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H: How to search based on part of file name in Google Drive
I'd like to be able to find all files in my Google drive that contain the string "_INSTRUCTION_" in the file name. Is there a way to do this?
EDIT 1:
When I search for "RMA2013", I should get a dropdown with several options. As you can see, there are several Word and .pdf files with the phrase "RMA2013". Still I get no dropdown help:
And even if I click the search button, I get nothing:
AI: By request. At the bottom is a file with a ridiculously long name (more even than shown) that includes _INSTRUCTION_ in its name. The top part of the screenshot shows the dropdown that automatically pops up as the search term _INSTRUCTION_ is being entered:
In my Drive I only created one such file name but where several file names meet the search term the dropdown list expands to show more than one name (for me!). |
H: Why does Google change my "From:" header to have "via me" in it?
I have a "Google Apps for Domains" account for a customized domain name, call it mydomain.com. I also have a regular @gmail.com Google account where I do most of my emailing.
Long ago I setup a "Google Groups" address in the mydomain.com account, to forward all email to me at my @gmail.com account. For those unfamiliar with the terminology, a "Google Group" in this context is basically just an alias address.
Recently (April 2014 timeframe) I have noticed email sent to my mydomain.com account comes into my gmail.com account with a "From:" header that looks like this:
From: 'Real Sender' via myname <myname@mydomain.com>
Reply-to: Real Sender <realsender@address.com>
In other words, Gmail is making the email look like it's coming from me!
On my iPhone, this causes the actual name of the sender to show up with my own name, since iPhone Mail is pulling my name out of my address book, due to the use of my own email address in the "From:" header. Very confusing!
Is there any solution?
AI: It turns out that Yahoo and AOL made changes in this timeframe to require mail providers that support the DMARC standard to reject all email from @yahoo.com accounts unless the mail actually originated at AOL and Yahoo's servers. (Other providers have followed suit.)
If you have a Google Group alias address forwarding to a gmail.com account, it will rewrite the From: header as explained in the scenario above if the sending provider has a strict DMARC policy like Yahoo and AOL's. If they didn't, the email may be rejected, depending on where it's being delivered. (Refer to the DMARC FAQ, where it appears Google has chosen option #3.)
The only way to resolve this (i.e. to prevent Google from rewriting the header), is to remove your Google Group alias address, and replace it with an actual Google Account you create with the same email address that you used to have for your Google Group alias. Then login to that new google account, and set it up to forward all incoming mail (or whatever email you really want) to your @gmail.com address.
Since I've made this change, I have not noticed Google rewriting any of the From: headers. |
H: Public profile information
How do I stop Facebook naming my mother as a Parent in the "Born" section of my timeline that is viewable to the public?
I don't think I made this information public and I have even updated my profile details and deleted all family members, who apparently I could only see anyway.
Any ideas?
AI: This is probably because your mother mentioned you on her profile?
I would ask her if she could just make it more private, or delete it all together (but for some mothers this can be a tricky subject ;-) ).
Update: If that didn't help, and you are still related on Facebook. I would suggest contacting Facebook. Because Facebook has probably learned that information from you, and it isn't that easy to 'unlearn'. Try the 'Report a problem' button via the settings menu on the top right. |
H: Why does Deezer default to French (or just does not show in the original language)
I have used http://www.deezer.com/ for a while now and it has always been in English. Recently it is showing everything in French. Google Chrome will auto-translate pretty OK but why is Deezer suddenly French?
AI: It turns out the language in settings was set to French. Don't remember ever setting that and not sure why I would but there you go.
Go to 'Cog' (top right) > Settings
Then select your preferred language > Save
Also refer here for Chrome settings
Why does the internet think I'm French? |
H: Gmail filters exclude group of words
I want to filter emails by their subject. The subject should contain one phrase, but exclude words that I specified.
For example it should put all email messages with the subject USB 3.0 in a folder, but not with subjects like Notebook with USB 3.0 or USB 3.0 Hub.
So I tried to create a filter with the following in the subject box:
"USB 3.0" -(Notebook OR 2,5" OR Seagate OR RAID OR HDD OR TB OR Hub OR Bus OR WD OR "Western Digital")
My try isn't working. How can I do this?
AI: I don't think Gmail filters will work with parentheses like that. I think you'll need to negate every term.
subject:"USB 3.0" -Notebook -"2,5" -Seagate -RAID -HDD -TB -Hub -Bus -WD -"Western Digital"
All that said, filters are generally just saved searches, so try searching for "USB 3.0" -Notebook and keep adding terms until you get back the results you want, then save it as a filter. |
H: Adding a title to cell number 0?
It is good convention to name your columns, to put some kind of description in cell 1.
However, this really bugs me, because then all my values are indexed starting at 2, so I think I'm dealing with the 14th item, when really it's the 13th item.
Does anyone else find this frustrating? What are possible solutions? Is it possible to have a cell index of 0 (eg A0) so that you can put column titles there?
AI: I'll ignore "Does anyone else find this frustrating?" (see 5th bullet point in first set).
"What are possible solutions?" Add an index column (A is best for this) say containing =row() copied down (and then convert to values or sorting could cause problems). Maybe format that column to make the index values more prominent than the headings for rows.
"Is it possible to have a cell index of 0 (eg A0)" As mentioned by @Al.E it is not possible. Any attempt at such a reference will give rise to an error.
However, given a mixture of zero- and 1-based indexing for the functions used in spreadsheets (provides training in awareness of the starting point!) it can be fairly easy to acclimatise to ignoring row numbers as a guide to number of items. Control totals and formulae to do the counting are almost as good as what you propose. There may also be the option to add say Item1 anywhere in the sheet and copy down to automatically number each item, regardless of the start row.
Given that column labels are so often required and even when not are almost always advisable, it does sound as though 0:0 would be an excellent idea but my surmise is that this is a carry-over from the earliest spreadsheeting software (Wikipedia for example actually describes VisiCalc as "The first widely used normal spreadsheet with A1 notation") and that the power of the sheer numbercruching but lack of power of the processors on which it was performed meant that labels were hardly considered at that time. From what I can now recall, 1-2-3 had no requirement for labels (whereas some aspects of Excel for example will not work without them, and Google Sheets seems deliberately to copy Excel in many features). |
H: TypeError: can't call method "getSheetName of undefined - Google Apps Script code
This code fails with:
TypeError: can't call method "getSheetName" of undefined. (line 7)
Code:
function onOpen() {
var ss = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSpreadsheet();
var sheets = ss.getSheets();
var sheetnames = [];
for(var i=0; i < sheets.length+1; i++)
sheetnames.push(sheets[i].getSheetName());
return ss.toast(sheetnames, "Greetings!", 300);
}
when this works:
function onOpen() {
var ss = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSpreadsheet();
var sheets = ss.getSheets();
var sheetnames = [];
for(var i=0; i < sheets.length+1; i++)
sheetnames.push(sheets[0].getSheetName());
//Returns: Nimikirjasto,Nimikirjasto,Nimikirjasto,Nimikirjasto,Nimikirjasto
// Text is too long to fit to the popup.
return ss.toast(sheetnames, "Greetings!", 300);
}
AI: Use the following code.
Code
function onOpen() {
var ss = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSpreadsheet();
var shs = ss.getSheets(), num = shs.length;
var sheetnames = [];
for(var i=0; i<num; i++) {
sheetnames.push(shs[i].getSheetName());
}
return ss.toast(sheetnames, "Greetings!", 300);
}
Explained
The sheets are zero based (as arrays are). So, adding an extra sheet in the iteration will result in an error (because of an unknown sheet index).
Remark
Your second code will always work, because the first entry (zero) will always be found.
Try this, if you want to stack the sheet names:
sheetnames.push(shs[i].getSheetName() + '\n');
Reference
https://google-styleguide.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/javascriptguide.xml
http://javascript.crockford.com/code.html |
H: Gmail displays contacts as "[Contact Name] personal"
I've noticed that recently (starting a few months ago) some of my contacts started being displayed as "Jane personal" instead of her actual name like "Jane Doe" in emails.
I find this format strange, but I can't figure out any way to get it to return to the old way. In addition this appears to only have happened to one of my contacts, but her name appears correctly in Google contacts.
Other people who she emails has mentioned seeing the same behavior--so it could be related to her Gmail account in some way.
Another interesting tidbit that I just noticed is that this doesn't occur 100% of the time. Some emails still have the name displayed in the "Jane Doe" format.
AI: You can only fix this by having the sender change the settings on their iPhone.
Using the steps below they can modify the name that is displayed to others:
Settings > Mail, Contacts, Calendars
Then select the account you would like to change. (Gmail, iMail, etc.)
On the next screen, click the email address associated with that account.
The new screen has an option to change the account "Name" to your choosing. It can be anything you like whether that be "Jane," "Jane Doe," or "Awesome Girl"--it is up to you. |
H: Can you recover deleted YouTube videos?
Is there any way to see deleted YouTube videos? Some kind of archival or some such? There were some controversial videos that the creator felt necessary to remove or made private but it would be nice if the Internet can still remember.
AI: No.
Unless you (or someone) has backed up the video prior to its deletion it is, for all intents and purposes, gone for good.
It's possible that YouTube might have the videos stored on their servers for a period of time before they're actually deleted, but either way that won't do you much good. They don't provide users access to deleted videos--maybe they'd respond to a subpoena or warrant if law enforcement wanted access to a recently deleted video, but a regular user is out of luck. |
H: How do I remove a film from my "watchlist" on letterboxd?
A while ago I added a film to my letterboxd watchlist (those films I want to watch but for whatever reason haven't).
However, when it came on TV recently I watched the first 20 minutes and realised that it was a bad film and I turned over.
Now I want to remove the film from my watchlist, but I don't want to add to the lists of films I've seen (yes it was that bad). However, the only options I can see are to mark it as "seen"
AI: You have to click through to the film page itself.
There there is a side bar and if you hover over the entry:
This film is in your watchlist
it turns into:
Remove from your watchlist
Click that and the film is gone |
H: How can I setup Gmail to send me an SMS when I receive an email that matches a certain string?
Is there a way to send a (sms) text to myself when I receive a new Gmail message and the subject contains a certain string?
Is there a feature in Gmail itself, a third party service, or an addon that would help me do this?
AI: IFTTT (If This Then That) may be able to help you out. You can find Connect Gmail to SMS recipies
here.
EDIT: As noted in the comments section, IFTTT stripped much of the Gmail functionality from their service in 2019, meaning this solution no longer works.
