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H: How to get email / SMS notifications for tweets for a specific user that match certain words?
I know that Twitter already allow mobile notifications for new tweets from a specific user, but how can I go further and only get SMS (or email) notifications for new tweets from a specific that also match certain words? I know IFTTT doesn't do this, but are there any other ways I can use to do this?
AI: IFTTT just announced new triggers for the Twitter channel, including "New tweet by a specific user" and "New tweet from search". The latter seems like it would do what you want.
The ingredients for the trigger are:
Text
FirstLinkUrl
UserName
UserImageUrl
LinkToTweet
TweetEmbedCode
CreatedAt
Using Twitter Advanced Search Operators you can get what you need.
As an example, here's a recipe that sends email when Wil Wheaton uses the hashtag "#butts". |
H: What does the "YELLOW - L" label mean on a YouTube video?
I was looking on the Let's Play YouTube channel and saw a video with a YELLOW - L tag under it and was wondering what it meant.
AI: It is YouTube's rating system (even though justification for its existence is suspect given how difficult I found it to prove that!)
First the colour:
If your business is a content partner with YouTube -- meaning that you have uploaded at least one video that YouTube has approved for monetization -- then you can rate your videos according to a color code. For example, if your video has no strong language, nudity, violence, sex or drug use in it, then it gets a "green" rating. If there's a mild amount of the aforementioned elements, it gets a "yellow" rating; and if there's a strong amount, it gets a "red" rating. If you apply a "no rating" label to your video, YouTube will automatically age-restrict it to viewers over age 18.
Then the letter codes:
And finally some blurb from the same place:
A YouTube content rating labels the mature content in a video in several categories. Each category has three options that indicate the level of mature content:
• The first option (which is also the default) indicates no mature content in the category
• The middle option indicates mild mature content
• The third option indicates mature content that should be restricted to viewers 18 and older
You apply a YouTube content rating in the Video Manager. The rating categories are described below.
When a user views a video with a YouTube content rating, the page displays the letter code for each rating category that has a value other than None. For categories where you've chosen the third option, a plus sign appears after the letter code. For example, the YouTube content rating for a video with explicit language, mild violence, mild drug use, and no nudity or sexual situations would appear as L+ V D.
There may be some differences between the categorisation of games and other videos. |
H: How to tell apart a `Facebook Group` and a `Facebook Page`?
Let's take one example of each:
https://www.facebook.com/TimHieuVeChienTranhVietNamVietNamWar
https://www.facebook.com/groups/GST.HCM.HCMUT.2014/
How can a normal Facebook user tell which one is a Facebook Page and which one is a Facebook Group?
AI: I don't now that this is conclusive (eg applies in general) but the top right corner of the first link in the OP has:
and the second:
so it seems the Create Page or Join Group may be the indication required. |
H: COUNTIF in Google Sheets that checks 'if' a string is in one column before counting in another column
I'm trying to use the COUNTIF function in Google Sheets.
The Goal
I want the 'dashboard' sheet to display the count of items in column F submitted to the responses sheet 'if' a specific string exists in column D.
Basically, I'm trying to count items in one column 'if' a control item exists in another column.
I'm using this formula
=COUNTIF(responses!D:D, "=A6", responses!F:F)
What I've done
In the example, I'm trying to check column D in the responses sheet for a string in cell A6 of the dashboard sheet. If the string exists in the column D of the responses sheet, then I want a count of the items in column F. I expect 0 to be returned for the NJROTC item.
Request
Can someone please review my formula and let me know what I'm doing wrong OR if there is a better solution than the COUNTIF function?
Video Explaining the Problem
http://youtu.be/J_ados6Ksq4
AI: I used this to solve my problem.
=IF(ISTEXT(VLOOKUP($A6,responses!$D:$M,3, FALSE)),"Yes","No") |
H: Which formula extracts the domain name from an email address (bob@example.com -> example.com)?
Which Google Spreadsheets formula do I use to get the domain part from an email address?
Example: bob@example.com → example.com
AI: I would use the following formula to obtain an URL.
Formula
=IF(ISEMAIL(A2),
REGEXEXTRACT(A2,"@(.+)"),
IF(ISURL(A2),
A2,
IF(ISURL(REGEXEXTRACT(A2,"@(.+)")),
REGEXEXTRACT(A2,"@(.+)"),
"No valid entry"
)
)
)
Copy / Paste
=IF(ISEMAIL(A2),REGEXEXTRACT(A2,"@(.+)"),IF(ISURL(A2),A2,IF(ISURL(REGEXEXTRACT(A2,"@(.+)")),REGEXEXTRACT(A2,"@(.+)"),"No valid entry")))
Explained
A1 is validated for being an e-mail address. If TRUE, then use the REGEXEXTRACT formula you constructed. If the e-mail address turns out to be not a valid address, then validate for an URL. If the URL turns out to be not a valid URL, then check if the REGEX is an valid URL. Show text No valid entry is no of the IF statements are true.
Screenshot
Example
I've created an example file for you: Get domain from email address |
H: Is there any URL pattern I can use to open citymapper.com with a search predefined?
I'm trying to create an Alfred workflow that allows me to automatically open citymapper.com with a pre-defined search result. I noted that if I type in two points of interest into the citymapper.com interface, it forms a URL like this:
https://citymapper.com/london/superrouter?start=51.515124,-0.141769&saddr=Oxford%20Circus&end=51.51621,-0.13087&eaddr=Tottenham%20Court%20Road
However - assuming that my workflow doesn't know the lat/lon of those places - if I simplify it like this:
https://citymapper.com/london/superrouter?saddr=Oxford%20Circus&eaddr=Tottenham%20Court%20Road
... it no longer works. Is there any way to open citymapper.com with a route already requested?
AI: In general, to launch into Citymapper directions, you need to provide at least the lat/long of the destination. The details of our URL scheme are described on this page.
The web format is:
https://citymapper.com/directions?startcoord=<lat>,<lon>&startname=<name>&startaddress=<address>&endcoord=<lat>,<lon>&endname=<name>&endaddress=<address>
Citymapper needs endcoord and/or startcoord to be populated; at the moment it won't do any geocoding of names or addresses. |
H: Is there a way to paste RTF text into Google Document?
How can one copy data from MS Word and paste that into a Google Document without losing the Rich Text Formatting (such as colour information)? It doesn't seem to be supported.
Please note that I am talking of copying data from a native Windows application and pasting it into a Google Document opened in a web browser, and not the other way round.
The same type of copy and paste seem to work fine if both the source and the sink application are inside the web browser. What gives?
AI: You could always add the document you want to get text from to Google Docs, convert it to GDocs format, copy-and-paste into your other document. Then, if you don't need it any longer, delete the original, converted document. |
H: link: keyword does not return as many Google search results as expected
It used to be that if I wanted to find what pages linked to some page then I could use the link: keyword filter.
But trying it now it's clearly not working or at least not for me.
link:http://www.yahoo.co.uk returned 241 results. I'd expect millions
link:www.yahoo.com returns 6000 results, I expect millions+
link:www.dogpile.com 692 results. Gotta be way more.
I never ran the test years ago, but I've always assumed the link: keyword worked. I've used it to locate things before. Though testing now it looks like it doesn't work properly, it's not picking up anywhere near enough results.
AI: Source: Search Operators
link:
The query link:URL shows pages that point to that URL. For example, to
find pages that point to Google Guide’s home page, enter:
link:www.googleguide.com
Note:
According to Google’s documentation, “you cannot combine a link:
search with a regular keyword search.”
Also note that when you combine link: with another advanced operator,
Google may not return all the pages that match. The following queries
should return lots of results, as you can see if you remove the -site:
term in each of these queries.
Find links to the Google home page not on Google’s own site.
link:www.google.com -site:google.com
Find links to the UK Owners Direct home page not on its own site.
link:www.www.ownersdirect.co.uk -site:ownersdirect.co.uk
The above source says The following queries should return lots of results, as you can see if you remove the -site: term in each of these queries.
However when testing I found that adding the -site: term produced more results (the opposite of the above statement):
link:http://www.yahoo.co.uk returns 241 results
link:http://www.yahoo.co.uk -site:yahoo.co.uk returns about 77,000,000 results |
H: How to (un)star all messages in conversations view?
Is there a keyboard shortcut or keyboard combination to (un)star all messages of a conversations thread in conversations view (i.e. not from the inbox view)?
AI: I'm afraid there isn't.
The closest that you can get with straight-up Gmail is to
Hit S to "star" the current message
Hit N (or P) to move the focus to the Next (or Previous) message in the conversation
Go to step #1; repeat until you run out of messages
Not ideal for more than half-a-dozen or so messages, since when fully collapsed ("show X more messages") the focus seems to pick one in that bunch at random rather than expanding the bunch so you can see all of the stars. It's also a bummer if you use multiple stars, since you need to hit S repeatedly to cycle through them. |
H: Facebook's header image: how to control compression?
I am trying to set up a Facebook page for a business. The page is here:
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Hotel-Jacobeo/311595949045476
And the problem I'm having is that Facebook recompresses my header image and creates really ugly artifacts, as you can see. Those artifacts aren't in the original image nor in the version of the image that appears in the gallery, as you can also see if you click on it and download it. (Admittedly, the image features a large area with flat colors, which doesn't help with JPEG compression... but that's the way the business looks from the outside).
I've tried uploading the image with more and less JPEG quality (from 95 to 60), and with bigger and smaller sizes (2000 x 2000, 900 x 600, etc.). Nothing seems to help. What else can be done?
AI: I expect you'll want to upload an image that is the exact size as the Facebook Cover photo, so that there is no resizing done.
According to What are the dimensions for the Facebook Timeline cover photo? the dimensions are 851 × 315 pixels. (There's some other good advice in the answers to that question as well.)
That said, Facebook is pretty notorious for "ruining" uploaded images. |
H: Does Twitter have any short name like Facebook's fb.com?
