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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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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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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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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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:
Time to make a decision in a month or so…
–jeroen
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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 which is a different unicode characer (0x00A0) than a normal space (0x0020):
<blockquote><p><code data-mce-selected="1"># <strong>useradd --create-home --shell /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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Posted by jpluimers on 2019/03/18
The Android Google YouTube application is showing more and more ads, mostly irrelevant, and has moved the “skip video” button outside of the “countdown timer” control.
Right now, there is no video – not even short videos lasting like 10 seconds – that goes without ads.
Time to research [WayBack] How to Block Ads on YouTube App for Android?.
The most promising solutions:
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2019/03/18
Soon this is a thing of the past, but for just a few more days, you can help: Archiving Google+.
Either run this project: [WayBack] GitHub – ArchiveTeam/googleplus-grab: Archiving Google+.
Or even better: run the appliance, and help the WayBack machine with any archiving projects setup by the virtual appliance: the [WayBack] ArchiveTeam Warrior – Archiveteam.
See some of their other pages for more background information:
You can donate both to the archive team, and the internet archive:
The tracker is well under way: [WayBack] Googleplus tracker Dashboard. History: archive.is 1; archive.is 2
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Posted by jpluimers on 2019/03/01
[WayBack] There’s recently been a question about moving G+ Photos to Google Photos. [That is, Photos posted to Google+] Just been playing with this. Here’s one… – Julian Bond – Google+
Before I forget:
Here’s one route.
- Go to Google Photos settings and set Google Drive –
Sync photos & videos from Google Drive.- Google Takeout. G+Streams.Photos.
- Unzip locally.
- Copy the contents of ‘
Takeout\Google+ Stream\Photos\Photos from posts‘ to a directory inGoogle Drive\My Pictures- Fire up “Backup and Sync from Google” to upload
- Check the photos are now present in Photos.
And https://get.google.com/albumarchive/
Via: [WayBack] There’s recently been a question about moving G+ Photos to Google Photos. Just been playing with this. Here’s one route. 1. Go to Google Photos setti… – Alan Cox – Google+
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2019/02/28
Interesting approach: saying good bye isn’t that hard if you do not share a lot things with other people through it.
[WayBack] Bye, Bye, Google · Bogdan Popa:
I spent this past weekend de-Google-ifying my life and, despite my expectations, it wasn’t too hard to do. I started by moving all of my websites off of Google App Engine and onto a dedicated box that I had already owned. That was straightforward enough. Next, I removed any Google Analytics snippets from each of them and replaced those with my own analytics server that I had built a while back (it doesn’t store any PII, only aggregate information (and very little of that, too)).
…
Via:
This might be a viable mail alternative: [WayBack] Reliable Email Provider, Inbox Email & Resource Center | inbox.com
Simplify your online communication with one login to secure email communication, organize conversations, and fine-tune archive searches.
Via: [WayBack] Thank you for following us! It’s been our pleasure to build a community with all of you. In the coming weeks, we’ll be closing this page. Please find us… – Google – Google+
PublicThank you for following us! It’s been our pleasure to build a community with all of you. In the coming weeks, we’ll be closing this page. Please find us here to stay connected:www.youtube.com/google
www.twitter.com/google
www.instagram.com/google
www.facebook.com/google
–jeroen
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