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H: Items sent from Google Drive don't appear in Sent Items folder
When I send a Google Drive file as attachment, the file does get sent, but the mail doesn't appear in Gmail's Sent Items folder.
Repro:
Google Drive => Right-click on a document => Share... => Email as attachment...
I'm aware of Email Collaborators..., but that only works when everyone else uses Gmail.
Complete To. Subject, Message, don't check "Send a copy to myself", hit Send
Check with the recipient - he gets the mail with the attachment fine.
Expected: Mail should appear in Sent Items
Actual: Mail doesn't appear there, or anywhere else in Gmail.
Details:
When sending/replying directly from Gmail (not Google Drive), mails do appear in Sent Items.
I noticed that the recipient gets this mail with my name as Jonathan Barner (Google Drive), rather than just Jonathan Barner - maybe that's related.
I've disabled conversation display in Gmail.
Using Gmail web interface, on Windows 8.1 and Chrome 34.0.1847.116 m.
AI: Google Drive is not an email client. It's not intended to be and thus, you will not see files being "sent". This is intended.
Google Drive lets you share your files and folders with exactly whom you want at whatever level of access you choose.
Collaborate in real time with colleagues, classmates, or friends
Stop sending email attachments and start sharing
Control who sees and edits your files with visibility options and access levels
Easily share your work with lots of people
This appears to be a feature and not a bug. |
H: If I disable issues in GitHub, do I lose the current set of issues?
If I disable the issue tracker in my Github repo, do I lose my current set of issues or do they re-appear when I re-enable it?
AI: I have not tried this but here seems to say your answer is No/Yes in that order: |
H: How can I know if that the sound quality of my video is bad enough so that it doesn't trigger copyright claim on YouTube?
I recorded a video in a club, which means that there is a music background which is copyrighted. The club being ~105 dB and the record device being simply my phone, the music quality is pretty bad. How bad does it need to be for me to avoid copyright claim on YouTube?
AI: I doubt this answers How bad does it need to be for me to avoid copyright claim on YouTube? but maybe explains the downvote.
there is no definitive test for determining whether your use of another's copyrighted work is a fair use. In effect, all copyright infringement, or not, is a matter of opinion, so presumably the OP would be off topic on that count.
If 'opinion' is too imprecise, then maybe 'a legal matter' - for which WA is hardly appropriate, and OP would be too localised anyway.
However, maybe some consolation is this extract:
Capturing copyrighted material incidentally or accidentally
Video makers often record copyrighted sounds and images when they are recording sequences in everyday settings. For instance, they may be filming a wedding dance where copyrighted music is playing, capturing the sight of a child learning to walk with a favorite tune playing in the background, or recording their own thoughts in a bedroom with copyrighted posters on the walls. Such copyrighted material is an audio-visual found object. In order to eliminate this incidentally or accidentally captured material, makers would have to avoid, alter, or falsify reality.
PRINCIPLE: Fair use protects the creative choices of video makers who seek their material in real life. Where a sound or image has been captured incidentally and without pre-arrangement, as part of an unstaged scene, it is permissible to use it, to a reasonable extent, as part of the final version of the video. Otherwise, one of the fundamental purposes of copyright--to encourage new creativity--would be betrayed.
LIMITATION: In order to take advantage of fair use in this context, the video maker should be sure that the particular media content played or displayed was not requested or directed; that the material is integral to the scene or its action; that the use is not so extensive that it calls attention to itself as the primary focus of interest; and that where possible, the material used is properly attributed.
So the music quality seems irrelevant but in my opinion (I am no more than a "barrack-room" lawyer) there is no significant risk of copyright infringement in the scenario you describe. |
H: How do I use a variable to reference another variable in Google Apps Script?
I'm trying to create a loop that sets values of a set of variables, and I want to use the incremented loop variable to define which variable I'm setting the value of, like this:
var box1, box2, box3, box4, box5, box6;
for (var i = 1; i <= 6; i++)
{
//Here I want to set the value of my "boxes"
box["i"] = i;
}
So in this case the result I want would be
box1 = 1
box2 = 2
box3 = 3
Etc.
I realize I could use an array in the example above, but it might come in handy in another situation.
I've read some examples on SO (example 1, example 2, example 3) but they rely on the windows property which isn't used in GAS.
Is it possible use variables in variable names?
AI: This is the way to do that.
Code
function setVariables() {
// create variables
var box1, box2, box3, box4, box5, box6;
// set variables dynamically
for(var i=1; i<=6; i++) {
eval("box"+[i] + " = " + i);
}
// log variables (dynamically)
for(var j=1; j<=6; j++) {
Logger.log(eval("box"+[j]));
}
}
Screenshot
(Didn't add the first logger in the example code because it spoils the result)
Reference
https://stackoverflow.com/a/5613865/1536038
chapter 4.12, p79, "JavaScript, The Definitive Guide, 6th edition", David Flanagan
Mozilla Foundation: eval() |
H: How to make my Google Spreadsheet automatically calculate "days since"
I have a spreadsheet with several columns and one of them is for date (column D). How do I make the next column (E) automatically display the days passed from date in D until now on open?
I have tried with
=DAYS360(D1,NOW())
but it displays #VALUE!
AI: Use the formula =IF([cell on same row in D column] <> "", today()-[cell on same row in D column], "")
So in D2 (for example):
=IF(D2 <> "", TODAY()-D2, "")
TODAY() returns the current date. The current date minus the specified date equals the days passed between the dates.
The code above means "If D2 is not empty set current cells value to days since else set it to be empty" |
H: How to calculate difference in hours between two time fields
I have two time-formatted cells and I need to calculate the difference (e.g., 2.75) in hours between the two.
10:30 AM | 1:15 PM
Simply
=B1-A1
will not do the trick.
AI: I would use the following formula to calculate the difference in hours.
Formula
=(B1-A1)*24
Explained
The time difference is calculated in days. If you multiply times 24, you end up with hours. Time difference is 2 hours and 3 quarters of an hour (165 min).
Screenshot
Example
I've prepared an example file for you: Time Tracker formula and included your own solution in C1. |
H: Is it possible to tag shapes in draw.io with info similiar to Visio?
I'd like to provide more detailed info to shapes in my flow charts on draw.io similar to applying info to shapes in Visio. Is this possible or a possibility in the future?
AI: Select a shape and on the menu navigate to Edit → Edit Data. That brings up a dialog that allows you to insert arbitrary key/value pairs of information. That information is displayed when you hover on a shape to see the tooltip. |
H: How to change the default location for Google Maps when "Location" preference is not available in Search Settings?
This has already been asked: How do I set a default Google Maps location?
But I am in an unusual situation, same as Neets as in this comment. Every time I log into Google Maps (the new one, but I believe it was the same for the old one as well), it defaults to a view of the US. It was suggested in the previous post to update this via Search Settings, but there is no Location option there for me, as others have reported. Please see the following screenshot. I am signed into my personal Google account when I see this view:
Can anyone solve this, or is it a glitch?
AI: What URL are you using to access Google Maps?
The default location would seem to be dependent on the Google Maps URL, or rather the "Top Level Domain" (TLD).
For example,
If I go to https://www.google.com/maps I see the US.
If I go to .co.uk I see the UK.
If I go to .co.id, I see Indonesia.
.com.au - Australia, etc.
Incidentally, if I visit .com (from the UK) I also don't see the "Location" setting. I only see this when I visit one of the ccTLDs (ie. .co.uk, .co.id, etc.). |
H: How do I remove a Guide from my "Handbook" on guides.co?
I have just started with Guides.co and viewed a free guide.
Now the free guide is showing up in my "Handbook" home page. How do I remove this guide from my handbook?
AI: The "Handbook" page is like the library page on the Kindle. It shows you what content you have access to and re-arranges them based on last opened.
Currently there is no way to "delete" or archive a Smart Guide you have accessed (but it is something that will be added.
Hope that helps! |
H: Google Voice & Hangouts, what is the deal?
Keep hearing news about how Google Voice is being merged into Hangouts, but haven't not been able to find anything official about what the impact will be for current Google Voice accounts. Has Google release as plan for what will happen?
AI: The TechCrunch story you are linking to refers to a sole source, namely 9to5google.com. That one is a rumour site, which sometimes have good sources, some times not.
In this case, the phrases they use:
We’ve heard that Google Voice is getting dragged to the trash [...]
No specific timing on the Google Voice migration was given [...]
[...] we’re hearing the full shuttering and depreciation of the app is the next step [...]
(my emphasis)
are just as vague as other rumours which have proved not to materialize. Note that 9to5google.com does not list any sources for this information.
As far as I can see, there's no official word from Google on wether they are planning to merge Google Voice with Google Hangouts. If the rumours materialize, I'm sure Google will provide information on what Google Voice users need to do, if anything. |
H: Google+ Hangouts Desktop notifications?
Is it possible to have Hangouts use desktop notifications much like GMail and the Stack Exchange chat?
I have notifications enabled and GMail desktop notifications enabled, but not seeing such option for Hangouts.
I'm running latest Chrome on Ubuntu 14.04
AI: You need the Hangouts Chrome extension for this. Once install it will show notifications for calls/messages etc. |
H: How does the calculated field feature work for Cognito Forms?
I am asking this question on behalf of Chris Kennedy, who posted this question to Facebook.
Is there any documentation for the calculate feature? I would like to be able to have add a price based on a y/n question.
AI: EDIT: Our calculation documentation is now available at
https://www.cognitoforms.com/support/2/calculations.
We are actively working on documentation for calculations as part of our release this week of conditionally visible fields/sections and conditionally required fields. However, since the documentation is not yet public I will provide a brief answer now that is a bit technical and update the answer once our documentation is public.
First off, always start calculations by typing = into the field. We support calculations for a lot of different fields, such as default value, so the = let's us know you are trying to perform a calculation versus just entering a literal value.
As soon as you enter the = you will immediately see a menu pop up with statement completion (intellisense, autocomplete, etc.) to help you write your calculation. Also, if you have an invalid calculation, you will see an error message indicating the position of the problem and a "hopefully helpful" error message.
Cognito Forms calculations are very sophisticated, which is one of the reasons why we have not already released the documentation. However, for your task, any normal mathematical expressions will work fine, such as =A*5 + B*2, where A and B are the names of fields on your form. The statement completion will help you out with field names, but generally they are just the labels of the fields without spaces or special characters.
