Saturday, July 7, 2012

How to add Facebook Interests to your iPhone Navigation Menu!

I couldn't easily or intuitively figure it out in the app, and I just happened to stumble on the fix...

  • Login to facebook.com on a computer
  • Point your mouse over your "Interest" you want to add in the navigation on the left hand side.
  • click the pencil to the left and "add to favorites".
  • It will add to the "Favorites" section of your navigation.
  • Now check your iPhone and it's there too!

Screenclip

 

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Wednesday, April 11, 2012

Beer Flights in and around NYC

Bar Name Qty Ounces Price
Iron Monkey 6 3 $12
Barcade (Jersey City) 5 5 $15
Coopers Craft & Kitchen 4 5 $12
Valhalla 5 5 $19
Good Beer 4 4 $8
Rattle N Hum 4 4 $10
Breukelen Bier Merchants 4 5 $8
Top Hops 4 $8.75
Brass Rail 4x+1pt / 8x 4 $14
Rye House 3 3 $10
George Keeley 4 3 $10
Jimmy's No. 43 4 3 $8
David Copperfield's 5 8 $18.95
One Mile House 4 5

$10 (+$1 specialty) 

 

Flights Not Offered:
Pony Bar
Mudville 9
Cork City
Spitzer's Corner
Blind Tiger
Growler Station
The Diamond (Brooklyn)
Barcade (Brooklyn)

 

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Thursday, February 23, 2012

hud tapi not installing / hanging - fixed

I had a weird issue where my fonality HUD tapi client wasn’t installing… it would sit at installing and never do anything.  I fired up Process Explorer (by Sysinternals), found the installer process (I think the name was tapi_installer.exe (on my system it was tapi_installer_x64.exe), and noticed it was “Suspended”.  I clicked right-clicked, and  hit “resume”, and the installer authenticator popped up.  Once I said yes to the installation, everything installed successfully.  Drove me crazy, and didn’t find any posts on it, so I figured I would post a quick one.  Hope this helps someone.

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896653

 

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Wednesday, June 29, 2011

Notepad++ : Fixing global font size saving (and MORE)

*REALLY* SAVE YOUR FONT SIZE

I had an issue where my global font size was not saving in Notepad++(after going to Style Configurator).  It was pretty frustrating, and the fix is actually super-simple! 

·         All you have to do is right-click Notepad++, and Run as Administrator

Once the program loads, go into settings, change the font-size, and save & close.  Afterwards, when you load notepad++ as you normally would, the settings will be just as you really wanted!

ADDING A FILE EXTENSION TO BE HIGHLIGHTED AUTOMATICALLY

Here’s another problem I fixed while correcting this issue.  A couple days back, I was trying to tell Notepad++ to always open Smarty Template Engine files (extension = .tpl) as an HTML file instead of as normal text file (for Syntax Highlighting purposes).  Notepad++ would never save my settings, and I’d have to change my 100+ tpl file settings every time re-loaded (not really, but you get the picture J).

After running as administrator (described above), I then went back to Settings > style configurator > language > html > User ext [input box] > typing "tpl" (without quotes or a preceding period).  This process finally worked for adding a custom extension that should be associated with a Language Syntax Highlight file.

OTHER FIXES AND METHODS

·         This will also likely fix other "global settings" that don’t save under style configurator (and perhaps even settings > preferences, although I can’t confirm at the moment. 

·         You can also sift through the XML in the notepad++ installation directory (under program files), and method I describe here is slightly easier, IMHO.


I hope this helps you!  If so, leave a comment.  I appreciate them!

This post was inspired by a post by “Willie” (on his blog).

