Tableau Desktop not working on Windows 11 With my work at Brilliant Associates – we are truly amongst the most expert users of Tableau. As Tableau Partners and Salesforce Partners, we work with clients across the spectrum who have many combinations of Tableau Desktop and Operating System. As such, if…
Low-cost surveys to engage the world – Brilliant Surveys
As data and analytics specialists, at Brilliant Associates, we often find our clients wishing they could truly engage with a wider audience. To conduct mass-surveys of either their workforce, customers or the public at large. Why Low-Cost Surveys Leveraging modern technology, low-cost surveys at scale are a great way to deliver additional…
Brilliant BIaaS – Business Intelligence as a Service – The accessible and low-cost solution.
Brilliant are the pioneers of BIaaS – Business Intelligence as a Service. Through my work with Brilliant over the past 10 years, I’ve had the pleasure of helping many clients make sense of their data and help them on their data journeys. Below, I explain a few of the benefits of…
Clickable telephone numbers in HTML
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 401 not Authorized error
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
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…
Dynamic steps in Fuel UX Wizard
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…
Windows 8 and OpenVPN not resolving
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,…
How to wipe cache partition Nexus 7
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…
How to boot into Recovery Mode Nexus 7
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…