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H: Trello shows me online when I just click on its tab (not bringing the mouse in)
Isn't there anywhere an option to disable this behavior?
Even gmail doesn't activate your status (when you are idle) as soon as you just click on gmail tab!
It's a very bad behavior that trello shows everyone that you are online even when just you want to view the page!
Wish there was a solution for this terrible behavior of Trello.
AI: I really don't see the issue here. If you open the tab, it should be assumed that you are active on it, even if it was for a second. If you don't want people to know you are on then don't open the tab yet. |
H: Google Alerts for images
We use Google alerts quite a lot to keep in touch with what's being said about our company, but what we’ve found really useful lately is using the reverse image search tool in Google Images to search for our images appearing around the web. However, this is a manual and quite tedious process and we were wandering whether it was possible to do a "reverse image search Google Alert".
In other words, you could upload you images and then each time they were used on the web you would get an email alerting you.
AI: It's not currently possible to use Google Alerts for images. However, there are a few options that you may want to try (not all are automatic):
Who Stole My Pictures is a Firefox extension that allows you to target an image for a reverse search on a selection of search engines
Image Raider is an automated reverse-image search tool – spend a few minutes adding your photo or image catalogue, and we’ll let you know when we find any other websites using them.
TinEye is a reverse image search engine. You can submit an image to TinEye to find out where it came from, how it is being used, if modified versions of the image exist, or to find higher resolution versions.
There are likely a number of others; here's the google search I used. |
H: Back to Google Talk
Starting from today the Google Hangouts panel in my Gmail tells me that I should join Google+ to use Hangouts. Is there a way to revert the plugin to the old Google Talk plugin in Gmail?
(Please note that the plugin is completely useless this way, showing me only that message, therefore I can't really use it to turn it back.)
EDIT: screenshot (sorry that I couldn't make it to be English)
AI: The following worked for me:
Click the join button
Click the cancel button on the next screen
The "Revert to old Chat" option should now be available |
H: What happens to documents saved locally when they are deleted or unshared remotely
I am looking everywhere to understand how it works. Basically, I have some files I do not want to share anymore with some coworkers. I have revoked the permissions on Google Drive web interface. Now the question is simple: what happens if these documents were synced with a Google Drive app on Windows?
Do the files get deleted as well from the local machine on which they are synced or what?
AI: Yes, the files do infact get removed. This is the whole idea of the syncing feature. As long as Google Drive is running and there an internet connection, then the files will be synced with the server. Part of the sync process is adding AND removing files, so that the files appear as they do in the browser. |
H: Managing multiple accounts from Gmail
I've two work email accounts from different companies, running on separate domains on Google Apps for Business so they are using Gmail infrastructure. At the moment I'm managing them using Mac Mail which is OK, but I'd like to move to use Gmail in the browser to view / manage / compose emails.
In Mac Mail I can switch between my two accounts like this:
Is there something similar inside of Gmail that I can set up?
AI: What I do is this:
I set up the ability to send from many e-mail accounts.
I forward the other accounts to my gmail account.
I set up label filters for those accounts.
I select the label to view mail from other accounts. |
H: Google Translate asks for Flash
Whenever I use Google Translate I get a notification about Adobe Flash being disabled:
Things seem to work normally without Flash, so I don't understand why the translator is even trying to use it. Is there some Flash-based functionality I'm missing? Would Google Translate be faster or more accurate with Flash enabled?
I've tried searching flash in Google Translate Help but it did not match any answers.
AI: The Google Translate page uses Flash to play the sounds of the words being translated:
So you only have to worry about it if you want to hear the words. |
H: Now that TrueSwitch has been shutdown, how can I import emails from Gmail to Outlook.com?
I'm in the process of migrating from Gmail to Outlook.com, following the steps described in this tutorial. The last step is to import the old emails from Gmail to Outlook.com, using TrueSwitch. Unfortunately, I realized that TrueSwitch has been shutdown since the tutorial was published.
Is there a good alternative to TrueSwitch?
I've seen YippieMove, which is not free; I'm willing to pay if it's worth the price, but I have no idea how good it is.
If there is no good online solution, is there a PC-based tool I could use?
AI: OK, here's what I did eventually:
installed Windows Live Mail
configured my Gmail account using IMAP
configured my Outlook.com account using the Hotmail protocol (whatever it is)
dragged my messages from the Gmail folders to the Outlook.com folders
let it run the whole night
I now have all my Gmail messages on Outlook.com |
H: What is the meaning of 'IN' in new YouTube logo previously it used to be 'TM'?
Go to youtube website see its logo in top left corner. 'IN' is shown as superscript to logo. I tried searching on Google and Wikipedia but couldn't find any information.
AI: Your country setting is set to India. (Country settings can be independent from your physical location. I'm physically in US now but my country setting is Japan, and I see "JP" next to the logo.)
Scroll to the bottom of the site and you will see a menu like this:
In your case, the country must be set to India. If you don't want it to be, change that to worldwide. |
H: Make some forums appear in Gmail primary tab
How do I make postings, from some of the forums I am subscribed to, appear in the Primary tab?
AI: Like the comments mention, you can't drag and drop into the Primary tab unless you want to always categorize emails from that forum as "Primary"
What you could try doing is setting up a filter that automatically stars an email from the forums email address (e.g. forum-group@example.com). This will also allow you to refine which forum emails are starred (e.g. only contain the words "lorem ipsum" etc)
Once you get it so that Gmail stars email from your forum, click on the Gear menu and select Configure Inbox
From there you can select the option to add any Starred email to your primary inbox. This should allow you to keep the forum categorization and still have it show up in the Primary tab. |
H: Get the local path of streamed video
I watch movies online (not on YouTube). As my internet speed is slow (512 kbps), I watch the movie while streaming instead of downloading and then watching. I have seen that I can move the seek bar to any position in the vicinity of streamed video. So, I am assuming that the streamed video will be stored on local drive somewhere in a temporary folder.
I would like to know that path so that I can copy the video file and store in my movies folder. My default browser is Google Chrome.
AI: Depending on the video streaming site the data is most likely automatically being stored in your browsers cache. Usually this data is not easily accessible nor is it easy to piece together.
I highly suggest taking a look at a program such as JDownloader which will find the video sources on pages and allow you to download them in various qualities. Therefore you could avoid the streaming aspect and just download the video by copying the link and using JDownloader. I mean you're downloading the video anyway from the site when viewing it, so might as well have a copy of it. |
H: How to remove the > character when replying to email?
Whenever I reply to an email on Outlook.com it adds the > character to the beginning of every line in the previous email.
Is there a way to stop that from happening?
AI: To my knowledge, that only happens when replying in Plain Text format, but it cannot be turned off when doing so. If you reply to a message using Rich Text format, the > will not appear.
The first time you switch from Plain Text to Rich Text, the > will still be there, so just cancel your message and hit reply again. This time it will default to Rich Text, and will not include the >. |
H: What does "View and manage your mail" in Google permissions mean?
View mail is something I would like to give to this app -- but what the heck is manage?
AI: In general, the ability to "manage" (and not just "view") your GMail includes the various actions that you might perform manually when interacting with your account via the standard web-interface. For example, such actions can include deleting, starring, labeling, and archiving individual emails -- to name just a few.
I personally do not use Slice.com, and so I don't know for sure which exact actions it needs in order to function properly. However, I can imagine how it might need more than just "view" permissions. |
H: How to sort files in folder by date created?
Is there a way to sort files in a folder by the date of their creation?
I'm trying to figure out in which order my documents were created.
AI: Looking at the Google Support Page it appears there is no way currently to search by date of creation.
The support page only explains that the following methods are supported:
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H: Google image search URL that can be shared?
I performed a Google Image search, it shows results, but when I send the search URL to someone, they can not see any result:
https://www.google.com/search?as_q=berlin&tbs=sur:fmc&biw=1855&bih=990&tbm=isch#bav=on.2,or.r_cp.r_qf.&ei=VOgBUtS6JcX-lAX6s4CYBA&fp=4119dba43ada9276&q=berlin&sa=X&safe=off&tbm=isch&tbs=sur:fmc,isz:lt,islt:4mp&ved=0CCIQpwU
Actually, the link does not even work in a new tab of the same browser.
Here is how I performed the search:
Go to search.creativecommons.org
Enter berlin
Click on Google Images
Once you have been redirected to Google Images, click on the Size filter, select Larger than… and then 4 MP (2272×1704).
How to share the resulting link successfully?
AI: The problem seems to be the part after the #, but it works if you use the Google Advanced Image Search directly.
The full URL that you will get for the search above:
https://www.google.com/search?as_st=y&tbm=isch&hl=en&as_q=berlin&as_epq=&as_oq=&as_eq=&cr=&as_sitesearch=&safe=images&tbs=isz:lt,islt:4mp,sur:fmc&biw=2560&bih=1342&sei=9QACUs3cPObw4QS-6IEQ
That URL can be shortened:
https://www.google.com/search?tbm=isch&as_q=berlin&tbs=isz:lt,islt:4mp,sur:fmc
You can then easily change the search term:
https://www.google.com/search?tbm=isch&as_q=vienna&tbs=isz:lt,islt:4mp,sur:fmc |
H: Embed Creative Commons attribution on YouTube
I have a video on YouTube which includes music from Free Music Archive. The track I use allows commercial use and remixing/adapting, but needs to have attribution. According to the official Creative Commons information page I have to embed this div:
<div xmlns:cc="http://creativecommons.org/ns#"
xmlns:dct="http://purl.org/dc/terms/"
about="http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Chris_Zabriskie/Reappear">
<span property="dct:title">Reappear</span> (<a rel="cc:attributionURL"
property="cc:attributionName" href="http://chriszabriskie.com">Chris
Zabriskie</a>) / <a rel="license"
href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/">CC BY 3.0</a>
</div>
The problem is that YouTube doesn't allow HTML in video description. How can I handle it?
AI: Short answer: Take out the essential information from that HTML snippet and write it in your description in plain text. The same information is conveyed and there should be no problem. Like thus:
Music from "Reappear" by Chris Zabriskie (CC BY 3.0)
http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Chris_Zabriskie/Reappear
The whole point of the CC Attribution (CC BY) license is that you're free to use the work as long as you credit the original author in some way.
Long answer: To quote from the full legal code, what the Creative Commons Attribution license requires you to do is:
[Section 4(a)] You must ... keep intact all copyright notices for the Work and provide, reasonable to the medium or means You are utilizing: (i) the name of the Original Author (or pseudonym, if applicable) if supplied, ... (ii) the title of the Work if supplied; (iii) to the extent reasonably practicable, the URI, if any, that Licensor specifies to be associated with the Work, unless such URI does not refer to the copyright notice or licensing information for the Work; and (iv) , consistent with Section 3(b), in the case of an Adaptation, a credit identifying the use of the Work in the Adaptation (e.g., "French translation of the Work by Original Author," or "Screenplay based on original Work by Original Author")
(I skipped parts irrelevant to your case.)