 

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Thursday, February 10, 2011

Command prompts for Windows

Control Panel

  • CONTROL: opens the control panel window
  • CONTROL ADMINTOOLS: opens the administrative tools
  • CONTROL KEYBOARD: opens keyboard properties
  • CONTROL COLOUR: opens display properties.Appearance tab
  • CONTROL FOLDERS: opens folder options
  • CONTROL FONTS: opens font policy management
  • CONTROL INTERNATIONAL or INTL.CPL: opens Regional and Language option
  • CONTROL MOUSE or MAIN.CPL: opens mouse properties
  • CONTROL USERPASSWORDS: opens User Accounts editor
  • CONTROL USERPASSWORDS2 or NETPLWIZ: User account access restrictions
  • CONTROL PRINTERS: opens faxes and printers available
  • APPWIZ.CPL: opens Add or Remove programs utility tool
  • OPTIONALFEATURES: opens Add or Remove Windows component utility
  • DESK.CPL: opens display properties. Themes tab
  • HDWWIZ.CPL: opens add hardware wizard
  • IRPROPS.CPL: infrared utility tool
  • JOY.CP: opens game controllers settings
  • MMSYS.CPL: opens Sound and Audio device Properties. Volume tab
  • SYSDM.CPL: opens System properties
  • TELEPHON.CPL: Opens phone and Modem options
  • TIMEDATE.CPL: Date and Time properties
  • WSCUI.CPL: opens Windows Security Center
  • ACCESS.CPL: opens Accessibility Options
  • WUAUCPL.CPL: opens Automatic Updates
  • POWERCFG.CPL: opens Power Options Properties
  • AZMAN.MSC: opens authorisation management utility tool
  • CERTMGR.MSC: opens certificate management tool
  • COMPMGMT.MSC: opens the Computer management tool
  • COMEXP.MSC or DCOMCNFG: opens the Computer Services management tool
  • DEVMGMT.MSC: opens Device Manager
  • EVENTVWR or EVENTVWR.MSC: opens Event Viewer
  • FSMGMT.MSC: opens Shared Folders
  • NAPCLCFG.MSC: NAP Client configuration utility tool
  • SERVICES.MSC: opens Service manager
  • TASKSCHD.MSC or CONTROL SCHEDTASKS: opens Schedule Tasks manager
  • GPEDIT.MSC: opens Group Policy utility tool
  • LUSRMGR.MSC: opens Local Users and Groups
  • SECPOL.MSC: opens local security settings
  • CIADV.MSC: opens indexing service
  • NTMSMGR.MSC: removable storage manager
  • NTMSOPRQ.MSC: removable storage operator requests
  • WMIMGMT.MSC: opens (WMI) Window Management Instrumentation
  • PERFMON or PERFMON.MSC: opens the Performance monitor
  • MMC: opens empty Console
  • MDSCHED: opens memory diagnostics tools
  • DXDIAG: opens DirectX diagnostics tools
  • ODBCAD32: opens ODBC Data source Administrator
  • REGEDIT or REGEDT32: opens Registry Editor
  • DRWTSN32: opens Dr. Watson
  • VERIFIER: opens Driver Verifier Manager
  • CLICONFG: opens SQL Server Client Network Utility
  • UTILMAN: opens Utility Manager
  • COLORCPL: opens color management
  • CREDWIZ: back up and recovery tool for user passwords
  • MOBSYNC: opens Synchronization center
  • MSCONFIG: opens System Configuration Utility
  • SYSEDIT: opens System Configuration Editor (careful while using this command)
  • SYSKEY: Windows Account Database Security management (careful while using this command)

Windows utility and applications

  • EPLORER: Opens windows Explorer
  • IEXPLORER: Opens Internet explorer
  • WAB: opens Contacts
  • CHARMAP: opens Character Map
  • WRITE: opens WordPad
  • NOTEPAD: opens Notepad
  • CALC: opens Calculator
  • CLIPBRD: opens Clipbook Viewer
  • WINCHAT: opens Microsoft Chat Interface
  • SOUNDRECORDER: opens sound recording tool
  • DVDPLAY: run CD or DVD
  • WMPLAYER: opens Windows Media Player
  • MOVIEMK: Opens untitled Windows Movie Maker
  • OSK: opens on-screen Keyboard
  • MAGNIFY: opens Magnifier
  • WINCAL: opens Calendar
  • DIALER: opens phone Dialer
  • EUDCEDIT: opens Private Character Editor
  • NDVOL: opens the mixer volume
  • RSTRUI : opens Tool System Restore (For Vista only)
  • %WINDIR%\SYSTEM32\RESTORE\rstrui.exe: opens Tool System Restore (for XP only).
  • MSINFO32: Opens the System Information
  • MRT : launches the utility removal of malware.
  • Taskmgr : Opens the Windows Task Manager
  • CMD: opens a command prompt
  • MIGWIZ: Opens the tool for transferring files and settings from Windows (Vista only)
  • Migwiz.exe: Opens the tool for transferring files and settings from Windows (for XP only)
  • SIDEBAR: Open the Windows (Vista only)
  • Sigverif : Opens the tool for verification of signatures of files
  • Winver : Opens the window for your Windows version
  • FSQUIRT: Bluetooth Transfer Wizard
  • IExpress opens the wizard for creating self-extracting archives. Tutorial HERE
  • MBLCTR: opens the mobility center (Windows Vista only)
  • MSRA : Opens the Windows Remote Assistance
  • Mstsc : opens the tool connection Remote Desktop
  • MSDT: opens the diagnostic tools and support Microsoft
  • WERCON: opens the reporting tool and solutions to problems (for Vista only)
  • WINDOWSANYTIMEUPGRADE: Enables the upgrade of Windows Vista
  • WINWORD : opens Word (if installed)
  • PRINTBRMUI : Opens migration wizard printer (Vista only)

Disk management

  • DISKMGMT.MSC: opens disk management utility
  • CLEANMGR: opens disk drive clean up utility
  • DFRG.MSC: opens disk defragmenter
  • CHKDSK: complete analysis of disk partition
  • DISKPART: disk partitioning tool

Connection management

  • IPCONFIG: list the configuration of IP addresses on your PC (for more information type IPCONFIG/? in the CMD menu)
  • INETCPL.CPL: opens internet properties
  • FIREWALL.CPL: opens windows firewall
  • NETSETUP.CPL: opens network setup wizard

Miscellaneous commands

  • JAVAWS: View the cover of JAVA software (if installed)
  • AC3FILTER.CPL: Opens the properties AC3 Filter (if installed)
  • FIREFOX: Mozilla launches Firefox (if installed)
  • NETPROJ: allow or not connecting to a network projector (For Vista only)
  • LOGOFF: closes the current session
  • SHUTDOWN: shut down Windows
  • SHUTDOWN-A: to interrupt Windows shutdown
  • %WINDIR% or %SYSTEMROOT%: opens the Windows installation
  • %PROGRAMFILES%: Opens the folder where you installed other programs (Program Files)
  • %USERPROFILE%: opens the profile of the user currently logged
  • %HOMEDRIVE%: opens the browser on the partition or the operating system is installed
  • %HOMEPATH%: opens the currently logged user C: \ Documents and Settings \ [username]
  • %TEMP%: opens the temporary folder
  • VSP1CLN: deletes the cache for installation of the service pack 1 for Vista
  • System File Checker (Requires Windows CD if the cache is not available):
    • SFC / scannow: immediately scans all system files and repairs damaged files
    • SFC / VERIFYONLY: scans only those files system
    • SFC / Scanfil = "name and file path": scans the specified file, and repaired if damaged
    • SFC / VERIFYFILE = "name and file path": Scans only the file specified
    • SFC / scanonce: scans the system files on the next restart
    • SFC / REVERT: return the initial configuration (For more information, type SFC /? In the command prompt CMD.

great list

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Friday, January 21, 2011

Teddy Roosevelt was the man.

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat

great quote.

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Sunday, October 31, 2010

Hickuping and having food stuff in your throat

Hickuping and having food stuff in your esophogaus feels exactly like having a heart attack...although I've never had a heart attack.


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Wednesday, May 5, 2010

macbook pro not charging - fixed

So, I know Apple has been getting a bad rap lately for their batteries dying, and perhaps that’s the truth. 

