Feedly Tutorial: manually add url of feed

You can manually add url of feed to the address bar like this: http://www.feedly.com/home#subscription/feed/Your_feed_url_here.

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Online and On Time – Buying Things Online for Delivery to China: English-language Books and More

Let’s face it – sometimes you just don’t want to leave the house, cram back into the subway to cross town so you can wander around Zhongguancun being pawed by vendors shouting ‘helloo’ top-volume at you when all you need is memory card for your camera. Where do you get a book that’s not written by Jack Welch or Donald Trump? Even if you’re willing to brave the crowds and take a chance on buying something counterfeit or able to bargain down marked up laowai prices, do you even know where to go for a voltage converter or the new Neil Gaiman children’s book?

Thanks to the twin marvels of the internets and international shipping, those of us living in China are still able to enjoy many of the creature comforts we’re used to, the things we crave so badly during a Northern China winter. The books and TV shows, the miscellaneous electronic parts, the new hard drive to store all the downloads we’ve accumulated. After all no one wants to read ‘7 Habits of Highly Effective People’ and ‘Tale of Two Cities’ all winter and few of us want to watch CCTV9 at all.

Amazon

Although Amazon has bought up Chinese auction site Joyo they have maddeningly not created an English version of the site. Fortunately, the regular US based English language Amazon ships to China. Priority shipping should get your goods to you in (according to the Amazon site) 2-4 days, expedited shipping takes, on average, 12-20 days, and standard takes 17-28. More info on Amazon shipping to China here.

The downside to Amazon shipping is that some goods on Amazon come through independent merchants who set their own shipping policies and these policies may not include China so be sure to read the shipping policies before you get too attached to anything.

Alibaba

With Alibaba you never really know what’s going to come out of the lamp. The site is used by manufacturers as well as individual buyers and you many find the perfect shirt at a great price only to find out the minimum order is 10 pieces. Since everything comes through individual sellers – like eBay – payment and shipping terms vary although everything ships within China. The site is available in a variety of languages besides English which will be helpful for the many non-native English speaking expats tired of always having to do everything in English.

Alibaba is not the easiest place to find a new phone or jacket but with a bit of effort you can find some pretty amazing products that Amazon certainly doesn’t have – in English. And it’s certainly amusing. Ever wondered where to buy a cement mixer? Well now you know. You may not have room at home for a potato chip processing line but you must have room for a new watch phone, maybe even room for 100 of them. The buying procedure isn’t as simple or streamlined as it should be but with some patience and perseverance you can come away with a good deal and it’s especially good for businesses needing larger quantities or looking to wholesale.

Paddyfield

For hungry readers who don’t want to wait several weeks for Amazon, Paddyfield may be a better option. Based out of Hong Kong, Paddyfield ships books to the mainland faster and cheaper (usually) than Amazon does. The book selection is thorough and diverse and the Asian fiction session is especially good. The deliveries aren’t super quick – they average about two weeks – but they’re trackable directly through their site. You can pay by credit or international debit card, bank draft, or through T/T if you arrange it with them. The books themselves are sold at good prices – what you would expect to pay in the US or elsewhere.

Bongo – mail forwarding

If you really need something sent to you that you can’t get through Amazon, or locally, Bongo can help you. Bongo is a mail forwarding service that provides you with an address in the US, you have your packages shipped to that address, and Bongo forwards it to you. It’s available for one time users as well as by membership subscription. If you are receiving more than one package they can wait for them all to arrive and ship them to China together to save you money. For 50 cents a photo they’ll even photo your items and send them to you so you can verify the contents and condition of a package before it’s shipped all the way here. You need to register with them first, a process which usually takes one business day. They ship everywhere in China and they are quick about it – to Beijing should only take 3 days. More on their China shipping times.

Chinese-language sites

Taobao

If you speak Chinese or have a good helper there are several Chinese sites that offer similar services. Taobao is the auction wing of Alibaba – think eBay but Chinese. Like eBay they offer a wide range of consumer electronics, shoes, and MP3 players shaped like Mickey Mouse’s head. You can read more on Taobao here.

Joyo

Although owned by Amazon, using Joyo has some advantages over using its parent company – mainly that you pay for the item on delivery which ensures you get the proper item in the proper condition.

Dangdang

It’s too bad Dangdang is all in Chinese because the site’s design and wide range of products are both pretty sweet. They even have a bookstore section although the English titles are mostly business books available off of street carts for cheaper prices (although not much cheaper).
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How to Save Thousands through Online Shopping in China

Life in China often turns out not being as affordable as it seemed when you just arrived here. If you want to eat food that isn’t suspiciously cheap or just downright disgusting, you often end up paying the same price as back home, if not more. The same can be said about clothes, which in the case of imported foreign brands, tend to be much more expensive than in Europe, or in the case of non brand clothes often requires you to be in possession of impressive bargaining skills in order to get a good price. Fortunately however, the solution to this problem is already here in the form of the multitude of online shopping providers on the Chinese net.

The online shopping scene in China can be divided into two different categories: the actual web shops, and the flash-buy pages or tuangou (团购) as they are called in Chinese. To use these pages requires a working knowledge of Chinese since they are all in Chinese, and they will often send an SMS in Chinese confirming the order.

Web shops

You can basically buy anything your heart desires through any of the many shops online, and generally at a far lower price than you might get in your local supermarket. Sites like Taobao.com (Chinese eBay) function as a front for thousands of individual shops, and are a true heaven for the shopaholic Sinophile.

But the online Chinese shopping bonanza does not end here: larger online shops like vancl.com will be happy to supply you with anything you need to fit into this summer’s fashion, including t-shirts with print for 29 RMB and shoes for only 59 RMB. While vancl.com has clothes for both sexes and a distinctively young vibe, moonbasa.com another of the big online clothes shopping sites targets female shoppers with a broad selection of clothes and lingerie.

But of course it’s not just cheap clothes you can buy conveniently online. The page womai.com which is run by the huge state owned corporation COFCO (China Oil and Foodstuffs Corporation), has a huge selection of mainly food related products, ranging from imported Maine lobsters to Xinjiang dates and Brazilian coffee, all at very reasonable prices.

