vanity URL"), it will be applied to the new page instead. FB does not allow you to change the username of a page with more than 200 "likes," so depending on how many people are friends, you may not be able to update the username of the page.
from what I can piece together, the name of the new page (the page title) is based on the profile name. Therefore, Joe Schmoe's profile will be displayed as "Joe Schmoe" for the page title. At least that's my guess. So, if you want a different title, change your profile name before you update the account. The first name could be "Joe Schmoe's" and the last name "Awesome New Facebook Page." You get the idea. I have to admit, I have not tried this out yet, but my guess is that it would work. Otherwise, to change a page title, you have to put in a special request with Facebook, and they're not very responsive about it.
the newsfeed of your new page will be blank because you haven't "liked" any other pages yet.
some people may be put off by becoming a fan when they thought they were your friend (think old high school classmates, family members, etc.). So, anticipate a drop-off in "likes" soon after the conversion.
Know that making a page is definitely the right answer. You need to be in conformance with Facebook's terms of agreement, otherwise, you risk them shutting your account down. But there are other reasons for it too. For instance, Google indexes pages, but not profiles. In addition, pages allow much more functionality than profiles do, including adding apps for a mailing list, creating events, etc. I hope this helps! |
H: What access to my Google account am I granting this web app?
I was signing up for a web service when the following prompt showed up:
I'm familiar with this process, and I've granted some more finer-grained access to other apps before, but if I recall correctly those all specified WHAT access I was granting. E.g. "Google Calendar: Create and view events". This one doesn't specify anything though.
If I click Grant access am I giving this app permission to do basically whatever it wants to do?
Can it change my password?
Can it go and delete emails if it wants?
AI: The vaguely named "Gmail" access is pretty much giving the application unlimited IMAP/SMTP access to your account (it provides an OAuth login which merely replaces giving it your password). In essence it is pretty much unlimited permission to your Gmail, so yes they could delete all your emails.
Providing any sort of access to your account will be a risk, but you can always revoke permission through your account's security settings.
You did manage to miss blacking out an instance of the URL - so I can note this question has been asked about that site inconclusively before. The site in question is quite popular these days, so unlikely to do anything terrible. |
H: Automatically send emails from Gmail
I use Google Apps email to send out details of a product I sell to people who enquire about it via a web form.
After a month or so I go through my Sent Mail folder and send a follow up email to all those I haven't heard off. Each email is the same except for the person's name in the greeting.
So in summary, periodically I need to send the same email to recipients in my Sent Mail folder that meet certain criteria: I emailed them in the past 2 months, the subject of the email was "My Super Product", I haven't had a reply off them since my last email.
Is there any tool available that can do this automatically?
AI: Gmail filters only act on messages when they arrive. There's not a way to do what you want with filters.
For a pure Gmail solution, you can accomplish almost what you want by judicious use of search and the Canned Responses Lab. That will make sending identical messages to a bunch of people relatively easy.
Another option would be to use some third-party tool. You can get your email via POP3 or IMAP, so virtually any desktop email client can get your messages. There are probably tools out there that will allow you to do what you're looking for. (That's outside the ken of WebApps, though.)
Alternatively, what you really need is a Customer Relationship Management (CRM) solution. Salesforce.com and its ilk probably already have the tools that you want. |
H: Where are the Trello servers located?
In which country, or countries, are servers running Trello located? Because of the laws in Canada regulating public institutions, we are not allowed to store certain kinds of information if the servers are in the USA.
A solution would be to run this nice tool on our own servers, but I just read that this is not an option.
AI: The Trello servers (including the databases) are hosted on Amazon Web Services (EC2, in the United States)
The Trello javascript/CSS are hosted on amazon cloudfront (with edge nodes around the world)
Attachments that are uploaded to Trello are stored on Amazon S3, but in a US region.
Google Drive/Docs attachments that are attached to Trello cards are (of course) hosted wherever Google stores its files. |
H: Why won't 'Promote' link appear on posts on a particular Facebook page?
I have one page at http://facebook.com/trelloapp that, when I use Facebook as the Trello user, shows a 'Promote' link on all my posts:
But when I switch to use Facebook as Fog Creek Software and go to the Fog Creek page at http://facebook.com/fogcreeksoftware, none of the posts show up with a 'Promote' link:
My account is a 'Manager' on both pages.
AI: The Fog Creek Software Page has 285 likes; only Pages with over 400 likes are eligible to see the Promote button. |
H: Adding Pagenumbers to Google Drive Presentation?
Can someone tell me how can I add page numbers to my Google Drive Presentation?
I've read that it should be under "Insert" but there's nothing even remotely relevant there. Here’s a screenshot:
AI: Unfortunately page numbers in Presentations hasn't been implemented yet.
We don't currently support master slide functionality, so you'll need
to insert numbers and logos manually.
Source
Its likely that i will be in the future - but no idea when.
Someone on another forum suggested a workaround by using the features built into Adobe Acrobat to add the page numbers (Open the document in acrobat, open the tools menu, goto Pages > Header and Footer > Add Footer/Header) |
H: How to use boolean AND and NOT operators in Gmail search
I'm trying to find mails that have one address in the recipients but another not in it.
I'm trying things like from:address1@gmail.com and not from:address2@gmail.com and from:(address1@gmail.com and not address2@gmail.com)
None of them work, and I can't find a good help page about boolean operators either.
Anyone has any idea?
AI: The 'or' function in Gmail is represented by 'OR'. You also can use quotes (" ") to specify an exact phrase.
From the Gmail help page on Boolean operators.
The 'not' function is represented by a minus (-), like -from:(...), -{from:(...)}, or -(from:(...)) |
H: How to manage who I'm following on Twitter
Currently I'm following almost 2k users on Twitter, I wish to review my followings and remove some of them, but it's very time consuming to check all of those one by one!
Basically I need to unfollow these users:
Who are not active anymore and have no tweets in last 2 month.
Who unfollowed me.
Users that appears that their account got hacked, and who send spammy DMs.
It would be very useful if I could have a list to see users profile, website, their last tweet and an unfollow button, all next to each other. is there any trustworthy ready-to-use application available or can I make something with Twitter API?
AI: Friend or Follow is a pretty good option here. The web app allows you to filter all those that you follow (for free), and sort by:
Follow/Followers Ratio (which will help determine spambots)
Last Tweet (to determine inactive users)
And users who do not follow you back |
H: Is it safe to delete files from my Dropbox account that were shared by someone else?
A friend shared a bunch of photos with me via my DropBox account and now I want to delete them. The files are showing as "shared" in my account.
I'm concerned that if I delete the files from my account they'll also be deleted from his. As they count towards my usage it appears that they are mine to delete, but I didn't create them in the first place.
Is it safe for me to delete the files?
AI: It appears that the files were not mine to delete after all.
Right clicking on the folder brings up the context menu - the first option of which is Shared Folder Options. Clicking on that option shows the following dialog:
In this case I'm the only member on the list so it's safe to delete the folder. In the other folder there were more names on the list - the person who shared the folder in the first place and others. In this case it would NOT be safe to delete the folder as it would delete it for everyone else as well.
The correct action here is to click on the "Leave folder" option. You get the option to keep the files on your computer and then on OK your usage is reduced by the size of the files that were in the folder. |
H: Is it possible to extract comments from a Facebook page?
I wished to be able to pint my Facebook Comments plugin to my FB page instead of my website, I hoped that it was possible just by placing the FB page's URL in the plugin code, just as we do it for like buttons, anyway, I'm pretty sure that's not possible.
Now, I would like to know is there anyway to extract comments (not post comments) from a Facebook page and show them on a website? like a feed?