In my particular scenario that wasn’t the case.  My MacBook Pro just suddenly stopped charging yielding a “Not Charging” message at the top.  Powering the machine off and pressing the battery button yielded a bunch of rapid blinks on only 1 led.  This happened after I upgraded to Snow Leopard from Leopard (10.5.8 -> 10.6).  Not sure if it was a coincidence or not.

Yet, oddly,  2 weeks ago, I had a 2 hour charge when on battery.  I thought it really odd… after further investigation I learned that the SMC (System Management Controller) was responsible for battery charging, amongst other things (like closing the lid puts the laptop into sleep mode, which was acting funky too, and this method fixed it)… maybe it’ll fix the laptop from getting so hot (thermal management)… well, one can hope! J

Here’s a quick fix to try, which got me rolling…

-          Shutdown your system

-          pull out the battery

-          press and hold power button for 5 seconds (I gave it 7 seconds “just in case”).

-          Pop battery back in, connect to power (via magsafe), and power on.

-          You (hopefully) should see the charge indicator turn orange, which means it’s charging again – yay!

Here’s the list of functions the SMC is responsible for:

§  Responding to presses of the power button

§  Responding to display lid opening and closing on portable Macs

§  Battery management

§  Thermal management

§  The SMS (Sudden Motion Sensor)

§  Ambient light sensing

§  Keyboard backlighting

§  Status Indicator Light (SIL) management

§  Battery status indicator lights

§  Selecting an external (instead of internal) video source for some iMac displays

Yanked from here:

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3964

 

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CytexOne

 

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Wednesday, February 3, 2010

Sunday, January 3, 2010

Turbo tax 1992 Edition on 5 1/4" Floppies - wow

Haven't seen these diskettes in a while. Kinda nostalgic for me. My dad is ever the packrat. I threw in a 10 pack of KAO diskettes still fresh in the package (and formatted for "time savingness".

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Tuesday, December 8, 2009

Thursday, December 3, 2009

Showroom Progress

Every day, a little more progress...

The Showroom runs completely and successfully over fiber from our office rack upstairs. Some of the Vinyl Lettering has made it on to the outdoor sign and windows. The pamphlets are ready for customers. On a tech note,we also added another host with 16 Logical cores, 8 gigabit ports, and 72GB to our VMware Cluster. Thanks for running to the DataCenter today Patrick.

Go CytexOne!

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Friday, November 20, 2009

CytexOne & Linden 78 Project

About Linden 78, 230 West 78th Street

This mid-block apartment building at 230 West 78th Street has a very substantial cantilever over the low-rise buildings just to its west along Broadway. As a result, the beige-brick building has a surprising amount of "light and air."

Some of the 35 apartments at the 20-story residential condominium building at 230 West 78th Street, which is known as Linden 78, have fireplaces with bluestone surrounds and hearths.

The building, which is a development of Urban Residential Properties of which Christopher Martorella is the chief executive officer and sole principal, has 3 full-floor penthouses, ground floor refrigerated storage for groceries, ground floor bicycle storage rooms, a children's playroom, a garden with a water wall feature, and a landscaped roof deck.

Handel & Associates is the architectural firm for the project.

Urban Residential's other New York projects include 255 Hudson Street and 505 Greenwich Street, both designed by Handel & Associates, and NoLiTa Place, and the Sycamore, both designed by H. Thomas O'Hara, SoHo 25 on Houston Street, designed by H. Thomas O'Hara and Beyer Blinder Belle.

Linden 78, which is on the south side of 78th Street between Amsterdam and Broadway, has setbacks at the 13th, 15th and 18th floors. Its cantilever starts at the sixth floor on its west side.

The building's masonry facades give way partially to glass on the 15th through the 17th floors and fully to glass on the 18th through the 20th floors.

An offering plan filed with the New York State Attorney General's office April 27, 2006 with a total offering price of $109,525,000. The building opened in 2009.

