Disclaimer: The following can be considered illegal, so make sure you understand any legal implication before trying.
I bought a PDF book, which was secured. Meaning it could not be printed or annotated. Not being able to annotate was very irritating, because I like to highlight important parts and make notes in my PDF’s. There are different ways to remove security from PDF’s. I wanted a quick way. Continue reading
Today while trying to solve an issue with Maven I came across the dependency tree plugin. Pretty cool little plugin that prints the dependency tree of a project. If you are working on a multi module project it prints out a dependency tree for each module. Nice. Continue reading
In WhatsApp blue ticks indicate that someone has received and read your message. Once they have read your message you expect them to respond immediately. The same goes for people that send you a message, they expect an immediate response. What if you do not want to respond immediately or do not want someone to know you have read their message? Continue reading
Bower is a package manager for the web. Bower allows you to manage your project’s front-end dependencies. You can read more about it on the project website. IntelliJ WebStorm provides integration with Bower’s registry. You can search and install packages directly in the IDE, as well as easily update and delete packages. Continue reading
Bower is a package manager which manages dependencies for web sites. Web sites are made of lots of things: frameworks, libraries, assets, utilities, etc. Bower manages all these things for you. Bower works by fetching and installing packages from all over, taking care of hunting, finding, downloading, and saving the stuff you’re looking for. Bower keeps track of these packages in a manifest file called bower.json. Continue reading
Time to beef up security. Like everyone I have a large number of online accounts. They are generally secured with username and password. I use KeePass to generate unique passwords and keep track of them. There have been a lot of hacks lately. So I wanted to make my most important accounts more secure. More and more online services are adding two factor authentication, e.g. Google, Dropbox. Two factor authentication adds an additional layer of security.
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My son has a Motorola Moto G. While running a Android system update the Moto G would not power on. How frustrating. I found the following remedy that worked: Continue reading
Important note: The functionality provided by Popcorn Time is illegal. Use it at your own risk.
I recently checked out the Windows version of Popcorn Time. I really like it, it reminds me of Netflix. I’m the owner of a smartphone (Samsung Galaxy S5) and tablet (Samsung Galaxy Note 2014 10.1) and also wanted to test the Popcorn Time Android app. The app is not available in the Playstore (for obvious reasons, see the note at the top of this post). You need to download the .apk file from here and install it manually. To install it enable installation from unknown sources. This is not the subject of this post, so Google around there are lots of instructions on how to do this.
The Android app installed fine on my smartphone. Continue reading
When migrating from Hosted Exchange to Office 365 I needed to migrate the mailboxes of users. As the number of users were limited I decided to do a quick and dirty export / import using a .pst file. After the fist mailbox I did a quick check to make sure all data had been migrated correctly. I noticed that the mail only went back one year. Continue reading
I was recently migrating from Hosted Exchange to Office 365. As the number of user accounts was limited I decided to go for the quick and dirty manual data migration. Export the Hosted Exchange user mailboxes from Outlook to a .pst file and import it into the Office 365 user mailbox in Outlook. Very straight forward and easy to do. The migration seemed to have gone smoothly until one of the users noticed that their calendar was missing. How did I miss that? Continue reading