AI: To my knowledge the current API doesn’t allow for this. Privacy setting would also need to allow such extraction to take place. |
H: Add Google Apps Email to My Google Account Email Addresses
I have an account ABC@gmail.com and just migrated my domain XYZ.com to Google Apps. I setup Gmail for my domain so now I have two different inboxes: (1) ABC@gmail.com, (2) me@XYZ.com .
Now I want to add me@XYZ.com to my email addresses for ABC@gmail.com, which are listed in https://www.google.com/settings/account ("Email addresses and usernames" > "Email addresses"')
I clicked "edit" and am redirected to https://accounts.google.com/b/0/EditUserInfo . However, after I enter me@XYZ.com to the "Add a new alternate address" text field and click "Save", it alerts saying "me@XYZ.com" is already associated with another Google Account.
I want to use me@XYZ.com for my Google Groups and some of the other serivces instead of ABC@gmail.com . Any idea about how can I add me@XYZ.com to email addresses owned by ABC@gmail.com (so that I can switch emails without applying for access permissions again) ?
(I already have two other email addresses connected with ABC@gmail.com and they work just fine. I only have to confirm the connection by clicking a link sent to my other two email inboxes.)
AI: I have faced a similar issue after migrating from Gmail to Google Apps and there isn't a way to use the old Gmail address with your new GA address.
You can however using the multiple sign-in feature of Google Accounts to stay signed in to both accounts always and switch based on the service that you are on. |
H: Search friends' posts on Facebook
When I use the FB search bar it always finds groups or pages, etc. I want to search stuff my friends have posted... for instance I remember last week someone posted or commented on a post about a flood. But searching for flood finds all kinds of global FB stuff, not results relevant to my friends.
Is this possible somehow, it kinda seems an obvious thing?
AI: According to Facebook, to search for relevant content posted by your friends, follow these steps:
Enter a keyword into the Search Typeahead at the top of the page.
Click on either the Search icon or the "See more results for" option from the drop-down menu.
You will land in the "All Results" filter by default.
Note: pressing enter after typing your query into Search Typeahead will take you to the first Search Typeahead result and not to the "All Results Filter".
To refine your search to show content only from your friends, select the "Posts by Friends" filter from the menu on the left side of the search results page. This will display search results exclusively from your friends. |
H: Contacting another GitHub user not already in any discussions
Is there a canonical way to contact a GitHub user who doesn't appear to be involved in any discussions? For example, can you start a discussion on one of their projects to make a comment?
From Anyway to contact a user on GitHub? I know I can alert the user by commenting on any discussion that they are involved in.
But the user I'm seeking to annoy does not appear to be in any discussions (either that, or I don't know how to find his list of discussions).
AI: While there's no canonical way to contact a user, github recently introduced a Mention @anybody, they're notified feature.
When you @mention a GitHub username anywhere in the context of an issue or pull request, that person is notified and subscribed to future updates.
You can also create a gist & mention him in the comment, thereby notifying the user. |
H: How to block someone who redirected his email spams to your email address?
I have two friends (yes, believe or not they are my friends) that are redirecting all the email spam they receive to my email address. This makes my Hotmail account receive 30 spams per hour (that are not filtered) so I need to keep erasing them and blocking the sender.
I already blocked their email addresses in the "from sender" configuration (the only "block" option that Hotmail allows me) but because the spam that I receive is not "addressed from" any of my friends' addresses (the emails that I receive actually are addressed to them, not me) I cannot block them.
So, is there some way to block an email with a "sent to" condition?
P.S. This happens on my Hotmail account but could have happened with any client that I was using - I have never found a "sent to" block method in any email client configuration so I believe this is not a topic for Web Applications or another site.
AI: Partial Answer
You can transfer all your mails to gmail and manage your inbox from there. You will have to sacrifice Hotmail for this and use Gmail, if you already have a Gmail account then its good.
Hotmail doesn't have as much setting and customization options as Gmail provides (IMHO), though I haven't use Hotmail so much, so I can't tell more about it.
Section #1 (Shifting to Gmail)
Don't worry, you won't loose any mails from your hotmail account.
Step #1
Sign in to your gmail account, If you don't have then create.
Step #2
After you are signed in:
Go to your settings (make sure that you are using standard mode, not basic html).
Move to Accounts and Import tab.
Go to the section which says Check mail from other accounts (using POP3)
Click on Add a POP3 mail account you own
Drag and drop image in another tab to see clearly
Step #3
You will be asked about your email id.
In next screen, do as directed, but also select the check boxes about SSL and labeling.
Click on add account. You will be asked some more questions, respond to them as your will. (they are helpful)
Section #2 (Teaching your friends lesson)
Setting up the filter
Step #1
Go to Filters tab of Settings. Now you should see Create a new filter at the bottom of the screen.
As you said, there is a Send-to filter.
Play with setting to get more out of Gmail.. |
H: What does "I'm feeling lucky" button do?
I am using Google many years, but I still don't know what does "I'm feeling lucky" button,
and why it's placed there. Explain me .
AI: Earlier (when the changing button and Google Instant was not there), this button directly opened up the first search result from Google.
Later, if there is no search query in the Search Bar, this button opens up the Doodles page.
Now, Google has added another Easter egg. When you hover over the "I'am Feeling Lucky" button, it changes to some other. Upon clicking it, it takes you to another page with some relation to the text. Like "I'am feeling Doodley" takes you to Doodles page. |
H: How do I extract my YouTube videos?
I have uploaded quite a few videos to YouTube. I'd like to download them all and move them to a different video sharing service. I don't necessarily have the original final files that I uploaded, so I'd like to get them out in the same format I uploaded them in. (Don't want to have to re-edit.)
How can I get my own videos from YouTube?
AI: Use Google Takeout. They have added the option to download your YouTube videos.
With Google Takeout, you can download all of the original videos that you have uploaded in a few simple clicks. No transcoding or transformation -- you’ll get exactly the same videos that you first uploaded. Your videos in. Your videos out.
Source. |
H: Is there a way to simultaneously delete an email and move to the next with Keyboard shortcuts?
I use the # key to delete emails in Gmail, but then I need to press Enter to get into the next conversation (Gmail automatically redirects to the inbox I was in previously).
This is probably pedantic and wishing for it means I deserve a medal for lethargy, but is there a way I can just hit # and the next email shows up (I think this is the way Yahoo mail works)?
AI: To make Gmail automatically open the next (or previous) message instead of going back to the message list:
Note: The new google doesn't have the option under the general tab anymore
Select Settings in Gmail.
Go to the Labs tab.
Make sure Enable is selected for Auto-advance.
Click Save Changes.
Source. |
H: Change Gmail Background every X minutes
I know how to change the theme in Gmail and change the background. However I would like the background of my theme to change every so many minutes versus once a day. Similar to the way you can set the time in Windows for changing the desktop background.
I have not seen a way to do this in Gmail settings.
Is this possible?
AI: You'll need to select a theme that changes hourly or at least based on the time of day.
In Gmail Themes there are four types of backgrounds you can choose, as indicated by the icon in the lower right of the background preview image:
None - Static and one image only
Sun - Changes based on the weather, set by your location setting
Clock - Based on time of day
Strip - Depends on the day of the week
That's the closest you'll get for now until they allow you to upload or select an album to flip through as a background wallpaper on X time increments. |
H: Gmail SMS notification
Does anyone know if there's a free way to do the following on Gmail:
Send a text message (SMS) to a specific mobile number whenever a new email arrives. I'm not bothered if the SMS doesn't contain any part of the email, would just like a notification that an email has arrived so the laptop can be booted to check.