The great thing about this kind of online shopping is that all you need to do is to collect all the products you want in your online basket, write your name, address and phone number, and off the order goes! When sending the order you can specify which date you want the order to be delivered, which is also when you will pay for the goods in cash. It is perfectly okay to try your new clothes on while the deliveryman is waiting, and if it is not exactly the perfect size they will take it back and return with another size. Both vancl.com and moonbasa.com offer free postage as long as the order is at least 59 RMB, as well as a 30-day money back guarantee if you are not satisfied.

Flash-buy / Tuangou

You may have heard about groupon.com, the American website devoted to providing customers with great deals based on the idea of offering a lower price when a big group of people buy the same product at the same time. Although this is an American invention it is by no means confined to that country; in fact China has embraced flash buy with a zeal that only the Chinese (always eager for a good deal) can muster. Flash-buy or Tuangou (团购) as it is known in Chinese is all the rage right now, and new web pages offering flash-buy deals to the Chinese market are popping up all the time, while the subway and buses of Beijing are plastered with commercials for the big flash-buy sites.

You can basically buy anything from these sites, ranging from cinema tickets to fancy seafood dinners and — believe it or not—even real estate! The Chinese love for flash-buy pages knows no boundaries.

When you go to a flash-buy site and click on one of the deals offered, you will usually be told whether the amount of people signed up for this deal is sufficient to make it available, as well as a timer displaying how long time is left before the offer ends. For example if you want to buy a dinner through a flash-buy site, then usually everything you get is determined by the restaurant and it will be shown in pictures on the webpage. This of course takes away some of the fun of ordering yourself, but there are so many deals out there that you should be able to find the one just right for you, and besides, the savings can be as much as 40 to 60%.

When you have decided which deal you want to buy, you register with the page using your email and mobile phone number. After the online payment has gone through you will receive an SMS which you can use to claim your dinner once in the restaurant. Please note that most restaurants who offer flash buy dinners have a specific set of dates inside which the offer must be used.

With so many pages to choose from it can be hard to know where to go, but the following are among the biggest and most reliable. These are all in Chinese, so a working knowledge of Chinese would be a big help in using them (or a patient Chinese friend!):

Major flash-buy sites in China:

www.tuanbao.com
www.meituan.com
www.nuomi.com

To use these flash-buy pages you will need an online bank account from one of the Chinese banks, but since most expats have a Chinese bank account and opening up an online account is not very hard, this should not be a problem.
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Share Large Files Using Your Own Private Tracker

Want to share some large files with a few friends, but worried about how you’ll keep the file transfer private? Here’s how to use uTorrent as a simple tracker and share files privately with your friends.

Note: this is the fourth part in our series explaining how BitTorrent works—be sure and read the rest of the series, where we explained what BitTorrent is and how it works, how to create your own torrents, and then how to protect your privacy on BitTorrent.

Before we begin, we’ll need some important information. First, you’ll need your external IP address. A very easy way to find this out is to visit WhatIsMyIP.com. You’ll see your IP address in a large font in the format XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX, and you’ll need to copy that down.

If you have a DNS service like DynDNS.com, you can use your DNS redirect URL instead of your IP address.

Next, you’ll need to find out which port you’re accepting incoming connections on, whether it’s open or not. Open up uTorrent, and go to Options > Preferences. Click on the Connections Tab on the right.

Next to where it says “Port used for incoming connections” you’ll see your port number, so copy that down. We need to check to see if that port is open so leave uTorrent running, go to the uTorrent Port Checker, plug in your port, and submit. If all is good, you should see something like this:

If not, you may need to make some changes to your router configuration. Lastly, we need to enable uTorrent’s built-in tracker. In uTorrent’s preferences, click on the Advanced tab.

Click on “bt.enable_tracker” and change the value to True. Then, click OK and restart uTorrent for the changes to take effect.
Creating a Private Torrent

Now that everything is configured and we have all of the important information, let’s create a new private torrent. Go to File > Create New Torrent. Essentially, you’re adding your own IP address and port as a valid tracker, as in this screenshot:

As you can see, we put our information under the Trackers section in the following format:

http://ipaddress:port/announce
http://localhost:port/announce

The “localhost” portion is a reflexive reference which tells uTorrent that whatever computer it’s running on is also a valid tracker. Make sure that Private torrent is also checked off. This prevents sharing of the torrent using other methods such as PEX and DHT. Now, unless someone has the torrent you created, they cannot download your content.

For some added security, you can force encryption on outgoing connections. Go to Options > Preferences, then click on BitTorrent.

Next to “Outgoing,” choose Forced and uncheck “Allow incoming legacy connections.”

A few important notes:

uTorrent MUST be running in order someone to download the torrent from you.
Your IP address must not change during seeding (sorry dial-up users). If you have a DNS redirect, then things should work fine.
Your port must not change during seeding.
If you forced encryption, your friend’s client must be configured to allow encryption.

uTorrent isn’t powerful enough to create a full-blown tracker, but it does work well on a small scale and in our tests it seeded to 10 people without any issues. It’s perfect for sharing files with some friends without using a public tracker and sacrificing your privacy on both Windows and OS X. While Transmission doesn’t have this functionality built-in, we’ve heard excellent things about running uTorrent in WINE so our Linux users aren’t left out, either.
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Show Only Post Title In Blogger Label-Archive-Home Pages

How to Show Only Post Title In Blogger Label page,Archive Pages or even on home page of your blog.You sure would have seen many blogs using this trick to show only there post title in any page they want.Wordpress blogs easily do this using various plugins available but we bloggers also now can make it work in our blogs as its very simple tutorial to implement.

Here is an hack how to show post title in any desired page of an blog.

Please Read this tutorial very carefully as it is very easy but i am telling you two ways of doing which have different results.You can use one way at time or both ways at time but results will be different.I will try to make it very simple for you with what would be the result to the blog with each step, so read carefully.

1.Login to Blogger
2.Go To LAYOUT
3.Then Click On Edit HTML
4.Check Mark Expand Widgets
5.Press Ctrl+F

Now search For below code line in red :-

<b:include data='post' name='post'/>

And Replace it with Below Codes:-

<b:if cond='data:blog.homepageUrl
!= data:blog.url'>

<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType != "item"'>

<h3 class='post-title'><a expr:href='data:post.url'><data:post.title/></a></h3>

<b:else/>

<b:include data='post' name='post'/>

</b:if>

<b:else/>

<b:include data='post' name='post'/>

</b:if>

Now Preview Your template. If it accepts Your Html.Then Save It.

