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H: Upgraded GMail Storage - Not Showing?
I have paid for the upgrade of Gmail to 25GB because my account has reached the 10GB limit. However, it still shows 10GB limit and that I am out of space. In my google account is says I have the 25GB of data. What is going on here and how do I get gmail to 25GB once I have paid for the additional storage?
AI: As noted on the Purchase Extra Storage help page:
It's normal to experience a delay of up to 24 hours before purchased
storage is added to your account
This isn't immediately obvious if you upgrade just for GMail, since it is in the Account support section. |
H: How to know which messages in an email conversation I have already read, and which I have not?
I have been considering switching to GMail recently. I like the conversation view, but I do not like the fact, that the READ flag is applied to the entire conversation, not to the individual messages. What is the rationale behind that? Isn't that obvious that a unit of what we read in a single reading is a message?
This solution forces me to read messages in the conversation again to see, what's new. I can't be sure, that only the most recent message is one that I haven't read. There may be more. But how to know, which of them are new to me?
I am aware of the question How to mark as unread just one message and not the entire conversation in Gmail, but I would like that someone explains me, why an email app with such a high reputation has this single thing so much broken. I guess there might be something wrong in my mindset, but please, let me know, what it is.
AI: Gmail marks messages as unread, not the whole thread.
Your statement is not completely true indeed: "This solution forces me to read messages in the conversation again to see, what's new".
What realy happens is the following:
when some message(s) in the thread is (are) unread, then it is (they are) shown up at first, while the read ones are collapsed and are before the one you see. |
H: How to prevent Gmail from automatically marking message as read?
In Thunderbird I have such option and I use it. Now I am trying to switch to Gmail and I can't find such setting.
I claim that no computer program can know, whether I have actually read a message. This is because there is no implicit feedback from my brain to the computer. Thus, automatic marking as read just because a message was displayed is a serious mistake in my opinion.
Unread emails are important for me, because I must be sure that I do not accidentally miss an important message. Sometimes I even read a message and leave it as unread to know, that I have to read it again (e.g., because I do not understand something and have to check it).
How do you deal with this issue? How are you sure that you have dealt with everything important in your emails?
AI: Until Google figures a way to have Gmail read your brain waves, it cannot reliably tell if you've read the message. Some mail clients mark a message as "read" only after it has been displayed a certain number of seconds, which might be closer to what you want. But that's not available in Gmail.
That's not to say that there aren't workarounds.
You could enable the Message Sneak Peek lab feature: Click the gear icon -> Settings -> Labs, scroll down to Message Sneak Peek, and click Enable. Go back to your inbox and right-click on any message. The message will be displayed in a popup window, without being marked as read.
Another thing I find myself doing, is mark a message unread after I've opened it, by clicking More -> Mark as unread (or press Shift+U if you have keyboard shortcuts enabled).
Also, starring messages is perhaps the most obvious way of keeping track of important emails that I need to deal with later. I use this in combination with the Multiple inboxes lab feature, so that a section of my inbox view is reserved for starred messages. When I've dealt with the message, I unstar it, and it is archived. |
H: Is it possible to use a custom domain with Gmail, but without Google Apps?
Is there any way to use a custom domain in Gmail without having a Google Apps account?
I have configured my domain to use:
MX 3600 1 ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM.
MX 3600 5 ALT1.ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM.
MX 3600 5 ALT2.ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM.
MX 3600 10 ASPMX2.GOOGLEMAIL.COM.
MX 3600 10 ASPMX3.GOOGLEMAIL.COM.
And when using nslookup -q=mx **, everything looks fine.
But when I go into Gmail and add an additional "send as email" account, and try to send the verification mail, I get a "Delivery Status Notification (Failure)"
Technical details of permanent failure:
Google tried to deliver your message, but it was rejected by the server for the recipient domain ** by aspmx.l.google.com. **.
The error that the other server returned was:
550-5.1.1 The email account that you tried to reach does not exist. Please try
550-5.1.1 double-checking the recipient's email address for typos or
550-5.1.1 unnecessary spaces. Learn more at
550 5.1.1 http://support.google.com/mail/bin/answer.py?answer=6596 ww9si26275800igb.7 - gsmtp
Google Apps is not free any more, so that’s why I don't want to use it.
AI: No, you can't do that.
Alternatives:
Either you find some other free mail service like outlook.com for your domain, or you create a mailbox elsewhere and forward to your Gmail inbox. Sending from your Gmail account under a different address is possible because you can set SMTP to a different provider in the Gmail settings.
Reason:
If you want to use your own domain with free gmail, you have to create the email address and mailbox elsewhere and then forward those emails to your Google inbox or access them through POP3.
Simply pointing your MX to Google does nothing because Gmail is not set up to receive mails directed at your domain. It takes both: Setting the MX records and letting Google know that it is the recipient of your MX records. This is what you do in the Google Apps Control Panel when you sign on with your domain.
Since Google won't let you do that with a standard Gmail account, it's not possible. |
H: How to clean up thousands of Facebook notification emails in Yahoo mail box?
Currently, my Yahoo mail box is full of Facebook notification messages.
I tried to create a filter to move them to a separate folder but it is not applicable for current messages already in the inbox (see details here).
So my question is: how can I clean up those thousands of such emails?
AI: Set your options (Gear symbol/Mail options) to show 200 messages per page.
In the search box enter a key phrase from the emails.
On the left side of the screen you can see a list of items you can use to filter the results (sender, folder, year, status). Sender Facebook might be a good one for you to select.
At the top of the list of emails just to the left of "sort by" there is a small box, check it. Now all the messages on that page are selected.
The buttons for "Delete/Move/Spam/actions" are now activated.
Move them to a folder. You can even create a new folder.
Repeat the last 3 steps. |
H: Can I have private files in public folders?
Google allows me to make the file private but I am not sure that making it private has effect.
AI: I created a public folder. When I attempt to create a new document in that folder, Google Drive tells me:
Do you want to create the element in a shared folder? The created
element will have the same sharing settings as the selected folder.
This suggests that I can't have a private document in a shared folder.
But what if I created the document first, then made the folder public?
So I made the folder private again, and created a document in it.
Then I reverted the folder to public. Inspecting the document's sharing settings, it is now Anyone with the link. Then I changed the document's sharing setting to Private.
Opening an incognito window in Chrome, pasting in the link to the document, gives me the Google login form.
I also created a new document in the folder, without altering its sharing settings. This is viewable in the incognito window.
Visiting the folder in the incognito window gives me a list containing only the public document. When logged in, I see both documents.
So yes, it does seem you can have a private document in a public folder. The folder's setting merely acts as a default for documents in that folder with no explicit setting. |
H: Why are some webpages not included in Google's cache?
I use the answer at https://stackoverflow.com/a/4560541/170243 to link to google caches for things. However I tried to use it for http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2283129/Cameron-bans-Obama-bringing-Michelle-G8-decrees-summit-WAG-free-zone.html (which is six days old) but couldn't get it to work.
When I investigated by just googlign the header, it appeared that only the rootpage www.dailymail.co.uk was stored in the google cache, all other articles don't allow you to see their caches, although other pages that quote the article do - I'm interested in knowing how this happens and if there might be any other public caches that would do the same job?
AI: That page is not cached by Google because it includes the NOARCHIVE directive:
<meta name="robots" content="noodp,noydir,all,noarchive" />
That is, the webmasters of http://dailymail.co.uk are requesting Google to not store that page in its cache.
I doubt there are other public caches that include that page, because it will mean the cache ignores the NOCACHE directive. |
H: Searching google videos of a particular size
Is it possible to search videos on http://google.com with different parameters like size in MB, GB or resolution or file type etc. Just like we have for Images.
Is it possible to apply some query parameters to do this?
AI: This is exactly what you need.
You can access advanced search on YouTube by clicking the Filter link below your search result videos. There, you can filter results by:
Type of results, such as Videos, Channels, or Playlists
Upload date
Subject category
Video length
Video quality
Features, such as Closed captions, Partner videos, or Rentals
You can also sort your results by:
Relevance
Upload date
View count
Rating
You can close the options box by clicking Filter again after making your selections.
You might also be looking for Google Videos (Not YouTube). You can perform advanced searches for Google Videos. |
H: Get last date from a column on a different sheet
I'm looking for help on the following:
How do I get the last date from a column in sheet1 returned in a cell of sheet2
I tried it with:
=FILTER(Sheet1!A:A ; ROW(A:A) =MAX( FILTER(ROW(A:A) ; NOT(ISBLANK(A:A)))))
but this results in an error
Any suggestions?
AI: The following formula will find the maximum date in column A:
=MAX(ARRAYFORMULA(A2:A))
See example file I've prepared: find maximum date |
H: Share a link and content with Google+ using an URL
Is there any way I can share content and the link to the content to Google+ the way Facebook does, using just an URL?
With Facebook feed dialog, I can share content title, description and the URL. Is that possible with Google Plus? I did some searching and only found sharing of URL.
https://www.facebook.com/dialog/feed?
app_id=458358780877780&
link=https://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/dialogs/&
picture=http://fbrell.com/f8.jpg&
name=Facebook%20Dialogs&
caption=Reference%20Documentation&
description=Using%20Dialogs%20to%20interact%20with%20users.&
redirect_uri=https://mighty-lowlands-6381.herokuapp.com/
AI: You can use the Google+ Share Link
The share link is intended for native client applications, Flash applications, highly privacy-sensitive sites, and others who may not be able to use the +1 or share button. Adding the following markup to your site will include a simple icon which will pop open a share dialog for your visitors.
<a href="https://plus.google.com/share?url={URL}" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href,'', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;"><img src="https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-64.png" alt="Share on Google+"/></a>
Note: Replace {URL} with the URL of the page you want to share. You must properly escape any user-generated content that may occur within {URL}
If you just want a raw link, you can just use
https://plus.google.com/share?url={URL}
Just make sure you properly escape the "{URL}" value.
The only other thing you can add besides the URL to share is the language code for the language to be used on the share page. |
H: Have YouTube send me an email whenever someone replies to my comment
YouTube used to email me frequently whenever someone would reply to my comment. I loved this feature and would never miss a reply and always replied back. Now when I go under Settings → Email there is no option to get an email for each reply.
These are the options I get:
Send me emails when:
[x] Someone subscribes to my channel
[x] Someone leaves a comment on my channel
[x] Someone leaves a comment or response on my video
[x] I receive a private message or a shared video
[x] YouTube Live Event Notifications
[ ] Do not send me any emails
They are all checked.
Is there any way I could receive an email when someone replies to my comment?
AI: As user Al Everett states, you should ensure that the message is not being sent to the spam folder. If you do find the messages there, I suggest selecting the message, and choosing the option to create filter.
Choose the option Never send to spam to avoid this happening again. |
H: Facebook: allowing friends of friends (but not the whole world) to see my posts
So, currently when one posts something on Facebook, the visibility dropdown presents four different privacy options: Public, Friends, Only Me, and Custom (as well as any friend lists one has defined). But there used to be another choice, Friends of Friends, which has been absent for me for ages, maybe one or two years now. What puzzles me is that some of my friends still manage to post stuff with this Friends of Friends visibility — is it simply because they've had it as the default since the days when it still was there for choosing, and they never changed it, or can is still be activated somehow? I sort of really miss it.
AI: "Friends of Friends" is still there. It's just under the "Custom" option.
Type "Friends of Friends" in the These people or lists field. (It will probably be pre-selected for you.) |
H: How are Google Plus emails interactive?
I received a mail from Google+ saying that someone I knew recently joined Google+. The email had an interactive red-box which allowed me to add the user to my circles. As far as I am aware, emails do not include running JavaScript.
The original email:
On hover:
Final result:
How is this achieved?
AI: This is a specific integration between Gmail and Google+. If you'll look at those messages in a regular email client, you won't see this interactivity. Only if you read them with Gmail web ui, Android or iOS Gmail clients.
As for specifics of how it's achieved, I imagine that is Google's 'secret sauce'. :) |
H: Can Gmail display the number of bytes I sent to 'someone@example.com'?
I can match all messages that I sent to someone@example.com but from what I see it won't display data size.
How do I know the number of bytes that I sent from my Gmail to someone@example.com ?
AI: That's not something you can do from within Gmail. At best, you'll need to work out a way to export all of the messages to another location and use a different tool to sum up their sizes. Even then, that's only going to give you an approximation. |
H: How do I tell what computer added a file to Dropbox?
I want to be able to understand which computer added files to Dropbox. Is there a way to do this?
AI: Right-click the file and view "Previous versions". Version 1 will show the name of the computer (as you've defined it with the Dropbox client) where it originated (or "web" if you've uploaded it directly). |
H: Why does facebook only optionally use https?
Facebook gives you the option to always use https, which obviously is a lot safer, but why do they give people the option? Why don't they just force everyone to use it? Is there ay reason why you wouldn't want https on? It looks like https doesn't impact performance too much.
AI: Https is more processor intensive and slower as it is harder to cache etc because everything that is sent is encrypted so you can't share with others. Also encrypted data tends to take up more KB. Its a particular problem if you are encrypting images.
People who are still using slow connections may wish to avoid https use. |
H: Best way to set up site-specific, removable email addresses using Gmail
I'm currently trying to figure out a good solution for this problem. I do get spam messages very rarely and I'd like to find out which site gave away my address (or was hacked), so I'd like to use different addresses for each registration which are still managed in a central way.
I'd like to be able to:
Use my main Google/GMail account with it, somehow.
Set up a new addresses easily and quickly.
It would be cool if the addresses were created automatically if a mail is sent to it.
Remove an address, so I won't receive any mails sent to it anymore
See my emails both per address and all in one list in my mail client (OS X' Mail.app)
So far I've found two possible solutions, both with advantages and disadvantages:
1. Using plus-aliases with Gmail, e.g. firstname.lastname+amazon@gmail.com)
+ No need to create aliases, all emails simply arrive in my main inbox
+ Free and simple, no configuration at all
- I wouldn't be able remove such addresses, I would still receive spam. I would have to blacklist the addresses instead.
- Each time I make a new account somewhere, I would have to explicitely create a label/filter rule in Gmail's web interface
- Many sites don't accept plus signs in email addresses. That's a deal breaker.
2. Using an own domain with Google Apps, e.g. amazon@mydomain.com
+ I could delete addresses completely.
+ Full control over my emails. I could easily migrate to another provider, but I doubt this will be necessary in the near future.
- I couldn't actually create new addresses, but user accounts, each with his own password.
I'd rather have one account with multiple addresses than separate accounts managed by an main account (the Google Apps account).
- Not free. But it's not expensive, so that's no problem.
~ To avoid having to add every single account to Mail.app, I'd have to redirect the mails to my main account. In that case, I would again have to create labels/filters. And I don't know I could then answer to a mail with the account it was originally sent to from within Mail.app.
So the bottom line is, neither solution is perfect. The first one is more comfortable, but I know I will be pretty annoyed every time I see a "character not allowed" validation error in a registration form.
Is there any way that includes the advantages of both solutions with as less disadvantages as possible? It could be a specific configuration of either method, a combination or something completely different.
AI: There is no elegant solution but here is one that should do what you want:
Using your Google Apps account, create a secondary user: garbagecollection@mydomain.com
Set the catch-all (in Control Panel for domain, email settings) to go to garbagecollection@mydomain.com
Write a Google Apps Script which scans the inbox periodically (every 5 min?, daily?)
The script would:
Automatically add new addresses to a control spreadsheet
create a label for each new address in your main email account
forward each email to your main account (if not black listed in spreadsheet)
apply the label in your main account
It would work as follows:
You create registration specific email addresses such as firstname.lastname.amazon@mydomain.com because the garbagecollection@mydomain.com is a catch-all, it will accept any email. The script records all new addresses it in the spreadsheet. When you want to stop receiving email, you flag it in the spreadsheet and the script deletes the email rather than forwarding it. |
H: How to download a Wikia?
How can I download a Wikia for offline reading? Is there a specific service that I can use to download a Wikia? Once done, how can I read the downloaded file? I don't need images or other media files, but HTML formatting will be nice!
AI: Each Wikia site should have an XML dump available on their Special:Statistics page. You can get there directly by following this format: www.<wikianamehere>.com/Special:Statistics Navigate to the "Database dumps" header and select the dump relating to current pages -- you can safely ignore the one regarding page history if you simply want to read current material.
The XML dump is essentially one large file that includes Wikia's pages source (in wikitext format), but not images. If you are on Windows you'll need an archive utility, such as 7-Zip or WinRAR, to extract the file.
I am less familiar with a specific reader that will assist you; you may simply want to install MediaWiki locally and import the XML dump. Failing that, I would recommend taking the second half of your question to Super User. |
H: Has Google News removed the search by year option?
I can't find the option now in Google News to search by year. Any idea where it is?
It used to be on the far left.
Now when I google for news search by year I get
Google News Archive Search
and I get this ugly screen up. But notice the part for M/d/yy is disabled. I can't edit it / put a date or rate range in.
AI: In the screen shot you provide, if you change the menu from "in archive" to "specified dates" you'll be able to edit the date fields. |
H: Sorting Google spreadsheet by month and day but not year
I made a Google spreadsheet with a list of birth dates, anniversaries, etc. that I would like to sort by when they occur in the year, not when they first happened.
If you sort by the date normally, it will put the oldest year first.
I'm looking for a way to sort these only by the month and day, so I can get a quick view of what's coming up in what order.
So far, I attempted to make a formula referencing the date column that only shows the month part and the day part, like so:
=month(C2)&"-"&day(C2)
This almost works, except since the values are appearing as text and without a leading 0, it sorts Oct, Nov and Dec right after Jan (since they all start with 1 and are therefore "lower" than 2, 3, etc).
Anyone have a better way to sort this automatically or know a formula function to correct mine?
Simply adding the leading zero to single-digit months would be my way, but I'm open to other options.
AI: Ultimately, you need to do what you already predicted: adding a leading zero. The TEXT function will make that happen like this:
=TEXT(A2, "00")
I've created a formula that takes on the complete column, filter for empty cells, brings together the MONTH and DAY and SORTs the lot.
Formula
=SORT(ARRAYFORMULA(TEXT(MONTH(FILTER(A2:A;A2:A<>""));"00") & " - "
& TEXT(DAY(FILTER(A2:A;A2:A<>""));"00"));1;1)
Explained
Here's a break-down description of the formula:
The FILTER function will filter for all rows that have something.
The MONTH and DAY functions will extract the respective values
from the date.
The TEXT function will convert the value from point 2 into a pre-formatted STRING.
The ARRAYFORMULA function will apply all the above to the complete column (skipping the header).
The SORT function will sort the result, given by the
ARRAYFORMULA.
The SORT function allows for sorting. If you do that via a column sort, the entry of the ARRAYFORMULA is taken into account as well and gets re-positioned, causing mayhem.
Screenshot
Example
See example file I've created: sorting dates as text |
H: Date format in spreadsheet
I want to create spreadsheets to record the money I spend each year.
Each file is named as Cost-2012, Cost-2013,...etc.
Inside each file, there are in fact 12 sheets, which are named as 01, 02, ..., 12, recod the usage of money each month.
For each sheet, I want the top row look like 09-01, 09-02, ...., 09-30, (09-31), the first number represents the month.
Google spreedsheet has build-in date formate, eg. 9/01 or 09-01. I used it and they looked good. But when I clicked the cells, they looked as the following picture shows:
It works fine if I don't use this file as a template, which I will copy and rename the newly copied file as 2014, 2015...etc.
The 3 (related) questions I have are:
First:
When 2014 comes and I want to review what happened in 2013, do the dates in these cells (in the file Cost-2013) will remain 2013 (i.e they don't change to 2014 automatically)? I guess yes. But if so, it causes the 2nd question.
Second: I want to create a template. Say it is named as Cost-Template. When I create this template now, so the value (actual value, not the values displayed, see the following picture) in each cells on the top row ends in fact with 2013.
Now when 2014 comes, so I copy this template, rename it as Cost-2014 and open it. But the (actual) values of the date cells are still xx-xx-2013. How can I change all of them (in all the 12 sheets) quickly?
Third:
Or I should not use this build-in date format and use, say, Number format? Or there are other build-in date formates which avoid the problem in the 2nd question?
AI: Formatting is not the answer, because it doesn't affect the underlying values. You need to make the values updatable instead.
One way is to make a reference-data place somewhere in one of your sheets (or maybe add a new sheet just for that), and put the year value in there.
Then in the first cell where you want the date values to appear, use this formula:
=date(B1,01,01)
except replace B1 with the value of the cell where you put the year value.
In the cell immediately above or beside it, say =D1+1
except replace D1 with the reference to the cell where you put the first forumula.
Then to make a new file for next year, just save-as and change the one reference value. |
H: Leave out search results older than two years by default
One thing I don't like about Google Search is that it often includes results that are very very old. Is there a way to permanently turn off old results, like block all results older than two years? If I ever wanted to search for older results too, mind you this is rare, there would be a feature for temporarily turning them on again.
AI: I don't think you can permanently block older results but you can certainly limit the results to whatever date range you want.
Click "Search tools" in the bar at the top of the results, then select what you want. Default is "Any time". |
H: View device for specific URL
In Google Analytics, is there a way to view the browser/device information for a specific URL? For example, when I have an URL like /specialoffer, is there a way to view the browser/device usage for only this URL?
AI: In your Google Analytics Account. Click on the "Visitors Flow"
A nice graphic user interface will be shown and choose your Filter choice, i.e. Browser and the whole analysis will be shown.
Besides, this answer might also be what you are looking for.
Can I use Google analytics to get page view stats for several pages over time |
H: Is there a workaround for Google Bookmark search problems?
I'm not sure if anyone else has come across this, but I'm getting incomplete results when searching my Google Bookmarks (not Chrome bookmarks). I have a link with the title including "headlights" tagged with multiple labels, one of them being "phoenix". If I search:
label:phoenix headlights
it shows up as expected. But if I search only:
headlights
it doesn't show up as either of the two results presented. This is just one example of multiple I've seen.
Is there any way to work around this?
AI: I just finally figured this out: bookmarks that are imported from delicious aren't indexed correctly. If you edit a bookmark and re-save it (even without changes) they start showing up in all results. The downside is that it changes the date you saved it, if that's important to you.
When I have time, I'm going to see if there's a programmatic way to update them through the API without changing the dates. Using the GBookmark Android app, which uses the API, I just confirmed editing a bookmark there makes missing ones show up in search results in the web interface.
The biggest reason to do it via the API would actually be so I don't have to manually edit the thousands of bookmarks that I imported years ago. If I end up building something, I'll post a link here. |
H: How to add additional photos to a status update
I created a Facebook status update with three photos. I'd like to add one more. Note that I did not create an album, I simply uploaded all three photos at the time of creating the Facebook status update. I can delete photos... but don't see a way to add one.
AI: Once you posted it, you can’t add a new photo to a status update. The only moment when you can add more photos to a status update is between the time one or more photos are uploaded and the one you click Post (see picture below).
The only thing you can do is to delete the first pictures and re-upload them together with the fourth.
(FYI: the photos you upload directly (as status updates) are grouped in the album called Timeline Photos.) |
H: Password protected online database or spreadsheet
I have a client that wants a simple online database or spreadsheet solution.
Requirements
Custom fields and field types (text, images)
CRUD contents through a web GUI
Password protected (single user login)
Search- and sortable fields (all)
Not required
Relations
API
This isn't an enterprise solution. There's only ~700 records to add, even though they're fairly comprehensive. I'm about to suggest just using a Google Docs Spreadsheet, but are there any alternatives to consider? Also, can you make queries for a Google Docs Spreadsheet, similar to what you would to a DB?
AI: I have been building an online database application over Google App Engine for such use-cases. It is called iFreeTools Creator.
Supports multiple data-types for fields including single-line text, multi-line text, numbers, images, geo-location and more.
Forms and views are automatically generated for users based on their authorization profiles.
Users would need nothing more than a Google / Google Apps / Yahoo! account to get started with the app.
Custom Views can be created to segment the data using filtering criteria into multiple views. Keyword based search and client-side sorting is also available.
The client can use the free plan itself for the number of records you had specified. Email support is available even for the free users. |
H: How to make a private edit on a shared Google Spreadsheet
I'd like to make some notes/mark some cells privately on a shared Google Spreadsheet in Google Drive. Is this possible?
AI: I figured out a work-a-round and this is how to do it:
Shared file with edit rights
Create a new sheet
Protect sheet (Tools, Protect sheet) and set to me only
Set the color of the font to white
Now you're able to make notes without anybody seeing them. If you want to see them, select the cell to see the content of that cell. It won't appear in the cell itself, but to the right of the Fx symbol at the top of your screen:
Other users can't edit the sheet, thus can't control the font color.
This solution only works, if you set the sheet color to be white !! |
H: How to resurrect one's Amazon Reading List data in Shelfari?
As some of you may know, Amazon Reading List was a LinkedIn app that disappeared from LinkedIn recently (early 2013, I think).
(The app page still exists, but if you try to "add" the application, you get an error:
You have reached the limit of applications on your homepage and your profile. Please remove an application from both pages before adding another application.)
I kinda liked the app, and had dozens of books listed in it as "read" or "want to read". I had put a little effort in writing some reviews, too.
Now, at a Stack Overflow question I just saw this interesting comment:
The previous Reading List data can now be resurrected at Amazon's
shelfari.com
I registered to Shelfari (using existing Amazon account), which seems pretty nice and usable. I was looking for an option to find/import my old Amazon Reading List data, but couldn't find it. Anyone know how to do this, if it's indeed possible?
AI: Well, turns out it can be done very easily at http://www.shelfari.com/addbooks where there's an option Import Your LinkedIn Reading List. Clicking "Import" will bring you to an import view like this:
There's a FAQ item about this too: Reading List (LinkedIn) Import.
I just tried it and my books and reviews got imported just fine. |
H: Is there a DNS Blacklist check for Hotmail/Live accounts?
We have a domain which is having issues sending emails to @hotmail and @live addresses. If you add the domain to safe senders it goes through no problem at all. However, sending to a random @hotmail/live address will never reach the recipient and will also not send back an NDR. It has all the relevant PTR and SPF records so that shouldn't be an issue.
Is there a blacklist checker for these Microsoft accounts we can use without the palaver of having to go through either their forums or ridiculously large email support form?
AI: It's strange that you don't receive any NDR. You should also check logs of your mail-server.
The process of removing yourself from blacklist is pretty well explained in here: http://www.rackaid.com/resources/hotmail-blacklist-removal/ (this post is quite old, but not much actually changed since that time...)
Be ready that you'll need to spend some amount of time working on removing your domain from blacklist, AFAIK it can only be done manually by some Microsoft team. |
H: SQL Fiddle's "Text to DDL" option
SQL Fiddle has a very nice option to post table's content into its "Text to DDL" window so all CREATE TABLE and INSERT statements are automatically generated.
Is there a way to specify column names there before the result is applied to the left (DDL) window?
I can obviously copy the result out to my text editor, do file-wide replacements and copy it back, but prefer not to.
AI: The column names are the first row of your text input. If you have some text that doesn't seem to be working correctly, please submit a ticket on my sub-project specificly for this function: https://github.com/jakefeasel/DDLBuilder (of course include the failing text input in the ticket). |
H: Google search operator "site:" ... how to limit its scope?
Assume there is a website with the domain name baz.tld. It has content. There is also content on subdomains foo.baz.tld and bar.baz.tld, but there is no www.baz.tld subdomain.
The most frequent search operator I use on Google is site: to limit the scope to a particular domain. This works fine when specifying a particular subdomain such as site:foo.baz.tld (which limits search result to that subdomain). But when I give site:baz.tld I end up getting results for foo.baz.tld and bar.baz.tld but the ones for baz.tld end up somewhere towards the end (several pages forward) of the search results.
How can I achieve something like site:foo.baz.tld but limit it to only baz.tld?
AI: I think the closest you can come is to restrict your search to the domain you want, then subtract out the subdomains you don't. For example, compare the results of these two queries:
visual studio
site:microsoft.com
visual studio site:microsoft.com
-site:msdn.microsoft.com
Google doesn't support wildcarding in site: keyword as in -site:*.microsoft.com, so you'll have to subtract each subdomain you'd like excluded one-at-a-time. |
H: How to download a Google Document without the comments?
Comments in Google Docs are great. They are really helpful to work together with multiple people in the same document.
But if I want to finally hand out the document we made, I don't want every one to be able to see the comments. Neither do I want to remove them all because they can turn out handy when we need to make changes sometime.
How can I just download a .doc or .docx version without the comments?
AI: Google Docs follows the same standards as Microsoft Docs when it comes to comments in documentation; they are ephemeral only to ask/provide clarification on a paragraph/sentence.
After which the highlighted portion should be corrected and the comment removed when all collaborators have agreed on the change. In Microsoft, this will be done with deleting the comment.
Google Docs provide a semi-state where you can mark the comment as resolved
So that when you export to .doc, the comment markup will not appear there.
As shown above the first comment is not there because it was marked as resolved in Google Docs, so it makes no sense to deal with the comment again (this based on the assumption that by resolving the comment, one has resolved the issue in that comment).
Another way to do it, would be to create a copy which will not carry across the comments. |
H: Do any tools exist to combine template based transactional email with CRM?
I am between a rock a hard place right now with a decision relating to CRM capabilities and general email marketing for our company. We have simply used very basic (think Gmail contacts, outlook, excel spreadhsheets) customer relationship management tracking to date but have some ambitious sales goals ahead and want to get serious about our methods. We currently use Google Apps for our email provider and I have done some research into most of the big names in the CRM game (that have links with Google Apps Marketplace) and think I have at least narrowed down our choices to the following:
Zoho
Insightly
Pipedrive
Nutshell
SalesForce
All have their benefits and we aren't quite sure which will choose so far but pricing is certainly a factor as we are a small company. Unfortunately, our sales people can be a bit thick-headed at times and fail to follow instructions. Our goal is this:
Create an HTML formatted email with some basic customizable fields (name, email, small text clip)
Sales person can enter the name of the contact they are trying to reach out to (ideally this is a contact already entered in one of the CRM systems mentioned before) along with the custom message field included in each email.
Once the system recognizes it is a new lead email (doesn't have to be automatic, manual selection is fine), it will pull the HTML email content, populate with the fields entered or selected and send off to the prospect.
I want to make sure the client cannot modify the template content in anyway. I know I could accomplish this by setting up a web-form on any of our existing sites for our agents and allow them to enter the information then send through a transaction email API (we currently use Mandrill but SendGrid/Mailjet/etc would all work) but looking for something with tighter integration with a CRM and something that goes ahead and forces our sales reps to enter the contact in before sending a blank canvas email.
I have looked at something like Yesware but I would prefer the email origination comes from the CRM because it does not look like I can mandate the email used the "new prospect template" from such a tool.
Are there any tools which can accomplish this currently?
AI: You missed on of the strongest CRM's to integrate with Google Apps: Solve360
It has email template features
We have worked with deployments of Salesforce, Insightly and Solve360 and done evaluation on a number of other packages.
Salesforce can be made to do anything. Highly customizable it is the gold standard... meaning it has all the features and costs a lot of gold. Love working with it but many smaller companies find it too expensive.
Insightly is very inexpensive and does the core functions many smaller businesses want -- at a low price. Integrates nicely with Google Apps. Has an API so you can build the system you want.
As a company, we use Solve360 because of its integration with Google Apps and our other apps: FreshBooks (invoicing), Zendesk (help desk management) and MailChimp (e-mail marketing). Each contact (person or company) can be linked to a FreshBooks and/or Zendesk account so all the invoices, estimates and tickets will show up in the contact's history. MailChimp integration is better... it matches email addresses and records campaign history directly in each contact. |
H: Quick sign-in to Google Sites for Google Apps for Education?