Does Twitter have any short name like Facebook's fb.com? It would be easier to advertise Twitter accounts like Facebook pages.
AI: twttr.com redirects to twitter.com, so you could use twttr.com/accountname. But that only saves two letters and may not be recognizable to some.
However, the @accountname format is pretty universally recognized as the format of a Twitter account. That's what I'd use.
t.co is Twitter's URL-shortener and wouldn't be useful for this. |
H: What's the use for an offline version of Delicious?
previous.delicious.com:
This version of the Delicious website will be shutdown by April 2014.
We encourage users to switch to the new Delicious site at
http://delicious.com, which features a responsive design for mobile
and tablet users, offline access, faster loading, and more.
Delicious is mainly a collection of links. What's the use for an offline version of Delicious?
AI: You can bookmark more than just pages that are live on the World Wide Web.
Intranet pages
Email addresses
Local files
I also expect offline access would be useful if you can reach the Web but can't reach Delicious. |
H: How to download an archive of Facebook messages without tampering, so they can be used in court?
Does anyone know how to download an archive of Facebook messages from one person dated September 24th to recent?
The following message is merely an example:
These archives must show they are directly from Facebook without tampering otherwise they cannot be used in court. All the lawyer needs is a way to confirm that it is indeed a conversation that was sent on Facebook, that way she can use it in her case. I know in Facebook Settings you can download your Facebook Data. However I was not told directly if she can use it for her case.
AI: The correct way as described at https://www.facebook.com/safety/groups/law/guidelines/ is to go to your security settings under the account section and you can download a .zip file with your information; your messages will be in html format, but they will be print-friendly.
https://m.facebook.com/help/212802592074644?refid=69 |
H: Change my Trello account login from username + password to login with Google
How can I change a Trello account login from using a username + password to logging in with my Google account so that I can take advantage of being able to use 2-step authentication?
AI: Pretty simple.
Go to Trello.com, select 'Log in with Google'.
If you've never logged in with this Google account on Trello, it will ask you what to do with it. Select 'Add it to an existing account', log in to your Trello account normally, and that's it! |
H: How to extract IP address of the host into a row?
It seems it's possible to extract website title into a row, but how to extract IP address of the host into a row?
So for given any hostname (e.g. webapps.stackexchange.com) it should return IP address (e.g. 198.252.206.16).
AI: Probably it's only possible by using some 3rd party web services which return IP addresses in HTML/XML format, so you can parse it via IMPORTXML.
In the example:
=importxml("http://xml.utrace.de/?query=webapps.stackexchange.com","//ip")
would return 198.252.206.16.
Here is an example with a dynamic row as an input (e.g. A1):
=importxml("http://xml.utrace.de/?query=" & A1,"//ip") |
H: See all of the shared files in a Dropbox account
Is there a way to see all of the shared files in my Dropbox account?
I'd like to see which folders I've shared with people either by inviting them or just by sharing a link to that folder/file.
AI: Clicking links in the sidebar worked |
H: Snail animation in Gmail chat
I resized the chat window, and this snail appeared (also with animation):
Why did it appear? What's its significance?
AI: I think that the partner you chatted with typed: /shydino in his chat.
This is one of the easter eggs in Google Hangouts |
H: Is there a way to import Trello boards into Todoist?
It doesn't look like there's an officially supported way to do this. Is anyone aware of any other way to import Trello boards into Todoist?
Update:
Got this link from Todoist support:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Rl_CLGY_3o
Apparently you can import 200 tasks per project in this manner. I will report back if I end up using it.
AI: Take a look at https://todoport.com - I built it for exactly this purpose. |
H: Mark all old reminders "done" in Inbox by Gmail
I have hundreds of old reminders that I created in the past year with Google Now that are now pinned in my "Inbox" (http://inbox.google.com).
I would like to mark all of them as "done".
I can select them one by one, is there a way to select them all? or at least several at a time?
AI: Might take a little while (depending on how many you have... and how the refresh of the screen works etc)... but show the pinned items, and hold down [ on your keyboard.
You need to have "Keyboard Shortcuts" on. Click on the 3 lines in top left, then scroll to the bottom, click Settings, Under "Other", tick "Keyboard Shortcuts". |
H: What is "-Ls 1000" in Google Sheets?
I've been working with inventory spreadsheets in Google Sheets. I have many SKU's in my inventory and when pasting or typing them in, they are interpreted as text and are left justified in general format cells. For example, CF-55B, BB-32, JR-3039.
But when I type the SKU LS-1000 or LS-1001, it gets reinterpreted as -Ls 1000 or -Ls 1001, both of which are right aligned and appear to be interpreted as numbers representing -1000 and -1001.
Re-entering the values in as 'LS-1000 forces it to be entered as text, but can anybody tell me what is going on here?
AI: Your entry is being interpreted as a Latvian currency value.
Would not happen if you switched to new Google Sheets. Meanwhile your solution is about as good as it gets.
-1,000 Lats puts you out of pocket by around USD1,800 ;-) |
H: Can I configure GitHub to trigger an email, tweet, or other event when a new release is published?
I would like to send notifications to a specific set of users when a new version of our software is released.
People who 'watch' the repository get notifications for releases from GitHub, but I would like to send a notification to a custom list that includes people who don't use GitHub. Although the notifications API is well documented, it is unclear what my options are, or if such a feature has been developed by a third-party.
Is it possible to configure GitHub to trigger an email when a new release is published?
note: I found this question addressed on Stackoverflow, where it had been closed as off topic and remains unanswered.
AI: Service
There is some basic Github/Twitter integration in standard Github Services.
Go to repository settings. Select Webhooks/Services from menu on left. There using Add Service drop-list button you can add Twitter service.
Configuration is minimal, and twit is created for almost every commit, but it might be just enoug.
And there is similar thing for Emails.
Webhook
You could add your own Webhook.
In few words, you can make github to send some data to external system (could be your custom server).
Zapier
Zapier provides integration between many services, including github-twitter and github-email and many more. |
H: How to move sheets in Google Sheets with the keyboard?
I want to rearrange the sheets in my workbook. I have many sheets and moving the last one to the front is very slow with drag and drop.
Ideally I want a command that will select a sheet and move it to the first position.
Is this possible?
OR, the sheet names are "month year" perhaps they can be sorted?
AI: This script will allow you to move the active sheet to the beginning or a pick sheet that needs to be moved.
Code
// create menu entry in spreadsheet upon opening
const onOpen = () => {
SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSpreadsheet().addMenu('Move Sheet', [
{ name: 'Move Active', functionName: 'moveactiveSheet' },
{ name: 'Move Sheet', functionName: 'movespecificSheet' }
])
}
// move active sheet to position zero
const moveactiveSheet = () => moveSheet(0)
// select sheet number (correct for zero-based array) and move to front
const movespecificSheet = () => moveSheet(1)
// move sheet
const moveSheet = (type) => {
const ss = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSpreadsheet()
if (type === 1) {
const app = SpreadsheetApp.getUi()
const numSheets = ss.getNumSheets()
const indexSheet = app.prompt('Select Sheet', 'Use integers only (1-based)', app.ButtonSet.OK_CANCEL).getResponseText()
if (indexSheet > numSheets || numSheets < indexSheet) {
ss.toast('Sheet index out of bound. Please use different index')
} else {
ss.setActiveSheet(ss.getSheets()[indexSheet])
}
}
ss.moveActiveSheet(0)
}
Example
I've created an example file for you: move sheets.
Make a copy of my file or add the code under Tools > Script editor. Press the bug button to authenticate the script. |
H: Why do Microsoft and LinkedIn text me from the same number?
I recently enabled two-factor authentication everywhere I could, and many sites now text me when I log in. Nearly every company texts from a unique number, as I would expect. However, Microsoft and LinkedIn always text me from the same number (i.e. same as each other).
Does anyone know why?
Does this just say that Microsoft and LinkedIn are hiring the same third party to manage their two-factor?
Is there something more interesting going on there?
AI: I don't know where you're located, but in my corner of the world, this is not unusual.
If you wish to push text messages, you will need to sign up with an SMS service provider. You can reserve a short, 4-digit number for your services, which is expensive.
Or you can reserve a keyword within a 4-digit number. The number is then shared among other services, which is a lot cheaper.
I'm guessing Microsoft and LinkedIn are simply using the same SMS service provider. As they are not (?) allowing users to respond to their messages, they don't need to reserve a short number.
So the answer to your question is: They may not be using the same third party to manage two-factor authentication, but they are using the same third party for SMS services. |
H: On Google Drive, how do I download files?
So I was uploading to Google Drive, and I found the lack of a download button on the home page. Where is the download button?
AI: Highlight the file.
Open the overflow menu (three vertical dots).
Select "Download".
Or, if you install the Google Drive app on your PC, the file(s) will automatically sync to your hard drive. |
H: How many points are necessary to achieve level 50 on Fitocracy?
I know I'm not leveling up as fast as I used to, but when I see someone at level 50 I don't know if they have twice as many points or ten times as many.
AI: The answer is 2,582,350 -- more than 30 times as many points as are required for level 25. Here is a spreadsheet that gives the point levels required for levels 1-60. It also contains a calculator for approximating how long it will take you to reach each level. |
H: Search for domain names
I want a list of sites that include certain word in its domain name, but not in the path. Example: search for bicycle must returns sites like bicycles.stackexchange.com, but not facebook.com/bicycle.
What site/tool can do this?
AI: It looks like you can do a search like this using http://www.namedroppers.com/
(Note, I do not have any experience or association with NameDroppers.com, but it looks legitimate to me.) |
H: Duplicate then concatenate in Google Spreadsheets
How do I join a to both sides of : to result in a:a?
I could use something like =join(":","a","a"), but in this case, my "a" is another formula and it is very long. I'm trying to find a way so I don't have to write the formula twice.
Something like
=join(":",rept("a",2)) → but this produces aa
AI: Try this formula.
