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Archive for November, 2015

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Universal Android ADB driver for Windows – koush/UniversalAdbDriver

Posted by jpluimers on 2015/11/17

If you ever need a universal Android ADB driver for Windows, then use this one: koush/UniversalAdbDriver.

I never noticed it was there until Koushik Dutta posted about a signing trick on Google+.

Windows drivers need to be signed, so what he does is generate a self signed certificate on the fly during installation, sign the driver install it, and drop the private key of the certificate.

Each installation has its own key, Microsoft is happy, and it is proven the driver signature mechanism in Windows has a hole.

If you want to do similar things, then this commit is what you are looking for: Use a self signed, self destructing signing cert. · e8b78fe · koush/UniversalAdbDriver.

It isn’t rocket science, but not trivial C# either, so this is a great example of something that works.

–jeroen

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Early Mac UI designers say Apple has abandoned many of its human interface design principles | 9to5Mac

Posted by jpluimers on 2015/11/16

I vividly remember the old design guidelines. They were golden.

Now basic things like feedback and discoverability are missing.

Source: Early Mac UI designers say Apple has abandoned many of its human interface design principles | 9to5Mac

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Google Podcasts might not be the quality you’re after, just like the YouTube replaygained audio…

Posted by jpluimers on 2015/11/16

Google Podcasts might not be what you’re after:

Podcast producers that are not too happy, saying that Google Play is going to downsample and re-encode podcasts down to a minimal 64k of audio quality. That is not good news. – Joe C. Hecht – Google+

Source: I sure am hearing a lot about Google embracing Podcasts, and how it is going to…

So just like on YouTube, Google seems to play the audio normalisation game again.

–jeroen

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OS/X – How to print screen in Remote Desktop Client (RDS) on Mac OS X? – Super User

Posted by jpluimers on 2015/11/16

The only reliable way to create a remote print-screen is by using the Windows On-Screen Keyboard. It even works with Alt-Prt+Sc to make screenshots of individual Windows.

Just run OSK to start the On-Screen Keyboard.

–jeroen

via: osx – How to print screen in Remote Desktop Client (RDS) on Mac OS X? – Super User.

Posted in Apple, Keyboards and Keyboard Shortcuts, Mac, Mac OS X / OS X / MacOS, Mac OS X 10.7 Lion, MacBook, MacBook Retina, MacBook-Air, MacBook-Pro, MacMini, OS X 10.10 Yosemite, OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion, OS X 10.9 Mavericks, Power User | Leave a Comment »

Inno Setup: Program Folder not showing up In Start > All Programs. I’ve been…

Posted by jpluimers on 2015/11/15

taskkill /f /im explorer.exe
del %LOCALAPPDATA%\IconCache.db /a
start explorer

Source: Inno Setup: Program Folder not showing up In Start > All Programs. I’ve been… (A Google+ post not archived in the WayBack machine)

It will kill explorer.exe, delete the IconCache.db, then starts explorer which will rebuild IconCache.db.

–jeroen

Posted in Development, InnoSetup, Installer-Development, Power User, Software Development, Windows, Windows 10, Windows 11, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1 | Leave a Comment »

VidCast: Chromecast for the rest of the web

Posted by jpluimers on 2015/11/13

I know, friday 13, bla, bla, but this works great! VidCast: Chromecast for the rest of the web.

It works with: Vimeo, TED, and tons of other sites.

The first I tried is was a great half hour Devopsdays Amsterdam 2015 session “Leslie Hawthorn – Fear of Failing Fast: How to Avoid Sabotaging Your Success”

The easiest way is to drag the VidCast bookmarklet button to your bookmarks bar once, then for videos you want to watch:

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Google+ post by Jean-Luc Aufranc

Posted by jpluimers on 2015/11/13

https://plus.google.com/110719562692786994119/posts/JTCQ9QSUvUz

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Programming Comments – How not to detect virtualization

Posted by jpluimers on 2015/11/13

Funny: about 5 years ago, the virtualization products became so good that you cannot reliably detect if you are running under virtualization or not: Programming Comments – How not to detect virtualization.

–jeroen

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Detecting internet access: differentiating between local and internet connection

Posted by jpluimers on 2015/11/12

A few interesting links I don’t want to forget:

–jeroen

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How to activate ADB & Helium on OnePlus 2 on Mac – OnePlus Forums

Posted by jpluimers on 2015/11/11

Source: How to activate ADB & Helium on OnePlus 2 on Mac – OnePlus Forums

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