My university has Google Sites that are in its own domain (Google Apps for Education). At the bottom of a regular Google Sites page there is usually the following set of links:
Sign in|Report Abuse|Print Page|Remove Access|Powered By Google Sites
However, with the Education version of Google Sites, there is no Sign in link:
Report Abuse|Print Page|Remove Access|Powered By Google Sites
Does anyone know why this is different and/or how to achieve a quick sign-in? The work-around is to sign in to my Google Apps for Education Gmail (which my school doesn't use yet) and then navigate back to the page.
AI: If you're the site owner, then you're able to check if the footer can show the sign-in option.
Go to the site and press the key combination g then m or choose from the more pull-down menu of the Manage site option. Then select site layout:
Followed by system footer:
If the sign-in option is ticked, then it will not show: |
H: How can I automatically forward Facebook messages to my email or phone?
I can create email addresses that forward to other email addresses.
Likewise, can I automatically forward Facebook messages to either my email or phone?
AI: Click Messages on the left side of your homepage
Open the conversation you want to forward a message from
From the Actions menu, click Forward Messages…
Use the checkboxes to select what messages you want to forward
Click Forward
Enter a name or email address and press Send
Source.
Also, to push notifications on or off from your smartphone:
Smartphones:
Tap (top-left main menu) > scroll to the bottom of the menu
Tap Settings & Privacy > Notifications > Email
Tap the setting you want to use
Feature phones:
Click Settings (bottom of every page)
Click Facebook Notifications
Adjust the frequency of your email notifications > Save
Source. |
H: Add email alias for custom domain with out verification
I have set up my domain with windows live, now If I add an alias to the primary email that I used to sign up, a message tell me that a link has been sent to the alias email, in order to verify that I own the alias email. My problem here, the alias email does not exist, any way to add an alias email to my custom domain without sending a verification?
AI: By sending an email to the alias, the verification email is supposed to arrive at your original mailbox.
An alias is not a new email identity - it's another name ('alias') you call your existing one. This way, you can give different sites/people different aliases, and thus hide your true email address, and see who's sending you what (great for catching spammers).
Bottom line: after creating the alias, look in your original mailbox. |
H: Alternatives for Google Reader (with Android synchronizing)
Now that Google Reader is being retired, what are my options for consuming RSS feeds on the web and synchronizing with my Android device? Social media sharing is not as important to me as being able to keep up with many disparate sites/feeds in a single place and for the data to be stored in the cloud.
I'm aware of other very similar questions here, but they are old and most of the suggested alternatives have already themselves been shut down.
It should go without saying that services that solely interface with Google Reader are not a viable option (unless they have a plan for viability after Reader gets shut down).
(And, while I don't use one, it would be great if the proposed solution was usable on iOS devices, too.)
AI: Feedly syncs directly to Google Reader for now, and will migrate your feeds off google reader when the time comes.
They have a post simplifying the transition from Google Reader to feedly.
Feedly runs in the browser and on various mobile devices.
It supports categories for feeds like Google Reader. It supports j and k keyboard shortcuts for navigating between posts. A "tiled" view can be readily configured. |
H: How Do I Create a Google Spreadsheet Formula to SUM data based on two variables
DATA SECTION:
So I have data in one sheet like this:
TYPE AMOUNT YES/NO
Pig 20 Y
Pig 30 N
Pig 10 Y
Cow 20 Y
Cow 30 N
Cow 50 N
Bat 10 N
RESULT SECTION
I'm using Google Spreadsheets and have a table in another sheet. I would like to have a formula (placed in the cells like the one labeled [=?]) that gives me sums like thus:
TYPE YES NO
Bat [=?] [=?]
Cow 20 80
Pig 30 30
But I still need the formula.
PROBLEM SECTION
I'm struggling. I want a formula in the results table that looks up in the data section for a match in type and SUMs the Ys for that type. I would like another formula that looks up in the data section for a match in type and SUMs the Ns for that type. I assume VLOOKUP or HLOOKUP, but I'm struggling getting the SUM in addition. I linked an example sheet here.
ADDITIONAL EDITS AFTER THE POST
I don't need a query. I just need a formula that replaces the [=?] for each column in the result section. I just put a ton of info there as an example.
AI: If you add the following formula in the second sheet (A1).
Formula
=QUERY(Sheet1!A1:C9;"SELECT A, SUM(B) WHERE B IS NOT NULL GROUP BY A PIVOT C")
then the table will appear as you want.
Explained
Here an explanation of the formula, from the inside to the outside:
the PIVOT C transposes the unique results from column C (turning rows into columns)
the GROUP BY A only filters out unique values in column A. (the same as sheet TABLE!A2)
the WHERE B IS NOT NULL ignores empty cells
the SUM(B) adds the result of the query
the SELECT A simply displays column A, as unique values
If you're only interested in individual results, then I suggest using the following formula:
=IFERROR(SUM(FILTER(DATA!$B$2:B;DATA!$C$2:C=$B$1;DATA!$A$2:A=A2));"")
Here an explanation of the formula, from the inside to the outside:
the FILTER function will retrieve the amounts for range B2:B, column B without the header, by filtering range B2:B for "No" and range C2:C for "Yes".
the SUM function will add them together.
the IFERROR will leave a blank cell if an error occurred (not result).
Screenshot
Example
See example file I've prepared, where both samples are present: SUM data based on two variables
Note
The formula in the example file is a bit different (the range is set to contain complete columns). |
H: How to get YouTube video title as URL?
I want to set my gtalk status to a youtube video link. But the link doesn't show title, and shows actual URL. I want it to show the title clicking on which people go to the video page.
What is the easiest way to do so?
AI: Google doesn't parse HTML's in status message. So, No. It's not possible. |
H: Auto Save to Dropbox
If you add a file to Dropbox via an automated method, will Dropbox automatically sync it to your online account, or do you have to manually initiate the sync?
More Details:
I'm looking into setting up a system that will allow me to wirelessly transmit a file to my Dropbox folder on my computer. It will be kind of a photo booth setup where there will be a line of people having their picture taken. Every time a photo is taken, it will be automatically transferred to the Dropbox folder via wifi. Then, I want the photo to automatically be uploaded to the cloud without me having to even touch the computer. Once it's uploaded, I have another system that will transfer the file to a site where it can be downloaded by the person. I want them to be able to walk away from having their photo taken and within minutes be able to access it online (without me ever touching the computer) which is why I need to know if there's a way to have dropbox automatically push the file to the cloud.
AI: You don't have to make any manual effort. Once a file is in your Dropbox folder, it'll be synced to any computer that has access to your Dropbox folder. |
H: Upload music files on YouTube
I am looking for a YouTube solution or external web application that will allow me to upload music files on YouTube by combining them with picture(s).
As far as I can see there is no support provided by YouTube to upload custom music files but just to use the existing ones from the library.
AI: Found this site. Tried it. Seems to work - http://www.mp32u.net/ |
H: Why å displays like Ã¥?
Here å is not a problem but it's Ã¥ on this page. Why?
AI: When creating websites, special characters need to be taken into extra consideration. HTML, the markup language used to write webpages, provides its own means of including special, non-"normal" characters. These characters include accent marks, special symbols, and more.
The reason this is necessary is due to the nature of how webpage files are saved. In order to minimize file size and provide the most consistent experience across computers, an encoding is used that maps each character to a binary (numerical) representation. The binary value of each character is stored sequentially in the file; therefore, the more characters your encoding allows, the larger the file becomes - exponentially. (For more info, check out: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Character_encoding)
When a file is saved with the wrong encoding, special characters are represented improperly because the wrong encoding cannot map the character properly. This can be fixed by changing which encoding you use to read the file. The encoding that IMDb saves its files with is apparently different than that which is sent to your browser, so the characters are rendered with garbage.
The reason the character appears okay on the other page is because the person who wrote it understands how HTML works. As I said earlier, HTML provides a way to represent special characters using non-special characters.
For example, to render a heart in HTML, you can type ♥ when writing a webpage. The result looks like ♥, which is clearly a special character. Yet the way I typed it into this document did not require any special characters. This essentially removes the problem of character encodings not matching, because you should never need to type special characters when writing a webpage.
A lot of websites that allow user input, such as Facebook and Twitter, will automatically reformat these characters in HTML so they appear properly when viewed through your web browser. Apparently, IMDb doesn't do this. I would like to note that the page with the character mess-up was submitted by a user, while the other page is an official IMDb page, which was likely written by someone who understood how HTML represents special characters. |
H: Integrate Gmail and Google Calendar with login
Is there a way to get an embedded version of Gmail / Google Calendar with login?
(like the one on iGoogle)
I did find how to embed a calendar... but I want to see my very own calendar.
(Writing an own start page.)
AI: You can only embed one calendar in a gadget at once, so unless all your events in your Google Calendar is under one single calendar, or else it is not going to be possible.
You can experiment with <iframe>, though it is a rather old and hacky way to get things working. |
H: How can I list people who have starred my GitHub repository?
I'm curious as to who has starred a GitHub repo of mine, so I'd like a list of users who have starred it. Is this possible to get?
AI: To get a list of users that have starred a repository you can append /stargazers to the URL of the repository
If you have a repository at the following address
https://github.com/strugee/battleship
To see a list of users that have starred that repository visit the following URL
https://github.com/strugee/battleship/stargazers |
H: Is there a tool for creating animation with HTML?
Is there a tool for creating animation with HTML, or just any other language that can be added with HTML?
AI: There are many languages that can aid in 'animation' behavior. Depending on what type/level of animation you want, will point you in the right direction. If you want just mouse-over animation, javascript and CSS are your friends. If you want something more sophisticated you'll want to look at Flash (but that's a beast of its own). For the most part, HTML5 (canvas) has some nice 'animation' behaviors that you can easily invoke with JavaScript. You might want to start there. Furthermore, if you want a more specific answer you might clarify what type of animation behavior you are after (examples included). |
H: How can I file a bug report on Instagram?
I use Instagram on my Android phone and since the last update I can't send photos. I have identified steps on how to reproduce the error and have a very specific bug request to report, including device name and model, app version, OS version, etc., etc.
I just can't find a way to do this. I browsed their help site, and found nowhere to report an error.
AI: When I opened the Insagram help site, it displayed the content in my (non-English) language. I tried searching for more possible solutions, and upon encountering a content available only in English, it offered me to change the site language to English (apparently in a permanent way).
Only after that I was able to browse to this page, that as March 2013 says only:
Instagram is crashing
If your Instagram app is crashing, please file a bug report here.
And links to a Facebook page with a bug report form.
