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How to Share a Direct Link to a Dropbox File – How to Do Anything in Apps | Zapier

Posted by jpluimers on 2020/04/03

TL;DR of [WayBack] How to Share a Direct Link to a Dropbox File – How to Do Anything in Apps | Zapier and [WayBack] How to force a shared link to download or render – Dropbox Help

Related:

–jeroen

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kugelfish: Google+ Migration – Part II: Understanding the Takeout Archive

Posted by jpluimers on 2020/03/24

If you want to process the JSON form the Google Take Out, then below are some resources that will help you get started developing

Started developing you say?

Yes, of course the JSON does not match APIs any more, and of course Google has not provided and starting point or guidance.

A perfect execution of Sunset.

So you are on your own with:

All via [WayBack] Continuing the takeout data migration process with a first look at the data that is in the archive. – Edward Morbius – Google+

In the mean time, some people started hosting their HTML take out, for instance:

Here you have to note that the take out does not include media, and many hyperlinks still point to within Google Plus itself, for instance for circles and avatars.

Example:

–jeroen

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Do I really need to write a WordPress API wrapper to check the status of “missed schedule” posts?

Posted by jpluimers on 2020/01/29

After years with “missed schedule” posts on (paid!) wordpress.com based sites, WordPress has documented that the scheduler officially does not support more than 100 posts:

[WayBack] Warning: Please do not schedule more than 100 posts. Any posts scheduled beyond that amount will not be published.

In practice this is not fully true, so lets explain that a little.

Background

Imagine the list of scheduled posts as a list of posts to be posted anywhere from the near future (lets call that tail) until far in the future (for now head).

As long as you schedule posts in head to tail order, then there is no problem. You can schedule 100s of posts (usually I’ve between 700 and 1200 posts scheduled that way).

The problems appear when:

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Shortcut to old WordPress.com blog administration tools

Posted by jpluimers on 2019/10/11

For my link archive: https://dashboard.wordpress.com/wp-admin/index.php?page=my-blogs

Via:

–jeroen

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Chronological Facebook

Posted by jpluimers on 2019/09/30

For people still using Facebook: visit it using www.facebook.com/?sk=h_chr.

This will open the chronological view of your Facebook feed.

Via:

–jeroen

 

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[APP][MOD]OGYouTube v1.2 Downloader, Popup/Background/ScreenOff Playback

Posted by jpluimers on 2019/09/23

From a while ago on XDA: [APP][MOD]OGYouTube v1.2 Downloader, Popup/Background/ScreenOff Playback which allows you to download and off-line play YouTube videos on your Android device.

via: New tutorial!#youtube   #google   #android   – DoorToDoorGeek “Stephen McLaughlin” – Google+

Note that on laptops, I tend to use [WayBack] youtube-dl.

–jeroen

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Google YouTube Keyboard Shortcuts – Windows – U-M Google

Posted by jpluimers on 2019/09/20

Cool table via the University of Michigan’s Google Apps for Education [Archive.is/WayBack]:

Note: These shortcuts will only work when the video player is in focus. To move the focus try pressing the spacebar to pause and then play the video.

Action Shortcut
Toggle play/pause the video
 k or Spacebar
Go back 5 seconds
 Left arrow
Go back 10 seconds
 j
Go forward 5 seconds
 Right arrow
Go forward 10 seconds
 l
Skip to a particular section of the video (e.g., 5 goes to the video midpoint)
 Numbers 1-9 (not the keypad numbers)
Restart video
 0 (not the keypad number)
Go to Full Screen mode f
Exit Full Screen mode
 Escape
Go to beginning of video
 Home
Go to end of video
 End
Increase volume 5%
 Up arrow
Decrease volume 5%
 Down arrow
Increase speed
 Shift+> (may not work in all browsers)
Decrease speed
 Shift+< (may not work in all browsers)
Move forward 1 frame when video is paused . (period)
Move backward 1 frame when video is paused , (comma)
Mute/unmute video m
Turn captions on/off c
Cycle through options for caption background color b

 

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My website is marked as unsafe. How can I change this? | Facebook Help Community

Posted by jpluimers on 2019/07/29

For my link archive: [Archive.is] My website is marked as unsafe. How can I change this? | Facebook Help Community

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Flickr Free is limited to 1000 foto’s and will start deleting old photos in half a year…

Posted by jpluimers on 2019/05/04

A reminder to myself: about half a year ago, [WayBack] Flickr announces changes From http://flickr.com/lookingahead we note the following: Free accounts will soon be limited to 1,000 photos or videos. Flick… – Jeff Diver – Google+

Free members with more than 1,000 photos or videos uploaded to Flickr will no longer be able to upload new content after Tuesday, January 8, 2019 unless they upgrade to Pro. After February 5, 2019, free accounts that contain over 1,000 photos or videos will have content deleted — starting from oldest to newest date uploaded — to meet the new limit. Members may always choose to download content over the limit at any time prior to these dates.

I had been a Flickr Pro subscriber for a long time, but the social interactions where mweh, and I had far less storage than the free tier anyway, so I let the Pro expire.

With about 33k photos, I seem to have no other options than to:

  • download everything, and find a new place, including all meta-information
  • go pro

Time to make a decision in a month or so…

–jeroen

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Lesson learned: do not copy/paste code from the `Visual` WordPress.com editor…

Posted by jpluimers on 2019/04/16

[WayBack] Lesson learned: do not copy/paste code from the Visual WordPress.com editor; copy from the Text editor or the Preview… – Jeroen Wiert Pluimers – Google+.

Note: likely the HTML below got rendered badly by WordPress.com, so the gist below has the same text as a MarkDown file.

Ever wonder why copy-pasting code from your WordPress.com post fails?

The first statement fails, but the second works:

[root@linux:/etc] # useradd --create-home --shell /bin/false autossh24
useradd: unrecognized option '--shell /bin/false'
...
[root@linux:/etc] # useradd --create-home --shell /bin/false autossh24
[root@linux:/etc] #

The reason is that the first is copied from the Visual WordPress.com editor that renders this HTML inserting &nbsp; which is a different unicode characer (0x00A0) than a normal space (0x0020):

<blockquote><p><code data-mce-selected="1"># <strong>useradd --create-home --shell&nbsp;/bin/false autossh24</strong></code></p></blockquote>

However, the the second copied from the Text WordPress.com editor succeeds because it has all regular spaces:

<blockquote><code># <strong>useradd --create-home --shell /bin/false autossh24</strong></code></blockquote>

Luckily the Preview render is correct:

<blockquote><p><code># <strong>useradd --create-home --shell /bin/false autossh24</strong></code></p></blockquote>

Lesson learned: do not copy/paste code from the Visual WordPress.com editor; copy from the Text editor or the Preview.

–jeroen

[WayBack] Ever wonder why copy-pasting code from your WordPress.com post fails?

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