One other potential solution would be to use Zapier as they have some Gmail and SMS integrations, but it says that "only business accounts" will work for said feature.
Since cloud services may change, it might be more opportune to create your own service to accomplish this task:
If you are comfortable with writing code you could look into using Google Apps Script and AJAX requests with a PaaS which provides SMS communication APIs, such as Twilio, to accomplish a similar task. Unfortunately, from what I found there is not a simple installable trigger for when an email comes in; therefore you will need to write logic around a time trigger that will then process said email. This solution seems to work well for others (though I haven't tested it); as for hooking up Twilio to Apps Script, there's an official Google Video for how to do so with Google Sheets. |
H: How do I change the name that appears when sending email in Gmail?
I have a Gmail address and in the main welcome screen, after I log out, it says "Phil Test" which is a name I put in somewhere 'cos I don't want to put my surname in.
But when I send email, my surname (not test) goes in the email at the destination. I don't want that happening.
So there must be two settings for first and last name.
Where is the other one?
I see in my sent folder it puts my surname in there
AI: There are two places for changing the name
THE WRONG PLACE
The place that affects the welcome screen (but not the email, not the from header!) is
The Above, won't change the information in the FROM HEADER, of the email, so won't change the name the person receiving it sees, (or the name you see in your sent folder)
THE RIGHT PLACE
Below, would change that FROM Header.. which is what effects what the person receiving sees.
The Gear icon, has a settings option (this is different from accounts-settings)
Here is the gear-settings option!
You get to this screen and change the name here. That will affect the From header. It was set to the surname Baroni but you could change it to something else |
H: Permanently delete a Facebook account in one day
Is it possible to permanently delete a Facebook account in one day? Currently I can delete it only after 14 days.
AI: No, it is not possible. The delay is by design and the reason is one might have second thoughts. It also takes time to scrub everything off, as some tasks might be put on a scheduled queue.
After you request to have your account permanently deleted, we delay the deletion process a few days in case you change your mind. If you log into your account again during this time you'll cancel your deletion request.
Source. |
H: Is it possible to get Google+ to create one story from 2 people's camera roll?
I love Google+’ Stories feature, where it takes camera photos you've uploaded and automatically infers when you go on holiday / have a trip away and presents it as a sort of slideshow.
Often though, I'm with one or more other people, who also have Google+. We're all taking photos which are automatically uploaded and we each get separate stories created, but I'd like to be able to combine all the photos to get one story for all of us.
Is this possible?
AI: Your best chance at this is to download the other person's photos and to re-upload them into your own space.
You can then re-generate the story and hope it will pick up the new pictures. |
H: Can't see how to download large files from Dropbox
I cannot see how to download some videos to my Dropbox. Somebody shared a folder of videos with me. If I try to download the whole folder, I get an "error message".
The zip file is too large, please add it to your Dropbox
(I'm not keen on buying Dropbox space for myself, just to download a friend's file.)
I read I can download individual files but I don't see the option. When I play the video I get a message saying
The clip displayed is a preview. To view the entire video, download or add it to your Dropbox.
AI: The download link when download a folder is in a completely different place to the download link to download individual files.
The download link when downloading a folder is as the screenshot in the question shows, is bright blue and in the top right.
But the download link for downloading files, is black and in the bottom right. |
H: Conversion from Excel to Google Spreadsheet - sum across sheets
I'm importing an Excel spreadsheet into Google Drive. Its a huge spreadsheet, and overall Google spreadsheets has converted everything, except the following:
There are a few cells with formulas like this:
=SUM('Mon-D:Sun-D'!$DN$209)
Where among the many sheets, some are named Mon-D and Sun-D. But it isn't working - instead I have the error #REF!
Error: Unresolved sheet name 'Mon-D:Sun-D'.
So the next thing I did was wrap the names in quotes as I thought maybe it was getting confused:
=SUM("'Mon-D':'Sun-D'"!$DN$209)
or
=SUM('Mon-D':'Sun-D'!$DN$209)
But both give me Error: Formula parse error. I'm not very familiar with Excel, or Google Drive - what am I doing wrong? I'm guessing I need to separate the sheet names more clearly somehow.
AI: Maybe:
=sum('Mon-D'!$DN$209,'Tue-D'!$DN$209,'Wed-D'!$DN$209,'Thu-D'!$DN$209,'Fri-D'!$DN$209,'Sat-D'!$DN$209,'Sun-D'!$DN$209) |
H: New Google Sheets has different download URL? and errors?
I've been downloading the first sheet of old Google Spreadsheets as a TSV file using URLs like:
https://docs.google.com/feeds/download/spreadsheets/Export?key=ID&exportFormat=tsv&gid=0
After creating some new Google Sheets, I notice that the URL format in exportLinks has changed to this sort of thing (could only see PDF and XSLX formats though):
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/export?id=ID&exportFormat=tsv&gid=0
But while either URL format works fine for the old Spreadsheets, neither of them works for the new Google Sheets... instead I get an error about this not being a P3P policy.
So can new Sheets only be downloaded using some new protocol surrounding the URL?
That would be sad.
I'm using the Python 2 Google API (because there hasn't been a Python 3 version).
Does it need to be upgraded?
Is there a Python 3 version?
Why does a P3P policy error show up?
What question should I be asking?
The Google Sheets I'm trying to download was created by me, although it is shared with others. I can export it from the menu in the browser, but can't grab it from my program. Would surely like to download data from the new Sheets, as well as the old Spreadsheets.
Here are my imports:
from apiclient import errors
from apiclient.discovery import build
from apiclient.http import MediaFileUpload
from oauth2client.tools import run
from oauth2client.file import Storage
from oauth2client.client import OAuth2WebServerFlow
Edit:
While I am using the Google Python library, additional testing using only the browser inspired by the first answer received from pnuts indicates that the same URLs have the same problems direct from an appropriately logged in browser, so the age of the Python library doesn't seem to be the issue.
AI: OK, some more searching and I found enough hints‡ to find something that works, whether it is officially documented this way, I have no idea. I would love to know where the documentation might be.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/ID/export?format=tsv&gid=GID
The ID is what you would expect, the ID of the sheet's key from the URL. But the other surprising thing with Google Sheets, is that the GID no longer predictably starts at 0 for the first sheet, and increments for subsequent sheets. Whether this is supposed to add security or is an accident of the implementation, or an especially useful design for some internal reason, I do not know... but the GID numbers on a 7 sheet Sheet I just uploaded from XLS format are all large, and appear random.
While a particular sheet from a given spreadsheet may easily be determined from the URL displayed while viewing that Sheet in the browser, it looks like the knowledge that "all Sheets in this folder contain only one sheet" is insufficient to be able to download them, and the ability to "download the first sheet from each of these Sheets" is eliminated, unless the GIDs can be determined.
In fact, it seems my whole problem was the assumption of the first gid being zero, which it always has been for old Sheets... the URL form in this answer seems to be closest to what is used for editing new Sheets in the browser, but both forms of URL in the original question also work, if the proper GID is used.
Bonus points for a technique to determine the GID... based on what I thought I knew about old Sheets, I was planning for a system of 8000+ Sheets, with 4-6 sheets each, and thinking I could download them, one sheet of each Sheet at a time, by iterating through low-numbered GID values. KaBLAM goes that design, with the non-predictable GID values!
‡ The hints start here (but this solution seems excessively lengthy) and proceed to the here and here. |
H: How not to use Google Sync at a particular computer?
Yesterday, I logged in to Google from a rather public computer using Google Chrome to check my emails. As soon as I logged in, a popup window appeared and informed that my bookmarks, passwords, history have been synced using Google Sync. It did not ask for any confirmation or permission from me, everything was automatically synced.
All I could do was to press Okay to have been informed.
But that is not what I wanted. I simply wanted to check my email, log out and leave the machine. After the incident, I had to painstakingly remove everything from the machine. Logging out from Google Sync did not help.
Could you please tell me how do I stop
Google Sync from syncing in the untrusted machines and at the same time keep it active in the trusted machines?
As one colleague suggested, it was safer to use Firefox rather than Google Chrome under the scenario described. But what if Google Chrome I decide to keep using Google Chrome?
AI: As I know, logging into Google does not give sync permission to the browser unless you sign in to "Google Chrome" which you may be prompted for, when opening Google Chrome browser. So pay attention if you are prompted for such a thing.
Also on a public machine, I recommend using Incognito mode for Chrome (by pressing CTRL+Shift+n) and Private Browsing mode for Firefox (by pressing CTRL+Shift+p) and this will prevent your personal data from being synced and also the browser will not store your session history, cookies or anything else after you close the window.
Other browsers like Opera, Internet Explorer etc. have similar modes to protect your privacy and you can find these modes in menus. |
H: Charges for Google Website Translator
I am thinking to apply Google Translator on my complete website. Are there any charges for Google Website Translator? And if yes, how will they charge me?
AI: No, the service is free.
The free Website Translator plugin expands your global reach quickly and easily. |
H: Why do I have a mobile icon beside my name on Facebook chat?
So I was away for a while on Facebook and my friend noticed that I was getting a Mobile Icon when he looked at me in his chat list. It seems like whenever I am offline it says that beside my friend's chat. It says Last active h ago.
I don't use Facebook on mobile. I have logged into another friend's phone once but I recalled correctly that I logged out and he even reset his phone apps once.
I checked my friend and whenever he was offline, it would show nothing. It didn't matter how long he was offline. Mine showed an icon and time ago active but his doesn't.
Why does it show nothing beside his name? Why doesn't it happen for me? Shouldn't it show nothing beside my chat when I'm offline?
AI: This is because Facebook has some mobile deviceId against your name as you logged in from mobile once. Though you have logged out from that mobile device, the data has not cleared yet.
In security settings, you can check active session and here you can end the session causing this problem. |
H: Why do Facebook messages sometimes fail to send?
Sometimes when I send a message on Facebook it says "failed to send message". Why is this? It's happened both on desktop and Android app.
AI: This is usually because you have a poor internet connection. |
H: How to integrate Bitbucket and Trello (create a card comment on a new changeset)?
I'd like to setup a simple workflow: a programmer mentions a card id in the commit message, and some information about the commit is automatically added as a comment to that Trello card. A hosted automatic solution is preferred.