There's also an email contact address at the app page on Google Play. (The address - aimed at Android users, obviously - is android-support [AT] instagram [DOT] com). However, messages sent to this address are replied to with an automatic message redirecting to the official help page. |
H: How do you end a subsection in MediaWiki?
When writing articles on the MediaWiki platform (e.g. Wikipedia), I have often found myself wanting to write content in a higher-level section after writing content in a subsection. For example, consider a dummy article about apples:
== Types of Apples ==
Apples come in many different varieties.
=== Red Delicious ===
Bright red and tasty.
=== Granny Smith ===
Green and tart.
For more information on Apple varieties, please visit [[Apple Varieties]].
I would like the last line "For more information…" to be associated with the second-level section "Types of Apples". However, it is currently associated with "Granny Smith" instead.
How do you make text underneath a subheading associated with a higher-level heading instead?
AI: I don't think this can be done, and that is by design. A section is intended to end with the heading of a new section. The described situation would create some ambiguity, because there are no visual cues on the page to define where a section ends except for the header of a new section. It may also be unnecessary, because a default install of MediaWiki shouldn't distinguish subsection content from other sections -- the only thing that distinguishes content is the headings themselves. You can read more about sections here.
Creating sections and headings in MediaWiki is analogous to creating an outline, with the intent of creating a well-defined structure, or hierarchy of content. You can read at length about this on the Layout article of Wikipedia's Manual of Style.
Handling the example situation
The example you gave can easily be adapted to this design format. The section hierarchy is currently broken into this hierarchy:
Types of Apples
Red Delicious
Granny Smith
The link you provided directs to an article with more information about "apple varieties," which seems synonymous to "types of apples." In this case, you could integrate that link immediately under the header, or create a new subsection to elaborate on it.
1. Using the {{Main}} Template
The link you provided directs to an article with more information about "apple varieties," which seems synonymous to "types of apples." In this circumstance, the Manual of Style recommends taking advantage of the "main" template, which allows you to generate a link to that article right under the associated header. See here for an example.
If you're using a wiki that for whatever reason does not have a Main Article template, you can create a quick one with the code below:
<blockquote>'''''Main Article: [[{{{1}}}|{{{l1|{{{1}}}}}}]]'''''</blockquote>
<noinclude>Link to a main article from a summary, immediately following the heading of the associated section.
</noinclude>
2. Creating a New Subsection
You could also assign "Other types of Apples" as a subsection in your hierarchy, as given below:
== Types of Apples ==
Apples come in many different varieties.
=== Red Delicious ===
Bright red and tasty.
=== Granny Smith ===
Green and tart.
=== Other types of Apples ===
For more information on Apple varieties, please visit [[Apple Varieties]].
Adding this third subheading doesn't violate the structure we've created with "Types of Apples" since "Other types of Apples" is appropriate in relation to the parent heading.
Discussion
I think that either of these situations would be acceptable, with the big takeaway being that although we can't pause a section on the page and pick it up later, we do have other options to effectively integrate that content. The first option is useful especially when you're just summarizing content, and the second option is useful if you are planning on having an extended discussion of that content. |
H: How do I change my interface language on Transifex?
Transifex allows users to translate strings on the platform, and there is a dedicated project just for translating the platform itself. However, I don't seem to have access to any functionality to change my interface language on Transifex, any idea on how to change it to a language other than English?
AI: You should be able to find a dropdown menu on the bottom left of each page where you can change the interface language. It's to the right of the copyright message.
Hope that helps!
Sam @Transifex |
H: How to disable highlighting commented text in Google Docs?
Any time you add a comment in Google Docs (Google Drive), the text selected becomes highlighted:
If you don't select any text, you either will not be able to leave a comment or the nearest word will be highlighted. This is problematic for documents that are heavily commented, as the document becomes one big highlighter-yellow sheet.
Is it possible to disable highlighting so that one can leave comments without painting colors all over a document?
AI: I don't think there is a way to turn off the highlighting and still leave the comments as shown in your example pic. However, there are a few alternatives that may work for you. First is that you can mark comments as resolved. This will remove the highlighting, but will also hide the comment. You can show the resolved comments along with all other comments and any discussion history from them by clicking the Comments button in the upper-right part of the screen.
This Comments button also provides another possibility, which is that you can leave comments without highlighting text. At the top of the Comments pane is the option to create a new comment. This comment will appear without an associated text, so it will not highlight anything on the page. The downfall again is that it does not appear on the side as shown in your example, but instead it is limited to displaying only when the comments pane is visible (i.e., you pressed the Comments button). |
H: Gmail "send mail as" in my primary account creating/sending a copy to my secondary account
I have two gmail accounts, primary A, and secondary B. I receive email sent to account B that is automatically forwarded to A (via Gmail's auto-forwarding or pop3). Then I reply in account A using gmail's 'send mail as' feature, I can send mail as if I was in account B back to the original sender.
The piece that I want to put all together is having a copy of my sent email saved in account B even though I am signed into and using account A.
If I look at account B, I wish to see the conversation between original sender and account A (which is sending mail as if it was account B).
AI: The easiest solution I see to this is BCCing account B on every email you send as account B from within account A. The only issues I see are:
You have to add BCC every time
They won't automatically show up in account B's Sent Mail label, but instead in the Inbox
To get around that second issue, you should be able to set a filter in account B to put email where account B is both sender and BCCed into the IMAP/Sent folder (can't filter into Sent Mail directly).
One side note is that Gmail is smart enough to not re-forward the email back to account A's inbox.
Another option would be resorting to using IMAP to manually copy messages back and forth, but that would be a lot less elegant and a lot more work. |
H: Is there a hard limit on the number of devices that can connect to Google's services such as Gmail, Drive, etc?
We have a shared inbox and wanted to know if there is a limitation of how many devices can connect to a given mail box or Google Drive account.
For example, as we have over 100 people in a call centre, will this be an issue if all of them accessed the shared inbox at the same time via their browser, mobile, tablets, etc.?
AI: In Gmail there is an IMAP Connection limit of 15 simultaneous connections. Web browser users should be ok, but tablet and phone users may receive the error message, 'Too many simultaneous connections' and then have imap be subsequently blocked.
Do you also want to allow the same level of access to the account to all users? Someone could get wily and change the password.....
Have you considered a distribution list/group using gmail? This would require separate accounts for your call center users.
As far as google drive goes, there are limits on connections but that applies to sharing items in one google drive account, and collaborating with others. |
H: How to find the last email with an attachment in an email thread
In a very large email thread, is there a way to find the last email with an attachment?
AI: If the emails are grouped by conversation, click on the respective conversation, and then click on circle with a number in the middle (on hover, the number will turn in two arrows), to partially open all the messages.
After this, scroll down to the last message that has a clip icon next to its date. |
H: How do I change the text of a Mockup Button
When I use the Button from the Mockup Buttons collection, is there any way to change the text on the button so it doesn't say "Button Text"?
AI: See this video for changing the text in the ER shapes, the same idea applies for the mockups ("mainText" is the style key). We are working on a custom properties dialog for changing this, obviously this method is wrong. |
H: How to find out the total number of documents available in my Drive?
How to find out the total number of documents exposed via Google Docs?
AI: Goto script.google.com and start a new script and copy in the following code:
function doGet() {
Logger.log(DocsList.getAllFiles().length);
}
De-bug the code by pressing the "bug" button. An authorization menu will popup, that will ask permission to access Docs.
When having granted the script access to Docs, then play the script by pressing the "play" button. This might take a while, since it must read all files.
Press Ctrl + enter to view the logger (menu views/logs). Here the amount of files is displayed.
EDIT
See screenshot: |
H: Outlook.com - Printing Problem
With Outlook.com - whenever I try to print an email of say 3 pages, it only prints the screen view and 2/3 of the page width. I've resorted to emailing emails I need to print to my "spare" email to print the way I expect. Does anyone have a solution? This used to be fine before upgrading from Hotmail.
AI: Within Outlook.com, when viewing an email you should see a dropdown arrow next to "Actions" with an option to "Print message". This will give you a printable version of your email. |
H: Change Facebook profile to page, and then merge another page with it
A business I am helping has a Facebook profile page (a business as a "person") and a standard Facebook business page. I'll call the profile "A" and the existing business page "B". The goal is to end up with only Facebook page B, but with A's friends as likes to that page.
I understand from other questions that a profile can be converted to a page. I also understand from Facebook help that a page can be merged into another page, with the caveat that only the likes are going to come over (and yes, profile A has many more friends than page B has likes).
My idea was to do something like this:
Backup posts, etc. from both A and B. (I'm going to lose all content, I realize)
Rename B to "C".
Convert A to a page and give it the title B.
Merge C into B.
In regards to step 3, the Facebook help says that when you convert a profile to a page, that profile username becomes the page username (i.e., part of the URL). That is fine, but I am assuming I can change the title of the new page to "B" if I want to (assuming the already existing "B" has been re-titled something else). Correct me if I am wrong.
Will this basic flow work? Even if so, would you do it differently?
AI: I came across an article that discusses pretty much the exact process that I described above, so it seems this is feasible. The article does differ a bit from the steps I mentioned in the question. Instead of renaming B to C, it suggests renaming the profile A to page B before you convert it to a page, and then merge the two pages together. Not entirely sure how that would work exactly.
In absence of other answers or feedback, I will just go ahead and make this the answer unless something better comes a long. |
H: Now that Google Apps (the free version) is gone, is there another way to use Gmail with a custom domain
I really like Gmail, and I really wanted to get Google Apps for free. Now I have a domain but their free service. Is there any way for me to map my domain name to my Gmail account? I am using Outlook with a custom domain but I want to get my emails in Gmail. Is this possible?
AI: Here is a tip to Register Google-Apps Free for single user account.
http://www.hongkiat.com/blog/google-app-mail-for-free/ |
H: How to add user to an existing post in Google Plus?
I shared a link with friends and then realized others people might be interested by the content. But I don't see any button that allow to update/edit sharing list.
I know I can re-share the posts, but this doesn't keep the existing comments.
So is there a way to add a user to an existing post or is this missing on purpose?
AI: This feature is missing for a reason. Not necessarily a good reason, but certainly a reason.
The idea is that the people who were permitted initially may be responding the way they are with the understanding that the share was limited, and opening it up to more changes that expectation. This is particularly true if they've already replied to the message.
It is easy to poke holes in this argument, however. The easiest point is that you can add more people to a share, although it still may not quite do what you expect.
If you share a post with a circle, and then add more people to that circle, then the new people will be able to see any older posts that were shared with that circle. They won't get notification about the older ones, but will be able to see them in their stream and in your profile.
If you haven't locked the post, you can also add people by +mentioning them as part of a comment. This will send them the notification, but also expose that you invited more people to everyone else participating. (If you already locked the post, you can unlock it long enough to add people, then re-lock it.)
