Where can I find (free) recommendations for movies ?

I know of IMDB top 250: http://www.imdb.com/chart/top

Are there other places worth visiting ?

From web app Tal Galili

• Check out metacritic. From their own site:

  Metacritic compiles reviews from respected critics and publications for movies, DVDs, music, television and games.

  Tal Galili : Cool (fill in words)
  From LBushkin

• Theres always Rotten Tomatoes best of page: http://www.rottentomatoes.com/top/

  From Jessie

• I use The Numbers to see which movies are highly rated; as well as historically which ones did well in the theater, or on DVD.

  Tal Galili : I just gave you my last vote for today :)
  From George Stocker

• Two really famous sites are:

  • Rotten Tomatoes where you have also a section for the Top Movies.
  • Metacritic that has All-Time High Scores
  From marco.ragogna

• If you've already got a Netflix account¹, there's the Netflix Top 100, Critics' Picks, and Award Winners.

  ¹ Yes, of course Netflix isn't free, but if you're already paying for an account there's no incremental cost for these lists.

  From Al Everett

• You already mentioned Imdb Top 250 but in general the whole site is very useful and I find the User Rating pretty accurate. I tend to like movies that get good marks and dislike the ones with bad marks. In some cases I had to disagree, mostly because I found films with low marks better than expected. Another great site is Roger Ebert's who makes short and well founded reviews of most popular films.

  From Omar Kohl

• Criticker.com

  From Fczbkk

• You might be interested to check out Flickchart.

  It's a recommendation tool by way of ranking your favorite films via movie matchups. It keeps track of your preferences and the movies you haven't seen yet, while automatically building a list of your favorites movies and a list of the best movies you've never seen.

  From Nathan Chase

• MovieLens is a research project at the University of Minnesota that gives movie recommendations based on your ratings of other movies. I believe it was one of the first collaborative filtering systems, created over 10 years ago.

  http://movielens.umn.edu

  Here's its wikipedia page:

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MovieLens

  From dreeves

• Check out Jinni. It's a "Taste Engine" that recommends movies based on what you tell it you like.

  Catchwa : plus NetFlix, Amazon, etc. integration
  From tnorthcutt

• i check movies best site for movie tracking It has so many top lists. It has recommended movie feature as well. Some of the top lists you can browse are

  • Rotten Tomatoes
  • IMDB top 250
  • Reddit top 250
  • All AFI Lists

  Many more.

  It has 65 Various Top Lists including different countries top lists

  Aaron : Great site, thanks! +1

  pramodc84 : u r wc Aaron :) @ http://www.icheckmovies.com/profile/pramodc84/
  From pramodc84

• A really good one is clerkdogs.com

  From

• I found http://www.hellomovies.com/ to have a nice UI for tracking what you have seen and what you want to still see.

  The "recommendations" (using some sort of algorithm I assume) are not great, but they have a meta-ranking on top of IMDB that shows unseen top movies which you can then filter down by genre/year/taste/your social circle, etc.

  Combined with the straightforward way to track what movies you want to watch and the ability to see where you can access these movies now online (Hulu, Netflix, etc) it's a winner.

  From Boris Terzic
• • abetteropinion.com ABetterOpinion - Movies, Books, Video Games
  From DEF

Can I control how often Gmail polls POP3 accounts for incoming mail?

I use Gmail to handle my mail, but it's mostly imported by Gmail from an external POP3 account.

Normally this works fine, but I;ve had some instances where Gmail has gone almost 24 hours without even trying to contact the POP3 server.

Now, on Gmail 'desktop', I can push the "refresh" button, and it will do it, but when I access Gmail from my mobile, the mobile version of the site (on Android 1.5, not that it matters) doesn't seem to have a way of doing this refresh. AFAIK I can't even access the POP3 settings.

How can I get Gmail to poll in a guaranteed timely fashion?

From web app Roddy

• You can't.

  Polling a external account works when you have a legacy account, that you don't want to abandon, but it's not very important.

