David Vielmetter

Adventures in stupid technology

  • PresentationFontCache.exe hogging 50% CPU

    Ran into an issue where in Windows 7 x64 the PresentationFontCache.exe process was taking an excessive amount of CPU resources and would not stop even after a clean boot. Here are the steps I took to resolve this: [step 1] Click start and type services.msc into the search bar. Now find the Windows Presentation Foundation…

  • Free copy of Microsoft Products for students

    In the world of IT, testing out configurations is a big part of implementation and deployment. You don’t want to deploy an application if it won’t work properly…especially if your environment has hundreds or even thousands of users. That’s why I have an unhealthy number of virtual machines with various versions of Windows and Windows…

  • Export iCloud contacts to Outlook

    How to export icloud contacts to outlook

  • Final DIY DVR Tutorial

    SageTV was acquired by Google and you can’t buy its products anymore. That’s bad for news for those looking to become new SageTV customers, but for those that already already own software, Google has an upgrade for free. That’s right, if you purchased SageTV Media Center v6, you get a free upgrade to v7 courtesy…

  • Alien Blue HD for the iPad

    Since the recent Google Reader debacle with Recommended items, I’ve been moving back to Reddit for my crowd sourced news and top stories on the net. While trying to find a better way to consume Reddit, I ran across an amazing App called Alien Blue HD for the iPad. I like it so much, I…

  • 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…

  • Outlook 2011 for Mac

    So I got Outlook 2011 the other day, thinking that it might be a better solution than Thunderbird + DavMail. It works well enough with exchange 2007 and 2010, but if you’re connecting to exchange/sbs 2003…forget about it – it’s not supported. That got me thinking…if an iPhone can connect exchange 2003, why can’t the…

  • 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…

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