There are also other places in Google+ where you can change the sharing level. You can change the visibility of an album, for example, tho if you open it up too far all old comments on the album are removed. With some limitations, you can invite more people to a hangout.
As with everything in Google+, if you don't like how this is implemented, make sure you use the Send feedback feature to make sure your concerns are heard. |
H: How to bid on like goods, but buy only one, on ebay?
Imagine I'm shopping for a model XL-3Q widget on eBay. There are a half dozen for sale, all with different end times and conditions. Yet I want only one.
Is there a way I can chain the bids? If I fail to win the first listing, I'd like to roll over and bid on the next one. It might look like this:
Auction 1: light scratches: $55 max bid (auction ends in 10 minutes)
Auction 2: perfect condition: $65 max bid (auction ends in 13 minutes)
Auction 3: missing case: $55 max bid
Auction 4: perfect condition: $70 max bid
Auction 5: perfect condition: $75 max bid (auction ends in 2 days)
I'll shoot for a bargain with the first auction, but if that fails I'll raise my offer. This might play out over a few hours or days. Or maybe I'd just bid $55 for the XL-3Q, and simply try that bid on each auction until I finally get it.
And what's the proper term? Chained bidding, linked bidding, like goods bidding? Is there a reason eBay does not support it directly?
AI: I believe some 3rd party eBay "sniper" software (which sometimes run as a web service, rather than desktop software) will do this sort of thing for you. The sniper software is generally used to automate the process of placing a bid in the last few seconds of an auction to increase the chances of a win.
From techradar's review of "The best free and paid eBay sniper software" it states that for "Auction Stealer" and "Auction Sniper":
...you can also place your bids in groups, so you can make bids on multiple auctions of the same type of item. When you win one, the others are cancelled. |
H: Create group email to forward mails to list of addresses
I am looking for a way to set up group email for my class. This email address will be used to send mails to all class members.
I've tried creating a Gmail account and forwarding mails to a list of students but looks like Gmail allows forwarding to only two addresses at a time.
How can I create a group email such that any mail to that address will be distributed to all the students in class?
AI: Google Groups is probably your best bet. These two links should be the most helpful for how it sounds like you'll be using it:
Overview of the benefits of the Google Groups mailing list
Create a group
Based on your description, you'll probably want to set it up so that all members can post to the group. |
H: Report phishing attempt on Twitter
I think a friend's Twitter account has been compromised. She has sent me a direct message with a link which is an obvious phishing attempt to get my password.
I didn't fall for it, and I sent a message back to my friend that her account may have been compromised. Even if the message didn't actually come from her and was spoofed in some other way, I still want to report it to Twitter so that they can detect other messages using the same link.
The Twitter Help Center isn't particularly helpful in this regard. How can I report this to them? Can one even forward a Twitter DM?
AI: This site should send you to the appropriate form to report phishing http://twitter.com/help/escalate
Specifically, have your friend fill out the "Account hacked" form. |
H: How can I create a live blog with Wordpress.com?
I would like to create a live blog with my Wordpress.com blog. I realize that Automattic have recently created a plugin to do this, but this is only for VIP members and I don't have the space $10,000 lying around to do this.
I could go self-hosted, but I'm just getting started with the blog so I want to keep it as cheap to maintain as possible. Is there any way that I can live blog using my Wordpress.com blog?
AI: You can't install plugins on a hosted WordPress site, neither can you run arbitrary JavaScript code. With these restrictions, there's no way that you can live blog on your hosted WordPress.com blog |
H: How to enable Safety Mode in YouTube via URL or Cookie
Is it possible to enable Safety Mode in YouTube via a URL parameter? If so, how is this accomplished?
I am interested in doing this for an iOS app, as well as for a router rule.
AI: YouTube Safety Mode is only managed through cookies rather than URL parameters. This is likely a decision made to stop people inadvertently having Safety Mode enabled by clicking on a random YouTube link.
To force Safety Mode, proxies can directly manipulate the cookie headers of outgoing requests, for example on this Bluecoat article you can see the script appending &f2=8000000 to the PREF cookie. If your router setup is sufficiently advanced this may be possible. The YouTube help article notes "Safety Mode for YouTube Mobile is not available at this time", so success on iOS depends on your implementation. |
H: Why do I receive emails sent to address similar to mine but with dots?
I have a question relating to my Gmail account although I will use a fake email address for the purpose of this question.
My Google email account is myaccountname@example.com but then today I received an email, which is addressed to my.account.name@example.com. (note the periods .)
Is this a bug of Gmail or is this intended behaviour?
I've checked the mail headers and I am sure that there is no cc or bcc to myaccountname@example.com, but yet I received them.
AI: This was a decision made in the early days of Gmail. You can also create additional addresses with the + symbol that will arrive in your inbox.
This page goes into detail, as does this Gmail support article |
H: Set Grid layout as default in Google Keep
I just started using the Google Keep service and I have noticed that the web-interface always starts in the list-view, even if I set it to grid.
Is there a way to configure Google Keep to always use the grid layout on the web-interface?
(I am using the latest stable Google Chrome, the Android app works fine.)
AI: I have been doing a deep dive on Keep and have yet to find any documentation.
To your specific question, I am not aware of any options that enables you to set any preferences related to default display of Notes such as Grid or List.
No Settings
No Preferences
nada |
H: How to I get time on site from google analytics?
I do want to get information regarding average time spend on site by using Google Analytics data.
The result of the query should be something like:
Aug 2011 - 10.20 minutes
Sep 2011 - 8.4 minutes
Oct 2011 - 5.2 minutes
I do want to extract this information into a CSV, so it should be something that I can provide to http://ga-dev-tools.appspot.com/explorer/
AI: If you're on the main Audience > Overview page in Google Analytics (this should load when you open Analytics, by default), then you can select "Avg. Visit Duration" in the dropdown in the graph. This is equivalent to time on site.
In the top right of the graph, you can select the duration you want to view in the graph, hour / day / week / month.
Then in the top middle of the page, you can export to a CSV (or a number of other formats). The months show up as 0 / 1 / 2 when I did it for 3 months, but that's a simple fix. |
H: How do I get the black Google toolbar back?
Suddenly a couple of days ago the toolbar disappeared when accessing Google like (btw. I am already logged to my Google account, so that's not a problem):
http://google.com
I am using Google Chrome latest version:
Version 25.0.1364.172 m
I use a lot of translate or images Google sub pages and other functions from that bar and it comes very handy to have them there.
However, now when I want to access the Google search page I need to type directly:
http://translate.google.com
Is there a way to set Google black toolbar to appear on every page?
AI: A bug has been posted on the Chromium bug tracker on this issue, apparently it was a deliberate move by Google:
This is a deliberate Search experiment on Chrome v27, and not a bug.
Thanks for the report, though!
Status: WontFix
And later:
I understand your frustration, but just to be clear, Chrome is not
changing the google.com webpage. This is a Google Search experiment
you happen to be in that has nothing to do with Chrome code.
So the only work around at this point would be to use a different browser or downgrade your Chrome install. Alternatively, if Translate is the only thing you are missing maybe a bookmark would serve as a replacement? |
H: How do I automatically update a cell in Google Spreadsheets to the most recently entered in the same row?
I am trying to have one column that will show the most recent thing i entered in the row. Example: I want B2 to be the same as D2 but once I enter something in E2 I want B2 to display that. And then if I entered something in F3 it would then show in B2 and so on and so fourth. I figured out how to do it with one cell doing a "=index(d2)" and tried something like "=index(D2:L2) for the sequence but it only shows d2 or gets upset and causes errors. I hope that makes sense. It seems simple enough but after researching it I've been unable to find anything. It is mainly text that I am trying to display and not numbers.
AI: The following little script will add each change you make, in the active row, to column B:
function onEdit() {
var sh = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSpreadsheet().getActiveSheet();
var row = sh.getActiveCell().getRowIndex();
var value = sh.getActiveCell().getValue();
sh.getRange(row, 2).setValue(value);
}
See example file I created, you you to play around with: onEdit change
Goto Tools, Script Editor, from the menu and add the script. Make sure to press the two buttons: |
H: Gravatar image in Flickr?
Can I link my Gravatar image to my Buddy Icon on Flickr using the web URL setting in my profile?
AI: You can use your current Gravatar image by selecting the web URL, but this will then be uploaded to Flickr's server, and will therefore not stay up to date with your Gravatar image. Basically this is no different to if you were to upload the image from your computer.
Therefore you cannot use Gravatar as your buddy icon. |
H: Is it possible to automatically expand all comments for a Slashdot post?
Occasionally, I'd like to save a Slashdot page to read completely, offline, later.
Is it possible to expand all comments in one action, instead of manually clicking each one?
AI: At the top of the comments, on the bar with the 'Post' and 'Load all comments' buttons there is a slider with two draggable handles:
The right one sets how many are hidden (score threshold)
The left one sets how many are full/expanded.
Sliding the left one up to the same position as the right one will make all posts you have set to display, be expanded. |
H: How does google dynamically count on its space for gmail?
When we look at Gmail login page, we can see the space counting dynamically. What does it represent - does it mean that Google is dynamically increasing it's server space?
What happens in the back end while the Gmail space gets dynamically increased?
AI: As Al mentioned, it's just a gimmick plus some JavaScript trickery that shows the 'real-time' increase - in practice, the amount is a fixed space which gets increased at regular intervals.
This Stack Overflow answer explains how the JS bit works
This is the code in charge of it. Looks like it is based on a time
computation being mapped to a number of Bytes.
function updateQuota() {
if (!quota_elem) {
return;
}
var now = (new Date()).getTime();
var i;
for (i = 0; i < CP.length; i++) {
if (now < CP[i][0]) {
break;
}
}
if (i == 0) {
setTimeout(updateQuota, 1000);
} else if (i == CP.length) {
quota_elem.innerHTML = CP[i - 1][3];
} else {
var ts = CP[i - 1][0];
var bs = CP[i - 1][4];
quota_elem.innerHTML = format(((now-ts) / (CP[i][0]-ts) * (CP[i][5]-bs)) + bs);
setTimeout(updateQuota, 1000);
}
}
var PAD = '.000000'; |
H: How to copy-paste information from one drawing to another one in draw.io
In Draw.Io is there a way to copy-paste information from one drawing on one tab to another one in a different tab?
I couldn't find a way to do it.
AI: Select all, copy on origin ( using keyboard ), paste using keyboard into targer. If it doesn't work, bugs go to https://github.com/jgraph/drawio/issues |
H: How to show news from all friends on Facebook?
It seems that the Facebook news feed only shows news of friends I interact with.
Is it possible to set it to show news from all my friends?