  If you want to be sure the account is checked frequently, add it as a separated account in the Android device (you can leave the messages in the server if you want this mails consolidated in GMail)

  From Eduardo Molteni

• Lifehacker.com just published a trick to increase the frequency of the checks.

  http://lifehacker.com/5580553/increase-the-frequency-gmail-checks-your-other-email-accounts-for-new-mail

  Its a bit of work to set it up, but essentially you need to ensure that your pop3 accounts frequently get new mail.

  Gmail bases its mail-fetching frequency on how often it finds messages in the account when it checks; if the account only gets email rarely, Gmail will check it once per hour. From what I've been able to tell, given a regular rate, Gmail's mail fetcher seems to stabilize at fetching twice as often as mail appears in the account.

  Senseful : You can also use Google Calendar for this: Make a dummy calendar and an event that is repeated every X minutes. Set up an email reminder for this event.
  From geoff

• If you look under Google Labs, there's a feature called:

  Refresh POP accounts

  "Fetch messages from your POP accounts on demand by using the refresh link on top of the inbox."

  From Pierre Nel

Is there any way to turn off friend suggestion on Facebook?

Imagine that I have two friends - Alice and Bob - and I want to prevent Alice from showing up in Bob's friend suggestions ("people you might know"). Can I do that?

From web app Andrew

• You cannot do that directly, but you can ask Alice to block Bob and then Bob will not see her.

  To block Bob, Alice can go to Bob's profile and click "Report/Block this Person" and check the "Block this Person" box, or she can go to Account » Privacy Settings » Block Lists » Block Users and enter Bob's name or email address.

  Andrew : Hmmm, I haven't thought about it this way. Thanks!
  From mark4o

• You will need to tell Alice the following:

  Choose the "Privacy Settings" option in the Account drop-down menu at the top of any Facebook page. Select "View settings" in the "Basic Directory Information" section. Change the setting for "Send me friend requests" to "Friends of Friends"

  Source - How do I prevent myself from appearing in Suggestions?

  mark4o : Unfortunately that won't work in this case because Alice is a friend of a friend to Bob.

  phwd : Ok my bad I thought the friend of friend worked only if person A intentionally suggested person B (via their profile page) to be a friend to person C. I have no way to test this as I do not have two friends who will want to use their time like this :D
  From phwd

Any alternatives to Google Apps for your domain?

I'm specifically interested in webmail service but will appreciate suggestions to replace other components too.

From web app Andrew

• Microsoft officelive has web pages, email, etc. for your domain.

  From Alex B

• Zoho offer a pretty comprehensive range of products, most of which are free for a limited number of users/projects/whatever...

  • Calendar
  • Challenge
  • Chat
  • Creator
  • CRM
  • Discussions
  • Docs
  • Gadgets
  • Invoice
  • Mail
  • Meeting
  • Notebook
  • Office for Microsoft Sharepoint
  • People
  • Planner
  • Polls
  • Projects
  • Recruit
  • Reports
  • Sheet
  • Show
  • Viewer
  • Wiki
  • Writer

  Even though the functionality overlaps, they integrate with Google Apps in some places, so you could have a hybrid solution.

  Harlan : I like but don't love Zoho. They seem to be rather over-extended, and they're substantially buggier than Google Docs. This said, they have a lot more features, and if you're OK working around their quirks, they can be a great solution.
  From x3ja

• Yahoo is still alive, at least as for webmail

  From Miro A.

• Zimbra is a good alternative. You can find people that propose to host Zimbra for you on Zimbra Hosting Providers.

  From CharlesB

Sync Google Apps Calendar to my iPhone

I have a Google Apps account through work. I've noticed that when I add a calendar event there is a significant lag time between when I add the event and when it appears on my iPhone. Additionally, edited events don't seem to be reflected on my iPhone. Is there a way that I can ensure that events are added and updated in a timely fashion?

From web app Justin Gallagher

• On the iPhone under Settings->Mail... go into Fetch New Data and turn on Push.

