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H: How to remove terms from Google search results? I used to be able to stop terms from appearing in my Google search results using the minus letter, but this no longer seems to work. Is there a new way of doing this? AI: This does work, as a librarian I use it all the time. Try encasing the main search phrase in "" and then -keyword -keyword after it. e.g. "seal*" -navy -sport +antarctic Make sure there is no space between the '-' and the keyword. Alternatively, if you aren't getting any joy use Advanced Search and do it in there.
H: How to change `time range of one day` in Google Calendar? As the screenshot below, I want to get rid of the period from 0AM to 5AM which is useless to me. How can I do that? AI: Go to your calendar settings and then to Laboratory tab. The lab "Hide morning and night" does what you want. Now your calendar would only show something if you actually have something planned within that window. There is a slider to adjust the times that are hidden.
H: Is it possible to get a Google voice number without already having a phone number? I currently have no phone number; I can make outgoing calls via the widget in gmail, but I cannot receive calls (as far as I know). I know that you can set up a google voice number to forward to Google chat, and this is exactly what I want. The problem is, I can't get a Google voice number in the first place, because it first requires that I have an existing phone number, even if I wouldn't use it. So, it is possible to skip providing an existing phone number, and just get a google voice number that forwards to Google chat? Alternatively, is there any free phone service that can be used without a phone and lets you receive calls from any number? AI: IPKall gives you phone number that can be forwarded to a VOIP provider and can be used to receive calls using SIP software. You don't pay for the number and you can get a free VOIP account from some providers, check the IPKall website for examples. Sipgate One gives you a phone number that can receive calls and you can register SIP client with their servers. You get the number for free, however Sipgate One is out of stock for quite some time.
H: How come I can't input a formula into my Google Spreadsheet? Here are my steps: focus a cell in my Google Spreadsheet, hit = and then highlight the field D3, hit +, highlight the field D4, hit +, highlight the field D5, hit Enter. However, the field just contains the text "=D3+D4+D5" instead of the sum of the selected cells. Why? AI: There is a chance that you have told Google docs to show formulas. Crtl+` will toggle the display of the formulas or it is under the "view /all formulas" menu.
H: Can anyone see my Tumblr username if I post from a "sub-tumblr"? My main blog on Tumblr is username.tumblr.com. I follow people, browse the dashboard, and heart posts from that username. When I post things to a sub-tumblr called subtumblr.tumblr.com, on that tumblr's 'dashboard' thingy - that is, tumblr.com/blog/subtumblr - posts have my username avatar next to them. Posts on my regular dashboard, and subtumblr's followers' dashboards, have the subtumblr avatar next to them, and link to the subtumblr, unless I check this box: This is on the individual sub-tumblr's settings http://www.tumblr.com/blog/subtumblr/settings or similar. With that box un-checked, it seems to me that username will not be revealed to anyone browsing subtumblr, either on the dashboard or on subtumblr.tumblr.com. Is this correct? Is there any other area where the name of the parent account might be revealed? AI: The only other area where it is possible to be seen is in the rss as dc:creator. If you disabled "Show author portraits", then you should be fine (you wouldn't even see it in the RSS) Other places you will see it are http://www.tumblr.com/blog/subtumblr (under div class class="avatar_and_i") but not /dashboard. Of course if you reblog the subtumblr or like it any way that can raise speculation. Especially if the subtumblr doesn't have a lot of followers.
H: HTML for iPad: What should i need to know? I just made a LAN webapp, it works great on my computer but i discovers it just doesn't work well with an iPad. I use JQuery and JQuery UI, and know that using JQuery UI for Mobile I would have less to worry, but I also want to know the basics. What do I need to know about HTML on iPad, or Android tablet, or smartphones? Any specific markups? How do they handle orientation change? How my webapp can/should react? Specifically to iPad, if a user pin the webapp to homescreen, how do I set which icon should it use (I know favicon don't work)? Lastly, any performance tips? I used iPad 1st gen and autocorrect fields just make it crawl.. AI: You just need HTML (version usually doesn't matter) Nope. Just use HTML5 as specified. Use those new input types for forms, because they trigger specific keyboard layouts or standard iOS select controls. Use Media Queries: http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-mediaqueries/ In addition to favicon you have to specify the icons for iOS devices in the meta tags section: https://developer.apple.com/library/safari/#documentation/AppleApplications/Reference/SafariHTMLRef/Articles/MetaTags.html
H: URL to get the list of Wikipedia bots Is there an URL to retrieve the list of Wikipedia bots? Those are users with the bot flag. It could be HTML/XML or anything, but not the whole Wikipedia dump. No such method in the API. Note: not all bots contain "bot" in their name, see for instance CommonsDelinker. AI: There is such method in the API, it's allusers, which has a parameter augroup that you can use to get a list of all users in a specific group. For example: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?format=xml&action=query&list=allusers&augroup=bot&aulimit=max This will give you the first 500 bots. If you want to get all of them, you have to use query-continue.
H: Delete only messages based on search not conversations Is there a way to delete only messages coming from specified address, leaving any followup answers (conversations) in the mailbox? I'm receiving a lot of messages from automated ticket system. I would like to delete all messages coming from that system, but I would like to keep any answers from real people in my mailbox. Alternatively I would be happy with deleting only messages from specific address that do not have any other messages in conversation. AI: You could experiment with turning off the conversations setting. Note this Click on the gear symbol in the upper right corner Select Mail settings from the drop down In the conservation view section on the General Settings tab select "Conversation view off" Then delete the messages you don't want. I assume that you will have to delete the messages, or they will reattach themselves to the conversations. You will now have to turn "Conversation view on" using the earlier procedure
H: Can I have Google search results always filtered? Is there a way to have Google search results always filtered? I am constantly clicking on "only show results from the past year" and I would like to make this default. AI: You can make the following your Google bookmark and/or homepage: https://www.google.com/webhp?tbs=qdr:y The reason for the link is that there's no way to default the search parameters for "Since"
H: Put Adsense ads in specific Blogger post I have a personal Blogger blog, that doesn't get much traffic. There is however one post, that gets unusually many random hits from search engine (the picture inside of the post must have been indexed high). I don't want to have too many ads on my blog, but I want to put an ad on the bottom of this specific post. However, it seems that Blogger doesn't allow to insert <script> tags inside of post. Is there another way to put Adsense ad under only one specific post? AI: You can insert ads into individual posts: the trick is to turn on show break-characters instead of blank lines (I tried to spell this out here, but the HTML got interpreted!) in the post options before putting the code into the HTML tab of the post-editor. Ref: http://blogger-hints-and-tips.blogspot.com/2009/12/putting-google-adsense-advertisements.html
H: See all posts from everyone in Facebook Facebook now has a per-friend "How many updates?" settings that controls the number of updates that appear in the news feed from that friend. I want to see all updates from all of my friends. Is there any way to change this setting globally or do I have to go through each and every one of my friends to change it? AI: No, there is no way to do it in bulk. "How many updates?" are preset based on your categories for friends and lists. Close Friends - All Updates Acquaintances - Only Important Friends - Most Updates Restricted - Most Updates Subscribed - Most Updates
H: Facebook: List of friends that no longer appear in my news feed For a few of my "friends" on Facebook I have set to not appear in my news feed. For some of them I would like to change that so that I can view them in my news feed again. Is there a list of such friends, so that I can check each one individually? Otherwise I'd have to go through all my friends and check which are hidden, which would take a lot of time. AI: At the left sidebar, below your profile image, find this option - Click Edit Settings and you'll see the list of friends you have hidden.
H: Gmail: Reply as email address the message was sent to Possible Duplicate: How can I get GMail to make the default address I’m sending an email from be the same as the To address in a reply? I use different addresses in my Gmail account, for work, private matters, and a club I'm doing some work for. Is there a possibility to automatically reply with, say, the work address to all emails that were sent to the work address and not always have to change it to the work address? AI: In Gmail, open the settings. Choose Accounts and Import. There will be a list of all your Gmail accounts. At the bottom of that list will be a radio button control. One of the options will be to reply using the address that the mail came to.
H: Can Google Analytics analyze usage of my Google Play app page? It is possible to configure a Google Analytics UA for a Google Code project. Similarly, is it possible to configure a Google Analytics UA for a Google Play app? Context: The current trend for app developers is to market/link/print their Google Play URL directly, rather than their own website's URL. While this make it easier for users to install the app (one less click), this removes the webmaster's ability to analyze where visitors are coming from. AI: I think it is impossible now, because if you want to use Google Analytics first you have to upload a specific-named file to your host, so Google understands who you are and it stores your data. Google Play is not your area; you only have profile.
