How to by pass the Jaguary X-Type enter security pin screen after changing battery

How to bypass security code on Jaguar X-Type touchscreen Satellite Navigational units.

Just hold the skip track, AMEM and PTY buttons together...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MD2nxscRitw

Inline Images not showing for Work Items in Visual Studio with 401 unauthorized error

To fix this, right click the broken image link from the Visual studio work item description pane, then copy the link from the properties dialog (it looks like a label, but you can select all on it by right mouse clicking).

Then simply copy and paste that into Internet Explorer bar, and when prompted enter your credentials.

Next, back in Visual Studio, just click the refresh work item button on the header of the work item window, and do this once for each in line image in the description.

How to fix battery drain issue on Samsung Galaxy S5 G900F

DO NOT DO FACTORY RESET, just wipe cache partitions.

Turn off the device.
Press and hold the following three buttons at the same time: Volume Up key, Home key, and Power key.
When the phone vibrates, release the Power key but continue to press and hold the Volume Up key and the Home key.
When the Android System Recovery screen appears, release the Volume Up and Home keys.
Press the Volume Down key to highlight wipe cache partition.
Press the Power key to select.
When the wipe cache partition is complete, Reboot system now is highlighted.
Press the Power key to restart the device.

Thanks to  https://thedroidguy.com/2017/01/solutions-for-galaxy-s5-battery-drain-issue-1049822

Android mediaserver process killing battery life

If this happens to you, then do the following

1. Force stop on Settings, Applications, All, Media Storage.
2. Clear Cache and Clear Data, for the Media Storage application
3. Unmount SD card
4. Take out your sd card and put it in computer
5. Find the LOST.DIR folder and delete it from the card
6. Put the card back into the phone
7. Reboot the phone

Got this from here...

Solution 1. Clear media storage data

The simplest solution is to clear media storage database and let it restart the process from scratch. Chances are this will fix most of the issues with Mediascanner/Mediaserver. Do the following, and it should help ease-out the pain:

Settings > applications > Media Storage > clear data, force stop and reboot.

Read more: http://geeknizer.com/fix-android-media-server-scanner-sdcard-cpu-battery-drain/#ixzz4lIDijXJ7

How to get back to play.spotify.com old web player using Chrome

https://www.reddit.com/r/spotify/comments/5xxf5g/how_to_get_old_spotify_web_player_ui_back_on/

Add the chrome extension https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/user-agent-switcher-for-c/djflhoibgkdhkhhcedjiklpkjnoahfmg?utm_source=chrome-app-launcher-info-dialog

Add a custom user agent called IE10 like this

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; Trident/7.0; rv:11.0) like Gecko

Then mark spotify.com to permanently spoof this for spotify.com domain

And don't forget the old version supports hot keys too

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/spotify-web-player-hotkey/kimlaecdbfehihbiieeaeelbdkahophn?utm_source=chrome-app-launcher-info-dialog

Visual Studio Work Item Images broken

The case of the missing image…

Turns out this was due to my old windows credentials being cached on the tfs server credentials cache.

To fix this, I logged onto the tfs server directly via my admin account and updated the credentials there in the windows credentials manager.

Also ran fiddler in the background and cleared the winnet cache as well

Then it refresh a few times on the work item ticket back in visual studio, and hey presto they are all showing again.

Megaflow draining instructions

If your megaflow overflow (d2) pipe starts leaking water then this is what you do…

Scanning Tesco receipts via Canon MG5751

1. Use Canon IJ Scan Utility (start, scan, top result)
2. Choose Document, with settings 300dpi and png, filename tesco
   
3. Scan each page individually
4. Then use irfanview to combine the images into one tif file, (options, create multi page tiff, compression ccitt fax 4)
   
   
5. Upload that as single receipt option to shop and scan

Virgin media london underground wifi SSL certificate expiry

Remote Desktop Settings for QA lab

Change to 16bit colour depth

Then when you connect type username@domain in the password box

DELL 968 Printer problem–Cartridge slams against printer wall

Fix was as simple as removing the cartridges, then turing off the printer at the plug socket on the wall, then squeezing the drive belt and computer cables that connects to the cartridge compartment, with my finger and thumb a few times.

Many thanks to the forums for posting this fix here, has saved me the cost of a new printer …

http://en.community.dell.com/support-forums/desktop/f/3514/t/6603745

Resharper shorcut cheat sheet

Quite by chance today I stumbled across a new way to learn Resharper shortcuts.

In visual studio, when editing a file, tap the ctrl key three times in quick succession. This brings up the cheat sheet

Then hold down the Ctrl key, Shift Key, or Alt Key when the dialog is open, and you'll see what short cuts are applicable to the development pane that you're in

Macros alternative for VS 2013 /2015

Finally an alternative to

https://vlasovstudio.com/visual-commander/professional_edition.html

which lets you record as well…

https://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/d3fbf133-e51b-41a2-b86f-9560a96ff62b/view/Discussions/3

Find action constants for dte.Find listed here…

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa301226(v=vs.71).aspx

e.g.

 

dte.ExecuteCommand("Edit.Find");
dte.Find.FindWhat = "DROP CONSTRAINT";
dte.Find.Target = 1; //vsFindTarget.vsFindTargetCurrentDocument;
dte.Find.MatchCase = false;
dte.Find.MatchWholeWord = false;
dte.Find.Backwards = false;
dte.Find.MatchInHiddenText = false;
dte.Find.PatternSyntax = 0; // vsFindPatternSyntax.vsFindPatternSyntaxLiteral;
dte.Find.Action = 1; //vsFindAction.vsFindActionFind

Edit.SelectToLastGoBack in Visual Studio

 

Very handy shortcut for this Ctrl + = in visual studio. Basically selects all the text between the last two navigation points you were looking at in a text file.