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TorrentGrabber v3 – Now with 100% more grabbing!

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TorrentGrabber – check for your new TV show episodes and get them loaded to your Torrent Application automatically.. and get notified when they arrive!

I love all the free & legal content you can get from around the globe. I especially like when broadcasters and other sources put their content up for free so we can legally download it. What I don’t like is being bombarded with ads and other junk when I visit legal torrent site so I wrote TorrentGrabber to go off and automatically download the shows I like.
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Syncing your Outlook with Gmail Contacts and Calendars

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One of my biggest issues in living in a mainly Microsoft Garden (Windows Phone, Windows 10 Laptop, Windows 8 Desktop) is that syncing contacts between my phone and other devices has always been an issue. A long long time ago I started keeping my Contacts in Google Contacts as this almost universally had support across IOS, Android and Windows Phone should I swap and change devices over the coming years.
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Using HipChat for PRTG Notifications

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As a Network Engineer for a large company I cannot recommend Paessler’s PRTG for systems monitoring enough. WIth over 100 different types of sensors built into PRTG it’s the definite goto tool for me to monitor devices and services within our organisation. Great Application.

If you do any type of system administration you cannot be without a monitoring tool – and I think personally this is one of the best ones out there and has infinite options to allow you to customise it for your business..
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Apps, MediaCenter, Tech

TorrentGrabber – Get your tv show torrents automatically

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Hey you! TorrentGrabber v3 is now available so check it out here!

 

TorrentGrabber – check for your new TV show episodes and get them loaded to your Torrent Application automatically.. and get notified when they arrive!

I love all the free & legal content you can get from around the globe. I especially like when broadcasters and other sources put their content up for free so we can legally download it. What I don’t like is being bombarded with ads and other junk when I visit legal torrent site so I wrote TorrentGrabber to go off and automatically download the shows I like.
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Mobile Mapping – A URL String Exploration

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I have been implementing some native mobile mapping in our new product Workify which employs a mobile UI for travelling Staff which enables them to map and get directions to a specific job that’s been assigned to them.

After many hours of exploring the best way to do this which would make Windows Phone, Android and Apple IOS open their native mapping app from within our mobile HTML5 UI I found a fantastic article from John Allan where he’s done a lot of the leg work already in exactly what is need for each Operating System:
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DCOM 10009 errors on a Domain Controller

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Sometimes when you demote a domain controller in your domain and the domotion partially fails your other domain controllers can start to generate an enormous amount of DCOM 10009 errors because in their domain metadata they still expect to be able to contact this demoted/non-existent domain controller.

The specific error message is:

“DCOM was unable to communicate with the computer {computername} using any of the configured protocols”
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Implementing Apache Compression and Caching

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Compression and Caching can improve your webapp or website performance quite considerably.

A great article from David Baker can be found here for implementing Apache Compression and Caching:

http://dtbaker.com.au/random-bits/howto-enable-compression-and-caching-on-apache2.html

If you run an intranet, webapp or you run your own web server you will find this information very valuable to squeeze a little more performance out of your website.
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Freeware MTS (AVCHD) Converter

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A few of my clients have Sony HD Cameras and are constantly asking for assistance on how to import video into Premiere or other video editing programs.

Most of the newer Sony\Panasonic Cameras (it seems) record to a transport stream format of AVCHD in a .MTS container. Adobe Premiere and other video editing applications cannot import this format so the easiest way I have found to import these types of videos is to convert it to an industry standard format that is supported by Premiere prior to importing.
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