Posted by jpluimers on 2016/11/18
There is a Chrome App called Videostream for Google Chromecast that lets you play your own local videos on your Chromecast from your PC with subtitles supported. Not like those Chrome Extensions, it’s a Chrome App that you can launch directly from your desktop through Chrome Launch.
Just launch the app, choose a video, select a Chromecast, and enjoy. Easy as 123.
via: [WayBack] How To Chromecast MKV, MP4, DVI Videos from Windows Computer | Next of Windows
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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/11/10
While mocking the ScaleMM documentation, I bumped into a chart that I thought was an image, but is in fact generated by the (now deprecated) Image Charts API from Google.
In fact it is generated on the fly from a URL: http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?chxr=0,0,16|1,0,14682…&nonsense=something_that_ends_with.png
Compare the two below. They are identical (:
 Static ScaleMM1 comparison chart |
 URL based ScaleMM1 comparison chart |
Even though the API is deprecated Google has no plans to turn it of, so it still works and is the easiest way to get charts into a Markdown or reStructuredText document.
In practice, it doesn’t matter if you use the chart.apis.google.com or chart.googleapis.com domain: they give the same results the same.
As I wanted to convert the results.txt to a chart, I dissected the above URL, looked up the definitions of the URL parameters (the trickiest: cds for lxy graphs and the combination of chds and chxr, easier: chls) and created a new URL for the chart below.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/11/03
I very often see the captcha. Today Google managed to DoS G+.
It happened right after RDP-ing into my work machine that has like ~100 research related tabs open of which about half are Google hosted pages.
G+ wouldn’t work as those tabs send so many G+ requests that Google effectively did a DoS on G+ for my IP-address and user (switching to another user was fine).
Google doing a DoS on G+ because all the open tabs generate G+ traffic
Later this got simplfied into this:
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/10/31
A few months ago was my first ever presence on IRC wich started like this:
[13:45] bear with me: after BITNET relay chat, I've totally skipped the IRC thing, so [13:46] * jeroenp_ is IRC n00b and wonders if netiquette is roughly the same as in the mid 1990s (: [13:46] jeroenp_: I don't think it changed a lot... [13:46] Cool: /me works on IRC too (: [13:47] Anyone having time to help me with `zypper dup` on Tumbleweed indicating `python3-urllib3-1.16-1.1.noarch requires python(abi) = 3.5` ?
I will post later on my own chat history (including BITNET Relay conference system on BITNET/EARN).
This post is just to mention a few keywords of Let’s have a chat – a taxonomy and some context(This is a text I wrote for work, but it contains nothing work specific and I might as well drop it here.… – Kristian Köhntopp – Google+
Kristian Köhntopp now basically uses his G+ as a blog (blog.koehntopp.de is now defunct) with a great set of collections.
I’ve kept my blog as I find G+ very hard to search for content and a “bla bla site:wiert.me” for me often is the fastest way to find something back that interests me.
Hence the keywords below on his post Let’s have a chat – a taxonomy and some context.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/10/21
Below a table with clickable links, details are in the Via at the end. I added some more beyond the 10 original ones.
# URL What Footer 1 Footer 2 Footer 3 1 https://accounts.google.com/SignUpWithoutGmail Get a new account 2 https://www.google.com/ads/preferences Manage advertisement profile 3 https://www.google.com/takeout Download your Google data (mail can take days!) 4 https://support.google.com/legal To file a complaint about using copyrighted or unpermissioned material 5 https://maps.google.com/locationhistory Shows where your devices have been 6 https://history.google.com All your searches 7 https://www.google.com/settings/account/inactive Prevent extended inactivity, Google doesn’t delete your account after 9 months. 8 https://security.google.com/settings/security/activity When you suspect account abuse 9 https://security.google.com/settings/security/permissions Set permissions of apps and sites relating to your account 10 https://admin.google.com/example.org/VerifyAdminAccountPasswordReset Apps users: reset admin account by adding a CNAME to the DNS 11 https://plus.google.com G+ / Google Plus 12 https://plus.google.com/hangouts Google Hangouts 13 https://gmail.com GMail / Google Mail 14 https://contacts.google.com Google Contacts (note + button to add is hidden behind Hangouts pop-up also on the lower right) 15 https://calendar.google.com Calendar / Agenda 16 https://www.google.com/sync Sync Google Settings between various devices / applications 17 https://myaccount.google.com Account and privacy settings 18 https://myaccount.google.com/security Security settings like two-factor authentication (2-step signin) 19 https://security.google.com/settings/security/secureaccount Check if your security settings (recovery phone, recovery email, security question) are still up to date. 20 https://myaccount.google.com/privacycheckup/1 Setting your privacy 21 https://wallet.google.com Manage Wallet 22 https://play.google.com Google Play Store and settings 23 https://www.google.com/android/devicemanager Where is your Android device # href what # href what # href what # href what # href what # href what # href what # href what # href what # href what # href what
–jeroen
via: Some Imporatant URLs you should know as a Google User – I am Programmer.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/10/14
An interactive list of over 150 commands and 1000 variations that you can ask Google’s voice assistant. Made by @thekitze
Source: OK Google
Via: Amazing site lists nearly every ‘OK Google’ voice command
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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/09/19
A solution for:
The problem with Google Now’s predictions though is that sometimes they can be inaccurate from the start or take a little longer to adapt to change. Moved your home? Switched jobs? Went for a month or two to a vacation house? Google Now might stubbornly want to keep your old addresses.
Source: PSA: Manually Assign Any Coordinates As Your Home Or Work Address In Google Maps And Google Now
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/08/26
Cool:
Did you know that you could share a link to let people chat with you in Hangouts?
We use these links for certain invites, but they work if you hand build them and share them too.
https://hangouts.google.com/chat/person/ 111111111111Where the number is your profile id
With vanity urls it’s harder to find that, but the easiest way is to use the public api call here https://developers.google.com/+/web/api/rest/latest/people/get#try-it.
Put “me” into the userId field and it will output your numerical id in the response.
Enter `id` in the `fields` to limit the JSON
By constructing such an invitation URL you can get people to directly start a Google Hangouts chat with you.
The above steps will give you a lot of JSON output which includes an id field somewhere in the middle. With one more trick you can get just the id field.
You can limit the output by putting
idin the fields to request as the image on the right shows.
Sometimes clicking on G+ posts, you even get the id for free, I’m just not sure under what circumstances G+ builds a G+ URL with username or with id.
–jeroen
Source: We have made a number of changes internally to Hangouts…
via:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/08/19
Google Privacy settings van be changed from A privacy reminder from Google.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/07/08
I’m not yet sure what the exact cause is, but at irregular intervals when clicking on Google Plus links, they show as “403. That’s an error.”.
They appear both when I have multiple WAN connections or a single WAN connection, which leads me to suspect that G+ doesn’t cope well when
In a future post, I will explain how I created the workaround, but here it is:
Basically it translates links
The latter was the original link I clicked in the first place. The former what G+ comes up with.
After a while, G+ comes back to its senses and allows the latter links again, so the page allows you to parse the former then put them in a list like this:
One decoded URL per list-item.
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