Posted by jpluimers on 2018/03/26
The Google Opinion Rewards app offers an excellent way to earn money which you can use to buy any kind of Play Store content by taking surveys. More often
Since I didn’t get any rewards in about half a year, I’ve followed the steps from [WayBack] Get more surveys from Google Opinion Rewards.
Let’s see what happens.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2018/03/19
From a while back, but still not fixed: [WayBack] Just in case you are wondering what these %TEMP%_MEI* folders are about: Google Drive apparently doesn’t clean up correctly when it exits because you l… – Daniela Osterhagen – Google+
Just in case you are wondering what these
%TEMP%\_MEI*folders are about: Google Drive apparently doesn’t clean up correctly when it exits because you log off or shut down Windows.This is ridiculous. It’s not as if there weren’t any options to let Windows do that cleanup if the program fails.
It is still not fixed:
[WayBack] Just in case you are wondering what these %TEMP%_MEI* folders are about: Google Drive apparently doesn’t clean up correctly when it exits because you l… – Jeroen Wiert Pluimers – Google+
Still doing it all these years later – only the size of the garbage left behind has changed (Size: 58.4 MB (61,303,879 bytes) Size on disk: 67.7 MB (71,061,504 bytes) 1/3 of which is icons) – why this isn’t committed to Chrome instead of held open in %TEMP% is beyond reasoning +Google Drive
Original forum source: [Archive.is] _MEI folder created at windows start – Google Product Forums
by Martin Friedl 3/17/13
Hi,
I just found out that on windows the google drive tool creates a ‘_MEIxxxxx’ folder on every startup of windows. The xxxxx is a number that differs at every startup. On my PC (with windows 7) this folder is created on ‘C:\’ and has a size of about 35MB. SO with every start of windows google drive occopies 35 additional MB. It looks as the content of the folder is mainly Pyhton-files.Is there a way to prevent google drive from creating an additional folder with every start of windows?
Best regards
Martin…
10/21/13
Klint said:
If you exit Google Drive by right-clicking the Google Drive icon in your Windows 7 notification area, and selecting Exit, then Google Drive shuts down properly and correctly deletes the _MEIxxx folder. Unfortunately, it leaves the folder behind if you leave Google Drive running when you log out or shut down. So, yes, it is a bug in Google Drive. It ought to terminate properly when the user logs out.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2018/02/27
It seems to be a feature: [WayBack] [Feature or Fluke] You can now purchase items on any other country’s Google Store
via: [WayBack] Huuuuuge. No seriously, this is pretty nice. – Roderick Gadellaa – Google+
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2018/02/22
https://www.google.com/search?q=blink+html
https://www.google.com/search?q=askew
https://www.google.com/search?q=recursion
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Posted by jpluimers on 2018/01/20
As I keep forgetting the Notifications – Google+ URL and G+ kills “older” notifications: https://plus.google.com/notifications/all
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2018/01/12
It looks like when syncing folders between Mac OS X (MacOS X?) and Windows, many directories get empty Icon? files have a size of 0 bytes.
None of these directories had custom icons, so I’m inclined to remove them all from the Google Drive folder:
find . -name 'Icon*' -size 0 -print0 | xargs -0 rm
as [WayBack] Didier Trosset answered at [WayBack] How to delete many 0 byte files in linux? – Stack Overflow
Before I do that, I need to read these in more detail:
–jeroen
Posted in Apple, Google, GoogleDrive, iMac, Mac, Mac OS X / OS X / MacOS, MacBook, MacBook Retina, MacBook-Air, MacBook-Pro, MacMini, OS X 10.10 Yosemite, OS X 10.11 El Capitan, OS X 10.9 Mavericks, Power User | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2018/01/10
Some sites do not have their TLS security set- up correctly. You can get around the page that Chrome then displays. This is called the “interstitial bypass”, you should use it with great care (not like one of the sites I visited a year ago that got themselves a nice ransomware attack), for instance on machines you can dispose off.
The mechanism has changed over time, from a simple button to a passphrase that changes every now and then.
Some historic links on this:
Via:
A way to bypass a Chrome interstitial page is to type a secret keyword. Until today, this not-no-secret keyword was “badidea”. And it just changed. So h… – François Beaufort – Google+
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2018/01/02
Still on my research list (because: way too many other things to do and initially Google Home wasn’t available outside the USA*): [WayBack] Actions on Google | Actions on Google | Google Developers: Actions on Google lets developers build experiences for the Google Assistant.
via: [WayBack] Get started now. This turns your Google Assistant into a Concierge with many contacts and colleagues who can help you to get things done… – Sebastian Mauer – Google+
–jeroen
* [WayBack] Country availability – Google Store Help via:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2017/12/25
Kristian Köhntopp:
Dear Lazyweb, years ago I turned on the Yule log visualiser in GPMAA, Settings, Labs. Current Google music has no Labs. So how do I turn on cover art?
…
Turns out, the Settings -> Labs switch exists in Desktop Google Music only, and does not (longer) exist in the App.
Sad.
via: [WayBack] Dear Lazyweb… how do I turn on cover art? – Kristian Köhntopp – Google+
The setting is at https://play.google.com/music/listen?authuser&u=0#/accountsettings
More: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYkyOaSNLb8
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2017/12/25
[WayBack] seo – How to request Google to re-crawl my website? – Stack Overflow
TL;DR:
Some links that help you create a sitemap.xml file:
–jeroen
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