This is for my parents who have a very low-traffic account, usually go days without even looking at their laptop and don't have a smartphone, tablet or any other instant-on device (so checking is a bit of a chore).
AI: Your use case seems to be ideal for If This Then That (IFTTT).
IFTTT is a service that lets you create powerful connections with one simple statement: if this then that.
So you could set up an IFTTT trigger which will send an SMS every time there's a new email. To make it easier for you, there's existing recipe. The recipe will send you an SMS containing the message:
Gmail :: {{FromAddress}} :: {{Subject}}
Just signup for IFTTT, head over to this recipe and click on Use This Recipe. |
H: Merge 'regular' Google account calendar with a Google Apps for your domain calendar
I have a 'regular' Gmail account, and a Google Apps for your domain account through one of my clients.
I use the calendars in both accounts, but there seems to be no good way to view events from both accounts in a single page.
AI: You can share your Google Apps account's calendar with the regular account. That way you can view both of them from the regular account's calendar. Or vice-versa. |
H: How safe Is "MyPermissions"?
How safe is the MyPermissions site?
It looks like a good way to keep track of what inter-web-app permissions you've granted, at least for the big names. However, I'm at the stage where I'm considering installing the Chrome extension, and I wonder if doing this just adds another layer of potential insecurity by handing all my permissions/IDs to MyPermissions themselves.
Do they ever get shared with the MyPermissions site directly?
AI: Disclosure: I'm MyPermissions' CTO.
MyPermissions.org itself is simply a list of links pointing to the exact places in websites such as Facebook where they manage the permissions you have given to 3rd party apps. In some websites, these links can be deep inside the user interface and are very hard to find. On MyPermissions.org you can also register for a monthly email reminder to check your permissions.
The current version of MyPermissions iOS app does the same as the MyPermissions.org website but also allows you to set a reminder to check your permissions as well as fix certain permissions pages on some sites which are not suitable for mobile browsers.
MyPermissions Cleaner - the browser extension does the scanning for you so you don't have to remember to run it yourself. It doesn't request your username and password since it runs inside the browser and bound to the same security restrictions as other extensions (depending, of course, on the type of browser). In the case of Facebook scanning, it will scan the currently logged on Facebook account.
Our main dilema when building MyPermissions Cleaner was how to obtain access to the user's list of apps without requesting the user's credentials (username & password). The solution we eventually employed in the current version of the extension was to use the current logged on user to the services such as Facebook. That way we don't require the user's credentials and we can still access the list of apps and perform the scan.
If you use MyPermissions Cleaner we only store apps you have marked as "Trusted" associated with your accounts so we'll know not to alert you on these apps. The rest of the data we store (such as general apps usage and statistics) is anonymous and is not directly linked to real specific users. |
H: How can I get out of this mess (need help getting back a username I used to own)?
I'm trying to get a Facebook username for my website's fan page (hereafter referred to as myusername). Unfortunately for me the situation is rather complicated as I didn't do things properly in the first place.
Here is what I did:
as I already had a username with my personal account and wanted to
reserve the name ASAP, I created a dummy user account and reserved myusername with it.
some time after, I created a fan page for my website and asked some friends to like it.
as soon as I got 25 fans, I released myusername from the dummy account (by changing it to something else) in an attempt to use it for my fan page.
Here is the situation now:
myusername is no longer used by the dummy account (nor by any other account as when I go to /myusername I get the The page you requested was not found error).
My fan page has more than 25 fans and I can set a username.
When I check the availability for myusername it says that it's not available.
That's been the case for months now.
The solutions I see:
Wait longer and hope myusername will eventually become available
(I don't like that option).
Contact Facebook via the Reporting a Violation or Infringement of Your Rights form and try to get them to manually give me
myusername (I own the Trademark in several countries, including
US and Canada).
Do you see any other solutions?
AI: You already answered your own question. Go with the solution #2 that you posted in your question. Since you own the trademark the process should go pretty smoothly. |
H: How to view an attached email in Gmail?
If I receive an email, where somebody has attached an .eml file, how do I view that in Gmail?
I'm presented with a link to "View as Text" or "Download". If I "View as Text", I get the raw view of the email as I'd get with "Show Original" of a normal mail, but I'd like to see the formatting, attachments, etc., of the attached mail.
What does work is to save the file as file.eml, and then open that file in Thunderbird. But I'd like to avoid needing Thunderbird...
This is the reverse of Sending a new mail with another email as an attachment in Gmail.
AI: This is a known issue with all of Google's services. They do not support the .eml or the less common .mht, both of which are known and established formats. In this case it has been (for years now) one area that all the others (Microsoft, Apple, Mozilla, and most of the rest of the community) are ahead of Google on. The only option, aside from convincing Google to support it, appears to be to either bear with the extra info and read it as a raw text file or to save it and open it with almost any other email client, such as Thunderbird or Outlook. |
H: Checking into a book, music, games and topics on the new GetGlue
GetGlue recently updated their user interface and I am having problems checking into a book, music, games and topics.
How can this be done or has support for books been disabled?
AI: After doing some searching I found the link to the old Get Glue website
I am not sure how long it will be available so use it while its still alive,I hope they will integrate the checking in of these items on the new version. |
H: What is the difference between Page Subscriber and Page Likes?
I run a page and noticed that I have 35k likes, but only 18 subscribers. What is the difference?
I've reviewed some other pages and did not find a link to subscribe to them.
AI: According to the Facebook spokesperson quoted in this Marketing Land article:
We are currently testing the ability to subscribe to Pages with a
small group. This feature allows people to receive updates from Pages
without liking the Page. We have no further details to share at this
time. |
H: How to move photos from Picasa albums to Flickr?
I am looking for a way to move my Picasa web albums to Flickr? I don't find downloading and uploading very easy.
Is there any website for this purpose?
AI: Try picaflicka.
Want to transfer your picasa albums to flickr?
Try picaflicka and see the magic!
It only takes 3 simple steps and it's free.
Disclaimer: I haven’t used the service. |
H: Some one has shared folder in Dropbox but the folder is not appearing in my Dropbox
How do I get a folder in my Dropbox list when it has been shared by someone.
AI: The Dropbox sharing process is a three step process.
First you need to share the folder with the others by entering their Dropbox name or email address. Note that can NOT share a folder if it is within the Public folder.
Second Dropbox will send a acceptance link to the user.
The other user accepts the share and then the folder is automatically added to their Dropbox.
So first check that you have accepted the share link, if you have then you may want to have them resend the link. If you are not getting the link then you should check spam filter in your email as well as have the other person check that they are getting your Username or email correct. |
H: Escape parentheses around a number in Google Sheets?
How do you escape parentheses around numbers in Google Sheets so that they don't default to displaying as negative numbers?
AI: Not sure what you want to do with the data and if this would mess it up, but you can prefix the number with a ' (single quote) and it will not display as negative (e.g. '(3) will display as (3)). |
H: Deleting an account(website) from Google Analytics?
Where exactly is the option to remove an account in Google Analytics? I have checked several of the settings tabs and I am still unable to locate the delete option.
AI: Go to https://www.google.com/analytics
Click the profile that you want to edit
Click Admin on the right hand side of the screen
Click the name of the profile from the profiles tab
Click the profile settings tab
On the bottom right of the screen click the Delete this profile link and go through the confirmation steps
Note that this will permanently delete that profile and all data associated with it. If this profile is used by others and you just want to remove it from your list of profiles than you should ask another Administrator to remove you from the list of users. |
H: Can I make Emailing an address that forwards back to me appear in the inbox?
I have a Gmail address that's my primary email. I have a couple short email addresses on my own domain that I have set to forward to the Gmail account.
