David Vielmetter

Author: David Vielmetter

  • Keep your garbage can clean with cat litter

    If you’re like me, that little bit of OCD in you absolutely loathes the nasty sticky mess at the bottom of the garbage can. I had to clean my garbage cans recently because a bag tore open and leaked gross stinky garbage liquid all over the bottom. Since that cleaning, I vowed to never do…

  • Empty Favorites in Windows Explorer Navigation Pane

    When you delete the Links folder from your user profile folder in Windows 7, strange things happen. First you’ll still see the Favorites icon in the Windows Explorer navigation pane, but it’ll be an empty heading. Right clicking the empty heading offers to “Restore favorite links”, but this feature doesn’t work if you’ve deleted or…

  • Run OS X Snow Leopard on VirtualBox

    More and more frequently I find myself assisting customers with business analysis issues in Mac shops. Things can get complicated when dealing with multiple operating system platforms. A process that works great on Windows may not necessarily work on a Mac and vice versa. Throw some Unix or Linux into the mix and things get…

  • Unable to print from Quicken

    After changing drivers or added a new printer to your system, you may no longer be able to print from within Quicken. This is an issue that affects only Quicken and other programs print normally to the newly added or changed printer. Here’s how to resolve this issue with Quicken: [step 1] Close Quicken. [step…

  • Seagate Goflex Home disk maintenance

    I’ve been generally happy with my Seagate Goflex Home NAS device. I purchased the 2TB model at COSTCO a year ago and have been running Acronis backups to it for the past eight months. I have Acronis configured such that incremental backups of all my computers are copied to the NAS six days a week…

  • Cloudflare

    About two months ago I read about Cloudflare on the Interwebs and decided to give it a whirl. This review is reflects my experience using a free Cloudflare account for just over one month. Cloudflare is essentially a Content Deliver Network (CDN) with some interesting additional offerings. While the free account doesn’t give you all the…

  • Set Up Exchange Email on your Android device

    Need to know how to add your company/corporate email to your new Android phone or tablet? Here some nicely detailed instructions on how to set it up. I am always walking people through these steps over the phone and without an Android device in front of me this can be tricky. [update] Here are some…

  • Increase suction on a bagless vacuum

    I’ve got this great little vacuum (Hoofer Flair S2200) from Amazon a few years back for about $35 bucks. It does a good job of cleaning cat hair and the occasional litter pieces off of my hardwood floors, it’s light and easy to maneuver and easy to empty. A year after I got it, though…

  • View message options in Outlook 2010

    In versions prior to Outlook 2010, finding the message options button to view the email’s Internet headers was a relatively straight forward task. In Outlook 2010, however the message options button is no longer on the ribbon. Here’s how to put it on the ribbon so you can once again analyze those message Internet Headers…

  • Transfer texts and settings from an old iPhone to a new iPhone

    So I finally got to upgrade to the iPhone 4S. All’s great with the new phone, but I’d like my recent call list, texts, and settings from my old phone thank you very much. Here’s how: [the problem] You want to somehow transfer settings, texts, recent call lists, etc. from an old iPhone to a…