Formula
=REGEXREPLACE(REPT(A1 & ":",2),".$","")
Explained
First the following string is being repeated twice: RESULT_OF_A1 combined with a semicolon.
The last semicolon in this repetition is being removed by the REGEXREPLACE formula. It simply replaces the last character by an empty space. The result of your formula is being used only once. |
H: How to translate a whole paragraph with Google Translate
When I paste one sentence in the left field of Google Translate it gets translated. However, if I paste a whole paragraph nothing gets translated and the right field doesn't change at all. Is there a way to make it translate more than one sentence at once? Does it depend on the language? I am translating Bulgarian to English.
AI: Hit the [Translate] button above the "right window". ;)
When you paste (or edit) a larger block of text Google does not seem to translate it instantly (on-the-fly), but instead waits until you have entered all the text you want translated. So you need to manually hit the [Translate] button. Probably because translation is computationally expensive. Although it is a bit misleading that a link at the bottom of the page still states "Turn off instant translation" in this case, implying that "instant translation" is active. Toggling this option does not seem to make a difference with large blocks of text. |
H: Find the closest value (equal or greater) in a range in Google Spreadsheets
I have a range with a list of values (depths). I'd like to be able to select the row where the depth matches a value in a cell I provide. If no value matches, the greater value should be selected.
Here's the range.
The solution I found, is to have a temporary area where I revert the order of the range, then I use MATCH to take advantage of the -1 sort parameter.
Last but not least, I use INDIRECT to extract the value of a cell in the same row, but a different column.
=IF(ISNUMBER(A2),INDIRECT("SAC!F"&(MATCH(A2, SAC!$E$1:$E$23, -1))),)
Is there a better way to achieve this result?
Examples:
If the cell has value 6 (exact match), I'd like to get 1.6 (same row)
If the cell has value 10 (no match), I'd like to get 2.2 (round to 12, then get the factor)
AI: Two options to try:
=IF(ISNUMBER(A2),INDEX(SORT(SAC!F:F,SAC!E:E,0),MATCH(A2,SORT(SAC!E:E,SAC!E:E,0),-1)),)
=QUERY(SAC!E:F,"select F where E >= "&A2&" order by E limit 1",0)
It's a shame that VLOOKUP doesn't accept the -1 sort parameter, otherwise this would work:
=IF(ISNUMBER(A2),VLOOKUP(A2,SORT(SAC!E:F,1,0),2,-1),) |
H: How do I find out who has already reserved a resource i.e. conference room in Google Calendar?
Scenario:
A small group of employees has reserved the conference room via a Google Calendar event through Gmail. At a later date a meeting with a bunch of executives is scheduled only to find the conference room is already reserved.
How can I find out who originally reserved the room so that we can negotiate a swap?
If I'm not mistaken a calendar is created behind the scenes when you add an asset that you can "check out" with calendar events. Is there an easy way to hook directly into that calendar?
The image below shows an asset "added to an event," which makes it a guest. If I hover over that guest I can see there appears to be a calendar URL. Unfortunately I don't see any way to copy that or otherwise get to the calendar without writing it down by hand and then manually typing it into Google Calendar to search.
AI: There is a GApps user and calendar for each resource in your domain, and you can view it to see who booked the resource and for what duration.
In your calendar, click the little arrow box next to "Other Calendars" and select "Browse Interesting Calendars". Who knows what you will find in here!
Click on the "More" heading and then the blue carat (">") to expand the Resources for your domain.
Click the "Subscribe" button next to any (all?) of the Resources that you want to view.
The calendar will be displayed under "Other Calendars" on your Google Calendar page. You can then toggle the visibility as if it were a typical user's calendar. |
H: Is it possible to authenticate to GitHub using OpenID?
I just want to report a bug to a GitHub project, and I'd hate to go through opening yet another account just for that. OpenID authentication would have been perfect for me - but unfortunately, I cannot see that GitHub supports it.
So can anyone post explicitly, if one can authenticate to GitHub using OpenID or not? Has it ever been possible?
AI: Github's never had openID authentication, so your only option is to create an account. |
H: Is there a way to list messages in gmail by descending order of size?
I'd like to get my gmail space down. Logically the way to do it would be to start with the largest messages first. (Pareto chart reasoning - start with the things that give the largest benefit.)
My question is: Is there a way to list messages in gmail by descending order of size?
AI: This is not possible to have a list of email sorted by size with the Gmail web interface.
However, you can search by size: |
H: Can Google Apps Group email addresses and aliases have plus signs and periods?
Do Google Apps group email addresses and email aliases support plus signs and arbitrary periods in addresses, like normal Gmail addresses do?
For example, if I have a group email address (e.g. one that I'm using as an alias) called mygroup@example.com, will emails sent to mygroup+subaddress@example.com or my.group@example.com go through to the group email address?
If I have an alias myalias@example.com, can I use myalias+subaddress@example.com or my.alias@example.com in the same fashion?
AI: Plus signs: Yes.
Groups: I just tested sending an email to mygroup+something@example.com, and the message came through allright.
Aliases: Successfully tested sending an email to myalias+something@example.com.
Arbitrary periods: No.
Groups: Test message to my.group@example.com is returned with a Delivery to the following recipient failed permanently message
Aliases: Test message to my.alias@example.com does not seem to be delivered. |
H: Facebook group/page forces me to join automatically?
Why do some Facebook pages/groups just need to add me from their side and I then immediately become joined it without my review first?
Some folks add me to very dirty sites and it appears in the group I joined automatically days ago.
AI: It's because that's how Facebook have designed Facebook Groups.
See: https://www.facebook.com/help/147058305366686
It should only happen in Groups; people can't force you to "like" a page.
(If you have liked a page that you didn't actually click "like" on, then it's either caused by a misplaced click when using the mobile app/website, or else it's caused by a hacker that has created a web page that tricks you into clicking the Like button without your knowledge.) |
H: Are there are any volume keyboard shortcuts for the YouTube TV application (www.youtube.com/tv)?
I am using the YouTube TV app on a Chrome browser in a Ubuntu 12.04 machine. I have found the keyboard shortcuts for trickplay
J: Rewind
K: Play/Pause
L: Fastforward
but I cannot find the keyboard shortcuts for controlling the volume (Volume Up/Down, Mute). I tried the ones from YouTube player
M: mute
Up/Down arrow: volume up/down
but they don't seem to work. Are there any keyboard shortcuts for the volume control of YouTube TV app?
AI: Just answering my own question just in case someone find it useful.
There are not any keyboard shortcuts for volume control in the Youtube TV app. Currently the only javascript files that are loaded during a video playback are tv-player.js, live.js, csi-tail.js and app-prod.js. The first thought was to check the tv-player.js for any shortcuts for volume control, but the only shortcuts were only for navigation.
The app-prod.js was the other file which had shortcuts for navigation and trickplay. Next following a snippet from this file
d.qM = function(a) {
switch (a.keyCode) {
case 40:
this.cd("down");
break;
case 38:
this.cd("up");
break;
case 37:
this.cd("left");
break;
case 39:
this.cd("right");
break;
case 75:
case 19:
case 32:
this.cd("pause");
break;
case 228:
case 76:
this.cd("fastforward");
break;
case 227:
case 74:
this.cd("rewind");
break;
case 8:
case 27:
this.g.Yq() || L(a)
}
};
Checking the keycodes above with the ones in Webkit's ./Source/WebCore/platform/WindowsKeyboardCodes.h, the following can be observed
The arrow keys are used for navigation (key codes 37, 38, 39 and 40)
For play/pause three shortcuts are used (key codes 19, 32 and 75) which are the pause, space and K keyboard keys.
For fast forward two shortcuts are used (key codes 76 and 228). 76 is the L keyboard key but 228 couldn't be found in the ./Source/WebCore/platform/WindowsKeyboardCodes.h. Searching in the other keyboard codes, it was found under ./Source/WebCore/platform/chromium/KeyboardCodes.h as VKEY_OEM_104.
For rewind two shortcuts are used (key codes 74 and 224). 74 is the J keyboard key and again 224 was found in ./Source/WebCore/platform/chromium/KeyboardCodes.h as VKEY_OEM_103.
For quitting video playback two shortcuts were found (key codes 8 and 27) which are the back and escape keyboard keys.
No shortcuts for volume control were found. |
H: How to use a folder in Yahoo mail?
When I created a folder in my Yahoo mail
is there any way to save mails from a particular address in that folder automatically?
and is there any way to encrypt a folder?
AI: Yahoo mail is protected with username and password and this is the primary security for your files and there in no way to encrypt the folder within your yahoo mail.
Follow the below procedure to send the mails from particular address to your desired folder
Select Options | Mail Options from the toolbar.
Go to the Filters category.
Click the + Add button.
Type the sender's name under Filter Name:.
Enter the desired sender's email address under Sender: Contains.
Make sure sender match case is not checked.
Under Then deliver the email to the following folder, select the
desired target folder from the drop-down menu.
If you have not yet created a folder for the contact, select [New
Folder], Type the new folder's name under Folder name and click OK.
Click Save.
Hope this helps! |
H: How can I copy events from a Google Calendar from a certain span of time onto a new Google Calendar?
I hold an executive position in an organization that uses Google Calendar and I use one for personal use. I had simply synched the position's calendar to my own and have been using that for a year. I am stepping down from the position and now no longer need the calendar. While I do not need future events, I would still like to keep the events from the past year for consistency's sake.
Is there a way to copy the events over to a personal calendar so I can keep those and then just remove the synched calendar from my account?
AI: You should be able to save this calendar, in its current state, in iCal (or XML) format and then you can import it as a static calendar.
Go to "Calendar Settings" for this calendar (dropdown menu)
Under "Calendar Address" pick ICAL.
You get prompted with the URL - Click it.