What I've found so far:
A discussion on the Zapier forum
sntran / trello-broker — host-it-yourself solution
Issue on Bitbucket with useful discussion #6186 - Add broker for Trello (BB-7347)
AI: After some experimenting with Zapier, I've managed to create a "zap" (i.e. automatic handler) that does the following:
Suppose you're working on a feature which has the following Trello card: https://trello.com/c/NuSGfssX/
You push a commit to Bitbucket, which commit message contains tr(NuSGfssX), e.g.:
hg ci -m "Finished the very important feature tr(NuSGfssX)"
A new Trello card comment is automatically created, containing information about the commit.
Here is how it's done with Zapier:
Create a new zap with services BitBucket (New Changeset) and Trello (Create Comment).
Link your Bitbucket and Trello accounts to Zapier. I used my existing Bitbucket account, though Zapier recommends creating a separate account (which will decrease your free Bitbucket plan:). I also had problems with linking my Trello account, please ask in comments if you had them too.
Select your Bitbucket repository owner and name.
Select your Trello board and List. Both are optional: you may know only the card ID and do not care about where it is. The Card ID is permanent.
In the "Card" field, select "Advanced: type in a custom value". Type {{message_tr}}. The tr is the your (any) chosen identifier, the same as you will use in commit messages.
Setup the Comment Text. My setup is the following (contains a backlink to the bitbucket comment):
{{message}}
author: {{author}}
branch: {{branch}}
[{{node}}](https://bitbucket.org/<repo_owner>/<repo_name>/commits/{{node}}/)
Files:
{{files}}
Click "Turn the Zap on". The Zap is created and starts working. |
H: Transfer emails between two of Gmail's special accounts
I am lecturer in a university. My university uses free Gmail service. I had changed my email ID and the older one would be closed after a few months.
I don't see Accounts and Import tab, I just see Accounts tab in which no option
is mentioned for importing emails. I tried the method with creating a filter for forwarding, but that too, doesn't work any more in Gmail.
Is there any other method than above for transferring emails from my older account to newer account?
AI: I figured it out
I first downloaded all the Emails from my previous account
in MS outlook, then used
Google Apps Migration for Microsoft Outlook
and it worked like a charm thanks for useful information guys |
H: Can filters be created based on categories?
Originally, I was using POP to access one Gmail account from another. I'd really like to have only the emails from the Primary category of the second account be downloaded to the first account, but this does not seem to be possible.
So, instead, I'm trying to forward emails from the second Gmail account to the first based on the same set of criteria (category:Primary), but the filters don't seem to have a parameter to designate this.
Is there a way to add this category information into a filter?
AI: I would think category:primary would work. You'd put that in the "Has the words" field.
(I just tried it, and it seems to work.)
If that doesn't work for you, there's only a few categories, so you could always try negation.
-category:updates, -category:social, -category:forums, -category:promotions
In other words, not one of the other categories. |
H: How can I filter only e-mail sent to the "base" e-mail address?
I have an e-mail address foo@gmail.com. One site sends e-mail to foo@gmail.com, but also to foo+bar@gmail.com.
How can I filter only the e-mail sent to foo@gmail.com, and not to foo+bar@gmail.com?
If I simply target foo@gmail.com it also targets the alias.
AI: Did you try negation?
-to:foo+bar@gmail.com
The minus sign means "NOT".
You might need to clarify:
to:foo@gmail.com -to:foo+bar@gmail.com |
H: How do you calculate the minimum date between a cell and TODAY() in a single step?
I need to calculate the minimum date between a cell and TODAY, but somehow the MIN function is failing me. Here's the demonstration.
If I calculate it on a range, such as =min(A1:A2) it works, but I need to do it inline, I don't have a range to check. If I try to calculate it on comma separated values, it returns an integer =min(A1,TODAY()) --> 41824 ?
I'm puzzled, what am I missing?
AI: 41824 is Google's date serial number for July 4, 2014 - can be formatted as Date to see this. (The minimum date from today, if not yet reached, would seem always to be the maximum - most recent - date.)
Select the cell and click "Format -> Number -> Date". |
H: How to interpolate data in a range in Google Sheets
I have an array with data:
X Y
3 50
5 60
9 120
11 130
18 90
20 150
The data is entirely non-linear. X is guaranteed to be sorted.
Now for any given value, I'd like to have linear interpolation between the numbers (so for example, 3 => 50, 4 => 55, 5 => 60). A bilinear interpolation would be even nicer, but I'm keeping my expectations low.
AI: This script will do the same (plus a little bit more).
Code
function myInterpolation(x, y, value) {
if(value > Math.max.apply(Math, x) || value < Math.min.apply(Math, x)) {
throw "value can't be interpolated !!";
return;
}
var check = 0, index;
for(var i = 0, iLen = x.length; i < iLen; i++) {
if(x[i][0] == value) {
return y[i][0];
} else {
if(x[i][0] < value && ((x[i][0] - check) < (value - check))) {
check = x[i][0];
index = i;
}
}
}
var xValue, yValue, xDiff, yDiff, xInt;
yValue = y[index][0];
xDiff = x[index+1][0] - check;
yDiff = y[index+1][0] - yValue;
xInt = value - check;
return (xInt * (yDiff / xDiff)) + yValue;
}
Explained
In the beginning of the script, there's a small error handling. After that it will find the first lowest entry compared to the input value. Once found, it will does some math and present the result.
Note
If the selected value equals 20, the script returns 150 as where the formula yields #DIV/0.
Screenshot
Formula
Use the following formula to take in account all values
=IF(
ISNA(
MATCH(C2,A2:A7,0)),
FORECAST(
$C$2,
OFFSET(B$2,MATCH($C$2,A$2:A$7,1)-1,0,2,1),
OFFSET(A$2,MATCH($C$2,A$2:A$7,1)-1,0,2,1)),
INDEX(
B2:B7,
MATCH(C2,A2:A7,0)
,0)
)
copy / paste
=IF(ISNA(MATCH(C2, A2:A7, 0)), FORECAST($C$2,OFFSET(B$2,MATCH($C$2,A$2:A$7,1)-1,0,2,1),OFFSET(A$2,MATCH($C$2,A$2:A$7,1)-1,0,2,1)), INDEX(B2:B7, MATCH(C2, A2:A7, 0), 0))
Example
Add the script under Tools>Script editor and press the save button (no authentication needed).
I've created an example file for you: How to interpolate data in a range in Google Sheets |
H: Create a Google Sheets chart with multiple data ranges with separate key columns
I have this data:
X1 Y1 X2 Y2
1 20 1 25
2 20 3 42
3 20 6 50
5 25 8 50
10 30 10 50
I want to create a graph that overlays two lines, one with X1 as X axis, Y1 as Y axis, and one with X2 and Y2.
Values with the same X are meant to line up, so at 3 on the X axis, there's supposed to be 20 for Y1 and 42 for Y2. Just adding two data ranges to the graph won't do that.
My current plan is to create two intermediate data ranges that are basically exploded, so it interpolates the data in each range so there's a value for every single X (see my question here). But that approach doesn't sound very smart, there must be a better way.
AI: Please try with layout as shown. Select A1:C11 (or to suit), insert Line chart with Use row 1 as headers and Use column A as labels: |
H: Is it possible to post in open Facebook group and make one of my friends won't see this post?
I want to publish in an open group in Facebook and make sure that one of my friends won't see this posts.
How can I do this? If I will block this friend, will he also be able to see my posts there?
(Maybe he liked this group and maybe not.)
AI: If it's an open group and he/she subscribes to it, yes he will see the posts.
Blocking the person is an option.
The correct option is not writing posts behind friends' backs |
H: In Gmail, what causes email content to yield to white space at right?
The huge white space on the right appears more often than not in Gmail for Google Apps. This does not leave much horizontal width for email contents. Is there a way to prevent this?
AI: That space is reserved for ads and for the people widget (if enabled). The only way to “prevent it” or to remove it is by using some Greasemonkey/Userscript or browser extension. (See this one if you are using Chrome.) |
H: What is the proper setting so when my birthday comes, my friends will get a notification?
Facebook notifies friends when they have a birthday. For example, one of my friends had a birthday today and I got a notification that said Today is <<name's>> birthday. How do I set it up so that my friends get the notification?
I have my birthday set to Friends of Friends but my birth year set to Only Me.
AI: Setting your birthday to "Friends of Friends" means that when your friends and their friends visit the About page on your profile, they will see the month and day of your birthday. In addition, the fact that your friends can see your birthday means that Facebook will notify all of your friends about your birthday. You don't need to change anything - your account is already set up for your friends to receive the birthday notification. If you don't want birthday notifications to go out to your friends, then you would have to set your birthday to "Only Me".
Setting your birth year to "Only Me" will not affect the birthday notification that goes out to your friends. It will only hide your birth year when people visit the About page on your profile. |
H: Searching for mp3 files on Google
Is there any way to search for mp3 files on Google? I mean the results should be only mp3 files.
AI: There is the filetype: search operator. Otherwise, as per this Lifehacker article, you could try something like this:
-inurl:(htm|html|php) in title:"index of" +"last modified" +"parent directory" +description +size +mp3 "Nirvana" |
H: Remove GitHub "repos contributed to"
I accidentally contributed to a repo that I did not want to and now it shows up on my profile under "repositories contributed to".
Is there any way to remove this?
Here is a picture of what I mean (I mean both the area in the top right and the bottom pull request):
AI: I think the question to ask is whether or not your pull request was merged or not?
If none of your pull requests have been merged and they are still just sitting there closed then I would do these following steps:
Delete your pull request
Delete the forked repository
From experience (similar situation as you) I believe the above steps worked, and I was removed as a contributor to the repository, but this GitHub account has since been deleted entirely so I don't have any way to go back and verify this works.
But you don't have anything to lose, if you try those steps, since you've already decided you want to try to erase this history.
If your pull request was merged, I believe the only way to remove the "repositories contributed to" thing, is to delete your account, unfortunately. |
H: How to parse a date and time in the format 2012-12-12T00:00:00+00:00?
I have a CSV file with dates in the following format:
2012-06-20T00:00:00+00:00
Is it possible to parse a date or date and time in this format? The goal is to turn it into a date and time that Google Spreadsheet understands.
The format is YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SS.
AI: Maybe:
=left(A1,10)+mid(A1,12,8) |
H: January 1,1900 birthday for Google Contacts
Google Contacts sets DOB (date of birth) to 1st Jan 1900 for my contacts by default. How can I remove this from multiple contacts at a time, or even all at once?
I have found a similar question on this Google group link which is left un-answered.
