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How to enable JavaScript in your browser and why

Posted by jpluimers on 2017/03/02

Just in case it’s not enabled yet: How to enable JavaScript in your browser and why

It even has some html to redirect to it, which I’ve replaced with the wayback machine (and put into a gist as WordPress kills noscript tag blocks and everything they contain.


<noscript>
For full functionality of this site it is necessary to enable JavaScript.
Here are the <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20160402005258/http://www.enable-javascript.com/&quot; target="_blank">
instructions how to enable JavaScript in your web browser</a>.
</noscript>

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enable-javascript.com-noscript-fragment.html

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I needed it as at a client site, one of the embedded devices would show the message “Javascript is required to use this web portal” in various web browsers so I had to check the JavaScript status in each browser.

–jeroen

Posted in Chrome, Chrome, Development, Firefox, Google, Internet Explorer, JavaScript/ECMAScript, Opera, Power User, Safari, Scripting, Software Development, Web Browsers | Leave a Comment »

PSA: If you were signed out of your Google account tonight, don’t worry [Update] – 9to5Google

Posted by jpluimers on 2017/02/24

I had to re-logon to my mobile phone, but not my web browser. It seems this was due to a glitch at Google, but doesn’t remove my suspicion when I see this message come up in the future. So I did check account activity at these links:

More background here: [WayBack] PSA: If you were signed out of your Google account tonight, don’t worry [Update] – 9to5Google

Via: [WayBack] Ah that explains it. – Roderick Gadellaa – Google+

–jeroen

 

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Casting the audio of application on your Linux machine via Chrome to a ChromeCast

Posted by jpluimers on 2017/02/06

Hopefully by now mkchromecast [WayBack] works on more Linux versions (and maybe even Mac OS X is better supported [WayBack]), but back then it was only available for Ubuntu 16.10 and up:

Do you want to stream the audio from Rhythmbox, VLC or another Linux app to your TV through Chromecast? Well, we’ve found a nifty little Linux tool that lets you do just that.

Source: How to Send Your Linux Desktop Audio to a Chromecast – OMG! Ubuntu!

The tool is at github: Linux · muammar/mkchromecast Wiki  [WayBack]: mkchromecast – Cast macOS, or Linux Audio to your Google Cast Devices

–jeroen

via:

Posted in *nix, Chrome, Chromecast, Google, Linux, Power User, Ubuntu | Leave a Comment »

Some ChromeCast URLs

Posted by jpluimers on 2017/02/01

I need to check these against a Chromecast v2 as the below URLs are from a v1 device:

More is possible by using cURL: Chromecast Hacking Has Begun | fiquett.com

sleep 8h; while true; do
curl -H "Content-Type: application/json" http://192.168.71.113:8008/apps/YouTube -X POST -d 'v=somevideo';
done

Related:

–jeroen

via:

Thoughts on a Chromecast Alarm app?
byu/akhilcacharya inChromecast

Posted in Chromecast, Communications Development, Development, Google, Hardware Interfacing, HTTP, https, Internet protocol suite, REST, Security, TCP | 3 Comments »

Reminder to self – did “Clear App Data” get me any Google Opinion Rewards surveys?

Posted by jpluimers on 2017/01/20

Somehow I didn’t get Google Opinion Rewards surveys for more than half a year. As per below post, I’ve cleared the app data a week ago.

This is a reminder to myself to check if I got any surveys since…

(Yes, I’ve location on, battery saving off and the app runs).

–jeroen

via: [WayBack] Ik ga nu bijna denken dat Google weet wat ik op Google+ post…En: €0.19 ct voor het beantwoorden van deze vraag. Daar kan ik dus net geen sigaret van… – Roderick Gadellaa – Google+

 

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Wifi Analyzer – helped me analyse why an original Chromecast failed to see a Buffalo WLAE-AG300N

Posted by jpluimers on 2017/01/06

Brilliant! Helped me to track down why an original 1st generation Chromecast didn’t want to connect to a Buffalo WLAE-AG300N.