AI: The stories you see in your News Feed are determined by an algorithm that Facebook uses to determine which stories are most relevant to you. Facebook intentionally doesn't show you all of your friends, as you would be more likely to be bored by all friends' activity than others.
At the current time, you cannot override this to see "All" friends, but you can choose to Hide stories from specific friends.
From Facebook Help:
Hover over the top right menu of a story, click the dropdown menu
and choose what you'd like to hide:
Hide story will remove the story you're looking at from your News Feed |
H: Show files on Wikipedia that were recently added to a specific category
On Wikipedia, is it possible to view all of the files or articles that were recently added to a specific category? In this case, I want to view all files that were recently added to [[Category:Birds]], and show the files in descending order of recency.
AI: There is no built-in way to do that. That's why I created a service called Category Watchlist that periodically monitors categories from Wikimedia wikis you ask it to and reports changes to them.
For more information, see the tool's description page and the site of tool itself. |
H: Auto reply for cancelled account in Google Apps?
An employee of us left, and I want to cancel his Google Apps account (paid version).
Is there a way, where after I cancel his account, I can add an auto reply for his alias in any way?
AI: You make employeegone@example.com an nickname (alias) of another user. For that user, you enabled Canned Responses lab (Settings > Labs > Canned Responses) and create the auto-response message you want.
You then create a filter for emails sent to employeegone@example.com and have it send the Canned Response you have created. You may also want to archive, mark-as-read or some other handling of the message at the same time. |
H: What is the size limit of picture to use free storage on Blogspot?
I've heard that the small pictures on Blogspot are not using Picassa storage limit, but are free to store. So I can post as much pictures as I want, even the whole photo archive, as long as I keep them small.
However, I've failed to find detailed information? Is it really true, and if so, what is the picture size limit (width, height, size in kB)?
AI: Yes, it's true. If you have a Google+ account, any image that is 2048 x 2048 pixels or smaller will not count against your total storage limit. If you do not have a Google+ account, any image that is 800 x 800 pixels or smaller will not count.
Reference: http://support.google.com/picasa/answer/1224181?hl=en |
H: Finding the SUM of an array where the size of the array is dependent on a cell's contents
Here is a simplified example of what I want:
sheet 1
sheet 2
Essentially Column C finds the row on Sheet 2 with the same Item as Sheet 1 (Columns A) and sums up the Upgrade cost for the current Upgrade level.
So an Upgrade level of 3 finds the sum of Sheet 2, B:D where the Items are the same, where an Upgrade level of 5 will find the sum of B:F.
AI: Add the following line of code into Sheet1!C2:
=SUM(OFFSET(INDIRECT("Sheet2!B"&MATCH(A2;Sheet2!A:A,0)),0,0,1,B2))
The formula explained from the inside to the outside:
MATCH in an equivalent of the VLOOKUP. It will return a relative position as an integer, rather than a specific value.
INDIRECT combines a STRING with a value into a reference (B2).
OFFSET is a not commonly used formula, but quite powerful. It sets the range of the SUM.
SUM will sum the outcome.
See the example file I created: Finding the SUM of an Array |
H: Gmail web says "not sent to spam", downloaded version doesn't
The web version of Gmail sometimes tells me a message wasn't sent to
spam because of my filter settings:
However, after I download that message via IMAP and look at the
headers, I see no such indication ("show original" also shows no such
indication).
Is this information lost if I don't view the message on the web?
Can I make gmail add a "X-GMAIL-FILTERED: Spam to Inbox" or something
header?
AI: This is a GMail web feature and would not be included in the normal HTML of an email. The information is not really lost, but more a less not an included feature of using IMAP or POP access. |
H: Google Spreadsheet: Adding formulas to Google Forms responses rows
I have a sheet with form response data in several columns, say A:G. Some of the data are numerical and I'd like to have some calculations done on them, e.g. in columns H through J. I have already found out any stretched formulas get wiped out as new lines from the form get pulled in.
So I created a new sheet, imported the data using arrayformula, but still, I don't know how to have a formula for every row in columns H:J (except the header). I can only stretch the formula within a fixed number of rows, but don't know how to make it autoadjust to newly incoming data.
I wondered if I could use a script that would be triggered with the form being submitted, adding the formulas to the new lines, but that's rather inelegant.
Sample spreadsheet: Sheet1 contains form data, Sheet2 imports them using arrayformula.
AI: If you add the following formula in cell D2:
=ARRAYFORMULA(FILTER(C2:C;C2:C<>"")*1.2)
then it will take on the complete column, via the array. The FILTER function, is to make sure no empty cells are taken into account.
I've added the result into the file you shared with us. |
H: Can you delete a project on SourceForge?
Just as the title says, can you delete a project on SourceForge?
AI: From their wiki:
Removing a Project
At SourceForge.net, we feel a commitment to ensuring the long-term availability of the Open Source code released by the projects we host. We will weigh requests for project removal against the community value of leaving the project intact.
When we receive a request for project removal, we consider the following:
Has the project been registered less than 90 days? If so, the project will not be removed.
Has the project released files? If not, we will honor the removal request.
Does the request include legal justification, such as mention of a DMCA violation, trademark infringement or Terms of Service abuse problem related to the project? If it does, we consider this on a case-by-case basis.
Has the project merged with another project on SourceForge.net? If the project has been merged and all project materials (CVS/Subversion repository data, mailing lists, file releases) have been moved to the new project, we'll honor the removal request.
Projects which have moved to another hosting provider are typically retained at SourceForge.net (though you can make a note on the project web site and project summary page directing users to the new home) for sake of retaining materials of historical value.
Projects that are moving to closed source do not qualify for removal. |
H: Google Spreadsheet: Query function date formatting not working
I'm trying to make this query work on my spreadsheet on chrome Win7:
=QUERY(A1:D5;"SELECT MAX(A), COUNT(A), SUM(C)
GROUP BY (A) FORMAT MAX(A) 'MMMM' ")
Everything is ok except for the format part.
I'd like my date to show just as a month name but it shows exactly in the standard way (dd/MM/YYYY).
I would like to point out that neither a simple query like
=QUERY(A1:D5;"SELECT A FORMAT A 'MMMM'")
displays the dates in the wanted format =\
What am I doing wrong? The document I'm working on is this: BENZINA
AI: That's not possible. The QUERY documentation is primarily meant for the Google Visualization API and not the QUERY function in Google Spreadsheet. Read the following thread from the Google Product Forum: QUERY FORMAT.
What you could do instead, is to create a second column, containing the date format you want: MONTH(A2). |
H: Copy incoming email to another account - google apps for business (gmail)
We're planning on changing our emails which are currently on hosted webmail, to run on google apps for business - Gmail.
We've signed up and had a look around, but we couldn't figure out how to achieve the following, we want all incoming emails to be copied to two accounts, so if an email is sent to Tom@.. it would also be copied to Bob@.. so that he could respond if necessary.
Ive tried setting it up using groups, by setting up both accounts, bob@ and tom@, and then also trying to create a group called - bob@ and tom@, but you cant have a group with the same address as a user.
Is there another way to do this ?
AI: You want to create a filter in each account.
In Bob's account, you create a filter for emails sent to bob@example.com and forward them to tom@example.com. In Tom's account you do the same process except forwarding Bob's email.
This does not create an endless loop because the forward in the filter does not resend the email, it is redirected. When the email to bob@example.com arrives in Tom's inbox, it still shows bob@example.com in the To:
I would also suggest you create another filter in each box. In Bob's account, create a filter for emails sent to tom@example.com. When they are received apply a label like "To: Tom". This will allow Bob to know which emails were addressed to him and which were addressed to Tom -- at a glance. |
H: How to set Facebook uploaded videos to play as "HD" by default?
When I upload a video to Facebook (not from Youtube, an actual video file), the Facebook player has a setting to play it back in "HD" via a button in the lower right hand corner of the player. Is it possible to get this "HD" setting to be the default when people click on the video? I was not able to find anything online regarding this, except this which doesn't even work (for me at least, I'm using Chrome if that makes any difference).
AI: It's not possible. Also note that not everybody has a network connection that allows to watch HD videos comfortably. |
H: Google+ share image (not full album) via public URL?
In Picasa Web, you could get a public link to individual images that you had set to public. But in Google+ I can't figure out how to get a public link for an image. I can only get a link to a public album.
How can I get a public link to an individual image? Is it possible? It was always very helpful for things like, posting an image on Craigslist or something like that.
AI: Update 3
Looks like they changed the context-menu behavior back to my original answer! i've removed the alternate solution because this is the best answer, but I've saved it in case it goes away again :) Anyway, original answer below:
If you right-click on the image and select "Copy image URL" it should copy the public URL to your clipboard.
Likewise, you can right-click on an image and select "Open image in new tab." The URL you go to should be publicly shareable. |
H: How do I write a simple loop in a Google Spreadsheet?
I'm trying to write a simple formula that concatenates each entry in a given column of a spreadsheet, interspersed with newline characters. In other words,
=CONCATENATE(B2, CHAR(10), B3, CHAR(10), B4, CHAR(10), ... , CHAR(10), B130)
Is there any way of achieve this without having to type the whole thing out by hand? Even copying and pasting so I just have to modify the cell references is pretty laborious. I was thinking that there might be some way of implementing a for loop?
AI: You need the JOIN function. This function joins all the elements in an array (ie. a 1-dimensional range, a single column or a single row) separated by a common delimiter (your CHAR(10)).
=JOIN(CHAR(10),B2:B130)
I believe the CONCATENATE function has a limit of 30 arguments, so that could also have been a problem. |
H: Un-archive ALL Gmail conversations/emails
As the title says.
How can I go about un-archiving all 700 (or so) conversations in my Gmail account?
The reason for this is I have around 2500 in my Gmail account, I decided to go back and sort all of this using all of Gmail's features, labels, important or not icon, archiving etc.
But I need to un-archive everything in order to be able to do stuff in a better way (I think).
AI: Click the "All Mail" label
Click the checkbox at the top of the list to select all the visible conversations
At the top of the results should now be a message similar to
The "Select all..." bit is a link. Click it so that all conversations are now selected. (You'll get a message to that effect.)
Click the "Move to Inbox" button
Et voilà! |
H: Github choose who can create issues on a public repository
I have a public repository on Github and I like using the issue tracking system to keep track of bugs, tasks, milestones etc. but I don't want just anyone to be able to create issues.
Is there any way to make it so only collaborators of the project can create issues on my public repository. I know I can set the privacy of issues on Bitbucket but is there a similar ability on Github?
AI: No that feature is not available in Github public repo , for that you need to purchase the private repository |
H: Google books preview not available
Edit: problem solved by @Sathya in comments. It suffices to replace all instances of 358 by 97 in the wrong link that was given to me. I am still curious why such a link makes the page available, while it is not (for me) if I simply go to the preview directly, or if I scroll to page 97 after I have followed the wrong 358 link.