For various reasons, I like to email these addresses from my Gmail account (which will then forward back to myself). The frustration is, these emails do not show up in my inbox - only the "All Mail" tab.
There's a filter to "skip the inbox".
Why can't there be one for "put it in the inbox"?
AI: As one option, you could make sure that your email filter turns on "Never send it to Spam" and "Always mark it as Important".
In your Inbox setting, you can "Override filters" and always include Important emails in the inbox.
I don't have a way to test this suggestion, but could you give me feedback as to whether this worked for you? |
H: Google Trends for a Website
Some time ago Google Trends for websites did make possible to get statistics about sites. For example http://trends.google.com/websites?q=wikipedia.org showed the chart about the historical series of unique visitors for wikipedia.org site.
Note that this page explaining Google Trends for website is currently available.
Now that Google Trends for websites has been merged with Google Trends, is it still possible to get the same statistics?
AI: Looks like a few weeks ago it was "spring cleaned" as Google likes to put it:
We've merged Insights for Search into a revamped Google Trends. You
can now see search trends and compare search volume patterns across
specific regions, categories, time frames and properties in a single
place: google.com/trends. We will no longer support Trends for
Websites, which allowed people to compare traffic to and audiences of
different websites.
You could use one of the many other stats sites like Alexia, thought the data will be a bit different. And less pretty. |
H: Watch a Git repository on Google Code? (RSS/Twitter/...)
There is a Git repository that I want to be notified about. Any notificatioin would be fine: RSS would be the best, but Twitter or similar notifications are acceptable too. Unfortunately, the page is not understood by Twitterfeed:
Your feed might be empty or missing publish dates or GUIDs
Is there another service that understands Git history and pushes a notification when a new commit is made?
Actually this open source project has most of the code that would be needed to create such a service.
AI: To answer to the question the feed is here.
As a bonus note: Firefox removed the RSS button over a year ago because allegedly only 3% of users used it. You can still check if a page has an RSS by going Bookmarks → Subscribe to this page or by right clicking on the tool bar, selecting Customise and dragging the icon back to its rightful place. |
H: In YouTube is there anyway to select specific time?
For example if you just missed something and want to rewind 3 seconds is there an easier way than using the scroll bar?
AI: If you have the scrollbar selected the easiest thing to do is use the left and right arrow keys to jump back and forward around 3 to 5 seconds.
Check out this question for a complete list of shortcut keys. |
H: Extract part of an image in Google Slides
In a Google Slides presentation, is it possible to extract part of an inserted image and use it as a new image?
AI: Google Docs Presentation only has a very limited set of image options ranging only to resizing, rotating, and moving. Any additional image manipulation must be done with other software. Many options are available in this area, from free to big dollars, such as Paint.NET and GIMP up to major programs such as Photoshop. Each of these editors have their own advantages and disadvantages depending on what exactly you need to do. If you only need to do basic cropping then you can use Paint on Windows or Paintbrush on Mac which both come free with your OS. |
H: Why is my tweet not appearing, and when might it appear?
I signed up to Twitter and tweeted somebody. It has now been 47min since the tweet and I've been checking the profile of the person I've tweeted, but the tweet has not appeared.
What is happening?
AI: The tweet will not appear on their profile but in their mentions when they login (this will not be visible to you) The tweet's location in "Twitter space" is in your profile
Here I sent a tweet to someone
Here is their profile
If the user replied it would show in their profile |
H: I've received a "Getting back onto Facebook" email - does it mean someone were trying to access my account?
I've received a "Getting back onto Facebook" email. I usually receive that email from Facebook when I enter a wrong password, but I'm sure this time it wasn't me!
What should I do now to keep my account safe?
AI: Just enable login notifications. You'll be asked for a device name whenever you login. The name will be sent to your mobile (You have to activate facebook mobile for this). And once you name a device, like "Home",it won't ask again when you login from that device! Logging in from unnamed device always asks you this question. If you don't give a name,you'll get a message like,"an unknown device logged into your account at 15:30. Please change your password if it isn't you." Similarly,you'll get the message when you name a device like,"Home logged into your account at 18:00" but you'll get it only once!
To activate it,refer this! |
H: Google Spreadsheet Timestamp?
I'm looking for some help with my Daily Work Log spreadsheet.
I've search and read many different version of making a "TimeStamp" in Google spreadsheet.
And it seems I don't have enough experience for it to work correctly. The time stamp script I am using updates every time my spreadsheet auto saves or something is changed.
Here's what I'm tring to do. I have work force of technicians.
Initials are AB, DD, RG, JW, RZ.
I want the spreadsheet to time stamp column N when they enter their initials in column M.
I know you can use the keyboard shortcut Ctrl + Shift + : to time stamp a cell.
Is there a script I can use to do that action in column N when initials are entered in
column M?
AI: Try this answer from StackOverflow:
Here's the relevant code (edited):
function onEdit() {
var s = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSheet();
if( s.getName() == "Sheet1" ) { //checks that we're on the correct sheet
var r = s.getActiveCell();
if( r.getColumn() == 13 ) { //checks the column
var nextCell = r.offset(0, 1);
if( nextCell.getValue() === '' ) //is empty?
var time = new Date();
time = Utilities.formatDate(time, "GMT", "HH:mm:ss");
nextCell.setValue(time);
};
};
} |
H: Forcing HD in embedded YouTube videos
Is there a way to force High Definition in embedded YouTube videos?
AI: Not sure if there is a workaround, but according to the YT documentation, the HD playback was included, but was deprecated:
https://developers.google.com/youtube/player_parameters#Deprecated_Parameters
Don't think there is currently a way to enable HD playback by default. |
H: RSS/Atom feed provider/reader with "more entries" option?
I am quite sure the question title is not helpful, thus, here is the long version:
Is there any "common practice" method to extend feeds to give readers an option to load more entries?
What I want to achive is providing search results in a simple-to-browse way. I thought, feeds would be nice. However, neither RSS nor Atom provide a standard mechanism to get "more entries".
I know "CoolIris" uses <atom:link rel="previous" ... /> and <atom:link rel="next" ... /> in its media feeds to achive this (reference), but using "previous" and "next" is not in the Atom specification. So this is also a very non-standard way.
Since I will create the feeds myself, I could use any method. However, is there any reader out there which will unterstand something like this?
AI: If I understand what you want correctly, you want to implement "paged search results" in a Atom/RSS feed.
I don't think this type of thing is widely implemented, but there is a proposed standard (via Amazon.com) at OpenSearch.org—look specifically at the OpenSearch response elements. |
H: Do email services send sender's IP address?
If I'm going to receive/send email through Gmail/Hotmail/Yahoo, would I be able to see the IP of the sender?
I know there's nothing to do with the IP but would it give away the location from where I'm sending emails?
AI: Short answer: Yes (at least if the sender used an email program).
Long answer: Each email message contains a number of headers, which describe things like the sender's and recipients' email addresses, where the message originated from, and so on. As the message passes through SMTP servers, which relay it to the recipient(s), each of them adds a Received field to the header. The last (because new fields are prepended to the existing header) such field, then, should show the IP address of the sender. However, if the sender used web-based email (as opposed to an email client like Outlook or Windows Live Mail), then the first Received field often contains just the IP address of the email server, rather than the sender. (At least that's the case with Gmail, according to this article.)
Some email providers might also use other header fields. For instance, Outlook.com (aka Hotmail) at one time used the X-Originating-IP header.