H: How can I allow invited users to comment on cards in Trello but not add cards? I would like to use a Trello board to list support issues for my clients. I want to be able to post cards for them to comment on, but I do not want them to have the ability post cards themselves or move them between lists. Is there a way to do this? AI: You have two ways you can do this, depending on whether or not you want to make the board public. Both make use of the comments setting found under the board profile. If you make the board public, you can select "public" under comments in order to allow anyone with a Trello account to leave a comment. If you don't want to make the board public, you can create a new organization for members of your team and members of your client's team and associate the board with that new organization. Then you can select "organization" under comments in order to allow anyone in the organization to leave a comment. As a bonus, you can do the exact same thing with voting.
H: Is there an easy way to find out a tweet I re-tweeted? I vaguely remember there was a "retweets" link somewhere in an older version of the interface, but it's gone now (?). Is there a simple way to find a tweet I've re-tweeted (that I found when it was re-tweeted by someone I follow)? A search query I'm missing perhaps? I'd prefer not to resort to the API (I'm lazy), but if that's the only way... ;) AI: You can find a list of your retweets at http://favstar.fm/users/yrizos/retweeted, there is no way to search through them and they only show the most recent tweets. A non-web solution would be to use https://github.com/sferik/t, a Twitter CLI example t retweets stackexchange Shows retweets made by user "stackexchange" or t search retweets "stackoverflow" (Search my account for any retweets I made with the word "stackoverflow"
H: Gmail two-factor authentication without a cell phone? I love the idea of protecting my Gmail account using two-factor authentication, but I don't own a cell phone. And I don't want to tie Gmail to a land line since the whole point of having the account is to be able to use mail when traveling. Am I hosed, or are there other means of authenticating? AI: Google only offers the following options: SMS Text Message Voice Calls Google Authenticator application mobile app 1-time use printable backup codes You could use the printed codes to access your account when traveling, but other than that you'd need a phone or device that can run the Authenticator application. Google Help - Setup of 2-Factor Authentication
H: How do I change date format at top of day in Google Calendar? I can change the date format for most dates displayed by my calendar to Irish format, however I can’t find how to change this one. The dates at the top of each day are shown as 5/17 or Month/Day—as a European, I would like to be able to display them as 17/5, but that doesn’t seem to be possible from my reading of the configuration settings. Any ideas? AI: Go to Settings (Cog wheel on the upper-right side) Search for Date format Switch to 31/12/2012 Click Save at to the or bottom of the settings page
H: Hosting SyntaxHighlighter on Dropbox My blog is a low-traffic blog and occasionally contains code. I decided to host SyntaxHighlighter myself and uploaded files to my Dropbox and configured my blog accordingly. I am able to see the code properly highlighted. Would hosting static files on Dropbox be a trouble for my account, in terms of bandwidth? AI: We watch carefully for any fraudulent use of Dropbox public links and will suspend suspicious links when they are detected. Links that use up more than 20 GB/day for Basic (free) accounts and 200 GB/day for Pro and Teams (paid) accounts are automatically suspended. From Dropbox help.
H: Change Google+ link summary text As a Google+ user, how can I change the summary text Google+ shows when sharing a link? Here's an example post where it looks like it's showing the first <div> with a certain amount of text in it, but in this particular example, the <div> is hidden and shown only for mouse-over navigation. Google+ shows this text as the summary: The Dark Tower Series Continues. It's been years since the last installation in Stephen King's Dark Tower series, but the wait is almost over. In only a matter of days the new book will be ava... Which does appear first in the HTML, but the 'real' content (here) is: Watt's Up! High Plains Library District, in partnership with Xcel Energy, has added 40 portable Watts Up? meters to the collection. These easy to use meters will help you save energy and make green decisions. AI: You won't be able to change the text on Google+ itself, but if you can control the site you can set the <meta name="description" content="what I want to show up in Google+"> field. When the meta description field is blank, Google finds the first text within the <body> tag to display that isn't a list or link descriptor text. In this page's case the stuff you pointed out is that text. So, quick answer: No, you can't change it on Google+'s side, but you can affect what is displayed. Facebook is nearly the same, but once it pulls in the description text & title you can double click the fields and change them. Keep in mind, that even if the site side issues are fixed the link description may be cached on Google+'s side and when you repost it won't show. Same goes for Facebook on this as well.
H: Twitter error message "There was an error updating the list" What does the error message "There was an error updating the list" mean? I got it while trying to add someone to a new, private, list using twitter's web site with Safari. Speculation includes: Too many users in a list Too many lists Browser issues A bug in twitter AI: This is one of those generic error messages that are used to cover all sorts of issues. It allows the website or web app to provide a level of abstraction so that users only need to know that something is up and to either wait a bit before they retry or follow-up with support or the developers. It's deliberately vague because the user doesn't need to know the exact details of what's gone wrong which may include: timeout issues temporary code changes permission errors from missed database connections etc. These things are usually temporary and retrying later usually will go through fine. If not, then the error message will show more details or there will be a related post on the site or its blog to detail what's happening and/or why.
H: How do I remove the "Comments" word out of "x Comments" in Disqus Tumblr themes? From How do you remove Disqus "comments" from Tumblr pages? and Disqus: Setup instructions for Tumblr, I found that you can show Disqus comments with <a class="dsq-comment-count" href="{Permalink}#disqus_thread">Comments</a> which seems to generate "x Comments" where x is the number of comments. Is there a way to get rid of the "Comments" bit, and just have the number? AI: It's managed in Disqus settings, not on Tumblr. Log into your Disqus account Go to the account that needs the change (the first page when logged in is the dashboard) Click on Settings (the right-most tab) Click on Appearance Scroll down to the Comment Count Link group of settings (almost at the end of the page) There you'll see three editable text fields labeled Zero Comments, One Comment, and Multiple Comments. Change the text in them to whatever you want. Click the big blue button Save Changes at the bottom of the page
H: Is it possible to protect Facebook page from takeover by other administrator? If many people have admin access to Facebook page one of them can delete page, or remove other administrator. Is it possible to protect from that situation in some way (ie. master admin or password)? AI: Facebook used to restrict the original creator of the page from deletion, but removed that feature a few months ago. So, no, there's no master password or anything protecting against the situation you present.
H: On Facebook, is there a way to stop notifications for other people writing on the wall of an event I have RSVPed to? It drives me crazy that I get notifications from people I don't know who have written on the wall of an event that I (along with 3000 other people) was invited to. I see that you can prevent getting emailed whenever this happens, but is there way to avoid the notification (i.e. the red "globe" with the number lighting up) entirely? AI: Yep! For Facebook's Notifications on a specific event, here's how to turn them off. Go to the event page. Click the "Gear" icon in the upper right. "Turn off Notifications" Also related, to disable Email Notifications for events (every event, not just a specific one) Go to your "Account Settings" "Notifications" from the left Under "Events" uncheck "Posts on the wall of an event you've joined"
H: How to filter by a catch-all address in Gmail Does anyone fathom how to setup a Gmail/Google Apps Mail filter that catches ALL destinations to a particular domain? I've tried deliveredto:@mydomain.com and deliveredto:@mydomain.com in the "Has the words" field but neither work. Similar to this question except not specific to any complete address (only the domain is constant in my case, the user/account part before the @ is unpredictable): Is it possible to create a Gmail filter that works on headers other than From, To, Subject? I already have another filter setup to catch and forward @mydomain.com in the To: field; that works fine. AI: deliveredto:"@mydomain.com" Not sure why this works when the others don’t, but the quotes act as some kind of delimiter.
H: How to copy a track from Bing Maps to Google Maps I have a track in Bing Maps, but I'd like to get it somehow to Google Maps. Is this possible? If so, how? AI: You can export the route in Bing Maps as a KML file & import that KML file into Google Maps. In Bing Maps, add the selected location to a Collection. The "Add to collection" link appears below any location you choose. From the Collection menu on the right, click on "Open your collections" to view the Collections Editor which has an Actions dropdown. This has the Export option under it which further shows the KML & GeoRSS option under it. (there may be alternative ways of reaching this Export to KML option). This will allow you to download the selected route as a KML or GeoRSS file. In Google Maps, click on the My Places button & then click on the Create Map button. Select the Import link & upload the KML or GeoRSS file that you've copied from Bing.
H: Are alternate names in Facebook searchable? I mean that, if I add an alternate name to my Facebook account, will my profile be found by others even when they search by my alternate name? AI: Yes. This is exactly the reason they added this feature. https://blog.facebook.com/blog.php?post=98445832130
H: Get Facebook newsfeed or notification feeds How can I get a URL to a Facebook Newsfeed, and if possible, notifications feed? There were methods to get Facebook Newsfeed to your application, but recently they haven't been working. Or maybe I'm using them wrong. I used Rainmeter with some awesome widgets and several of them need us to input a URL of the newsfeed, but I can't figure out how to get it. AI: Rainmeter and those other apps frequently expect an RSS feed for your account's notifications (for example when someone likes a comment of yours). Facebook does not provide your "News Feed" (friends' posts) via RSS, but only through their API. The feed for your account's notifications can be found at https://www.facebook.com/notifications and copy the URL provided in the "RSS" link.