Now open your blog and click on the label or archive page of your blog it will show only post title . For demo check the category page of this Blog.

I hope you will be satisfied with it.This is one way.

Now there is another way of doing it but the results are different.

If you want to show only title of posts in your blog home page also,then only follow this way and implemet it.If you want only label page to show post title just get stoppd after reading first way only.

Now the second way to show only post title in blogger home page too.

1.Login to Blogger
2.Go To LAYOUT
3.Then Click On Edit HTML
4.Check Mark EXpand Widgets
5.Press Ctrl+F

Now search for this line in red :-

<p><data:post.body/></p>

After finding this line replace it with below codes :-

<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == "item"'>
<p><data:post.body/></p>
</b:if>

This will show only post title on all pages of blogger including homepage label and archive pages.

One of my reader asked to show post title only in archive pages so i am placing code for him

Just use these codes to replace the above red line in place of above codes.

<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == "index"'>
<p><data:post.body/></p>
</b:if>

And if you dont want to use post titles in archive pages use archive in place of index in above codes that's the only word making basic difference between the codes.

*Note-If you are using read more hack in your blogger you will get above red line twice.So replace only the line that appears first in your blog html code and leave second one as it is.

And then preview your template,if its ok. Save It.

The result would be like this in your blog.

Now i will explain difference in both hacks,so dont get confused.

1)Using only 1st way show post title in only label pages and archive pages.
2)Using only second way will show post title in your blog home page and label pages too but the result in label pages is not so beautiful as it shows Post footer links too like it shows in home page.
3)Install both ways in your blog together if you want to show post title in all of your blog pages and give it beautiful look, like have done it in my Earn Money Blog.

I hope now it have been clear how to use both, if still confused just implement 1st way and if you want post title in home page also implement 2nd way also. Thats' it.
If still any problem leave your comments.

Good Luck !!!!
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Блокировка рекламы в Internet Explorer 9

Максим Ефименко
www.oszone.net
23.03.2011

В вышедшей недавно финальной версии Internet Explorer 9 появилась новая полезная функция под названием Защита от слежения (Tracking Protection). С ней можно блокировать надоедливую рекламу почти так же, как это делают пользователи браузеров Firefox и Chrome с помощью расширения Adblock Plus.

Защита от слежения помогает сохранять конфиденциальность при просмотре веб-страниц. Средствами слежки, которые предоставляют сторонние веб-сайты, могут быть содержимое, изображения, маяки слежения, а также встроенный в страницы рекламный и аналитический код. Защита от слежения обеспечивает контроль и возможность выбора информации, которая будет использоваться сторонними веб-сайтами для отслеживания ваших действий в сети Интернет.

Другими словами, с помощью этой технологии появляется возможность блокировать содержимое, подгружаемое на страницу с других сайтов, то есть разнообразные скрипты, рекламу, счетчики. За счет этого ускоряется просмотр страниц.

Работа фильтра основана на применении специальных списков - Tracking Protection Lists, которые содержат правила фильтрации. Эффективная особенность Tracking Protection – это возможность автообновления правил фильтрации.

После выхода Internet Explorer, Microsoft запустила страницу (http://ie.microsoft.com/testdrive/Browser/TrackingProtectionLists/Default.html), на которой можно загрузить списки фильтрации от партнёров компании.

Чтобы установить список фильтрации нужно щелкнуть по ссылке Add TPL. В строке адреса появится значок в виде синего кружка, с помощью которого можно включить или отключить блокировку рекламы.

Фильтры, которые находятся на странице Microsoft, адаптированы для западных сайтов, и с рекламой Рунета не очень хорошо справляется. Однако есть страница, где можно загрузить конвертированные списки AdBlock для Internet Explorer. Чтобы установить списки, перейдем на эту страницу (http://dayngo.com/static/filter.html) и установим RU AdList.

Как видите, в новом браузере Microsoft можно блокировать рекламу так же легко и эффективно, как в других популярных браузерах. Удачи в использовании Internet Explorer 9!
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Special Characters for HTML & XHTML

All of these characters should display in Internet Explorer 7 and later, Firefox and Opera if you use the correct HTML Character Codes and font families. Many of them should display in older versions of Internet Explorer if these fonts are used:

Arial unicode MS,
Arial,
Geneva,
sans-serif.

Notification of any errors or problems found or any further information would be appreciated. Leave a comment below.

Many symbols won’t display in HTML WYSIWYG editors: Dreamweaver, Expression Web and FrontPage for instance, but if used, they will display in browsers.

Internet Explorer 6 and older versions are patchy in their support for these characters. Until recently, Microsoft have not been very diligent in keeping up with the progress of web standards. The fifths and sixths fractions and many of the Miscellaneous symbols might only display as a default black square.

Some of the fractions and Miscellaneous symbols may be hard to read in smaller sizes.
These Symbols should all display if you use charsets ISO 8859-1 or UTF-8.

• [ " ] quotation mark [name: "] [number: "]
• [ & ] ampersand [name: &] [number: &]
• [ < ] less than [name: <] [number: <]
• [ > ] greater than [name: >] [number: >]
• [   ] non-breaking space [name:  ] [number:  ]
• [ ¡ ] inverted exclamation mark [name: ¡] [number: ¡]
• [ ¢ ] cent [name: ¢ ] [number: ¢]
• [ £ ] pound [name: £] [number: £]
• [ ¤ ] currency [name: ¤] [number: ¤]
• [ ¥ ] yen [name: ¥] [number: ¥]
• [ € ] euro sign [name: €] [number: €]
• [ ¦ ] broken vertical bar [name: ¦] [number: ¦]
• [ § ] section [name: §] [number: §]
• [ ¨ ] spacing dieresis [name: ¨] [number: ¨]
• [ © ] copyright [name: ©] [number: ©]
• [ ª ] feminine ordinal indicator [name: ª] [number:ª]
• [ « ] left angle quotation mark [name: «] [number: «]
• [ ¬ ] negation [number: ¬] [number: ¬]
• [­] soft hyphen [name: ­] [number: ­]
• [ ® ] registered trademark [name: ®] [number: ®]
• [ ™ ] trademark [name: ™] [number: ™
• [ ¯ ] spacing macron [name: ¯] [number: ¯]
• [ ° ] degree – e.g. 45° [name: °] [number: °]
• [ ± ] plus-or-minus [name: ±] [number: ±]
• [ ² ] superscript 2 [name: ²] [number: ²]
• [ ³ ] superscript 3 [name: ³] [number: ³]
• [ ´ ] spacing acute [name: ´] [number: ´]
• [ µ ] micro [name: µ] [number: µ]
• [ ¶ ] paragraph [name: ¶] [number: ¶]
• [ · ] middle dot [name: ·] [number: ·]
• [ ¸ ] spacing cedilla [name: ¸] [number: ¸]
• [ ¹ ] superscript 1 [name: ¹] [number: ¹]
• [ º ] masculine ordinal indicator [name: º] [number: º]
• [ » ] right angle quotation mark [name: »] [number: »]