Now, in your case, (i)="Chris Zabriskie", (ii)="Reappear", (iii)= "http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Chris_Zabriskie/Reappear" or "http://chriszabriskie.com/", and (iv) in your case is that you used the music in your video. These information are to be provided in the manner "reasonable to the medium or means You are utilizing". HTML is fine in places you can use it, but since you have to use plain text here, plain text would be the "reasonable" manner.
Most of the other parts in the HTML like rel="cc:attributionURL" property="cc:attributionName" is to make this license statement more easily readable by machines (so to say), and less for humans to read.
In addition, the author himself has clearly stated in his website that
The credit can be as simple as “Music by Chris Zabriskie” or “(insert song title) by Chris Zabriskie.” I prefer that the credit be included in the work itself (for example, on screen in a video rather than only in the description text). But as long as my name is associated with my work in the final version of the project, you’re welcome to use my songs free of charge.
(quoted from Licensing and Usage at chriszabriskie.com) |
H: How to "unfollow" people on ResearchGate
How do I unfollow people on ResearchGate, to avoid receiving information that is irrelevant to me?
AI: On your profile page in the area where the people your are following is located, click on "View all" and then a pop-up will give you the option to unfollow people.
Edit: more details from support:
You can unfollow a ResearchGate user by following these steps:
- when viewing your own user profile in ResearchGate, click on the 'View all' link above the list of people you follow at the bottom right.
- in this list, locate the person you wish to 'unfollow'. If you scroll your mouse over the grey 'Following' box on the right of their name this box will change to an 'Unfollow' link.
Alternatively, visit the user’s profile page, and click the unfollow link in the menu at the bottom right of the ‘Info’ tab. |
H: Does a service like Unfuddle + Basecamp + bugtracking exist on the web?
At this moment I have been using multiple services. Unfuddle for SVN and project management via tickets. Basecamp for communication on projects and bugtracker for tracking bugs.
Does a service which is a combination of all above exist on the net?
If someone known about installing all these services on my own server, kindly share it with me. All these means: SVN, Project management and Bugtracking.
AI: Assembla, even in free plan, can offer
Any amount of "Spaces" (collection of Assembla tools with tight integration between them)
Any amount of independent SVN-repositories (they have 1.8 already) in every single space
Rather good bugtracking
Messaging for team's communication
Ability to use external SVN-repositories inside Assembla spaces ("External Subversion" Tool)
PM-tools like:
Milestones in Ticketing tool (tickets can be used as bug- and issue-tracker and planner)
Different reports in Tickets tool
Stream tab (reflect all space-related activity)
Time-tool
StandUp reports
Wiki and Files tools can be just nice addition to other Assembla's possibilities to build full-featured ALM-environment
Assembla Portfolio allow you to have all benefits of Spaces, but manage cross-project activity for many teams/many projects case in unified way
Local system on your own server may be (don't ask me about price of these Enterprise-level products):
Private Assembla
UberSVN from WANdisco
TeamForge from CollabNet |
H: How to un-auto-awesome photos in Google+?
I made few nice high-resolution pictures but the evil "auto-awesome" made them into one ugly blurry low quality GIF.
I know there is a setting to disable "auto-awesome"ness but it was enabled on these pictures.
Is there a way to get the original pictures back?
AI: Found an answer on Google Forum: the original pictures are still there.
I was just confused by the G+ UI: if I click on "Photos" all the pictures are there including the "awesome"d ones. |
H: Re-establishing Gmail’s Old Interface?
A few weeks ago, my Gmail layout changed from a "uniform" layout where all emails were shown according to the newest (by date and time), to one where emails are now grouped under three tabs under the headings of Primary, Social and Promotions as depicted below:
Is it possible to revert back to the old style layout, without my emails being grouped under these three tabs?
AI: I was able to find the solution after I enabled this myself while attempting to post a comment solution.
Settings->Inbox
The tab interface can be enabled accidently by Configure Inbox: |
H: How to untag myself from photos, and prevent people from tagging me in Google Plus?
Is it possible to untag myself from photos uploaded to Google Plus?
I've been notified by email that I've been tagged by a friend in one of his photos, but I can't figure out how to untag myself.
When I look at the photo I can see that I've been tagged in the photo, but in my Google Plus account, when I go to Photos → More → Photos of You, there is no photo.
AI: If you can't see the tag, then it's possible that the tag has already been removed by the original tagger, so when you try to visit the photo, you won't find it. I'm not 100% sure on this though.
The best way to remove this tag is to click through email notification to the photo itself. If you see your name on the right hand side in the photo details, you should be able to remove by clicking on the X to "Remove tag." If you don't see this then the tag might have already been deleted.
To prevent future tagging of yourself, it's a little complicated. There is no way to prevent someone from tagging you in a photo. The only thing you can do is require a notification every time someone tags you.
Go to Settings > Photos (section) > "People whose tags of you are automatically approved..." -- make sure that no one except trusted users are allowed to tag with an automatic approval.
In the future, anytime anyone tags you in a photo, you will be notified to approved/reject the tag.
In the settings, you can also uncheck the box for "Find my face in photos and videos and prompt people I know to tag me." This will prevent Google+ from highlighting your face for other people to tag (they will still be able to manually tag, but they won't be automatically prompted). |
H: How to configure IMAP for Gmail
I have IMAP on and I had it working before. Now I reinstalled my OS and I want to enable Outlook in Windows 7 with Gmail but it's not authenticating.
I have 2-way authentication turned on. Should this be working or is it impossible because I have 2-way authentication on?
AI: You need to generate an application-specific password from your Google Account Settings. Once done, that application specific password must be provided in Outlook, instead of your regular password. |
H: How to convert datetime interval to hours?
I have this spreadsheet:
A B C D E
1 08/13/2013 02:10 4
2 08/13/2013 02:19 10 00:09:00 160
In D2, I have this formula : =if(B2="";"";to_date(concatenate(A2;" ";B2))-to_date(concatenate(A1;" ";B1)))
In E2 I have this formula : =if(D2="";"";(C2-C1)/D2)
But E2 outputs the wrong result, 160. I want it to be 40 (=(10-4)/0.15). 0.15 is the value in D2 converted to hours.
How can I do that?
AI: Here is my solution thanks to indication from @mhoran_psprep
=if(D2="";"";(C2-C1)/(D2*24)) |
H: Changing an onEdit function to run onOpen
I have the function below (found online and adapted and it works) that is an on-edit function, but I want it to run/trigger when an import is done OR on open, as the data will not really be edited it will just be frequently overwritten by an import. Is this possible? Basically, col A values need to be formatted red depending on the values in a number of other columns and the only problem is that I’m not editing them.
Here's the code:
function foramtName() {
var ss = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSheet();
var r = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveRange();
if (r.getRow() != 1 && ss.getName() == "e404") {
// 4, 5, 6, 7 are cols D, E, F, G
vm = ss.getRange(r.getRow(), 4).getValue();
gg = ss.getRange(r.getRow(), 5).getValue();
inter = ss.getRange(r.getRow(), 6).getValue();
other = ss.getRange(r.getRow(), 7).getValue();
rowRange = ss.getRange(r.getRow(),1,1,1);
// sum of these need to equal zero to colour red
if (vm == '0' && gg == '0' && inter == '0' && other == '0') {
rowRange.setBackgroundColor("red");
} else {
rowRange.setBackgroundColor("white");
}
} //end upper if
}
Like I said, I’m new, so I’m not entirely sure if the first 2 lines are allowed even though it runs, and I can’t help thinking there is a much simpler way to sum the 4 cols—D, E, F, G—to colour col A red.
Example file: Row Color
AI: Rename your script to a normal function, something like setColor. Rewrite the script to contain all the proper references. After that, you can select the proper trigger in the script editor:
Select the onOpen trigger for the function.
The second this you can do, is to create a menu item in the active spreadsheet, like this:
var menu = [{name: "Set Color", functionName: "setColor"}];
ss.addMenu("Extra", menu);
If you add it to the existing script, it will be added on opening of the file. While your at it, use the following script:
function foramtName() {
var ss = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSheet();
var mRows = ss.getMaxRows()-1, mCols = ss.getMaxColumns();
var cRange = ss.getRange(2, 1, mRows, mCols);
if (ss.getName() == "e404") {
var aData = ss.getRange(2, 4, mRows, 4).getValues();
var colors = new Array();
for(i in aData) {
colors[i] = new Array();
for(var j=0; j<mCols; j++) {
if(aData[i].reduce(function(a, b) {return a + b}) === 0) {
colors[i][j] = 'red';
} else {
colors[i][j] = 'white';
}
}
}
cRange.setBackgrounds(colors);
}
} |
H: youtu.be instead of buffly
Is there way to use youtu.be instead of buff.ly when sharing YouTube video over Buffer?
I don't really use the tracking feature, I just use the service as a buffer for posts. Reason why I wanted this was some services do not recognize it as YouTube video when it's shortened by buff.ly.
AI: No there is not. Buffer adds their special shortened link to allow them to track clicks on their links. To get past this would involve doing manual work yourself to share videos which would defeat the purpose of Buffer. Buffer's shortening acts much like Twitter where they shorten all the URL's.
From a business standpoint tracking the URL's in this method is very effective as they are able to then determine how many people are following certain links and therefore can also give that data to the user. |
H: Facebook page app linking to website
I have a Facebook "page". In the space where the apps appear, I'd like to show an image which links to a specific page on my website.
Sounds really simple, but I can't for the life of me figure out how to do it. I presume someone somewhere must have made an app that does this, but I can't track it down.
AI: The way currently described is against Facebook policy
The primary purpose of your Canvas or Page Tab app on Facebook must not be to simply redirect users out of the Facebook experience and onto an external site.
You can create a custom page tab which presents a similar page to your specific page on your website.
For more information, see the Page Tab Tutorial |
H: Facebook like button shows the same like
I got a problem with my Tumblr blog. I implemented the Facebook like button but for some reason it's showing the same likes on all posts. And yes, I'm using {Permalink} as the URL.
<iframe src="//www.facebook.com/plugins/like.php?href={Permalink}&send=false&layout=button_count&width=100&show_faces=false&font&colorscheme=light&action=like&height=21&appId=431993306908765" scrolling="no" frameborder="0" style="border:none; overflow:hidden; width:85px; height:21px; float:left; margin-left:30px;" allowTransparency="true"></iframe>
I also tried the HTML5 version, with the same results.
Here's a demo site: http://testmycode.tumblr.com/
As you can see, liking one of the posts and then reloading the page shows the same number on all posts. But if you inspect the elements it clearly shows that each post's like button has a unique URL. I also use {Permalink} on Facebook’s comment box and it works fine dynamically.
Another thing is that when I edit the code in Tumblr, there's a preview page with another site, and the likes there work fine. Each post has a different likes amount. I even tried liking the preview site's post and it worked dynamically. However, when going live with my own site it doesn’t work.
AI: All those links point to http://missedit.tumblr.com/ in the og:url meta data of each page. You need to set the og:url to the permalink
So something like
<meta property="og:url" content="{Permalink}"> |
H: Google Mail Aliases or multiple Accounts?
I have a mail address addressOne@googlemail.com and would like to have a second address addressTwo@googlemail.com (Alias address) in my Google Mail Account.