H: Why is Google Analytics data off when selecting multiple days? When in the Audience > Overview and selecting data for one specific day (4/20), I get a Unique Visitor count of 1,392. When I select the data of another specific day (4/21) I get 942. But when I get the data of the two days together (4/20 - 4/21) I get a Unique Visitor count of 2,252. The math does not seem correct as 1392+942 = 2334 != 2252. What could be causing this? AI: Google defines unique visitors as "number of unduplicated (counted only once) visitors to your website over the course of a specified time period" http://support.google.com/googleanalytics/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=33087 so what is happening here is when you are looking at each day those numbers are correct for that day. When you expand the date range the numbers are different because you have 82 visitors (2334-2252=82) that came to the site on both days so they are counted as unique when you are looking at a single day but not when you are looking at two days.
H: Gmail address with "+" within the recipient name I've seen people list email addresses at Gmail with "+" within the recipient name. Here's an example of what I mean: [email protected] That said, if you attempted to create a Gmail account with "+" recipient name, you would get this error message: Please use only letters (a-z), numbers, and periods. Is the "+" simply read and removed by the mail server, and if so, is this specific to Gmail, or is it universal to all email addresses/servers? Meaning my guess is that people to this for readability, but I've always been puzzled by it, since it appears to not be possible to create an Gmail account using a "+". AI: Plus sign is GMail's delimiter for aliases, which many people use for filtering and tracking spam. For example, you want to make sure that your bank's emails are all legitimate so you'll register your email with the bank as [email protected] and then create a filter that deletes all emails that don't match from:MyBank AND to:[email protected]. Alternatively, when you register with a shady site you can provide your email as [email protected] and then create a filter to delete everything that is sent to that address. However, beware that some sites have poorly-written validators on allowed addresses, which block emails with plus sign, which is actually an allowed character per RFC 5322. Google doesn't allow it simply because it's a reserved character in their system.
H: Is there a limit on functions in Google Spreadsheets? As to answer a question on Super User, I was making a sample spreadsheet on Google Docs. I made it first in Excel 2010 on my computer to copy/paste it later on. When I tried to copy a formula that contained the "MATCH" formula, it didn't work (it works in Excel though). Is Google Spreadsheets limited in formulas or does it work with its own set of formulas and can't I compare it to the Office Excel one? AI: Google Docs has size limits. There can be 2 million cells containing formulas. You can compare the Excel functions with this Google Spreadsheet function list. While there are some common functions, Google Spreadsheet does have its own set of formulas Google spreadsheets also have complexity limits. Every time a cell is updated, any cell that references it will also be recalculated. If formulas become too complex or take too long to calculate, the spreadsheet will timeout during calculation.
H: How to search and sort emails in the spam folder of Yahoo Mail In Yahoo Mail, I am checking the emails in my spam folder, just in case that some emails have been mistaken as spam. But in the spam folder, the emails are sorted by their "nominal" receiving times, instead of the actual receiving times. By "nominal" receiving time, I mean some spam emails fake their receiving time to be a future time in order to stay at the top of other emails, which makes sorting emails in the time order difficult for me. So I wonder if it is possible to sort emails by their actual receiving time? A side question: Is it possible to search some keywords in the emails in the spam folder? It seems not possible by using the top right search box. AI: You have to check your spam messages one by one in Yahoo Mail if you want to make 100% sure you don't miss any real messages. So, There is no way to sort emails by their actual date/time in Yahoo Mail. Yahoo Mail does not let you search in Spam folder. I am a long-time Yahoo Mail user and I also have these problems.
H: Ubuntu font in Google's services When I create documents in Google Docs, I can choose from several fonts. Is it possible to change that? Is it possible that the fonts like Ubuntu and Purisa to be used in Google's services, such as Google Docs or Google+? AI: Ubuntu font is already available in Google Docs. And no, there is no way to add more fonts there.
H: How to hide my profile and activities in Facebook from a user who has already hid his profile and activities from me? A user has done something to his/her profile so that I am not able to find him/her on Facebook. On the other hand, he/she is able to see my activities. For example, he/she posted a message on somebody else's wall. Then I posted some comments on the message. Now my friends can see the message along with the comments I posted. But I can neither see the message and nor my comments. Now, how can I hide myself from that particular user? If I can't even find him/her, how can I block him/her? AI: It sounds like the user has blocked you. In that case you cannot see their posts or comments or their profile and also they cannot see your posts or comments or profile. You will not be able to block them except by email address, but they are already effectively blocked so there is nothing you need to do. Of course, if they have a friend or family member that can see the post then that person may have shown it to them, or if the post was public then they can see it without even logging in. In the past it was possible for someone to block you so that you could not see them, and then they could log in when you are not on and unblock you so that they could read your comments, and then block you again when they were done. To stop that, Facebook now requires that you wait 48 hours after clicking on "Unblock" before they are actually "unblocked" and also you can't "Block" the same person for 4 days after clicking on the "Unblock". So if someone is blocking and unblocking you, you will have at least 48 hours to see them (and block them if you wish) before they can block you again.
H: Is there a way to create two or more smart lists on Facebook? Here's an example, I want to create two different education smart lists. Both of the same type, but different. Is there a way? Because there are times when Facebook does create two Work smart lists, so this should be possible. But the question is, how? AI: If you list two or more schools in the education section of your profile/timeline, a smart list will be created for each one.
H: Are short URLs permanent? Do bit.ly and other URL shorteners reutilize unused short URLs? It seems the be so. Is there any risk that an URL that is redirected to a certain page right now, be redirected to another page in the future? AI: At least for bit.ly, the URL associated with the short link can't be changed. It's a security feature because, otherwise, someone with bad intentions could theoretically take over an account and replace all short URLs with malicious destinations. From Bit.ly FAQ: Can I edit/change my bitly link? What if I email you and ask nicely? bitly links cannot be edited. They also do not expire and cannot be changed, so they will always redirect to the site for which they were originally created. It's always a good idea to check that your long URL and/or custom name are correct before creating, sharing, or printing your bitly links.
H: What happens when I click "No" to "X wants to be able to chat" in Gmail? Will he or she know? I don't want to be rude. But I don't want to chat with this person in Gmail. Will he/she be notified or otherwise know if I say no to his/her chat request? AI: No, they will not receive any notification about your action. The user will continue to see you in their list with the "Invited" status.
H: Download button Google Drive sync-application I have access to Google Drive. But the download button to download the sync application is not available for me. AI: This is the URL that the "Download Google Drive" link sends you to: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/drive?pli=1#eula You should be able to download it from there.
H: Format a date fetched from another cell for display using CONCATENATE Given say 2 different dates in A1 and B1, what I want to do is just show the range of dates as a label in A2 by using =concatenate(A1, " - ", A2) However, A1 is in the default format (MM/DD/YYYY) and I want the label to have dates in the format DD MON, YYYY (as in 12/21/2012 -> 21st Dec, 2012). Seems like this shouldn't be too complicated, but I couldn't find any way to do so by searching so far. I guess I could copy the same date into a different hidden cell with the appropriate format, and reference that for the concatenate function call - but I'd rather do so directly if possible. So what I'm looking for is something like: =concatenate(FORMAT(A1, 'DD MON YYYY'), " - ", FORMAT(A1, 'DD MON YYYY')) except I can't find a suitable function. AI: There isn't a format function in Google spreadsheets. You have to use the TEXT(number, format) function. I have to admit I always assume it will be format, but Excel uses Text so Google has to use it also.
H: Using Google Search to find what a symbol means without knowing what it's called I was doing math homework and wanted to find out what ⊃ means, so I entered the symbol ⊃ in Google Search. However, I got no search results. How can I use Google to find out what symbols mean? AI: Wikipedia often has lovely tables you can find. I simply searched table of math symbols and I got to this page: List of Mathematical Symbols I then took the symbol and hit Ctrl + F and entered in the symbol (⊃) and I was taken right to the symbol.
H: Why do some of my Facebook friends on chat have a musical symbol by their names? I have noticed that some of my friends have this musical symbol to the right of their names in the Facebook chat panel. What does it mean? AI: It means they are listening to music from Open Graph Facebook applications. Hover to see what they are playing and listen as well. For more info: https://blog.facebook.com/blog.php?post=10150457932027131
H: What are my most-liked Facebook posts? Is there a way to rank all my Facebook posts (status updates, photos, links, etc.) by number of likes? How about a way to rank my friends by average number of likes on each friend's posts? I found mention of TopStats, which looked promising, but appears not to work anymore (redirects to the Facebook home page). AI: Login to Archivedbook using Facebook. Select tab Statuses and from the drop down menu select Most Liked.