Lastly, our calculations are based on an open source parser created by Microsoft in 2008 called Dynamic Linq. If you need more help in the short term and are technically minded, check out Scott Guthrie's post, download the sample zip and read the full documentation under LinqSamples\DynamicQuery. After reading this documentation you will see why we are taking our time creating documentation that is more approachable for less technical audiences.
http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2008/01/07/dynamic-linq-part-1-using-the-linq-dynamic-query-library.aspx |
H: How do I combine a cell value with a string in a Google Spreadsheets formula?
I have the following IF condition in some cell:
=IF(A1>A2, "value is <C5>", "value is <D5>")
where <C5> and <D5> should be the values of cells C5 and D5.
I know it is a simple question but searching was not successful. I don't really know how to phrase this.
AI: You can use the string concatenation operator, &:
=IF(A1>A2, "value is " & C5, "value is " & D5)
This is equal to, but less verbose than:
=IF(A1>A2, CONCAT("value is ", C5), CONCAT("value is ", D5))
As to your follow-up comment, you can concatenate several strings and values:
=IF(A1>A2, "value is " & C5 & " right now, but could be " & D5, "value is " & D5 & " at the moment, but could be " & C5)
Also see Combining stuff in Google Spreadsheet |
H: Formula value change after a script pastes into another range
I have a script that pastes a formula from one cell into a range in a column. When pasted the range just disappears. I mean the whole formula is OK except the pointer. Any ideas how to deal with this?
function formulas() {
var planil = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSpreadsheet();
var shimi = planil.getSheets()[0];
shimi.getRange("E5").copyTo(shimi.getRange("B3:B100"));
}
Formula to copy:
=SUBSTITUTE(SUBSTITUTE(SUBSTITUTE(SUBSTITUTE((A:A),CHAR(34)&"novedadesmusi@daeva.com.ar"&CHAR(34)&" <novedadesmusi@daeva.com.ar","MUSIMUNDO"),CHAR(34)&"novedadesdtv@daeva.com.ar"&CHAR(34)&" <novedadesdtv@daeva.com.ar","DIRECTV"),CHAR(34)&"novedadestlc@daeva.com.ar"&CHAR(34)&" <novedadestlc@daeva.com.ar","TLC"),CHAR(34)&"novedadessony@daeva.com.ar"&CHAR(34)&" <novedadessony@daeva.com.ar","SONY")
Formula Copied :
=SUBSTITUTE(SUBSTITUTE(SUBSTITUTE(SUBSTITUTE(({}),CHAR(34)&"novedadesmusi@daeva.com.ar"&CHAR(34)&" <novedadesmusi@daeva.com.ar","MUSIMUNDO"),CHAR(34)&"novedadesdtv@daeva.com.ar"&CHAR(34)&" <novedadesdtv@daeva.com.ar","DIRECTV"),CHAR(34)&"novedadestlc@daeva.com.ar"&CHAR(34)&" <novedadestlc@daeva.com.ar","TLC"),CHAR(34)&"novedadessony@daeva.com.ar"&CHAR(34)&" <novedadessony@daeva.com.ar","SONY")
AI: It seems that when copying from ColumnE into ColumnB without the $s the pasted formulae were trying to automatically adjust but since A:A is the first column they were unable to adjust to a column further to the left, and that the solution is merely to fix the column reference in the source formula. |
H: How can I stop spam email of "thanks for checking in", but allow tweet email?
When I log into Twitter, which I do from time to time though not often, it says "thanks for checking in"—I want to stop that.
But I still want to be emailed if I am sent a DM or tweeted. I get those rarely (if at all), as I don't have much personal comms with people.
I just want to stop the "thanks for checking in" email.
AI: Within the Email there is an 'opt-out' option and an 'email settings' option.
The email settings option has everything ticked. Obviously I don't need everything ticked but a question one could ask is, what corresponds to the 'thank you for checking in' message.
If you click 'Email Settings'
There are many options all ticked, and a bunch below them all ticked. Here is that lower bunch.
If within the email you click 'opt out'
Then the email notifications list gets updated.
Notice "Tips on getting more out of twitter" becomes unticked.
So, it's most likely that option is the one that controls whether receiving that email.
That said, i'm going to have these ones ticked/unticked and see how it goes. |
H: How to find/delete all emails before a certain date in Gmail?
In Gmail, is there a query I can use to find all emails before a certain date? My company currently has a mailbox with 500K emails and it's starting to get really slow when performing a query. I'd like to start keeping it pruned to only the last 6 months worth of e-mail.
AI: Yes, use Gmail advanced search operators, for instance:
older_than:6m |
H: Forward All Except Filter in Gmail
I'm using Gmail Forwarding to forward all messages to another account. However I have about 50 email addresses in a filter that I do not want forwarded.
I don't want to mark these messages as spam, because they're important emails, but just don't want them forwarded.
Is there an advanced filter to forward all messages sent to the account except those that match this particular filter?
AI: You could always negate your existing filter - I assume it's in the form from:(address1@gmail.com OR address2@gmail.com) and so on. If that's the case:
Disable the setting that is forwarding all your mail (Settings > Forwarding and POP/IMAP > Forwarding > "Disable Forwarding").
Create a new filter that looks like the following (notice the dash before from:):
Therefore, only mail that doesn't match these conditions will be forwarded.
EDIT:
You can create a filter by entering your search first and clicking the arrow for "Show search options":
Then click the "Create filter with this search" button: |
H: Why is OkCupid showing me matches who live more than 5 kilometers away?
I'm using OkCupid, an online-dating and friend-matching site.
I have set the site to show only matches within 5 kilometers of me. Unfortunately, the site seems to be showing me lots of matches who are more than 5 kilometers away. Why is this?
AI: I figured out the answer.
When Americans sign up for OkCupid, the site prompts them for a ZIP code (postal code). So OkCupid has fairly fine-grained knowledge of where they live.
When non-Americans sign up for OkCupid, the site does not prompt for a postal code: only for a city name. OkCupid doesn't know which part of the city they live in.
I live in a big city outside of the United States. Therefore, a 5-kilometre search doesn't just show me users within 5 kilometres of me. It shows me all users within my entire city, even if they are more than 5 kilometres away. |
H: How do I changed the saved zoom level of a map saved in Google Maps "My Places"
I saved two places to one of my maps in Google Maps My Places.
I want to embed this map on a webpage.
The zoom is too close. I want to zoom out 2 units. How do save the new zoom level to my map?
AI: I never realised where the embed button was.
It is the chain link icon at the top right of the left hand column.
Clicking this brings up the embed options, which includes the ability to set the zoom. |
H: How do I refer to a range in another sheet?
Sheet 1 has numeric values in the B column. I'd like to sum them into a single value within Sheet 2, preferably without having to copy them individually first.
According to the docs, I can copy a single value by doing this:
=Sheet1!B1
And that works great! But I'm looking to do a little more -- something like this:
=SUM(Sheet1!B1:Sheet1!B5)
Unfortunately, when I use that formula, I get #ERROR! and it says "Formula Parse Error."
How can I refer to a range in another sheet, not just a single cell?
AI: You should refer to the sheet name only once, so:
=SUM(Sheet1!B1:B5)
returns the sum of the range B1:B5 in Sheet1. |
H: In Gmail, what is the safest way to download, save & print all emails with a given label?
Attempting to securely download all the emails with a given label in Gmail, save them to a single file, and print that file.
AI: You can download all emails with a given tag by retrieving a back up of your email account with Google takeout: you can select which labels you want to download.
The back up of your email account is a .mbox, that you can open using Thunderbird + importexporttools addon, Windows MBox Viewer (the latter didn't like my 1.4 GB .mbox file so might be some issues with large files), SysTools MBOX Viewer or any other mbox viewer.
Edit: (thanks blunders for the info!) You can print multiple emails in Thunderbird: |
H: How to Create Line Break on Google Maps Engine Lite
I am editing a map in Google Maps Engine Lite and when I add a marker and description, it doesn't let me make a new line. Enter saves what I wrote, and Shift + Enter and Ctrl + Enter don't work.
AI: This question has stumped me for a while and finally I found a solution on the official Google forum. The solution is that you need to press Alt + Enter.
Update: Ctrl + Enter seems to work now as well. |
H: Should there be a default value on the Outbound server in google Apps?
I have had to update our google apps outbound from a certain provider (to stop using his services)
However, I am not sure if that field should now stay blank? or is there any other value that I need to enter.
I tried some help posts, but neither mention a default value for that field
https://support.google.com/a/answer/178333?hl=en
AI: Unless you are specifically using an alternate SMTP server for sending mail you should not enter anything into this field. If you are moving from one host to GAPPS for mail, you should only update your MX records. Here is the help article on how to do that. |
H: Post to Google Groups via email
OK, so my task is simple: I want to post a message on Google Groups.
It appears that you're supposed to be able to sign up by sending a blank email to foobar+subscribe@googlegroups.com. I did this, and got a confirmation email. I clicked the link, which took me to a CAPTCHA on the web interface. I filled that in, and received another confirmation email. I clicked the link on that, and the web interface seemed to indicate that I'm subscribed now.
So... how do I send an email? I would have thought that simply sending a message to foobar@googlegroups.com would do it. But I sent a test message over an hour ago, and I still can't see it through the web interface. What am I doing wrong?
AI: As a group owner I can tell you that it is possible that your subscription and/or your message are awaiting confirmation from the group managers. Some groups do not allow new users posting rights until they are conformed.
Another possibility is that the group doesn't allow members to send messages.
My recommendation is to wait a bit longer (until a moderator checks his/her email). Or attempt to contact the owner/moderator to ask for more information. |
H: How to summarize many-to-one table in Google Sheets
I've got two separate sheets we'll call 'Sheet A' and 'Sheet B' with a table on each.
The table on 'Sheet A' has a Many-to-one relationship to the data on the second sheet.
On the second sheet, I'd then like a summary of the data on 'Sheet A' which searches for all rows which match that particular record, then return a Yes/No response by using an 'AND' operator on each matching row.
