Bower is a package manager which manages dependencies for web sites. Web sites are made of lots of things: frameworks, libraries, assets, utilities, etc. Bower manages all these things for you. Bower works by fetching and installing packages from all over, taking care of hunting, finding, downloading, and saving the stuff you’re looking for. Bower keeps track of these packages in a manifest file called bower.json. Continue reading
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Adding two factor authentication to KeePass & KeePass2Android
Time to beef up security. Like everyone I have a large number of online accounts. They are generally secured with username and password. I use KeePass to generate unique passwords and keep track of them. There have been a lot of hacks lately. So I wanted to make my most important accounts more secure. More and more online services are adding two factor authentication, e.g. Google, Dropbox. Two factor authentication adds an additional layer of security.
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Motorola Moto G will not power up
My son has a Motorola Moto G. While running a Android system update the Moto G would not power on. How frustrating. I found the following remedy that worked: Continue reading
Cannot install Popcorn Time Android app
Important note: The functionality provided by Popcorn Time is illegal. Use it at your own risk.
I recently checked out the Windows version of Popcorn Time. I really like it, it reminds me of Netflix. I’m the owner of a smartphone (Samsung Galaxy S5) and tablet (Samsung Galaxy Note 2014 10.1) and also wanted to test the Popcorn Time Android app. The app is not available in the Playstore (for obvious reasons, see the note at the top of this post). You need to download the .apk file from here and install it manually. To install it enable installation from unknown sources. This is not the subject of this post, so Google around there are lots of instructions on how to do this.
The Android app installed fine on my smartphone. Continue reading
Changing the retention period of a mailbox in Outlook
When migrating from Hosted Exchange to Office 365 I needed to migrate the mailboxes of users. As the number of users were limited I decided to do a quick and dirty export / import using a .pst file. After the fist mailbox I did a quick check to make sure all data had been migrated correctly. I noticed that the mail only went back one year. Continue reading
Merging calendars in Outlook
I was recently migrating from Hosted Exchange to Office 365. As the number of user accounts was limited I decided to go for the quick and dirty manual data migration. Export the Hosted Exchange user mailboxes from Outlook to a .pst file and import it into the Office 365 user mailbox in Outlook. Very straight forward and easy to do. The migration seemed to have gone smoothly until one of the users noticed that their calendar was missing. How did I miss that? Continue reading
Changing the password policy for mobile devices on Office 365
When setting up Office 365 I changed the default password policy for mobile devices to the following:
- Minimum password length of 8 characters.
- The password needed to consist of lower and uppercase letters, numbers and symbols.
Very securing and smart to do, right? Continue reading
Improving readability of WordPress home page with Read More tag
I have a large number of blog posts and a few of them are quit long. The WordPress theme I am using show the complete post on the home page. This means users visiting the home page need to scroll “forever” going through the posts. This was annoying me. I was thinking of switching to a theme that limited the blog post size on the home page providing a read more link to the full blog post. I could not find a suitable theme that worked well for desktop, tablet and smartphone. What to do? Continue reading
Permanently removing deleted user accounts from Office 365
While migrating from Exchange to Office 365 I ended up creating, deleting and recreating a lot of user accounts. When you delete an user account from Office 365 it is not deleted immediately, but rather suspended. This is nice, because it means you can recover if deleted by mistake. After 30 days the user accounts are automatically permanently deleted.
Removing and recreating a user account sometimes seems to create problems, so I decided to find out how to permanently remove deleted user accounts manually. This post describes how this can be done using PowerShell and the Azure Active Directory (AD) Module. The Azure AD Module for Windows PowerShell let’s you perform AD administrative tasks such as user management, domain management and configuring single sign-on. Continue reading
Change the default administrator email address on Office 356
When setting up Office 365 a default domain account.onmicrosoft.com is setup. This domain cannot be removed. An administrator account is created as part of this domain. It has the email address [email protected]. The administrator needs to use this email address to log on to Office 365. What if you want to use your own email address instead? It took me a while to figure out how to change the the default email address to my own email address. Continue reading
Adventures of a space monkey 