David Vielmetter

Adventures in stupid technology

  • Dell Latitude E6400 Bluetooth woes

    So apparently Dell’s new Latitude E6400 series notebooks come with optional built-in Dell Wireless® 375 Bluetooth (BT) Modules. Unfortunately when the notebook arrives from the factory, the generic Windows BT driver is installed. Although everything looks clean in the device manager, the generic Windows driver is incompatible and you’ll notice this when you try to pair…

  • Merge duplicate Outlook contacts

    So you’ve got a bunch of duplicate contacts in outlook, huh? I know how it happens…you’re out and about and quickly added a contact to your synced iPhone/Blackberry not realizing that he/she already existed. Now you’ve got two of ’em one with an address and one with a couple of phone numbers and an email.…

  • 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…