AI: Export your contacts
Log into https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?pli=1#contacts
Click on More -> Export
Select the group My Contacts
Select vCard export format.
Click on Export and save the file.
Open contacts.vcf in a text editor. Ideally Notepad++ or Notepad. Not Word as it'll probably make unwanted changes to the file.
Do a search and replace. Search for BDAY:1900-01-01 and replace with BDAY:
Save the file with a different name (the original will be your backup).
Delete your existing contacts
Go back to Google Contacts
Select all contacts within My contacts
Select More -> Delete contacts
Repeat until My Contacts is empty.
Import your updated contacts
Click on More -> Import
Click on Browse and select your modified vcf file
Click on Import to import the modified contacts into Google.
Bear in mind that you will lose all contact pictures. I personally use Sync.ME (available for Android and iOS) after the last desktop application I had that did this stopped working. |
H: Searching for video format like searching for mp3
Based on this question, I can use this:
-inurl:(htm|html|php) in title:"index of" +"last modified" +"parent directory" +description +size +mp3 "name_of_what_I_am_looking_for"
To search for all mp3 files. So how can I modify that search to look for mp4 or other video file formats?
AI: Try something like this:
filetype:mp4
Or:
-inurl:(htm|html|php) in title:"index of" +"last modified" +"parent directory" +description +size +(mp4|avi|mkv) "name_of_what_I_am_looking_for"
Where you can put whatever other extension you are looking for instead of +(mp4|avi|mkv), like this:
just mp4: +mp4
some other formats: +(m4v|mov) |
H: Sum the product of two columns in Google Spreadsheets
Here's the situation:
ITEM COST CUST1 CUST2 CUST3 TQTY
foo $0.5 1 0 0.5 1.5
baz $1.0 2 1 0 3
bar $1.5 0.5 0 0.3 0.8
SUBT $2.75 $1.00 $0.75 $4.50
Simple, right? The SUBT row should have the contents of
CUST1*COST, CUST2*COST, CUST3*COST
for each row. And the TQTY column has the sum of
CUST1+CUST2+CUST3
for each row.
At least it SHOULD be simple, but auto-fill keeps screwing me. TQTY is easy, of course, but I can't for the life of me figure out how to use a formula to give me the sum of the product of two columns cell by cell. In particular, I need to do this in a way that will be user-manageable for someone wanting to insert rows or columns in the middle and have it continue to "just work".
AI: This will sum the quantities, per row, for all rows in the range.
Formula
=ARRAYFORMULA(SUMIF(IF(COLUMN(C2:E4),ROW(C2:E4)),ROW(C2:E4),C2:E4))
Screenshot
Example
I've created an example file for you: Sum over rows
Reference
https://stackoverflow.com/a/21804838/1536038 |
H: Is there any way to put a Line Feed (LF) in a Trello List title, or otherwise have a Title and details?
I struggle with in Trello is that Lists don't have descriptions. So I'm torn between short (but vague) titles and clear (but unweieldy) titles.
One solution:
TITLE
description
Kludge: ------ TITLE -------- description
Which usually will wrap to :
------ TITLE --------
description
AI: No.
All the keyboard events are consumed, so you cannot enter a linefeed using the keyboard. However if you have text written externally (such as in a notepad) which contains a linefeed, you can cut-n-paste that into the element editor.
However the joy is a short lived, as the text is sanitized as soon as it is submitted; removing all training white space and also collapses the unprintable characters such as the newly created newline.
So in short, No you cannot enter a line feed into Trello's list text. |
H: Are Amazon Prime memberships per region or do they share across all of Amazon?
I signed up for the free trial of Amazon Prime on amazon.it (Italy). For a price of 10€/year I would get free 2-3 days deliveries on eligible items, and I've successfully used it once.
Now there is an item I need that I can't find on amazon.it but I can find it on both .co.uk (UK) and .de (Germany). I signed in there, but they are still offering me a free trial of Prime.
Is the login the same for all Amazons, but Prime specific to a single region?
(I've also noticed .co.uk offers Prime at 80£/year, which is 10x the price it has on .it. did they misspell something somewhere?)
AI: Too long for a comment. The UK price for Prime seems almost in line with the USA one ($99) and the difference with the Italian Prime seems to be in the services. The UK for example includes:
Free Two-Day Shipping, plus exclusive access to movies, music and Kindle books.
Unlimited music streaming
Watch unlimited movies and TV shows with Prime Instant Video
A Prime membership includes over 500,000 free ebooks
whereas (as far as I can tell - you would know better!) the Italian Prime seems to be only the speedy/cheaper delivery.
So I suggest (a) specific to a 'region' and (b) not a typo. |
H: Can Facebook block your comments for everyone except you?
A friend told me he posted a comment onto a Facebook page's status update today. I went to that Facebook page, and looked at all the comments on the status update, but I did not see his comment. He told me he could see his comment, so I'm wondering if Facebook has a feature that can let a page admin prevent others from seeing someone's comment while still letting that person see his own comment, so that he doesn't know it was hidden?
AI: This article says that Facebook does give page administrators the option of hiding a comment, which makes it invisible to everyone except the commenter and his friends. When a page administrator hides a comment, the following message appears on the administrator's screen:
You've hidden this comment so only the person who wrote it and their friends can see it. Undo this or delete this comment.
You can also Report it as abusive, or Ban [name].
This means the page admin must have hidden my friend's comment. (The reason I didn't see his comment is because I wasn't Facebook friends with my friend at the time - we sometimes defriend each other so we can see how the privacy settings are working.) |
H: Responses missing in Google Forms under the 'Checkbox - Other' question
I have a Google Form with a checkbox question and I can see from the responses summary that two respondents have ticked 'Other'.
But, I can't see what they have typed, even in the responses spreadsheet.
Where can I see what they have entered?
AI: No you can't, because Forms doesn't require a user to enter a value for Other, so your respondents most likely didn't enter one.
NB I just submitted a response that doesn't have a value, and a second response that does. I believe you will see two responses, and will be able to see the "this is an Other value" text for the second one.
I cannot see any way to make Forms insist that text is entered in the other text-box. |
H: Google Spreadsheets and Zapier
My client has a WordPress site that uses Gravity forms. I'm using Zapier so that each time a new submission is entered into the form, it adds this information as a new row in a Google Spreadsheets (Master Sheet).
Everything is working, but from there this data gets pulled into a second Google Spreadsheet (Client Sheet) but new entries in the Master Sheet are not picked up by the Client Sheet unless there is some form of human action on the Master Sheet. In other words, I need to effect the Master Sheet before the entries get pulled across to the Client Sheet. However, if I manually add an entry to the Master Sheet, it immediately reflects on the Client Sheet.
So my guess is that there is some kind of edit function that gets triggered by a human user but not by an entry from Zapier.
Any ideas?
PS. I have already tried using the script detailed in this question:
How can I get Google Sheets to auto-update a reference to another sheet?
Unfortunately I cannot get it to work.
AI: I'm not sure exactly how you're pulling in the Master Sheet info to the Client Sheet, but to help with some background, when your zap adds a new row to a spreadsheet, it's literally creating a new row and filling that new row with data. This can impact how that data can be automatically retrieved depending on the details of the formulas, scripts, etc you're using to pull that data into the Client sheet.
If you like, you can ping us at contact@zapier.com and we can check on the zap itself to make sure there's nothing that seems out of place on that front. Happy to lend a hand! |
H: In Facebook, how to restrict my own posts in a group only visible to the group members?
In Facebook, how can I restrict my own posts in a group to only be visible to the group members? In other words, I don't like the posts that are only relevant to the members of that group being visible to my friends who are not in that group.
AI: Suppose your group name is "College Friends". Simply goto Browse Groups By Membership and select that group and post it there.
Another way is by creating a list. To do that just goto here and click create a new list. You can suppose name it "Relevant People" and add the people in that "College Friends" Group. Then make a regular post and set the privacy to that newly created list "Relevant People".
That way you can make a regular/personal status/post that will only be visible to people in "College Friends" Group. |
H: How to get formulas to do the calculations
I have a column from A1:A398 in a Google spreadsheet. Each cell either has an "f" or is blank. I want to count how many of each there are. In row 399, 400 and 401 I put the following formulas
=counta(A1:A398)
=COUNTIF(A1:A398,"f")
=COUNTBLANK(A1:A398)
However the formulas aren't doing anything. I expected the counting to take place and the value to be displayed in the cell once I hit return (as it did for me in Excel when I used to have it), however, Google spreadsheets is just showing me the formula. Based on what I've told you and how I wrote the formulas, is there a reason why they aren't calculating?
AI: It sounds like you have All Formulas checked in the View menu. Go to the View menu or press Ctrl + ` (backtick) to toggle the view on/off - you should then see it alternate between the formulas and the calculated values. |
H: how to get count of rows in the spreadsheet?
In google spreadsheets, after typing in a list of items through cells A1 to A7, I went off to another cell and typed the following formula
=COUNT(A1:A7)
It reports zero, instead of seven.
I've done exactly what this article does, but still not the correct result.
AI: According to https://support.google.com/docs/answer/3093620 COUNT function only counts numeric values. Try COUNTA and it should do the job (explained here https://support.google.com/docs/answer/3093991) |
H: Someone's Google account under my domain, how to ask for removal?
I have a domain and that domain is mine since 2011.
But when I bought it I noticed that there was a previous owner from the emails I was getting.
I recovered his Google account to leave a message to himself on his "Orkut/Google+", asking him to change his email address from my domain to somewhere else.
Yet as of today, the guy still has accounts under my domains, and a few hours ago he re-re-recovered his Google account (proving he is still active and using that account).
Since I already warned him a few years ago, how can I get rid of this guy since he is getting me tons of spam under my mailboxes?
The easy procedure would be to recover his account's passwords, and delete them. But Google accounts are not anymore that simple to recover. I can't recover it from its own email.
AI: Go into your domain administrator account, and delete his user (if it's there).
Also set the option to not forward all otherwise-undelivered emails to your administrator account. After you do this, all messages to his account will bounce. |
H: How can I make the WP Publicize plugin share my posts to (all or specific) Google+ circles?
I use Wordpress, and I'm trying to use the Publicize plugin to auto-post new blog posts to my Google+ circles. However, when I publish a Wordpress post, the plugin correctly picks it up and puts it in my "posts" stream on Google+, but the post is shared privately only with myself.
To really share it, I'd have to re-share my own post, and that looks silly so in the end I post it manually. But that's really what the plugin should be doing for me.