H: Searching for a particular term on Google under a specific website domain I want to search on Google for some terms but the requirements are that the website's domain name must be .edu. How do I set up my search to filter out all those websites and domains that do not end in .edu? AI: The site: operator allows you to restrict results to a domain. It may be applied to a top-level domain (ex. .com, .org), second-level domain (ex. google.com), or any higher-level domain (ex. gaming.stackexchange.com). There must not be a space between the colon in site: and the start of the domain. To limit search results to the .edu top-level domain, add the site:.edu term to the query. For more information about the site: and other advanced operators, see http://support.google.com/websearch/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=136861.
H: Ignore specific friend published messages in Facebook News Feed How to ignore my specific friend published messages in my News Feed on Facebook and at the same time I don't want to unfriend with him. AI: Go to their profile and remove "Show in News Feed" by rolling over the subscription button to the left of the message button
H: Google Blogger: See how many subscriptions? If you have a blog with Google Blogger, is there any way to see how many people are subscribed to it? In the blogger dashboard there's a lot of statistics, but I don't see any for subscriptions. Is this possible? AI: The best way to track subscriptions is through Google Feedburner, which redirects your RSS feed. The only downside is that if you're transmitting your feed elsewhere, say a tool that posts to your Twitter or Yahoo Pipes, those bots/scripts will show up as subscribers and will skew the results slightly.
H: How to modify filters in gmail I am able to create an AND filter in Gmail: from:amy to:may How do I create an OR filter like the following: from:amy OR to:amy Is it possible to create an OR filter using the "Create new filter wizard" or do I have to manually edit an existing filter? If so, how? AI: To make an or condition just simply make two filters. It's possible to use the or condition in one of the lines for example: From: [email protected] OR [email protected] But you cannot have an OR statement for two different fields such as From and To. I believe creating two filters though one, containing only the from and the other containing only the to. Yes it may require a few more seconds of work but that's the best your going to get for now. OR try this: Create or modify a filter. In the Has the words field, enter your OR condition. For example: to:[email protected] OR From:[email protected]
H: Move a to-do list to other card? Is it possible to move a to-do list from one card to another? It seems difficult even to copy/paste the list. AI: Copying, cloning, and templating checklists is our top feature request on https://trello.com/dev.
H: Facebook accepts more than one password With Facebook login, my password had a form of uppercase letters, lowercase letter and numbers. Not strong, but it did the job. For example hunTer2 Recently, I was told by an acquaintance that I could do these as well HunTer2 HUNtER2 I have tried other combinations but they do not seem to work. Is there a reason Facebook allows these alternative passwords? AI: It's because of caps lock key on/off to prevent double entering password. Per http://www.zdnet.com/blog/facebook/facebook-passwords-are-not-case-sensitive-update/3612 Facebook actually accepts three forms of your password: Your original password. Your original password with the first letter capitalized. This is only for mobile devices, which sometimes capitalize the first character of a word. Your original password with the case reversed, for those with a caps lock key on. The third case is the one I stumbled upon today. Wolens told me Facebook has had this implemented “for a while” although he couldn’t say for exactly how long. He also noted that Facebook doesn’t believe this impact the security of the user’s passwords, since the characters are still unique, just flipped.
H: Complete list of actions on Twitter How do I find a complete list of possible actions on Twitter? Here are examples of what I mean, though to be clear, I'm not asking for a list, but how to compile the list: (unsure if the following are the "correct" names, but just an attempt to explain what I mean) tweet-received delete-any-type (tweet,direct-msg) tweet-sent @reply (@name starts tweet) @mentions (@name within tweet) @tweet retweet/unretweet follow/unfollow/block Approve/Deny Follower Requests favorite/unfavorite list-public/unlist-public list-private/unlist-private direct-msg-send direct-msg-receive Add tweet (hashtag, photo, URL) Edit Profile (picture, email, bio, theme, location) AI: The REST API more or less reflects anything you can do in the web interface, so I would say the list is here https://dev.twitter.com/docs/api
H: How do I setup a group in Google Apps for Business to be able to send to to all employees via one email address? I am running Google Apps for Business for managing our organization emails. I want to setup an email such as [email protected] and when sending an email to this email address, all team members will get the email in the same time. How can I do that? AI: You need to create an organisation-wide group from your Google Apps control panel: Here's how to create an organization-wide group: Create a new group. Learn more On the "Create a new group" page, click Add all users within [organization name] to this group. The group's member list now includes a special member called All users within organization name. You can edit the groups access settings or delete it, just like any other group. However, you can't edit the members within the All users member. Tip: To prevent spam being sent to everyone in your domain, allow only group owners and managers to send messages to a group that has the All users member. Quoted from Apps Administration Help, here.
H: Is this a spam email? It says it confirms a PayPal payment, what should I do? FW:You just sent a payment to Colin Peterson De: PayPalAgregar a contactos Enviado: Tue, 1 May, 2012 a la(s) 3:09 pm Para:XXX PayPal You just sent a payment Transaction ID: 2SM69324P0770102B Hello XXX, Thanks for using PayPal. It may take a few moments for this transaction to appear in your account. Merchant Colin Peterson [email protected] Note to Thad Peterson You haven't sent a note. Shipping address - confirmed Michael Pepe P.O. Box 173 Cheektowaga, NY14225 United States Total $80.00 USD Payment $100.00 USD Payment sent to Colin Peterson Help Centre \| Resolution Centre \| Security Centre This email was sent by an automated system, so if you reply, nobody will see it. To get in touch with us, log in to your account and click "Contact Us" at the bottom of any page. Copyright 2012 PayPal, Inc. All rights reserved. PayPal is located at 2211 N. First St., San Jose, CA 95131. PayPal Email ID PP1526 The transaction ID links to: http://running.ms/XiTNFwzp/index.html The Help Centre \| Resolution Centre \| Security Centre links to: http://running.ms/XiTNFwzp/index.html The full header is: Return-Path: <[email protected]> Precedence: junk From: "PayPal" <[email protected]> To: <XXX> Subject: [SPAM] FW:You just sent a payment to Colin Peterson Date: Wed, 2 May 2012 03:09:51 +0900 Message-ID: <00b901cd06ce$81fd8e80$85f8ab80$@net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_00BA_01CD06F0.090F2E80" Thread-Index: Ac0Gzn+LAgp9BZkgRqWDl+N6AtxTTw== Content-Language: en-gb AI: If the links you are being asked to follow take you to a url different then the normal paypal.com I would be warned that it is most likely fake. In this case what I do anyway just to be safe is I type directly into my url bar the address name, in this case www.paypal.com. You can log in and it should notify you if there are any payments that need to be confirmed. Note: Paypal does sometimes require confirmation so this could be a valid email, but it's always better safe then sorry.
H: Discovering indirect shared followers On Twitter, given a list of followers, is there a way to see indirect shared followers and group them based on the number of followers that follow said Twitter user. For example, My Followers: Abe, Bob, Cathy, Dave, Ed Abe Followers: a001, a002, a003 Bob Followers: a001, b001, b002 Cathy Followers: a001, b001, c001 Dave Followers: a001, b001, c001, d001 Ed Followers: a001, b001, c001, d001, e001 Results of indirect shared followers: a001 = Abe, Bob, Cathy, Dave, Ed (count 5) b001 = Bob, Cathy, Dave, Ed (count 4) c001 = Cathy, Dave, Ed (count 3) d001 = Dave, Ed (count 2) AI: It is possible but not through Twitter UI. The solution would need programming and maybe a directed graph to keep track of the connections.
H: How to transfer a collection in Google Docs to a Google Apps account? Can I transfer a collection of docs from a private Google Docs account into a Google Apps account? AI: The only way is to either upload the files again to the Google Apps account or share the files with the Google Apps email address of yours. You cannot transfer the Ownership of the files yet (if you have upgraded Google Docs to Google Drive)- this feature will be coming shortly. If you are still using Google Docs, the owner can be changed to the Google Apps Account.