I would like to add the second address as Alias to my Google Mail Account. But as far as I know, Google Mail does not support Aliases.
The alternative is to create a second Google Mail Account (with the second mail address) and import mails from one Google account to the other. But are multiple Google Mail accounts allowed to have?
What approach would you recommend to achieve having an Alias?
Update: The solution to use primaryAdress+Alias@googlemail.com proposed by @nixda is a good.
So there is no other way to set up an alias (besides creating multiple Google Mail Accounts)?
AI: Using an address alias
Gmail doesn't offer traditional aliases, but you can receive messages sent to your.username+any.alias@gmail.com.
For example, messages sent to jane.doe+notes@gmail.com are delivered to jane.doe@gmail.com.
You can set up filters to automatically direct these messages to Trash, apply a label or star, skip the inbox, or forward to another email account.
https://support.google.com/mail/answer/12096?hl=en |
H: Does Gmail auto delete junk/spam?
We've got several accounts running on Gmail / Google Apps for Business—these accounts have been alive for about 10–12 years (running on a different email provider). Because they've been around for so long they are on tons of mailing lists, and junk lists.
I’ve unsubscribed from a load of lists using unroll.me but we still get loads of junk messages through, which go to the spam / junk folder.
The only problem with this is that some proper email goes to the junk folder, which we don’t look through as there is so much in there. I don't mind proper emails being in there (although it’s not ideal), my main concern is I heard Gmail auto deletes the spam / junk every 30 days so we would have no record of the proper emails in there, which we really need. Is there any way to stop Gmail auto deleting the spam?
AI: Yes! Gmail will automatically delete messages in the Spam folder after they have been sitting there for 30 days: |
H: Report a Blogspot blog as spam or for malware
How do you report a Blogspot blog for spam? Used to be that there would be a nav bar on all blogs hosted by Blogspot that you could click a "Report this site" button and it would take you to a form to fill out.
But what about the splogs (spam blogs) where they hide or remove that navigation bar? Have seen more than a few of these shady bloggers go about with a design that eliminates this part of the template.
Can you still go to some form and send a note to Google that a certain blog is only there to get you to watch live sports online or some other get fat and/or rich quick scheme?
AI: You can submit spam, phishing and malware blogs to the form at the bottom of this page for review by Google: https://support.google.com/blogger/answer/42577?hl=en |
H: What is the online URL of todo list manager app Astrid?
I often use both the web version & the Android app to manage my todo lists. But since Yahoo acquired Astrid, the web version doesn’t work anymore.
What is wrong with it? Where can I manipulate my todo(s) via a web browser?
Update: Now the Android app stopped working too.
AI: It got shut down, so you can’t access it anymore.
First off, we want to sincerely thank you for being an Astrid user over the years. Your support every step of the way has meant the world to us. As of August 5, 2013, we will be closing the Astrid service.
(Emphasis by me.)
And they recommend exporting your tasks and start using a different app.
Source. |
H: Wiki Markup - link to relative path
With wiki markup is it possible to link to a relative path?
eg:
[../rel/path Link Text]
I am using DokuWiki.
AI: Possible solution for DokuWiki
A post in the DokuWiki User Forum "Relative links in wikipages" mentions this tag.
It gives a path to the wiki root, so a link like this one
[[this>../../VolD/Projects/]]
can link to some page outside the wiki folder without using a full URL.
See also the official documentation: https://www.dokuwiki.org/interwiki
The rest of this answer was written before I knew that the question was about DokuWiki. I'll leave it for future reference.
The problem if you're using MediaWiki
In a wiki, it can be ambiguous to use relative paths because it is common to rewrite URLs. Let's take Wikipedia as an example. When you access http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page, you're not looking at a document called Main_Page in /wiki. Instead, it is /w/index.php that does the work, as you can see from http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Main_Page returning the same output. So, relative URLs will introduce an ugly ambiguity here. Relative from where? (See also http://yoast.com/relative-urls-issues/) As the rewritten URL can be anything, it won't be smart to rely on relative paths.
Workaround for MediaWiki
I suspect that the reason you want to use a relative path is because you want to link to a file on the same server, but is not managed within the wiki's database. In that case, you can use the magic word {{SERVERNAME}}.
[http://{{SERVERNAME}}/rel/path Link text]
should give you the link, with {{SERVERNAME}} replaced accordingly (see here).
Taking Wikipedia as an example, {{SERVERNAME}} = "en.wikipedia.org".
So this is not exactly a relative path, but playing around with other magic words such as {{SCRIPTPATH}} and {{STYLEPATH}} might offer you a solution, depending on what directory you want to access. (For the Wikipedia example, {{SCRIPTPATH}} = "/w".) See http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Magic_words#Technical_metadata |
H: Is Redmine limited to being installed on your own servers only? No cloud plans?
I am a current user of Unfuddle and heard of Redmine. I went to their site but I saw that they are offering only downloading of Redmine and installing it on your own server. I haven't seen they offer paid cloud service.
I'd rather pay them monthly fee for the cloud service than having to take care of another thing in my work (installing, updating, etc.).
AI: The last company I worked for used redmine hosted at https://www.hostedredmine.com/. Looking into it now, it appears it's actually a third-party service. Redmine's wiki lists a couple other alternatives:
BitNami Cloud Hosting makes it easy to host your own Redmine installation in the Cloud. It provides automatic backup and monitoring and allows you to scale up or down your server as needed. We have a free developer plan which together with the AWS free tier allows you to run a server 24/7 for free during one year.
Get Redmine Hosting provides unlimited Redmine projects and source control repos starting at $12/month. Satisfaction Guaranteed.
Planio Redmine Hosting is a Redmine hosting service which comes with hosted Subversion (SVN) and Git repositories. Planio runs on servers with certified security in a high-performance data center with multiple redundant uplinks. There is a free plan, paid plans start at €9 / month. |
H: Link to no framed HTML in jsBin or jsFiddle
Is there a way in jsBin or jsFiddle to get a link to the page you created as is, without being embed inside a frame? If not, is there such service (something that would let me quickly create an HTML page and see it live with one click)?
AI: UPDATE: Since Feb-2017(?) it seems this method no longer appears to work unfortunately.
You seem to be able to do this in jsFiddle by first getting the "Share full screen result" URL (from the Share menu) and then view the source of the full screen result to get the URL of the iframe used to display the result.
For example, the "full screen result" URL, which still shows a minimal toolbar at the top:
http://jsfiddle.net/w3dx/sspTY/embedded/result/
From this, you can see the URL of the embedded iframe, which is:
http://fiddle.jshell.net/w3dx/sspTY/show/light/ |
H: Allow someone else edit an album on Google+
Is it possible to allow someone else to edit photos within a specific Google+ album? Like adding a legend or a location for the photo(s)?
AI: Unfortunately it is not possible on personal profiles, for security and privacy reasons.
On a business Page the appointed managers can all edit the photos in the Pages' albums.
People can comment on the photos but that's all.
More about Google+ Photos here. |
H: Is there any way to get back the old style Gmail reply and compose boxes?
Is there any way besides using a 3rd party email application to revert Gmail to the old-style compose and reply email boxes - the style that allows you to use your full screen?
It drives me absolutely insane when a company makes an 'enhancement' and reduces usable window space. If I am writing a long email I want to be able to use the maximum amount of window space and not be crammed into something that is 25% of my monitor size.
AI: I am afraid Google has made the change permanent. As per the FAQ, the previous experience will go away eventually. It was inevitable.
Although you can still use the old style compose on IE 8, because it does not support the newer Gmail interface. Maybe one can trick it to behave like IE 8 on other browsers too.
You don't have to change browsers, just tell ie9 or ie10 to pretend to be ie8. To do this press f12 to get the developer tools. Then chose both "Browser Mode: IE8" and "Document Mode: IE8 standards" |
H: How do I set up a Google Calendar for my group?
I belong to a group that puts on events. Different people organize different events, but we are all under the umbrella of one group name. We want to create a Google Calendar where we can all add events to it.
We first created a Google account, and shared the login information, and then started putting events on it. However, when we exported the calendar, we found that it showed up in other people's calendars under the name we use for the Google account, not the name of our group. We tried changing the name of the account to reflect the group name, but got a warning saying we were violating Google's naming policies.
The same warning said that if we wanted to create a calendar for a group, we should make a Google+ page, which I did, but I can't see any way of creating a calendar with it.
How do we get a calendar that is for our group, displays under our group name when people import it, and all our members can add events?
AI: I think the key is that you need to create a Google login for your G+ page.
If you go to the "Settings" section for your G+ page, you should find a section called "Third Party Tools" and what looks like an email address. Set up a password for that, and you should be able to then log in to Google with those credentials and add things to a Google Calendar. |
H: How to get a value from column 'A' in every 30th row in Google Sheets?
I have a sheet from which I want to get values from column A of every 30th row.
I tried =A(2+30) but it just gives me an error.
AI: Assuming you would like your output columnar
=INDIRECT("A"&ROW()*30)
somewhere in Row one and copied down as required should suit. (So you were close!) |
H: Duplicate check while creating Google Contact with Google Apps Script
I have the following code which creates Google Contacts from a Spreadsheet. The problem is whenever I run the code it creates contacts but has no functionality to check if the same Google Contact already exists or not.
AI: This piece of code retrieves the contacts of the group first and checks whether an e-mail address corresponds to one of the sheet entries:
Code
function bulk_cdb_one_way_sync(){
var ss = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSpreadsheet();
var cdb = ss.getSheetByName("Bulk_CDB").getDataRange().getValues();
var group = ContactsApp.getContactGroup("Preview List");
var groupContacts = ContactsApp.getContactGroup("Preview List").getContacts();
for (var x=1, xLen=cdb.length; x<xLen; x++) {
var aContact = [];
aContact.push(cdb[x][0], cdb[x][1], cdb[x][2], cdb[x][6]);
var c = 0;
if(groupContacts.length > 0) {
c =+ 1, u = 0;
for(var i in groupContacts) {
var emails = groupContacts[i].getEmails();
for(var j in emails) {
if(emails[j].getAddress() == aContact[2]) {
u += 1;
continue;
}
}
}
}
if(c === 0 || u == "undefined" || u === 0) {
var c = ContactsApp.createContact("There","Painter", aContact[2]);
c.addCustomField("Metro 1", aContact[1]);
c.addCustomField("Status", aContact[0]);
c.addPhone(ContactsApp.Field.WORK_PHONE, aContact[3]);
c.addToGroup(group);
}
}
}
Explained
The groupContacts retrieves all available contacts in the group. The x=1 makes sure to skip the header and the array (aContact) is created for easy access. If the group has no entries, then c will remain 0 and the new contacts will be added. Then the script will itterate over the contacts and over the e-mails present. If a match is found, u will be > 0 and no contact is added.
Remark
Make sure the data you about to add contains no duplicates..... |
H: Google Play vs Chrome web store
What is the difference between Google Play and Chrome Web Store? Both of these places allow users to download web apps and games.
AI: The Google Play Store allows you to download and purchase Android apps, as well as music, movies, TV shows, e-books and magazines, and some Android devices and accessories.