  Justin Gallagher : I already have push turned on.
  From nevster

• From http://www.google.com/support/mobile/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=151674:

  To sync with your device, follow these steps:

  1. Open the Settings application on your device's home screen.
  2. Open Mail, Contacts, Calendars.
  3. Select Add Account...
  4. Select Other.
  5. Select Add CalDAV Account.
  6. Enter your account information: * In the Server field, enter [ google.com ] * In the Username field, enter your full Google Account or Google Apps email address. * In the Password field, enter your Google Account or Google Apps password. * In the Description field, enter the name you'd like to appear on the account.
  7. Select Next at the top of your screen.

  After you've completed setup, open the Calendar app on your device and syncing will automatically begin.

  By default only your primary calendar will be synced to your device. You can sync additional calendars by visiting the following page from any web browser:

  * https://www.google.com/calendar/iphoneselect
    (Google Apps users can go to https://www.google.com/calendar/hosted/your_domain/iphoneselect, replacing 'your_domain' with your actual domain name.)
  

  Select the calendars you'd like to sync, and click Save. The selected calendars will display on your device at the time of the next sync.

  666damo : Personally, I used the Exchange ActiveSync method with my iPhone. http://www.google.com/support/mobile/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=138740

  Justin Gallagher : Is this different than adding my Google Apps account as a mail account and switching the "Calendars" option on in the settings panel?
  From 666damo

Delicious tagged items by Bookmarked count

Delicious has different ways of showing the bookmarks, but there isn't anything that lets you discover the most bookmarked site for a specific tag. For eg., if the tag is Visio, it should show the bookmarks where visio is a tag in order of how many times its been tagged by all users.

Is there something out there??

From web app Rakesh

• Perhaps not exactly what you wanted but do you know about the popular keyword?

  e.g. http://delicious.com/popular/Visio

  From Daveyjoe

• Your intuition is correct, getting most-bookmarked-link in a tagset is an awesome way to whittle down solutions to find really common links that are tagged. I recently needed a quick solution for an HTML form that I needed to be emailed with PHP for an old client that had been using an offsite service that broke.

  I went to delicious.com/tag/form+php+email and found a lot of bookmarks tagged. I tried going to delicious.com/popular/form+php+email but it just truncates the single, first tag.

  My final good-enough solution was this greasemonkey script that adds a couple links to sort the visible links by popularity (and others) with javascript. I then set the # visible to 100. The obvious popular link floated to the top and saved me a lot of time of sorting through bad solutions!

  Its like Stack Exchange says--the best result should float to the top! Why didn't Yahoo think of that? Why can't we sort all bookmarked items? Is it some sort of caching concern?

  From thadk

Are there any only music services that permit re-downloading purchased music in the event of a data-loss?

I've been using Amazon because their MP3s are drm-free, but now I'm curious are there any music-resellers that have distribute drm-free, and have a decent policy that in the event of data-loss I can redownload my legally purchased music?

From web app Evan Carroll

• I've bought from 7digital in the past. They provide tracks in DRM-free MP3 as well as AAC and WMA. There is a "Locker" where you can redownload songs that you've previously purchased.

  From mikej

• Also, http://thesixtyone.com allows it.

  From Andrew

• Magnatune.com meets your criteria. They offer you convenient redownload links, do not use any DRM, and even don't mind if you give those redownload links to some of your friends.

  From Tadeusz A. Kadłubowski

Create address labels from gmail contacts in google docs?

Is there a way to create a address labels in google docs based on my gmail contacts (even better would be a group of contacts I made). Essentially allowing me to easily create all my address labels for mailing out invitations or christmas cards or whatever in just a few steps.

From web app jschoen

• 1. It seems to me if you use the Print option in the contact manager.
  2. You can select to print just addresses. That opens a new browser window and formats it for printing.
  3. Use 'Ctrl-A' selecting all the information, including headers.
  4. Paste it into Excel.
  5. Save the Excel file.
  6. Run a mail merge using MS Word.

  It seems like a lot of steps but it works rather smoothly and doesn't take much time at all. Once in the mail merge labels you can reformat the font just about any way you want.

  jschoen : @Josh Thanks for those steps. But what I was really looking for was a solution to do this with Google docs. This is definitely the next best solution though.
  From Josh Curren

Any good alternative to Google Alert?

Google Alert is a decent webapp and I use it for following some topics, but I receive one email pr. topic every day and it's a bit hard to track.

