When I'm at the office, the Weather widget on my phone updates to show my location as "4." Huh?
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posted by emelenjr
on Sep 20, 2010 -
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what sort of device can I buy to show my google tasks next to a corkboard, so I see them on my way out the door?
do any photo frames do wireless sync? my first thought was a cheap old itouch, but the screen is tiny, and it does more than I need.
low power use would also be a plus (i.e. not a laptop or cheap desktop with wall mounted monitor, which I also thought of - I do have an extra 17" sitting around)
I could consider switching to another tasks app if required for the best solution, though I do enjoy gtasks in gmail and calendar.
posted by lrodman
on Sep 19, 2010 -
9 answers
How do I transfer accurate calendar information from my iTouch back into Google calendar and also back into Outlook 2003?
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posted by mcbeth
on Sep 12, 2010 -
3 answers
I'll be giving a Tech Talk at Google in Mountain View, CA this Thursday. What should I do/see? I love surplus, weird food, and People From The Internet.
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posted by fake
on Sep 7, 2010 -
42 answers
How can I sync an online calendar feed (xml) with either iCal or Google Calendar? I know I can sync iCal and gCalendar easily through several methods. But what I also need to include is my department's events calendar. I can import it as an iCal or Outlook file, but this is only a one-time option. Once the department's calendar is updated I don't receive the new or changed events. And I suspect if I import the (newer) file again, I will get many duplicates. The calendar has an xml feed I could subscribe to, but can't figure out how to translate this into a calendar that automatically syncs or updates. Willing to consider any options that would lead to the online calendar (.ics, .csv, or .xml file) being auto updated to any calendar application. This would make my life so much easier! Thanks!
posted by madscientist01
on Aug 31, 2010 -
3 answers
Google docs has denied us access to a document, saying "it is in violation of our Terms of Service." We need that document! What can we do?
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posted by ManInSuit
on Aug 30, 2010 -
23 answers
What is the most consumer-friendly Android phone? How does the relationship between Google, phone developers, and carriers work?
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posted by odinsdream
on Aug 25, 2010 -
11 answers
I am a juror in a criminal case. I'm really considering: a.) talking to my wife about it; and b.) googling a couple things related to it. Just how bad of a citizen am I? Will I get caught?
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posted by anonymous
on Aug 25, 2010 -
64 answers
I need a GTD compatible task management app for iPhone that will sync both Outlook tasks AND flagged emails over the air with Exchange Server 2003. Bonus points for three way Outlook/Google/iPhone syncronization and location aware task reminders.
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posted by tipthepizzaguy
on Aug 25, 2010 -
3 answers
Is there a way to get Firefox to use Google Calendar as its default handler for webcal links?
posted by WCityMike
on Aug 21, 2010 -
1 answer
I'd like to capture the PageRank of every page that's part of a single, large site (~5000 pages), preferably as a .csv covering page title, URL and PageRank. Is there a reliable service, free or pay, that does that?
posted by boombot
on Aug 20, 2010 -
3 answers
how do i bypass google chrome's "Warning: Visiting this site may harm your computer!" page? (ie. put certain sites i frequently visit on a safe white-list of sorts)
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posted by qvinx
on Aug 17, 2010 -
6 answers
Website that will compare the size of two cities by show the map side by side.
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posted by Carius
on Aug 10, 2010 -
4 answers
How can I extract a list of "second-generation" citations from Google Scholar search results, preferably in such a way that this information is easily parsable into lists of authors, titles, journals, and year published?
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posted by samac
on Aug 4, 2010 -
5 answers
If you were selling a product at (fictional example) socialnetworkmarketing.com, would you buy facebookmarketing.com and twittermarketing.com to just redirect to socialnetworkmarketing.com?
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posted by smersh
on Aug 3, 2010 -
4 answers
Is there a way to download one folder of mail from gmail to an outside client, say apple mall, without downloading all the messages I have in gmail?
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posted by tejolote
on Aug 2, 2010 -
5 answers
No browser can do https to Google (and only Google) for one user on a multi-user Mac. What's going on here?
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posted by eafarris
on Jul 31, 2010 -
8 answers
I would like to post pictures on my blog and prevent Google from indexing and linking to the them and people from downloading them. How should I go about doing this?
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posted by nomadicink
on Jul 30, 2010 -
13 answers
How can I download my Google web history in a way that maximizes the data's usability?