The Chrome Web Store allows you to download and purchase apps, extensions and themes for your Google Chrome browser (or Chrome OS device). |
H: Anonymous users in GitHub / Bitbucket
I'm outsourcing the development of a web app on oDesk, I've designed the front end myself and the back end is being developed using Laravel / MySQL. I know a bit of PHP, but not enough to a) do the project myself b) audit, comment on quality / approve the code written by a third party. To get around this I want to setup a repo where I can work with my outsourced team, which consists of:
1 backend dev
2 code auditors / checkers
and myself for the front end and project management
The auditors won't actually be writing any code, rather checking the code that the backend dev has written, all parties are independent.
It's not that I don't trust the back end dev, it's just that the app is to help us better manage our business, and is thus mission critical - so we need stable well written code that adheres to best practices, and that is something I can't really comment on as I don't know what I'm looking at. That's why I've chosen to outsource some code auditors, with the second one as a fail safe.
I don't really want any of the parties talking to one another, I want it to all go through myself.
Can you, in GitHub or Bitbucket, allow anonymous or hidden users to view a private project so that they can view the code and comment on it back to me, but not be able to talk directly to the back end dev?
AI: Not the way you're thinking of at least in GitHub.
What you could try is have two separate repos with their own access list using Organizations and Teams.
When you create teams in GitHub you can also restrict access to certain repositories per team.
So you can set up the following:
dev-repo - Only add and allow access to developers
audit-repo - Only add and allow access to code auditors
Then, when dev-repo has new commits, pull down the changes to your local and push them back up to audit-repo.
Auditors can then leave comments and issues on their version of the repository under audit-repo and you can then relay any issues you think dev-repo should know about without either developer or auditor team seeing each other via these private repos. |
H: Customize Google News RSS Feed
I have a RSS feed of a Google News search, it looks like this:
https://news.google.com/news/feeds?q=Fire+Sprinklers+--flood,+--floods,+--flooding&num=50&hl=en&lr=lang_en&cr=countryUS&gbv=2&biw=1920&bih=903&um=1&scoring=n&ie=UTF-8&output=rss
What I want to know if it is possible to limit a Google News search to a specific locality such as a State?
AI: What you can do is go back and add the state you want to focus on.
Say you only want news items from New York, add either "New York" or its abbreviation, "NY" as part of the search and then grab the RSS for it.
Or with the URL as you have it now, add it right after the q= with a plus sign, like so:
https://news.google.com/news/feeds?q=NY+Fire+Sprinklers+--flood,+--floods,
+--flooding&num=50&hl=en&lr=lang_en&cr=countryUS&gbv=2&biw=1920&bih=903&
um=1&scoring=n&ie=UTF-8&output=rss` |
H: Set recipient email address with wetransfer.com
Is it possible to autofill the recipient’s address via a URL link in wetransfer.com?
I would like to be able to give a link to send us files, where the email address we want it sent to is filled in already.
Any ideas?
AI: You can add the "to" address to the URL like so:
https://wetransfer.com/?to=test@example.com |
H: Include a button to "like" my page in a post?
I need to get more likes to my Facebook page, problem is that I don't know how to make a post from where people can like my page. My boss sent me a screenshot from Facebook iPhone's app.
See how you can like the page?
I don't know if this is a sponsored post or not but my question is: are there any non-paid ways to include a button to "like" my page in a post?
AI: Last time I've researched this (as I wanted the same think) it was a paid feature. You have the ability to promote your page by paying which gives you this feature.
Other than that, if you want to promote your page without paying you should look at alternative options (like similar pages and engage in conversations and mutual advertising using your page name, engage in discussions and post your page on similar interest groups, add link to your facebook page from your actual web page if any, and so on). |
H: Does the Gmail tabbed inbox in any way affect what I see in a third-party email client?
I access my (multiple) Gmail accounts almost entirely through the Mailbox app (on my iOS devices) and through Sparrow (on my Mac).
As such, I didn't get the "welcome to the tabbed inbox" message in Gmail until today, when I happened to login via the web client to do a more complex search.
So, here's my question:
Do the tabbed inboxes do anything that's visible/accessible in an email client (adding labels, etc.), or are they basically just a custom view in the webapp that's based on attributes that are hidden from the end user?
AI: Short answer, no. The only place that I've seen a change is the Gmail app on Android doesn't send notification when non-primary emails are received (which I actually like). |
H: How to extrapolate data in Google Sheets?
Given a set of values such as: 10, 12, 14, 16, 18 I would like to "estimate" that the next values will be: 20, 22, 24 and so on. I realize there are several different ways to extrapolate, and they will give different results. I'm assuming though that the number of options will be rather limited, so I'm not too picky about which method to use.
AI: There are two ways I can think of:
Regression
With the following function, one can retrieve the linear regression coefficients of two sets of data:
LINEST(y-axis,x-axis) ==> y=ax+b
The second set of data is the accompanying x-axis. This can be a normal numbering, as shown in the first sheet of the example file.
Once the regression factors are known, one can extrapolate any unknown x or y beyond the known set of data:
known x: ax+b
known y: (-b+y)/a
Since R2=1, the numbers given are exact values. I formatted the values to be rounded in the example, because the calculation shows floating point errors.
Dragging
Google has a way of predicting the outcome of a series, based on that series. If you drag the series like shown in the screenshot, then the outcome will appear automatically:
Example
I've created an example file for you: Extrapolate
A more practical example: https://webapps.stackexchange.com/a/35668/29140
Remark
The regression method will give you always a value, based on the factors. The more un-linear the sets of data are (R2<1), the more predicted they are. |
H: Auto date added to adjacent cells when data is entered
I am trying to create a spreadsheet to track student loan outs that will automatically put the date in an adjacent cell. The spreadsheet would be set up like this:
Column 1 would be "name"
Column 2 would be a drop down of what was loaned out
Column 3 would be the date
Column 4 would be a drop down menu again
Column 5 would be the date
Column 6 would be the drop down menu again
Column 7 would be the date
I Would like it to work so that each time i select something from the drop down menus, the current date would automatically be fill the adjacent cell so that I can track what was loaned out and the date each loan out was given. I am not sure if this is possible. I saw a script from OnenOnlyWalter that would add the date to column 2 and I tried to modify it so that it would work for multiple columns but no such luck.
AI: Use this to add the dates:
Code
function onEdit(e) {
var aCell = e.source.getActiveCell(), col = aCell.getColumn();
if(col == 2 || col == 4 || col == 6) {
var adjacentCell = aCell.offset(0, 1);
var newDate = Utilities.formatDate(new Date(),
"GMT+1", "dd/MM/yyyy kk:mm:ss");
adjacentCell.setValue(newDate);
}
}
Example
I've created an example file for you: Adjacent Cell
Add the code to the script editor (Tools > Script editor...), press the save button and you're on the go !! |
H: How to change Facebook embedded posts plugin width
I want to change the Facebook embedded posts plugin to fit in the side bar widget for my site. Currently, it is 286px wide, but the Facebook plugin width is around 567px.
How can I accomplish that?
AI: If you are using the Facebook Embedded Posts Plugin released at the beginning of August (2013), you cannot currently change the appearance or width of the post. According to the documentation (linked to above):
Can I customize how the post is displayed on my web page?
Currently, you cannot customize how Embedded Posts are displayed on your page. The size of the post is fixed to the same dimensions as it's shown on Facebook.
My unexpert two-cents: Theoretically, you could apply your own CSS to the
<div class="fb-post"></div>, but it seems like (as of right now) this will just end up cutting off part of the post or messing up the aspect ratio (or something to that effect). |
H: Recover an accidentally deleted note of a Gmail contact
I've just deleted the note field of one of my Gmail contacts which contains very critical information.
Is it possible to recover it?
AI: You can restore your contacts to any point in the last 30 days.
From Restore Contacts:
Click Gmail at the top-left corner of your Gmail page, then choose Contacts.
From the More actions drop-down menu, choose Restore contacts.
Choose the time you'd like to revert your contacts list to (e.g. 10 minutes ago, one hour ago, one week ago, etc). We suggest that you also make a note of the time that you restore your contacts, in case you'd like to return to where you started.
Click Restore. You'll see a confirmation at the top of the screen when the rollback is complete.
You might want to export your current contacts before you do this. |
H: How do I send an email to a list of people without them seeing the other email addresses?
I have a group of friends and family that I would like to send an email to, but I don't want everyone to see everyone's email address at the top. How do I do this?
AI: What you're looking to use is the "Blind Carbon Copy" or Bcc for short option. Here's how you use it:
Outlook.com
Create a new message by selection + New:
Select the Bcc button:
Enter any contacts into the newly created box (directly below the Bcc and not the To):
Gmail
Create a new message by selecting Compose:
Select the Bcc button:
A new line will appear where you can add the recipients: |
H: How to change labels in SourceForge bug tracker?
I am working on a project (Maxima) hosted at SourceForge. I am thinking about changing some labels. For example, if a label is now Foo Bar I might want it to be just Bar.
Is there a way to change the text for a label?
I suppose I could find all the items labelled Foo Bar, label them with Bar, then delete the Foo Bar label.
That seems error prone and tedious. Is there a better way?
I looked for a user forum at SourceForge itself, but didn't find one.
AI: After asking on #sourceforge (thanks to @chirlu for the hint) it appears the only way to do it automatically is to use the Allura API. |
H: Reusing a WordPress.com blog address that was deleted
I have deleted my primary WordPress blog. When I open this deleted blog it shows the message
xyz.wordpress.com is no longer available.
(Consider my login to WordPress.com as xyz).
Now when I want to create a new blog using the same blog address, it is showing this error
Sorry, that site already exists!
How can I recover my address?
AI: Sadly, gone is gone.
Addresses (URLs) for blogs that have been deleted by the owner will remain deleted.
Even if you were the one to delete it and want it back, you can't. There should be a few warning screens about what will happen if you do delete a blog. |
H: Can Confluence be used as a Yammer or Facebook replacement?
We are evaluating Confluence as a wiki and the foundation for a company intranet. We have previously used Yammer, with it's Facebook like social activity stream (post a thought, a link, a photo, and other users can comment or 'like' the post).
Does Confluence have a feature or plugin that offers this sort of functionality? To be clear, I do not want a widget that will display content pulled from Yammer or Facebook - we just want similar functionality.
AI: Confluence has some facebook-like social features which where introduced in the latest versions (especially in 4.x) for better collaboration.
These includes:
User Status Updates
@mentions
Likes and Popular Content
Commenting on Pages and Blog posts
My opinion:
I have seen Confluence in many companies as a intranet platform with good acceptance. But you should be aware that it is mainly a enterprise wiki and usabilty is focused on this.
Posting a photo for example is only possible when creating a blog-post.
Where as you can post a thought by using your personal status update.
Also see
Network Overview
http://blogs.atlassian.com/2011/09/confluence_4_social_content_collaboration/ |
H: What does the musical note sort feature, and the numbers below it, on Google Music mean?
When you are looking at your playlist, there are a few sort features; Name, Time, Artist, Album, a musical note, and Rating.