To see the headers of an email message yourself, you can do the following:
in Outlook.com, open the message, click Actions and select "View message source"
in Gmail, click on the More button (next to the Reply arrow) and select "Show original"
in Windows Live Mail, right-click on the message and select Properties, then go to the Details tab
in Mozilla Thunderbird, double-click the message to open it in a new window, then go to View → Headers → All
(image credit: http://www.emailquestions.com)
in Outlook (2007 and later):
open a message
on the Message tab, in the Options group, click the Dialog Box Laucher
in the Message Options dialog box, the headers appear in the Internet headers box
for more information, see http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook-help/view-e-mail-message-headers-HA001230300.aspx
Several websites (such as these two) allow you to paste the source of an email and will automatically parse it for the sender's IP. |
H: What is the "web clipboard" in Google Spreadsheets?
I made a chart in Google Spreadsheets and then clicked on Copy Chart. A little popup notified me that the chart was copied to the web clipboard. However, when I try to paste the chart anywhere in the spreadsheet or in another Google doc via Edit → Paste, I can't. Nothing is pasted.
What is the web clipboard?
AI: Browsers typically cannot access the OS clipboard - it would be a disaster if a web page could get access to your credit card number, that you happened to have copied, for example.
Therefore, web apps cannot copy/paste to the OS clipboard, unless the user actively presses Ctrl-C/Ctrl-V or similar.
This makes copying/pasting spreadsheet data difficult, since it is not just a block of text or an image, but a more complex data structure (cells with content and formatting). To work around this, Google has implemented a replacement clipboard, which stores clips on their servers instead of in the OS clipboard. This is the web clipboard (also called Server clipboard or Cloud clipboard).
To paste from the web clipboard, click on the clipboard icon in the toolbar - don't use the Edit menu - and your copied item should be listed there. See this blogpost for explanation. |
H: "Message Clipped" warning has disappeared from Gmail
Update: This feature was restored on or before 15 October 2012.
Gmail has a feature that "clips" long messages rather than displaying the whole message body. Googling around, I can find screenshots of the warning I used to see:
[Message clipped] View entire message
This message contained a link which would display the full message body.
This week, I've noticed long emails (over 100K) are being clipped, with no option to view the entire message body. I've verified this behavior in Google Apps and regular Gmail. The messages are definitely intact on the backend, and they can be viewed in their entirety in Thunderbird.
Does anyone know when and why this feature was removed? Is it coming back any time soon?
AI: Yeah, I'm seeing the same issue. The HTML is all there if you "show original". It appears to be a display issue. I'm told Google is working on a bug fix.
Temporarily, I'm just copying the html and sticking it in http://htmledit.squarefree.com so I can read it. |
H: In the new Facebook where can I see my list of Friend Requests?
In the old version of Facebook I could see a list of who I have "Friend Requested"; where is that in the new version? I want to know who accepted my request or who just deleted my request.
AI: Per Facebook help:
There's currently no place on the site where you can see all your sent pending requests. However, if you go to someone's timeline you can tell your friend status based on the following.
If you see Add as Friend, then you don't have a friend request pending.
If you see Awaiting friend confirmation, you'll know that you've sent a request that hasn't yet been confirmed.
If you see the Remove friend link, you'll know you've both confirmed your friendship. |
H: Can a Facebook user know who views their profile/pics?
I want to know whether there is a way to tell who views my Timeline/Profile/pics on Facebook if we aren't friends. Is there an app or a log or something?
AI: There's no Facebook feature that enables you to see who viewed your information on Facebook, and to my knowledge there are no valid apps that enable you to do this either. Beware of the many scams that go around Facebook from apps claiming they let you see who viewed your profile -- they're never valid. |
H: Is it possible to only use Google Apps for Gmail?
I am interested in using Gmail via Google apps for my domain. I have had success with the emails but not with the website portion. My question is would it be possible to only use Gmail Google Apps as opposed to migrating entirely to Google?
AI: Absolutely. You can use only the Google products you want, and leave the rest unused. It is merely a matter of DNS records.
For using Gmail, you need to set the correct MX records. If you don't want to use Google Sites for your website, you don't have to do anything else - your current website will stay unchanged, while your Google Sites will be available at http://sites.google.com/a/yourdomain.com
If you want to completely disable Google Sites (or other Google Apps services), you may do so from the Google Apps control panel. |
H: Google Docs Spreadsheet ImportHtml() with Basic Auth
Within a Google Docs spreadsheet, I need to access external data that requires basic authentication. Usually I would include external data by putting this in a cell:
=ImportHtml("http://somedomain.com/somepath", "table", 0)
For basic auth, I have tried a standard URL with credentials:
=ImportHtml("http://user:pass@somedomain.com/somepath", "table", 0)
Google responds with the following:
error: Data temporarily unavailable
Is there any way to use basic auth-protected resources in a Google spreadsheet?
AI: ImportHTML does not support authentication. The data has to be publicly available for you to use this function.
This applies to ImportXML & ImportFeed also. |
H: Thumbnails for multiple links in same Facebook post
Can I get multiple thumbnails for multiple links referenced in a Facebook post? Usually, the thumbnail is generated for the first link, but not for the second onwards.
AI: You can only get the one thumbnail per post. However, you can post the second link as a comment, and that will generate a preview with a thumbnail in the comment.
You'll have less control over the thumbnail in the comment. If you have multiple images on the webpage, Facebook will choose which one to display (I'm not certain how it decides) rather than letting you scroll through the images to choose one yourself. |
H: Google Drive and Multiple Users
I am not very familiar with Google Docs or Google Drive but started to look into it more and have two questions:
Once a file is uploaded can others in my organization see the files and download them as they need to?
Can I upload and download any file type with Google Drive?
AI: Once a file is uploaded can others in my organization see the files and download them as they need to?
You will have to setup sharing options; also unless its set to Public I think others will need to have Google accounts to manage the access rights.
Can I upload and download any file type with Google Drive?
Not 'any' type, but it covers a lot of the common use cases: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Drive#Supported_file_formats
Edit: As @William Jackson points out in the comment below, this is the list of files that can be edited in docs, if you only care about storage then it should accept any file type. |
H: When using Chrome, why does Twitter's home page redirect me to a search for "searchTerms"?
This has been going on for some time. Whenever I type twitter.com into Chrome's omnibar, I am redirected to https://twitter.com/search/%7BsearchTerms%7D?source=desktop-search. Given the tweets showing there, this seems to be a common problem, though my searches only turned up one guy who recorded a video describing the problem.
After clicking Twitter's Home button, I wind up at the home page I expected to reach in the first place.
I have been able to reproduce this on Chrome on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. It doesn't seem to affect other browsers such as Firefox. I have cleared cache, cookies, tried a completely different machine, the usual stuff.
My current environment is: Chrome Version 22.0.1229.94 m on Windows 8.
I have also experienced this on many previous versions of Chrome, running on Fedora 17 and OS X 10.7.
AI: Search redirects in Chrome more often than not mean that there's a custom Search URL defined under Search settings.
You can check this from Chrome Menu → Settings → Manage Search Engines (or by pasting chrome://settings/searchEngines in the omnibar. If there's one defined for twitter, delete that entry and it should work fine after that. |
H: What counts as an "unanswered" friend request on Facebook?
According to the Facebook FAQ, users may have their ability to send friend requests temporarily disabled if too many of them have gone "unanswered or been marked as unwelcome." I understand this is to prevent spam. But my question is, just what does Facebook consider to be an "unanswered" friend request? When the recipient clicks "Not Now"? When they delete the request? Or do they have to actually mark it as spam?
Also, does anyone know if the number of mutual friends is taken into account?
AI: Clicking "Not Now" will hide the request so you can take action on it later. If you choose to hide a friend request, a notification for the request will no longer appear on your home page. To confirm or delete the request later:
Go to the Requests page.