Are there any good alternatives e.g. one that would enable me to follow multiple topics and get notified on news in different categories.

Something that combines social media, web search, news and blogs would be of interest.

From web app grm

• Giga Alerts is the only alternative I've found.

  Your other alternative is to have Google Alerts syndicate your alerts through RSS feeds instead of email. Then you can mash all the RSS feeds up into a single RSS feed using Yahoo! Pipes.

  Marek Grzenkowicz : +1 for the "Google Alerts + RSS + Pipes" idea
  From jangosteve

• Off topic: Technorati used to be awesome at this but they revamped their site and removed their best feature (IMO)

  From Daveyjoe

• Major Disclaimer: I'm the co-founder. But, check out SocialBlaze; we do a lot of things but among them are email alerts for mentions of keywords/topics from all over the web.

  Out of curiosity, why and how are you using this data?

  grm : Thanks, I signed up and will give this a try when I receive a beta invite.
  From rksprst

• I find Social Mention even more complete than Google Alerts.

  From Olivier Lalonde

• Plug: I am working on a similar project to what you request as well. It's called Topsicle, and we'll allow you to follow news by topic, with a much richer feature set than what Google alerts offers now. Sign up here and we'll shoot you an e-mail when we launch.

  grm : Signed up. Looking forward to see you go online.
  From thebossman

Is there any Social Translation web site?

Is there any web app that people can translate texts (articles, movie subtitles, etc) together?

From web app Hameds

• use any colloborative editor:

  • any incarnation of http://etherpad.com/
  • googles translator toolkit looks like a good start
  • any instance of bespin
  • docs.google.com
  Omar Kohl : I think he means more something like a site where other people collaborate and translate your text (in return you could translate something for someone else). What you suggest means you first have to search for people who want to translate with/for you.
  From akira

• There might be one if it gets enough traction.

  Translation

  Right now it seems unlikely.

  From Nifle

• This might not be what you're looking for, but Google Translate actually lets you suggest a better translation for anything you let it translate, which is kind of a "social feature". They use the gathered data to improve translation quality in future updates of the service.

  akira : look at the google-translator-toolkit i mentioned, that looks really like a collaborative editor for bigger translations.
  From fretje

• I set up a wiki for this purpose, learnicelandic.net. Sadly my solution would work for you only if you want to set up a wiki and have a bunch of pre-existing friends and collegues that will start using the site right away. My site turned out to be a wiki-ghost-town.

  I have attempted to do collaborative translations on phpBB sites because there is about one per language and there are usually several people on each board, but phpBB leaves a lot to be desired as it has no wiki features at all and I have to manual merge the corrections and twittle with [quote] tags to give corrections.

  From MatthewMartin

• I don't think this is quite what you're looking for, but the premise is strongly displayed here as a social community. From that link:

  XIHA (www.xihalife.com) connects the people of the world through a multilingual, cross-cultural exchange. Simultaneous, real-time translation allows XIHA citizens to share travel tips, pictures, music, videos, games, knowledge and perspectives.

  By transcending language barriers, XIHA allows users to make new friends from around the globe, rather than merely reconnecting with high school acquaintances. Users can create blogs and homepages - or link to other social media- to share their personal experiences.

  From Michael

• http://mygengo.com/string/ Might fit the bill, depending on the type of data you need to translate. String is more Web development oriented, but depening on exactly what you want to do, it could be useful

  From jfoucher

• There's a service called Transifex that does the same thing for open source software projects. While it wouldn't work perfectly for an article, I don't see why it cannot be used.

  I haven't used it extensively, even less in such a scenario, but it might be worth taking a look. A limitation is that it's for open source and public, which you might not want in all cases.

  From Slavo

• Read this for a multi-lingual social networking site with a translation feature.

  For movie subtitles see OpenSubtitles.org

  From Evan Plaice

• Here is a good post talking about the social translation project that TED is running to translate their videos into other languages.

  http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/2009/05/13/ted-embraces-social-translation/

  One of the tools they refer to, CONYAC (conyac.cc), might be what you are looking for.

  There are also several other good links on Ethan's blog if you read through it.

  From daryn

• Crowdin lets teams do translations in a social way, but it is more for software-related projects.

  From Nicolas Raoul

• I think you're looking for something like Lexeem.

  AShelly : This is exactly what I imagined when I read the question.
  From tsondermann

• Do you require any special tools for translation, or just basic text editing?

  If basic collaborative text editing is sufficient, you can use WebClipper, which allows you to annotate any web page collaboratively.

  From HRJ

• Cucumis is a community of translators who share their linguistic knowledge and help each other online.

  http://www.cucumis.org/

  From Alex Andronov

• Global Voices seems to be a community built around translating blogs to and from other languages. I haven't tried it, but some of the people involved have been interviewed on CBC's Spark.

  From Don Kirkby

• You can run your own app using:

  Pootle - http://translate.sourceforge.net/wiki/. Some wordpress translations are beeing done using this tool.

  devmake : Another one: GlotPress - http://blog.glotpress.org/ - it is used for translation of wordpress to czech language for example. For more information see also GlotPress Trac (look for the link on the right side).
  From devmake

Social Network (Facebook, Twitter, etc) User Account Integration (duplicate scenario)

So there are definitely many tutorials out there regarding how to integrate various individual social network authentication/registration into existing user accounts. But the scenario I can't seem to find out much information about is if a user signs into your account with different social network credentials. For example:

Scenario #1
User registers on site using site's authentication.
User then signs in/registers on site using Facebook Connect.
User then signs in/registers on site using Twitter.

How do I integrate all of these into one account?

Obviously once a user is registered, they can add other social network associations in the account settings pages. But I am more concerned if they register via the other social network not remembering they are already setup.

My general thoughts are trying to figure out a way to use the "username" or email to try and guess and present the user a way to combine accounts right there.

Anyone have any thoughts?

From web app Matt

• Here's how it works

  Instead of a one-to-one (userID<->eMailAddress) user accounts become one-to-many (userID<->OpenID|FB|Twitter|Google|Aol).

  The first time they sign up using one of the connections you create a unique ID entry in your users list representing that person. Then you associate that unique id with the FB/OpenID/Twitter account.

  On your site, that user is represented by the ID you assigned them when they first signed up. When they associate more accounts with that ID it gives them more redundant ways to access that account.

  IE. User accounts on that type of a site are one-to-many. So a user could have a GMail OpenID account, an AOL OpenID account, a Facebook acount, and a Twitter account all associated with a single ID on your site. That way, if they forget the password or cancel one of those accounts they can still connect with the others.

  Your authentication just verifies that they are who they say they are through the third party API and opens a session with their ID specific to your site when they login.

  If they forget their password, give the option to send it as a message to one of the accounts that are associated with the external IDs.

  OpenID and third party authentication has the advantage that it isn't tied to any single external ID so you don't even need to store an eMail address. This is a huge benefit because: 1, users are reluctant to give away email addresses these days due to the high volume of spam that comes with it and ; two, users often change emails and forget about orphaned accounts that may be associated with that email.

  Note: The way you present your question is from a webmaster/webdeveloper's point of view. I would direct this answer to stackoverflow.com as offtopic because but it doesn't quite fit there either. I suggest you commit to the Pro Webmasters FAQ site that's on the verge of being released into private beta because you'll find much better info there. IE, this would be a perfect question for that site.

  Matt : thanks for your answer. i guess i mis-understood the nature of this site. sorry about that. regarding your answer, i understand how to do that part, the scenario i am thinking about is more like the following: user signs into my site using twitter auth. user has not registered before, so he is added as a new user with a link to that twitter account. same user signs into my site again using facebook auth, forgetting that he/she already signed in previously with twitter. so this is kind of a new user but i need to link it to the already created account somehow. i guess use email address?

  Evan Plaice : @Matt I see. In that case, you'd need a way to merge the two accounts together into one because each would have a unique ID account number on your site. Tying accounts to an email address as the default identity is no better than having Twitter/FB because people often change email identities more often than twitter/fb. This would have to be a special administrative task where you'd probably need to authenticate the identity of the use across both accounts using an email.