What does the musical note mean, and what do all the numbers below it mean? At first I thought it was counting how many times I've listened to each but that doesn't seem to be it either. I can't find anything about it anywhere on Google Music Help or online.
AI: Well, it has to be the number of times the song has been played. I just played a song in one of my playlists and the number incremented by one. (I did have to get about a minute in before it ticked over, though.)
I'm really rather baffled why there's not a tooltip or any help that describes it. |
H: Can someone tell me a program that I can disable "seen" on facebook without ads?
I need a program to disable facebook seen feature
AI: There is no program (installing on desktop) as far as I know. But I am sure that you can find some extensions/plugins for Chrome browser (if this is your browser) if you search the chrome web store e.g. this one |
H: How can I use "fill series" without appearance of unwanted commas?
before:
V 2013
I am using fill series to fill cells below.
expected:
V 2013
V 2013
V 2013
result:
V 2013
V 2,013
V 2,013
I found only http://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/docs/kv1kDdzoYOY - without any useful information.
AI: Use the keyboard shortcut for Fill Down: ctrl+D. Make sure to highlight the range you want to fill beforehand. You can either use shift+click with the mouse, or shift+down with keyboard to highlight the range.
This seems like a bug in Google Spreadsheets. I was able to replicate when using mouse to drag the bottom right corner, but ctrl+D works fine. |
H: Email Forwarding Google specific Emails ONLY
I used Gmail's Auto Forwarding to forward an email from mine to another. I only want to Forward specific emails so I tried the to use the filter.
I created a filter and added on the FROM field, including in it the only email address that I wanted to be forwarded.
The problem is, all emails, whether from the email address I filtered or not are still forwarded to the other email.
How can I solve this?
AI: Go to Settings > Forwarding. Click "Disable Forwarding".
Your filter will still forward the specific emails. |
H: PayPal charges the wrong fee on production - on Sandbox everything is OK
We are using PayPal to receive micro transactions from our apps. The problem is that on production PayPal is charging a much larger fee than it should (afaik). So I suppose there's something wrong in our configuration. On PayPal's Sandbox the fee is OK.
Both on the Paypal.com and on Sandbox.paypal.com, the account's payment solution is this:
PayPal Digital Goods (Express Checkout)
But the fees are quite different:
Paypal.com:
Total amount: €1.49 EUR Fee amount:
-€0.40 EUR Net amount: €1.09 EUR
Sandbox.Paypal.Com:
Total amount: $1.49 USD Fee amount:
-$0.14 USD Net amount: $1.35 USD
Based on Paypal's site, the micropayment fee is 5% + $0,08. And the standard pricing is 3.4% + $0.50. It seems Sandbox site is using the micropayment fee and the production site is using the standard pricing.
In both cases, the code calling PayPal's site is the same. We're using the SOAP interface to do a express checkout and we're also setting item's category to DIGITAL. The item's category should be working correctly because after setting the value, we started receiving error that our account didn't support digital purchases. After using the "Sign up now" button at Paypal's digital goods page, the error went away.
Any ideas?
Update:
We checked the "Transaction fees" page for our account. On production, it reports:
Your account is set to the Standard Rate for receiving payments of 3.4% + €0.35 EUR.
And on Sandbox:
Your account is set to the Standard Rate for receiving payments of 2.9%.
The fee reported on production site seems to match the actual fee. But why? Isn't the Digital Goods service available outside US?
AI: This issue was resolved by contacting PayPal support. It seems that the transactions were done correctly but PayPal had to change some setting to allow the microtransaction fees. |
H: How can I add external user to a board belonging to an organization
We have a Trello board that belongs to our organization.
Now we would like to add external users to that single board, not to the whole organization. I supposed this should work without problems but when trying to use "Add member". Anyway, I could not find any external users in the search results?
How could I do this (if I know external user's Trello account name) or is it possible?
AI: I wasn't able to search external users with name / trello account but using email address seems to work. |
H: Auto responders to only certain email addresses in Gmail
I'm trying to set up an auto responder to only certain people in Gmail. I'm aware you can go to –Settings → General → Vacation responder to set a global response, but I'm trying to setup almost a filter that says
IF EMAIL IS "john@example.com" SAY "Im not here at the moment, back next week" IF NOT "john@example.com" DO NOTHING
Is that possible in Gmail?
AI: Yes, it's possible. Unfortunately, unlike the vacation autoresponder which only sends the message once to the sender, you'll end up sending the message every time you receive a message.
First, you need to turn on the Canned Responses lab and set one up.
(To create a canned response, start by composing a new message, then in the context menu of the compose window choose Canned responses → New canned response….)
Once you've got your canned response, now you need a filter.
Create a filter with the trigger from:john@example.com and choose as the action Send canned response: and choose the canned response you just created. You may want to make the filter more specific and/or choose other things to do with the message. (There are lots of posts here that cover Gmail and filters. Look under the gmail-filters tag.)
Now, whenever a message matches your criteria, a response with your canned text will be sent immediately back. As I mentioned, however, this will happen with every message that trips your filter. |
H: Moving projects away from GitHub - backing-up / exporting repos
Is it possible with GitHub to download a file / folder with all of the commits, notes, issue tracking etc?
So that you can move from GitHub to Bitbucket, or if you no longer need GitHub (and thus no longer need to continue paying to host your private repository) but you still want all of the commits, notes, issue tracking etc.
AI: Yes, this is quite possible but not necessarily in a way that will allow importing in to another product such as BitBucket.
Where can you find this tool? On GitHub, ofcourse!
It is called github-backup and the specifics of what gets back up and what doesn't are described here.
Particularly of note though is that private repos aren't accessible through this tool (at this time, anyway)! |
H: How to create a template that links from one MediaWiki to another?
I am trying to create a linkage between two media wiki. Specifically, a template that links to an specific article on the other wiki.
I would like to write
See {{otherwiki|Some thing}}
The template otherwiki should convert the above to
[http://linkto.other.wik/Some_thing Some thing]
The template I wrote works pretty well for single-word terms, and it works if I write Some_thing, but I can't get it to work for phrases that contain whitespace.
[https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/{{{1}}} {{{1}}}]
How do I fix the above template to make it support whitespace?
AI: One option would be to set up interwiki links to the target wiki. With that, you can either write your links directly as e.g. [[otherwiki:Some thing|]], or you can encapsulate that into a template ([[otherwiki:{{{1}}}|]]), so the syntax would be exactly as you wanted.
Another option is to use the magic word {{urlencode}}:
[https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/{{urlencode:{{{1}}}|WIKI}} {{{1}}}] |
H: How do transfer Google Calendar 'all day' events from one month to the other?
I put my tasks on my calendar as 'all-day' events (there is Google Tasks for Calendar but I don't want to use it). However, since August ended with a Saturday, there is not a single day of September displayed on the month view of August, so I can't drag-and-drop my events from August to September. I don't want to click and go to the edit view of every single August event/task and change the date to September.
Is there a faster way?
AI: Go to your settings and change Week starts on: to Monday. Drag all your events, then change Week starts on: back to Sunday (if that is what you prefer).
You can also use the mini-calendar in the left sidebar: click and hold on the first day of August, then drag down into September. All the days you select will appear in the main calendar view. |
H: Can I hide events on Google Calendar?
I use my Google Calendar for my homework schedule, as most of my professors use Google Calendar and you can click a button to have their events integrate with your calendar.
If I finish an event (homework assignment, studying for test, etc), I want to be able to make it grey-ish, kinda like this:
I would prefer to do this without deleting it (from my calendar, I have no control over the professor's calendar) would also work.
I thought about using:
Then going to More details. However, that only shows:
.
AI: It is not possible to do any change if the calendar is in 'Other Calendars' and read only (looks like it is from your screenshot). In such situation I use right click on the event and 'copy to my calendar' link which creates duplicate of event in my calendar of choice. Then I change color and add e.g. 'DONE' keyword. It is not ideal workaround but at least I can visually distinguish between TODO and finished items.
Other option (especially in case the schedule is stable) would be to import calendar from iCal or CSV instead of adding it to 'Other Calendars'. If imported, the calendar belongs to you and you can change individual item properties/delete or move items. |
H: How do I get the really cool "Smart" Google on desktop?
If I google "make a meeting for 5pm tomorrow" on a desktop computer, I get this:
But if I search that on my phone's Google app (the built in one) I get this:
(Sorry the image is so big it's just what it gave me when I held Home + Power. Also, the word "Make" is the first word there, you just can't see it because the search bar isn't big enough.)
Anyway, how do I get this on desktop?
AI: That's Google Now, and it's currently available in the Google Chrome beta channel. You'll have to use Chrome as your browser if you want that feature.
See also: Google Chrome Blog: Richer notifications coming to Chrome |
H: How to use an IF statement over several cells?
I'm making a budget for myself. Currently, my Google Spreadsheets looks something like this:
----A---- -----B----
food 50
alcohol 20
food 120
dance 10
garden 20
food 20
dance 10
I would like to get the total amounts like this:
----E---- -----E----
food 190
alcohol 20
dance 20
garden 20
I can use an IF statement on a single cell so the IF statement would be:
=if(A1="food",B1,0)
but how do I do it over several cells and SUM values together?
Is there a function that allows me to calculate the total value of column B if column A is equal to "some text"?
AI: This is best done like this:
Formula
=QUERY(DATA!A:B;"SELECT A, SUM(B) WHERE B IS NOT NULL GROUP BY A")
=QUERY(DATA!A:B;"SELECT A, SUM(B) WHERE B IS NOT NULL GROUP BY A Label
SUM(B)'Units'")
Explained
If you include headers, then the QUERY function will add them as such and alter them accordingly, ie. SUM title or COUNT title....etc. You can also added a custom label to the calculated columns, see 2nd example (3rd sheet). The rest of the function will perform as standard SQL.
Example
I've created an example file for you: sum over several cells
References
SQL
QUERY formula
Query Language Reference
Question with same techniques used |
H: My Twitter account says I have 17 tweets but I have 0
This is my Twitter page:
Why does it say I have 17 tweets, but I have 0?
AI: Deleted tweets don't always get reflected in your tweet count, particularly if you are using a tool to delete them. There is a thread on the Twitter discussion forum full of people with this issue.
In this older discussion forum post, a Twitter employee suggests:
This happens sometimes when users bulk delete their tweets. Your account needs to assistance from support to clear it up. Reach out to @support through https://support.twitter.com as we cannot assist here. |
H: Split, reorder, concat inline
I want to split a cell, reorder the pieces and recombine. For example:
| name | reordered name |
| Page,Larry | Larry Page |
| Brin,Sergey | Sergey Brin |
I know that =SPLIT(A2, ",") will split the values into the next two columns and I know that I can concatenate values with =CONCATENATE(A2, " ", B2).
How do I bring these things together in a single formula?
Can I access the values from SPLIT and reorder them?
I know I can do =CONCATENATE(SPLIT(A2)) (but obviously that is stupid).