I know this description does a horrible job at explaining the situation, so I've made the following demonstration spreadsheet (which you can see in reality):
Sheet A
Sheet B
What I'm trying to automate is the second column of the second sheet (which I've coloured in green).
Any thoughts?
[Also, feel free to let me know if you can think of better wording for this question if you understand what I'm trying to explain]
AI: Please try:
=if(COUNTIFS('Our Animals'!$B:$B,A2,'Our Animals'!$C:$C,"no")=0,"Yes","No")
in Animal Types B2, copied down. |
H: Query syntax using cell reference
I'm having trouble figuring out a fairly simple QUERY statement in Google Spreadsheets. I'm trying to use a cell reference instead of static values and I'm running into trouble. I keep getting Error: Formula parse error. with:
=QUERY(Responses!B1:I, "Select B where G contains"& $B1 &)
I'm sure it is a simple error, but can someone please show me how to write the above so the QUERY is pulling data from B where G contains the value in cell B1 (cell reference)?
AI: Please try syntax of this kind:
=QUERY(Responses!B1:I, "Select B where G contains '"&$B1&"'") |
H: Add photos to a post with only one shared photo (from the desktop or otherwise)
I want to know if it's possible to add more photos to a post that got created by sharing a single photo. I can't find a way.
In contrast, when I share a couple (or more) photos in a post, a kind of pseudo-album is created. I can always go back later and add photos to this pseudo-album, and (after a small while) the new content gets reflected on the post.
AI: From the lightbox view select "photos from posts" that should take you to an album view where you can add photos. |
H: Google Sheets Passing Range from separate sheet into custom function
I have the following custom function I've built to basically reproduce a needle haystack type of functionality
function ListBy (Range, Range2, needle) {
var holder = [];
if(typeof Range != 'object') {
throw "expected Range for input saw" + typeof Range;
return false;
} for(var i = 0; i < Range.length; i++) {
if(Range[i] == needle) {
holder.push(Range2[i]);
}
}
return holder;
}
This script works perfectly when executed on one sheet, for instance
=ListBy(A1:A5, B1:B5, "needle");
But if I try and pass in data from another sheet like so
=ListBy('sheet1'!A1:A10, 'sheet1'!A1:A10, "needle")
I get a reference of range error. Why would this be the case?
AI: You added single quotes to the sheet references:
=ListBy('sheet1'!A1:A10, 'sheet1'!A1:A10, "needle")
If you leave those:
=ListBy(Sheet1!A1:A10, Sheet1!A1:A10, "needle")
then your script works as planned.
Screenshot
Sheet2:
Sheet1: |
H: Add two variables to a Hyperlink
I know this works:
= hyperlink( "https://www.google.com/search?q=" & B2 )
But I can't get two variables to work so the link would look like:
https://www.google.com?var1=[insert cell contents]&var2=[insert cell contents]
Any suggestions?
AI: = hyperlink( "https://www.google.com/search?q=" & B1 & "&var2=" & C1 )
This works for me. |
H: "Mute" alternative for conversations that aren't in the inbox
How can I both:
Keep mailing lists out of my inbox (to read separately later)
Selectively hide mailing list conversations (including their future messages)
I've tried using a filter for mailing lists that adds a label and skips the inbox. When it's time to read through mailing lists, I simply view that label.
That accomplishes goal #1, but I'm not sure how to accommodate #2. I've tried:
Muting conversations—but they still show up when I view the label.
Adding -is:muted to the filter—but Gmail warns me that this won't have any effect.
What have I missed? Are these goals really incompatible?
AI: Alas, the "mute" feature only keeps incoming messages from putting that thread back into the inbox. (1) It doesn't keep the thread out of a label even if you use a label as a secondary inbox. (2) There's no equivalent of "mute" to mute a thread from another label. (3) Filters can't test if the incoming message is going into a muted thread.
Archive or mute Gmail messages says:
When you mute a message: Any replies stay out of your inbox. You can search for the conversation if you want to find it again.
And in the Help Forum:
if you mute a conversation from a mailing list new emails in that thread wont appear in the inbox but will be archived in all mail until you unmute it or one comes addresses directly to you
Filter criteria seem to apply to incoming messages before filter actions. They apply after spam classification even though the UI warns otherwise. So this does work:
Matches: in:spam (from:("christianmingle" OR "DeVry University" OR "Fidelity Life Insurance" OR "Walmart Points"))
Do this: Delete it
If -is:mute worked in a filter (i.e. if the test applied to the new message's thread instead of to the new message itself, which isn't yet in a muted thread), you could use one filter to skip the inbox and a second filter with the same criteria plus -is:mute to apply the label.
Or similarly, if the filter criteria could test labels on the new message's thread, you could move your undesired threads to a different label muted as a hack way to mute them, then use a pair of filters with -label:muted as part of the second filter's criteria.
But Gmail doesn't currently work that way. You can use the Send Feedback feature (in the gear menu) to request one of these tweaks.
As a desperate way to handle an occasional annoying thread, you could add a filter just for that thread which just removes it from the Inbox and the alternate lable.
More ideas: Write a Google Apps Script, or a Greasemonkey script, or a Chrome extension to extend Gmail. |
H: How much disk space is needed for a social network?
I'm going to run a social network website that will have upto 1000 users. how much disk space is needed for this?
AI: That can't be told because you can't know how active the site will be. If you have upload option you might need a lot. You can calculate the required space like :
Each member uploads a HD profile picture : Apox 3 MB X 1000 = 3 GB
If they upload a video : Let's say 200 MB x 1000 = 20 GB .
If you ask me I would buy a VPS which can be upgraded easily if needed. Start on a low plan ( 20 GB ) and go up if needed just for a few bucks. |
H: How can I merge into one cell, all the non-zero values in a row each concatenated with the column header?
I hope this example is clear. I have played with join and filter but can't get the Summary field to display as below:
Row 1 is a list of subjects.
Row 2 is a teacher's subject allocation (calculated from a lookup).
I want the Summary cell to simply work through each row, if there is a non-zero value in a cell, take that number and concatenate to the subject, then move on to the end of the list.
Happy to try a script.
AI: With the following piece of code you can prepare the summary as you want.
Code
function mySummary(header, range) {
var output1 = [];
for(var i=0, iLen=range.length; i<iLen; i++) {
var output2 = [];
for(var j=0, jLen=range[0].length; j<jLen; j++) {
var value = range[i][j];
if(value != "" || value > 0) {
output2.push(value + " " + header[0][j]);
}
}
output1.push([output2.sort().join(", ")]);
}
return output1;
}
Screenshot
Explained
The custom function needs two parameters to work with: header & range. The first iteration (var i=0) handles the rows and the second (var j=0) handles the columns. Each cell will be evaluated for empty ("") or non-zero (> 0) values. When either of them is true, the result is pushed into an intermediate array (output2). When the first row is completed, the combined result is sorted and joined and pushed into a new output array (output1), before starting with the second row.
Example
I've created an example file for you: Special Summary
Add the script under Tools>Script editor and press the save button. |
H: How do you hide the preview pane in Evernote Web?
In the evernote web application I was not able to find a way to hide the preview pane when in list mode, once the preview pane is there.
I have found old forum posts, where others were looking for the same and the result seems "feature not implemented".
So how do you hide the preview pane in Evernote Web when in list mode?
Or is it simply not possible? Or is there at least a keyboard shortcut?
I found a workaround which I will post as an answer, but is there a real solution? A keyboard shortcut would still be better.
AI: As a workaround you can go to the "view options"
Then switch from list to snippets and then back to list again. THe preview pane is gone now until you next activate it by cklicking on a list entry.
Not very nice but better than no way at all. Really helpful if you want to see the list and need the whole page. |
H: How to join multiple channels in qwebirc?
I'm using http://webchat.freenode.net/
It uses http://qwebirc.org/features that supports:
Multiple channels and queries.
I try typing: join super-fancy-channel
I got either:
[11:39] Can't use this command in this window
Or:
[11:40] <stefek99> join super-fancy-channel
[11:40] <stefek99> (screw me - I'm using webchat.freenode.net - and I want to have multiple channels in tabs)
So if you happen to know how to connect to multiple channels - let me know!
Michal
AI: Commands usually have a slash in front and channels a hash in front.
If you are connected to IRC, then to join a channel you would type:
/join #super-fancy-channel |
H: If I message a group member or admin will they receive it?
So lets say I joined a Facebook group. If I message somebody from the group (assuming I don't have any mutual friends with that person), will the message land in the "Inbox" or "Other" box? Lets say based on default Facebook settings.
I know for sure it lands in the Other Box if there is absolutely no mutual connection between each other.
AI: It lands in the Other box. Inbox is only for those who you have direct friendship with |
H: What is the fastest way to use Google Spreadsheets by several users - from the same account or from different accounts?
Terminology - I use spreadsheet for a document and sheet for a sheet within the document.
TL; DR
If several users must work on data, stemming from the same source, which is fastest:
one Google Account for all users, one spreadsheet and different sheets for the users.
one GA, different spreadsheets for the different users.
different GAs for the differents users
Long version
Let's say I have a document with sheet A, containing a table with several columns - ID, Name, Shares etc.. I want to copy this data several times so that this data can be accessed by different people. On their view (be that in a sheet withing the same document or in another document) the data will be combined with other things. So if I have columns A, B, and C in the original source, they will be copied to columns A, B, and C in the users' view and the users will enter data / modify columns D, E, F, etc.. I have several options:
Create Sheets B, C, D in the same spreadsheet. This way person 1, 2 and 3 will use the same Google Account, the same document and only use different sheets.
Create new spreadsheets in the same Google Account and use Importrange to import the data. Each user works in a separate documents, but from Google's point of view it is the same user/account, logged from different devices and working on different documents.
Create separate Google Accounts, within them create spreadsheets and then import using Importrange.
As this is an In-house thing authorisations/permissions are not an issue, so it's not a problem if the users use the same Google Account. My purpose is to use the most lightweight option because the users will be using relatively cheap Android tablets, which do not possess much processing power or fast wifi cards. I have two things to consider:
as I have tried to make things as automatic as possible I have a lot of index/match formulas, importrange formulas and validations plus a source table of more then 4500 rows. This may not sound a lot, but it definitely makes a difference on a tablet. So I guess putting too much logic in a single spreadsheet is not a good idea.
having the same spreadsheet opened by many people is also not very good as updating changes, made by one user on the screens of other users takes (relatively) long. At the beginning I went with option 1 (one account, one document, many users with many spreadsheets), but the Google Drive app would constantly crash on the tablets.