Fractions

• [ ½ ] fraction 1/2 [name: ½] [number: ½]
• [⅓] fraction 1/3 [name: ⅓] [number:&#8531;]
• [⅔] fraction 2/3 [name: ⅔] [number:&#8532;]
• [ ¼ ] fraction 1/4 [name: ¼] [number: ¼]
• [ ¾ ] fraction 3/4 [name: ¾] [number: ¾]
• [⅕] Fraction one fifth. [name: ⅕] [number: &#8533;]
• [⅖] Fraction two fifths. [name: ⅖] [number: &#8534;]
• [⅗] Fraction three fifths.[name: ⅗]  [number: &#8535;]
• [⅘] Fraction four fifths. [name: ⅘] [number: &#8536;]
• [⅙] Fraction one sixth.[name: ⅙] [number: &#8537;]
• [⅚] Fraction five sixths.[name: ⅚] [number: &#8538;]
• [⅛] Fraction one eighth. [name: ⅛] [number: &#8539;]
• [⅜] Fraction three eighths. [name: ⅜] [number: &#8540;]
• [⅝] Fraction five eighths. [name: ⅝] [number: &#8541;]
• [⅞] Fraction seven eighths.[name: ⅞] [number: &#8542;]

Other

• [ ¿ ] inverted question mark [name: ¿] [number: ¿]
• [ × ] multiplication [name: ×] [number: ×]
• [ ÷ ] division [name: ÷] [number: ÷]

Upper case

• [ À ] capital a, grave accent [name: À] [number: À]
• [ Á ] capital a, acute accent [name: Á] [number: Á]
• [ Â ] capital a, circumflex accent [name: Â] [number: Â]
• [ Ã ] capital a, tilde [name: Ã] [number: Ã]
• [ Ä ] capital a, umlaut mark [name: Ä] [number: Ä]
• [ Å ] capital a, ring [name: Å] [number: Å]
• [ Æ ] capital ae [name: Æ] [number: Æ]
• [ Ç ] capital c, cedilla [name: Ç] [number: Ç]
• [ È ] capital e, grave accent [name: È] [number: È]
• [ É ] capital e, acute accent [name: É] [number: É]
• [ Ê ] capital e, circumflex accent [name: Ê] [number: Ê]
• [ Ë ] capital e, umlaut mark [name: Ë] [number: Ë]
• [ Ì ] capital i, grave accent [name: Ì] [number: Ì]
• [ Í ] capital i, acute accent [name: Í] [number: Í]
• [ Î ] capital i, circumflex accent [name: Î] [number: Î]
• [ Ï ] capital i, umlaut mark [name: Ï] [number: Ï]
• [ Ð ] capital eth, Icelandic [name: Ð] [number: Ð]
• [ Ñ ] capital n, tilde [name: Ñ] [number: Ñ]
• [ Ò ] capital o, grave accent [name: Ò] [number: Ò]
• [ Ó ] capital o, acute accent [name: Ó] [number: Ó]
• [ Ô ] capital o, circumflex accent [name: Ô] [number: Ô]
• [ Õ ] capital o, tilde [name: Õ] [number: Õ]
• [ Ö ] capital o, umlaut mark [name: Ö] [number: Ö]
• [ Ø ] capital o, slash [name: Ø] [number: Ø]
• [ Ù ] capital u, grave accent [name: Ù] [number: Ù]
• [ Ú ] capital u, acute accent [name: Ú] [number: Ú]
• [ Û ] capital u, circumflex accent [name: Û] [number: Û]
• [ Ü ] capital u, umlaut mark [name: Ü] [number: Ü]
• [ Ý ] capital y, acute accent [name: Ý] [number: Ý]
• [ Þ ] capital THORN, Icelandic [name: Þ] [number: Þ]

Lower case

• [ ß ] small sharp s, German [name: ß] [number: ß]
• [ à ] small a, grave accent [name: à] [number: à]
• [ á ] small a, acute accent [name: á] [number: á]
• [ â ] small a, circumflex accent [name: â] [number: â]
• [ ã ] small a, tilde [name: ã] [number: ã]
• [ ä ] small a, umlaut mark [name: ä] [number: ä]
• [ å ] small a, ring [name: å] [number: å]
• [ æ ] small ae [name: æ] [number: æ]
• [ ç ] small c, cedilla [name: ç] [number: ç]
• [ è ] small e, grave accent [name: è] [number: è]
• [ é ] small e, acute accent [name: é] [number: é]
• [ ê ] small e, circumflex accent [name: ê] [number: ê]
• [ ë ] small e, umlaut mark [name: ë] [number: ë]
• [ ì ] small i, grave accent [name: ì] [number: ì]
• [ í ] small i, acute accent [name: í] [number: í]
• [ î ] small i, circumflex accent [name: î] [number: î]
• [ ï ] small i, umlaut mark [name: ï] [number: ï]
• [ ð ] small eth, Icelandic [name: ð] [number: ð]
• [ ñ ] small n, tilde [name: ñ] [number: ñ]
• [ ò ] small o, grave accent [name: ò] [number: ò]
• [ ó ] small o, acute accent [name: ó] [number: ó]
• [ ô ] small o, circumflex accent [name: ô] [number: ô]
• [ õ ] small o, tilde [name: õ] [number: õ]
• [ ö ] small o, umlaut mark [name: ö] [number: ö]
• [ ø ] small o, slash [name: ø] [number: ø]
• [ ù ] small u, grave accent [name: ù] [number: ù]
• [ ú ] small u, acute accent [name: ú] [number: ú]
• [ û ] small u, circumflex accent [name: û] [number: û]
• [ ü ] small u, umlaut mark [name: ü] [number: ü]
• [ ý ] small y, acute accent [name: ý] [number: ý]
• [ þ ] small thorn, Icelandic [name: þ] [number: þ]
• [ ÿ ] small y, umlaut mark [name: ÿ] [number: ÿ]

