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How To Work with Google Reference List: all Google URLs you will ever need in one handy place – via Denis Labelle

Posted by jpluimers on 2015/11/30

All Google URLs you will ever need in one handy place: How To Work with Google Reference List I. by Dennis Labelle.

–jeroen

Posted in G+: GooglePlus, GMail, Google, Google Analytics, Google Apps, GoogleAuthenticator, GoogleBookmarks, GoogleCalendar, GoogleContacts, GoogleDocs, GoogleDrive, GoogleFlights, GoogleGroups, GoogleHangouts, GoogleMaps, GoogleReader, GoogleSearch, GoogleTranslate, GoogleVoice, Hangouts, Power User, SocialMedia | Leave a Comment »

Tamikrest – Aratane N’Adagh – [HQ] – YouTube

Posted by jpluimers on 2015/11/09

Great music find by Jan Wildeboer a while ago.

In the thread some more African music is mentioned by Ferdinand Thommes

–jeroen

Playlist of Tamikrest related songs.

Ali Farka Touré:

And some I found myself:

 

Posted in About, G+: GooglePlus, Media Streaming, Personal, SocialMedia, YouTube | Leave a Comment »

How to turn off YouTube’s new autoplay feature – CNET

Posted by jpluimers on 2015/10/19

A while ago, YouTube started to automatically play the Next video after your current one was finished. I didn’t notice the Autoplay setting to be persistent after browser sessions as between tabs it isn’t synchronised and I hardly restart my browser (as I usually have like a hundred research tabs open).

So I adapted the steps from: How to turn off YouTube’s new autoplay feature – CNET

To disable the feature, click the blue Autoplay slider switch that sits at the top of the right-hand column of Up Next videos. It’s that easy, and when I turned it off, YouTube remembered I did so after both browser and system restarts.

Into:

  1. Close all but one YouTube window
  2. Change the setting
    • From 
    • To      
  3. Close your browser
  4. Open your browser

 

–jeroen

Posted in Power User, SocialMedia, YouTube | Leave a Comment »

Dropbox adds u2f support … if you connect to it via Chrome. Using FIDO U2F. Easy with Plug-Up foldable key.

Posted by jpluimers on 2015/08/21

I like this: the plug-up affordable FIDO U2F Security Key by  HAPPLINK.

You could already use it for Google 2nd factor authentication (2FA) through Chrome. You can do this from your own applications for instance through the U2F reference implementation.

Now you can also as 2FA to DropBox, also through Chrome. And it is easy with the plug-up key (Thanks Kristian):

Uuuund… umgestellt. Das war ja einfach.

http://www.amazon.de/dp/B00OGPO3ZS

Es gibt andere Fido Token, die können mehr. Ich nehme dieses, das kostet fast nix und man kann die kaufen und verteilen wie Konfetti.

Or inside the Europe mainland, for instance in:

–jeroen

via: Dropbox adds u2f support … if you connect to it via Chrome. If I’m not….

Posted in Chrome, DropBox, Google, GoogleAuthenticator, LifeHacker, Power User, Security, SocialMedia, U2F FIDO Security Keys | Leave a Comment »

Start URL for searching my own posts and comments – via: Ronnie Bincer.

Posted by jpluimers on 2015/08/14

Thanks to Ronnie Bincer, here is my start URL to find back posts and comments I made:

Note that

  • since my account is named and does not have an ID any more, I had to twiddle that URL a bit
  • https://plus.google.com/100853746448364695376 is a throw away account for a place that plays HTTPS man-in-the-middle on everyone using their network.

–jeroen

via: How to Easily Find Your Google+ Comments….

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HTML Cleaner – (not only) Word to clean HTML

Posted by jpluimers on 2015/08/10

A great on-line way to cleanup html (from for instance style information) before publishing it on your blog: HTML Cleaner – Word to clean HTML.

One of the things is does is Remove inline styles.

Ideal for copy-pasting a quote from a web-site to your HTML editor.

–jeroen

via: www.html-cleaner.com

Posted in Development, HTML, HTML5, Power User, SocialMedia, Software Development, Web Development, WordPress | Leave a Comment »

New feeds for Dilbert, Penny Arcade, W.T. Duck

Posted by jpluimers on 2015/08/09

Now that Yahoo Pipes is stopping, Chris Bernard rewrote his Dilbert/Penny Arcade/W.T.Duck feeds and published source on GitHub: https://github.com/cbenard/comicfeeds/

Feeds

If you use Feedly, and some (or all) pictures don’t show up for the Dilbert feed, then that is because of Feedly caching content. Use a parameterised URL fixes this: http://comicfeeds.chrisbenard.net/view/dilbert/default?something=something

–jeroen

Posted in Blogging, Fun, Power User, SocialMedia | Leave a Comment »

So I won’t forget: some wordpress.com links for my site

Posted by jpluimers on 2015/05/29

So I won’t forget:

Sitemaps

(via: Sitemaps — Support — WordPress.com and how to create a page Sitemap « WordPress.com Forums.)

XML-RPC

(via: XML-RPC Support « WordPress Codex and Settings Writing Screen « WordPress Codex.)

https://wiert.wordpress.com/xmlrpc.php or http:wiert.me/xmlrpc.php or /xmlrpc.php

robots.txt

(via: robots.txt « Tags « WordPress.com Forums.)

https://wiert.wordpress.com/robots.txt or http:wiert.me/robots.txt or /robots.txt

 Google webmaster tools

https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/dashboard?siteUrl=http://wiert.me

Google Analytics

(via: How to Add Google Analytics to WordPress in Under 60 Seconds – WPMU DEV  and Google Analytics Official Website – Web Analytics & Reporting.)

–jeroen

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G+ now has completely stopped working: “Unusual traffic from your computer network” – Search Help

Posted by jpluimers on 2015/02/21

This is getting ridiculous: G+ now completely stopped working. No CAPTCHA every couple of seconds after my laptop wakes up, but the screenshot below.

The  “Unusual traffic from your computer network” – Search Help isn’t helping much either.

My computer isn’t sending automated queries. The Google related tabs (some 50+) in Chrome are, as they frantically try to refresh themselves when my laptop wakes up.

This is a Google and Chrome design decision:

  • each tab runs in a separate process
  • each tab keeps being active even when not visible
  • Google chooses to have each Google related tab to talk to Google Plus

It’s not my choice that this overloads the G+ system, so don’t bug me with that!

–jeroen

 

Posted in G+: GooglePlus, Google, Power User, SocialMedia | Tagged: , | 2 Comments »

How to Prevent a specific Blogger Blog from Redirecting to Country Domains

Posted by jpluimers on 2015/02/09

The article How to Prevent your Blogger Blog from Redirecting to Country Domains describes to prevent the country redirect from within a blog itself.

But what about outside readers that want to see a specific blog on the .com link?

One of the reasons they want to do this is that Google does not index the country redirected sites, they only index the com site.

I had this while reading http://delphisorcery.blogspot.com/. It kept redirecting to http://delphisorcery.blogspot.nl/ (as I’m based in Amsterdam; in Germany for instance it would redirect to http://delphisorcery.blogspot.de/).

But a site:delphisorcery.blogspot.nl search would return nothing whereas site:delphisorcery.blogspot.com would return the full index for the blog.

The trick is to browse the .com version of the blog with NCR once: http://delphisorcery.blogspot.com/ncr

If you do that, Google forces a no-country redirect (just like you can do with Google.com: browse to http://www.google.com/ncr), and it remembers that choice too.

Note that BlogSpot has not done this country redirect for ever.

–jeroen

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