I'd expect some place where I can choose what circles should be used by Publicize to publish my posts on Google+, but I can't find that.
I've reviewed the plugin settings but didn't find anything related to G+ circles.
I've also reviewed my Google Account security settings, specifically the account permissions for Wordpress that is listed, but there's no setting I can change (except revoking the account permission entirely).
AI: I might have found it myself. WP lists this very promising page about Publicize and it says to open Google+ (in a browser, not smartphone!) and then go to Settings > Manage apps & activities.
I'm on mobile now so I'll check this from home and confirm.
update: Yes, this is how to change the audience for new WP posts. The circle choices are:
Public
extended circles
your circles
your organization (if you're a Google Apps user)
only you
custom (this is where you can specify any mix of circles you like) |
H: My posts in community is visible only to me
I joined 2 Google+ photo communities and made 2 posts with photos. I can see them on the community page and my profile, but other people don't see them on the community page. Also, when logged out, I don't see my posts on the community pages either.
Why is it so?
AI: The posts are probably awaiting moderation by the community admins. |
H: Select e-mails in Gmail using keyboard
One thing I find myself doing a lot is trying to navigate my e-mails using my keyboard. I have found the "caret" showing current focused e-mail, in Compact dark theme, is a blue indicator and that can be moved up and down using the keyboard. You can also use Enter to read the currently selected e-mail.
What bothers me is that Spacebar isn't used to select the currently focused e-mail. The Spacebar has more of a page down functionality. Nothing has annoyed me more than having to select a group of e-mails using my mousepad on my laptop; not to mention it is very inefficient to have to position the cursor precisely and hope you don't accidentally start dragging the item instead of selecting the check box.
**So my question is, how can I use my keyboard to select e-mails in Gmail -mail? **
Also, how I can delete the selected e-mails using my keyboard without using tab, if possible?
AI: You need to manually enable Shortcuts in Gmail by:
Go to Settings > General > Keyboard Shortcuts and check 'Enable Keyboard Shortcuts'. Click Save
Now press ? on your keyboard to see a list of shortcuts you can use, or go here.
By default, press o or Enter to open the 'conversation' or email.
To use Space as the key to open emails:
Go to Settings > Labs > Custom Keyboard Shortcuts. Check enable.
Go to Settings (again) > Keyboard Shortcuts (it will be a new tab, near to 'Labs').
Go to 'Open conversation'. In the 'or' box, type in \32 which is the ASCII code for space bar.
Now, you will be able to open emails with space bar (it worked for me!). |
H: Google Docs sheets: How to refer values in other column by key? (like SQL join)
I have a sheet/document with item number and it's price.
In an invoice, I have:
| Number | Qty | Price | ... | Total price
| 21 | 3 | ??? | ... | = C2 * B2
I'd like the Price column to be filled by looking up the value from other sheet or document, i.e. something like
=LOOKUP( PricesSheet, Column C, row with value from A2).
Basically, I want a SQL join functionality.
How can I do that?
AI: Please try something like:
=vlookup(A1,Sheet2!H:I,2,0)
where ColumnH in Sheet2 ('other sheet') contains Number and ColumnI of the same row the corresponding unit price. |
H: Google indexed pictures or content
is it possible to remove content which is indexed in google? sorry if i am asking the question in wrong forum, let me know where to ask this otherwise.
some pictures of mine and certain statuses are indexed when searched in google and appears in top, so would like to know a way to get rid of this.
AI: In short, it's possible if you are a EU citizen to ask Google to stop linking your name to specific content. This is due to the very recently passed legislation on the Right to be Forgotten.
If you're not a EU citizen, it's unlikely that your country (yet) provides such a right. I haven't heard of any other.
Note that search engines will only remove the results for searches made with your name, and not entirely remove the results from the Internet, to balance the right to be forgotten with the right to inform and freedom of expression.
Fill in the form here for Google. And here for Bing. |
H: Sort facebook friends by gender
Is there a way to find friends who are only male or female in my friend list or in my friend's friend list?
Because i see only All Friends,Mutual Friends,Recently Added,People You May Know,Followers only when i visit friends list on my profile or my friends profile.
AI: To find all of your friends who are male or female, type one of the following into the main search box at the top of the Facebook page and then press Enter:
My friends who are male
My friends who are female
To find all of the people in your friend's friend list who are male or female, type one of the following into the main search box at the top of the Facebook page and press Enter (you'll want to replace [name of friend] with your friend's name):
Friends of [name of friend] who are male
Friends of [name of friend] who are female
Note that Facebook will only find those people who have filled in the gender in their profile. Facebook will not find anyone who hasn't filled in the gender in their profile. |
H: How to control placement of asymmetric image masks in Google Sheets or Drawings
Google Sheets and Drawings allow the use of vector masks over images from any of their standard vector shapes. Some of these shapes are asymmetric, but I cannot figure out how to change the orientation of an asymmetric mask.
As an example, say I have the following image in Google Drawings:
I can apply an asymmetric image mask and get the following output:
But as far as I can tell, there's no way for the cut out sections to be on the bottom. If I try flipping the image, the crop gets flipped with it, and I get:
Is there any way to do what I want, or is this simply unsupported?
AI: Yes, it's possible, select the mask (not the image), grab the little dot on a stalk and drag it round half a circle: |
H: How to tell how much of a video has been watched in YouTube?
I'm trying to figure out if it's possible to tell how much of a video of mine has been watched. Something like, most people got to 50% of it, or most got to 90% of it and so on. Anyway to tell from the data available?
AI: YouTube analytics has estimates on how much of a video was viewed. Bear in mind that these are rough estimates. |
H: Huge sheet with many succesive A3
I've created a new blank diagram with A3 format, but after starting to draw my A3 sheet is increased N times to the left and right (see the scrollbars!). How can i return back to the A3 sheet?
AI: When something similar happened to me I discovered that somehow some very long random lines spanning numerous pages had appeared.
One workaround I used for my problem was to select everything I wanted, copy it and paste it into a fresh document.
A second solution that worked for me was to scroll to the distant edge and then drag to select the rogue lines so that I could delete them.
The third solution I attempted was to go into Options:Advanced:Edit and search for items with a ridiculously large geometry. My rogue items had an mxPoint set as x="703100" I deleted the three rogue mxcell details and all was fine.
Needless to say, I cannot guarantee your problem is the same one that I had. |
H: How can I hotlink an mp3 in Google Drive with a URL ending in .mp3?
I would like to obtain a link to an mp3 hosted in Google Drive that has the format filename.mp3, so I can link to it from sites that provide in-line audio players when linking to mp3 files.
I have searched the web and different SE sites, but the closest thing to a solution I have found is obtaining a direct download link for the file or advice on hosting it elsewhere. However, for (future) convenience I would prefer to host and link directly from / to Google Drive.
Can anyone provide some insight or point out why this might not work?
AI: EDIT: This answer is outdated. googledrive.com/host has been deprecated as of August 31st 2016 and no longer works.
Yes, it is possible.
First, change the directory permission to public in which your mp3 files reside.
Copy the folder ID, that will be at the end of URL when you are inside the directory. It will be something like this
0C2QKl-TsV6cVTE7wbWNOelRiRlk
Next you can access the mp3 files using hosted mode:
https://googledrive.com/host/0C2QKl-TsV6cVTE7wbWNOelRiRlk/filename.mp3
Note that the beginning part of the URL changes to https://googledrive.com/host/ for hosted mode compared to "normal" shared link mode URL https://drive.google.com/open?id=. |
H: How can I get YouTube to play at 2x speed in Firefox, in addition to Chrome?
It works on Chrome, but somehow it doesn't work on Firefox..
AI: You can play a YouTube video at twice its speed on Chrome because you're using an HTML5 <video> player. It's almost always automatic on Chrome because Chrome seems to support everything the player needs:
HTMLVideoElement, H.264, WebM VP8, Media, Source Extensions, MSE & H.264, MSE & WebM VP9.
FireFox, on the other hand, only supports the first half:
Hence the player is rarely an HTML5 video object.
However, you can turn it on manually. Go to http://www.youtube.com/html5, and click on the blue "Request the HTML5 player" button:
You can later click "Use default player" if you have any problems. However, you should now be able to change the speed of most of your videos like in Chrome: |
H: List Facebook users that I follow but that are not friends
How can I list the Facebook users that I follow, but they are not friends with me?
AI: I have done this a few weeks ago, it is pretty simple:
Go to your profile
Select Friends below your cover photo
Select Following
If you don't see Following, it means you're not following anyone yet.
You can find the reference over here. |
H: My ex boyfriend took over my Facebook account
He knew my email address and password. He logged in and changed everything. I know his email address, however if I try to "I forgot my password" it will only send it to his phone or alternate email address. He's posting inappropriate things and has added his name along with mine on my page. It looks like a joint account.
AI: The answer is simple - change your email and facebook password, and NEVER tell your password to anyone. Never. |
H: How to find the first mail of every contact within Gmail
I would like to find the first mail by every Gmail contact I got mails from.
So the pseudo filter would be:
get all mails
group by from-address
filter each group to show the first mail
sort the query by time-stamp (DESC)
Is this somehow possible with the Gmail search function or otherwise?
AI: With the following piece of code it is possible.
Code
function getFirstFrom() {
// get active sheet and clear contents
var sh = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSheet();
sh.clear();
//http://stackoverflow.com/a/12029701/1536038
// get all messages and retrieve 'date' and 'from'
var eMails = GmailApp.getMessagesForThreads(
GmailApp.search("label: all"))
.reduce(function(a, b) {return a.concat(b);})
.map(function(eMails) {
return {date: new Date(eMails.getDate()), from: eMails.getFrom() }
});
// get unique names
var aNames = [];
for(var i in eMails) {
var fromName = eMails[i].from
if(aNames.indexOf(fromName) === -1) {
aNames.push(fromName);
}
}
// retrieve first date
var aInfo = [];
for(var k = 0, kLen = aNames.length; k < kLen; k++) {
var checkDate = new Date();
for(var j in eMails) {
var fromDate = eMails[j].date, fromName = eMails[j].from;
if(fromDate < checkDate && fromName == aNames[k]) {
checkDate = fromDate;
}
}
aInfo.push([aNames[k], checkDate]);
}
// display result in sheet
sh.getRange(1, 1, aInfo.length, 2).setValues(aInfo.sort());
}
Note
Add this script into a Google Spreadsheet by selecting from the menu Tools>Script editor. Press the bug button and go through the authentication process. Press the play button to execute the script again. |
H: Google Sheets formula every x rows, assign incrementing cell value
I have a Google Sheet, with the first row container headers (so row references will be -1) and rows are "grouped" by every 7 rows. See below.
I've manually typed the numbers into the Image # column, but is there a way to use a formula to enter in an incrementing number every 7 rows into that column so I don't have to it for 80+ unique Captions? I'm doing this to keep track of how many unique Caption rows there are.
AI: Please try, 1 in A2 and in A3 copied down:
=if(mod(row(),7)=2,A2+1,A2) |
H: How can I collect the sum of different columns while filtering?
I am creating a travel budget spreadsheet and need to be able to sum different filters (By Month, By Salesperson, By State, etc)...is there a way for me to display the sum of a column based on what is displayed in variable filters?
I believe I solved this. I ended up just pulling each person's travel into a different sheet on a new document and having multiple tabs (one for each staff member). Thank you for all your help!
AI: You should be using a pivot table (select A:O, Data > Pivot table report... and add fields of your choice).
Maybe Primary Attendee in Rows, Month in Columns, Fee in Values and State in Filter - but the options are almost limitless (that's the power of a pivot table). |
H: Lookup/Copy data from different sheets?
I am creating a schedule sheet in Google Spreadsheets that will have a number of different people inputting their own information. I would like the Director to be able to open a single document that "gets" each of the employee's sheets and compiles into one document. Is that possible with Google Spreadsheets?
I am currently setting this up so am flexible, for instance whether all employees enter into the one document or each has their own. My plan was for each employee to have their own sheet and also have one document containing a copy of each of these individual sheets. i.e. Single sheet for each employee (of which there are 5) in separate documents along with one document containing 5 sheets (one for each of the employees).
AI: Your plans seem sensible to me and I think reasonably straightforward to implement. A formula such as:
=importrange("1NsEAt1biV822J4RnqOmb4MW6GCjrkUzfZjbssnZmkSQ)","Sheet1!A1:F8")
in each of the employee sheets in the Director's cut should import Sheet1!A1:F8 from each individual employee's document (once access has been granted). The long string of characters in the middle of the above formula is the 'key' and is unique to each document.
When all the relevant details are in the Director's copy it should then also be quite easy to process them further for analysis purposes. |
H: How can I stop my Facebook notification from appearing on friend's wall
I am in a group on Facebook, where my friend has joined. I want to get notifications from the group about what I post there, but do not want my friends to get notified about it.
I Google'd it and found that the only way to do this is to ask them (my Facebook friends) to turn-off the notifications from the specific group which I want to restrict notifications.
Is there a way by which I can manually control when the notifications appear?
AI: No, there is no other way. See the privacy options available for groups https://www.facebook.com/help/www/220336891328465 which works even without the notification setting. |
H: Is there a plugin for WordPress that will let me transform the string "LaTeX" into the proper format?
I write quite a bit about TeX and friends and inevitably refer to them by name in my posts.
Is there any way to replace every occurrence of TeX, LaTeX, or foo with custom HTML?
Reference: https://stackoverflow.com/q/8160514
AI: Yes, there is a plugin called Text Replace for WordPress.org. You just enter a shortcut and what you want to replace it with:
{shortcut} => {replace with}
For your case, for instance:
LaTeX => <span class='latex'>L<sup>a</sup>T<sub>e</sub>X</span>
TeX => <span class='tex'>T<sub>e</sub>X</span>
By the way, I put LaTeX before TeX on purpose. If you read the plugin's page, you'll understand why. |
H: Cannot delete batches of mail in Yahoo! (they just show as crossed out)
I am having a problem deleting mail in Yahoo! I clicked select all and delete, and it just crossed them out. Now, if I type Twitter into the search, I see all those emails, most of which I want to delete.
I also emptied the trash but this hasn't helped; all 126 emails show up there, no matter what I try. They're still showing all crossed out, rather than disappeared as I want.
AI: I don't know if this is a bug or what, but I tested and it worked like this:
When an email is in trash, it appears as crossed in search results. When you empty the trash a deleted message shouldn't be in search results anymore but it still appears there. But if you try to search again (I mean if you search twice after emptying the trash) deleted emails won't appear in the results anymore. |
H: Extract and sum numbers from a cell containing text that contains numbers
Suppose cell A1 contains a string that includes substrings that are either integers or decimals, the decimals being of a form that would match the regex \d+\.\d+ . For example, the contents of cell A1 might be as follows:
foo 1; bar: 0.5 grue 23 frozz-bozz
What formula could I use in a different cell that would extract and sum those numbers. I.e. a formula such that, if the contents of A1 were as given above, the result would be:
24.5
AI: Google Spreadsheet actually has regex methods. There are 3 methods:
REGEXEXTRACT(text, regular_expression) - Extracts matching substrings according to a regular expression. Example: REGEXEXTRACT("Needle in a haystack", ".e{2}dle")
REGEXMATCH(text, regular_expression) - Whether a piece of text matches a regular expression. Example: REGEXMATCH("Spreadsheets", "S.r")
REGEXREPLACE(text, regular_expression, replacement) - Replaces part of a text string with a different text string using regular expressions. Example: REGEXREPLACE("Spreadsheets", "S.*d", "Bed")
However, because I don't really know how to use regex, I'll show you how I would do it using SPLIT. This will work even if the numbers aren't separated by a specific character (i.e. space) as shown in the example:
=SUM(SPLIT(A1,CONCATENATE(SPLIT(A1,".0123456789"))))
Seems to do the job. |
H: Life Events on the New Facebook layout
A part of the layout of Facebook has changed once more, this time, the About section:
I want to know, how and/or where can I access a list of my life events, as it used to appear on the right hand side of the About section of your profile.
AI: The closest thing I could find, is that when you review your own Timeline, you can see the following at the top of each year:
This is sort of cool, although it is not the complete list. The old one looked a lot similar to this one, except that it contained ALL of them, grouped by year. |
H: Can't verify domain for Google Apps
I'm trying to set up Google Apps for Business for a client of mine. The problem is that I'm unable to verify the domain ownership. Every method Google provides for the verification process eventually fails.
For example, if I try to go with the HTML file upload verification technique, Google Apps is unable to detect the file.
I click the address under the error message after Google Apps says it can't detect the HTML file and I'm unable to see the file as well. I get a Safari can't find the server error. If I put the “www” before the domain name then I'm able to see it. Once I see it, the address also works by removing the “www” in the front. So it totally baffles my why it doesn't work at the first time or why Google Apps can't detect it.
Same goes for the other methods (adding a CNAME/TXT record or meta tag addition) as well.
The Apache configuration for the domain has been set that it also accepts visits without “www” in front of the domain name; I tried it and it works okay. Also I've a naked “A record” to the domain's IP address and other records seem intact as well.
Any thoughts?
AI: I handled the situation.
It turns out that when registering my domain to my server, I added it with "www" in front. Therefore even though it's DNS record entries were fine, it was having issues with accessing. |
H: Is there a free way to schedule posts from Facebook pages, the way that TweetDeck does with Twitter?
Hootsuite isn't free as far as I know.
AI: Facebook Pages natively supports post scheduling on a Page.
Hootsuite is free for up to 3 social profiles. |
H: How to log into Facebook using alternative accounts (Google, OpenID)
Everybody has a Google account. Yet, I see no way to use it to enter the Facebook. Others say that I must check "Linked Accounts" in https://www.facebook.com/login.php?next=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fsettings%3Fref%3Dmb but I see nothing more but
there. What am I doing wrong?
AI: It's currently not possible. The only way to Log in to Facebook is to use and sign up for a Facebook Account, |
H: Gmail merges IFTTT emails into conversations even with different subjects
I have a IFTTT recipe, which mails me on new posts on a certain subreddit. The subject looks like:
[IFTTT] {{Title}} via /r/{{Subreddit}}
In Gmail I have a filter that filters on from:(action@ifttt.com), which skips inbox and applies a label.
Now when e-mails come in, they have different subjects, but they still get merged into conversations—how do I stop that? Some e-mails get merged, others do not.
It seems that my question is the opposite of what Grouping Gmail messages with different subjects under the same conversation is trying to establish.
Edit: I'm now trying to throw away all mails in the filter, maybe that'll help.
Edit 2: Didn't help, I've received two emails, with different subjects, which are still combined into one conversation.
AI: I think I have resolved my problem.
I have replaced the subject line by
{{Subreddit}} {{Title}} via /r/{{Subreddit}}, and now it does not merge them anymore..
To test whether the tag [IFFT] made them merge, I've tried mailing myself from a different address using a tag, but those were not merged. |
H: Formatting in Google Spreadsheets
I am trying to format in Google Spreadsheets and am unsure how to do the following:
If column G is equal to “Yes” then it will format the entire row by changing to font to grey, italic and strike through the row.
I can set the format to change column G to grey font and grey background but cannot work out how to set the whole row to change the format. And is it possible to make the strike through?
Any help is appreciated!
AI: Exactly what I think you want is not possible. The choice is to compromise on automation (eg filter ColumnG for "Yes" and format to suit) or to forego italic and strikethrough as the choice of fonts in conditional formatting at present is only for text colour.
You need to decide whether the font is to be grey or the cell background colour is to be grey (or both!) but assuming the former and that your row is of 26 columns something like this may suit: |
H: “This post is associated with an ad and may not be edited this time” message in Facebook
Is there any way to edit a Facebook post if it is associated with an ad? The edit option is greyed out.
AI: I don't think so. When you submitted the post, the ad was approved for the content placed at that time of submittal. You will need to remove the ad and redo the process. |
H: Cannot remove account from mitro.co
I signed up for mitro.co and imported my data. I am trying now to delete my account with data. I cannot find any way to delete my data from their servers. Does anyone know how to achieve this?
AI: I don’t have an account with Mitro, but here is what their privacy policy says (emphasis by me):
ACCESS TO PERSONALLY IDENTIFIABLE INFORMATION
If your personally identifiable information changes, or if you no longer desire the Service, you may correct, update or delete it by making a change to your Lectorius account or by emailing our customer support at support@lectorius.com. |
H: How do I remove a sticker in Trello?
How do I remove stickers from cards in Trello?
Adding stickers in Trello is easy enough. Just drag them over from the stickers at the right:
However, how can a sticker be removed again?