• [ Œ ] Latin capital ligature [name: Œ] [number: Œ]
• [ œ ] Latin small ligature [name: œ] [number: œ]
• [ Š ] Latin capital letter S with caron [name: Š] [number: Š]
• [ š ] Latin small letter s with caron [name: š] [number: š]
• [ Ÿ ] Latin capital letter Y with diaeresis [name: Ÿ] [number: Ÿ]

• [ ˆ ] modifier letter circumflex accent [name: ˆ] [number: ˆ]
• [ ˜ ] small tilde [name: &tilde] [number: ˜]

General Punctuation

• [ ] en space [name:  ] [number:  ]
• [ ] em space [name:  ] [number:  ]
• [ ] thin space [name: &thinsp] [number:  ]
• [ ‌ ] zero width non-joiner [name: ‌] [number: ‌]
• [ ‍ ] zero width joiner [name: ‍] [number: ‍]
• [ ‎ ] left-to-right mark [name: ‎] [number: ‎]
• [ ‏ ] right-to-left mark [name: ‏] [number: ‏]
• [ – ] en dash [name: –] [number: –]
• [ — ] em dash [name: —] [number: —]
• [ ‘ ] left single quotation mark [name: ‘] [number: ‘]
• [ ’ ] right single quotation mark [name: ’] [number: ’]
• [ ‚ ] single low-9 quotation mark [name: ‚] [number: ‚]
• [ “ ] left double quotation mark [name: “] [number: “]
• [ ” ] right double quotation mark [name: ”] [number: ”]
• [ „ ] double low-9 quotation mark [name: „] [number: „]
• [ † ] dagger [name: †] [number: †]
• [ ‡ ] double dagger [name: ‡] [number:  ‡]
• [ ‰ ] per mille sign [name: ‰] [number: ‰]
• [ ‹ ] single left-pointing angle quotation mark [name: ‹] [number: ‹]
• [ › ] single right-pointing angle quotation mark [name: ›] [number: ›]

• [ ƒ ] Latin small f with hook [name: ƒ] [number: ƒ]
• [ • ] bullet = black small circle [name: •] [number: •]
• [ … ] horizontal ellipsis = three dot leader [name: …] [number: …]
• [ ′ ] prime = minutes = feet [name: ′] [number: ′]
• [ ″ ] double prime = seconds = inches [name: ″] [number: ″]
• [ ‾ ] overline = spacing overscore [name: ‾] [number: ‾]
• [ ⁄ ] fraction slash [name: ⁄] [number: ⁄]

• [ ℘ ] script capital P = power set = Weierstrass p [name: ℘] [number: ℘]
• [ ℑ ] black-letter capital I = imaginary part [name: ℑ]  [number: ℑ]
• [ ℜ ] black-letter capital R = real part symbol [name: ℜ] [number: ℜ]
• [ ℵ ] aleph symbol = first transfinite cardinal [name: ℵ] [number: ℵ]
• [ ← ] leftwards arrow [name: ←] [number: ←]
• [ ↑ ] upwards arrow [name: ↑] [number: ↑]
• [ → ] rightwards arrow [name: →] [number: →]
• [ ↓ ] downwards arrow [name: ↓] [number: ↓]
• [ ↔ ] left right arrow [name: ↔] [number: ↔]
• [ ↵ ] downwards arrow with corner leftwards = carriage return [name: ↵] [number: ↵]
• [ ⇐ ] leftwards double arrow [name: ⇐] [number: ⇐]
• [ ⇑ ] upwards double arrow [name: ⇑] [number: ⇑]
• [ ⇒ ] rightwards double arrow [name: ⇒] [number: ⇒]
• [ ⇓ ] downwards double arrow [name: ⇓] [number: ⇓]
• [ ⇔ ] left right double arrow [name: ⇔] [number: ⇔]

Mathematical Operators

• [ ∀ ] for all [name: ∀] [number: ∀]
• [ ∂ ] partial differential [name: ∂] [number: ∂]
• [ ∃ ] there exists [name: ∃] [number: ∃]
• [ ∅ ] empty set = null set = diameter [name: ∅] [number: ∅]
• [ ∇ ] nabla = backward difference [name: ∇] [number: ∇]
• [ ∈ ] element of [name: ∈] [number: ∈]
• [ ∉ ] not an element of [name: ∉] [number: ∉]
• [ ∋ ] contains as member [name: ∋] [number: ∋]
• [ ∏ ] n-array product = product sign [name: ∏] [number: ∏]
• [ ∑ ] n-array summation [name: ∑] [number: ∑]
• [ − ] minus sign [name: −] [number: −]
• [ ∗ ] asterisk operator [name: ∗] [number: ∗]
• [ √ ] square root [name: √] [number: √]
• [ ∝ ] proportional to [name: ∝] [number:  ∝]
• [ ∞ ] infinity [name: ∞] [number: ∞]
• [ ∠ ] angle [name: ∠] [number: ∠]
• [ ∧ ] logical and = wedge [name: ∧] [number: ∧]
• [ ∨ ] logical or = vee [name: ∨] [number: ∨]
• [ ∩ ] intersection = cap [name: ∩] [number: ∩]
• [ ∪ ] union = cup [name: ∪] [number: ∪]
• [ ∫ ] integral [name: ∫] [number: ∫]
• [ ∴ ] therefore [name: ∴] [number: ∴]
• [ ∼ ] tilde operator = varies with = similar to [name: ∼] [number: ∼]
• [ ≅ ] approximately equal to [name: ≅] [number: ≅]
• [ ≈ ] almost equal to = asymptotic to [name: ≈] [number: ≈]
• [ ≠ ] not equal to [name: ≠] [number: ≠]
• [ ≡ ] identical to [name: ≡] [number: ≡]
• [ ≤ ] less-than or equal to [name: ≤] [number: ≤]
• [ ≥ ] greater-than or equal to [name: ≥] [number: ≥]
• [ ⊂ ] subset of [name: ⊂] [number: ⊂]
• [ ⊃ ] superset of [name: ⊃] [number: ⊃]
• [ ⊄ ] not a subset of [name: ⊄] [number: ⊄]
• [ ⊆ ] subset of or equal to [name: ⊆] [number: ⊆]
• [ ⊇ ] superset of or equal to [name: ⊇] [number: ⊇]
• [ ⊕ ] circled plus = direct sum [name: ⊕] [number: ⊕]
• [ ⊗ ] circled times = vector product [name: ⊗] [number: ⊗]
• [ ⊥ ] up tack = orthogonal to = perpendicular [name: ⊥] [number: ⊥]
• [ ⋅ ] dot operator [name: ⋅] [number: ⋅]