In Ruby I would just do something like:
def reorder_name(cell)
names = cell.split(",")
"#{names[1]} #{names[0]}"
end
AI: With the following custom function (as you're accustomed to writing in JavaScript) it is possible as well:
Code
function myReverse(range) {
var output = [];
if(range[0].length > 1) {
throw ("function can only handle a column range");
} else {
for(var i in range) {
var name = range[i][0].split(",");
output.push([name.reverse().join(" ")]);
}
}
return output;
}
Remark
Small error handling throws a message when range contains more than 1 column.
Functions similar to ARRAYFORMULA to accept ranges.
Add code under Tools, Script editor. Save the script and you're ready to go !!
Formula
The following formula will do the trick also:
=CONCATENATE(INDEX(SPLIT(A2, ","),1,2)," ",INDEX(SPLIT(A2, ","),1,1))
The INDEX function allows you to select particular cells, from a CONTINUED range. In this case you want the second split result to appear first, thus the ,1,2, meaning first row, second column of the split result.
Example
I've prepared an example file for you: split and reorder |
H: Placeholders in Google Docs. Possible?
The document is commercial contract for my clients. Every time I fill the document I need to write the name, the address, id, etc. of my client several times in different places of the document. Since the document has 13 pages it is time wasting. Using placeholder would allow me to fill the data just one time
Is there any way to use Placeholders in Google Docs?
My {NAME} ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit.
Aenean commodo ligula eget dolor. Aenean massa. Cum sociis natoque
penatibus et magnis dis parturient montes, nascetur ridiculus mus.
Donec {ID} quam felis, ultricies nec, pellentesque eu, pretium
quis, sem. Nulla consequat massa quis enim. Donec pede justo,
fringilla vel, aliquet nec, vulputate eget, arcu. In {ADDRESS} enim
justo, rhoncus ut, imperdiet a, venenatis vitae, justo. Nullam dictum
felis eu pede mollis pretium. Integer tincidunt.
AI: You could think of it as a mail-merge field: put merge fields in, and then each time you use the document to generate a contract, just have one row (the current client's details) in the data file. That said Google Documents don't directly support mail merge (yet -but I expect they will sooner or later). However there do appear to be some options - see this help forum article: http://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/docs/c6NBVY9xDDE
Another option is just to use a (or several) phrases that you are 100% sure won't appear anywhere else in the document (eg [CUST-NAME] ), and then use Edit > Find and replace > Replace all when you are ready to generate a document for a specific client. This is a little more work each time you set up the document, but easier to set up. |
H: How can I create an event that recurs the Nth day from the start of a year every year?
For example, tomorrow is the 256th day of the year, and this day is recognized as the Programmer's Day in some countries. In this case, it's not always September 13th, because it can be September 12th for leap years, nevertheless I don't know if such case is supported in Google Calendar.
Is it possible to create such an event?
AI: Except for possibly using an iCalendar kludge (see other google-calendar questions about unusual repeating events) there does not appear to be a way to do it with the Google Calendar interface.
"Daily" repeating events only let you choose up to 30 day intervals. Similarly, "Weekly" only lets you choose an interval of up to 30 weeks.
"Monthly" won't work, because even if you choose a 12-month interval, you still have to choose a day of the month (13th) or a day of the week (second Friday). And, of course, "Yearly" only lets you choose a specific date.
I think the best you'll be able to do is to make a Yearly event on September 13, and then manually move those occurrences in leap years back the the 12th. |
H: Google Drive low bandwidth or basic HTML view or mobile view in desktop
I am using my smartphone as a wi-fi hotspot and have GPRS/2G/3G (selected according to location) to which my computer system connects for Internet access. Usually the speed is low, like 12 Kbytes/sec.
I want to read documents, specifically PDFs in Google Drive. It takes some time to load or doesn't load.
Is there a low bandwidth/mobile/basic-HTML view of Google Drive? This would be similar to forcing the desktop version of Google Drive to load a mobile HTML version.
I use Gmail in basic HTML view and Google AdSense in low-bandwidth version. If there could be the same for Google Drive then that would be nice.
AI: When I visit drive.google.com in my Android's browser, I'm redirected to drive.google.com/m.
I can follow that URL in my desktop browser and do indeed get the mobile-optimized version of the Google Drive site.
However, as soon as I click on a PDF file, I get the usual desktop PDF viewer. I don't see a way to force the PDF viewer to be a mobile-optimized version. |
H: How to send messages to spam in Gmail filter?
Is there a way to create a Gmail filter that sends the filtered items to the spam folder? There is an option to send it to a label, or to "Never send it to Spam" (which is ironic considering what I want to do).
I need this because I'm getting spam emails from a domain called libero.it, and Gmail's spam filter consistently fails to mark them as spam, even though I click "Report Spam" for each of them, so I want to create a filter to mark all messages from that domain as spam.
AI: I don't believe gmail offers this exact request. Reason being, email marked as spam is used to identify spam globally (not just your account).
Instead you can just create a label called "myspam" or anything really.
Create Filter
From: libero.it
Check [x] Apply the label
Click Choose label...
Select New label
Input myspam
Click Create |
H: Zooming in result in horizontal scroll bar
I need to have two windows with a document in Google Drive open side-by-side on a laptop, with whole text column visible at larger-than-default zoom.
The problem is horizontal scroll bar appearing on larger zooms, as Docs don't re-flow the text for current window size, but show it exactly as it will fit into paper width (see the right edge of either window):
AI: The only workaround I found so far is: set right margin in Google Docs menu File>Page Setup (for a chozen zoom level, find a right number through trial-and-error).
Obvious downsides:
you have to remember to restore margins before printing
if you change zoom level, you need to change margins
there's no instant switch between "fit to window" and "see how it will look for paper width" modes |
H: Does Ghostery duplicate the functionality of Disconnect and Facebook Disconnect?
I currently run Ghostery alongside Disconnect and Facebook Disconnect Chrome extensions, mainly because I'm not sure how their feature set overlaps. Do the latter two offer anything that isn't already included within Ghostery's fuller feature set? Is there a better Chrome extension than Ghostery for my purposes?
AI: Ghostery and Disconnect act as content blockers (if you've enabled blocking) and their innards are very similar. Heres an answer I provided recently on Ghostery support board:
This question is asked pretty often on our support boards (I work for Ghostery). You can use however many addons you want in conjunction, however, both DNTMes and Disconnects databases are a lot smaller than Ghostery internal tracker database. We've setup an automated efficacy tool here: http://www.areweprivateyet.com/ to measure how well the extensions are doing on their own.
An additional note is that Disconnect number is for the number of requests while Ghostery and DNTMe use the number to show you how many companies are present on the page. So, lets say a web page has 3 calls to Google Analytics, Disconnect will show 3 as its number, while DNTMe and Ghostery will show only 1 -- Ghostery however, will show you all 3 sources if you open the reporting panel and expand the sources of Google Analytics.
Outside of that Ghostery offers a bunch of features that Disconnect does not at this point. They are: click-2-play overlays (for when you wonder where your comments and videos may have went), surrogates (when Ghostery blocks a tracker, it can provide a dummy script that replaces previous one so sites do not break), knowledge pages (so you can learn about the trackers), and much more.
AFAIK, Disconnect replaces Facebook Disconnect, however, if you only want to block Facebook, you're better off with just Facebook Disconnect. |
H: Backup To Gmail Failed
I'm using the BackWPup plugin to backup my WordPress site from an Amazon EC2 instance, to my gmail account. I keep getting this error:
ERROR: Job has ended with errors in 25 seconds. You must resolve the
errors for correct execution.
Here are the details of the error (see below). I'm wondering whether my backup is to big for email? If so, would I be charged to use the Amazon S3 service in stead?:
[INFO] BackWPup version 3.0.13; WordPress version 3.6.1; A project of Inpsyde GmbH developed by Daniel Hüsken
[INFO] This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions.
[INFO] Blog url: http://my_domain.com/my_wordpress_dir/
[INFO] BackWPup job: WordPress Backup; DBDUMP+FILE+WPPLUGIN
[INFO] BackWPup cron: 0 3 * * 0; Sat, 14 Sep 2013 @ 13:41
[INFO] BackWPup job started manually
[INFO] PHP ver.: 5.3.27; apache2handler; Linux
[INFO] Maximum script execution time is 120 seconds
[INFO] MySQL ver.: 5.5.32
[INFO] curl ver.: 7.27.0; NSS/3.14.0.0
[INFO] Temp folder is: /var/www/html/my_wordpress_dir/wp-content/uploads/backwpup-f4c53-temp/
[INFO] Logfile folder is: /var/www/html/my_wordpress_dir/wp-content/uploads/backwpup-2d658-logs/
[INFO] Backup type is: archive
[INFO] Backup file is: /var/www/html/my_wordpress_dir/wp-content/uploads/backwpup-f4c53-temp/backwpup_25128c_2013-09-14_13-41-39.tar.gz
[14-Sep-2013 13:41:40] 1. Try to dump database …
[14-Sep-2013 13:41:40] Connected to database mysite on localhost
[14-Sep-2013 13:41:40] Dump database table "some_prefix_3wp_activity_monitor_index"
[14-Sep-2013 13:41:40] Dump database table "some_prefix_3wp_activity_monitor_user_statistics"
[14-Sep-2013 13:41:40] Dump database table "some_prefix_commentmeta"
[14-Sep-2013 13:41:40] Dump database table "some_prefix_comments"
[14-Sep-2013 13:41:40] Dump database table "some_prefix_links"
[14-Sep-2013 13:41:40] Dump database table "some_prefix_login_security_solution_fail"
[14-Sep-2013 13:41:40] Dump database table "some_prefix_options"
[14-Sep-2013 13:41:40] Dump database table "some_prefix_postmeta"
[14-Sep-2013 13:41:40] Dump database table "some_prefix_posts"
[14-Sep-2013 13:41:40] Dump database table "some_prefix_term_relationships"
[14-Sep-2013 13:41:40] Dump database table "some_prefix_term_taxonomy"
[14-Sep-2013 13:41:40] Dump database table "some_prefix_terms"
[14-Sep-2013 13:41:40] Dump database table "some_prefix_usermeta"
[14-Sep-2013 13:41:40] Dump database table "some_prefix_users"
[14-Sep-2013 13:41:40] Added database dump "mysite.sql" with 5.65 MB to backup file list
[14-Sep-2013 13:41:40] Database dump done!
[14-Sep-2013 13:41:40] 1. Trying to make a list of folders to back up …
[14-Sep-2013 13:41:41] 471 folders to back up.
[14-Sep-2013 13:41:41] 1. Trying to generate a file with installed plugin names …
[14-Sep-2013 13:41:41] Added plugin list file "Bob.pluginlist.2013-09-14.txt" with 1.58 kB to backup file list.
[14-Sep-2013 13:41:41] 1. Trying to create backup archive …
[14-Sep-2013 13:41:41] Compression method is TarGz
[14-Sep-2013 13:41:58] Backup archive created.
[14-Sep-2013 13:41:58] Archive size is 16.81 MB.
[14-Sep-2013 13:41:58] 3723 Files with 40.19 MB in Archive.
