Lol, I saw this Samsung ad shared on numerous websites. Seriously, is Samsung promoting stalking now? This is a waste of marketing dollars.
Blog
During the course of the day I encounter lots of challenges, some of which take minutes to solve and others that take much longer. My goal for this section is to keep track of these challenges and their solutions. I will turn the longer ones into articles, while the shorter ones will stay as blog entries. You can expect topics to range from very specific programming challenges to broader topics like life.
Below is a list of the recent blog entries. You can also browse the blog by using the tags on the right side, or if you know what you are looking for then you can use the search box at the top right.
How to download offline Office 2013 Pro Plus installer from Office 365
I looked around quite a bit to find how to download an offline installer for Office 365 based Office 2013 Pro Plus, but, unfortunately, I didn’t find to-the-point instructions on this. So, here is my very quick guide to downloading Office 2013 Pro Plus offline installer from Office 365.
Impressed by Amazon’s Thoughtfulness
Yesterday I got a package from Amazon that I had requested overnight shipping on. At first sight it wasn’t anything unexpected, but when I opened the box I was surprised. I was surprised because along with the overnight shipped item, in a different session, I had also ordered another item with regular Amazon Prime shipping. To my surprise both the items were shipped overnight in the same box. Now that’s just awesome! Go you, Amazon!
Starting Countdown
OK, one more Apple event scheduled for October 22nd. I am really hoping that we’ll have new MacBook Pros announced this time. New iPads are pretty much guaranteed, but come on Apple, I want to upgrade my MBP (need Haswell)!
Something went wrong
I was recently installing Office 365 Pro Plus on a new PC when I unintentionally accepted a restart prompt from another program resulting in the computer restarting. After the computer booted back up I tried to restart the Office install, but it kept refusing saying that “Office can’t do that right now because your product is busy with another task. Please wait for this task to complete and try again.”
Hoping for a MacBook Pro announcement soon
Apple has released the Golden Master OS X Mavericks to developers. I am hoping that this means that the new MacBook Pro will be released soon. I have been waiting for too long to upgrade my MBP!
quick look JSON – QuickLook Plugin
Lately I have had to preview a lot of JSON files. Apple’s QuickLook is a great feature for that, but, unfortunately, the base OS X doesn’t come with any QuickLook plugin for JSON. After a quick search online I found a free plugin that works fairly well. Not only does it preview the contents of the file, it pretty prints and supports folding. So, here is my shout-out to quick look JSON
There is also a website, quicklookplugins.com, dedicated to QuickLook plugins.
Play Button iTunes Patch now supports OS X Mountain Lion
Thanks to user48986 at AskDifferent I was able to update Play Button iTunes Patch to support OS X Mountain Lion. Head over to the project page for the updated download.
Delete-from-disk updated to support Songbird 2.2.0
FYI, more info here
How to Quickly Recycle an IIS Application Pool
One of my projects involves changes to text files and quite often recycle of the application pool. Generally this means going the long way of opening the IIS Manager, going to the application pool node, right clicking on the app pool and selecting recycle, but there is a quicker way. You can create a shortcut in the quick launch area of the task bar that recycles a specific application pool.