I was recently helping optimize a website for some buddies of mine over at Global Electrical and Plumbing and since they are an electrician and plumber based in a small seasonal town called Plettenberg Bay, it was imperative that a user of their site could have quick access to their info from…
Google Drive on Chrome was having continual errors (Google Drive 401 errors on the files it was loading in the background) that meant the apps needed to view/edit and create most of the documents associated with my Google Drive account wouldn’t load. I figured out that since it worked in…
WhatsApp Web not working on Chrome I recently tried out the WhatsApp Web function on Chrome for Desktop on my Windows 8.1 machine. It kept coming up with the below screen indicating that it wasn’t detecting that I actually was using Google Chrome. I am using Chrome, Chrome is the latest version and…
I was looking through the jQuery tags on Stack Overflow today when I saw a question about how to add wizard steps dynamically to the wizard widget in Fuel UX. Turns out just as I was about to post an answer the author deleted the question! I emailed him asking…
I recently had an issue connecting to a new install of OpenVPN on one of my servers with Windows 8 as the client. With other operating systems, namely Linux, Android and iOS, I was having no problems, however with Windows 8 I was stuck. The problem wasn’t the connection itself,…
Using the “wipe cache partition” functionality of the Nexus 7 Recovery tool has certain benefits, one of which I document here, and is recommended to be done after an update of the operating system or as a first attempt to fixing other OS problems before going to the extreme and…
Here’s a quick run-though of how to boot your Google Nexus 7 into “Recovery Mode”. Recovery mode can be used to: apply update from adb wipe data / factory reset wipe cache partition The steps below can be a bit tricky/finicky to get right so I suggest you read through…
Fix Nexus 7 lag in 7 easy steps. Looking for how to fix Nexus 7 lag? Is your Google Nexus 7 lagging after Kit Kat update? Is your Nexus 7 exhibiting lag after an update in general? Then read on! In this post you’ll see how to speed things up a bit with a…
D3 js Drag and Drop Zoomable Tree. Zoomable, Panning, Collapsible Tree with Auto-sizing. Below you can see an example of a D3.js Drag and Drop Zoomable Tree which is collapsible, panning and auto-sizing. I recently had a need for this functionality for a project and was unable to find any…
If you’re anything like me, you’ll often keep the same browser open for days or even weeks and accumulate a lot of tabs! Is your Google Chrome address bar slow? Recently the omnibox in Google Chrome, the address bar from which you can search amongst other things, had been getting…