[14-Sep-2013 13:41:58] 1. Trying to send backup with e-mail…
[14-Sep-2013 13:41:58] Sending e-mail to mygmailaddress@gmail.com…
[14-Sep-2013 13:42:00] ERROR: Error while sending e-mail!
[14-Sep-2013 13:42:00] 2. Trying to send backup with e-mail…
[14-Sep-2013 13:42:00] Sending e-mail to mygmailaddress@gmail.com…
[14-Sep-2013 13:42:02] ERROR: Error while sending e-mail!
[14-Sep-2013 13:42:02] 3. Trying to send backup with e-mail…
[14-Sep-2013 13:42:02] Sending e-mail to mygmailaddress@gmail.com…
[14-Sep-2013 13:42:04] ERROR: Error while sending e-mail!
[14-Sep-2013 13:42:04] Job has ended with errors in 25 seconds. You must resolve the errors for correct execution.
AI: If your backup archive contains file types Gmail doesn’t accept, you cannot send the file. The file size limit is 25 MB, so that shouldn’t be the problem here.
Use Google Drive for your backups. This is included in your Google account, and BackWPup supports that too, at least the pro version. |
H: Google Tag Manager no longer in preview mode for any version
When I'm trying to preview and debug the marketing pixel tags for my website in Google Tag Manager, I immediately see the message
Preview Confirmation
You are no longer in preview mode for any version of container GTM-XXXX
and I'm unable to preview and debug my site. What is going wrong here?
AI: According to this answer in the Google Product Forums, you will get the above message immediately if you have 3rd-party cookies blocked in your browser:
same happend to me until I enabled to accept 3rd partie cookies in firefox!
If you unblock 3rd-party cookies or somehow make an exception rule for Google Tag Manager in your browser, then the preview and debug should work properly. |
H: Avoid friends from getting my notifications
I want that even if my friends have activated "Get notifications" for me, stop them from getting my notifications because I don't want my friends from seeing my likes, comments and so.
I have seen How do I stop friends from getting notifications about what I do on Facebook? and my question is right that.
But unfortunately it has been marked as duplicate with a totally different question (Turn off close Facebook friend notification) while they differ.
AI: I don't think a normal Facebook user would want to get notified when his "friend" does a like or comments.Also I don't think if it's possible to hide your activities coming up on news ticker on the sidebar.
Even if you comment on a mutual friend's photo and if the other friend is following that post, he'll receive notificationl.
The best way to entirely hide from those friends is to un friend or may be block them on facebook. |
H: Requesting for new password in domaintools.com, when my account is not active
After some time, I'm back to domaintools.com. When I want to get a new password, and I enter my email address, I get the following message:
The account associated with this email address is not active
OK, what to do now? There is not a help or anyway to reactivate my account!
AI: Please submit a Support Ticket, or email memberservices@domaintools.com so we can properly address your issue. |
H: How to mark as read all mail in Gmail
I have hundreds of unread emails in my Gmail account and I want to mark them all as read.
How can I do that?
AI: There is a step-by-step solution here, and it works:
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/btl/how-to-mark-all-unread-emails-as-read-in-gmail-and-more/80754
Press the search button: is:unread
Click the down-arrow in the "select" button, then choose "all."
Click where it says "Select all conversations that match this search."
Click the "More" button, then click "Mark as read." |
H: Add all positive values in column
In MS Excel I can add all positive values in a column with
SUMIF(A:A,">0")
But this isn't working in the Google Docs Spreadsheets. The ">0" part is not parsed and gives an error. Is there another method in Google Docs?
AI: =sumif(A:A, ">0") works for me in Google Spreadsheet. There is a space between the comma and the first quotation mark.
You can also use =sumif(A:A; ">0") with a semicolon instead of a comma.
And without a space works =sumif(A:A,">0") |
H: Voicemail-only option for Google Voice
I need a voicemail number for my workers to call in sick or leave messages. I don't wish to talk to them, I just want to be able to listen to their messages. I bought a magicJack thinking it would do what I want along with Google Voice, but no luck. magicJack is not under any carrier.
I'm left with no free options; even prepaid phones must charge some money every month or they disconnect your number.
I just want to buy a number for voicemail, no real forwarding. Can I do that with Google Voice or combining it with another option?
AI: Google voice does work like that - though you need a number to initially set it up IIRC. Once thats done, just disassociate your number from the line, and it should just work as a voice mail box. You might also be able to get a number off something like ipkall, and use that with a SIP account. Planned properly this should be free.
You can then set do not disturb to have all your calls sent to your voice mailbox |
H: SUM of all cells in another column, except above rows
Each cell in column A should report SUM of every cell of column B, except rows above those cells.
Sample:
| A | B |
---------
| 4 | 1 |
| 3 | 0 |
| 3 | 1 |
| 2 | 1 |
| 1 | 1 |
| 0 | 0 |
How can I achieve this using Google Spreadsheets?
AI: This is almost the same as a cummulative sum, but reversed.
Formula
=SUM(B2:$B$7)
or
=ARRAYFORMULA(SUMIF(ROW(A2:A7);">="&ROW(A2:A7);B2:B7))
Explained
If you add the first formula in C2, then you're able to copy that cell (drag) to C7.
The ARRAYFORMULA will present the result at once.
Example
I've created an example file for you: Inverse Cummulative Sum
Reference
Cummulative Sum |
H: ImportHTML and SUM the column
I am looking to use the importHTML function for loading a page and I would like to sum a particular column in Google Spreadsheets.
But I am not having much success.
This is the URL:
=RIGHT(index(importhtml("http://sgx.i3investor.com/servlets/stk/annent/t82u.jsp","table",7),,4),6)
AI: It is possible, by using the this formula.
Formula
=SUM(ARRAYFORMULA(IFERROR(VALUE(RIGHT(index(importhtml("http://sgx.i3investor.com/servlets/stk/annent/t82u.jsp","table",7),,4),6)))))
Explained
There are two things that need to be taken into account:
text to number conversion
error capturing
The first is done by the VALUE function, that returns a number. The clue as to the second point starts here. The header of the table, can't be converted into a number !! Here the IFERROR function will return nothing if an error arises. Now the ARRAYFORMULA and the SUM can finish it off.
Example
I've created an example file for you: Sum IMPORTHTML table |
H: Sum of two numbers with a minimum of zero
I have a Google Spreadsheet with two columns of numbers (A & B). I want to add these numbers together and put the result into a third column (Results).
If the sum of these two numbers is less than zero, I would like the result column to have zero instead of a negative number.
I found this list of Google Spreadsheet function,but I did not see one that is applicable.
*----*----*--------*
| A | B | Results | Calculation in result column: =Sum(A1:B1)
*----*----*--------*
| 1 | 3 | 4 | <= Normal and good,
*----*----*--------*
| 1 |-3 | 0 | <= Good, this is what I am looking for
*----*----*--------*
| 1 |-3 | -2 | <= Bad, this is what is happening.
*----*----*--------*
My question is:
How do you find the sum of two columns that will result in a minimum value?
AI: You can use the MAX function for this, since
MAX( A3+B3, 0 )
will return 0, when the sum is negative. |
H: Count occurrence of a word in Google Spreadsheet
I've got a ton of cells (say 6x20) that have various names in them. I'd like to total the number of times a name in another field matches any of the other cells.
Alice Bob Claire
Doug Alice Chris
Bob Claire Bob
It seems like there should be a way to look at the example 3x3 above (or my actually much larger group of names) and extract how many "Bob"s or "Alice"s or whatever occur. My Spreadsheet-Fu is weak and I haven't been able to find an answer via Google (probably because I just don't know the right term for what I want to do).
Here's a sample of what I'm trying for: Count Occurence
It uses IF statements, but since EACH cell needs it's own IF statement this is not really a viable way to make the spreadsheet, especially as more people can be added in at later points.
AI: Add the following formula in cell F2:
Formula
=ARRAYFORMULA(COUNTIF(C2:E5;B2:B5))
Explained
C2:E5 is the range in which the search is to be performed. B2:B5 are the search parameters. The COUNTIF function counts the occurrences and the ARRAYFORMULA will take on the complete range.
Screenshot |
H: Wrong number of contacts showing in Google account
What is the reason for the (1) in My Contacts (1) on the left? I have clicked the link, but it has no effect. I've refreshed the page a dozen times and still get the same count. Is there a default contact in my list? Might there be any sort of pending process in the background?
AI: You do appear to have one (blank) contact line/entry with a checkbox to the left.
You say this record is entirely empty, however, it is possible to create an almost empty contact record with a single space in one of the fields.
Whilst it doesn't seem possible to easily create an entirely empty contact record, you can edit that contact record, delete the space (or any data it might contain), save the record, and end up with an entirely blank contact record. Note that Gmail auto-saves contact records, so this could happen without you explicitly do so.
Presumably you can delete this "blank" entry to have an entirely empty contacts list? |
H: How does Twitter "mention" spam actually work?
I'm just curious to know what the programming mechanics behind it are - more & more, when I tweet or RT something, I get a "mentioned you" spam back almost instantly.
This account is not following me, so what technique are they using to detect that my account has just tweeted?
AI: They use the Streaming API in order to get a real-time feed of all Tweets containing certain words, expressions or hashtags (it's like a real-time search), then they can retweet or reply if they want to. If you don't want unauthorized people to see your Tweets, then change your account to Protected in your Account settings; that will only allow people who follow you (and who you accepted - they can't directly follow you, only send you a follow request) to see your tweets - they won't appear in any public search or in the streaming API. |
H: Replace Gmail attachments with Dropbox/Google Drive download link
Is there any service, extension or webapp that scans all my incoming and existing email and uploads all attachments within the emails to Dropbox or Google Drive?
This would allow for smaller inboxes and attachments would not pollute multiple email accounts. Also, it would make further processing of the email easier (e.g.: create a GitHub issue from emails).
Any hints will be appreciated!
AI: Kloudless for Chrome provides such a service. Except they currently don't offer support for past emails. According to their FAQ:
Automation does not work for past emails at this time. We do think
this is a great feature, and we plan on supporting it soon.
If you are interested in using automation on your entire account,
please contact us at support@kloudless.com.
You can, however, do this manually. After installing the chrome extension and signing in, you will see a link to Copy/Move the attachment, next to the link to Download it. |
H: Two contacts in Gmail with the same e-mail address treated as one
A friend is a teacher and regularly writes to her pupils' parents about their children. Thus she has Gmail contacts set up with a record for each child that contains the e-mail address of one of their parents.
Problem arises when she is teaching siblings. In the To: field she might write [Child2]. Gmail notices that [Child2] has the same e-mail address as [Child1] and thus the e-mail goes out as "Child 1" <email@address.com>. This makes it look unprofessional, like she cannot tell the two children apart.
Gmail, of course, allows you to record chidren's names within the parents record, but then you can't autolookup.
A related problem that I have found the solution for elsewhere in this site is when she wants to write to both parents. Seems the answer is to capture the e-mail address as "mum@parent.com>, <dad@parent.com". Strange but effective.
AI: I would tend to agree with Alex in comments. Gmail does seem to get a bit confused when autocompleting names/emails when there are duplicates.
