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  • Telnet WOL is specifically designed for DrayTek Vigor Routers that support WOL UP command which in turn sends a “Magic Packet” to the specified MAC address. Your Vigor router must have Telnet server enabled, and the device you are waking…

  • Easy WOL provides simple and clean interface to send “Magic Packets” to any device on your network. If your Android device (where the app is installed) is connected to a WiFi on the same network as the device you are…

  • Issue VMware ESXi vSphere client host Health Status (Configuration tab) shows Unknown and Question marks (?) next to each component. Trying to Reset Sensors fails with error:

  • I was working on a new app in Android Studio Beta with target SDK 20. It was all well and good, but after updating target SDK version to 21 (and appcompat-v7 to 21.0.0) the app started crashing on launch. Quick…

  • I was developing an app that had a tabbed interface (FragmentPagerAdapter) inside the main activity. Each tab was setting different ActionBar icon and title inside onTabSelected method. Something like this: @Overridepublic void onTabSelected(ActionBar.Tab tab, FragmentTransaction ft) {   viewPager.setCurrentItem(tab.getPosition());   if (tab.getPosition() ==…

  • Issue A user complained that he is was not receiving emails from certain recipients. The mailbox was hosted on Office 365 account and the user had access from multiple clients, including Outlook on a Windows PC, Apple mail on a…

  • Issue Users cannot reliably access QuickBooks company files in the multi-user mode. The files were stored on Windows SBS2008 server (with multi-user access enabled). When trying to open files, users would often get following error: Problem with multi user hosting…

  • Android Studio beta 0.8.9. Running a test app on a physical device device fails during installation stage with error: Failure [INSTALL_FAILED_OLDER_SDK] The issue was caused by the following line in build.gradle configuration file: compileSdkVersion ‘android-L’

  • When you download any file with Google Chrome and click on a little arrow down, one of the options is “Always open files of this type“. If you select this option, all files of that type will be automatically opened…

  • Update: For Windows 11 termsrv.dll modifications, please visit the following page. Option 1 – Modifying termsrv.dll In order to have concurrent user sessions working in Windows 10, you need to make small changes to termsrv.dll file. This file is located in C:\Windows\System32 folder. Before modifying termsrv.dll…

  • Issue Android Virtual Device (Emulator) is taking very long time to start and then running extremely slow. Resolution First of all I installed Install Intel x86 Emulator Accelerator (HAXM). This can be downloaded directly from Intel or using Android SDK Manager.…

  • There are many ways to prevent Active Directory users from logging on to certain computers. For large and more complicated scenarios it’s best to use Group Policy. But if I need to create a few “email only” user accounts I…