Save the file locally
On the "Other calendars" dropdown, pick "Import calendar" and select the calendar file you've just saved. This will upload all events to an existing calendar, so if you'd like to duplicate the calendar you just saved, you need to first create a new calendar, then choose that calendar upon import. |
H: Gmail unusual activity but no alert
From time to time, I check the Gmail "Last account activity" log. I live in Belgium and mainly use the usual Gmail website. Yesterday, I noticed there was two mobile connections from France, with this IP address: 193.253.141.64
This morning, I saw a third connection with this very IP.
How comes I didn't receive any alert from Gmail for this unusual activity?
Is there something I should do beside modifying my password and scanning my computer?
AI: It's likely that Gmail didn't consider the access suspicious, since Belgium and France are close (I'm not sure what parameters Gmail uses to consider an access unusual). This article here may help you, specially this portion:
In addition, if you access Gmail on a mobile device, your login history will contain mobile logins that may appear to come from your carrier’s mobile Internet gateway(s). Note that mobile gateways may be in a geographic location far from the area where you’re accessing your account. If the address belongs to your mobile provider, this is considered legitimate access to your account.
If you don't access your gmail though your mobile phone, you can try the following:
Check your Alert preference on the bottom portion of the Activity information window on Gmail and see if a possible attacker didn't turn it off
Check your whole activity for your Google account through this link
As other users have pointed out, you may enable two-factor authentication (that's probably the most important thing) and change your password. |
H: Gmail "suspicious sign-in attempts" email - legitimate?
I got two emails this week from Gmail, claiming to have prevented "suspicious sign-in attempts" to my account. These emails came from the address: signins.activityalerts@gmail.com (using the name "Activity Alerts"), and were located in my inbox (not spam, where faked emails should go).
Image of one of the emails:
Text:
[My name redacted],
In the past 48 hours we have detected 6 failed sign-in attempts to your Google Account, [My email redacted]. We have prevented further sign-in attempts from the responsible address in case this was a hijacker trying to access your account. Please review the details of these attempts:
IP Address: [Redacted]
Location: [Redacted]
ISP: [Redacted]
Organization: [Redacted]
If you do not recognize this address, someone else might be trying to access your account. These sign-in attempts were unsuccessful, so no action is required. However, you may wish to reset your password for greater security. Find out how at http://support.google.com/accounts?p=reset_pw
If this was you, you may safely ignore this email. The address will be allowed to sign in again within 24 hours.
Sincerely,
The Google Accounts Team
Are these legitimate? I've never seen the email address before, but the only link on it (to learn how to reset my password) goes where it says and doesn't ask for any login information. If it is legitimate, is my account safe or compromised?
AI: As far as I know, yes, this is legitimate. I've had a few local business clients that have gotten these recently. Seems to require frequent access attempts from a unique but different IP address. And I think these emails only started being sent fairly recently - never seen them before this month. |
H: Problem with liking/tagging and react to Instagram-photo of 1 special person
My wife (A) and her daughter (B) both have a (private) Instagram-account and they have problems with liking/tagging of and reacting to each others photos:
A can follow B and see B's photos. But A cannot like B's photos, after clicking the like-symbol it turns reds but immediately turns back to grey. A can tag B to a photo but after that it immediately disappears. A can type a reaction to B's photos but after that we get an error message. But yes, A can see B's photos, no problem.
Other way around: B cannot find and follow A's account. When B searches for A, she get no result. Then we tried B clicking on A's account in a reaction of someone else (C) photo. Then B can see A's account but after clicking the follow-button it becomes green and immediately returns back to grey.
Strange enough A and B both can follow other people and like/tag/react to their photos.
Weird. What is the problem? Can an account be corrupt?
AI: This sounds like one person is blocking the other person. Whenever you do something on instagram, the immediate feedback like the heart popping up is to show you that you've liked something, but if the "Liked" turns back to "Like" that means Instagram never actually added that like from your account to the photo.
Because the accounts are private, they both have to accept each other's follow requests before being able to do anything.
One other thing could be that one account is blocking the other. You can check this by having User A go to User B's profile and click on the top right menu button (Share icon), and see if it shows as "Unblock" or "Block" user. |
H: How to count occurrences of number in a column, group and total
I have a spreadsheet for a festival. Unique identifier is ticket number. I want to query the column with tent number, to automatically generate two columns. First column has tent number. Second column has total number of occurrences of that tent number.
I want Column K and L to autogenerate tent number and number of occupants based on column J. How can I do this?
AI: Select ColumnJ. Data > Pivot table report..., Rows - Add field Tent#, Values - Add field Tent#. Click on down arrow next to "Summarise by: SUM" and select COUNT. Select the PT, Ctrl+c, got to K2(?) in your data sheet and Ctrl+v. |
H: Can I download a folder hierarchy full of Google Docs?
I have a folder on Google Drive full of Google Docs (i.e. the MS Word equivalent). I'd like to download all of these, exporting them to either MS Word or PDF. However, the only way I can find to do this is to open up each document individually and export it as Word. Is there a quicker way?
(I have the Google Drive client installed locally - this just provides .gdoc files which are links to the original in a browser).
AI: You can achieve this by choosing the Google docs which ever you would like to download and then click the drop down list of the "More" button which is available in top of google drive page.
Now you can able to find the option "Download" in that drop-down list. You can get a pop-up after once you click the option "Download". In that pop-up you can choose the formats as Ms Word or PDF and click download. It download as a zip file, once completed please extract it. |
H: Force YouTube to play video in 360p
I have a high speed internet connection at home, so YouTube buffers every video in 720p by default. The problem is, once the consumption reaches 5 GB, internet speed is cut down to 512 kbps. So I want to set YouTube to buffer all videos at 360p by default. Upon a little fiddling around with YouTube settings, I found a setting in which allows you to tell YouTube that "never play higher quality videos" in Settings -> Playback. But it doesn't seem to work.
.
I saw some posts on the Google Product Forums which say that when YouTube detects high speed it will automatically switch to HD video playback. But then what's the point of giving the above option to the user?
I have to manually change the quality every single time I play a video. How do I force YouTube to stream videos in 360p by default?
I am using Chrome browser on Windows 7.
AI: I use the Chrome extension ImprovedTube. One of the features it has is to set the default video quality. |
H: How I can add a separate domain in Google for Works (former Google Apps)? I can't find the button anymore
I'm trying to add a separate domain to one of my Google Apps account but I cannot find it anymore. I check in other accounts and it's the same. Only I can add a domain alias. Do you know if a issue or Google disable it?
AI: It is still possible to add a separate domain to your existing Google Apps for Work subscription, but it is no longer possible to add separate domains for the Google Apps Free (Legacy) edition.
From their support page regarding the legacy edition:
The legacy free edition of Google Apps only supports domain aliases, not secondary domains.
The same support page also provides more details on the steps to take to add additional domains to your Google Apps for Work account, provided that you are a paying customer. |
H: Dropbox + personal website
I just found out DropBox(free) and I'm not sure if using it as a private storage for file uploads for a website is allowed and is not considered an abuse of their service.
For example, a blogger displays in image in his/her article and that image is stored in his/her dropbox.
Or a portfolio site of an artist featuring his/her artwork samples in his website and those pictures of his art are stored from his/her dropbox.
And how about a small commercial website like a website of a restaurant featuring its dishes?
AI: So you're asking if you can host a website with Dropbox?
Yes. See the unofficial Dropbox wiki.
There are also third-party tools that makes Dropbox website hosting simpler, like KISSr. |
H: How do I charge early-bird rates on my Cognito form?
I use Cognito Forms to allow my customers to sign up and pay online for Yoga sessions. I run an early bird special rate available until a specific date and then sessions are full price from that date until the start date. Instead of making a note in my calendar to manually go in to change the pricing info, is there a way to set it so the price will automatically change?
AI: I am one of the developers for Cognito Forms and will be glad to explain how to include Early-Bird rates on your forms.
In the Price field where you enter the amount, you can also enter calculations by starting with an "=". The online help provides details on different types of calculations, but here is the specific calculation that should work for your needs:
=DateTime.Today < "11/22/2014" ? 65 : 75
To explain, the "=" at the beginning lets Cognito know you are entering a calculation, not just a number. DateTime.Today will always return the current day. Comparing this to dates, in the format of "mm/dd/yyyy" in quotes will allow you to see if the day is before your cutoff date. Then the somewhat cryptic ? and : allow you to specify what the price should be if the date is before or after the cutoff date.
I hope this helps! |
H: Is it allowed to have multiple accounts on YouTube?
Does YouTube allow users to have multiple accounts? Do they specifically allow/forbid this practice?
AI: As youtube accounts are today google accounts you are more than welcome to have separate accounts for different stuff if you like. The legality however would depend on some factors:
Are you in a country that would restrict this in its laws and Google must abide by these laws?
Does the Terms of Service from Google allow you to have multiple accounts.
The #1 is impossible to answer as that may require us to know the jurisdiction you are under and so on, you better research this if needed yourself.
The #2 is pretty clear. Yes, you are allowed to have multiple google accounts under the Google Terms of Service (http://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/terms/) and therefore also tied to different Youtube accounts.
The terms of service says that the restriction is that you are not allowed to create multipåle accounts for
Spoofing
Spamming
Scamming other users
Et cetera. Have a read through Google Terms of Service, it's not that long and it is actually rather clear.
Here is proof from google support https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/179235?hl=en |
H: Google Spreadsheets Formula
I have a problem creating a formula for my sheets. I want Google Spreadsheets to put either Yes or No in a specific cell depending on the values in other cell. In other words I want it to put Yes when all the cells between B and P have values and put No when cells between B and P are not complete, even one empty cell is not acceptable.
How can I create such a formula?
AI: Cell A2: =IF(COUNTIF(B2:P2,"<>")=COLUMNS(B2:P2),"Yes","No") fill down to get it into the rows below. |
H: How to report broken pipes?
It seems a lot of Yahoo! Pipes are not working properly. Either the sample results are not there, or there are some HTTP errors. It seems there is no any voting feature or anything that indicates stability of the pipes.