Recently, I followed a link to a Google Books preview where the page was not available in my case, while it was for the person who had shared the link.
I was advised to refresh my browser, clear the cookies, try another browser. I did all that and tried with Chrome, Firefox, and Safari. No success.
Then I was advised to use stealthy extension, in case it was a location problem, as I am in Canada. It did not work either.
Here is the link I was provided. Note that the page I was supposed to reach was page 97. And not the page 358, which I can see. So I scrolled up to page 97, and it was not visible for me, while the link provider claims page 97 was visible for him.
Could you tell me what the possible reason is?
AI: Looking at the link, http://books.google.rs/books?id=hIEnzrOBbW0C&pg=PA358&lpg=PA358 it's supposed to take you to Page 358. Change it to 97 & it takes you there.
I also tried scrolling from page 358 to 97, that worked for me as well. Google Books Preview doesn't show all the pages, but in this case page 97 was available so scrolling should take you there. |
H: Set "from" address with Gmail's new compose
I haven't had any luck getting an answer from Google on this, and I couldn't find this on their "tour," but the new compose and reply screens don't appear to have an area where you can set the "from" address if you have other hosts set up in your account.
This is a problem for me, as I use Gmail for multiple e-mail addresses that all forward to the same place.
For now I've set it to go back to the "old" compose screen, but once I'm forced to use the new one I'm not sure how (or if) it can be done.
AI: Click on the dropdown on the From field, you can switch between sending from email address |
H: How to change menu language in Draw.io?
I'm currently in Brazil and using Window 8 in English. But looks like Draw.io decide to use my ip to define the language of menus.
The translation is good but I really prefer in English since all help is easier in English.
Is it possible to change language to English?
AI: It is possible to change the language in Diagrams.net (formerly Draw.io).
The method differs depending if you want the change to be remembered for future visits or only for the current session.
For a permanent change, the instructions are different depending if your browser is accessing the Desktop or Mobile version of the site. Also note that custom language setting is stored in a cookie and if deleted, the language will revert.
Desktop Mode (Permanent)
Under the Extras Menu , select Language then English
Mobile Mode (Permanent)
Under the Meatball Menu , select Settings then Language then English
URL Edit (Temporary)
You can alternatively append ?lang=en to the URL (https://app.diagrams.net/?lang=en) in both Desktop and Mobile which will override the current language setting for that session. The setting is temporary and you will need to modify the URL each time you visit. |
H: GMail basic-html autocomplete keyboard accept
In the basic HTML version of Gmail, if you go to compose a message, and start typing the person's name in the To: field, an autocomplete list comes up. Enter, space, and tab don't seem to make it accept the currently selected autocomplete entry. Is there no way to do it from the keyboard? The only way I seem to be able to get it to work is by clicking the entry with the mouse.
This is on Chrome for Win7, even.
AI: You can use autocomplete with the key combination Shift + Enter.
Works for me (Win 7 + Chrome Version 26.0.1410.43 m). |
H: Google Cloud Connect offline setup not working
I have found this offline setup for Google Cloud Connect (Google Drive's app), but it doesn't install the plugin actually to the Microsoft Office. Or am I missing to activate something, after installation?
When I start the setup it just goes through a progress bar single time and nothing happens. No alerts for success or error and it gets out of the setup application.
Then I tried to find the plugin in Microsoft Word but the bar was not visible over there. Even I tried to find the entry in Add/Remove Programs but it wasn't there.
PS:-
Few days ago I have asked for Downloadable Setups for Google Drive Applications @
Downloadable Setups for Google Drive Applications
AI: I figured it out accidentally :)
After searching for several hours for why offline setup is not working for me, I decided to give the online setup a try. Just then I came to know that GCC requires .NET Framework 2.0 as a prerequisite.
As I have just refreshed my own system, the framework 2.0 was absent so.
And the same issue with Google Drive offline setup (.msi) also. |
H: How to apply filters to existing mails in Gmail?
I created a filter in Gmail, but forgot to apply it to already existing messages. Is there any way to apply filters to existing messages?
AI: Also apply filter to xx matching conversations. option is available next to search filter in gmail |
H: Can you undo a favourite on a tweet?
If I accidentally favourite a tweet (which I do regularly in Tweetdeck for Android), then undo the favourite straight away, what does the original tweeter see when they view their interactions?
AI: You can undo a favorite on a tweet, but depending on that user's notification settings, they'll know that you favorited the tweet in the first place. They might not care, then again they might.
At the Twitter website, track down the tweet (or see the tweets that you have favorited from your profile page) and click on "Undo favorite" (it's next to the "Retweet / Undo Retweet" link) |
H: Second highest value
I know how to use MAX(A1:A30) to get the highest value in the cell range A1 to A30.
But how do I get the second or third highest value?
AI: The following formula, will allow you to choose the highest value you want:
=INDEX(SORT(UNIQUE(A1:A30),1,FALSE),1,0)
The formula explained from the inside out:
The SORT function will sort the range DESCENDING via the FALSE
statement (high to low). The 1 indicates the first column.
The UNIQUE function will exclude any duplicates
The INDEX function will allow you to select the order you want: 1 for the first, 2 for the second....and so on.
I was about to write a script and found out that the problem can be resolved by good old formulas !! |
H: Sending a tweet to somebody I follow but he doesn't follow me
Suppose I follow person B who doesn't follow me. If I want to send to person B a tweet of person C from an unrelated conversation, how do I do it? I tried "reply @B" but it didn't show the link. I tried "retweet" but I can only retweet to myself.
AI: When you retweet (unless your account is protected) the tweet is publicly visible. If you mention someone in a tweet who does not follow you they will not receive an instant notification, but it will appear in their "Mentions and Interactions" tab.
So, if you quote the tweet of person C with a mention of @personB the tweet will appear in the Mentions and Interactions tab of personB
Twitter Support describes this in their "Type of Tweets and where they appear"
Mentions:
Definition: A Tweet containing another user's Twitter username, preceded by the "@" symbol, like this: Hello @NeonGolden! What's up?
Where it appears for the sender: On the sender's profile page of public Tweets.
Where it appears for the recipient: In the recipient's Mentions and Interactions tabs, which is accessible only by them. Additionally,
mentions will appear in the recipient's Home timeline view (not on
their profile) if they are following the sender. Note: Anyone on
Twitter who is following the sender of a mention will see the Tweet in
their Home timeline.
Places it will never appear: On anyone's profile page, unless they wrote the message. |
H: How does one check what websites a person logs into using their Google account?
When you create Stack Exchange accounts and you want them tied to a Google account, when you log into your Google account you get taken to a separate page where it asks for permission and whether you want the setting to be remembered.
I am wondering how I can access the page which lists what accounts are tied to my Google account and have set to remember.
I think it's about time I went in and see what accounts I am not using and get rid of them.
AI: Go to:
https://myaccount.google.com/permissions
Alternatively, go to https://myaccount.google.com > Apps with account access > Manage Apps
You will be prompted for your password. After that, you're shown a list of all sites you've used Google to authenticate with, and applications that have access to your account. |
H: URL in Twitter profile
When creating a Twitter profile I noticed that all URLs I entered in the profile where changed from:
http://www.abzurb.com to abzurb.com and it uses a t.co link to link to the page.
https://twitter.com/abzurb
On most other Twitter profiles it just displays the full URL: http://www.blabla.com
Is there any way to change this?
AI: Twitter wraps all URLs, in part of their content - bio, profile, tweets using their in-house URL shortener, primarily for their analytics & for security against malicious URLs.
Now on twitter's webpage as well on their API, twitter provides both the short URL, the the display URL as well as the actual URL
Here's an example from my twitter profile
"id": 11594372,
"id_str": "11594372",
"name": "Sathya",
"screen_name": "SathyaBhat",
"location": "Bangalore, India",
"description": "Super User & Web Apps Stack Exchange ♦, PLSQL Dev, Mangalorean, Rum, Beer, @Preshit certified lazyass, LOLG Nexus 4, Gaming http://t.co/fZDbzJdc",
"url": "http://sathyabh.at",
"entities": {
"url": {
"urls": [
{
"url": "http://sathyabh.at",
"expanded_url": null,
"indices": [
0,
18
]
}
]
},
"description": {
"urls": [
{
"url": "http://t.co/fZDbzJdc",
"expanded_url": "http://sbhat.me",
"display_url": "sbhat.me",
"indices": [
124,
144
]
}
]
}
},
You can see that display_url is what twitter shows on their websites. Many twitter clients do not handle these well; some show expanded_url, others display_url while some more just show the shortened t.co URL.
While this is the explanation for why it looks different, there's no way to change this - that's how twitter does things. |
H: Where are the Canned Response in the new format?
Got to the new Google Mail format. I have Canned response enabled in Labs - but I can't figure how to add/use them!
Anyone?
AI: The Canned responses have moved to the additional menu next to the "Discard Draft" or Trashcan button.
Click on the triangle at the bottom right of the new compose window to open the menu and then hover over "Canned Responses" to view all of your options. |
H: How do I Sum Thoughout Different Sheets
How do I create a reference to a defined interval in several sheets?
Something like this: =SUM(Sheet1:Sheet2!A1)
AI: You can use the following script to get the sum from multiple sheets:
UPDATE
Because the script is only executed at an interval of 5 minutes, and an OnEdit trigger won't work, I had to revise the answer I gave in order for it to be practical. See revision history to notice the differences.
The first part
will set the spreadsheet and create an extra menu option, called Sum:
var ss = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSpreadsheet();
function onOpen() {
var menu = [{name: "get sum", functionName: "sumSheets"}];
ss.addMenu("Sum", menu);
}
The second part
will ask for a starting position and collect the total number of sheets and will determine the position of the Result sheet (not sheet ID but the absolute position). After which it will open each consecutive sheet starting from the first parameter (zero based !!), to gather the values and add them to the sum, till it hits the Result sheet. At the end, the total sum is added to any active cell:
function sumSheets() {
var pos = Browser.inputBox("Where do you want to start (zero based)?");
var sh = ss.getNumSheets();
for(var k=0; k<sh; k++) {
if(ss.getSheets()[k].getName() == "Result") {
var ref = k;
}
}
var sum=0;
for(var i=pos; i<ref; i++) {
this.i = ss.getSheets()[i];
var data = this.i.getRange(2, 1, this.i.getLastRow(), 1).getValues();
for(var j=0, len=data.length; j<len; j++) {
sum += Number(data[j]);
}
}
ss.getActiveCell().setValue(sum);
return;
}
To trigger the calculation, press get sum from the menu option Sum and the result will be added.
See example file I've prepared: SUM throughout multiple sheets |
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