Reframed – Timelined Comments for Video!
I recently had the pleasure of meeting Jo York of Reframed.tv at a recent Rise and Design networking event by Design Network North where she was demoing a wonderful platform for timelined video commen ...
Monthly Archives: June 2014
Tassimo Re-Usable Pods
UPDATE (Sep 2017): In the end, I gave up on my Tassimo machine – I just couldn’t cope with the sheer amount of non-recyclable plastic waste being generated or the cost of the pods. When I ...
Pentalobe, Apple Logo and Screwing You Out of Self-Repair
Let me preface this by saying that while I primarily use PCs, for many years I used both Mac and PC (I literally had both on my desktop side by side) and used to work for VistaPapers/VistaPrint whose ...
Accessing a Dell Server via DRAC (iDRAC)
I recently had to access a server via DRAC (Dell Remote Access Controller) for the first time in a very long time and I expected it to be very simple these days but it actually ended up being more of ...
Classic ASP Component Detection Script
A few months ago I had a problem with a legacy Classic ASP website suddenly ceasing to work on GoDaddy hosting with an error stating that an object couldn’t be created (a server side object). UP ...
Solving Office (or Outlook) Activation Unspecified Error 0x80070190
While recently installing Outlook on some desktops, I immediately hit a problem with the Microsoft Product activation system, getting a rather unhelpful error message stating “An unspecified Er ...
Shopify’s Achilles Heel: Sub Categories (or lack there-of)
I’m a huge fan of of the Shopify e-commerce platform – it is without a doubt the best way to quickly get a store up and running with minimal maintenance and stress. The reasons are know a ...
Solution: Exchange Issues, World Wide Web Publishing Server failed to Start
A power failure recently caused a slew of issues with one of our Small Business Server machines and while I got most of them fixed in fairly short order, I couldn’t get email clients (Outlook or ...
Intermittent Google API PHP Errors when Retrieving Access Token
I have developing a PHP application that made calls to the Google API using the OAuth process to authorize the app and retrieve an Access Token and a Refresh Token. This morning, after a few relativel ...