Select "See Hidden Requests."
You can confirm or delete individual requests or delete all of your hidden requests.
If you hide or delete a friend request, the sender won't know.
Source |
H: Disable "Fwd" label in Gmail while forwarding mails
I forward mails a lot and I don't want to reveal to the receiver that the mail is being forwarded. So each time while forwarding I end up manually removing the Fwd: label from the subject and the
---------- Forwarded message ----------
from the body.
Is there any way to activate labeling only when needed?
Is there any trick or workaround other than manually removing them?
AI: That is not a label that is a part of the subject and body that are added by almost every single email program that lets the receiver of your mail know that the email is originally from another source.
If you are truly concerned about the privacy of the original sender then you may just want to try to use copy and paste. In the original email use Ctrl+A (Cmd on Mac) to select the entire body of the email then Ctrl+C to copy the selected content. I would then either start a new email or simply click to forward and then in the body of the draft email once again use Ctrl+A to select the entire body and then Ctrl+V to paste the original body of content over current content.
This method along with using the forward button will leave the "Fwd:" in the subject line, however, it could be debated whether or not it should remain to let the receiver know that the content of the mail was not originally from you even if your hide who is the actual original author. |
H: Is it possible to use Google Spreadsheets to post to a web service?
I was wondering, as a thought experiment, if it were possible to use Google Spreadsheets to post to a web service.
For example imagine you created a spreadsheet for guests attending a party with columns - first name, last name, allergies, meal preferences since it is so easy to share and sync you send a link to it to everyone you can think of. But being a geek you would like the data to populate a MySQL server (or whatever) so you can create a fancy website or reminder or social thingy (or whatever).
Is this possible? I have tried reading the API but it does not appear to be but maybe I have missed something.
AI: Yes, populating an external service should be possible in a few different ways, all involving Google Apps Scripts:
By using the JDBC service to populate an external database directly
By using the URLFetch service to call an external web service
By pulling data from the spreadsheet from an external app
In any case, you would need to set up a trigger script that will run when a response is submitted to your spreadsheet.
Option 1 might be out of the question if your database is behind a firewall. If you're not keen on doing a lot of Google Apps scripting, a good compromise could be to have a small trigger script ping an external web service to notify it of the new data. The external service would then poll the Google Spreadsheet for data, using for example the XML API.
You say it's just a thought experiment for now (too bad - it sounds like a fun project), but in any case I would really recommend reading up on Google Apps Script. It is a fairly new feature in Google Docs/Drive, and really makes it possible to create quite powerful webapps. |
H: How can I unsubscribe from few friends on Facebook
I really wanted to unsubscribe from few friends. But, that option of "unsubscribe" appearing in the right-side drop-down menu of their post on wall is gone and so does the option of "unsubscribe" from their profile pages. Is there any other way to do it now?
AI: Go to their profile page (Timeline) and select Friends → Settings. You can then select what updates you want to see (uncheck all options to get no updates). You can also select Only Important to change the frequency of posts that appear in your newsfeed, in case you don't want to unsubscribe from all posts. |
H: Is it possible to print a photo from Picasa Web Albums?
In Picasa Web albums I can print the entire page, or download the photo and print.
But is it possible to print the photo directly?
AI: If not directly, the following workaround may work for you:
Navigate to the image in Picasa, so that you're viewing a single photo with navigation arrows on each side
Click the Full screen button
Right-click on the image, and:
In Chrome or Firefox: Click Copy image address
In Internet Explorer: Click Properties, and select the URL address
In Safari: Don't have a Mac right now, but a similar option exists
Click on the browser's location bar, selecting the text already there
Type Ctrl+V (or Command-V on Macs) to paste the image address, and press Enter
The image is displayed in the browser - type Ctrl-P (Command-P) to print it |
H: How do I untrust a computer with Google two-factor authentication?
I use Google's two factor authentication to send my phone text messages with a string of 6 numbers every time I log into a computer that isn't mine. It has worked well so far until today.
Today, I took too long to enter the code, which would be fine normally... except I clicked through faster than I should have and realized shortly after that the "trust this computer" box was checked the second time through. I took a look through the options for my Google account and saw no obvious place to revoke the trust.
This is absolutely not a computer I want trusted for any extended amount of time.
How do I untrust a computer from Google's two-factor authentication?
AI: Clear the browser's cookies (and perhaps cache/history).
'Trust this computer' option doesn’t work
For computers you trust, Google recommends you select the "Trust this computer" option when you are asked for a verification code. When you check this box, you won’t have to enter a code every time you sign in to your account from that computer.
This feature uses a cookie to remember your browser when you sign in. If you’re still being asked to enter a code despite selecting the “Trust this computer” option, this might be because your browser is set to delete cookies after a certain period of time, or is set to delete cookies every time you quit the browser. You may also be manually clearing cookies from your browser. (emphasis added) |
H: Not able to sign up for Google Labs: SMS Channels
I am not able to Sign up for Google SMS Channels, I am getting this error message:
What's wrong? What should I do?
AI: The SMS Channel was apparently stopped a while back as I was facing the same problem and a mail from the help desk of Google had content informing that since no progress is happening from Labs to a revenue generating effort into mainstream, they are discontinuing it.
So theres a chance that it might not be working for the same reason.
Or, maybe because you entered the wrong number :P |
H: Crawl someone's status updates on Facebook?
Is there a tool out there that will crawl one of your friend's status updates and download them to a file? I'm doing some research and it's a pain to keep hitting "older posts.."
AI: You may want to look at the questions on StackOverflow about the Facebook Graph API.
Your solution for instance, may involve something like wget and a URL of the form (or similar): https://graph.facebook.com/USERNAME_HERE/feed.
E.g.: https://graph.facebook.com/cocacola/feed
In fact by examining the bottom previous/next links from this page, I can see that adding a query similar to ?limit=25 and perhaps even &since=2011-02-09T04 may be just what you need.
E.g.: https://graph.facebook.com/cocacola/feed?limit=100 |
H: Is it not possible to create an app as local business (Facebook page)?
I’m trying to create an app at developers.facebook.com when I’m logged in as local business user (page). Under Apps there isn’t any Create new app button. Is that not possible?
AI: No it is not possible. As stated by a Facebook employee
'Business' or advertising accounts can't manage apps - if you were
able to create one as a business account this is a bug or loophole and
shouldn't have been possible - only real verified user accounts should
be able to create and manage apps.
If you need to share ownership of the app between multiple people you
can do so either via making a Facebook Group an admin and adding the
other admin users to that group, or by adding the users directly via
the
API
or the 'Roles' tab of the App settings: !Role management popup with
'Create Group' option
You can also specify a business account which will manage the ads for
an app in the app settings - on the Advanced tab - but this is
effectively the only supported connection between apps and business
accounts -
Source: http://facebook.stackoverflow.com/questions/10805745/creating-and-managing-a-facebook-app-from-a-business-account |
H: Why doesn't my Google group show up in Google Search?
I created a group three days ago. It is a private group (meaning people need permission to become members) but everyone can ask to join. I specifically marked "List this group in the directory", and yet I can't find my group in a Google search.
AI: The Google Groups directory is a separate thing from the regular Google Search.
The directory is simply the listing of groups available from the Groups home page (see bullet point #9 here).
As for why your group isn't showing in Google search, it's probably just a matter of being patient:
Crawling and indexing are processes which can take some time and which
rely on many factors. In general, we cannot make predictions or
guarantees about when or if your URLs will be crawled or indexed.
See the Google FAQ on indexing. |
H: How to re-send invitation to write LinkedIn recommendation
Is there a way I can request for recommendation again to the same person?
