Uniform Resource Locator or Universal Resource Locator - a specific character string that constitutes a reference to an Internet resource.
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Posting URL to Facebook Pages
How can I post a URL from a Craigslist confirmation email to my Facebook Pages account?
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Link to a cell in a Google Spreadsheet via URL?
One can link to a google docs document via key and via key and worksheet id:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=SOME_KEY
...
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1answer
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Get direct link from a soundcloud for use in download managers
There's a sound clip on soundcloud that has a "download" button.. It's a large mp3 (150 MB+), when I click it, download starts on the crappy chrome and due to some reason, it got stuck at 60%.
Now I ...
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1answer
426 views
Sending Username ad password through url [closed]
I am trying to send a user name and a password through url, for example I am login inn in a page using the text field provided in the page but actually sending those username and password to another ...
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How to access Blogger and Youtube from any other URLs
Is there any way to access blogger and youtube from any subdomain of google? for example can I access blogger from a link like https://blablabal.google.com ?
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Tumblr url won't work?
Last night I deleted a tumblr blog I owned because I didn't need it anymore. I still want the url it had and my plan was to just change the url on my other blog to the one of the deleted blog because ...
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1answer
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How long will a TinyURL be available?
This is not a thread about if URL shortener are good or not, I'm just wondering how long such created TinyURL will be available? Is the given URL available "forever"?
If so - is there a way to ...
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YouTube Channels: possible to load dynamic video or playlist into the “featured” player using URL parameters?
I'm running ads on various platforms (FB, Outbrain, etc) to several different videos and playlists in my YouTube channel.
however, it's extremely important to me that these videos play out of the ...
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Search engine that offers a “random webpage” link?
Is there a search engine that provides a link which redirects to a random webpage (in any language!) that is indexed by that search engine?
I'm not interested in any 3rd party services; the search ...
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How to copy links to Google Drive document
When I copy HTML to Google Drive, I lose the URLs in the text. Is that normal behavior? If so, how do I get around it to keep the URLs?
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Google Sites: redirecting to an updated page URL
I'm working on updating a bunch of Google Sites-hosted knowledge base entries.
Aside from content and formatting updates, I want to fix some of the URLs since many of them are absurdly long sentences ...
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Is there a shortcut to Gmail Contacts?
I often update my contact list.
Currently I have to
Open Gmail
Open contacts link
Is there a quicker way to do this?
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1answer
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Cannot put a local file URL in card description in Trello
I have seen that other users can link to local files from a card, using Markdown syntax.
I can do it in a comment (writing directly the file:/// URL) but I would like to do it in the card ...
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1answer
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Find photo info page for Flickr profile image
Given a Flickr static image (like http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8283/7753425102_02f23b5a21.jpg), I know how to find the info page for that image ...
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1answer
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Google Analytics adds additional slash after domain when opening a page
In Content → Overview you can see a table listing all visited pages of your tracked site. Next to the URL path there is a little icon:
If you click it, a popup loading the corresponding page is ...
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Embed Grid View in a Link to a Shared Google Drive Folder
I'm sharing folders of pictures through google drive. The default view is list but I would like the people opening the shared link to be by default in grid view (which is more suitable for images ...
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1answer
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Is there an application to write down URLs?
Is there an application to write down URLs in a single-unified-online accessible place ?
I often find interesting articles but I often forget to write down the URLs.
Is there an application which ...
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2answers
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How can I change the URL of my Google+ account? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How can I get Custom Vanity Google plus URLs?
I just want to add my own name to that URL instead of its(Google+'s) default boring alphanumerical codes......
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1answer
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Drawing parameters in OpenStreetMap URL
I've learnt that one can add annotation on maps on OpenStreetMap by adding
box=yes&bbox=lon1,lat1,lon2,lat2 to draw a rectangle and
mlon=lon&mlat=lat to add a marker
e.g.
...
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1answer
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Change URL of a site in Google Analytics
I am tracking a website which is available under two domains (with and without a “www.” prefix). Currently the longer one redirects to the shorter one.
However, it seems that the longer one was used ...
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1answer
435 views
How to add a website URL with space (%20) in a LinkedIn profile page under websites?
I am trying to add my weblink which has a white space, that is, %20 in it. When I add a website URL in a LinkedIn profile using the edit option, it shows no error. But when I click the link in my ...
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1answer
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Chrome doesn't display URL gadgets in Google Sites
I own a Google Apps domain, and I've built a site in Google Sites. Within the site I've embedded some gadgets, added by URL.
The problem occurs when I open the site in Chrome: the gadgets aren't ...
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Hyperlink to “view-source:” URL in spreadsheet
I'm trying to make a hyperlink that takes you automatically to the source of a page in a Google spreadsheet.
eg I want to make view-source:http://superuser.com directly clickable, rather thank having ...
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If converting a Facebook profile to a Facebook page then is the username retained?
Facebook provides a facility to convert a profile to a page. But is the username also transferred to the page? (that is what I want).
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Is it possible to have clean URLs for Google Drive items? [closed]
Is it possible to have clean URLs for Google Drive items? By items I mean folders (collections) and files.
There are currently horrendously long strings of numbers and letters in a URL. They look ...
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1answer
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Trello now sanitizing URLs / disallowing custom url protocols?
Up until about yesterday, I was able to add markdown links to a local application within the description area of my Trello Cards.
