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Why Are My Text Messages Stuck Pending | Pushbullet Help Central

Posted by jpluimers on 2018/10/15

Try this fix first:

For many, this issue goes away by simply reinstalling our Android app on your phone. We suggest giving this a try first.

That didn’t work, but this did:

Check that the correct device is selected in the top left of the SMS interface.

You may have an old device selected, which is preventing SMS from working correctly. Check that the correct device is selected in the drop down. You can remove old devices here.

It looks like all my old smartphones were still there despite not being a SIM card in them. Removing all but my active phone solved the problem.

Source: [WayBack] Why Are My Text Messages Stuck Pending | Pushbullet Help Central

–jeroen

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If you have trouble getting an screen mirror from Samsung S7 Edge to Chromecast 2 to work: reboot phone

Posted by jpluimers on 2018/09/25

A friend of mine tried to get screen mirror (now called “Smart View”) from a Samsung S7 Edge to a Chromecast 2 working, but the connection would time out each try (but not when casting regular content using the Google Home app): try rebooting your S7 Edge.

Got that reboot tip and renamed functionality thanks to the somewhat related [WayBack] Galaxy S7: How to Screen Mirror to any Samsung Smart TV:

In order to connect (screen mirror) you Galaxy S7 or S7 Edge to your Samsung smart TV you need to swipe down to open your notification area, then on the top right click that little down arrow then select “smart view”. Previous Galaxy phones called it screen mirror, not sure why Samsung changed the name in the S7.

Got the renamed functionality via the video below.

–jeroen

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If you use Session Buddy, you might want to reconsider: it only saves the session infrequently

Posted by jpluimers on 2018/09/22

I was shocked reading [WayBack] An alternative to Session Buddy: “Tabs Backup & Restore” · Issue #742 · deanoemcke/thegreatsuspender · GitHub: the save frequency is about 1 per browser restart. Which is quite odd when you use it to protect against tabs messing up (it happens, right when you do not expect it, after which a “Restore” by chrome fails too).

So after years of using

[Archive.is] Session Buddy – Chrome Web Store: Manage Browser Tabs and Bookmarks with Ease

I have switched away to

[WayBack] Tabs Backup & Restore – Chrome Web Store: With ‘Tabs Backup & Restore’ you will never lose your work again! Backup an entire Chrome session (windows and tabs).

–jeroen

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20 things you didn’t know you could do with Search

Posted by jpluimers on 2018/09/20

After [WayBack] 20 years of Google: [WayBack] 20 things you didn’t know you could do with Search: Read the rest of this entry »

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Google Chrome Web Browser 69 changes

Posted by jpluimers on 2018/09/15

[WayBack] Google Chrome Web Browser 69 changes: most are not talked about (like excess whitespace, address bar search algorithm changes).

–jeroen

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Just in case you are wondering where these “Trending on Google” posts in your stream come from…

Posted by jpluimers on 2018/09/14

[WayBack] Just in case you are wondering where these “Trending on Google” posts in your home stream come from and how to get rid of them: https://plus.google.com/settings… – Thomas Mueller (dummzeuch) – Google+

For my link archive:

https://plus.google.com/settings

–jeroen

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Short link to find your Google nickname based profile link

Posted by jpluimers on 2018/09/14

Browse to http://plus.google.com/me and it will get you to your Google Plus nickname URL profile link.

–jeroen

via: [WayBack] Become a Beta Tester for Google+… – Google+ – Google+

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When Google Search returns one link twice in the results, thinking it was published on two different dates.

Posted by jpluimers on 2018/09/13

I laughed when https://www.google.com/#q=visual%20studio%20code%20indent%20settings%20per%20file%20type got me the first link twice (see below screenshot).

But I was glad that that link to [WayBack] visual studio code – How to set per-filetype tab size? – Stack Overflow.

This one:

In addition, it taught me how to configure the settings.json with md specific settings, which – despite the IDE indicating the JSON is invalid – just works: markdown indentation is now 2 character positions.

    "[md]": {
      "editor.tabSize": 2
    }

The search result:

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The upcoming GMail changes – Learn what’s new in Gmail – Gmail Help

Posted by jpluimers on 2018/08/07

So I won’t forget what was changed: [WayBack] Learn what’s new in Gmail – Gmail Help

  • quickly archive/delete/mark-read/mark-unread/snooze from the inbox list
  • snooze
  • smart reply
  • show/hide follow-up reminders
  • expand/shrink inbox
  • hide/show the menu
  • view calendar/tasks/keep/add-ons
  • attachment stuff (expiration date, passwords, prevent forwarding/downloading/copying/pasting)

–jeroen

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Disable HTML5 Autoplay – Chrome Web Store

Posted by jpluimers on 2018/07/16

Cool plugin that “Disables autoplay of all HTML5 audio and video”

Source: Disable HTML5 Autoplay – Chrome Web Store

Via:

–jeroen

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