Just found out about Sound Search Engine | SoundJax.com. It is nice for sounding sound effects.
Anyone who knows other sound search engines or search phrases that are good in finding sound effects?
–jeroen
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Anyone knows other sites for finding sound effects? (via: Sound Search Engine | SoundJax.com) #dtv
Posted by jpluimers on 2012/11/02
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Link dump: URLs I used to setup Google 2-step verification on my account, devices and software I use
Posted by jpluimers on 2012/10/22
- Video: Getting started with 2-step verification; How it works – Accounts Help.
- Setup – Accounts Help.
- Passwords and codes used with 2-step verification – Accounts Help.
- Connected Sites, Apps and Services: My Account.
- Set Up Google’s Two-Step Verification Now for Seriously Enhanced Security for Your Google Account.
- Installing Google Authenticator – Accounts Help.
- 2-step verification – Google Apps Help.
- 2step authentication on brand new phone – Android Forums.
- ‘Application-specific password required’. – Gmail Help.
- 2-step verification issues on my Gmail app (Adroid) – Google Groups.
- how to setup android gmail app with 2 step verification – Google Search.
- My client isn’t accepting my username and password – Gmail Help. / Additional Verification Step.
It was a lot of pain, and somehow my Android 4 device now doesn’t sync contacts any more.
–jeroen
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GMail is having email trouble: “Temporary Error (500)” with “Numeric Code: 21”
Posted by jpluimers on 2012/10/18
It seems quite a few people cannot access their GMail, but are able to access Plus, Contacts, Calendar, etc.
Only when accessing GMail, they get this:
Temporary Error (500)
We’re sorry, but your Gmail account is temporarily unavailable. We apologize for the inconvenience and suggest trying again in a few minutes.If the issue persists, please visit the Gmail Help Center »Try Again Sign Out
It happened to me about 90 minutes ago.
After doing the obvious (making sure I have a fresh browser without plugins, logged off the Google account, cleared cookies, restarted the browser, have Google send me a new 2 factor login code to my phone), I followed the GMail Help Center link, then filed a ticket at the please let us know link.
Hopefully this gets resolved soon…
–jeroen
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Time to disable Java for a while: Zero-Day Season is Not Over Yet
Posted by jpluimers on 2012/08/27
Hmm, time to disable Java for a while:
–jeroen
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Getting hacked often involves social engineering and corporate policy flaws (involved: Apple, Amazon, GMail)
Posted by jpluimers on 2012/08/10
With more and more stuff being linked together in the cloud, getting hacked becomes increasingly more simple.
This time, it involved Amazon, Apple and GMail, some good knowledge on how the system works, and social engineering to sound trustworthy.
The goal was to get access to a 3-letter Twitter account, the collateral was someones digital life.
Lessons to learn from how Mat Homan got hacked:
- Make local backups often
- Use two-factor authentication
- Don’t have all your devices on “wipe from the cloud”
- Don’t bind your primary accounts together on the clouds
- Have distinct reset accounts for your primary accounts
- Make your primary accounts use a distinct name
Applause for Mat for coming forward on this. I know lots of people that wouldn’t.
–jeroen
via:
- How Apple and Amazon Security Flaws Led to My Epic Hacking | Gadget Lab | Wired.com.
- Emptyage — Yes, I was hacked. Hard..
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Reference desktop client for the Google Authenticator (OS X, Windows, Linux) – via: mclamp/JAuth · GitHub
Posted by jpluimers on 2012/07/20
It runs on OS X, Windows and Linux:
JAuth is a reference desktop client for the google authenticator. Intended
as an alternative to the iPhone Google Authenticator app and similar.
And it comes with installers in addition to source code.
Interesting.
–jeroen
via: mclamp/JAuth · GitHub.
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Some Chrome links: finding out which tabs make noise, muting noisy tabs, restarting chrome while retaining all pages
Posted by jpluimers on 2012/07/13
Finding out which Chrome tabs make noise (I opted for the MuteTab extension)
Restarting your browsers retaining the opened tabs. Chrome does this automatically upon update, but there seems to be no manual automatic way other than this:
- Change your options to Reopen the pages that were open last
- Close your browser
- Restart your browser
- Resetting your Reopen the pages that were open last back to what is was
Not nice, but it works.
–jeroen
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Google Map Maker – submitting your own corrections to Google
Posted by jpluimers on 2012/07/01
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Fix to force Google Chrome to use google.com as default search (via: I cannot get Chrome to use www.google.com as the default search engine rather than www.google.com.hk. – Google Chrome Help)
Posted by jpluimers on 2012/06/22
Every couple of Google Chrome versions it starts using the local Google search domain (the one that Google things that geographically matches you, probably in a language you do not understand).
I have the “Use Google.com in English” cookies set, the right Chrome language settings, the right Google language settings, etc.
This is not the “right” solution, but it works, thanks Dwight Stegall:
- Right click the address bar and click on Edit search engines. When the box opens click the Google option in the list. Then click the X to the right to delete it.
- At the bottom look for a box with “Add new search engine”. Type in Google and in the next box type in a keyword. I use “g” for Google.
- Where it asks for URL paste this in.
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%s
You can use a similar solution for instance to force Google.co.uk as your default search domain.
–jeroen
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Administrative and Personal offline installers for Chrome (via: Alternate offline Google Chrome installer Windows – Google Help)
Posted by jpluimers on 2012/06/04
Because I tend to forget where Google keeps the information on dowloading the offline administrative and personal installers I have quoted their full help page below.
According to Google Employee Blair (Googler) (at 20100614 in topic Google Chrome Offline Installer – Google Chrome Help):
Be aware that the version of Google Chrome available from the link may not auto-update to future browser releases, meaning you could miss important security fixes and feature improvements. Make sure to check back often to download newer releases.
The standalone offline installers from the quote at the bottom of this post did all keep themselves up to date.
There is a bunch of version specific Google Chrome installers THAT WILL NOT AUTOUPDATE (they usually keep less than 2 months) with URLs formed like this: Read the rest of this entry »
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