David Vielmetter

Category: Tricks

  • Google Reader, the Chrome Surplus Extension and Reddit

    I’ve been a using Google Reader (GR) to keep up-to-date with my favorite blogs for a while now. One of my favorite features in Reader was Recommended Items. It allowed my mind to goof off with lolcatz and random geek fun, but it was also peppered with the occasional interesting scientific publication and interesting news…

  • Custom Google Plus One Button

    I like Google Plus. It lets me quickly share things I like with just the people I want. No need to shovel through mountains of updates I don’t care about and no mortgage or dating ads…at least for now. That said, sharing content on Google Plus can still be somewhat of a challenge for web…

  • Missing spell suggestions on right-click in Outlook 2010

    Where the heck did the spell checking suggestions on the right click context menu go in Outlook 2010? I found myself asking this often enough to do some research into what the heck caused my spell suggestions dialog to be replaced with a single option called “Signatures…”. Turns out the problem is kind of a…

  • Fix Netflix DRM Error N8156-6013

    Fix Netflix Digital Rights Management (DRM) Error Error Code: N8156-6013 We’re sorry, but there is a problem playing protected (DRM) content on your computer.

  • Get your Exchange email in Thunderbird

    I found a small java application called DavMail. This tool is essentially an OWA -> IMAP translator. It runs locally on your system and will connect on demand to your OWA account, download messages and deliver them via IMAP to any mail client of your choice. It also proports to translate calendar to CalDav and…

  • Share Google Reader items on Google+

    I’ve been using Google Reader to keep up-to-date on my favorite blogs, news stories and more. To share, I’ve always used the customizable Send To button at the bottom of each item. Sharing Google Reader items on Google+ however works differently and it took me a minute to figure out how..

  • Find and replace with SQL

    I recently changed the document root on my webserver. Subsequently I found that some of my WordPress blogs store the document root in the database (i.e. tables for wp_options, wp_commentmeta, etc.). To fix this I had to run some SQL queries on my WP databases to change the document root from the old /home/dvielmet/ to…

  • Diy noise cancelling headphones

    This post will show you how to turn an old broken set of headphones into some pretty impressive passive noise canceling headphones for about $30 bucks. Passive noise canceling doesn’t use the latest Bose quiet comfort electronics…it accomplishes noise reduction the old fashioned way…by blocking it. I was lucky enough to pick up a used…

  • XML driven calendar

    Recently I’ve been playing around with various Calendar scripts. There’s Adam Shaw’s Full-calendar and Ross Haney’s GCE plugin for WordPress. Either of these work work great with a Google Calendar events feed, but what if you’ve got multiple XML files, each of which represent a single event? Well to handle that scenario I had to…

  • Bypass a sysadmin with a trial of Windows Intune

    As far as your online security is concerned, there are few things worse than an unpatched windows computer. So what can you to do if your company been locked down your systems ability to get critical windows updates and your systems administrator is too busy to patch computers regularly with WSUS or Systems Center? Well,…