There is an option to Report abusive Pipe, but is there any option to report broken/non-working pipe?
So either author will be notified or other people would be informed and choose only these, which are working. Even access to any comments or reviews would be helpful.
AI: I have found no way but I usually clone and the contributor sometimes responds by patching his work. |
H: Merging two skills with the same spelling but different cases on LinkedIn
Is there any way to merge the endorsements on two skills with the same spelling but different cases on LinkedIn?
E.g. Matlab:
AI: Somebody already chased this with their support. Check out this blog article http://logoscreative.co/linkedins-case-sensitive-skills/
LinkedIn just said:
Unfortunately, at this time we do not have this functionality
available to merge skill endorsements.
Maybe it will help to bump this if you also email their support. I also encountered this issue and my choice is to keep the duplicate skills. |
H: Is there a character limit on Facebook private/direct messages?
Main question: Is there a character limit on Facebook private/direct messages?
Does this differ when submitting a message on a mobile device as opposed to a regular desktop browser - or on the message page as opposed to the chat window that appears in the corner of the screen?
What happens if a message is too long (i.e. is there any kind of a notification, or does it get split up)?
I've seen some conflicting but limited responses to this question online (though most on Stack Overflow seem to apply to APIs/applications, not regular usage), so just looking for some up-to-date clarification at the tail-end of 2014. I'm NOT asking this question in relation to comments or wall posts.
AI: Is there a character limit on Facebook private/direct messages?
The limit is 20,000 characters.
Does this differ when submitting a message on a mobile device as opposed to a regular desktop browser - or on the message page as opposed to the chat window that appears in the corner of the screen?
This is either something only a Facebook engineer will know or someone with a lot of time on their hands to test every scenario, mobile device and browser out there. It's a safe assumption to say no.
What happens if a message is too long (i.e. is there any kind of a notification, or does it get split up)?
If the message is too long, it will not send, and an error message will appear. |
H: How do I define the entity for a relational schema in draw.io?
I would like to add text on top of the rectangles to specify the entity names. How do I do this in draw.io? Not inside the elements but on top of them.Something like Employee/Secretary as shown in the picture below.
AI: You can simply put a text stencil (the 4th stencil in the "General" group) where you need the additional text. No need to paste from anywhere. |
H: Move a list from one Trello board to another
Is there a way to move a list from one Trello board to another?
I'm using Trello as a simple task-list system for development of an iOS product. I move my cards from "Todo" through "Working on" and finally to "Done". However, this process repeats itself for every release, so I would like to take the Done list and flush it out to another board, say "Past releases"
The list has a Move command, that that only moves it from one column to another in a given board. The same for cut and paste. It seems you can do this card-by-card, but that is not what I want.
I would have thought this would be easy, but I can't figure it out.
AI: You can move the entire list to a different board. From the list’s Move command, you can choose the board you want it moved to. (In the second picture below, if you click on the board’s name, you get the list with all your boards.) |
H: How do I clear notifications in Dropbox?
I want to remove the notifications which I got in my Dropbox when someone shared with me a file or a folder. The notification is still visible even though the file or folder is no longer shared with me.
I have attached a screen shot about which notifications i'm talking about.
AI: You can not disable or clear web console notification. Incase if you wanted to disable desktop notification you can follow the below steps to do so.
locate dropbox icon and right click the icon.
Click on preferences --> General --> uncheck "Show desktop notification". |
H: Add Skype contact in Gmail signature
I am using Gmail and want to add my Skype contact in signature. I know there are ways to add a Skype button using 3rd party plugins and extensions but is there a way where I can add my Skype ID to text and when the user clicks on my ID, he / she is asked to add it to his / her Skype contacts?
I tried using skype:my_skype_username?add in the "Web address" field
but it doesn't work. I don't know much about HTML. Has someone already done it without using 3rd party plugins, just by using what Gmail provides? If so, it'd be great you could share.
AI: If you wanted to add a Skype account as a Gmail signature then you have to create a redirecting method like mentioned in the link below. Here's sample HTML:
<html><meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0;url=skype:USERNAME?chat" />Redirecting to Skype... you can close this tab/window.</html>
Source : add-skype-click-to-call-button-in-gmail-signature |
H: What does "authored 7 days ago; committed 14 hours ago" mean on GitHub?
I'm seeing this on this GitHub repository:
What does this mean? How can something be "authored 7 days ago", and yet "committed 14 hours ago"?
AI: Git has a separate concept of the author (the person who wrote the code) and committer (the person who committed it to the repository). Similarly there can be different dates for both. They are usually the same.
You'd want them to be different primarily if the person writing the code or submitting the patch does not have push access to the repository as in projects which use mailing lists for patch submissions. In this case, the person with push access would apply the patch and run git commit with either the --author and --date switches or using the GIT_AUTHOR_NAME, GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL and GIT_AUTHOR_DATE environment variables (documented in git-commit-tree.
The other case is using git cherry-pick or git rebase. The committer is the person doing the the cherry pick, and the author is the author of the original commit. Git will handle setting the author identity and date for you.
You can see this information in the repository with git log --pretty=fuller.
commit 21550561941b078ea1862b882ec89f26696ff5bb (HEAD, origin/master, origin/HEAD, master)
Author: thiagopnts <thiagopnts@gmail.com>
AuthorDate: Tue Nov 18 14:52:49 2014 -0200
Commit: Thiago Pontes <email@thiago.me>
CommitDate: Tue Nov 25 09:46:58 2014 -0200
open repository url if confirmed, closes #1 |
H: How do I remove "Birthdays" from Google Calendar?
I noticed a turquoise entry had creepily appeared on my Google Calendar for someone called "Gavin" (I know several). A recent update adds a "Birthdays" calendar. It turns out these come from Google+ Circles. Apparently Google+ is still running. I use the calendar in month view, and this is really annoying. How do I remove it?
"Calendar Settings" has the "SHOW IN LIST" tickbox greyed out. The main view only seems to allow me to change its colour. The only option in "Birthday Details" is to change the name to something personally offensive about Google employees. Should I just delete everything from Google+?
AI: In the list of "My calendars", where it shows a color sample for each calendar including "Birthdays", click the color sample to hide that calendar:
BTW the info on birthdays can come from your Contacts as well as Google+. |
H: How to remove Birthdays from Google Calendar
How to delete Birthdays from Google Calendar? There is no link in Calendars settings, which allows to unsubscribe from Birthdays calendar in Google Calendar.
AI: Here is a solution how to remove Birthdays from Google Calendar:
Cogwheel icon button
Settings
Calendars tab
Browse interesting calendars link
More tab
Unsubscribe link next to Birthdays calendar
Execution of these steps will unsubscribe you from Birthdays calendar in Google Calendar. |
H: I can't seem to be able to use Google LaTex integration
Google claims that they have allowed LaTex equations in Google Docs. According to the help page, the option should appear under Insert → Equation. Doesn't seem to be the case:
So what am I doing wrong?
AI: That’s because the respective help page is referring to Google Docs (the text editor), not Google Sheets. And you are trying to insert it in a Google Sheets document. |
H: Formatting Duration values
I have a Google Spreadsheets in which I have:
Date | Start | End | Duration
-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------------------
11/24/2014 | 8:36 AM | 10:12 AM | ?
------------+--------------+-------------+-------------------------
11/24/2014 | 8:06 AM | 5:12 PM | ?
-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------------------
| | |
I want to calculate the duration and format it as [hr].[fraction of hour]. So, for the first row, the duration field would show 1.6. For the second row, the value would show 9.1.
Currently, I have the start and end columns formatted as times using h":"mm" "am/pm. I do not know how to do the conversion to [hr].[fraction of hour].
How do I do this in my Google spreadsheet?
AI: I had a similar problem. I needed to create a timesheet. You need to use the Script Editor. You can open that using Tools -> Script editor... in your Google Sheet. Once there, add the following code to format a duration value in a Google sheet.
function FormatDuration(duration) {
// Retrieve the hours and minutes
var hrs = duration.getHours();
var mins = duration.getMinutes();
// Rounding the minutes to tenths of an hour
var tenths = ((mins / 60).toFixed(1) * 10);
if (tenths === 10) {
tenths = 0;
hrs = hrs + 1;
}
// Convert the result to a number to use in calculations
var result = hrs + '.' + tenths;
return Number(result);
}
I hope it helps. |
H: Google Keep won't load properly in Firefox
Google Keep will not function for me anymore in Firefox.
When I go to http://keep.google.com, as soon as the page finishes loading I get a little dialog that says
You've been signed out. Please reload the page to sign in again and continue working.
With a button that says Reload. Clicking it reloads the page and it says the same thing.
I've tried logging out of Google and back in, tried deleting all history of the site, tried refreshing with Ctrl+F5 to bypass the cache, nothing seems to work.
Does anyone else have this problem? Is there a way to get Keep to work again?
AI: DOH! Stupid answer, but figured out what it was. I'm just posting it here in case someone else has this issue in the future.
For working with web services of one of our clients at work, I recently installed a Firefox plugin to modify the headers sent to websites, and add an Authorization header to all requests. Didn't occur to me till just now that that could be the issue.
Turned that off, and now Keep works as expected again!
Yay! :) |
H: Relative copy conditional formatting that references other worksheet
I have a group of worksheets, one of which has 'default' values while the others should only have values if they differs from the default worksheet.
To facilitate this, I want to use conditional formatting to change the color of a cell if its value matches the value of the cell in the same position on the default sheet.
I have this formula in the Conditional Formatting 'custom formula is' field:
=match(C4,indirect("Default!C4"),0)
This works well for cell C4, but I want to apply this same conditional formatting to all the cells in a range, and I can't find any way to accomplish this short of manually changing the referenced cell for each and every cell in the document.
Any help?
AI: This does the trick:
=IF(INDIRECT("R"&ROW()&"C"&COLUMN(),FALSE)=INDIRECT("Default!R"&ROW()&"C"&COLUMN(),FALSE),TRUE,FALSE)
It's not exactly concise, but it works. |
H: How to delete files or directory remotely in Bitbucket
If you exceed the 2GB limit, how do you delete directories or files since you cannot commit? The repository is now in read-only mode. I accidentally exceeded the limit due to an error in the .gitignore and cannot force a commit to fix it. I don't want to delete the repository and start over because it's a 1GB-sized project and took several hours to push.
AI: You can't do anything about this on your own. You will have to contact Technical Support directly and get them to help you. |
H: How can I replace blank cells with zeros in Google Spreadsheet?
I have a spreadsheet where someone else entered the data. They left blank cells instead of recording 0 values. How can I replace the blank cells with 0s?
I tried find and replace with regular expressions using ^$, but it did not work.
AI: I assume you only want to do this in a certain part of the spreadsheet, and that it's a one-off problem which you need to fix, not something you need to repeat.
For this, the simplest approach is to find another area the same shape and size (perhaps in another worksheet), and not currently used.
In each cell in that area, set the forumula to something like this (depending on the cells you use):
=if(isblank(A3),"0",A3)
The select the data from the 2nd area, copy it, and paste it back to the original using Edit > Paste Special > Paste values only
You may need to re-apply some of the formatting (eg date formats), but the values will be there.
fyi, I have put a worked example of this approach here:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1T6owfGtpKt3NLl5hq1AZpeWA1ILWUwBQ44bdlAmekF0/edit?usp=sharing |
H: Multiply duration (in hours) by decimal value
I have the following data in a Google Spreadsheet:
+----------+------+--------+
| Duration | Rate | Value |
+----------+------+--------+
| 16:15:00 | 55 | 893.75 |
+----------+------+--------+
I would like to use a formula to calculate the value cell. I have tried the following but I think HOUR only works for TIME values not DURATION format.
=((HOUR(B1) + MINUTE(B1)/60 + SECOND(B1)/3600)*B2)
What is the best way to automatically calculate the Value cell?
AI: If your Duration is a string then something like:
=(left(A2,2)+mid(A2,4,2)/60+right(A2,2)/3600)*B2
otherwise:
=A2*B2*24
with the result formatted as Number. |
H: Why can I rearrange my Apps Grid for some accounts but not others?
On my main Gmail account, I'm able to rearrange all the icons in my app grid. So I've ordered them like this:
However, I have another account (my work account) which is on Google Apps for Business. I have an app grid there, too, but I can't do anything with it. When I try to click and drag the icons on that one, they don't move. So it's stuck like this:
I would really like to be able to reorganize this grid as well, though. Is there some administrative setting in Google Apps for Business that would allow me to sort these?
AI: You can’t do it for a Google Apps account.
See the note under Customize your menu in this help page:
Note: If you are using a Google Apps account, you won't be able to customize your menu. |
H: Get YouTube video's view count in Google Sheets?
Is there anyway to write up a Sheets in Google Drive such that a cell will have the current (or as close to current as possible) number of views that video has received?
AI: Please try:
=IMPORTXML("https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6RsJmelphk","//div[@class='watch-view-count']")
which should return something like 97,000 (views for a Colin Farrell - Road to Hell video). |
H: How can I make my Github Wiki crawlable by search engines? robots.txt seems to forbid it
While using the W3C link checker, I found out that my Github Wiki can't be crawled:
https://github.com/aegif/CmisSync/wiki/Getting-started-with-CmisSync-development
Status: (N/A) Forbidden by robots.txt
This is unfortunate, as I would like people to easily find this Wiki on search engines.
QUESTION: How can I make my Github Wiki crawlable by search engines?
Or am I mistaken and Github's robots.txt is actually OK?
AI: The GitHub robots.txt does explicitly disallow crawling of the wiki pages, for example in the Googlebot section:
User-agent: Googlebot
Allow: /*/*/tree/master
Allow: /*/*/blob/master
...
Disallow: /*/*/wiki/*/*
As this is the site-wide robots file, there isn't any getting around it.
It is an interesting choice, since GitHub describes wikis as a place to "share long-form content about your project".
Since by default public wikis are editable by any user, perhaps it is a heavy handed protection from spammers. |
H: Getting timeline status and post of specific friends at first place in Facebook(like users Interest used in cookies)
Whenever I open My Facebook Account I am getting the timeline status and post of the users which I used to like and read Mostly not on the basis of time. So if I have to see the posts of other users I have to finish reading the post of this users.
How can I change this so that I can read the posts which is recently sent and sent by any of my friend list not the friends which I used to like most.
I am thinking that Facebook is rendering the content on the basis of User Interest, Is it correct?
AI: Once you log in to Facebook, simply select the News Feed option on the left-hand side and choose Most Recent instead of Top Stories.
Posts displayed in the timeline will now be ordered chronologically.
P.S. Apparently Facebook may sometimes revert your preference to Top Stories. There isn't currently a way to stop them from doing that natively.
If you're using the Google Chrome browser, you could install the Facebook Most Recent Default extension so that this preference is always chosen.
Edit: It seems like what you could be experiencing is related to the Close Friends feature. Go to the individual pages of these people who keep popping up and make sure that they are categorized as Friends instead of Close Friends.
If they have a star next to the Friends drop-down box, this means they're listed as a close friend and will have more newsfeed exposure. Just untick the Close Friends option and they will be reverted to regular friend. |
H: How to make Gmail separate each email item instead of bunding into a conversation?
I've been forced to use Gmail by my new employer. My old employer also used Gmail but the POP3 option was available to I consume that via Outlook.
The employer has locked the POP3 option so I've no choice but to struggle with the conversations, threads, labels system in Gmail.
Is there some way to make it work like old-skool email with Sent Items and each incoming/response a separate email item, most recent at the top?
AI: You can turn off conversation view in the settings. It's on the "General" tab.
You can treat labels like folders; just "move" your messages to a label rather than "add" a label. |
H: How can I select text from Google Calendar's Agenda view in Chrome?
Sometimes I want to select text from the Agenda view of Google Calendar, but when I try to do so in Chrome, I'm unable to. Is there a workaround for this?
AI: There are a couple workarounds for this:
The easy way:
Open the calendar in Firefox, Opera, or Internet Explorer, as you
can easily select text in any of those browsers
The hard way (but within Chrome):
In Chrome, open Developer Tools by hitting F12 (or menu button -> More tools -> Developer tools
The Elements tab of the Developer Tools window should be selected by default, but if not, click it
Click anywhere in the code to put the focus on that window
Hit Ctrl+f to search in the code
Search for "gridcontainer"
On the line where the text is found, right click and select "Edit as HTML"
Remove the text id="gridcontainer"
Click any other line to make Chrome show your changes
Select the text you want
Source: the 2014/01/24 post here: https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=5429 |
H: How do I add a curve or arc to a diagram on draw.io?
I have looked through all the available items but cannot find a curve or arc to add to my diagram. Is it there somewhere?
AI: For a curved connector, you can find that in the general shapes section:
Once the curve is in the editor, you can add and drag the waypoints of the curve. Select the curve and waypoints appear as blue handles:
The basic shapes library contains both arc and pie shape (near the bottom). If you drag those into the editor and select them, both have orange handles (indicating you can alter the shape), these allow you to change the angle around which each shape is drawn:
If none of those options work, there is also a freehand mode where you could draw a freehand curve: |
H: Why can't I delete the special "Public" or "Photos" folders from Dropbox?
When I delete the special "Photos" or "Public" folders from my Dropbox (latest client v2.10.52, Win7, 64-bit) they reappear a few seconds later.
This is rather frustrating, as I don't use these folders, and apparently Dropbox doesn't add them by default for new accounts anyway.
Why won't dropbox let me delete them?
AI: I eventually discovered that deleting these 2 special folders on my linux machine, which was syncing to the same Dropbox account, allowed them to be permanently deleted.
Not sure why windows Dropbox was determined to keep them, but deleting them on the linux machine synced correctly & deleted them permanently from both machines and online. |
H: Does a GitHub account password change affect generated SSH keys?
I have a generated SSH key on my computer (Ubuntu 14.04) with help from the GitHub.com blog.
Now, if I change the password of my GitHub account (from same or other computer) do I then need to regenerate the SSH key, or it would work as it was before?
AI: Your GitHub account password and SSH key(s) used to connect with repos hosted on GitHub are two different set of credentials.
You can change one without affecting the other. |
H: How to change my YouTube channel name
I don't even know if it's possible to do this, but what I'm trying to do is to change how my name on YouTube shows up to others (when I post videos or comments or the like). I just want to change the name while keeping my channel, the videos I've posted, and suchlike.
I read (I think) that you can do this by unlinking your YouTube account to the Google+ account it's currently linked to, then link it to a different Google+ account—is this accurate? Currently it is forcing me to use my real name as my YouTube channel name. This is downright obnoxious; I want anonymity, I don't want every video I post to be emblazoned with my real name for every person who googles me to see! How can I change it to a username that is not my real name?
AI: It is possible to change the YouTube channel account name. Simply follow these steps:
Note: Quotes were taken from Change your channel details - Youtube Help.
Change the channel Name
If your channel is connected to Google+, you can change the channel name:
Sign in to your channel on YouTube.
Open the Guide and click My Channel.
Point your cursor at your channel name and click the pencil icon > Channel settings.
Under Account Information, click Change next to your channel name.
Change the channel ICON
Sign in to your channel on YouTube.
Open the Guide and click My Channel.
Point your cursor at your channel icon and click the pencil icon. |
H: Change Gmail account display name on top right menu
I've just created a new Gmail account, but I entered a wrong Last and First name.
By the account edit info feature I fixed that information, but in the top right drop down menu I still see the wrong display name.
How could I fix it?
Here are some screenshots:
AI: The change is not instant. When you try to change your name, the dialog box states:
Please note that it may take some time for this change to be fully applied. |
H: After making a notification in calendar I received an email but I did not get the pop-up
I made a reminder in calendar about my work. In notification I have checked the notification by email and notification by pop-up (for the same time). Later (after the notification time), when I signed in to my account, I found an email from “Google calendar” but there was no pop-up.
