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  • Thunderbird notes - Notes about the Thunderbird email client. Index Change to ‘Body Text’ default Keeping folder stucture in archive 404 caching Thunderbird email encryption with Avast Antivirus Remote images Hide remote content Syncing Google Contacts A...
  • How to add Google Translate as Firefox search keyword - Firefox has a great feature that allows you to right click on a search box (form text field) and select “Add a Keyword for this Search” to associate a keyword with the search via a special bookmark. From then on you can run the search by entering the k...
  • How to search discussions on google - Google search used to have an option to filter by discussions i.e. forums and other sites where people are discussing something. This was very useful for finding opinion on e.g. whether a particular web shop is reliable. Google seem to have removed th...
  • Bad usability in the 21st Century - This is a rant. Why?.. Because it calms me. I’ve been computing now for the majority of my life and usability & accessibility problems have always annoyed me. Like any reasonable person I assumed that as the technologies develop they would become ...
  • Google notes - Notes about various Google online products. They’ve gone way downhill in my opinion, from simple and usable to complex and confusing - lots of interacting services sharing data in spurious ways and no decent documentation. I guess that’s what happens w...
  • Google Sheets notes - Notes on Google Sheets online spreadsheet. Index Usage Referencing sheets List of items Conditional sum Complex conditional sum Import data from another spreadsheet Bugs Not interpreting formu...
  • The decline of Google Search - I have noticed Google Search (at google.com) go downhill in the last couple of years. I think they’re dumbing it down for a general audience, which is massively pointless as a general audience wouldn’t use the “power” operators anyway. It is no longer ...
  • Nexus 10 - Disable Google Now shortcut The application launcher at the bottom of the screen will launch Google Now when swiping upwards. I find this incredibly annoying as it’s easy to launch by accident and I don’t use or even like Google Now. To disable it, i...
  • Google Photos, Picassa, Gallery sync mess on Android - I have a Samsung Galaxy S2 (Android 4.1.2) and its image gallery apps and sync had become a complete mess. The phone came with a Gallery application but I later added Google Photos. In 2015 I had the following sync settings related to photos/gallerie...
  • Misc Android notes - Miscellaneous Android notes. These Android notes are mostly for Android 4.1.2 on the Samsung Galaxy S2 GT-I9100. Some notes, where stated, are for a Nexus 10 on Android 5.1.1. Because I use Android on the Galaxy S2, the OS contains Samsung-specific c...
  • Android gotchas and bugs - Notes on Android oddities that I’ve come across. These Android notes are mostly for Android 4.1.2 on the Samsung Galaxy S2 GT-I9100. Some notes, where stated, are for a Nexus 10 on Android 5.1.1. Because I use Android on the Galaxy S2, the OS contain...

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