Currently I use option 2 - one Google Account, different spreadsheets for the different users, which is much better. The main logic happens in one spreadsheet and each user opens a separate spreadsheet, where the data is copied. However, I don't know if it's a problem that one Google Account is used from several devices at the same time. Does it make sense to create separate accounts for the different users from performance point of view? This will certainly introduce a lot of overhead for me (keeping records of usernames/passwords, logging users etc.), but if it will be faster I would go with it.
AI: In an arrangement where each of N user's changes propagate to all the other users' screens, that incurs N2 propagation costs (network messages, recalculations, and display updates). That grows rapidly as N grows. So if N > 3 you want to avoid it for sure.
A separate sheet per user might avoid most of the updates but the best bet is to use a separate spreadsheet document for each user.
Given that, using a separate Google Account per user might improve performance a bit by avoiding synchronized updates to some shared state (e.g. the user's document list). Also this is the normal case, unlike one account editing docs from many tablets at once, and any optimizations will favor the normal case. You'd have to measure it to be sure, but my semi-informed bet is that you won't notice the performance difference.
Giving each user a separate login account would help with tracking changes, but that might not be worth your setup work.
Idea: If all the columns are uniform within each sheet, that is, if the data is like a simple sequence of records, look into using Google Fusion Tables in place of spreadsheets. Fusion Tables scale up to very large data sets since the rows are independent of each other. You can "publish" columns from one table data to other tables.
Idea: If this is not a temporary application, consider replacing the spreadsheets with a custom implementation as a web app or native Android apps. Even then, it's good to prototype your application with spreadsheets as a way to discover what really matters to your use. |
H: How to create an em dash in Google Documents?
In most word processing applications, entering two sequential dashes is enough to create an em dash. Not in Google Documents:
It'd be nice if those two hyphens joined together — wouldn't it?
(The em dash directly above was written using HTML: —.)
So how to create an em dash in Google Documents?
AI: Actually, in Google Docs you can have it automatically replace the two dashes with the em dash while you type!
Tools > Preferences...
In 'Replace' type: -- (include space on each side)
In 'With': Enter the em dash character*:
Windows: Hold Alt and enter 0151
Mac: Option + Shift + -
* as suggested by OnenOnlyWalter |
H: Google Calendar notifications go to Gmail spam box
I mistakenly marked Google Calendar notification email as a spam,
so these notification mails go to spam box.
How can I let these emails come to inbox hereafter?
AI: In the Gmail app, go to your Spam folder, highlight one of those notifications, and click the "Not Spam" button. This should tell Gmail to not use the address it came from as spam again.
If you do not have any of those on hand, have one of those notifications sent to you again, and try the above. |
H: How can I easily fill a column in Google Sheets with random values from a list?
I need to create some data for a simulation. So I wanted to take a spreadsheet and, for each column, fill it with random data falling within a domain. A uniform distribution is good enough.
For a binary variable, I am currently doing following steps:
create a formula like if(rand()>0.5, "black", "white") in a new column
fill a column with it, careful to only do it for the amount of rows I want (not just select the whole column and copy into it)
copy the results and do paste special -> values in the original column
But if I have a variable with seven possible values, I can't think of anything better than seven nested if statements.
Are there better ways?
AI: I think this is what you want. A spreadsheet the generates a column of rand() numbers. Then look up the rand() number and return another value.
In the following instruction be sure to keep the $s for absolute referencing.
In cell E2 enter the upper limit of the random numbers (I used 7).
In cells C2 to C8 enter the numbers 1 to 7 (since the upper value is 7).
In cells D2 to D8 enter the values you want to return. In this case I used names.
In cell A2 enter the formula: =int(RAND()*$E$2)+1 (where cell E2 holds the upper limit of the random numbers).
Copy this formula down as far as needed.
In cell B2 enter the formula: =vlookup(A2,$C$2:$D$8,2) (where cells C2 to D8 hold the substitution values). If the random number generated is 1 then this returns the name Abe.
Copy this formula down as far as needed. |
H: How to deal with overlapping Gmail filters
I have a Gmail account and a live.unc.edu account. The live.unc.edu account forwards to my Gmail account. I've made a Gmail label called “UNC” and set up a filter to catch all email that is to: xxx@live.unc.edu and Skip the Inbox and apply the label “UNC”. I now have email that goes to xxx@live.unc.edu with "JIRA" in the subject. I want Gmail to apply the label “JIRA” to that email and NOT UNC. Is this possible?
AI: You will need to adjust your existing To filter to apply to emails that go to:(xxx@live.unc.edu) AND subject:(-JIRA).
So for instance, in this screenshot, I have filtered all emails from Facebook that do not contain the word photos in the subject:
Then you can add another filter that applies the JIRA label to the emails of your choice. |
H: Public web chat room on HipChat
I see that at http://blog.gleam.io/hipchat/ is talked about "Public Chat Rooms" which I see you can open and participate through a web page, without signing in HipChat, by just choosing your nickname (Full name as they say on the page. Actual chat room is at https://www.hipchat.com/gXGrGMHTO .
How can you create a public chat room on HipChat that is publicly accessible?
AI: Stuart McKeown helped me out. You have to:
Create public chat room.
Open Windows client
Open/Enter the public chat room you have created
Click on bottom right checkbox "Guest access is off". Clicking on it should change it to "on".
Note that you have to be Admin to be able to allow guest access. |
H: Appending text to each column in Google Sheets
I have a Google Sheets that has about 200 columns. Each one is a name, and to each one, I want to append -banner.jpg. For example:
abcde
fghij
klmno
will all be updated to:
abcde-banner.jpg
fghij-banner.jpg
klmno-banner.jpg
Is there a way to batch process this?
AI: Please try:
Find: (.+)
Replace with: $1-banner.jpg
Search: This sheet
Search using regular expressions
Replace all. |
H: Automatically adding a BCC email address to all email sent with Gmail
I want to automatically archive email in Evernote.
Is there a way in Gmail web-interface to automatically send all outgoing emails to BCC address?
AI: Go into settings -> filters.
Add your email address as the FROM address and click "create filter with this search"
On the next screen ignore the thing about incoming mail. Simply add the address you want outgoing emails forwarded to.
Works for me. |
H: Add public transport details to Google Maps (Cracow)
I would like to know if any of you have added public transport to Google Maps. I live in Cracow, Poland and I'm fed up with not having it there. I was once reading about adding geo location of bus stops and so on.
Could single non-related-to-the-city-transport enterprise deal with it and if so, how?
And what about time schedule, is there any way to make it synchronize itself with the official site?
AI: The transport companies or authorities wanting to provide their data to Google, must do so themselves.
See the Google Transit Partner program |
H: How can I log into SourceForge with OpenID?
When I go to the SourceForge login page at https://sourceforge.net/account/login.php, the OpenID login is no longer displayed. My account has an OpenID account associated with it with is my normal way of logging in.
What's going on, and how can I log in with OpenID?
AI: SourceForge is attempting to phase out OpenID logins in favor of social logins, according to their support forum.
For now, you can append openid to the login page, so it looks like https://sourceforge.net/account/login.php?openid. |
H: Add a sheet from a template
Is there a way to add a new sheet to a spreadsheet from a template? If I'm using a template for time, I'd like to add a new sheet from the same template every two weeks.
AI: Yes, using the sheet.copyTo(destination) method. In the spreadsheet where you want to add the new sheets:
function copyFromTemplate(){
var templateSpreadsheet = SpreadsheetApp.openById(TEMPLATE_ID);
var template = templateSpreadsheet.getSheets()[0]; //Assuming it is the first sheet
//The default name will be "Copy of [original name]". We can use today's date to rename it
var today = (new Date()).toDateString();
var currentSpreadsheet = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSpreadsheet();
template.copyTo(currentSpreadsheet).setName(today);
}
You can set up a time-driven trigger for every week, or set up two monthly triggers to run the function every two weeks. |
H: Date autofill increments year instead of day
Earlier, when I had dates in a column like:
Monday, 21 April, 2014
Tuesday, 22 April, 2014
and I extended the last cell to lower cells I could expect them to be filled with following days:
Wednesday, 23 April, 2014
Thursday, 24 April, 2014
but now I get:
Tuesday, 22 April, 2015
Tuesday, 22 April, 2016
Why is that? All cells in column are in date format.
AI: I've figured it out. For unknown reason this particular date format has been changed in Google Sheets, instead of:
Monday, 21 April, 2014
now it is:
Monday, April 21, 2014
so that only the second one works now and the previous one isn't recognized as a pattern any more. |
H: Which formula sums all values from a column in a line that contains a specific word?
Let's use this random spreadsheet to illustrate my problem.
What I want to do is a sum of all Page Views (F) that contains the Category (B) named /Online Computers. Which formula can I use to do that?
I wanted to Google it before asking here but I'm not sure how this is called.
AI: You can use the =SUMIF as MaryC says, or the =FILTER function that I usually prefer:
=SUM(FILTER(F2:F, B2:B = "/Online Computers"))
The =FILTER function filters your data so that only rows matching B2:B = "/Online Computers" are included.
See the example spreadsheet I've set up, and the Google spreadsheets function list. |
H: How to forward email of a specific sender from Outlook.com to Gmail?
I got an Outlook.com account which I use to subscribe to some mail lists. I want to forward the emails of one of the lists to my Gmail account, but the only option I see is to forward everything, so how could I do this?
AI: You can set up a rule to forward email from a specific sender to an email address:
Click the Gear in the upper right hand corner of the screen and click on Manage Rules
Click on New
In Step 1 you should select which messages you want to be forwarded
In Step 2 you can select Forward to and input the email address where you want the emails to go
(You must have verified this email address in order for this to work)
Click Save when your done |
H: Prevent Gmail from assigning a category when the message has a user-defined label (Multiple Inboxes enabled)
I appreciate the organization that comes with Gmail automatically assigning my messages to categories. However, I have one source of email that is a veritable firehose, and Gmail seems to think they should be placed in the "Updates" category. I already have a filter set up to skip the Inbox and apply a label, but the Updates category is rendered useless.