H: How can someone share a Reddit link onto Facebook while preserving the original title, with as little friction as possible? Say, you post a thread like http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/t4d6d/how_do_you_share_a_reddit_link_onto_facebook/... Then it shows up like this: AI: Use the shortlink - That makes FB post like this -
H: Is it possible to filter ebay search results by shipping price I live in quite a remote location. While it is reasonably simple to filter ebay search results so that I only see items that will ship to me, some of those will have a ludicrous shipping cost. Is it possible to filter out items from a ebay search that have shipping price over a given value? AI: No, there is no such possibility, you have to look out for it manually. You can filter the items in terms of their actual cost only and not the additional shipping charges. Also I think that the Shipping Charges are only calculated once you add a particular item to your cart, select the seller from who you would like to purchase and give your shipping address - so there is no possibility to filter items based on shipping costs as they are not calculated at that time at all. The same item has various shipping charges based on from which seller you choose to buy, whether you have a premium account (or whatever they call it).
H: Why does Facebook Apps require disabling HTTPS Facebook allows you to surf over a secure HTTPS connection, although sadly it does not enable this by default. Even when HTTPS is enabled, you encounter some annoying user experience when trying to access a Facebook application. It will output Switch to regular connection (http)? Sorry! We can’t display this content while you’re viewing Facebook over a secure connection (https). To use this app, you’ll need to switch to a regular connection (http). My question is twofold: Why does Facebook not enable HTTPS by default? Why does Facebook require disabling HTTPS when using a third-party application (apps.facebook.com). NOTE - When looking for example apps that require the fallback to http, I couldn't find any. Did Facebook remove that requirement? If so, the second part of my question has become irrelevant. Instead, I wonder when and why this has changed. AI: Some browsers, like IE6, show an error when we have non-secure (http) content e.g. iframe, image on secure (https) pages. To prevent this error dialog, Facebook falls back to a non-secure address. See these two StackOverflow questions too IE6 http/https mixed content error and dealing with http content in https pages. Also this option will be disabled in the future to ensure user security and all apps should support https, according to Facebook Developer Blog: ... All Apps on Facebook (Canvas and Page Tabs) must support HTTPS by October 1.
H: Is there a way to find a site by an image they link to? I have the URL for an image that I downloaded, and I'm trying to locate the site that linked to it. E.g. http://12345.blob.windows.net/random/abc123.jpg The image hosting site is windows.net. Is there any way to find out which site owns this image? Is there a way to search sites by their HTML to find out who links to it? AI: Reverse Image search engines like TinEye can be used to find this. "TinEye is a reverse image search engine. It finds out where an image came from, how it is being used, if modified versions of the image exist, or if there is a higher resolution version" I used one image url on it and results showed the 50 sites where it is used.
H: Converting .pdf files to .docx or .doc Is there any web app or website where I can upload a .pdf file and get it converted into .docx file or .doc file? I have searched a lot, but all of them convert .pdf to .rtf and opening .rtf is a little difficult on Linux-based systems. AI: PDF to Word can do this for you. I have used it myself previously.
H: How to disallow people to be employee on my company on LinkedIn? I created a company profile on LinkedIn. Some people who work with us say they worked at this company. Is there a way for company profile admins on LinkedIn to get requests when people say they worked at this company? And to be able to accept/reject these requests? Note: I plan to create a second company profile for these people to which they can connect and then to keep the original company clean. AI: There is currently no way to make your company 'private' so to speak on LinkedIn. You can only make a group private unfortunately.
H: What services can I add from Google Drive to my website? I can see Work with Google Drive sentence in websites and web apps. What we can do with integrating our websites with Google Drive? Is it similar to things with other services like Dropbox and Ubuntu one? AI: There were many details about creating and using apps with Google Drive. There was less about the services you mentioned, which kind of surprised me. I found a section that described a Dropbox-like functionality for visitors to use on your websites. To understand it, read through Google Drive Apps Overview first. You'll see the Picker description (toward the end of that webpage), which is how users can select from a menu that looks a lot like Google docs. Summary: The docs are stored on Google Drive, and one selects them using Picker. That was how I understood it, I haven't tried to implement it yet!
H: Share other Tweets on Facebook I have a friend of mine that posts nice quotes on Twitter. His tweets are then automatically posted also on his Facebook account. Under his posts on Facebook I don't have a share option like for common Facebook posts so I cannot share quotes with my FB friends. (None one of them uses Twitter.) Why there's no share option? Is there a workaround? AI: Facebook has designed apps to act this way It's a long standing bug that has been this way for quite some time https://developers.facebook.com/bugs/164888633588257 You are going to have to click through to your friend's Twitter profile and grab the link It should look like this https://twitter.com/#!/Drake/status/195337215600111616 And appear on Facebook as, Hopefully a better application will come around that can be clever with this bug.
H: Is there a way to put 3D user-rotatable AutoCAD drawings on my website? Is there not a very problematic and a cheap way to convert my AutoCAD 3D technical drawings to browser acceptable format, probably, flash? I'd like to put 3D drawing to a site in a way visitors could rotate them with mouse drag-and-drops clicks, well, like Google 3D panoramic street view. AI: Export/save in Autocad to the X3d format, upload that to your site, and use a VRML plugin for any of those listed players to view the file. Which means providing a link on the page for others to download the plugin so they can do the same thing.
H: How to post to WordPress custom post type from ifttt.com I recently discovered ifttt.com and have been working on creating a few IFTTT tasks for my Kansas City Royals website. I am in the process of adding the ability for fans to make quick posts, such as YouTube videos, links, photos, etc. These FanPosts are each a custom post type. I would like to set up a few feeds to post automatically to the custom post type "FanPost". I love that IFTTT can automatically post to WordPress, but I do not want to post simple video embeds, links and photos to the main articles (Posts) section of the website, instead, I want to post to the custom post type(s). AI: As the only way ifttt.com can post to Wordpress, is using the XML-RPC API, and that API currently doesn't support supplying custom post type while calling insert post methods(will support from 3.4), you can make use of the filter wp_insert_post_data. I accomplished that last month while building a hack. Here is a hack that would work the way you want, just add this to your functions.php file - function redirect_xmlrpc_to_custom_post_type ($data, $postarr) { // This function detects a XML-RPC request and modifies it before posting $p2_custom_post_type = 'FanPost'; // Define your Custom post type if (defined('XMLRPC_REQUEST') \|\| defined('APP_REQUEST')) { $data['post_type'] = $p2_custom_post_type; // sets the request post type to custom post type instead of the default 'Post'. return $data; } return $data; } // Add the filter add_filter('wp_insert_post_data', 'redirect_xmlrpc_to_custom_post_type', 99, 2); Remember, this filter will detect any insert post request via the XML-RPC API and insert them to FanPost type. Be it from ifttt.com or anywhere else.
H: How can I make my Facebook profile completely private? How can I make my Facebook profile completely private? I don't want people to be able to see me. AI: Go to your privacy settings page and change everything to Friends. Each of the sections have areas that need to be changed: Default Privacy (within custom, then Friends) How you connect (click edit then select Friends for each of the three choices) Timeline and Tagging Click Edit then select Friends for each of the three choices with drop downs Turn on "Review posts friends tag you in before they appear on your timeline Turn on "Review tags friends add to your own posts on Facebook" Click "Who sees tag suggestions when photos that look like you are uploaded" and select Friends Ads, Apps, and Websites Turn them all to Friends within each of the settings or remove apps that you don't want to use In the "How people bring your info to apps they use" area uncheck everything Limit the audience for past posts Click "Limit Old Posts" Set to Friends
H: On what basis Facebook Categorizes the online friends' list? See this snapshot: Which friends' come under the "More Online Friends" List? Okay, now many of my friends are offline; why is it that some of them appear in the main list (as offline) while others do not. I see many friends I never interact with on my Main List and a few I recently chatted with on facebook in my "More Online Friends" List. What's the algorithm behind this sorting and categorization? AI: I believe that the "Main" section are friends you have put into a specific list. The "More Online Friends" are friends who are not placed into lists. The lag in online/offline inaccuracy is due to the refresh rate set by Facebook. Facebook is HUGE. They have a refresh/cache for the online/offline of users. Different areas most likely have different cache/refresh times.
H: How do I star public transit locations? I commonly use a couple train stations when I come in and out of Chicago, is there a way to star them on the map so they are more visible when looking around on the Maps program on my phone? They don't have a star to click like businesses. By "train" I mean the local train; the 'L'. Union Station stars just fine, but not the L stops (or bus stops). AI: Edit 2013-05-26 With the new version if Google Maps a Google+ account is probably not needed. Edit tl;dr You can star locations once you've checked in to them from Google+. Here's a way I managed using my iPad and Google Maps in Safari. You have to have a Google+ account. Write a status statement (like a "check in") from Google+ making sure you've specified the the location (i.e., the train station) when you enter the status. If Google+ can't find the location by default, you'll have to type it into the "Search for a nearby location" box. Go to Google Maps in the Safari browser and make sure you're logged in to the same Google account you used for Google+ in step 1. Go to the "My Places" menu to show the list of your places. The train station you "checked in" from will show up in the list. You can now click the star icon of this location, and it'll show up in your map in Google Maps (Safari). The following shows a bus stop called "Peel / Notre-Dame" in Montreal where I did a check-in using Google+, and it can now be starred in Maps under "My Places": I know the Android version of Google Maps app is much more powerful than the iOS version (this won't work on iPad's Google Maps App - it has to be the Safari version). But the Google+ check-in seems to be the key to get the place to be "starable".