AI: It is a three-step process to remove a sticker:
Hover the mouse in the card so the pencil in the upper-right corner appears (in this example, for the second card that has the sticker):
Left click on the pencil and click on the sticker:
The result is:
Click on Remove. The sticker is now gone, regardless of whether Save is pressed or not. |
H: Can I stop a WordPress application from using my Gravatar photo?
I uploaded a photo to Gravatar.
Today, I just registered to post on a site running WordPress. Because personal health is discussed on this site, I used a pseudonym on the site, but much to my dismay, it seems like it's going to automatically display my picture from Gravatar. I looked through all the options in WordPress, and I see that I can change my displayed username, but there is no way to specify my Gravatar.
Is there a way to stop this WordPress site from displaying my photo, short of simply not using that site?
AI: Whether or not a Gravatar photo is displayed when you comment on a WordPress-based site depends on HOW exactly you connect to that site.
And you also need to understand that Gravatar.com and WordPress.com are provided by the same company, and usernames are shared across both. Thus, if you connect to the site using your WordPress.com account, then your corresponding Gravatar photo will (or at least can) get shown. In order to rule out this possibility, make sure you are not logged in to WordPress.com or Gravatar.com before (and while) commenting on the site.
Assuming then that you will be identifying yourself to the site only via an email address, make sure to give an address that does not have a corresponding Gravatar.com photo registered. |
H: How do I hide my activities from my friend's news feed?
Assume I liked or wrote a comment on a post of Enrique's page.
All my friends are able to see all posts which I liked or commented on News Feed.
How do I hide my activities from my friend's news feed?
AI: You cannot do this.
Whenever you post or comment on a page or in a group that does not belong to you, you should consider that activity as potentially PUBLIC, with the possibility that -- at the very least -- your mutual friends will potentially see this in their news feed.
Moreover, the owner of that page is the only one that can determine the privacy settings for that page and/or for specific posts on that page. And so, if your friend set the privacy setting for the post that you commented on to "friends of friends," then not only will your friends potentially see this in their news feed, but their friends as well. |
H: How do I export my Google+ pictures?
I'm starting the process of leaving Google+, but have a couple of large albums there that I'd like to save (so, going to each picture and saving it individually would be very painful). Exporting the whole set of albums to local files would be fine, since I can do anything with them then. A direct export from Google into Facebook would also be fine, since that's where I'll probably put them initially.
How do I accomplish an export of pictures from Google+?
AI: You can download everything via https://www.google.com/settings/takeout
Click the blue Create an archive button
Uncheck the Select all checkbox to uncheck everything, and then check just the Google Photos box.
You can click on Edit on this line, but the default is to download all your albums.
Click the red Create Archive button.
Wait
You'll receive email when the archive is prepared and you'll then be able to download this archive. |
H: How do I import text file as-is to Google spreadsheet?
I'm importing a text file with some columns being 000000, 0000, 000000000. Google Docs converts them all to 0 - treating them as numbers. How do I make the columns contains exactly the string that was in the text file?
AI: The column data 000000, etc. is being seen as a number and consequently the leading zeros are being removed. Unfortunately, AFAIK, there is no way in Spreadsheet to format a number with leading zeros. In the old Google Spreadsheet there was no way to format a number with leading zeros. However, as mentioned by pnuts in comments, in the new Google Sheets you can specify a "Custom number format..." under Format > Number > More Formats. Specifying a format string such as 0000 will format a number to 4 digits with leading zeros. The formatting would need to be done after the data is imported.
However, if these data values are intended to be strings, then you will need to modify the source data by prefixing the data values with ' (an apostrophe) in order to force a string value. For example:
'000000,'0000,'000000000 |
H: How can I append a string to a formula result?
How can I include the result of an equation followed by a piece of information in quotes? For instance if I had the code add numbers from three cells, and wanted to include the result followed by lbs to show the total weight?
I've tried a bunch of things like
=A1+A2+A3+"lbs"
=(A1+A2+A3+)"lbs"
=A1+A2+A3; "lbs"
=A1+A2+A3, "lbs"
Nothing is giving me anything besides parse errors and I haven't been able to find an answer browsing around.
AI: With the below mentioned formulae, you can accomplish using double quotes.
Formula 1
=SUM(A1:A3) & " ""lbs"""
Formula 2
=CONCAT(SUM(A1:A3)," ""lbs""")
Formula 3
=CONCATENATE(SUM(A1:A3)," ", """lbs""")
Example
I've created an example file for you: How can I append a string to a formula result?
References
https://stackoverflow.com/a/2872008/1536038
Combining Stuff in Google Spreadsheet |
H: How to search within a product's reviews on Amazon
When looking at a product's customer reviews on Amazon, there used to be a search box on the right side of the page that allowed you to search for keywords within only that product's reviews. Amazon seems to have removed this feature today -- or did they just move it somewhere else?
Does anyone know the URL for the customer review keyword search results? I'd be curious to see if using the URL will still work, and if I can change the product ID and keywords to search within other products' customer reviews.
(On August 12, 2014, Amazon removed the customer review search box, but on August 13, 2014 they put it back. My answer may still come in handy if they decide to remove it again.)
AI: The following URL searches for keyword "battery" within the customer reviews for the product with ID B00OQVZDJM.
https://www.amazon.com/product-reviews/B00OQVZDJM/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_viewopt_kywd?ie=UTF8&reviewerType=all_reviews&pageNumber=1&filterByKeyword=battery
Just replace "battery" and "B00OQVZDJM" within the URL to search for a different keyword within a different product's customer reviews. |
H: How can I calculate compound interest with different interest rates?
Assume that I have the following different interest rates for different periods. I would like to calculate a compound interest rate based on these rates for lets say 200 periods. How can I do it elegantly instead of multiplying int_rate1 * int_rate2 * int_rate3 ...
Year Month Interest Rate
2014 1 8.04
2014 2 9.14
2014 3 10.06
2014 4 9.11
2014 5 9.20
AI: You can use PRODUCT to provide the product of a range of values, eg:
=PRODUCT(C2:C201)
And if you wanted the compound interest effective at each month, then in row 2:
=PRODUCT(C$2:C2)
and fill down as far as required. |
H: What are the sizes used for the different options?
When searching on Google Images, under "Search Tools" there is a dropdown for "Size". The options in this list are:
Large
Medium
Icon
Larger than...
Exactly...
While the bottom 2 are fairly easy to understand, the other 3 are fairly subjective. What sizes are included in the "Large" option? What sizes are considered "Medium"? How small before an image is considered "Icon"?
AI: I couldn't find the information anywhere, and digging through the JavaScript code didn't help me much either. However, from experimentation it seems:
Large: All really large pictures. Smallest dimension I found is 900 x 900 pixels, but I've seen pictures with width/height of 500 or so pixels (they were balanced, however, with a height/width of 1k+).
Medium: Includes some of the "Icon" images and scarce "Large" images (i.e. 1920 x 1080 px), but generally anything in the range of 300~500 pixels (although very frequently higher).
Icon: Ratio is always 1:1 (width == height). Largest dimension I've seen is 512 x 512 pixels.
I believe it goes by the area of the image, but it's nowhere to be easily found. |
H: How can I sum a row in Google Spreadsheet so that the formula isn't overwritten when Google Forms adds a new row?
I'm using Google Forms to collect some data from students. Each time a new student submits a form, the data (4 columns worth) is added to a new row in a Google Spreadsheets, bumping anything previously in that row. It will also replace any formulas I have written in columns outside of the data range (they'll be left blank).
Note: because I am using certain features (trigger script upon submission) of the AutoCrat script I have to do all this in the old versions of Google Forms & Spreadsheets...
I have been able to "score" each results by adding an answer key as the first form submission in row 2 and then comparing incoming answers to it with an ArrayFormula in columns G to J (e.g., =ARRAYFORMULA(IF(C3:C=C$2,1,0)) and so one for each column to be scored).
However, I've run into a problem, since I can't seem to write an ARRAYFORMULA to place in column K that simply sums the row from columns G-J. I've tried lots of ways, but I'm sure the syntax is just off. Does anyone know a way?
I've read this, and this, and this, but they haven't helped.
Here is an MWE of the Form and Spreadsheet
Data goes into columns A-F, the data in C-F is scored with ArrayFormulas in G-J and a flubbed attempt at summing the scores is in column K.
Feel feel to edit the file.
AI: Please try:
=ArrayFormula(G2:G+H2:H+I2:I+J2:J) |
H: Does Google Web Search have convenient filters?
Is there any convenient way to filter Google Search results, e.g., by Date, like yandex.ru does:
AI: After doing a search, you can filter by date in the search results window. Click on the "Search tools" button below the search box, and the "Any time" dropdown list will appear below that. Click on that and it will display options that let you filter the search results by date. |
H: How can I save a coordinate into a marker in the new Google Maps?
I've marked the exact point of a place which I want to save and Google displays the coordinates properly:
Is there a way I can save it into a marker to share or access it later?
AI: There are a number of options, depending on what you want to do. Try any one of these:
You could just put your coordinates into a URL, like this:
https://www.google.com/maps/place/21°31'01.4"N+100°49'43.4"W/
If you use Google+, you can use the "Share" option and share it to a Circle that contains just yourself.
Click the "Gear" icon in the lower right, choose "Share and embed map" and you can get a URL that you can share and/or the iframe code to embed the map somewhere.
Go to "My Places" where you should see a recent history of the locations you've used. Click the star next to your coordinates. Now you'll be able to see it under "My Places" > "Starred"
Click the pointer, and in the information box that pops up, click the star. This will leave a star on your map you can get back to any time.
Under "My Places", choose "Create Map". This launches Google Maps Engine Lite, which lets you create overlays on maps and save them. |
H: Is there a way to share photos in Google+ with people who do not have a Google+ account?
I want to share photos with family and friends who do not necessarily have Google+ accounts.
In Picasa I could save photos as Private so they just needed the Private Link.
But I don't see that option in Google+.
AI: When viewing a Google+ album, click on "shared X" and you will get a lightbox where you can either directly enter email addresses of those without G+ accounts. They will get emails to view the album. Or you can use a direct link. |
H: How can I change the default text on the "Submit" button?
Can somebody please tell me how to change text on the Submit button in Google Forms?
Please note:
I am referring here to the standard Google Forms, the one's that
anyone can setup in Google Drive by clicking on the New button and
then selecting Google Forms in the drop down menu.