I tried editing the filter, but the only option I could see relating to categories was choosing a category to assign, and "None" wasn't an option.
I also manually removed them by selecting them and choosing Not "Updates", but it seems Gmail does not learn from actions like this.
Is there any way to remove these from the Updates category? I am using Multiple Inboxes so dragging messages out of the category doesn't offer the option to always do so.
AI: Directly from GMail's help:
Move messages between tabs
If you see a message in your inbox that you want in a different tab, all you have to do is drag and drop it into the other tab. Another way to do this is to right-click a message while viewing your inbox.
After you move a message to a different tab, a message above your inbox will ask if you want to undo that action or choose to always put messages from that sender in the tab you chose.
If you drag and drop the message to the tab you want the message in, it should prompt you and confirm if Gmail should always move messages from that sender to the inbox category of your choice.
When I do this with a message, I receive the following prompt at the top of the screen: |
H: How can I download a Picaboo photobook?
I created a photobook in Picaboo: is there any way to download it (e.g. as a PDF)?
AI: From the customer support:
There is no way to download a Picaboo project or make a .pdf. However
you can share the project. Here is some info on sharing:
https://customercare.picaboo.com/hc/en-us/articles/200344714-Can-I-share-my-project-online-with-friends-and-family- |
H: How can I reference a cell in a custom function while setting up data validation in Google spreadsheets?
I made the following Google script to check whether a string is less than some length:
function isLengthLessThan(length, text) {
return (text.length < length)
};
How can I set up data validation using this custom formula to check the length of cells? What can I put where the question mark is so that it will represent the value of the cell?
AI: Please try:
=len(A1)>9
applied to a range starting with A1. |
H: Single drop down with data from separate columns
I have a spreadsheet that I need to add new data to but the previous user made it so that I can't add data in a new row without moving down a lot of data which would mess with all the calculations.
What I am trying to do is to make it so I can add the new data to the side instead and still have the same drop down access the two separate columns. I attached a screen cap of an example of what I want below.
I have tried everything I can think of and all my searches come back with putting multiple columns in a drop down instead of just the data from them.
As you can see below the example has data in D1 to D5 and F1 to F5. If I wanted the dropdown to have the data from those columns how would I do it?
EDIT: Just to clarify there is data between the columns in the actual page which is why I can't just highlight all of it.
AI: With the below script you can build a validator from multiple ranges, in both old and new style Google Spreadsheets and you can select different sheets.
Code
// create menu item
function onOpen() {
createMenu('Validation', 'Add validation to active cell', 'myValidation');
}
// add validation to active cell
function myValidation() {
var ss = SpreadsheetApp.getActive(), output = [];
// create input box or prompt
var int = getPrompt('How many ranges do you want to combine?', 'Add integer');
// collect data
output = getData(1);
for(var i=1; i<int; i++) {
output.push.apply(output, getData(i+1));
}
// build validation
var rule = SpreadsheetApp.newDataValidation()
.requireValueInList(output.sort(sortNumber)).build();
ss.getActiveCell().setDataValidation(rule);
}
// show prompt and retrieve the corresponding data
function getData(int) {
var ss = SpreadsheetApp.getActive(), text, values;
// create input box or prompt
var text = getPrompt('Range like A1:A4 or Sheet1!A1:A4', 'Range ' + int).split('!');
// check if reference to other sheet is made
if(text.length > 1) {
values = ss.getSheetByName(text[0]).getRange(text[1]).getValues();
} else {
values = ss.getRange(text).getValues();
}
// check for entries
if(values[0].length > 1) {
throw 'Only single columns are to be used';
return;
}
// return the data
return values;
}
function createMenu(menuName, itemName, funcName) {
try {
SpreadsheetApp.getUi()
.createMenu(menuName).addItem(itemName, funcName).addToUi();
} catch(e) {
SpreadsheetApp.getActive()
.addMenu(menuName, [{name: itemName, functionName: funcName}]);
}
}
function getPrompt(title, header) {
// create input box or prompt
try {
return SpreadsheetApp.getUi().prompt(title, header, app.ButtonSet.OK).getResponseText();
} catch(e) {
return Browser.inputBox(title, header, Browser.Buttons.OK);
}
}
// http://www.devcurry.com/2010/08/sort-numeric-array-in-javascript.html
function sortNumber(num1, num2) {
return num1 - num2;
}
Example
I've created an example file for you: validator from two ranges
Add the script under Tools>Script editor and press the bug button to activate the authentication. |
H: Why does TechRepublic's Twitter button publish text+URL+mention, instead of a normal retweet?
I read this TechRepublic article and thought I would retweet it.
Here is what I usually do in such situations:
Search for the news website's official Twitter account.
In this official account, look for the tweet that announces said article.
Retweet that tweet.
Quite a lengthy procedure...
Today I noticed the "Twitter" button on the news website, and clicked it, thinking it was an easy way to perform a retweet.
But it did something else:
<text of the original tweet> <short URL> via @<thenewswebsite>
I am a bit surprised they would push for such tweets, instead of retweets.
What is the advantage of using this format, rather than a normal retweet?
AI: TechRepublic is using Twitter's Tweet Button functionality on their site. If you take a look at the settings that can be configured, it seems like TechRepublic is just using the default ones for the button. These defaults can indeed make the format quite long.
TechRepublic is most probably using this functionality because it's the default way of sharing web content to Twitter. Retweeting is only possible if the content is actually already featured in a tweet somewhere, so using the Tweet Button removes this requirement. |
H: How can I format a code block in Jira without the Markdown plugin?
Jira (hosted version) does not seem to support Markdown without a plugin. How can I paste and format a code block in a Jira issue comment or description?
AI: The Atlassian JIRA {code} macro is covered in section Advanced Formatting within the Text Formatting Notation Help:
Makes a preformatted block of code with syntax highlighting. All the optional parameters of {panel} macro are valid for {code} too. The default language is Java but you can specify others too, including ActionScript, Ada, AppleScript, bash, C, C#, C++, CSS, Erlang, Go, Groovy, Haskell, HTML, JavaScript, JSON, Lua, Nyan, Objc, Perl, PHP, Python, R, Ruby, Scala, SQL, Swift, VisualBasic, XML and YAML.
Example:
{code:title=Bar.java|borderStyle=solid}
// Some comments here
public String getFoo()
{
return foo;
}
{code}
{code:xml}
<test>
<another tag="attribute"/>
</test>
{code} |
H: Is there a way to search Trello for cards that have a label?
I tried Has:label but without luck.
We use labels to assign the urgency/progress on a card (Current, Urgent, Finished-Awaiting Review, Finished-Approved).
When someone on our team starts working on a card, they assign it a priority (Current, Urgent, etc.). That way they can immediately see what's currently on their plate.
But I need a way to search for Has:Label.
The new search released today is click (has:Sticker etc.) but doesn't have Has:label.
AI: No, there is currently no way to search for cards that have any label; you can search for cards with a particular label with label:red or label:urgent, but not for the presence or absence of any label at all. We'll consider adding it. |
H: Post both to Google Plus Personal and Page?
Is there a way to have posts appear in both your Google Plus (business) Page and personal posts without posting twice?
For example, if I post to my Page stream, I want that post to also show up in my personal stream and vice versa.
AI: No. You will have to post twice or post once and reshare that post. |
H: How to post from Hootsuite to Google+?
I have a Hootsuite account and use it to post to Twitter, Google+ and Facebook. My Google+ account has my personal profile and a business page. When I connect Hootsuite to my Google+ account, it only connects to the business page, which is where it sends any of my posts from Hootsuite.
Is there a way to connect to my personal Google+ account from Hootsuite instead?
AI: Please note that this feature is only available for Google+ pages, and not Google+ profiles.
Source. |
H: How to calculate average screen resolution based on number of visitors using a spreadsheet?
I want to find out what the average screen resolution is for visitors to my website – or rather, what is the average width and the average height in pixels.
To qualify what I mean by "average" – and maybe "average" isn't the right word (though I think most of the respondents understood my meaning) – I would like to know when a hypothetical "average" visitor comes to my website, what would their screen height and width be?
I realize it's by no means the end of a comprehensive analysis of screen resolutions, and I recognize the saying that "analyzing averages tends to produce average results"...
My data looks like this:
+-------+--------+----------+
| Width | Height | Sessions |
+-------+--------+----------+
| 1366 | 768 | 72212 |
| 768 | 1024 | 71440 |
| 1920 | 1080 | 41332 |
| 1280 | 800 | 37427 |
| 1600 | 900 | 34688 |
| 1280 | 1024 | 27461 |
| 1440 | 900 | 27008 |
| 1024 | 768 | 26432 |
| 320 | 568 | 22239 |
| 1680 | 1050 | 16980 |
| 1280 | 720 | 16543 |
| 320 | 480 | 16400 |
| 360 | 640 | 13889 |
| 720 | 1280 | 9777 |
| 1093 | 614 | 9283 |
| 1536 | 864 | 8523 |
| 1920 | 1200 | 7110 |
| 2560 | 1440 | 4032 |
+-------+--------+----------+
I tried making a pivot table but that didn't work
My issue is that Sessions column, which obviously complicates things
Another question that comes to mind, and may also be answered through this analysis includes (though not officially a part of this question):
What % of sessions had a screen height/width of over/under X pixels?
As well as segmenting by desktop and tablet users
AI: This is what I came up with.
Screenshot
Explained
Column F expresses the weight of the measurement in the series. Multiplying the height and the width by the fraction, will yield the corresponding fraction. A summation will yield a weighed height and width.
Example
I've created an example file for you: Average Resolution |
H: How to find the link of an embedded YouTube video
I have tried to get a link from an embedded YouTube video but I can't seem to find it. The video can be found at this link: http://www.acg-tube.com/the-italian-job-2003/
Could you explain to me how to find it? I tried using 'Inspect this element', view page source and view page info but the only link I found was this one https://video.google.com/get_player?el=leaf&cc_load_policy=1&enablejsapi=1 which is not a YouTube link.