H: Mediawiki: Template with reference (with a template) I want to make it easier for myself to create references in my wiki. My current setup is that I have to do something like this: <ref name="120507">Reference for something that happened on the {{createdate\|120507}}</ref> The template create date just turns the string YYMMDD into dd month YYYY I want to simplify this by only needing: {{ref\|120507}} But I cant seem to get the property right, and it won't traverse into the template createdate either. It just URL-encodes the curly brackets instead of taking the value of {{{1}}}. <ref name="{{{1}}}">Sometext {{createdate\|{{{1}}}}}.</ref> This is what I tried. AI: You can use the {{#tag}} magic word to do this. So, your template would look something like this: {{#tag:ref\|Sometext {{createdate\|{{{1}}}}}.\|name={{{1}}}}} Although exactly this code wouldn't work correctly, because name cannot be an integer.
H: Dropbox error about monitoring file system Dropbox gives me pop-up errors about not being able to monitor the file system (that quickly disappear) when it starts up but it still seems to work ok, why is that? AI: On Linux, the Dropbox client is subject to a default system limit on the number of directories it can monitor for changes. There is a warning regarding this, along the lines of: Unable to monitor filesystem Please run: echo 100000 \| sudo tee /proc/sys/fs/inotify/max_user_watches and restart Dropbox to correct the problem. This comes up often in the Dropbox Forums, and they have a mention of it in their "Why aren't certain files on one computer syncing to another?" document: Monitoring more than 10000 folders The Linux version of the Dropbox desktop application is limited from monitoring more than 10000 folders by default. Anything over that is not watched and, therefore, ignored when syncing. There's an easy fix for this. Open a terminal and enter the following: > echo fs.inotify.max_user_watches=100000 \| sudo tee -a /etc/sysctl.conf; sudo sysctl -p This command will tell your system to watch up to 100000 folders. Once the command is entered and you enter your password, Dropbox will immediately resume syncing.
H: Did Gmail drag and drop attachments get dropped in new design? I used to add attachments in Gmail by dragging and dropping files directly from Explorer. It doesn't work any more. Was this feature dropped with the new design? AI: It looks like internet explorer is not a supported browser for the drag and drop now. I tried it on Chrome and it worked, where as it did not on Internet Explorer (see pic) I would suggest switching to a new browser otherwise you will not be able to use this feature.
H: How to edit the name of a location on a Google Map I am creating a Google Map of locations related to a particular topic. Since most of these locations exist within places (e.g., parks and public plazas) which are already listed in Google Maps search results with the name of the larger space, when I place a marker or search by coordinates I get the name of the park the location is in. I would like to, for example, place a marker on my new Google Map for the "Empty Sky" September 11th memorial which is located within Liberty State Park in New Jersey. But when I go to the location coordinates for this memorial, Google Maps shows it as "1 Audrey Zap Drive" and I can't find a way to add an additional name of "Empty Sky" as a marker on the map I am creating. Any tips much appreciated! AI: I found that if you click the "Edit" link for the map, this will enable editing of all the places stored in the map as well.
H: YouTube captioning feature gone? I remember for a while they had a beta feature on YouTube that would semi-well caption a video on the site. Recently I returned to the site and noticed that the captioning feature is gone. I don't understand where did it go? Does this have something to do with my browser rendering HTML5 instead of using a Flash plugin? AI: YouTube continues to have support for both machine-based audio transcriptions and manually created captions / transcriptions. It does not appear to be a function of the Flash vs HTML5 players. Video owners can explicitly disable the machine transcription: You can't delete the auto-captions, but you can hide them from viewers. To prevent viewers from requesting auto-captions in the player, on the Captions and Subtitles pane, uncheck the box next to the track called English: Machine Transcription. If you change your mind, click the checkbox again to enable auto-captions. http://support.google.com/youtube/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=100077 Also, it appears that YouTube uses some heuristic to determine which videos receive a machine transcription. I was not able to find confirmation of this. Using Google Chrome stable (v18) on Ubuntu, I was able to enable audio transcriptions by selecting the (CC) icon in both the Flash and the HTML5 interfaces on this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRyaW1DBMF4 The following video does not have a machine transcription available, though it is unclear if that is the decision of the video owner or a result of the theoretical YouTube heuristic resulting in a low confidence of speech being present: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w68qZ8JvBds In addition to the machine transcription, there are two other options for video owners: You can upload a caption file, with specific time coding and text to display as captions. Video owners can let YouTube machine caption their video, then download, edit, and upload the polished transcription. YouTube will then display the captions at the appropriate time, without need for manual time coding. You can opt in or out of the HTML5 trial at any time by visiting http://www.youtube.com/html5
H: I have 3 Gmail accounts and I want only one of them to be associated with my Google+ I have 3 Gmail accounts. I have created a rule in Gmail settings to link all these three to the primary one, meaning I can change my "from" field to be any one of the three and I get all mails from these three into one mailbox. However, I want to detach the non primary from each other and from my Google+. I used my non-primary email and got reply from someone that informed me he could see: my Google+ photos my Google+ account my other related Gmail addresses (including my primary) How can I detach this non-primary Gmail and still get all mails from it to my primary inbox? be able to switch the "from" field, to this non-primary email? AI: I think there are a few things going on here. By setting up secondary emails so that you can send "from" them, I don't believe you will be able to really break the link that others are seeing between those email addresses and the primary one that is associated with your Google+ account. You are essentially merging aspects of these various email addresses so in a sense they are becoming one identity. Maybe a better way for you to gather all of your incoming mail in one place would be to setup forwarding from the secondary accounts rather than pulling of the secondary accounts into the primary account. This would not allow you to send "from" those accounts though. If you really need to keep more of a separation of identities (for various aspects of your personal and/or business life), I think you may want to setup an additional primary Gmail account which can be used for the additional identity. Then, for example, any business email addresses can be associated to that secondary identity and any personal email addresses can be associated to the identity you currently have (the one with the Google+ profile that you don't want to advertise so widely). But something else to consider is that even if you completely break apart your identities, as long as you have a public Google+ profile people will be able to find whatever you have chosen to make public. Maybe you also want to consider making private certain aspects of your Google+ profile? Specifically, there are settings you can apply for your profile picture's visibility. Please see the Stack Exchange question How does "your Gmail picture" work? for some more details. Hope some of this helps...
H: Disapproving Tags on a Photo is not working. Facebook Timeline is a nice feature, but i think there is a flaw in Timeline and Tagging feature. As I have on this feature and I can see here: Privacy Setting-->Timeline and Tagging Review tags friends add to your own posts on Facebook is ON Now whenever someone tags me in a photo, I get a notification (this is okay) to Approve it and redirects me to the Activity Log BUT even if I disapprove the tag, I get tagged on that Photo! and I continue receiving notifications related to the Photo. Current Solution: Go to the Tagged Photo Click on Report/Remove tag -then it again ask some questions. And also unfollow post But is there any other way. AI: That feature only decides if the tagged post or picture is going to appear on your timeline or not. It does not remove your tag if you disapprove it.
H: Yahoo! blocked my Yahoo! Answers account - How to delete answers posted by me Yahoo! has blocked my Yahoo! Answers account (I am able to use all other services of the same Yahoo Account) because I posted answers such as "Ask this question on stackexchange.com"; now I do not wish to regain my account, but I want to be able to delete a few questions and answers posted by me on Yahoo! Answers; is there any way I can do that? Is it contacting Yahoo! is the only way out here? Or is there something I can try? AI: You can only delete open question or answers, if they have gone to the vote or resolved they cannot be removed. Even if they are open, you need to be logged in to delete them. The questions and answers stay in Yahoo archive available for searching and browsing. Only Yahoo! itself can delete them.
H: Gmail "suspicious sign-in prevented" message - is it legit? I got 3 mails from Gmail today; one each for my 3 seperate Gmail accounts, saying someone from this IP: 109.200.4.130 tried to log-in and it was prevented, and that I should reset my password by following the given link if I don't recognize the address. Is it real or is it phishing? Is this because I signed into one of Gmail accounts with a VPN? But then again why would I get notices for the other two? AI: I am the Gmail Community Manager, and I can confirm that we do send email notifications in certain cases such as described here. Always carefully check the URL and never enter your Google password on a page that is not hosted at google.com. For example, it is OK to enter your password at https://accounts.google.com or https://mail.google.com, but not gooogle.com, g00gle.com, etc.