I have requested them before but from some of them I didn't receive the recommendation. How can I resend the recommendation request (other than sending a private message to them)?
AI: Click on Profile.
Select Recommendations.
Click on Manage under the appropriate job title.
Select Request a new or revised recommendation underneath the recommendation text .
Click Save. |
H: DNS forwarding used to point GoDaddy DNS to Heroku app: this doesn't work from a corporate network -why?
My domain on GoDaddy is set up with DNS forwarding to the Heroku app - this works fine from all of the internet connections I've tried except for the one at work. How can I troubleshoot this issue? Is it a case of ports being blocked? Why might that matter?
AI: I do believe that this sounds a lot like one of two problems. This solution does assume that you have recently setup the domain forwarding, such as in the last 24 - 72 hours. If this is the case then the solution may also find itself since it could be just a longer then normal delay on the propagation of the domain changes.
The DNS server that is used from the corporate network has not been updated with the correct address to point your domain to. Sometimes some DNS servers take a bit of time before they become aware of a record change. This is one reason why when your are setting up your IP address for your systems it allows for a primary and secondary DNS server IP.
The DNS cache that is maintained on some network gateways and or systems may need to be updated or flushed. This process can be a bit equipment specific depending on what equipment is access permissions are involved. |
H: Store form data to Google Drive
I have a webpage where I have a textbox, preferably for storing email addresses.
I need to create an email intake database with a simple database built to store users' emails “signing up”.
One of the ways I think this is using an Excel document on Google Drive, the other being a standalone DB.
How can I do this?
AI: Try using the Forms functionality that is already provided by Google: http://support.google.com/docs/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=87809
This help article shows you how to set up a form, and the form responses go to a Google Spreadsheet with all of the data. You could create a simple form that asks users to enter an email address and hit "Submit"
The easiest way to create a form is:
Create a Google Spreadsheet
Click Form > Create Form
Add your question(s) and edit your question types
Once the form is created:
Click Form > Embed Form in a Webpage
You can then use the <iframe> to embed the form onto your site. |
H: Can I use Syntax Highlighter by Alex Gorbatchev with Windows Command Prompt commands in Blogger?
I use Syntax Highlighter by Alex Gorbatchev in my blog on Blogger. It perfectly works with all the programming languages I use. Recently I needed to highlight Windows Command Prompt commands and I found only brush: powershell option for the <pre> tag to do it. Unfortunately, it does not work exactly as I need.
I have theses commands:
taskkill /IM explorer.exe /F
cd /d %userprofile%\AppData\Local
del IconCache.db /a
shutdown /r /f /t 00
When I use <pre class="brush: powershell; gutter: false">CODE_GOES_HERE</pre>, it highlights cd, del and /r (not a command at all) but does not highlight taskkill and shutdown as I expect it to.
Is there any workaround to solve this problem and highlight Windows Command Prompt commands correctly or should I use another syntax highlighter in my blog?
AI: Here is a list of different brushes that you can add to the script to support several other languages, among which are batch files (bat, cmd, batch):
http://www.undermyhat.org/blog/2009/09/list-of-brushes-syntaxhighligher/ |
H: It is possible for Google Search to give me results (prioritized) from Google History/Bookmarks?
The title pretty much summarizes what I want to know. Long time ago, I remember something called Google Custom Search, but I'm afraid that Google shut down that service too.
Anyway, I love to bookmark on Google Bookmarks and also I like that Google keeps a record of every single search that I make, but it seems that Google Search doesn't want to include them on my normal queries.
I want to know if I can configure to do that. No plugins, no URLs other than Google.com. Is this possible? If so, please tell me how.
AI: If you are using Google's Chrome browser, or Firefox (optionally with the awesome Omnibar add-on), you will get direct suggestions from your history/bookmarks, if you search from the browser's address bar.
The matching is based on keywords -and optionally bookmark tags-, but I am not sure if the results (= suggestions) are prioritized on their type. |
H: Reseting responses in a GoogleDocs Form
I want to reuse a GoogleDocs Form, with (almost) the same Form, but with fresh Responses.
I did copy it, but I don't know how to reset responses (not reseting the form itself, i.e. Form/Delete Form).
I manually erased the previous entries. However, they are still treated as entries with values set to ''.
Is there a way to do it?
AI: You should be able to get a 'fresh' form by deleting the entry rows. That is, select the entire row by clicking the row number(s), right-click, and choose Delete row.
(source)
I just did the following test case:
Create a simple form
Submit a response
In the spreadsheet, select the response row, right-click, delete row
Submit a new response
Result: The second response posted in #4 is listed on the first row. The response summary shows only one response. |
H: Insert special characters with keyboard shortcuts in Google Docs
I could do it some time ago, but after the interface change I'm not able.
Is it possible to insert the special characters by some keyboard shortcuts?
AI: Unfortunately if you were able to do this before, there is no way to do it now. Here is a link to the updated Help Article on all shortcuts in Docs:
https://support.google.com/docs/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=179738
The best way to do it now is Alt+I to access the menu options and C
++Edit (thanks to anon for pointing out easier way to access menus now++
Made an edit to keyboard inputs above to go directly to the Insert menu, and updated the keyboard shortcut for special chars which was changed. |
H: How to make a Google+ circle a strict subset of another circle?
I would like to create two circles. One called children and one called family. Naturally all members of children circle are also members of family circle but the family circle contains more. children is a strict subset of family. And I would like that all members of the children circle are automatically members of the family circle. How can I achieve this?
Furthermore I would like to expand this. Next I would like to create another circle called photo friends, which automatically should contain all members of the familiy circle. And after this I would like to create friends which contain all members of photo friends.
In the end I would like to publish photos: those which are only for my children, those which are for the family, those which are for my photo friends and those which are for all other friends. And I do not want to maintain for every single photo a list of circles. Instead I only want to define one single level of confidentiality for each photo. Is this possible with Google+?
AI: It's currently not possible in Google+ to denote a Circle as a subset of another. The setup you want to do would take the setup time down on creating multiple circles with duplicate people in order to only have to select 1 circle when sharing something, but they don't have that yet. |
H: How to provide a description or preview for a post (like WordPress)
I would like to put the contents of my Tumblr posts on my website through the API,
but not the entire post, just a preview/description.
Can I manage to do that and if so, how would I do it?
AI: While each post does include a meta description that contains the first few lines of the post, the API doesn't include it in the documentation
I also thought that maybe you could use the automatically created RSS feed to do this, but it looks like they don't include the description there either.
The only way I can see you getting this to work is by snipping off the returned text automatically via your code using their API. |
H: Syncing a shared file in Dropbox
While sharing a file/folder with another Dropbox user, will that file/folder appear in the other user's Dropbox and sync automatically to the Dropbox folder on his computer?
AI: If that user has set the shared file/folder to sync to their computer then yes, it will stay updated when their dropbox syncs.
Keep in mind, though, that there are many ways that the file/folder could be out of sync:
Other person hasn't turned on their computer
Other person hasn't turned on syncing for that file/folder
Other person has Dropbox setup to not auto-sync
Other person has that file open and Dropbox can't update the file because it's in use. |
H: Google Plus get notification of a friend activity similarly to Close Friend list in facebook
When I want to see updates of a friend in Google Plus, I currently have to go to his home page to see them - while in facebook, what I need to do is to add him/her to my Close Friend list.
Is there a similar feature in Google Plus?
AI: Pretty much similar, yes. You could easily add your friend to a circle.
Click on that circle, and set the slider in the top right corner to Show all posts from [circle name] on your start page.
