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Archive for February 13th, 2014

Google Cast SDK for Android Released: The Google Play services library (revision 15)

Posted by jpluimers on 2014/02/13

Thanks Leon Nicholls – Google+. and Android Developers – Google+ for sharing these two posts: Read the rest of this entry »

Posted in Android, Android Devices, Chrome, Chromecast, Development, Google, Mobile Development, Power User, Software Development | Leave a Comment »

If you miss having the Caps Lock button on your #Chromebook… (via: Google Chrome – Google+)

Posted by jpluimers on 2014/02/13

This reminds me about mapping the CapsLock to Windows-key on old Lenovo keyboard (you can do that [Wayback/Archive] with ReMapKey from Microsoft, the [Wayback/Archive] slightly more convoluted open source SharpKeys, or a AutoHotKey script), and a [Wayback] Mac equivalent:

MacOS:

I like to have a second Control key instead of Caps Lock.

In OS X, go to System Preferences -> Keyboard -> Keyboard -> Modifier Keys… and change or turn off Caps Lock, Control, Option and Command.

For more radical key remapping in OS X, use KeyRemap4MacBook. Despite the name, it works on non-Macbook machines, too.

…

ChromeBook:

If you miss having the Caps Lock button on your , you can turn the Search button into a Caps Lock button in a couple steps: find “Keyboard Settings” under the “Settings” menu, and select “Caps Lock” under the “Search” drop-down menu.

Or you can use this quick link on your Chromebook: chrome://settings/keyboard-overlay

Chromebook has [Wayback/Archive] quite some different keys than a Windows keyboard.

Ben Ostrowsky has a nice post with an SVG drawing of the [Wayback/Archive] Chromebook keyboard layout.

Read the rest of this entry »

Posted in Apple, Chromebook, Google, Keyboards and Keyboard Shortcuts, Mac, Mac OS X / OS X / MacOS, Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger, Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, Mac OS X 10.7 Lion, MacBook, MacBook Retina, MacBook-Air, MacBook-Pro, OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion, OS X 10.9 Mavericks, Power User | Tagged: , , , , , | Leave a Comment »

COMPACT.EXE to compress files, folders and volumes that use NTFS (via: The Old New Thing – Site Home – MSDN Blogs)

Posted by jpluimers on 2014/02/13

Thanks Raymond Chen for suggesting about [WayBack] COMPACT.EXE to set NTFS compression flags for files, directories or volumes:

The command-line tool for this is COMPACT.EXE. Type compact /? for usage information.

Example to recursively compress D:\backup:

compact /C /S /A D:\backup\*.*

–jeroen

via:

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Keeping Google Cloud Messaging For Android Working Reliably [Technical Post] (via: Pushbullet – Google+)

Posted by jpluimers on 2014/02/13

For all the Android developers out there, we’ve just published a technical post with four big tips for keeping Google Cloud Messaging working reliably in your apps.

Google Cloud Messaging is the technology used for Push notifications on Android and these four tips are the things we wish we’d known when we started working on Pushbullet!

Keeping Google Cloud Messaging For Android Working Reliably [Technical Post] | PushBullet Blog.

–jeroen

via Pushbullet – Google+ – For all the Android developers out there, we’ve just….

Posted in Android, Development, Mobile Development | Leave a Comment »

nmap finger printing: Usage and Examples

Posted by jpluimers on 2014/02/13

Just append -O and -v to a command-line:

nmap -O -v ip-address

Note you need administrative privileges for this on Mac OS X, so there you run it like this:

sudo nmap -O -v ip-address

If you want to scan more than the default 1000 TCP ports, then use the -p- switch:

sudo nmap -O -v -p- ip-address

For more info about the finger printing algorithms used by nmap:

–jeroen

via: Usage and Examples.

Posted in *nix, Apple, Linux, Mac OS X / OS X / MacOS, Mac OS X 10.7 Lion, OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion, OS X 10.9 Mavericks, Power User, SuSE Linux | Tagged: , | Leave a Comment »

ManagedSpy now maintained by ForNeVeR (via: managed – What happened to ManagedSpy?)

Posted by jpluimers on 2014/02/13

ForNeVeR now maintains ManagedSpy, see his answer on StackOverflow

BTW, I’ve cloned the original ManagedSpy source code and maintaining the code today (for example, ported it to .NET4).

See project on GitHub.

–jeroen

via: managed – What happened to ManagedSpy? – Stack Overflow.

Posted in .NET, .NET 4.0, .NET 4.5, C#, C# 4.0, C# 5.0, Development, Software Development | Leave a Comment »

Fix the “App can’t be opened because it is from an unidentified developer” Error in Mac OS X

Posted by jpluimers on 2014/02/13

You don’t want to fully open your Mac to always install applications, so I’m glad that OSXDaily provided multiple workarounds:

Fix the “App can’t be opened because it is from an unidentified developer” Error in Mac OS X.

I needed it to install the nmap binary for OS X.

–jeroen

Posted in Apple, Mac, Mac OS X / OS X / MacOS, MacBook, MacBook Retina, MacBook-Air, MacBook-Pro, OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion, OS X 10.9 Mavericks, Power User | Tagged: , | Leave a Comment »

Anyone that knows what “peer sync token could not be validated” in copy.com means? @CopyApp https://copy.com?r=3NGul6

Posted by jpluimers on 2014/02/13

I got the message “peer sync token could not be validated” in the Windows copy.com app while accepting a share from another user.

The only Google search hit was Malwr – Malware Analysis by Cuckoo Sandbox.

Anyone has seen that message before?

After I’ve requested a new share half an hour later, and that one worked.

–jeroen

Posted in Copy.com, Power User, SocialMedia | 4 Comments »

How do you enlarge the font size in the address bar if you have a vision problem – Browsers – Windows 7

Posted by jpluimers on 2014/02/13

Here you can change the font (enlarge, bold, etc): How do you enlarge the font size in the address bar if you have a vision problem – Browsers – Windows 7.

–jeroen

Posted in Power User, Windows, Windows 7, Windows 8 | Leave a Comment »

Do not share DCU files between projects (via: delphi – Compiler Directive IF and IFEND – Stack Overflow)

Posted by jpluimers on 2014/02/13

Summary: Always try to avoid sharing .DCU files between projects.

I see a lot of projects at clients that do not have their individual DCU directories set (therefore having the DCU files in the same directory as the PAS files causing shared units to share the DCU files), or share DCU files among different projects.

Both are a very bad idea, as the compiler does not always understand when the DCU file does not match the combination of PAS file and compiler options.

The result is the occasional use of the DCU file in stead of the PAS file causing wrong code to be used, or wrong debugger information to be included.

Danny Thorpe phrased it on Stack Overflow: Read the rest of this entry »

Posted in Borland Pascal, Delphi, Delphi 1, Delphi 2005, Delphi 2006, Delphi 2007, Delphi 2009, Delphi 2010, Delphi 3, Delphi 4, Delphi 5, Delphi 6, Delphi 7, Delphi 8, Delphi x64, Delphi XE, Delphi XE2, Delphi XE3, Delphi XE4, Development, FreePascal, Lazarus, Pascal, Turbo Pascal | 9 Comments »