H: Bilingual blog: WordPress, Tumblr, or Blogger? I'm helping a Korean artist setup an internet blog to showcase her work. Her goal is to have her blog in both English and Korean. Which of these platforms better supports bilingual posts: WordPress, Tumblr, or Blogger? By better support I mean, which of these platforms will help avoid having ultimately to manage two different blogs? AI: You can add the qTranslate plugin to a Wordpress install.
H: How to add a "dummy" user to a board? I want to manage a Trello board with a bunch of users on it, but I don't actually want the users to participate, I just want to be able to assign them to things. Is there a way to add fictive ("dummy/mock", if you prefer) users to my board, just to easily manage their assignments to cards, but without inviting actual people? Alternatively, if there's no such option, is there another way I can approximate this (e.g. defining each student as a card and association a card with another card)? Background: I occasionally supervise students' projects. Trello seems really useful for me to track which project is at what stage and which students are assigned to what, but the projects are not necessarily related and I don't actually want the students to participate in this high-level management, it's just intended for me and my fellow grad students / faculty members. AI: Trello doesn't have this feature, unfortunately.... I have a similar situation, and the only way I can think of is to manually create real users The only trick I've found is that you can use a single gmail address for multiple accounts by adding periods to it. eg: [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Trello will treat them as unique addresses, but gmail will treat them as the same. I know it's not much but at least it's something...
H: Do Google Doc Comments (Annotations/Discussion) work with non-Gmail email addresses? I love the Google Doc Comments feature where you can direct a comment to a user. [email protected], etc.) BUT it does not seem to work with non Gmail accounts (at least the [email protected] and [email protected] that I've tried). I got the email but the REPLY to address is a "do not respond". But it does work in Gmail. I assume it's limited to only working (via REPLY in Gmail)? AI: No, comments do not work with non-Gmail email addresses. You are correct it is only limited to working with reply via Gmail. I don't think it's something they will add. Such a feature as it is would mean trying to cover all use cases of email addresses and any auto respond feature that may occur outside out of what Gmail expects.
H: Is there a way to disable Facebook's email address? I logged into Facebook today to see this: I don't want a Facebook email address. I loathe the concept of receiving email via Facebook. I don't want people to even attempt to send me email through Facebook. Is it possible to disable Facebook email - to turn off the "feature" completely? If not, is there a way automatically to discard any messages that come in through it? AI: No, there is no way to disable your email address currently. All email that isn't currently recognized will go to the "other" folder, you will not be notified of those. Corrected Info Your Other folder contains messages sent to mailing lists and broad distribution groups, along with messages from people who aren’t friends or friends of friends. Based on your email preferences (http://facebook.com/settings/?tab=privacy -> How You Connect), the sender may not even be able to send a message to your account and may receive the following message, Based on the email preferences of the person you're trying to email, this message could not be delivered. You could push a step further and report messages as spam. From my experience, the Messages platform has been pretty seamless when it comes to the lack of spam. Then again, I have not explicitly made my Facebook email address known publicly. So, to repeat, if you have not made users aware of your Facebook email address, there is little to no chance of you receiving an email from them.
H: When does Dropbox delta? I was wondering if Dropbox works like git/rsync in that it deltas the files against the local repository in order to only send the changes to the files across the link. For instance, if I put a 1GB file in the Dropbox folder and sync it with Dropbox, then make a change to it and now its 1.2GB. When syncing, will Dropbox send the whole 1.2GB across or just the .2GB? AI: Answer by Moo at Serverfault: Dropbox uses a binary diff algorythm to break down all files into blocks, and only upload blocks that it doesn't already have in the cloud. All of this is done locally on your computer. Dropbox doesn't just use your files that you have already uploaded, it aggregates everyones files into one database of blocks, and checks each local block hash against that database. This means that if someone else has uploaded the same file as yourself (say for example, the latest Ubuntu iso), then the upload will seem instant as there is nothing to upload, but if you are updating a file that changes regularly, like your backup file, then only the changes are uploaded. If you upload a totally unique file, then you have to wait for it all to upload.
H: How do I turn ON the new Google Groups Interface? I'm not able to set the new Google Groups interface ON. I had it a couple of weeks ago, but for some reason I'm back to the old interface... AI: There should be a notification bar prompting you to switch to the new version, but I don't see anything in settings menu. Try going to this overview page, it should open the new groups interface and have a bar asking you to set that as default.
H: Comments or annotations in Gmail messages How can I use Gmail to put some comments/notes on the emails that are only visible to me? For instance, a user asks me for something I could make a note like "ask Mkt dpt of this and send ASAP. If no response is given until Thursday, ask again!" How do I set this up in Gmail? Is there any free extension? AI: I would suggest Active Inbox, a Firefox Addon for Gmail. The free version allows to organize email using the GTD methodology, but the Plus version (which is paid) has other features such as notes and deadlines in the emails.
H: Can I use the Fullscreen API in JSFiddle? I have the following JSFiddle, http://jsfiddle.net/brantolsen/ejUWt/. It does the simple task of changing from full screen to non-full screen each time the body is clicked using the Fullscreen API. This works correctly when all content is copied into a local web page and is correct according to the documentation found here. However, on JSFiddle nothing happens. Is is possible to make example code on JSFiddle go full screen? Please note that I do not mean viewing the result as full screen, but getting the javascript full screen commands working. AI: Found the reason after playing around with Chrome and inspect element. The result code is placed inside an iframe which disallows full screen commands. I was able to temporarily work around this by adding mozallowfullscreen and webkitallowfullscreen, found at https://developer.mozilla.org/en/HTML/Element/iframe, to the iframe through the use of firebug and Chrome's debug tools. However, it does not look like JSFiddle will allow you to customize the iframe that the code is wrap in at this time.
H: A Link to my Google+ Profile Is it possible to get a link to my Google+ profile that I can send to anyone so they can see my profile and add me to their circle? This is a very common feature in Facebook but I am not able to find it in Google+ at all. AI: Visit your own profile, and copy the URL. That's the global URL of your profile. It should look like this: https://plus.google.com/100089984211197410017 Or, right-click on that "Profile" icon and copy the URL.
H: Using Google+ with a Google Apps Account Why does Google not allow Google Apps Users to use Google+ without administrator approval? This is the message we get: Google+ is not available for your organisation (vit.ac.in). Please contact your administrator to enable this service. If you're an administrator, learn more here. !Google+ is not available for your organisation (vit.ac.in). Please contact your administrator to enable this service. If you're an administrator, learn more here. AI: Google apps is organization based service. Everything you do there is controlled and maintained by an organization. As Google+ is a social service, and social communication with an organization account is usually much more restricted than anything else(due to the fact that you get to share information with people outside the organization), using of Google+ by google apps users needs administrator approval. You can go through the related considerations of an organization before they turn on Google+ service. For the same reason, when you are creating a document using Google drive with your Google apps account and share it with someone who doesn't have an account of your organization, Google will alert you, asking if you are sure you want to share information with someone outside the organization.
H: SDL Tridion Template re-use template names? SDL Tridion restricts names (titles) within the context of folders, similar to how file systems work. You can have multiple templates called "summary," but in different folders. Although we can, is it a good idea to create component templates with the same name? I have the following schema: Article News Article Blog Person For these I can have separate templates: News Full News Summary Blog Full Blog Summary Biography Full Biography Summary I could reduce this to the following: Full Full Summary Summary Full Bio Summary Bio Functionally this could simplify template selection. But what's the technical catch in terms of maintenance or development? Should all the "full" templates be combined in this case? AI: I would keep separate names, not for a technical reason, but to improve maintainability. 2 years from now, if there are 3 templates named "Full", it needlessly adds to the complexity of going back to update someone else's code. Edit: I accidentally a word.
H: What is the purpose of the presence of Google Docs in Google Drive? I was under the impression that by using Google Drive, I can edit my files in MS Word or Excel and it will all sync but apparently I can't open .gdoc .gsheet in MS Office. So basically, aside from seeing what files I have in Google Docs from my Local Drive, I don't see any functional capabilities since I cannot edit it without going to Google Docs website? It's simply just a shortcut to the Google Docs website. If any, it only reveals my Google docs file names to other users of my PC. Or, am I missing something? AI: Google Docs have been merged into Google Drive. Consider Drive as an overlay that just maps your previously existing Docs collection to your local hard drive. Since neither Word nor other applications have a way to edit Google Docs documents on the fly (plus the fact that there's no API for this), the only way to represent those documents on your local computer is to show them as .gdoc and .gsheet files. To edit them, you still have to use the Google Docs website. To view them, use the Docs offline modebeta. Click the settings button, and enable it from there. Then download the Google Docs app for Google Chrome. After all, you still need a browser though.