However, a possible workaround... instead of typing the name in the To: field and using Gmail's autocomplete, click on the To: instead to get a popup of available contacts (with a search box). Then select the appropriate contact from the list. |
H: What time zone are the main GitHub servers located in?
Which time zone is GitHub working from on their servers?
For example, a commit made on Sun Dec 2 05:01:00 2012 +0200 is interpreted by GitHub as a commit made on 1st December 2012 in the contributions calendar/graph.
Which is the first hour when a new day starts?
AI: GitHub uses a strategy that involves the date-time-offset pattern. When you make a commit, the timestamp includes your offset from UTC.
You can see this in the API docs for the Commits. The sample they show there uses a commit timestamp of "2010-04-10T14:10:01-07:00". This is a valid ISO8601 representation of a date-time-offset. For the person performing the commit, it was April 10th 2010 at 14:10:01. The item would show up on his commit calendar for Saturday, April 10th.
Git and GitHub do not attempt to normalize this data to the offset of the viewer, but they do take it into account when calculating relative time strings. For example, there's a commit on a project I work on that says it was made "1 hour ago". It's 1:30 my time, but when I hover over that text it looks like it was made at 2:30. How can that be? Because my offset is currently -07:00 and the person who made the commit has an offset of -05:00.
So there is no system-wide first hour of the start of a day. Two commits made at the exact same moment in time might appear on two different days even on the same calendar, if they were made by people in different time zones. In other words, a "GitHub day" is a virtual "floating" calendar date that aligns to the committer - not necessarily the viewer. |
H: label incoming emails from a different account in Gmail
Assume I have created a label called "example@university.ac.uk" and I also have that account in my Gmail account, i.e. I can receive and send emails from it.
How do I send all the received emails from that account to the "example@university.ac.uk" label? I would like them to go directly there and not to have them also on the inbox.
I tried the from option on filters but doesn't do this.
AI: Under Settings (click the gear in the top-right corner), Account, look under the section titled Check mail from other accounts (using POP3):. Next to the account, select Edit Info.
You should see options to label messages coming into that account with a label. If you check "Archive income messages" the messages will skip the inbox, as the description states.
Alternatively, you can create a filter that does this. Create a filter, and in the "Has the Words" field, use this pattern:
(((from:(example@university.ac.uk)) OR (to:(example@university.ac.uk))))
This will match all emails to and/or from that email address. |
H: Measure distances on New Google Maps
I am trying to use Google Maps in order to measure the distance along a path. I would like to mark out my path by clicking points on the map. I remember having done this some months ago with some difficulty but I don't find a way to do this using the new Google Maps.
Is there a way to do this? Are there alternatives?
AI: If I understand the desired result correctly, you should be able to just click the directions button on the new Google maps search at the top left, enter your start end end points, and then click on the path and drag at various points to alter where it goes. The summary on the left below the start & end points tells you the distance, as well as the balloon that pops up along the path.
In this picture, the default route it sends you on goes out of Red River west, but I drug a point over to Eagle Nest to alter it and see how far it was. |
H: What are the redirect parameters for Google and Yandex?
I did a Google search and clicked on one of the results. Google redirected to a different URL when I clicked on the result. Yandex has a similar redirection.
For Google:
http://www.google.com.tr/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&ved=0CCoQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.trt.net.tr%2F&ei=EcJCUtScO8bCswau34Fg&usg=AFQjCNFMkf5e1tT79uYuCldO5mP6k_bWQQ&bvm=bv.53077864,d.Yms
For Yandex:
http://www.yandex.com.tr/clck/jsredir?from=www.yandex.com.tr%3Byandsearch%3Bweb%3B%3B&text=trt&uuid=&state=AiuY0DBWFJ4ePaEse6rgeAjgs2pI3DW9l18DHb9MflkVwq5B3fjRC_m3WpZIsom1YcC5c_CBOinjm_BZZpbEbfcxgEVVjIlEE5GY-eupPAVFV2pSVTgQWHn_086xYnCTb4s4OgE1ghGVvyo-HqjsD9MQuWXpGQdPsiPauuPQCJFn04b_dh9xg98tBoxdtmi2vtXoGmAyTLc&data=UlNrNmk5WktYejR0eWJFYk1LdmtxbGg5My0yemVSVG9QRXdJVzBIUGtDb1k3TVJIdDBLNjJyeEl iaHBZaVQtZlRpNTYtN3JwWk9SSE9zd3A5OFdERDI3bWNCOUFYUlZh&b64e=2&sign=b36f0ae93847e3c136d7dd548ec584da&keyno=0&l10n=tr
I found a site related to it. I wonder what are parameters for the URLs. Does anyone know of a source site for it?
AI: The redirection links are done as a way for Google and Yandex to correlate what search terms result in more clicks to certain websites for certain localities/demographics as well as camouflage the referrer. These parameters are likely proprietary to each of the search engines and not a part of public information, since it would help people 'game' the search ranking/keyword ranking system.
This page has some speculation and deconstruction of the parameters for Google, but most of it is a mystery and is ultimately for providing Google with more data for their Analytics. |
H: Twitter logins will give my email to websites?
When I login with Twitter to websites, will they get my email address?
The authorization screen is not clear in this, Facebook instead says clearly that is giving my name and email.
AI: Twitter API doesn't return the email address when you login using that, so no, they won't get the email address. |
H: Can I create a shared Google calendar where users can add and edit their own events, but not modify other users events?
I want to create a Shared Google Calendar that allows users to add events and edit events they have added. A user should not be able to edit an event added by another user.
Is this possible with Google Calendar?
Can such settings be done at the event level by the event creator?
AI: This is not possible with Google Calendar: sharing settings are rather limited, as you can see below:
As for the event creator you can only choose there the privacy level you want for the event: default/private/public |
H: How can I check when Facebook changed their API?
I have an Android app that posts to a Facebook user’s wall. It allows the user to add people tags to his post. But I now read that when you tag people, Facebook requires to tag a place as well (not GPS location, but Facebook place ID).
My question is: how can I know when Facebook added this restriction?
AI: All you have to do is to check their roadmap of completed changes
February 6, 2013
Removing ability to post to friends walls via Graph API
We will remove the ability to post to a user's friends' walls via the
Graph API. Specifically, posts against [user_id]/feed where [user_id]
is different from the session user, or stream.publish calls where the
target_id user is different from the session user, will fail. If you
want to allow people to post to their friends' timelines, invoke the
feed dialog. Stories that include friends via user mentions tagging or
action tagging will show up on the friend’s timeline (assuming the
friend approves the tag). For more info, see this blog post.
In the above, it's not explicitly stated but tagging of friends were also disabled around the same time.
You can also know when the API has changed in anyway by subscribing to the API Push Feed https://www.facebook.com/feeds/api_status.php. There are several people out there who have this already implemented for digestion for example
on Twitter https://twitter.com/FacebookPush
or Facebook https://www.facebook.com/phwdbot |
H: Gmail labeling forwarded emails
I have 2 emails 1 for school (= outlook) and 1 personal(=gmail)
I forward my outlook emails to my personal gmail.
The forwarded emails I receive in my gmail should get a label called school
But I can't seem to filter it
Example Peter sends an email to my outlook school mail. That mail automatically being forwarded to my personal gmail with this heading:
from: <peter@someDomain> via outlook.studentMail.com
to: myName@outlook.studentMail.com
mailed-by: outlook.studentMail.com
I tried this topic and few basic filters but I can't seem to get it to work. Can someone help me with this?
AI: Try creating a filter with this
to:(myName@outlook.studentMail.com)
in the "Has the words" field. Note that this is different from putting myName@outlook.studentMail.com in the To: field. |
H: Is it supposed to be possible to share hidden pictures of another user?
I was browsing pictures of a friend on Facebook. This friend has their privacy settings configured so that you have to be a friend to view them. I'm not able to share them, and even if I open a pic, copy the URL from the address bar, and share it with someone who is not their friend, they're unable to view it.
However, I found a flaw in that routine. If you open up such a picture just the same, then right-click the picture and choose "Copy Image URL" (may differ depending on browser), and share that copied URL, then other non-friends are able to view it.
Is this supposed to be possible? Or is this a security breach in Facebook?
EDIT
To be more specific, when I copy the image URL from the address bar, I get...
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
However, when right-clicking the picture and copying the image URL, I get...
https://scontent-b.xx.fbcdn.net/xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
AI: Yes it's supposed to be possible. Since the URL is a .jpg (e.g. https://scontent-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/309_60979110450_4203_n.jpg), you cannot filter its access based on your browser session.
Google+ pictures have the same behavior for instance. Here is a private photo in one of my G+ albums: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-LupTZHNd7bk/UkeMt9ANyvI/AAAAAAAApfI/9vCnBldf6UM/w1289-h967-no/20130928_221255.jpg
Gmail pictures are however really private. Notice the difference in the URL: https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?ui=2&ik=9b35d04bc1&view=att&th=1415c0ae407284ad&attid=0.1&disp=emb&realattid=ii_1415c0ac0763e031&zw&atsh=1 |
H: How should I send contacts via email?
I often experience problems sending and getting contact information in mobile devices due to some weird incompatibilities (they often arrive garbled, empty or don't arrive at all). So I use plain SMS text, which is uncomfortable on both sides. Therefore I have doubts on attaching vCards to emails.
Is it likely that the attached vCard will not be opened correctly?
Is it safer inserting contact data to the email body?
AI: I think it all depends on your interlocutors:
If they are a minimum tech-savvy I would just send the vcard as they should know they can open it with any text editor if they need to.
If they are not tech-savvy, I would insert the contact data to the email body and maybe add the vcard saying the contact information are attached as well.
In case you're not sure, it's a good idea to attach both vcard and plain text. |
H: How can I search Google for a negative number?
It only rarely happens, but once or twice I've found it desirable to be able to search the web for a set of search terms that includes a negative number. Unfortunately there doesn't seem to be any obvious way to do this.
Simply including the number, e.g. -9 in the search terms will cause Google to exclude all results containing the number 9, since it treats - as an exclusion operator. Alone, a search for -9 returns nothing.
Similarly, enclosing it in quotes "-9" returns results for 9, not -9. But I need to disambiguate them: in my particular search, results including 9 are useless while I actually need results for -9.
A note on Google's own product forums indicates that even Google's own employees don't know how, or if, this can be done.
Is it even possible to do this at all?
AI: The short and sad answer is:
You can't!
If you're interested in results pertaining to coding/sysadmin'ing, I'd go for http://symbolhound.com/ - it's a search engine that literally takes your literal search queries literal, but it's focused on subjects relevant to coding and system development so it only works well for searches in these or related domains. |
H: Uploading photo to my profile on Facebook, so that nobody notices
Is it possible to upload a photo to one of my albums on Facebook, so that the news about it will never appear anywhere... Neither in my timeline of my profile nor in the news feed of my friends etc... It will just be in my albums and nobody will learn about it except me since I know I put it in of my albums.
Facebook makes people share everything but what if I don't want to share particular thing with anybody...
I only want to have a photo in my profile, so that friends who come to see my profile will see the photo in there...
AI: When you upload the photo, simply change the privacy setting to "Only Me". |
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