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posted by Popcorn
on Jul 22, 2010 -
5 answers
Why does my most recently copied clipboard contents just show up in the search field in Google before I paste it there? Seems odd and my other computers don't do this. What am I doing wrong here?
posted by Freedomboy
on Jul 19, 2010 -
2 answers
Help me figure out why an ATOM feed won't play nice with PHP's file_get_contents() method.
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posted by JPowers
on Jul 17, 2010 -
6 answers
How come I don't see Google's new
Rich Text Signature feature available on my Google Apps account...but is available on my regular Gmail account?
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posted by orehek
on Jul 16, 2010 -
6 answers
What's a good alternative to Google? Their new algorithm (Caffeine) stresses fresh content and that's not what I always want.
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posted by qsysopr
on Jul 12, 2010 -
11 answers
We have a directory of indexed PDFs of back issues of an academic journal we publish. Can I make it so that Google can see the text (so searchers will see when a journal issue contains the keyword they're looking for), but won't give up the direct link to the full PDF? We sell access to back issues and reprints.
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posted by overeducated_alligator
on Jul 6, 2010 -
3 answers
I use google voicemail on my Motorola Droid. When someone leaves a message that includes a phone number that is different from the number they're calling from, google does a good job of transcribing it. As far as I can tell, however, there's no simple way of calling back that spoken, transcribed number. Instead, I have to memorize it, switch over to phone and key it in (and forget a few digits and switch back and forth and crash the car etc). I feel like maybe I'm just missing something simple, but I'm coming up empty searching for an answer. Does anyone know if it's possible?
posted by The Dutchman
on Jun 28, 2010 -
11 answers
How do I add new sites to the Google custom search engine that I've created? Strangely, the control panel doesn't give me that option. If this isn't possible, what other tools can I use to specify which sites I want Google to search? This search engine isn't one that I'm publishing; it's for my own use.
posted by Wordwoman
on Jun 26, 2010 -
1 answer
Why would my Google Reader "Next" button (the one you can drag right onto your bookmarks toolbar) just take me to random sites every time I click it? I'm logged into my account and everything. Doesn't look like any previous questions posted here address this particular problem.
posted by jeroum
on Jun 23, 2010 -
9 answers
Gmail security: Someone keeps trying to recover, or change, the password for my gmail account. I'd previously set my gmail recovery option to send me an SMS, and I'm getting a lot of SMSes saying, "Your Google Account recovery code is: ... If you did not request this code, you can safely ignore this message". I've already changed my secret question to be really obscure, but what else should I do to protect my account? Every couple of weeks, I get bombarded with SMSes because someone is trying to access my account. Can I temporarily disable the recovery option? I'm just worried that someone might guess the answer to my secret question by brute force or some other means.
posted by surenoproblem
on Jun 17, 2010 -
12 answers
Would like to export my contacts from Outlook 2003 to Google apps Mail. Have tried saving CSV files and then importing, excel files then saving as CSV, but every time the email addresses are assigned to the wrong place and end up in the misc area in Google contacts...
this despite looking at the xcel spreadsheet header and seeing it properly labeled. What am i doing wrong?
posted by dougiedd
on Jun 17, 2010 -
1 answer
I've got a really annoying problem (well, two, really) with Google Maps on Chrome. Help me diagnose.
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posted by setanor
on Jun 2, 2010 -
2 answers
I've password-protected part of my website so that I could put up some info about a project that a friend and I are working on, without anybody else seeing it. I have a vanity search saved on Google for my name. Today I got a Google Alert for one of the new password-protected pages. How is Google able to read my password-protected pages?
posted by joannemerriam
on May 31, 2010 -
11 answers
Looking for someone to summarize the key advantages and disadvantages of going with a premier Google Apps account versus Hosted Exchange Service versus in-house Exchange (where we are now). We are a small non-profit 150 users with 1.2 FTE IT support.
Why the desire to move? Recent experiences with worm have brought the cots of in-house to the fore in downtime and support time to fix things..
posted by dougiedd
on May 28, 2010 -
6 answers
I want to translate some pages and make the translation available to other people. Can I do that? Google apparently can, without asking permission of the original author. What happens to the copyright of (Google-) translated web pages?
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posted by Zarkonnen
on May 28, 2010 -
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