Miscellaneous Technical

• [ ⌈ ] left ceiling = apl upstile [name: ⌈] [number: ⌈]
• [ ⌉ ] right ceiling [name: ⌉] [number: ⌉]
• [ ⌊ ] left floor = apl downstile [name: ⌊] [number: ⌊]
• [ ⌋ ] right floor [name: ⌋] [number: ⌋]
• [ 〈 ] left-pointing angle bracket = bra [name: ⟨] [number: 〈]
• [ 〉 ] right-pointing angle bracket = ket [name: ⟩] [number: 〉]

Geometric Shapes

• [ ◊ ] lozenge [name: ◊] [number: ◊]

Expanded Character Entity List: Miscellaneous Symbols

• [ ℠ ] Service Mark [number: &#8480]
• [ ℃ ] Celsius [number: ℃]
• [ ℅ ] care of [number: ℅]
• [ ℉ ] Fahrenheit [number: ℉]
• [ № ] numero symbol - number sign [number: №]
• [ ℗ ] Sound Recording Copyright [number: ℗]
• [ ℞ ] Prescription Take pharmaceutical symbol [number: ℞]
• [ Ω ] Ohm [number: Ω]
• [ ℧ ] Inverted Ohm [number: ℧]
• [ ☀ ] sunshine - sun [ number: ☀]
• [ ☁ ] cloudy - cloud [ number: ☁]
• [ ☂ ] raining - rain [ number: ☂]
• [ ☃ ] snow - snowman [ number: ☃]
• [ ☄ ] comet [ number: ☄]
• [ ★ ] star solid [ number: ★]
• [ ☆ ] star outline [ number: ☆]
• [ ☇ ] lightning [ number: ☇]
• [ ☈ ] thunderstorm [ number: ☈]
• [ ☉ ] sun [ number: ☉]
• [ ☊ ] ascending node [ number: ☊]
• [ ☋ ] descending node [ number: ☋]
• [ ☌ ] conjunction [ number: ☌]
• [ ☍ ] opposition [ number: ☍]
• [ ☎ ] phone number - phone service [ number: ☎]
• [ ☏ ] phone symbol outline [ number: ☏]
• [ ☐ ] check box - ballot box [ number: ☐]
• [ ☑ ] ballot box check mark [ number: ☑]
• [ ☒ ] ballot box with X [ number: ☒]
• [ ☓ ] Saltire - St. Andrew's Cross [ number: ☓]
• [ ☚ ] left-pointing index finger [number: ☚]
• [ ☛ ] right-pointing index finger [number: ☛]
• [ ☜ ] left-pointing index finger [number: ☜]
• [ ☝ ] upwards pointing index finger [number: ☝]
• [ ☞ ] right pointing index finger [number: ☞]
• [ ☟ ] downwards pointing index finger [number: ☟]
• [ ☠ ] skull & crossbones [number: ☠]
• [ ☡ ] caution sign [ number: ☡]
• [ ☢ ] radioactive sign [number: ☢]
• [ ☣ ] biohazard sign [number: ☣]
• [ ☤ ] Caduceus or "Kerykeion" [number: ☤]
• [ ☥ ] Ankh [number: ☥]
• [ ☦ ] Eastern Christian Cross [number: ☦]
• [ ☧ ] Chi Rho Cross [number: ☧]
• [ ☨ ] Patriarchal Cross [number: ☨]
• [ ☩ ] Greek Cross [number: ☩]
• [ ☪ ] Crescent Moon & Star [ number: ☪]
• [ ☫ ] Farsi symbol [ number: ☫]
• [ ☬ ] Adi Shakti [ number: ☬]
• [ ☭ ] hammer & sickle [ number: ☭]
• [ ☮ ] peace sign [ number: ☮]
• [ ☯ ] yin & yang [ number: ☯]
• [ ☰ ] trigram Heaven [ number: ☰]
• [ ☱ ] trigram Lake [ number: ☱]
• [ ☲ ] trigram Fire [ number: ☲]
• [ ☳ ] trigram Thunder [ number: ☳]
• [ ☴ ] trigram Wind [ number: ☴]
• [ ☵ ] trigram Water [ number: ☵]
• [ ☶ ] trigram Mountain [ number: ☶]
• [ ☷ ] trigram Heaven [ number: ☷]
• [ ☸ ] Dharma Wheel [number: ☸]
• [ ☹ ] frowning face [number: ☹]
• [ ☺ ] smiley face [number: ☺]
• [ ☻ ] black smiley face [number: &#9787;]
• [ ☽ ] waxing crescent moon [number: &#9789;]
• [ ☾ ] waning crescent moon [number: &#9790;]
• [ ☿ ] Mercury [number: ☿]
• [ ♀ ] Venus - Female symbol [number: ♀]
• [ ♁ ] Earth symbol [number: ♁]
• [ ♂ ] Mars - Male symbol [number: ♂]
• [ ♃ ] Jupiter [number: ♃]
• [ ♄ ] Saturn [number: ♄]
• [ ♅ ] Uranus [number: ♅]
• [ ♆ ] Neptune [number: ♆]
• [ ♇ ] Pluto [number: ♇]
• [ ♈ ] Aries [number: ♈]
• [ ♉ ] Taurus [number: ♉]
• [ ♊ ] Gemini [number: ♊]
• [ ♋ ] Cancer [number: ♋]
• [ ♌ ] Leo [number: ♌]
• [ ♍ ] Virgo [number: ♍]
• [ ♎ ] Libra [number: ♎]
• [ ♏ ] Scorpio [number: ♏]
• [ ♐ ] Sagittarius [number: ♐]
• [ ♑ ] Capricorn [number: ♑]
• [ ♒ ] Aquarius [number: ♒]
• [ ♓ ] Pisces [number: ♓]
• [ ♔ ] White King [number: ♔]
• [ ♕ ] White Queen [number: ♕]
• [ ♖ ] White Rook [number: ♖]
• [ ♗ ] White Bishop [number: ♗]
• [ ♘ ] White Knight [number: ♘]
• [ ♙ ] White Pawn [number: ♙]
• [ ♚ ] Black King [number: ♚]
• [ ♛ ] Black Queen [number: ♛]
• [ ♜ ] Black Rook [number: ♜]
• [ ♝ ] Black Bishop [number: ♝]
• [ ♞ ] Black Knight [number: ♞]
• [ ♟ ] Black Pawn [number: ♟]
• [ ♠ ] black spade suit [name: ♠] [number: ♠]
• [ ♡ ] red heart suit [number: ♡]
• [ ♢ ] red diamond suit [number: ♢]
• [ ♣ ] black club suit = shamrock [name: ♣] [number: ♣]
• [ ♤ ] red spade suit [number: ♤]
• [ ♥ ] black heart suit = valentine [name: ♥] [number: ♥]
• [ ♦ ] black diamond suit [name: ♦] [number: ♦]
• [ ♧ ] red club suit [number: ♧]
• [ ♨ ] hot springs [number: ♨]
• [ ♩ ] musical quarter note [number: ♩]
• [ ♪ ] musical eighth note [number: ♪]
• [ ♫ ] musical single bar note [number: ♫]
• [ ♬ ] musical double bar note [number: ♬]
• [ ♭ ] flat note [number: ♭]
• [ ♮ ] natural note [number: ♮]
• [ ♯ ] sharp note [number: ♯]
• [ ✁ ] cut above [number: ✁]
• [ ✂ ] cut here [number: ✂]
• [ ✃ ] cut below [number: ✃]
• [ ✄ ] scissors [number: ✄]
• [ ✆ ] public pay phone [number: ✆]
• [ ✇ ] film reel - tape spool [number: ✇]
• [ ✈ ] airport jet airplane [number: ✈]
• [ ✉ ] envelope mail email [number: ✉]
• [ ✌ ] victory sign [number: ✌]
• [ ✍ ] signature - sign here [number: ✍]
• [ ✎ ] pencil diagonal down [number: ✎]
• [ ✏ ] pencil [number: ✏]
• [ ✐ ] pencil diagonal up [number: Ϩ]
• [ ✓ ] check mark [number: ✓]
• [ ✔ ] heavy check mark [number: ✔]
• [ ✕ ] multiplication sign X [number: 𘚥]
• [ ✖ ] heavy multiplication sign X [number: ✖]
• [ ✗ ] ballot X [number: ✗]
• [ ✘ ] heavy ballot X [number: ✘]
• [ ✝ ] Latin Roman Cross [number: ✝]
• [ ✞ ] Latin Cross 3D shadow [number: ✞]
• [ ✟ ] Latin Cross outline [number: ✟]
• [ ✠ ] Maltese Cross [number: ✠]
• [ ✡ ] Star of David [number: ✡]
• [ ❛ ] quotation mark single turned comma [number: ❛]
• [ ❜ ] quotation mark single comma [number: ❜]
• [ ❝ ] quotation mark double turned comma [number: ❝]
• [ ❞ ] quotation mark double comma [number: ❞]