Apartments will have side-by-side Miele washers and dryers and will be prewired with the option off a Cytexone automation system that offers control of heating/cooling and audio/visual systems, lighting and window shades. Apartments will also have walk-in linen and entry closets, one of which will be large enough for "pram parking."

Kitchens have been crafted by Florense, the green-certified, Brazilian-based cabinetry firm and have Viking and Miele appliances and many will have windowed breakfast areas.

Master baths have Luce Di Luna marble countertops with double sinks, Mezzanine Mink glass wall tiles, Lagos Azul limestone floors.

Ceiling heights range from 9 to 11 feet and the lobby floor has a Linden leaf mosaic design.

There is excellent public transportation in the vicinity and Zabar's is only a couple of blocks to the north on Broadway.

Just stumbled across this article and figured I'd post it!

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Sunday, November 15, 2009

Using Readability with Mouse Gestures in Firefox - a definite time-saver

I love this, I have firegestures set up to display using readability with a quick gesture, it’s quickly becoming my favorite gesture! I find it to be pretty much essential. It’s simple to do:
1. Add a keyword to your readability bookmark, I use ‘rab’.
2. Go into your firegestures options and click on ‘Add Script.
3. Name the script ‘Readability’, in the Script field enter:
loadURI(getShortcutOrURI(’rab’,{}));
Attach it to a gesture, I use ‘D’.
That said, every now and then I run into a page that isn’t rendered correctly, such as this one:
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2009-03-10-sudan_N.htm?csp=34
The first paragraph isn’t on the readabilityized version.
Thanks!

I love this comment... I always go searching for it, and sometimes I can't even remember where it is at all... So, I'm posting this here for easy recollection

I use the mouse gesture "UP" to make any page I'm reading "readable".... quick and easy!

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Using Readability with Mouse Gestures in Firefox - a definite time-saver

I love this, I have firegestures set up to display using readability with a quick gesture, it’s quickly becoming my favorite gesture! I find it to be pretty much essential. It’s simple to do:
1. Add a keyword to your readability bookmark, I use ‘rab’.
2. Go into your firegestures options and click on ‘Add Script.
3. Name the script ‘Readability’, in the Script field enter:
loadURI(getShortcutOrURI(’rab’,{}));
Attach it to a gesture, I use ‘D’.
That said, every now and then I run into a page that isn’t rendered correctly, such as this one:
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2009-03-10-sudan_N.htm?csp=34
The first paragraph isn’t on the readabilityized version.
Thanks!

I love this comment... I always go searching for it, and sometimes I can't even remember where it is at all... So, I'm posting this here for easy recollection

I use the mouse gesture "UP" to make any page I'm reading "readable".... quick and easy!

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Thursday, November 12, 2009

CytexOne wins Control4 MVP 4 Years in a row!

Thanks to the folks at Control4 for recognizing us! We appreciate it :)

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CytexOne wins Control4 MVP 4 Years in a row!

Thanks to the folks at Control4 for recognizing us! We appreciate it :)

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Sunday, August 9, 2009

Stunnel - Universal SSL Wrapper

Stunnel -- Universal SSL Wrapper

Stunnel is a program that allows you to encrypt arbitrary TCP connections inside SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) available on both Unix and Windows. Stunnel can allow you to secure non-SSL aware daemons and protocols (like POP, IMAP, LDAP, etc) by having Stunnel provide the encryption, requiring no changes to the daemon's code.

The Stunnel source code is not a complete product -- you still require a functioning SSL library such as OpenSSL or SSLeay in order to compile stunnel. This means that stunnel can support whatever (and only) that which your SSL library can, without making any changes in the Stunnel code.

The Stunnel source code is available under the GNU General Public License, meaning it is free to use in both commercial and non commercial applications as you see fit, as long as you provide source code (and any modifications) with the software. Your compiled Stunnel binary is 'restricted' by whatever license your chosen SSL library is under, however both OpenSSL and SSLeay are open source and similarly liberal in their licensing.

I need to try this... TCP connections wrapped in SSL...

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