The problem there is that the original Chromecast does only 2.4Ghz WiFi and the WLAE-AG300N favours 5Ghz WiFi over 2.4Ghz when set to auto.

The solution is in the last picture: basically force the WLAE-AG300N to use 11n/g/b only which limits it to 2.4Ghz (it cannot use both frequencies at the same time).

Yes, I know the Microwaves drawback, but as the original Chromecast only does 2.4Ghz. I’d rather get the Chromecast Ethernet adapter but Google refuses to ship these outside the USA.

Source: Wifi Analyzer – Android Apps on Google Play

 

Force the WLAE-AG300N to use only 2.4Ghz

Force the WLAE-AG300N to use only 2.4Ghz

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Shared Google Calendars not showing up on iPhone, iPad, and Mac? Here’s the fix! | iMore

Posted by jpluimers on 2016/12/16

If shared Google Calendars do not show on your iPad, iPod, iPhone or Mac, then go to https://www.google.com/calendar/syncselect (sometimes called https://www.google.com/calendar/iphoneselect) and set a tick mark in front of each calendar you want to appear there. Finally, refresh the calendar list on your iOS device and you are set.

–jeroen

Source: Shared Google Calendars not showing up on iPhone, iPad, and Mac? Here’s the fix! | iMore

Posted in Apple, GMail, Google, GoogleCalendar, iOS, iPad, iPhone, iPod, iPod touch, Power User | Leave a Comment »

“the user name or password for imap.gmail is incorrect” – iPad, iPod or iPhone with iOS < 7

Posted by jpluimers on 2016/12/13

If you ever get a “the user name or password for imap.gmail is incorrect” on an iPad, iPod or iPhone with iOS version less than 7, then don’t waste time about entering captchas or fiddling with URLs: it took me 2 hours to find this is caused by GMail enforcing OAuth2 and blocking less secure apps mid 2014 after announcing it in April 2014.

Note that besides iOS < 7, these are also considered unsafe: the Mail-app on Windows Phone-version less than 8.1, some versions of desktop e-mail clients like (tadaaaaa!) Microsoft Outlook and Mozilla Thunderbird.

Almost all searches for the error message lead you into trying to opening Safari on your iOS device visiting http://www.google.com/accounts/DisplayUnlockCaptcha or switching your servers from gmail.com to googlemail.com (or back), but these tricks don’t help.

What does help is (if you really insist on using a less secure app) to enable these less secure apps in your google account: https://www.google.com/settings/security/lesssecureapps. Note this does not work when you have 2-step verification enabled.

I came across this when donating my old iPad 1 devices and the people could not use it for GMail. Since the GMail app in iTunes doesn’t support iOS 5.1.1 any more basically the devices are now glorious photo frames.

–jeroen

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Google drawing AI – My first “Quick, Draw!” attempt – Jeroen Wiert Pluimers – Google+

Posted by jpluimers on 2016/11/28

Not your grandma’s QuickDraw, but a one of the new Google AI experiments by their AI research team:

Can a neural network learn to recognize doodles? See how well it does with your drawings and help teach it, just by playing.

Source: Quick, Draw!

On the right is my first “Quick, Draw!” attempt.
Too bad the canoe didn’t work out; parrot and firetruck are pretty hard with either a mouse or a trackpad.

Source: [WayBack] My first Quick Draw attempt – Jeroen Wiert Pluimers – Google+

Other A.I. Experiments (g.co/aiexperiments):

–jeroen

Via:

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Recursion

Posted by jpluimers on 2016/11/23

Apple fanboys all know about 1 Infinite Loop. Turbo Pascal adepts about the index entries “infinite loop See loop, infinite” and “loop, infinite See infinite loop”.

Google as a more direct approach: www.google.com/search?q=recursion

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Posted in Algorithms, Apple, Borland Pascal, Design Patterns, Development, Google, Pascal, Power User, Software Development, Turbo Pascal | Leave a Comment »

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