Greek Letters & Symbols Character Entity Reference

• [ Α ] Greek capital letter alpha [name: Α] [number: Α]
• [ Β ] Greek capital letter beta [name: Β] [number: Β]
• [ Γ ] Greek capital letter gamma [name: Γ] [number: Γ]
• [ Δ ] Greek capital letter delta [name: Δ] [number: Δ]
• [ Ε ] Greek capital letter epsilon [name: Ε] [number: Ε]
• [ Ζ ] Greek capital letter zeta [name: Ζ] [number: Ζ]
• [ Η ] Greek capital letter eta [name: Η] [number: Η]
• [ Θ ] Greek capital letter theta [name: Θ] [number: Θ]
• [ Ι ] Greek capital letter iota [name: Ι] [number: Ι]
• [ Κ ] Greek capital letter kappa [name: Κ] [number: Κ]
• [ Λ ] Greek capital letter lambda [name: Λ] [number: Λ]
• [ Μ ] Greek capital letter mu [name: Μ] [number: Μ]
• [ Ν ] Greek capital letter nu [name: Ν] [number: Ν]
• [ Ξ ] Greek capital letter xi [name: Ξ] [number: Ξ]
• [ Ο ] Greek capital letter omicron [name: Ο] [number: Ο]
• [ Π ] Greek capital letter pi [name: Π] [number: Π]
• [ Ρ ] Greek capital letter rho [name: Ρ] [number: Ρ]
• [ Σ ] Greek capital letter sigma [name: Σ] [number: Σ]
• [ Τ ] Greek capital letter tau [name: Τ] [number: Τ]
• [ Υ ] Greek capital letter upsilon [name: Υ] [number: Υ]
• [ Φ ] Greek capital letter phi [name: Φ] [number: Φ]
• [ Χ ] Greek capital letter chi [name: Χ] [number: Χ]
• [ Ψ ] Greek capital letter psi [name: Ψ] [number: Ψ]
• [ Ω ] Greek capital letter omega [name: Ω] [number: Ω]
• [ α ] Greek small letter alpha [name: α] [number: α]
• [ β ] Greek small letter beta [name: β] [number: β]
• [ γ ] Greek small letter gamma [name: γ] [number: γ]
• [ δ ] Greek small letter delta [name: δ] [number: δ]
• [ ε ] Greek small letter epsilon [name: ε] [number: ε]
• [ ζ ] Greek small letter zeta [name: ζ] [number: ζ]
• [ η ] Greek small letter eta [name: η] [number: η]
• [ θ ] Greek small letter theta [name: θ] [number: θ]
• [ ι ] Greek small letter iota [name: ι] [number: ι]
• [ κ ] Greek small letter kappa [name: κ] [number: κ]
• [ λ ] Greek small letter lambda [name: λ] [number: λ]
• [ μ ] Greek small letter mu [name: μ] [number: μ]
• [ ν ] Greek small letter nu [name: ν] [number: ν]
• [ ξ ] Greek small letter xi [name: ξ] [number: ξ]
• [ ο ] Greek small letter omicron [name: ο] [number: ο]
• [ π ] Greek small letter pi [name: π] [number: π]
• [ ρ ] Greek small letter rho [name: ρ] [number: ρ]
• [ ς ] Greek small letter final sigma [name: ς] [number: ς]
• [ σ ] Greek small letter sigma [name: σ] [number: σ]
• [ τ ] Greek small letter tau [name: τ] [number: τ]
• [ υ ] Greek small letter upsilon [name: υ] [number: υ]
• [ φ ] Greek small letter phi [name: φ] [number: φ]
• [ χ ] Greek small letter chi [name: χ] [number: χ]
• [ ψ ] Greek small letter psi [name: ψ] [number: ψ]
• [ ω ] Greek small letter omega [name: ω] [number: ω]
• [ ϑ ] Greek small letter theta symbol [name: ϑ] [number: ϑ]
• [ ϒ ] Greek upsilon with hook symbol [name: ϒ] [number: ϒ]
• [ ϖ ] Greek pi symbol [name: ϖ] [number:  ϖ]