AI: Based on the error message ("Unable to play this video at this time. The number of allowed playbacks has been exceeded. Please try again later.") that I found playing another movie, I got to know that the movie is hosted on Google Drive and not YouTube. As such there is no YouTube embed code. |
H: How do I default to international search in Google?
I have now reached the threshold for the amount of time I want to spend searching for how to disable a feature. I'm unsure if it's a Google feature or a Google Chrome feature. How do I search internationally by default, and not only in Norway (Norge) as illulstrated here?
AI: At the bottom right of the Google home page, there is a link "Use Google.com". On clicking that, you subsequent searches will happen from Google.com. |
H: IFTTT to send me a message using mobile messaging
Using IFTTT, I want to do something like
If it becomes 4:38
then send me "hello" to my phone using some mobile messaging service
The messaging app can be just anything, anything, unless it takes more than 3 seconds to send a single message.
SMS turned out to be not what I want because the messages should be able to be seen by other people through internet. I need a message service like Google Hangouts, in which people can chat online, rather than SMS which can't be accessed by PC via online.
Also, I live in GMT9. How should I set the time part in the if part?
AI: There are multiple IFTTT recipes that can let you post a message via external services like Twitter, FB, email. These services can be configured to reach your mobile as well as be saved at a centralized site for others as well to see. |
H: Comments to flagged posts on G+ badminton community
Recently, I became a moderator for the largest badminton community on Google+, mainly to remove spam and/or to respond to flagged posts, see pic:
In order for me to apply some sort of a "three strikes out" principle, I need to inform people.
Will this comment be seen by the person who posted this:
AI: The comment is visible to the original poster. If they see it is an entirely different story. It will depend on if they have notifications enabled for comments on their own posts and if they actually look at the post. |
H: Make Pastebin posts viewable only by people with the link, not findable in Google search results
How can I prevent my Pastebin posts from showing up when other users search for it on things like Google?
I want to put all my assignments in links and post them on a website portfolio but I don't want to if every single person will see it if they try to Google the keywords in it.
Is there a way to post pastes that would not be easily viewed, like a private option, or where you need a direct link to view the contents, not necessarily requiring a password to view?
Or is there an alternative to Pastebin that has a private option that blocks search engines from viewing them?
AI: If you don't want your pastes turning up in searches then you may want to just sign up for an account, which will allow you:
Free members can create unlimited 'public' pastes, 25 'unlisted' pastes, 10 'private' pastes.
If you need more than 10 private pastes, you can look into something like GitHub Gists which doesn't have a limit on how many you can create.
Gists don't count against the number of private repositories for an account. There's no limit on the number of gists that can be created by a user, including users with free accounts.
Also with GitHub Gists, if you initially created a public gist, but then later want to make it private, you can.
Keep in mind that by "private" they mean unlisted, where you just need the URL to access. But otherwise it will not be searchable.
Secret gists are the same as public gists, only they don't show up in Discover and they're not searchable. [...] Keep in mind that secret gists aren't private. If you send the URL of a secret gist to a friend, they'll be able to see it, which makes them great for quick collaboration. However, if someone you don't know discovers the URL, they'll also be able to see it.
You can embed private GitHub Gists like you can public ones. |
H: How to disable Gmail auto label
I have a self-defined label A. Some emails are labeled with A automaticaly. I did found a filter that matches the email. But the related action is labeling it with B. And that is the only one matching the email.
How can I disable it?
AI: There are two places that filter can appear. The first is under the filters section. The second place is under the section where you configure Gmail to pull in mail from other accounts. All email pulled in from account X can be automatically labeled.
To check/change this:
go to Gear/settings/
Click the Accounts and Import tab
Look in the Check mail from other accounts (using POP3) section.
Click on the "edit info" link.
You can:
Leave a copy of retrieved message on the server.
Label incoming messages:
Archive incoming messages (Skip the Inbox). |
H: How do I sum all even or odd columns in Google Spreadsheets?
The following is given as a solution for Excel:
=SUM(IF(MOD(COLUMN(B16:AO16),2)=0,B16:AO16,0))
=0 changes to =1 to toggle between odd and even columns. However, this doesn't work in Google Spreadsheets - unless the output of MOD goes to an array function, MOD just calculates against the first value in the range.
How can I do this in Google Spreadsheets?
AI: I would use the following formula.
Formula
=SUM(ARRAYFORMULA(IF(ISODD(COLUMN(C1:F10))=TRUE,C1:F10)))
Explained
The ISODD function will check if the column number is odd (TRUE). The IF function will return the number if TRUE, else FALSE. The ARRAYFORMULA does that for the complete range and the sum will simply sum up the numbers (and ignore the boolean results)
Screenshot
Example
I've created an example file for you: sum odd or even column ranges |
H: Is there a way to export the text of blog entries, in Blogger, to individual text-files?
I have a friend with a Blogger blog (this one: PuzzleMad.co.uk), he wants to create a local archive of the individual entries. Now, exporting produces a large XML file which is fine as far as it goes, but the goal is to create an individual text-file (.txt for preference) and ideally with a Markdown representation of the content's formatting/structure for each blog-entry (the inclusion of comments is entirely optional and, depends only on the ease of including or removing them).
I suspect that this might involve applying a scripting solution to the exported XML file rather than a feature included within the Blogger engine itself, which is absolutely fine but might potentially be better suited to Stack Overflow.
I've looked at a few possibilities, from a search here, including:
How do I export my blog from Blogger? - which is more about freeing up photo-space from the linked Picasa service, and has only one answer which mentions that and then suggests the export-as-XML (which is either not a solution to this problem, or is not a complete solution to this problem).
Export blog entries from Blogger - doesn't seem to address the problem to which I'm looking for a solution.
Potential solutions:
Zoundry Raven - could possibly work, but it seems to be advertised/promoted as a means of managing multiple blogs rather than as a means to download/archive entries from blogs.
SiteSucker - retrieves and archives, but stops at that point, doesn't convert to a text file, certainly doesn't create a Markdown-esque representation of the text, or its HTML structure.
Backupify - I'm not quite sure what it does, but doesn't seem to, from what I've read, offer a specific means by which exporting-to-text is supported.
As noted, I suspect the end-result will be some form of parsing of the XML, using a scripting language, but if it's at all possible he'd prefer to avoid that, but is willing if necessary.
AI: There is no capability to do what you want within Blogger. Both their standard export, as well as the Google Takeout export produce XML.
The only other option I can think of is some kind of screen-scraper. But TBH, scripting over the XML would probably be easier to do. |
H: Highlight deleted and added lines with GitHub Markdown
How can I highlight deleted and added lines like in this comment? How do I make it look like a git diff?
Do I have to use HTML? Or is there some tricky syntax like strikethrough?
AI: That is done by using a code block with the "diff" syntax. The raw markdown would look something like this:
One small step for
```diff
-man
+humankind
```
I've made a gist also that demonstrates the code (click "Raw" to view the markdown). |
H: Can someone simply refuse to ship merchandise on eBay?
I was reading Joel on Software:
Another social software success is ebay. When I first heard about
ebay, I said, "Nonsense! That will never work. Nobody's going to send
money to some random person they encountered on the Internet in hopes
that person will out of the goodness of their hearts actually ship
them some merchandise."
How does eBay circumvent situations whereby a party simply refuses to ship merchandise upon receiving money?
Does this scam or loophole actually work?
AI: The answer depends upon a number of details you have not provided (for example timing) but tl;dr is e-Bay guarantee delivery of goods as described. Naturally there are lengthy terms and conditions associated with this, available here.
The gist of this is that the Buyer is refunded and, if it happens too often in connection with any one Seller, that Seller will be banned from using e-Bay to sell goods. There may be further protection provided by the chosen payment system.
So, you won't get your goods from that seller but will very likely get your money refunded, provided you act in time and provide required details.
To answer the question in our Title, Yes, but more fool them.
Here mentions:
eBay has very sophisticated tools for connecting accounts to one another by name, address, network service provider, bank account information, familial relationships, types of goods being sold, and other, proprietary techniques that are even more powerful.
and some fairly draconian reaction* from eBay to attempts to 'bypass' a ban. However proprietary (and ignorance!) means I do not know exactly how 'Big Brother' is keeping tabs on me.
* Against not just would-be Seller but potentially on other family members and even third parties using the same address. |
H: How can I prevent users from reverting to an old version of a Google Spreadsheet?
I would like to allow users to edit a Google Spreadsheet, but not be able to revert them to prior versions. Is this at all possible?
USE CASE
The spreadsheet we use keeps track of snacks consumed, so anytime anyone goes into the break room and grabs some snacks, they go in and update the spreadsheet.
Each user has their own tab and there is also another tab that keeps track of items for sale and their price, and another tab that totals.
So the spreadsheet is constantly getting updated several times a day.
However, if at any point in time someone goes and reverts to a previous version and I don't catch it, extremely quickly everyone else starts then updating an old spreadsheet and it all gets out of whack.
AI: Create a Google Form, which people can use to record their purchases. Just let people access the form and not the sheet.
The form will submit the results to a Google Spreadsheet. Keep the data in this sheet and put any calculations etc. into a different sheet that reads from the first one. |
H: Multiple Google Plus pages for one Google Account
Is it possible to create multiple Google+ pages (also fanpages for organizations), that are bind to one single Google account?
The background of this question is following case: I have (1) a private acount on Google and a private Google+ page. Now I'd like to create two futher pages on the same Google account: (2) a "Product or Brand" fanpage (3) and a "Company, Institution or Organization" fanpage.
AI: Why not just try it?
Yes, you can be the owner of multiple Google+ Pages. I myself have two (and had a third).
If there is a limit to the number you can have I don't know what it is. |
H: Set Selection throughout all sheets
I have a spreadsheet with multiple sheets. I want them all to scroll in sync. For example if I scroll to J18 in Sheet1, all others sheets will have the cursor at J18 and same row/column at the top left.
I know how to write (basic) scripts - but could not figure this one out. Any ideas?
Question on Google+ community: https://plus.google.com/113862354064807861446/posts/D7b919WFFjY
AI: The closest thing you can have is the following script.
