Archive for the ‘Google’ Category
Posted by jpluimers on 2014/09/10
Google Hangouts on iOS could make Google Voice calls for a while, and it is now finally available for Android too: Official Google Blog: Call me maybe? Introducing free voice calls from Hangouts.
You need two pieces of software for this:
Roderick Gadellaa published a G+ post with the link to Hangouts Dialer and the Google Hangouts 2.3 APK at Android Police.
At the thread Free voice calling finally comes to Hangouts! both Allen Edmonds and Brandon D’Souza posted the link to the Google Hangouts 2.3 APK at http://goo.gl/TbRMVE.
You can even configure Hangouts to receive incoming Google Voice calls. Quoting from the same thread:
Spencer Petersen …
- Go to Hangouts settings,
- select your account, and
- under Google Voice
- there’s an option to receive incoming calls.
Calling to USA and Canada is free. Other regions do cost money, but the prices are very competitive: http://www.google.com/hangouts/rates
–jeroen
via:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2014/08/20
Had this happen to me this week. Took me quite a while to figure out how to resolve it, then had to restore everything as it was wiped.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2014/07/15
Duh: don’t start the Chromecast extension in Google Chrome, but run Chromecast.app on your Macbook (:
To change the WiFi network your Chromecast is connected to, simply open up the Chromecast app on your phone, tablet, or computer and select your Chromecast from the list. From the Chromecast settings page, select your current Wi-Fi network name and select a new network from the drop-down list.
–jeroen
via: Frequently Asked Questions – Chromecast Help.
Posted in Apple, Chromecast, Google, Mac, MacBook, MacBook Retina, MacBook-Air, MacBook-Pro, Power User | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2014/06/30
Though the question is still marked as “not a real question” (even after the edit by Michael Mrozek), the answers by User Mr. Smith – Stack Overflow and User FrustratedWithFormsDesigner – Stack Overflow are very valuable, as they describe NCR (no, not the National Cash Register company, but No Country Redirect).
The NCR url will force google.com to stay at the .com domain, not redirect the local country domain:
http://www.google.com/ncr
After that, none of the other Google URLs will auto-redirect to the country site any more: good thing!
Later I found a few other nice pages explaining NCR too (:
Another thing is that (if you did not yet know about NCR), you accidentally can end up with the wrong Google.com language. Resetting that is easy too as it answered at How can I force my browser to search Google in English? – Super User.
- Goto http://www.google.com/preferences#languages
- Reset the Google text language
- Reset the Google search results language
–jeroen
via: How to access the main Google homepage (no country redirect) – Stack Overflow.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2014/06/23
Every once in a while, a site goes haywire on you and you need to delete one or more of their cookies to fix it.
There are multiple solutions to this, but I like the one below best because it only shows you the cookies involved with the site you are currently visiting:
On
- Windows, press Ctrl+Shift-i.
- OS X, press ⌥-⌘-i (which is option-command-i).
- *nix, press Ctrl+Shift-j
Alternatively, open the Developer Tools pane from the Tools menu.
Open the Resources pane, and delete the cookies you want to delete.
Thanks akira!
–jeroen
via: Delete specific cookies from Google Chrome? – Super User.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2014/04/29
Kristian Köhntopp had a note post about Google Maps: Blue and Yellow Stars which he could not remove from within Google Maps.
In the end these appear to be bookmarks that you have to remove from Google Bookmarks.
He calls this a “complete UI disaster” to which I totally agree.
Thanks Kristian for sorting that out, as I did give up on that one.
–jeroen
via: Kristian Köhntopp – Google+ – Google Maps: Blue and Yellow Stars For some reasons there….
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Posted by jpluimers on 2014/04/15
Today I learned that each Google Group has RSS and ATOM feeds. That allows you to add them to Feedly (a great online RSS reader that won a lot of market share when Google Reader got ditched).
This is how you do it (I’m using the Spring4D group as an example).
- Go to the group page https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/spring4d
- On the right side, click on “About” which brings you to https://groups.google.com/forum/#!aboutgroup/spring4d
- Copy any of the RSS or ATOM links and add it to Feedly.
–jeroen
Posted in Delphi, Delphi 2010, Delphi XE, Delphi XE2, Delphi XE3, Delphi XE4, Delphi XE5, Delphi XE6, Development, Google, GoogleGroups, Power User, Software Development, Spring4D | 7 Comments »
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