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How to backup Google Calendar and Google Docs in 60 seconds

jmiller inc. blog
Posted on May 24, 2010 by Jeff Miller

A few years ago, when I started using Google Calendar so heavily that I more or less ran my entire life off of it (and still do), I wrote a Python script to automatically backup all of my Gcal data to local disk. Same for Google Documents–I had one script that would download all of my Gdocs documents and zip them up into a nice package for safe storage on my local computer (which was in turn backed-up offsite).

This worked well for a long time, but in the intervening years Google has streamlined the export capabilities of Gcal and Gdocs to the point where automated scripts are not really worth the trouble to maintain anymore. It’s dead-easy to manually download a zip archive of all of your calendars and documents directly from the Google web apps.

Here’s how to backup Google Calendar and Google Docs in 60 seconds.
Backing up Google Calendar

1. Navigate to https://www.google.com/calendar/render
2. In the left-hand sidebar, at the bottom of the My calendars list, click the Settings link. This will take you to a Calendar Settings page.
3. On the settings page, click the Export calendars link at the bottom of your list of calendars. This will cause your browser to download a zip file containing each of your calendars in .ics format.
4. Backup that zip file somewhere safe.

Backing up Google Docs

1. Navigate to https://docs.google.com
2. In the left-hand navigation sidebar, select All Items. (Or Owned by me, or whichever set of documents you want to back up.)
3. In the “checkbox” dropdown menu immediately to the left of the Share menu, click on Select all visible. Important note: if you’re like me and you have lots of documents (over 100), they might not all be visible at first. If this is the case, scroll the list down to the bottom so that all documents become visible by the browser; then, click on Select all visible.
4. Click Export… from the More actions menu. This will bring up a dialog box.
5. From there, Google lets you choose which file format to download for each document type. Once you’re finished choosing, click the Download button. This will cause your browser to download a zip file containing each of your documents in the formats you selected. It may take a while for the download to begin.
6. Backup that zip file somewhere safe.

Don’t forget
I’ve also found it helpful to create a recurring event in Google Calendar that will send an email once a month with a reminder to backup your data.
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YouTube's 50 Best Videos

YouTube — breeding ground for the Web's wackiest and wildest viral videos — turns five in 2010. In recognition, TIME takes a look back at the site's 50 greatest hits.

1. Charlie Bit My Finger
2. Evolution of Dance
3. David After Dentist
4. "Here It Goes Again"
5. Rick Roll
6. Leave Britney Alone
7. Don't Tase Me, Bro
8. Keyboard Cat
9. Dramatic Chipmunk
10. Hitler's "Downfall"
11. Flea Market Montgomery
12. United Breaks Guitars
13. Kittens Inspired by Kittens
14. Potter Puppet Pals
15. JK Wedding Dance
16. Sneezing Panda
17. Otters Holding Hands
18. Literal Music Videos
19. OMG, Shoes
20. Baby Laughing
21. Susan Boyle's Debut
22. Miss Teen South Carolina
23. Baby Bobbing to "Single Ladies"
24. Zombie Kid Likes Turtles
25. "Hey Jude" Kid
26. "Yes We Can"
27. Hillary Clinton's 1984
28. Noah's Daily Photos
29. Bank Of America's "One"
30. Grape Lady Falls!
31. Randy Pausch's Last Lecture
32. Zinedine Zidane's Headbutt
33. Leprechaun Sighting
34. Justin Bieber
35. Daft Hands
36. Auto-Tune the News
37. Fred
38. Chocolate Rain
39. Will It Blend?
40. Thriller in Manila
41. Where the Hell Is Matt?
42. Lazy Sunday
43. Diet Coke and Mentos
44. Obama Girl
45. Lonelygirl15
46. Guinness World Record: Most Shirts Worn at One Time
47. Tillman, the Skateboarding Dog
48. Christian the Lion
49. Charlie the Unicorn
50. Trapped in an Elevator

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Life in the Googleplex

DOGS ALLOWED

EROS HOAGLAND / REDUX FOR TIME

Googlers are permitted to bring their dogs (but not cats) to the workplace.
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China Mourns the Potential Loss of Google

Vincent Thian / AP

Parting Ways?
The sign at Google China's Beijing headquarters was covered in flowers by concerned Internet users after the search-engine giant announced on Jan. 12, 2010, that it would end cooperation with Chinese Internet censorship and may leave the country altogether. The unusual confrontation followed sophisticated hacker attacks on Google's systems that Google claimed originated in China. The Chinese government denied involvement.
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