David Vielmetter

Adventures in stupid technology

  • BOX sync agent status shows complete but folder icons show syncing

    Box gave away 50GB of cloud storage space to non-paying members a while back and I figured I could use it to back up my Pictures and Music. Box works like Dropbox in the sense that it syncs everything in one directory on your computers hard drive to the cloud. After installing the sync agent…

  • Issues when scrolling Google News using Safari on the iPad

    I’ve had this issue with the Google News page not scrolling properly on my iPad 2. At first I thought it was just an issue with Safari, because it would only happen after the page was initially loaded. It appeared as if while scrolling down something on the page updated and would automatically take me…

  • Password reset delegation not working

    Whenever you’re working in an Active Directory domain you didn’t setup yourself, there’s a good chance someone has made changes that won’t be obvious. Therefore implementing further changes may not always have the expected results even if you’ve tested them thoroughly in a test environment. Active Directory is a complex system with many dependencies and…

  • A review of leeflets

    Leeflets is a simple, but powerful content management system for single page websites. Once installed, platform is ridiculously easy to use. Leeflets doesn’t require a database or any messy setup process within your hosting panel. Just drag and drop the files on to your server, and you’re ready to go!

  • iOS mail app unread message count incorrect

    If you are running iOS 6 on your apple iPhone, iPad or iPod, there can be instances where the mail app icon shows an incorrect number of unread email messages on an exchange activesync account. I’ve had this happen on my iPhone 4S and iPad 2 running iOS 6. Here’s how to fix it. [the…

  • Play music from your iPhone on speakers of any PC in your house

    I have a HTPC running Windows 7 hooked up to my entertainment system in the living room. Recently someone asked me how I play music from my iPod, iPad or iPhone to the speakers of my entertainment system without an Airport Express. Here’s how I do it:

  • Migrating your company email to Office365

    Hosted email services are a good deal for small to midsize businesses. There’s no hardware or software to buy, services are guaranteed to be available in the cloud, security is always up-to-date and the latest features are built-in. These days the two biggest competitors in this arena are Google Apps and Microsoft Office 365. When Google…

  • Connecting your iPhone to Office365

    This article explains how to setup an Exchange ActiveSync account for get push email from your Office365 Exchange service on your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch running IOS 7. [Step 1] Tap Mail, Contacts, Calendars > Add Account [Step 2] Tap Exchange [Step 3] Enter your Office365 account email address and password (case sensitive) into…

  • iOS 7 Mail App Thread Count Missing

    I’m typically not an early adopter, especially when it comes to Apple software upgrades. I think I avoided OS X Lion altogether because I was perfectly happy with Snow Leopard and didn’t need any of the features Lion and Mountain Lion promised. That said, I upgraded my iPhone 4s from iOS 6 to 7 the…

  • NTSTATUS Error Code List

    Ever wonder about those error codes displayed in kernel level messages? Device driver developers these codes when they make calls into Windows APIs as well as when driver developers return error codes to Windows. Below is a comprehensive list of NTSTATUS codes defined in ntstatus.h: Status Value Description STATUS_WAIT_0 0x0 STATUS_SUCCESS STATUS_SUCCESS 0x0 STATUS_SUCCESS STATUS_WAIT_1…