Code
function onOpen() {
SpreadsheetApp.getUi().createMenu("Harmonize")
.addItem("Go !!", "mySheets").addToUi();
}
function mySheets() {
var ss = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSpreadsheet();
// retrieve number of sheets
var nshs = ss.getNumSheets();
// find first sheet
for(var i=0; i<nshs; i++) {
var sh = ss.getSheets()[i];
if(sh.getIndex() == 1) {
var aCell = ss.getActiveCell().getA1Notation();
var index = i;
}
}
// set active range throughout the sheets
for(var j=0; j<nshs; j++) {
if(ss.getSheets()[j].getIndex() != 1) {
ss.getSheets()[j].setActiveSelection(aCell).activate();
Utilities.sleep(200);
}
}
// return to first sheet
ss.getSheets()[index].setActiveSelection(aCell).activate();
}
Explained
Upon opening, a menu item is created. Selecting this item, will execute the mySheet function. This will find the first sheet (doesn't need to be getSheets[0]) and its index plus the A1Notation(). After that, it will set the active selection of each sheet according to the first sheet.
Example
I've created an example sheet for you: Set Selection throughout all sheets |
H: Gmail move mail delivery errors to separate folder
I have an installation of PHPBB3, and it sends mail from my Gmail address to users. However, I just got an influx of spambots with fake addresses that bounce.
How do I tell Gmail to move these errors to a different mail folder or delete them? They keep showing up in my inbox. I think part of the problem might be that the errors are replies to the original automatic message, so it places them in my inbox.
AI: If all these messages have common pattern, like the same originating address or the same/similar subject, then you can solve it by creating a custom filter and specifying a folder to move emails to.
For additional info on creating filters read this. |
H: How do I delete nodes from a connection line?
I'm trying to delete nodes from a complex connection line; can this be done in some way?
AI: If you mean waypoints in a connector, right click on the waypoint and select "remove waypoint". |
H: Can I make a sheet private in a Google Sheets?
I have a Google Sheets with multiple sheets. The first sheet pulls data from all the other sheets. I need to share the first sheet with all users but I only want to share the rest of the sheets to certain individuals (so not all users of the Sheets can view them, but all users will have to be able to edit their individual page).
Is this possible?
AI: I'm pretty sure that the correct answer is that you need to create separate spreadsheet files, with individual privacy settings for each, and one of them pulling data from the other sheets.
(it's unfortunate that Google calls the files "Google Sheets" and that worksheets within them are also called sheets. Very confusing.) |
H: Upgrade one Google Apps for Business account to paid while keeping the others free
I’ve got an old Google Apps for Business account with about 10 email addresses running Gmail and one of them is near the 15GB limit. Is it possible to just upgrade that one to paid (to get more space) whilst leaving the others as free accounts?
AI: As mentioned in my comment, the Google Apps upgrade is for the entire domain, not individual email accounts in the domain.
However, what you can do is add storage for just one user - login as the user, click on Buy storage & select the plan that you want |
H: What does “Save to my Dropbox” do?
I have a link to another Dropbox folder and want to connect it to my Dropbox. The only real option I see available is Download → Save to my Dropbox.
When I select Download → Save to my Dropbox, is a copy being saved to my Dropbox or are the files linked to the original source? How will I know if the original source has been updated?
AI: I have just tried this using two separate Dropbox accounts to see the outcome, and I have found that it saves the file as a new file in the account. This is not linked at all to the previous file, as upon editing the original file, the file in my second account did not change.
The only way that I can see to find out if the source has been updated is by manually checking it. |
H: How do I move a Google Sheets from one Google account to another?
I created a moderately complex Google Sheets in my personal account, which became popular amongst my colleagues and is now officially adopted by our team. Therefore, it would make sense to move it to a more "official" location, e.g. an account owned by our team or our employer.
How do I do that?
AI: You can only transfer ownership to someone that you have already shared the document with.
First click the share button, add the Google account email address, choose "Can edit" from the drop down menu and click "Save changes". Now click the drop down menu again, change it from "Can edit" to "Is owner" and click "Save changes". That should be all.
If this isn't working, then that is probably due to the limitations that are specified on Google's support pages: https://support.google.com/drive/answer/2494892?hl=en |
H: Why is it not possible to create a Microsoft email with "live.com" domain anymore?
Why is it not possible to create a Microsoft email with "live.com" domain anymore?
Looking at options only "outlook.com" and "hotmail.com" are available. What is the reason? Earlier the "live.com" was available. Will "live.com" emails be deleted?
AI: Unfortunately, email services from live.com have been discontinued. If you already have one, they will remain active and no end-date has been published to my knowledge for them being deleted. However, new signups have been disabled for some time in favour of outlook.com and Office365. |
H: How to scroll between messages without returning to inbox/folder in Gmail
Let's say, in Gmail, that I'm already viewing a message. I would like to switch to viewing the next message in the inbox/folder (I don't know if the hotkeys will be different between the two) without having to go back to my inbox/folder and then choosing the next message manually. Is there any way to switch between messages directly without having to return to my inbox/folder every time?
AI: As mentionned by @pnuts in the comments, you will find left/right arrows at the top right of Gmail (next to the Settings gear, as shown below).
As a side note, you may also use keyboard shortcuts to go faster:
press j to go to the next message
press k to go to the previous message |
H: Conditionally formatting a range for Google Spreadsheets based on other cell values
I have created a Google spreadsheet. It has actual values and calculated values. I want the background to be green if the calculated value is less than the actual value and red if it is more.
It's a pain to individually format each cell and pasting the conditional formatting is not working as I expect. Is there an easier way?
Here's what I managed to do so far.
AI: As for other formulae, conditional formatting rules are required to start with =. So for green I adjusted to:
=$G2 <= $B2
and for red to:
=$G2 > $B2
Range for both of G2:G5 is fine if you just want the highlighting to apply to ColumnG but if to apply to ColumnsC:G then change Range: to C2:G5. |
H: How can I select a sheet with a variable-supplied suffix in a script?
Here is the code I'm attempting:
var day=new Date().getDay()-1;
var month=new Date().getMonth();
var sheet=ss.getSheetByName((/^.\s/+month+'/'+day));
I'm new to regex, but essentially I'm writing a script for work that selects sheet by name, to be copied to another sheet based on certain criteria.
The spreadsheet contains a multitude of sheets, with old sheets being deleted and new ones added on a regular basis. Each sheet ends with a suffix in the format mm-dd. How can I select a sheet based only off of the suffix, which is consistent?
The above, when parsed with the rest of my code, returns:
TypeError: cannot call method "getDataRange" of null.
AI: You can't use regex that way - getSheetByName does not accept a regex as its parameter, you need to have the full name (a string).
That being said, there's no reason why you need regex to do this.
Simply iterate over the sheets, and examine their name to see if they match the given date:
function getSheetByMonthAndDay(month, day) {
var dateStr = format2digit(month) + "" + format2digit(day); // Formats the parameters into a 4-length string, e.g. '1231'
var sheets = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSpreadsheet().getSheets();
for (var i = 0; i < sheets.length; i++) { // Iterate over sheets
var sheet = sheets[i];
var name = sheet.getName();
if (name.indexOf(dateStr) == name.length - dateStr.length) { // Check if the sheet name ends with the date (e.g. '1231');
return name; // You might want to return sheet here, instead of name
}
}
throw Error("No sheet for month " + month + ", day " + day);
}
This function returns the matching sheet's name (if any), or throws an exception if there's no such sheet.
The format2digit function is defined as
function format2digit(integer) {
if (integer < 10) {
return "0" + integer;
} else {
return integer;
}
}
I have set up an example spreadsheet that you can look at. |
H: Mailchimp dynamic content
I'm creating a "jobs by email" mailshot for our company and am investigating moving to MailChimp from our current marketing provider. We have a database containing locations, keywords and email addresses of people subscribed and run a script to match jobs recently added to our website to an email address. This generates an HTML table which is bespoke to each email address.
What I now want to do is import this section of bespoke HTML into a generic campaign so it looks something along the lines of
Generic email stuff
Here are your latest jobs
Job Title Location Salary Apply
Bespoke title1 Bespoke Location1 Bespoke Salary1 Link1
Bespoke title2 Bespoke Location2 Bespoke Salary2 Link2
Bespoke title3 Bespoke Location3 Bespoke Salary3 Link3
More generic email stuff
How can I go about doing this?
AI: It could be done in straight MailChimp, but it wouldn't be pretty.
Basically, you would need to generate a large text file with each user's bespoke html results wrapped in *|IF:EMAIL=user_x@email.com|* <!-- user_x content --> *|END:IF|* conditional merge tags. This would get unwieldy in a hurry.
Better for this would be to use the Mandrill service, where you would build your template in MailChimp with dynamic fields to hold your bespoke content, then use the Mandrill API to send individual emails to your subscribers either one by one or in batches. |
H: How to share a YouTube video with a specific start and end time?
YouTube gives the option to share a video with a specific start time, something like this:
http://youtu.be/chElHV99xak?t=53s
The above video starts at 53 seconds elapsed.
Is there any way to provide an end time as well, like forming a small clip?
Example: start at 53s and end at 59s.
AI: You can use ?start=<seconds> and ?end=<seconds> to define start and end points, such as:
https://www.youtube.com/embed/chElHV99xak?start=53&end=59
This only works with the above (embed) style of link (as opposed to the watch page).
Note: the time must be an integer number of seconds (e.g. 119, not 1m59s). |
H: Does Facebook delete old messages/conversations that haven't been active in years?
I joined Facebook in 2008 but don't recall if I used its messaging function at the time. I checked my old deactivated account and the oldest message is from 2009.
That's around 5 years ago now, so I'm wondering if Facebook deletes messages/inactive conversations older than 5 years? Being a teenager at the time I said some things I regret when messaging my friends over Facebook, so I'm certainly hoping this is the case.
Not that anyone would probably care enough to look, I'd just feel easier if there was no record of anything dumb I said.
AI: Facebook does not delete old messages/conversations that haven't been active in years. (my oldest one: 2007-05-30). Note that at that time people often used to post on walls to discuss even private matters. |
H: YouTube "Full Movies" Accounts
While searching for clips from movies (e.g. songs, lines, etc.), I often see some results that have the following similarities:
An extremely long length (up to hour(s)), similar to a feature-length film
The content is a single frame from the film in question (but completely static), or possibly several such frames played like a slideshow.