The application uses a custom url protocol to produce a url like the ...
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2answers
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How do I embed an image from the web into a Trello card comment or description?
So far I have been successful embedding Youtube videos into Trello card comments; simply by including the URL in the comment Trello picks it up and renders an embedded Youtube thumbnail.
What I ...
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1answer
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Changing messy Tumblr URL
On Tumblr we keep getting really messy URLs generated for our blog posts. Is there any way that this can be changed?
For instance, in the example bellow, the blogs title is ‘Playing with scale and ...
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1answer
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YouTube referer/tracking URLs
YouTube has some kind of tracking system which adds feature to the link depending upon the source. For example, in the following example, from the feature I know that it is from the sidebar (related ...
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1answer
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Is there an URL parameter to modify the volume of a YouTube video?
I want to put a link to a YouTube video on my website, but the sound is super loud. Is there a way to reduce the volume by adding some kind of parameter to the link? The way you can append &t=1m ...
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3answers
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Is there a way to find a site by an image they link to?
I have the URL for an image that I downloaded, and I'm trying to locate the site that linked to it.
E.g. http://12345.blob.windows.net/random/abc123.jpg
The image hosting site is windows.net.
Is ...
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2answers
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Need help creating a Facebook fan page for my web startup
I would like to create a Facebook fan page for my web startup and need some directions as I have some questioning.
When I go to http://www.facebook.com/pages/create.php I need to choose one of the ...
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2answers
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How can I log directly into Gmail when I am also signed into Google Apps?
Background:
I have one Gmail account and two Google Apps e-mail accounts that I use on a regular basis:
<my.name@gmail.com>
<myaddress@teaching-job.edu>
...
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URL for google games sorted by newest first?
Is there a URL where I can go to find all Google games sorted by newest first? Using https://plus.google.com/games/directory/new only gives me a small list of 6.
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Recommended date format for REST GET API [closed]
What's the recommended timestamp format for a REST GET API like this:
http://api.example.com/start_date/{timestamp}
I think the actual date format should be ISO 8601 format, such as ...
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2answers
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Random codes appearing at the end of URLs (Wordpress site)
I use WordPress on my website and I've noticed the following code at the end of URLs when viewing pages/posts. The codes vary depending on the browser (Chrome, Safari and Firefox.)
Chrome: ...
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How do I get to a Book's main page without having to manually modify the URL?
Say I search for a book on Google Books and then click through to it. If I copy that URL and send it to someone, they will be taken to the same page for the book, but the URL also contains a bunch of ...
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3answers
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Do Google Search URLs contain sensitive (private) details?
I noticed that if I'm logged into Google Account (my Gmail and everything) and do a search in the address bar, the URL of the resultant page is really long.
Now, I was wondering: is there any ...
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Turning off Google search results indirection
In Google search results, in Firefox or Chrome, I get URLs that go through Google and not directly to the target site. For example, at
http://www.google.com/search?q=foo
the first result is
...
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How do I share a search query from Google?
Let's say I want to share the results from my query. There seems to be a lot of meta data in the query string.
Which variables can be removed from the URL to still give a functioning Google search?
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2answers
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Export all Delicious bookmarks
The canonical backup link of Delicious, https://api.del.icio.us/v1/posts/all, only returns 1000 bookmarks now! Any ideas how to get all my bookmarks? This is for my export script, which worked until ...
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3answers
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YouTube feed for a show?
Rather than subscribe (in my feed reader) to my YouTube feed of subscribed things (which bunches everything into one big stream), I'd like to subscribe (again, in my feed reader) to each of the things ...
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1answer
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Listing all articles on Wikitravel.org (excluding redirects)
Here is the list of all articles on the excellent guide Wikitravel.org:
http://wikitravel.org/en/Special:Allpages/A1GP
PROBLEM: It also includes redirects.
For each real article there are tens of ...
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1answer
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Can you set up redirects from old Typepad blog entry URLs to new ones after renaming the blog?
An old client of mine has a Typepad blog that they’re looking to rename. This blog has a custom domain name, owned by the client, so they can change that just fine.
However, individual Typepad blog ...
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2answers
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Google copy link location annoyance? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Turning off Google search results indirection
Sounds like a stupid question, but this really bothers me and I don't see an easy workaround. Every time I need to post ...
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1answer
892 views
Gmail Logout/Redirection via Youtube
When Signing out from Gmail, I am redirected to various other google/gmail pages and then finally to the main page. The flow goes like this:
First Link
Second Link
Third Link
And then finally the ...
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In web URLs including Facebook, I see the string /#! appearing. What is the purpose of it?
What does the string #! do when facebook sticks it into its URL when I visit? I know the role of the # sign in indicating an anchor location in the page. But what is #! for?
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2answers
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Google Spreadsheets URL Syntax and Display Options?
I recently came across a Google Spreadsheet that had a slightly different syntax in the URL. I found these tags after the Spreadsheet Key:
...
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Changing vanity URL on Facebook?
As you may know, Facebook allows users to choose a "vanity URL," allowing easy linking to one's profile. However, once set, this URL cannot be changed and this was done for security reasons, ...
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How do special characters in a URL work? Are they fake?
I came across a URL with non-Latin characters, featuring Korean glyphs:
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/여보세요
Copying it gives me another URL:
...
