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September 30[edit]

Preventing websites from displaying annoying Appstore popups to their respective iOS apps[edit]

Is there any way to disable the annoying popups to websites' apps for iOS? For example, when viewing Haaretz it prompts you to either download their app or cancel, on each page. (because merely having a mobile website would be too much convenient) My iPad 3 is jailbroken. Eisenikov (talk) 00:49, 30 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Are you talking about Smart App Banners? I don't know any way to disable them, but it would be a very nice if Apple added an option in Safari Settings. –– Anonymouse321 (talk) 16:44, 5 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Indeed, that's what I'm talking about. I believe Apple isn't doing so because the point is making money... Eisenikov (talk) 22:10, 5 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Disabling certain ads[edit]

Hello. I recently had some problems with a business that required me to make several visits to its website. The issues were resolved after a lengthy process, which left me with an extremely negative impression of the business, and at this point I would like to put the whole issue behind me. However, because of my frequent visits to the website, I am now confronted with ads for the business on virtually every website I go to. I know it is due to cookies. But I do not want to be reminded of this business every time I go online. What is the process for getting rid of these specific cookies, without losing the ones I want to keep? (If it means anything, my OS is Windows 7 and I use a Chrome browser.) Thank you. → Michael J Ⓣ Ⓒ Ⓜ 03:15, 30 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

This thread has a number of solutions. ¦ Reisio (talk) 05:34, 30 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

"my OS is Windows 7 and I use a Chrome browser" well there's you're problem. but if you know witch cookie it is, you can just delete it. but i don't know how to do that on chrome. 70.114.254.43 (talk) 03:53, 2 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Free HTML editor[edit]

Resolved

Can anyone recommend an editor which handles tables? Kittybrewster ☎ 13:49, 30 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I've been using KomPoser http://www.kompozer.net for some time and find it adequate. --Halcatalyst (talk) 15:38, 30 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I find it Krashes Kontinually. Do you find it does too? I use Vista and Firefox. Kittybrewster ☎ 16:23, 30 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I use Komposer on Mandriva at home and Windows 7 at work and I've never experienced crashes. --TrogWoolley (talk) 18:42, 30 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Notepad? -- SGBailey (talk) 09:06, 2 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I assume they want an editor which recognizes HTML syntax, not a plain text editor. StuRat (talk) 09:26, 2 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you all. Cracked it with great difficulty. Kittybrewster ☎ 06:35, 3 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

my domain being used by a spammer[edit]

I'm getting maybe a dozen emails a day reporting delivery failure of emails allegedly from my domain. Here is part of the header of one of the emails:

"Authentication-Results: mx.google.com; spf=neutral (google.com: 117.201.71.216 is neither permitted nor denied by best guess record for domain of 37CE0D0@dendurent.com) smtp.mail=37CE0D0@dendurent.com"

I'm worried that my domain might get blacklisted. What can I do? --Halcatalyst (talk) 15:34, 30 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Sender Policy Framework is a web standard for declaring which servers are allowed to send email on behalf of a given domain. It is a useful way of telling third parties that your domain is being spoofed. The "spf=neutral" line in the quoted text appears to indicate that SPF has not been set up for your domain. Dragons flight (talk) 22:40, 30 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

In practice, sensible email receiving organisations are used to falsified "sender:" headers (how many spams do you get that appear to come for yahoo or google, or from your own domain or yourself?). Blocking seems to be done instead on an IP basis (Comcast blocks mail from mcwalter.org, presumably because one of the gazillions of other users of my hosting company was a bad lad once long ago). -- Finlay McWalterჷTalk 00:07, 1 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Playing Star Control II[edit]

Inspired by The Ur-Quan Masters, which I never got to work, I went ahead and bought the original Star Control II for MS-DOS and installed it on my Fedora 17 Linux system, to play under DosBox. The game works perfectly under DosBox, so I have no technical problems. So far I have got as far as to contact Commander Hayes at the Earth starbase to tell him I'm going to free Earth from Ur-Quan slavery, destroy an Ilwrath Avenger, which convinced Hayes of my intentions, and find Spathi captain Fwiffo on Pluto and manage to have him join my fleet. But now I'm at a loss at what to do next. I understand Wikipedia is not a game guide, so the question I'm asking is: where do I find a forum where I could ask for help in proceeding in the game? I don't want a complete walkthrough, as that would spoil me. More like an Internet forum or a wiki specifically for Star Control II. JIP | Talk 17:55, 30 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

In the article Star Control II, in the "External links" section at the bottom, there's a link to "The Ultronomicon, a dedicated Star Control wiki". If you follow that link, on their homepage they also have a "Links" link, which takes you to a page with a number of other sites, including at least one forum. Hope that helps. -- 205.175.124.30 (talk) 20:16, 30 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Microsoft Excel help[edit]

Howdy. I'm a total Excel novice who knows nothing about making formulas on spreadsheets. I am currently working on a schedule. Let's say I input a time of 10:37 pm on cell A2. Can I input a formula so that the time advances every 15 minutes for each cell going down? So, 10:52, 11:07, 11:22, and so on. I've been inputting all the times manually but I figure there must be a less cumbersome way of doing it. 75.162.165.53 (talk) 19:50, 30 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Fill in the first two entries and select both cells. Then click and hold on the dot at the bottom right of the selected area. Drag it down over the cells you want to fill, and they will be automatically completed. Google "excel autofill" for more info.Rojomoke (talk) 20:18, 30 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Works like a charm. Many, many thanks for your help. 75.162.165.53 (talk) 20:55, 30 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

You can do this for any repeating series. So if you want to number a column with 1-100, for example. Just put in the first couple and then perform the same action as above. Dismas|^(talk) 02:48, 1 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]