Kindly suggest me some way by which I can get the pop-ups later when I sign in to my account even after the notification time.
AI: You can’t. You have to have your Calendar/Gmail browser tab/window open to receive the pop-up notifications.
To get notifications on your computer, you need to have Google Calendar open in a web browser tab or window.
Source (under Change your default notification settings → Computer). |
H: Creating a new contact using Google Inbox
Is there a method to create a new contact from Google Inbox? There seems to be other ways to do this, such as the People app on an Android device or via Gmail. However, is there something I'm missing in Google Inbox? (It doesn't seem to exist on the web or on the Android application.)
AI: No, you can’t at the moment. To manage your contacts you have to use Google Contacts, at https://www.google.com/contacts.
On Android:
Manage contacts
If you sync your Google Contacts, you can add, edit, and delete contacts using the People or Contacts app on your phone. Just make sure your contact is stored as a "Google Contact" when you add or edit.
You can also manage your contacts at www.google.com/contacts.
On iPhone:
Manage contacts
You can manage your contacts at www.google.com/contacts.
You can also sync your Google Contacts with your iPhone.
On desktop:
Manage contacts
You can manage your contacts at www.google.com/contacts.
Source (under Add email addresses). |
H: Make a form wider in size in Cognito Forms
I have created a registration form but how do you make it wider in it's size? It appears narrow on my website.
AI: I am a developer for Cognito Forms. Our forms are built to be responsive, because of this we set our form to take up 100% of the container width they are placed in when embedded. So if you have applied a specific size to the place on your page where the form is embedded, it will only take up that amount of space. We also try to use minimal !important tags in our CSS so any styles you have applied to your website will also be applied to your form.
We would be happy to help you look into why the form is not using the entire width provided if you would like to submit a support ticket. |
H: Instant notification on Facebook message
I want to receive a mail whenever a new message on Facebook is received. Well, that works, but it delivers only after 30 minutes. So, is there a Facebook setting that would let me get the message instantly?
I thought IFTTT would have such feature, but they don't. Maybe Facebook does have a setting for the time, but I can't see it.
AI: There is no setting for Mail that will allow you to receive the message instantly.
The only other option will be to download one of Facebook native apps for a phone you own.
Other alternatives outside the scope of this site will be to use programming with the Facebook API. |
H: Google Maps shows wrong name
Recently I posted a question Business won't show up on Google Maps. It turned that I had to wait a bit longer for Google to put my business on its maps.
Now I have a new problem - the name of the business is wrong.
The business contains the word "square" in its name, but the name near the pin on Google Maps shows "squre" (notice the letter "a" is missing), but when I click on my business, the information in the top left box are correct.
Is there a way for me to manually fix this, or do I have to write a report to Google?
AI: Assuming you're using the "new" Google Maps, here's how you can report and correct an entry.
Find the business on the map. Click its name/icon to drop a marker
Click the help button in the lower right (a question mark inside a speech bubble
Choose "report a data problem"
Click the name and make your correction
If it's the icon on the map rather than the information in the pop-up, click on "Report something else" and proceed from there.
(If you've already "claimed" your business on the map, the process for reporting corrections is probably different.) |
H: No permissions on S3 object
I transferred a bunch of S3 objects from one AWS account to another (somewhat blindly), and now I cannot do anything with the transferred objects. The new objects have "No permissions added..." as their permissions.
Also, I no longer have the original user that was used to transfer the files.
How can I regain ownership of these objects?
AI: If you aren't able to edit the permissions, you may have lost access to these objects.
Bucket and object permissions are completely independent; an object does not inherit the permissions from its bucket. For example, if you create a bucket and grant write access to another user, you will not be able to access that user’s objects unless the user explicitly grants you access. This also applies if you grant anonymous write access to a bucket.
— http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/UG/EditingPermissionsonanObject.html
Your ownership of a bucket still allows you to delete objects you don't otherwise have any access to, but there doesn't appear to be a mechanism to allow you to assume ownership of an object.
The only other suggestion might be to open a support request with AWS, but it seems unlikely that there is a mechanism that would allow S3's built-in security design to be overridden. |
H: How does YouTube's mix feature work?
I've looked around quite a bit but haven't been able to find much of anything in the way of documentation for this feature.
How does it work?
Does it load random videos by specific artists?
Similar type songs, like Pandora?
Does it only use content from specific users/channels?
Does it load a certain number of videos?
What happens when it gets to the end of the list, if there is an end?
Is the list (relatively) infinite?
Is there any documentation about it?
AI: YouTube Mix is an auto-generated playlist that will display suggested videos based on what you’re watching. This is the best description that I've found, and it is consistent with what I have observed as a YouTube user and channel "owner":
YouTube Mix offers users the ability to watch 50 videos continuously that it thinks
they’ll be interested in. No additional work needed to click through each video one by one
to watch it. Each playlist features up to 50 videos, but YouTube says
that once all of those videos have been watched, an additional 50 will
be shown, showing users more content that they are interested in. Just
like a music playlist, users can shuffle videos, place it on repeat,
or skip around to specific videos they wish to see.
Mixes are created automatically and randomly, and calling the same playlist by a bookmark or a link never leads to the same result again—see Is there a way to save the YouTube MIX playlist in my playlists? Google doesn't disclose the selection algorithm used.
Despite what some say,the YouTube Mix feature is not gone. It is available on web and mobile. |
H: Get rid of Russian junk from my Gmail
For a while now, the spam folder in my Gmail everyday gets simply flooded with Russian-speaking / Russian-written junk e-mails.
How can I get rid of it? Is there any filter in Gmail, that let me target specific language, alphabet (Cyrylic) or maybe specific sender's domain (.ru and .su)?
AI: You could create a filter, if you can find a search that will hit only the emails you want, and have all matching messages deleted? Or at least "never send to spam" but instead moved to a special folder if you want to review them too.
I thought that maybe some characters that never show up in your language like ф peraps? But apparently Gmail doesn't search like that, here's a good overview from another answer:
The Gmail search functionality works based on what I would describe as tokens. A token is any sequence of alphanumeric characters separated by a space or by other non-alphanumeric characters such as underscore, full stop (period), "@", dash, etc.. So in peter.ford23@example.com there are 4 tokens: "peter", "ford23", "example" and "com".
Wildcards within tokens do not work.
So Gmail only searches by words or parts of emails. Even the . in the examples below may be unnecessary (from:.ru may be the same as from:ru)
Or something like from:.ru should match all messages whose from address contains .ru (I tested from:(.com) that matches anything.com addresses, while from:(.co) matches emails containing .co like @yahoo.co.uk.
There may be a combination of "tokens"/words in the from:, subject:,body: that might match enough messages...
There used to be a good language search, but apparently it doesn't work anymore. This guy said that Gmail could search emails by language using lang:[code], like lang:ru for Russian. More language codes should be here. I don't think I have any emails like that so couldn't test, but trying lang:en didn't show any hits, so it looks like it's no longer available.
Or, you could try a filter for the "false positive" spam you frequently see and keep those out of the spam folder, maybe search for your name or something unique? That would probably result in a lot of spam not in the spam folder though. |
H: How can I close my FriendFeed account?
I started a FriendFeed account from Facebook and now I neither know my FriendFeed email address nor have kept my Facebook account. How can I terminate my FriendFeed account that's still there publicly? I know my username at FriendFeed but their support doesn't answer questions.
AI: The direct removal link is this: http://friendfeed.com/account/delete
If you wish to terminate your FriendFeed account, you can do so at: http://friendfeed.com/account/delete. You can also write to us at FriendFeed Inc., 313 W. Evelyn Ave., Mountain View, CA 94041. If you terminate your account, your profile and any entries or comments you’ve made will be removed from the site. Your account will be deleted immediately, but it will remain in our backup systems.
Source (under Choices for personal information).
Publicly visible text/images often aren't properly deleted even when you succeed in deleting an account. Try editing or deleting them manually before deleting the account itself. If you're unsure what happens to your tracks: this can be found mostly in the Terms of Service/Privacy Policy; otherwise you can always contact FriendFeed and ask personally. By the way, deletion requests don't necessarily mean your data will actually be deleted (e.g. due to legal obligations).
Also,
If you signed up for FriendFeed using a third-party login such as Facebook or Twitter, you probably want to revoke all access from FriendFeed.
Source. |
H: Facebook: can A's friend B see posts by friend A on C's timeline when B and C are not friends?
I have a simple Facebook question: suppose A (for instance myself) has friends B and C, but B and C are not friends. If I post to B's timeline, then can C view such post, either in their news feed or by accessing the post by some other means?
AI: Under your privacy settings you should have the option of determining whether your posts are public or only visible to friends. If it's the latter, your newsfeed updates won't be visible to C by newsfeed. However, that doesn't override friend B's settings.
Friend B might have his or her settings set to censor or post by default all activity to his or her timeline. If you post on friend B's timeline and settings are "public", friend C (along with anyone else) would see that. If friend B reviews all timeline activity, he or she could determine whether that post is seen only by friends, friends on certain lists, or public. |
H: How to forward unregistered email to a registered email
I have bought Google email services and pointed my GoDaddy's MX records to Google and I was able to create users via admin.google.com.
I dont know how to explain this, but lets say I want email named info@example.com or contact@example.com to be forwarded to admin@example.com. I dont want to add a additional users for info and contact.
The feature is there in GoDaddy, but as I have changed the MX record to Google, the email forwarding in GoDaddy is not working.
AI: Specific names can be added as "aliases" under Users → admin → Account.
A global catch-all address can be configured under Google Apps → Gmail → Advanced → Routing. |
H: How to pass multidimensional array to a custom function in Spreadsheets
I want to pass a multidimensional array to a custom function. I do it like this:
=customFunction({{"a1v1"; "a1v2"};{"a2v1"; "a2v2"; "a2v3"};{"a3v1"}})
However, I don't get the expected behavior because it behaves like a 1-dimension array.