  Evan Plaice : @Matt Hopefully this is a rare exception on your site because it will be such a pain to deal with. The easy-way-out would be to just tell your user to delete one of the accounts and keep the other as the primary.
  From Evan Plaice

What is a good small business online support application?

I am looking for a web application to manage my support emails. Our business has 5 employees and we split the task of answering support questions. Until now we would just use a gmail account that we all had access to, but now the questions and issues are increasing steadily and we need a more robust application, preferably web based.

Any suggestions?

From web app vmanp

• You should checkout www.kayako.com, one of the best!

  From nmang

• FogBugz - Customer Support: Does a lot more than customer support so it may be overkill. But it does do customer support very well.

  torbengb : +1 for FogBugz, it is very powerful and easy to use at the same time. If you only need max. 2 user accounts then it's free!
  From drye

• Getsatisfaction

  It's a social support application for engaging your customer community to reduce support costs, build buzz and collect feedback. Unify interactions across your Website, Facebook, Twitter, blog, and mobile apps. For companies of all sizes.companies of all sizes.

  Moving repeating help requests to a system like this might be a good long term solution vs relying only on email. I have only used this as a customer of various products and find it to be a very good resource for supports, bug reporting and feature requests.

  Evan Plaice : +1 I love GetSatisfaction.com. I have used it to provide feedback for some open source projects in the past. Simple, easy to work with, and it makes it easy to prioritize what needs to be done and what can sit on the back-burner a little longer.
  From Patrik Björklund

• Zendesk is a pretty nice solution.

  Senseful : In the future, please up vote the [other answer](http://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/1914/what-is-a-good-small-business-online-support-application/2082#2082), then add your comment under it by pressing "add comment".
  From Taylor

• You might take a look at tender as well. Very much e-mail focused.

  From tsondermann

• How about ManyMoon?

  You can set tasks & follow-up from emails that come in. It integrates with Gmail pretty conveniently, so probably wouldn't require you to change too much about your existing setup. If you use Google Apps for your business, you can add it as an additional App.

  There are a bunch of articles out there on how to use it in an organisation to support cooperative working.

  From x3ja

• Used GetSatisfaction.com with a beta release last year and it worked great. Good backend management of comments and tools for building community. The only downside is that it's really open, so you have to make sure that matches the personality of your business. There's no hiding comments, all your product's short-comings are out in the open.

  From cjmcqueen

• We (also a small business of about 5 people) use Zendesk and it does the job quite well. The smallest price plan is just $9 dollars a month (I think) which is reasonable and they recently introduced an iPhone app as well.

  pbreitenbach : Definitely check out ZenDesk. It is very solid and reasonably priced.
  From Krosmos

• Try uservoice.com. It takes questions and lets your users upvote them. You then spend time on the most popular questions first.

  From Jay Godse

• We use FogBugz for our consulting/software company to support our clients and their incoming emails and support requests. It works great - we're very happy. We even opened it up to have some users from our clients to be able to access cases only in their "project." Can't recommend it enough - FB is also free for companies of 2 users or less so you can try it out pretty extensively first.

  From Lyndal

• I'd also put in a vote for Zendesk.

  Senseful : In the future, please up vote the [other answer](http://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/1914/what-is-a-good-small-business-online-support-application/2082#2082), then add your comment under it by pressing "add comment".
  From Liz Pearce

Twitter Search API

How come when I do a search threw the twitterAPI, the results are so delayed, as supposed to how it is on the search.twitter.com?

I am writing a little joke script that responds to people in real time.

Any ideas?

From web app garbagecollector

• If you're looking to do real-time responding you may want to look in to Twitter Streaming API. You can use the filter method and supply 'track' keywords that function much like search but the result are streamed to you in real-time.

  From Marc Roberts

• The accuracy and timeliness of the Twitter Search results depend on a number of things, such as which server you hit, whether or not the result has been cached, whether or not the search you are doing is a trending topic (Twitter will curate the timeline for trending topics), etc.

  The API at search.twitter.com and the website search.twitter.com are both on the same machines, and so any difference in reporting is due to individual variance in the webserver you hit, rather than any difference between the API and HTML version.