I am not referring to the more complex Google forms which require
Google Scripting knowledge to setup. I mention this because I have
searched the online lots for the answer to my question and several
times the setText('text button') function has been mentioned. From
what I can see this only applies to the these more complex customised
forms. If that's not correct and I can use this function to get the
job done, then please explain how.
This question is also frequently confused with how do I change the
"Thank you for submitting details" text after the form is submitted.
This is not what I am looking for.
Here is a link to a standard Test Google Form, just asking for Name
and Email address. I have changed the access type to anyone with
link. So if it's easier to do the edit, instead of trying to explain
how to do it, please do so on this form.
AI: The short answer is: You can't do that using Google's form builder.
The longer answer is that you can copy the form's HTML code and host it on your own website. That HTML code may then be modified to have the button display any text you'd like.
Copying and hosting the HTML code does have its drawbacks. If you edit the form from Google's form builder, the copied HTML code will of course not be updated, so you'd have to copy and mofiy it again.
See this article from ohdoylerules.com for how to copy and host the HTML code. Note that in this article, they are using Google Drive to host their customised HTML. That feature is not available in new Google Drive, so you will have to host your HTML somewhere else.
I have created a demo form here: http://vvv.vidarramdal.com/stackoverflow/webapps-66392/
I have searched the online lots for the answer to my question and several
times the setText('text button') function has been mentioned. From what I can
see this only applies to the these more complex customised forms. If that's
not correct ...
No, you are correct. |
H: What are the differences between the Home and Business editions of Office 365?
There appear to be two editions of Office 365 with coparable price points, Office 365
Home and Office 365 Small Business Premium. Is there a comparison chart that compares all editions side by side, along with any restrictions for each?
AI: Wikipedia has a fairly neat comparison of all the various editions and features. |
H: What is the difference between Wikipedia and New World Encyclopedia?
What is the difference between Wikipedia and New World Encyclopedia?
And what is the point of having another version of Wikipedia-like site?
Related:
What exactly is the New World Encyclopedia? at Yahoo
AI: The Yahoo question you linked to has the immediate answer:
New World Encyclopedia is a wiki-based encyclopedia which contains carefully selected articles that are rewritten and supervised by a team of editors with academic and literary qualifications. New World Encyclopedia has the same ease of use as Wikipedia, but differs based on an editorial policy that includes a more rigorous article selection process, editorial review process, and its wholesome values orientation.
(From http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Info:Project_Vision)
It is included under the List of Unification Church affiliated organizations page on Wikipedia with the note:
an Internet encyclopedia that, in part, selects and rewrites certain Wikipedia articles through a focus on Unification values
In terms of differences, the two important points would be:
Wikipedia is open to editing by anyone, where the New World Encyclopedia is edited by a select group
Wikipedia articles are written according to a set of criteria including verifiability and a Neutral Point of View, where the New Wold Encylopedia uses a different set of values and a "Unification Point of View". |
H: How can I add a yearly recurring event on the last Saturday in a specific month?
Just as the title says, how can I add a recurring event on the last Saturday in August in Google Calendar?
AI: Create your first event on the appropriate day.
Then, on the "Event edit" screen, open the "Repeat..." menu.
For Repeats:, choose "Monthly"
For Repeat every:, choose "12" months
For Repeat by:, choose "day of the week"
Choose whatever other options you need, then click "Done"
This might get a little tricky if a month has only four Saturdays and that's what you use, as Google might not know whether to select "fourth Saturday" or "last Saturday". |
H: SUM a column of values that whenever a cell is empty gets it from a default column
I am trying to sum a column of values but whenever a cell is empty then it sums the value from a default column. Example:
+---------+---------+---------+---------+
| Default | A | B | C |
+---------+---------+---------+---------+
| 10 | | 0 | 4 |
| 10 | | | 2 |
| 10 | | 0 | |
+---------+---------+---------+---------+
| TOTAL | 30 | 10 | 16 |
+---------+---------+---------+---------+
A: All cells are empty so it sums all cells from Default column 10 + 10 + 10 = 30
B: First and last cell are not empty (it is '0') so it sums 0 + 10 + 0 = 10
C: Last cell is empty so it grabs the value from Default column: 4 + 2 + 10 = 16
I've seen similar questions using FILTER (another) and Matrix multiplication but I'm just able to sum one or the other, not mix both columns. Should I be using a conditional IF? Can it be done with a formula?
AI: Assuming 4 is in D2, please try:
=sum(B2:B4)+SUMIF(B2:B4,"",$A2:$A4)
in B5 and copy it across to suit. |
H: Can I create a new Google Apps user with the same email address as an existing alias?
I’ve got an Google Apps for Business account, in which I have a main email address that I use for everything related to my company—studio@...
I created an alias of this called careers@... which I used for job applicants to send in their CVs. I then setup a rule to move all of the careers emails to a folder called careers to keep my main inbox clean.
Now this careers folder is taking up almost all of the space in my mail account and I want to move it to its own account rather than just an alias.
But when I try to create the account, also called careers@... it says this account already exists (I believe it's getting confused by the alias).
Is there a way round this?
AI: Unfortunately not. Even though careers@ is an alias, G Suite sees it as an existing address. Incoming emails would not know which is the correct careers@. If you were to create a group with the name careers@ you would get the same error.
You need to delete the alias and then create careers@'s own account.
https://support.google.com/a/answer/1071113?hl=en |
H: How to add a LinkedIn company page in Sprout Social?
Sprout allows users to manage Facebook pages, Twitter accounts, G+ accounts, and personal LinkedIn profiles, but as far as I can tell it's impossible to add LinkedIn company pages.
Is this true? Or am I just doing it all wrong.
AI: Sprout Social currently only supports LinkedIn personal profiles, but working to integrate company pages as well. Our team knows it's something our customers need and hope to have news to share on that front soon.
(I’m the Social Marketing Manager at Sprout Social.) |
H: Why is Google hiding the search input field?
For some reason, Google search is hiding the input field in Chrome and using the URL field as the search parameters. Is there a way I can disable this feature?
How I don't like it:
How I would like it:
Also, the weird thing is that it is not consistent, it somehow only happens at work and not when I am home.
AI: OK, I think I see what the pattern is.
Browsing to http://www.google.com, and entering my search terms in the search field, always gives a result page with a search field
Entering my search term in Chrome's address bar and pressing Enter gives a result page with a search field
Entering my search term in Chrome's address bar, and selectinga previous search or a Google suggestion, gives a search result page without a search field
Note that for scenario 2 and 3, it is not easy to distinguish between entering a search term and pressing enter, and entering a search term and selecting from the suggestion list. Pay close attention to which keys you are pressing, and to what is selected when you press Enter. In order to invoke scenario 2, I must press Enter immediately, before the suggestion list pops up.
It also seems to matter if I'm already displaying a Google search result page. If so, the next results page seems to always include the search field. |
H: How does Googles “Auto Awesome” choose images?
I accepted to let Google peruse my images and auto awesome them earlier today. Just now I got a notification that one of my images had been awesomified. What I find strange is that it was one of the coolest pictures I had on my phone.
How did they know? It almost feels likes someone would have had to look through to say, but I doubt that's how it works. So how does it work, and how do I trick it into choosing a non-awesome image?
EDIT: As someone stated, only Google can answer, so I'll accept the most informal speculation as an answer instead.
AI: Google has “When your Google+ photos match certain criteria”.
Two possibilities are Motion and Mix, which can be selected manually, though only via an Android device. “Take at least 5 sequential images of a similar scene with movement and Google+ will make a short animated and looping image from them.” and “Take several portraits with similar backgrounds or scenes and Google+ will put them together in a photobooth-style grid. This is meant to showcase a group of close-up portraits.”.
Other possibilities are also dynamic eg snowfall – presumably when there is a lot of light colour low down in the image - and twinkling. “when you take a photo of something that shines - like lights, a Christmas tree, or a starry sky - Google+ will automatically create an animated GIF”.
For a while at least :-) images might be “Hoffed” dynamically (according to).
Static possibilities include:
• HDR: If you upload multiple images of the same scene with different exposures -- low, normal, high -- Google+ will merge them together to form a picture with better contrast and clarity of all parts of the scene.
• Smile: Take multiple photos of a group of people, Google+ will attempt to choose the best shots of each person in the image and merge them into a single photo with the best elements of each.
• Pano: Take a series of photos panning across a scene and Google+ will stitch them together into a single panoramic image. (Useful for stand-alone cameras without a pano mode.)
(ibid where While there aren't any strict rules for what gets made into an Auto Awesome and what doesn't, looking at the guidelines above you can get an idea of how to make each one appear.” is also mentioned.)
So, I speculate:
For the dynamic possibilities, lots of similar images, or
bright spots and/or light colour in the lower part of the image.
Pictures of people, with easy facial recognition (and teeth visible).
Similar images (different exposures) for the panoramic and/or image enhancement possibilities (the latter seemingly capable of very impressive results).
Some degree of giving everyone a chance to have their image awesomed. |
H: Sort auto update
I have this table, which is a ranking, whose values are updated automatically (data gathered from other files). What I want is that every time these values are updated the ranking automatically updates also.
EXAMPLE:
Table now
Table after one update, Frank has the higher score now
I don't want to go to the sort menu every time, is this possible?
AI: This duplicates data (or since the source for the query is itself imported, even triplicates) but does seem to provide automatic resorting as data input changes:
=query(A1:B5,"Select * order by B desc") |
H: Why does Google translate “lorem ipsum” to “China”?
Google Translate parses lorem ipsum phrases (default placeholder text) in a very peculiar manner. Any idea why this is so?
On Incognito Mode:
AI: This is just an educated guess, but I believe it has to do with the fact that Google Translate is based on machine-translation AI, that gets better with user interaction, so the more users “correct” it to “China” (or, for that matter, translate it to China on many, many, many web sites across the web), the more it will automatically (due to statistics) translate to it.
It could also be just an easter egg.
Update: It used to be translated to “Hello World!”
Update 2: See this TechCrunch article for more details. |
H: Can I use Google+ for image hosting on forum sites?
Often, I need to host an image that I want to post in a forum or phpBB site that doesn't accept attachments. I used to use ImageShack until they started charging for their service.
I have a Gmail account, so is Google+ a viable way to host images?
AI: Hotlinking images is not officially supported by Google+. However I'm not currently aware of any restrictions to doing it. You can go through the Picasa Web interface which does officially support hotlinking images. Some people suspect that Picasa Web will be retired soon though so that might not work very long. |
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