Just a few screenshots of an issue I am having with an online backup company called JustCloud. Although they offer good storage for a reasonable price, I am having massive issues with something as simple as getting a device to show up once you have synced files. I have a support case open for this solution, but in day 5 there has been no solution to speak of.
This post is mainly to support a ticket I have open, feel free to comment!
Here is a list of all the applications that I have created over the years. I will keep this list up to date as I release something new. Read more »
I decided to create this as a helper app for my wife, who now and again needs to get access to her files stored on my NAS remotely (I backup all her documents using PureSync whenever her laptop is on). Normally when she needs access to her files she will call me and ask me to email it to her, this is not a problem, however I often mishear the name of the file and end up sending her 2 emails before getting it right. So I thought why not spend a few hours and throw together a simple file browser that she can use her Android powered phone to gain access to her files. Read more »
While moving my home network from a fixed IP address range to a dynamic one I ran into some pretty random issue with my NETGEAR DGN2000 router where it kept telling me that the MAC address I was trying to add was invalid. This became pretty annoying after having to try adding the rule in IE and getting the same error “Invalid MAC Address, please enter again!” (so not a browser issue).
Please refer to the bottom of this post for a nifty little app that does the work for you (for free!). Read more »
Ever needed to lock a file on windows for some or other reason, this is not a common thing to want to do on a daily basis I must admit. However I recently needed to lock a few log files to see how a certain application would handle when its targeted log file was in a locked state.
This app simply opens the file in a read-only mode, allowing other application to read the locked file, but disallowing all modifications to this file when it is in a locked state. Read more »
Reading a locked file in C# was something that I must admit took me a while to figure out with C#. This was mainly due to the fact that I was relatively new to the language when I wanted to do this, and lack the correct terms names when googling to resolve this issue. Looking back this is simple as pie, you just need to know where to start.
So let’s start off by firstly creating a new file and locking it. Create a new console app in VS2010 and add the following lines to it. Read more »
I took a bit longer than expected creating the update interface for this application (created a generic web service in plans to use it with all my other apps). This is a big change to the application, and I would recommend grabbing it if you are using version 1.0.0. Some of the changes I have made include. Read more »
I have finally completed the first iteration of a tool that I find quiet useful, and that is my Log File Generator application. In a nutshell I use this app to randomly write lines to preconfigured log files, giving the illusion of an application logging to them.
The app can roll log files at certain sizes, keep a predefined amount of rolled log files, seed a log from predetermined lines and generate random chunks of the log (such as the date, IP addresses, random numbers and so on). Read more »
What you will need:
I stumbled upon this interesting article about some guys have managed to crack Siri’s communication protocol - which could lead to some cool development down the line. I hope that this leads into some cool droid apps 
Read more here: http://applidium.com/en/news/cracking_siri/
For my home LAB it is always a pain to keep remembering to mount shares on temporary client builds to an installation ISO folder on my server. I decided one day that I was sick of having to do this every time I wanted to build a VM so I scripted this process. I chose VBScript because I still make use of some old machine builds such as XP as it is lightweight. Read more »
I recently needed to extract the file name from the full path using T-SQL. I wanted to end up with something similar to the php basename function. After a bit of messing around I managed to come up with the following select statement. This is nothing fancy, and I suppose you could wrap this into a function if you wanted to streamline your statement. Read more »
Lately I seem to have less and less time to work on my blog and post my findings \ thoughts \ code snippets. This is a about to change, and soon hopefully. I have decided in an effort to keep myself sane and in times with all the new happenings in things that interest me (and the majority of the geek population) I am going to do more posts on things I do \ discover through the week rather than once I have made a “self proclaimed” breakthrough in some new technology I have been playing with.
So good luck to me.
I was trying to walk through a List in C# removing keys that met a certain criteria, but kept running into an Index Out Of Range exception. This had me stumped for a good 5 min until I found the following post by a guy having a similar issue “http://generally.wordpress.com/2007/10/24/removing-items-in-a-list-while-iterating-through-it/”, this did not solve the issue but a comment in it did. Read more »