Then, all posts from friends you have added to the circle will show up in your start page stream. |
H: Jira → Agile → Scrum Board → Work—change text of column titles?
Jira → Agile → Scrum Board → Work has columns with these titles:
To Do
In Progress
Done
Can the text for these titles be changed?
AI: In version 6 of Greenhopper (Agile) and probably earlier versions, you can do this by going to the Scrum Board, then selecting Tools > Configure from the menu on the right. Then select the Columns tab if it isn't already and you should then be able to in-line edit the titles by clicking on them. |
H: Can I change the list of Priority values for tickets in Jira?
Jira → Issues → Create Issue → Priority field has these values:
Blocker
Critial
Major
Minor
Trivial
Can this list be changed?
AI: The instructions to do this can be found in the manual:
Log in as a user with the JIRA Administrators global permission.
Select Administration > Issues > Priorities to open the View
Edit the existing priorities or you can add your own. |
H: How do I become a fan of a Facebook page?
On this page, it says to click on this link and "Become a Fan." I cannot see any link that says become a fan. Is this different than simply "Like"-ing a page?
AI: "Like"-ing a page is the new "Being a fan" of a page. Facebook changed the terminology when they introduced the Like button to the world. |
H: Is it possible to merge two Google+ accounts?
I have managed to get myself two Google+ accounts.
I created the first when it was in beta, but used a non Gmail address when signing up (I really can't remember why).
I can't add my existing Gmail account to my Google+ account - the only option is to start a new one.
I thought I'd try from the other direction (adding Google+ to my Gmail address) but all that did was create a new Google+ account.
So, now that I've got two Google+ accounts is it possible to merge them? I don't want to abandon the first (I have lots of people in my circles etc.) and while I don't use my Gmail account that much I'd rather not abandon that completely either.
AI: According to Account merge and data move options
, it's not possible:
Merging Data
Unfortunately, it is not possible to combine two accounts or to merge data.
However:
Tool for moving data
A data moving tool is available for certain services if you’d like to transfer your data to your Google Apps account. However, the tool only is available for transferring data out of conflicting accounts. |
H: Facebook notification checkbox disabled
I don't want keep getting email from Facebook's updates. So I go to notification setting in my Facebook account, but this is what I get
So I get all the check boxes and the save change button disabled
What should I do?
AI: There is the email frequency checkbox to check or uncheck. It's under Down-arrow in the upper-right corner → Account Settings → Notifications. You can check it if you want emails sent to you about being tagged in a photo, payment confirmation, security or privacy information.
Uncheck the Email Frequency checkbox then try again, the checboxes will be enabled. |
H: Help me to create a Skype call link with markdown
From this page I learn how to extract my personal skype user name link: skype:username?call . When inserting it into a paragraph using markdown, [Skype](skype:username?call), the link (when posting the note via nvALT to peg.gd) shows up but does not work. How can I get this to work?
AI: You can simple use this to call on Skype.
callto:<username>?call
HTML markup:
<a href="callto:<username>?call">Call</a>
And this works, I have tested on peg.gd.
Eventually this also works:
skype:<username>?call
HTML markup:
<a href="skype:<username>?call">Call</a>
This might be a problem with protocol on your system (if the skype: thing does not work).
And about the markdown, it works, I used:
[Skype](skype:<username>?call) |
H: Automatically Clicking Button on a Specific Webpage
I am currently taking an online course offered by my school. Every time I log in I am taking to a terms of use agreement, and must accept it every single time I log into it.
Is there any way using something like a Greasemonkey script, automatically push the accept button when this appears. Generally is there such a way to press a button when a specific page/link is navigated to?
AI: I would write a simple jquery script and add includes to jquery from the CDN.
<script src="http://ajax.aspnetcdn.com/ajax/jquery/jquery-1.8.0.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
$(function(){
setTimeout(function() {
$("a.NAMEOFTHEBUTTON").trigger('click');
},10);
});
</script> |
H: Can I adjust when Trello due date colors change?
Currently due dates turn yellow the day before, and red the day of.
Can I change this so that they turn yellow, say, a week before, and red a few days before? A day is often very short notice :)
AI: The answer is no, according to their card guide on Due Dates:
You can set a date and time for when a card is "due". A badge with the
due date will appear on cards. A yellow badge means it's within 24
hours of being due A red badge means it's past due.
I would suggest emailing their support team to suggest a feature. |
H: How to exclude people when posting in Google+
I want to share my post in Google+ with everyone except a specific user. Is it possible in Google+? (If it matters, this user in one of my circles.)
AI: The only way currently is to create another circle with all the people you do want to share it with and to not include the person you don't want to share it with. You can then share it with this new circle and make sure you lock the post, so it doesn't get re-shared.
This is a frequently requested feature, so you should also Send feedback to Google to voice your opinion that this should be added. |
H: Any way to access Google Drive presentation through HTTP? (Not HTTPS)
It seems that Google presentations can no longer be accessed through HTTP, only through HTTPS. Unfortunately, I need to run a presentation on a custom hardware/software combination which only understands HTTP. Is there a way to use an HTTP URL to view the presentation? Or a simple way to tunnel it somehow through HTTP?
Another similar question.
EDIT: In the end, I went with the alternative which doesn't use HTTPS, SlideRocket.
AI: If I understood it right, you are talking about Publishing a Google Presentation, which generates an HTTPS link. Unfortunately, there is no direct way to access it through HTTP.
However, you could download your presentation and share it through another file sharing site. |
H: Can't change Trello card due date to 12:00 AM
I have an existing card in Trello that I mistakenly set to a due date of 10/27 12:00PM. It should be 10/27 12:00 AM. So I click on the card, then click on the due date and type AM over PM. I then click Save, but the change doesn't take. I can change it to a different time, like 1:00 AM, but it won't seem to let me change it to 12:00 AM.
Is this a bug? Does anyone else see this problem or just me?
AI: You need to set the time to be 00:00 or 00:00 AM
For some reason it won't recognize 12AM as a time, but 00 will do it for you. This is a possible bug that you can report, but a pretty simple workaround. |
H: Uploadnsell: terms of service nowhere to be found
Someone asked me where he could sell digital files.
I have found Uploadnsell which promises to take no commissions at all.
Customer pays to the uploader's PayPal account, and can download from Uploadnsell's website.
It seems almost too good to be true, but there is something suspicious:
The uploader has to check I agree to the Terms of Service of UPLOADnSELL.com, but the terms of service are nowhere to be found...
Is there a similar service with clearer terms of service?
Or did I somehow miss them?
AI: While they should certainly disclose the location of their terms they do exist. Head over to http://uploadnsell.com/tos.php. By the incomplete page layout I would guess that they are pretty new and still setting themselves up, but the terms are their. Seems they may be located out of Malaysia as their dispute/claims address for their designated agent is Kengkawan IT Solutions located in Malaysia, which can be found at the very bottom of the terms.
Another service that seems to have the same options is http://pulleyapp.com. I have no personal knowledge of their quality of service, but they do seem to have a much more complete site and have links to their Merchant User Agreement, Terms of Service, and Privacy Policy. |
H: Why does Google News not include my search?
For example. Visit Google, make a search. You can swap between "video", "images" and other tabs and that search term will be included - but clicking "news" the search query is not included from the top of the page - it works for the side but not the top.
AI: The black Google navigation bar, offers a shortcut/link to its various products.
For what you are looking for, you will have to try this:
Google News is not completely integrated to offer a search solution. In Search / Images / Maps/ ..., you are looking for information/data - i.e its a search problem. Whereas News is an independent product. And thats the reason, clicking on News link on the Google navigation bar, takes you to a fresh page (without your query). |
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