H: Is there a keyboard shortcut to move on to the next card in a list in Trello? Navigating from one open card to the next in a Trello list is effort intensive. One has to click outside the open card and then find the next card in the list (which can be tough if it's a crowded list) and then click it to open. That's a lot of work. Is there any shortcut to easily navigate to the next card in a list? AI: There is a shortcut to navigate around the board view, but not from card to card while looking at them. We'll look into this, thanks.
H: What is the best way to paste code into a Trello card? When I try to paste code into Trello I get very weird formatting after saving but it seems it does format code, I just can't get it to work right. Currently I'm just putting links to Gist, but I would prefer to just paste it straight in there. AI: Finally found the answer here: http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax#code using markdown is outdated, its not as easy as just using Gist haha, think I'll keep that route... they should really work on their tools.
H: Custom Gmail labels sort I want to sort the labels in my own order instead of the default abc order, so that, for example, the label named bills should come up first. Any way to do that? AI: I see two options. One of these may meet your need: Use the old trick of starting the label name with an underscore. That puts it at the top of the list. If you have more labels you want near the top, it will put them in alphabetical order. You would also use a combination of underscore and a number to force the order you want so that _1Zoo will come before _2bills Use multiple inboxes. This will let you put the extra inbox above, below or to the right of your main inbox. I use multiple inbox to display specific labels. Use the search query "is:bills" (without the quotes) to put all emails with that label in the extra inbox. You turn on multiple inboxes under the labs section of the settings page.
H: How to remove duplicated posts from Tumblr theme If you go to http://cargotheme.tumblr.com/ and click “Display as list”, you will see that all posts are duplicated. How should the theme be modified to fix this? (Theme source located here.) AI: Not too surprising, really: you have two div .list containing all your posts inside div #main_column: one ID-less and #pages. Remove one or the other and the issue goes away.
H: Gmail account accessed from reserved IP address Gmail tells me that it was recently accessed by IP address 242.162.62.141, and that it blocked the suspicious access, and I should change my password immediately. But 242.162.62.141 is a reserved IP address according to IANA. It's not registered with RIPE, ARIN, AfriNIC, LACNIC or APNIC. So... How can this be? How could someone even use such an IP address in the first place, and try to access my Gmail account of all things? All registries report the IP address as "reserved", and ARIN shows it as being owned by IANA. This is the description I found about the 240.0.0.0 - 255.255.255.255 range: This block, formerly known as the Class E address space, is reserved for future use. The one exception to this is the "limited broadcast" destination address 255.255.255.255. As documented in the Standards RFC 919 and RFC 922, packets with this destination address are not forwarded at the IP layer. This block was reserved by the IETF in the Standard document, RFC 1112 and is further documented in the Best Current Practice document RFC 5735. AI: I'm the Gmail Community Manager. I spoke with our team about what you described. What you are seeing is a bug in our system related to the use of IPv6. Very specific types of logins to do with mobile phone syncing that come in over IPv6 are not currently treated correctly. We're in the process of fixing this issue and I apologize for the inconvenience.
H: Can I send a message to someone who's made a friend request? Someone's made a friend request, but I'm suspicious about the request. The only public detail is her gender, and her name. Googling her name suggests that it's a Nigerian name, so I'm worried it may be a user engaging in a scam. I'd like to be able to message her, to ask how she knows me, before accepting the request. The "Respond to Friend Request" only allows "Confirm" and "Delete request", and she doesn't seem to allow messaging from people she doesn't know. Am I missing something, or is it not possible to message someone who has made a friend request, depending on that user's privacy settings? Is there still a way to send a message with a friend request on Facebook? looks similar, but it's for the reverse: a requester sending a message, not a requestee sending a message. I can see the logic for not allowing the former, as it could be abused as a way of spamming, but I can't see the logic for not allowing the latter. AI: Yes, even if you have received a friend request from her, you may not be able to Send her a message depending on her privacy settings. What you can do here is accept her friend request; then place her under the list called, "Restricted" and then send her a message. Later you can remove her from your friend list. Or, if you are sure that you do not know her (or anybody with that Nigerian Name); you can cancel her friend request.
H: Google Voice integration My wife hates that she can't call my cell phone without it ringing the house too. Can I use use Google Voice integration but also keep my cell number from calling all my forwarding numbers? AI: Found it. Under the Advanced Options - Forwarding Options for the cell phone you'll see 2 options. I needed to change it off of "Ring my other phones before going to voicemail"
H: Facebook photo album thumbnail Can I control that thumbnail on the photo album box in the timeline page of the profile? This box appears besides the "Friends" and "Likes" in a default profile schema. AI: That box displays the photo you were most recently tagged in. To control the photo, just upload a new picture (or select one in which you are not already tagged in) and tag yourself in it. Whenever you're tagged in a newer photo, you'd have to redo this process to maintain a persistent image on your profile.
H: How to publish your thesis on Google Books? While searching for a certain thesis, I have often found that some of those thesis also show up on Google Books. Is there a provision where I could publish my thesis online on Google Books? AI: You can join the Google partner program and sign up as an author. That should give you the privilege to publish your own work. More details here.
H: Incorporate results of a Twitter search into a list I have a list that includes members who talk about a keyword extensively. I would like to extend the scope of this list and have it update with results whenever someone mentions that keyword across Twitter (and who is not necessarily a member of the group). Is there some way I can include the results of a Twitter keyword search into an existing Twitter list? AI: A Twitter List is for enlisting users, they may talk about anything. It's not for enlisting tweets regarding a certain topic. You can build a bot to add people, who tweets on that topic, to the list. But that doesn't ensure that, those people will keep talking about it, and so they, to some extent, might spam your list. Twitter gives you a scope to follow a topic either with the help of a hashtag or by saving a search. You can search once for that topic and then save the search for those keywords and later on keep checking the search.
H: How to get a list of All pages belonging to a Wikipedia Portal? I was wondering, is there a way to get the entire list of articles (pages) filed under a Wikipedia Portal? For example, I want to get a list of All the pages filed under Linguistics Portal, is there a way to do it? As another example, Java Portal states that it has "1482 pages so far!", however where are these 1482 pages? Is there a list that shows these pages? AI: There are no articles associated with a portal directly. If you want to get all articles in a WikiProject (WikiProject Java in this case), you need to get all articles in subcategories of the corresponding assessment category. In this case, it's Category:Java articles by quality. Be aware that assessment categories don't contain the articles, but their talk pages.
H: How to escape a double-quote in a TSV file for import into a Google Sheets? How does one specify a cell to contain exactly one double-quote character in a TSV file so that it will be handled correctly when imported (as a spreadsheet) into Google Sheets? (Note: when importing the file, Tab rather than Automatic must be specified as Separator Character in the import dialog; if I don't do this, the imported sheet has even more problems.) I have tried all of the following, without success " '" "" '"' I also tried manually inserting a lone double-quote character in one cell of a Google Sheets, and then downloading the spreadsheet and inspecting the downloaded file. Frustratingly enough, the downloaded file shows a lone double-quote character (i.e. not escaped in any way) between the flanking tab characters. BTW, this means, among other things, that Google Sheets cannot do the download-re-import round trip. E.g. if the spreadsheet I downloaded is re-imported (exactly as it was delivered by Google Sheets) into a Google Sheets (specifying tab as a separator character in the import dialog), the formatting is messed up; the lone double quote apparently has the effect of escaping the subsequent tab, so the import does not recognize it as a separator. I stress that what I'm looking is for how to write the TSV so that it gets imported correctly into a Google Sheets. IOW, simply entering the double-quote manually into a Google spreadsheet is of no use here. AI: Try four double-quotes, e.g. """" According to Wikipedia there is no reliable standard, but some attempts have been made. A (double) quote character in a field must be represented by two double quote characters.
H: Registration form, recommendations for shared entities? I have a web app, that teachers will be registering for, the registration form has school name, school website. So, I will have data redundant filling the school name each time for teachers at the same school. What's the recommended approach to solve this issue ? is it a good idea to tell teacher to fill his school data in a separate form ? (might leave the page ) so that he will choose it from a drop list field at the main registration form ? is it a good idea to let teacher enter his school data ? What's the recommended approach to have a good user experience ? Edit this question is not technical, stackoverflow is for coding and pure technical questions, I am asking about good user experience, so why to close it ? AI: It would be good for the user to be able to choose his school from a list. Only if the school is not yet there, ask the user to create new school. Are you saving school info for each teacher separately, or do you want to have separate list of schools without duplicates? Second approach however will not stop a teacher from creating second entry for the same school with different data, or incomplete entries. That would have to be merged manually by moderator or something.

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