  From 146

What online scheduling application do you use?

Specifically I am curious about systems that allow my customers to book appointments/services online through one interface, and for myself and my team to manage all of the appointments (and ideally point of sale and CRM) through another interface. Ideas?

From web app Raul

• Doodle does the job for me, very straight-forward!

  From Daveyjoe

• Take a look at Tungle. Does what you're asking for and integrates well with a variety of mail and calendaring apps. Great support as well from @tunglerocks on Twitter. Has fully featured mobile apps etc. etc. Don't know what CRM tool you are using, but integrations exist for some, e.g. BatchBook.

  From tsondermann

• I found When Is Good very easy and functional at the same time. You should give it a try.

  From Cornelius

• Check also Congregar.

  From dmni

Stop Gmail from automatically creating contacts

Gmail really likes to make contacts for me and stick them in my "All Contacts" list. I'd much rather manage my contacts myself and only add people when I want to specifically do so. (Actually, I wouldn't mind if they managed the list automatically except that oftentimes I get contacts made from mailing lists and sometimes the names are wrong, which is inconvenient.)

How can I make it so that my contacts list is neither obnoxiously long nor badly spelled and punctuated?

From web app Ben Alpert

• You can't. Google adds everyone you respond to under All Contacts, from there though you must explicitly click the contact and use the Move to My Contacts in order to add them to your list. In short there are two types of contacts:

  • Google's All Contacts which has everyone you ever wrote to
  • And, yours My Contacts, which has only those you explicitly add.

  See this article another contact-customization pertaining to when your contacts can chat with you.

  From Evan Carroll

• There's currently no way to switch off the automatic addition of all contacts. It's been something users have been asking for pretty much since the start.

  The best thing to do right now is to just filter out the auto-added ones.. go to http://www.google.com/contacts and in the search box put a space, then hit enter. That will give you a list split into My Contacts and All Contacts, and you can delete the un-used All Contacts people from there.

  From Callan

How do you unhide a friend on your Facebook wall?

On facebook I was trying to hide notifications from an application but I accidental hit the person's name. How can I undo the hiding of a friend?

From web app Josh Curren

• Scroll to the bottom of your news feed and click "Edit Options." Find your friend's name in the "Hide" list and remove via the "x" next to his or her name.

  From MrGumbe

• If you remove something from your Wall, it is gone forever and you cannot get it back.

  If you have hidden a friend, page, or application from your News Feed and want to unhide it, then as MrGumbe noted you can scroll to the bottom of the News Feed and click Edit Options on the right side of the shaded bar. However the dialog that pops up is different depending on whether you were showing "Top News" or "Most Recent".

  The "Top News" dialog has different tabs for hidden Friends, Pages, and Applications (if any are hidden). To unhide any of these, click the appropriate tab at the top if necessary and then click its "Add To News Feed" button.

  

  The "Most Recent" dialog shows hidden friends and pages in the Hide column; click the "X" to unhide. It allows you to hide additional friends but does not have any way to control hidden applications.

  

  From mark4o

How can I see what gmail accounts are using my email as the secondary/backup email?

I have an older gmail account that I set up that I need access to. I know that I used my primary gmail address as the backup account, but I can't remember the username that I used.

I'd swear that I found somewhere in settings or somewhere that I saw this before; but I think there's a place that lets you see what other accounts are using your gmail account as the secondary account.

Any ideas?

From web app Joel Martinez

• If account A is pulling emails from account B using POP3 you can check on https://mail.google.com/mail/#settings/accounts.

  If account B is forwarding emails to account A then you will have to find an email that was forwarded and check the to address. Perhaps searching for a type of email that would have been delivered to account b.

  Account A = primary account being backed up to.

  Account B = lost secondary account being backed up from.

  From abraham

• AccountA = Older account AccountB = Primary account

  So, what you're saying is that for AccountA, you listed AccountB as the alternate email? When you did that, Google (at least now they do) sent an email to your AccountB email from account-verification-noreply@google.com and had you verify the association. If you can find the email and click on the link within it, it should ask you to login to AccountA.

  From rchern