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Altnernatives for Ethernet Adapter for Chromecast – Google Store

Posted by jpluimers on 2019/12/13

A long time ago, I wrote Ethernet Adapter for Chromecast – Google Store « The Wiert Corner – irregular stream of stuff

As a reminder for self, order when I’m back in the USA: Ethernet Adapter for Chromecast – Google Store.

In between, it has been available in many countries, but when writing this, it is not available in The Netherlands, Belgium or Germany any more:

Alternatives are for instance [Archive.is] UGREEN Ethernet Adapter für Chromecast und TV: AmazonSmile: Computer & Zubehör, or fiddling with OTG splitter cables and an a USB ethernet adapter which I found via [WayBack] Google Chromecast – Google Cast – Deel 1 – Mediaspelers en HTPC’s – GoT especially[WayBack] Google Chromecast – Google Cast – Deel 1 – Mediaspelers en HTPC’s – GoT: search for “ethernet.

The cool thing: these solutions also work for things like Raspberry Pi Zero, Fire TV Stick, etc.

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Google Sites for your domain: map the domain root to a site

Posted by jpluimers on 2019/12/06

With Google Sites, you you can attach it to your domain like example.org.

In practice the example.org domain is not bound to Google Sites, but everywhere in this post, please substitute example.org with your own domain name.

In Google Sites, you can design web-sites and create “web address mapping” entries for it. However, you can only add a site mapping for a sub-domain.

But what if you want your www.example.org also to be visible as from example.org?

Then you get a nice error message “Required field must not be blank”:

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Need to research eternal “Establishing connection to your Google Cloud Shell”; gcp – Google Cloud Shell does not start – Stack Overflow

Posted by jpluimers on 2019/12/06

A while back I had a  after .

The problem is that after a successful “Provisioning your Google Cloud Shell machine”, the “Establishing connection to your Google Cloud Shell” did not go away, while the Cloud Shell Code Editor did work:

It was an awful situation, as the mobile reception was bad (so I could not start a hotspot), and the WiFi did not allow for SSH or VPN connections: exactly the situation where Google Cloud Shell is designed for.

A day later it was fine, so I am still not sure what went wrong, nor how I could get it to work if it ever fails again.

Anyone with an idea?

These are inconclusive:

It is a different problem than [WayBack] Google App Engine – cloud shell where both the shell and the code editor failed at the same time.

–jeroen

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Outlook 2013 cannot logon to gmail any more

Posted by jpluimers on 2019/09/20

A problem on a PC I did not use often: as of a sudden, Outlook 2013 could not access a gmail account any more.

Luckily, Outlook showed me this message in a dialog box:

Please log in via your web browser: https://support.google.com/mail/accounts/answer/78754 (Failure)

This directed me to [WayBack] Use IMAP to check Gmail on other email clients – Gmail Help

In turn that pointed to [WayBack] Let less secure apps access your account – Google Account Help

Finally that one indicated the configuration page changed to https://myaccount.google.com/lesssecureapps

This is similar to the cause of “the user name or password for imap.gmail is incorrect” – iPad, iPod or iPhone with iOS < 7

It all comes down to gmail forcing OAUTH2: [WayBack] tls – Why doesn’t outlook 2013 meet modern security standards? – Information Security Stack Exchange

–jeroen

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Google YouTube Keyboard Shortcuts – Windows – U-M Google

Posted by jpluimers on 2019/09/20

Cool table via the University of Michigan’s Google Apps for Education [Archive.is/WayBack]:

Note: These shortcuts will only work when the video player is in focus. To move the focus try pressing the spacebar to pause and then play the video.

Action Shortcut
Toggle play/pause the video
 k or Spacebar
Go back 5 seconds
 Left arrow
Go back 10 seconds
 j
Go forward 5 seconds
 Right arrow
Go forward 10 seconds
 l
Skip to a particular section of the video (e.g., 5 goes to the video midpoint)
 Numbers 1-9 (not the keypad numbers)
Restart video
 0 (not the keypad number)
Go to Full Screen mode f
Exit Full Screen mode
 Escape
Go to beginning of video
 Home
Go to end of video
 End
Increase volume 5%
 Up arrow
Decrease volume 5%
 Down arrow
Increase speed
 Shift+> (may not work in all browsers)
Decrease speed
 Shift+< (may not work in all browsers)
Move forward 1 frame when video is paused . (period)
Move backward 1 frame when video is paused , (comma)
Mute/unmute video m
Turn captions on/off c
Cycle through options for caption background color b

 

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Links for another crazy idea: superimpose lane availability indicators on Google Maps

Posted by jpluimers on 2019/08/29

ANWB can superimpose the lane availability indicators on their internap maps software.

Some links so I won’t forget:

–jeroen

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Google Dataset Search

Posted by jpluimers on 2019/08/22

Reminder to self: check if [WayBack] Dataset Search still exists.

Via: [WayBack] Looking for a #dataset to use to train your system or test it? #Google has just released a search engine specifically for datasets. Very useful! #Machi… – Jason Mayes – Google+

–jeroen

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When archiving in the WayBack machine returns error 400: clear your cookies

Posted by jpluimers on 2019/08/16

When archiving pages in the WayBack machine, despite Privacy Badger having set to “save no cookies”, it still managed to set truckloads of cookies.

So I used the Chrome settings in chrome://settings/content/cookies to disable cookies and now everything is fine.

–jeroen

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When saving on the WayBack machine at web.archive.org/save terminates the connection

Posted by jpluimers on 2019/05/27

When you get the response “web.archive.org unexpectedly closed the connection” without even returning an HTTP code, but:

  • it works in anonymous mode
  • it works with all extensions turned off

then likely there are too many cookies for archive.org or/and web.archive.org: in my case, I had 90 cookies.

Cleaning these cookies out resolved the problem (I used [WayBack] Awesome Cookie Manager for this).

Edit 20231230: Awesome Cookie Manager source repository at [Wayback/Archive] Phatsuo/awesome-cookie-manager: Awesome Cookie Manager.

--jeroen

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Google old content posted before a specific date

Posted by jpluimers on 2019/05/15

Steps:

  1. Start with something like https://www.google.com/search?q=”did+you+hear+about+the+man”+”he%27s+0K+now”
  2. Clicking Tools followed by Any Time, then Custom range often does not show a dialog.
  3. Appending &tbs=qdr:y to the URL magically enables that popup:
    https://www.google.com/search?q=”did+you+hear+about+the+man”+”he%27s+0K+now”&tbs=qdr:y
  4. After filling it in, you get a very different URL like https://www.google.com/search?q=”did+you+hear+about+the+man”+”he%27s+0K+now”&tbs=cdr:1,cd_min:,cd_max:01-01-2007

This is how I found the post in Did you hear about the man who got cooled to absolute zero? He’s 0K now.

I think cdr stands for custom date range and qdr for a built in date range as after searching for the abbreviations, I found [WayBack] Google Search URL Request Parameters | DETECTED that discusses tbm and tbo in addition to tbs.

The trick above is the successor of [WayBack] Filter Google Results by Date with a URL Trick which appended &as_qdr=d.

–jeroen

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