AI: You're not adding an array or string but an object. Objects are not processed as such and simply returned. Coincidentally, you discovered that a semi-colon creates a column presentation and a backslash a row presentation.
If you really want to add an array notation as a parameter, then you need to do the following.
Formula
=customFunction("[['a1v1', 'a1v2'],['a2v1', 'a2v2', 'a2v3'],['a3v1']]")
Code
function customFunction(multiArray) {
return eval(multiArray);
}
Screenshot
Explained
Prepare the string with single and double quotes, in order to use text within the array. This string is then evaluated, via the eval() method, as it if were JavaScript. |
H: Takeout breaks my non-ASCII
I have downloaded emails from Gmail via Google Takeout, one label to be exact. Looking closer at the downloaded contents (in MBOX format), it turns out that all non-ASCII characters have been replaced by the byte sequence EF BF BD: the UTF-8 encoded Unicode REPLACEMENT CHARACTER (U+FFFD: �)!
I would hope there is a solution to that...?
Edit: The emails do not include any Content-Type header, so Gmail cannot know which character set they contain. Gmail displays the emails just fine. It probably guesses that it's ISO-Latin-1, or whatever works best for the specific email. Takeout then just assumes UTF-8 and converts every weird character into the replacement character...
I have not found any way around this, using Takeout. Except making sure the original emails are in UTF-8, but that's not always in my control.
AI: I don't know if there is a way to avoid this annoying problem with takeout, but you may be able to work around it by setting up and using an IMAP or POP interface to download the mail onto your computer (which could be running something like the Thunderbird client). |
H: How to get the number of revisions of a Wikipedia article?
I am interested to know how many revisions a Wikipedia article has. I can look up its history and count the revisions, but I would like a more direct solution than cumbersome manual counting. Ideas?
How to get the number of revisions of a Wikipedia article?
AI: An easy way is to just add ?action=info to your URL. For example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stack_Exchange?action=info quickly tells you it has been edited 366 times. |
H: How do I search for videos with 48fps or higher?
I tried looking for an advanced search box, but I only see a magnifying glass in the main search box which seems to only perform a title search. Is there a way to filter videos that contain 48fps (frames per second) or higher? I noticed this 60fps list, but it only seems to be a playlist not search results.
AI: There is an advanced search in the form of filters which you can apply to the search results, but there are no relevant filters past the basic HD quality.
Update:
Looks like YouTube has just added a filter for 4K, but no such luck for high FPS yet. |
H: Reset or remove Gmail 2FA setting from specific computer
I accidentally checked (or did not uncheck) the "Do not ask for 2FA on this PC again" field when I logged into Gmail on a PC that isn't mine.
Is there any way to reset this setting? I looked around in settings without finding anything.
AI: From Google Help:
Removing trusted computers from your list
You can remove computers from your set of trusted computers at any time. To do so, sign in to your account and go to your 2-Step Verification settings page. Under the “Advanced” section, you’ll have the choice to remove the computer you’re using at the time or all other computers. If you choose to remove other computers from your trusted list, those computers will automatically sign out of your account, and you’ll be prompted for a verification code next time you try to sign in from them.
That text is somewhat out of date from the UI. On the Verification Settings page, click the "Registered computers" tab, then "Other registered computers" - "Change setting", then "Require codes" to sign out from all other computers (besides the current one). They'll need the password and 2FA to sign in again. |
H: Select top n filtered rows in Google Sheets
In Google Sheets I have a table like this:
JOB TYPE STATUS
Generate files Scheduled In Progress
Update certs Manual Completed
Copy files Scheduled Pending
... (hundreds of rows)
Rows are sorted by descending priority. I need to count the STATUS values of the top 20 “Scheduled” jobs:
Top 20 Scheduled Jobs: Completed: 2
In Progress: 4
Pending: 14
I can use FILTER to select all the “Scheduled” jobs, but how do I select the “top 20” rows from that result (meaning the first 20 rows after the filter has been applied)?
AI: UNTESTED. Please try:
=countif(array_constrain(filter(C:C,B:B="Scheduled"),20,1),E2)
and cop down where E2, E3 and E4 contain Completed, In Progress and Pending respectively. |
H: Upload emails to Gmail account from the Google Takeout generated .mbox file
In the past I've downloaded my emails from a Gmail account using Google Takeout. This gave me a .mbox archive. Is there a way I can upload this into a another Gmail account?
AI: Not directly. You'll want to use a third-party email client that can import mbox files as well as connect to Gmail via IMAP.
Thunderbird, with the ImportExportTools extension, looks like it would suit.
Once you import the mbox files and connect your Gmail via IMAP, it then should be as simple as dragging-and-dropping between the accounts. |
H: Ask questions on GitHub without raising an issue
It’s happened to many I’m sure: you're on GitHub trying to install some new software, and it’s just not working right. It might be the software, or it might be that you didn't understand something, or something went wrong along the way. As in, your issue may not be an issue of the project you are trying to install.
Is there a way to ask general questions on GitHub, about any project, without raising an issue for the entire project?
AI: on StackOverflow is the place to ask your questions about a certain project without raising an issue for the entire project. Remember to tag all your questions as "Git" or "GitHub" I give you direct link hope this is helpful
https://stackoverflow.com/ |
H: Delete all Google Plus Posts, Comments, or +1's
Is there a way to delete all of my posts, comments and +1's on my personal Google+ profile without deleting my Google+ account so I can keep my friends and acquaintances?
AI: Go to https://plus.google.com/apps/activities/
Click on Posts, Comments, or the set of activities you want to remove.
Enter this code into the console:
document.body.style.height = "200%"; // Always allow to scroll to wake the ajax
(function deleteItems() {
// All of the X buttons but from posts being removed
const xButtons = document.querySelectorAll(".kKHdKc:not(.FmKyud) .XVzU0b.J3yWx");
// If reached the end of the list
const reachedEnd = window.getComputedStyle(document.querySelector(".Jb45He.SrWDEb")).getPropertyValue("display") !== "none";
if (reachedEnd) {
// Stop if no more buttons to delete
console.log("No more buttons! Stopping");
clearInterval(deleteInterval);
return;
} else if (xButtons.length === 0 && document.querySelectorAll(".kKHdKc.FmKyud").length === 0) { // No more buttons to press and it's not disposing of old comments
// Scroll to wake up G+, an easier hack than calling G+ or loading all comments on a slow system
window.scrollTo(0, document.body.scrollHeight);
window.setTimeout(function() {
window.scrollTo(0, 0);
}, 10);
}
// Click the X buttons
for (let i = 0; i < xButtons.length; i++) {
xButtons[i].click();
// Click the all the modals' delete buttons
window.setTimeout(function() {
let modalDeleteButtons = document.querySelectorAll(".HvOprf .RveJvd");
for (let i = 0; i < modalDeleteButtons.length; i++) {
modalDeleteButtons[i].click();
}
}, 3);
}
window.setTimeout(function() {deleteItems();}, 100); // Forces at least the syncronous tasks to finish which is why I used this over an interval
})();
Let it sit for a while.
If it stops after a while, change the three setTimeout delays to something larger. The 10, 3, and 5 ms times respectively were just some okay values for my system. I didn't put thought into them but rather just changed them when I noticed one part lag behind.
Be careful with code you enter into the console and don't enter code into the console unless you understand what the code does (as the self XSS warning in the console explains). |
H: Is it possible to sign into Gmail only?
Normally when you sign into Gmail, it signs into your whole Google account - YouTube, Gmail, Google Search, etc… Is it possible to sign into only Gmail and leave the others not logged in?
From a quick Google search, it doesn't look possible to change this in Google accounts settings. Is there, for example, a Firefox extension that would do the trick?
AI: As far as I know, this is not possible. There could be a hack, but I am not aware of any method to accomplish this.
I would suggest using a separate browser session with the appropriate anonymity mode enabled (i.e. InPrivate, Private Browsing, Incognito mode) and make sure you untick the "keep me logged in" box and log out of the service after you're done. That will at least make sure your session isn't shared with other browser windows/sessions.
Obviously, you can still be tracked via IP and the like. |
H: In Inbox by Gmail, how can recipients be moved back and forth between the To and CC fields?
When using the ordinary Gmail web app, I can drag and drop recipients between To: and CC:
It doesn't seem possible in Inbox by Gmail web app. How can I move recipient to CC without typing in the name manually?
AI: I'm afraid this is currently not possible.
Inbox by Gmail is currently in limited preview, so it doesn't surprise me that a lot of features aren't yet implemented. This seems like one they'd be sure to include, especially since it's such a no-brainer in regular Gmail. |
H: Can I set Gmail filters from Thunderbird?
I am in the process of moving all my email filters to Gmail, using their Filter features. Right now, all of my filters are inside Thunderbird and now I have to make each filter again from scratch.
Is there a way to set Gmail filter from Thunderbird? So I don't have to go to Gmail web app each time I need to make a new filter.
PS. I am not sure if Gmail refers to this as to a "filter" or "label". What I need is to automatically move a message meeting certain criteria to its dedicated folder inside Gmail.
AI: Filters and labels are related, but different things. You create filters to automatically label(and thereby "move") the message.
There's no way to automatically sync your Thunderbird filters to Gmail web. |
H: Can't add separate domain to Google Apps account
I'm trying to add a separate domain to my Google apps account (different from a 'domain alias'). However the button that used to appear on the 'Domains' page seems to have disappeared.
I've added two domains using that button in the past, but now it's gone. The official limit is close to 600 and I'm at 2 so far...
Screenshot:
AI: So turns out Google just changed their policies and now
"The legacy free edition of Google Apps only supports domain aliases, not secondary domains."
I'm guessing this was to fight against all of the legacy accounts being sold on eBay. |
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