A dedicated account with a related name containing few if any other movies
Video ratings are usually disabled.
The description wants you to go to some sketchy URL and sign up for some account.
For example, try searching for "monsters university". One result is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cg_eV_J1BM, which is entirely typical. Here's another: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQ0B178fwTI. This is hardly unique. I spot-checked a few other films (I picked some random ones I remember seeing): "Tangled", "Pacific Rim", "The Shawshank Redemption", "Spirited Away", and "A Beautiful Mind". In each case, I simply searched on the name of the film. Every single one produced at least one result of this ilk.
I'm definitely not going to actually try any of these; they set off all the warning bells. But, I'm not really sure what the purpose of them is. I'm not sure where else to ask about this; googling, e.g., "YouTube Free Accounts Full Movies" kindof tends to give the wrong hits.
They are obviously some kind of advertisement for that site (which might be a scam as well). I skimmed YouTube's terms of service and the community guidelines, and I didn't see anything precluding this sort of behavior.
So . . . is there anything that can be done about this sort of thing? Flag for moderator attention? Would there be a justification to remove it? What is all this cruft?
AI: You should flag these videos and the accounts. What they're doing is definitely spamming.
Everyone hates spam. Don’t create misleading descriptions, tags, titles or thumbnails in order to increase views. It's not okay to post large amounts of untargeted, unwanted or repetitive content, including comments and private messages.
They stay up because other users just close the tab, or go back, instead of flagging the account and getting them removed from the listings.
The videos are there to draw you in.
The links themselves are bait-and-switches that can take you anywhere from filling out surveys, get rich quick scams, pornography or anything really. Those obfuscated URLs they supposedly host the real videos on are deliberately done so for those who inadvertently or desperately follow through to them. |
H: In Gmail can we make 'is:unread' the default view?
In Gmail can we make is:unread the default view?
That is, when we load Gmail, can we configure it so that is:unread is already selected, thereby showing only unread messages by default?
Or can we at least configure Gmail so that it has a 1-click link that only shows unread mail?
The reason for this of course is that it is slow and inefficient to have to type is:unread into the Gmail search every time I open it. It would be much more convenient for Gmail to load this view by itself when I open Gmail.
AI: Have you considered just setting your Priority Inbox settings so that Unread is always displayed first? |
H: Make Gmail not turn a URL into a link
I'd like to send an email that contains a URL like yahoo.com, but I don't want Gmail to turn it into a link. How can I do that?
AI: I put an LRM into the URL, like this in Python 3:
yahoo\u200e.com
This caused Gmail to not render it as a link. |
H: List of range from another spreadsheet
I have two spreadsheets, the first sheet has a list of data:
companies
company A
company B
company C
In the second sheet I need to create a drop down menu to fetch the companies from the first sheet, so I could choose the company from a list of the previous companies.
AI: use the Importrange() command to put a copy of the data into a helper-sheet in the 2nd google Sheets file.
And then use the Data Validation function to restrict the values, based on this. |
H: How to filter messages in Gmail based on attachments number?
I would like to create a filter which will react if received message has 2 attached files (and not zero, one, three etc.). I am aware about has:attachment option. But is there has two attachments (or something similar) option?
AI: There isn't a method for number of attachments, although the filter options from Gmail are actually really good. What you can use though is filename:.doc, filename:.pdf etc. so if you’re looking for two attachments of two different filenames you can use filename:.doc OR filename:.txt which will filter those emails out for you. |
H: "Select a background image" option is not visible in Gmail
“Select a background image” option is not visible in Gmail.
Why?
AI: The option to do so should be behind Themes. Choose Custom Light or Custom Dark first and then click on "Learn more" in the bottom left-hand corner for further advice. |
H: How To Redirect Old Custom domain to New custom domain name on blogger
I have a Blogger site which has a custom domain which I want to move one old domain to new. Let's pretend this is olddomain.com and newdomain.com.
If any link to a page has the old custom domain in the URL, and this link is clicked on, it will redirect to a link with the new domain but with the same page. (For example, www.olddomain.com/existing-page.html should redirect to www.newdomain.com/existing-page.html.)
Does anyone know how I would go about this?
AI: You can redirect your blog to a custom domain using blogger. Here, what happens is that all hits your blogspot domain will be redirected to your new domain.
www.olddomain.blogpsot.com/existing-page.html to www.olddomain.com/existing-page.html
This can be achieved by setting up the Cname and A name records.
If you have a new domain, then you can set it as your new redirect as :
www.olddomain.blogpsot.com/existing-page.html to www.newdomain.com/existing-page.html
But you can't redirect from www.olddomain.com/existing-page.html to www.newdomain.com/existing-page.html using blogger settings. This is because the domains are not handled by blogpsot.
Either you should check for options with your domain provider to set up a re direct or point your old domain to a new blog and set a redirect to new url (Give a link to new url and notify users that you have shifted the domain). |
H: how to map a domain name to a dedicated url
I have a domain name ,
By default we should map it to a IP.
But now, I have to map the domain name to a dedicated url, like "www.abc.com/underconstruction.jpg"
I use the https://dcc.godaddy.com
AI: I haven't used GoDaddy in ages but I think there are your options:
You park your domain at GoDaddy. From the control panel you should be able to choose between godaddy's ad pages and redirecting it to another site (http). Based on the config panel you have shown in the screenshots, your domain is not parked.
Configure the domain yourself.
You can use CNAME but you cannot enter an URL. If you have another domain you fully control, you can use cname for example underconstruction.existingdomain.com and configure it at the existingdomain.com server side to either redirect or display html according to incoming rule.
Also, like the commenters pointed out, I'm not sure if there's much point in simple "under construction" signs. For search engine optimisation it's best to publish the website when it's ready and otherwise use robots.txt.
Thus to your question the solution would be to park your domain and redirect http.
Note that domain parking may cost depending on the service provider (service provider ad pages are usually free). Do it through GoDaddy, or if it costs, then you can host the dns at a free service provider such as ZoneEdit (not sure if free anymore, but definitely slow to use at times) or he.net. |
H: How do I turn off "conversation" mode in Outlook Web Access?
Seems like it should be simple to turn off conversation mode, I was able to do it in my Outlook client pretty easily. However, I can't find the option in the web client (which I'm now stuck using due to my thick client refusing to connect (I've hit a known MS bug that currently has no resolution)). To help me keep my sanity until we can get the thick client fixed, how do I go about turning off that annoying conversation mode in the web client?
edit
Exchange Server 2013 in case it makes a difference.
AI: On your email client (Outlook 2013) your emails are being grouped similarly-titled emails together. To turn off this feature, look on yor VIEW ribbon in the Messages section for a tickbox entitled "Show as conversations" and untick it.
In Webmail, this feature is in a completely separate menu. Hit the dropdown arrow next to Arrange and uncheck the box "Conversation" which is at the bottom of the list.
If you are able to use Group Policy to manage your entire network...
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\office\14.0\Outlook\Setup\
DWORD: UpgradeToConversations\
Data Value: 1 (use conversations) or 0 (don't use) |
H: How to change google time from EST to IST?
When I search something time related in Google like "when will X telecast","X vs Y" like this, the result shows for EST time. I'm in IST timezone and would like to get the result accordingly. My friend get the result in IST but he doesn't know how he gets that. So I'm asking here. Picture for more illustration
I want this All times are in Eastern Time -> All times are in Indian Standard Time
PS : I tried changing time zone from Google Calendar, but same thing is happening.
AI: Searching from the indian google site does the trick. Searching fifa 2014 gives |
H: What is the name of the icon for Google Maps street view?
What is the name of the icon for Google Maps street view?
It is orange and modeled on a man. (Today he wears an uniform with a ball for World Cup):
Is it called just a stickman?
AI: Pegman comes in a variety of styles, eg: |
H: How do I revert to the old player on Last.fm?
It seems the selection on Youtube is not as large as the original Last.fm content and their own player. I keep hearing songs repeated after only a short time! How do I revert back to the old Last.fm player to hear a wider selection?
AI: Last.fm no longer does radio streaming via their own content
Today we have announced significant changes to Last.fm subscriptions. From the 28th of April 2014, our subscription radio streaming service will no longer be available. This means that traditional subscriber radio will no longer work on any platform or device.
and discontinuing their old player.
It means we're discontinuing the old last.fm radio, streamed from our servers.
What you ask for isn't possible. |
H: Using VLOOKUP with dynamic range array
I have a sheet with a list of email addresses that is being auto-updated (more email addresses being added on a daily basis). I have a second sheet with a list of email addresses that have been contacted (marked TRUE).
I would like to add a column to the first sheet indicating which addresses have been marked as contacted, using the email addresses from the second sheet.
I can accomplish this with VLOOKUP, but since I'll be adding addresses to the second sheet, the range is a growing list.
Is it possible to have a function that checks over the growing list of contacted emails?
AI: A formula like this:
=vlookup(A1,Sheet2!A:B,2,0)
copied down in your first sheet may serve. |
H: Twitter posts rating by maturity level of post
After reading information about ESRB Ratings (http://www.esrb.org/ratings/index.jsp) a question came up.
Is there a mechanism or means by which a Twitter post can be "rated" for maturity level, just like video games and movies?
In other words, when someone makes a post that they do not want little children to see (because it contains spicy language) can that person attach a rating (like "this post is rated M for mature audiences only")?
AI: Twitter have an option to mark your media as containing sensitive content:
When you mark your Tweets as containing media that might be sensitive,
users will be required to click through a warning message before media
is displayed to them. For users who have opted in to seeing possibly
sensitive media, they will see your images without a warning.
It seems to only apply to images/videos. Posts that are abusive or exploitative to children can be reported, but I can't find anything way for users to mark their own text posts as sensitive. |
H: Is a Company Page forever linked to its creator on LinkedIn?
Two of the requirement to create a company page on LinkedIn, are
1) You must have a personal LinkedIn profile set up with your true first and last name.
4) You're a current company employee and your position is listed in the Experience section on your profile.
If I create the company page, will I be its "owner" forever? Will I be listed as its creator?
Or will I only be a regular administrator on the same level as any other administrator of the page?
AI: No, there will not be any creator on the page.
Look at this example: https://www.linkedin.com/company/teckhouse- where I'm not listed as creator. |
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