Posted by jpluimers on 2014/07/15
Duh: don’t start the Chromecast extension in Google Chrome, but run Chromecast.app on your Macbook (:
To change the WiFi network your Chromecast is connected to, simply open up the Chromecast app on your phone, tablet, or computer and select your Chromecast from the list. From the Chromecast settings page, select your current Wi-Fi network name and select a new network from the drop-down list.
–jeroen
via: Frequently Asked Questions – Chromecast Help.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2014/06/30
Though the question is still marked as “not a real question” (even after the edit by Michael Mrozek), the answers by User Mr. Smith – Stack Overflow and User FrustratedWithFormsDesigner – Stack Overflow are very valuable, as they describe NCR (no, not the National Cash Register company, but No Country Redirect).
The NCR url will force google.com to stay at the .com domain, not redirect the local country domain:
After that, none of the other Google URLs will auto-redirect to the country site any more: good thing!
Later I found a few other nice pages explaining NCR too (:
Another thing is that (if you did not yet know about NCR), you accidentally can end up with the wrong Google.com language. Resetting that is easy too as it answered at How can I force my browser to search Google in English? – Super User.
–jeroen
via: How to access the main Google homepage (no country redirect) – Stack Overflow.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2014/06/23
Every once in a while, a site goes haywire on you and you need to delete one or more of their cookies to fix it.
There are multiple solutions to this, but I like the one below best because it only shows you the cookies involved with the site you are currently visiting:
On
- Windows, press Ctrl+Shift-i.
- OS X, press ⌥-⌘-i (which is option-command-i).
- *nix, press Ctrl+Shift-j
Alternatively, open the Developer Tools pane from the Tools menu.
Open the Resources pane, and delete the cookies you want to delete.
Thanks akira!
–jeroen
via: Delete specific cookies from Google Chrome? – Super User.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2014/05/06
Convenient: Ilya Grigorik – Google+ – Handy Chrome extension that surfaces NavTiming, render….
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Posted by jpluimers on 2014/05/02
Thanks Ilya Grigorik for pointing me to Chromecast: Understanding its Potential beyond Video Streaming | The EWD Files.
Great overview on how it works accompanied with nice diagrams like this one:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2014/04/29
Kristian Köhntopp had a note post about Google Maps: Blue and Yellow Stars which he could not remove from within Google Maps.
In the end these appear to be bookmarks that you have to remove from Google Bookmarks.
He calls this a “complete UI disaster” to which I totally agree.
Thanks Kristian for sorting that out, as I did give up on that one.
–jeroen
via: Kristian Köhntopp – Google+ – Google Maps: Blue and Yellow Stars For some reasons there….
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Posted by jpluimers on 2014/04/15
Today I learned that each Google Group has RSS and ATOM feeds. That allows you to add them to Feedly (a great online RSS reader that won a lot of market share when Google Reader got ditched).
This is how you do it (I’m using the Spring4D group as an example).
–jeroen
Posted in Delphi, Delphi 2010, Delphi XE, Delphi XE2, Delphi XE3, Delphi XE4, Delphi XE5, Delphi XE6, Development, Google, GoogleGroups, Power User, Software Development, Spring4D | 7 Comments »
Posted by jpluimers on 2014/04/02
Wondering what kind of device AllCast is going to support next (:
Interesting question: Koushik Dutta – Google+ – anyone know how to look up an ip address given a mac….
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2014/04/01
Sample: Cast Media Player for Streaming with DRM
https://github.com/googlecast/CastMediaPlayerStreamingDRM
Flow Diagrams for Senders and Receivers
To help you decide which Google Cast options are right for your app, we have updated the Google Cast SDK documentation with two flow diagrams:
via Leon Nicholls – Google+ – Flow Diagrams for Senders and Receivers To help you decide….
via Shawn Shen – Google+ – * Sample: Cast Media Player for Streaming with DRM* ….
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Posted by jpluimers on 2014/03/29
Some notes and links for Chromecast development:
Some nice apps:
–jeroen
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The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff 