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 By default Googles FeedBurner no longer works with google sites if you want to embed a widget or site feed. To get FeedBurner working its a super simple fix, you just need to change any URLs in the script to https:// So for example my feed http://feeds.feedburner.com/davidthackerblog needs to be https://feeds.feedburner.com/davidthackerblog Update all FeedBurner URL references to HTTPS, and your feed will continue to work. 

With android devices such as Samsung and Xiaomi, and some others, you can have duplicate instances of an app. This is not an option with stock Android, but there are many ways to get around this.  1) Run different versions of an app, for example, Chrome and Chrome Dev 2) Use an app like Parallel Space; last time I looked, it was having some problems with Android 12.   3) Create a work profile if you do not already have a work profile for your device: you can achieve this through one of three apps:  1)  Test DPC 2)  Island 3)  Shelter The above three are all meant to work in roughly the same way using the work profile API's. If you already have a work profile installed, you can set up multiple users to achieve the same thing.

If you have an iPhone with a Mac, you are probably pretty used to having connectivity between your Phone, iPad and Mac. If you have a windows device, you can connect you r Phone via  Your Phone Companion - Link to Windows , and it's a similar story if you have a Chromebook and an android device.  But what if you have a Mac and an android device? This is where you can use KDE connect. It's a two-part install: 1) Install the  desktop app  (Still in early release for Mac). 2) Install the  companion app on your Android device. You can read more about what  KDE connect  is and how you can use it on the site's main page.  Anyway, this is not a guide on how to get set up using KDE connect. Instead, I wanted to record some of the remote commands you can run from your Phone on your Mac; the default commands currently in KDE Connect do not work as they are the standard Linux commands.  So here is a set of commands that work in KDE connect on the Mac....

blog.dwthacker.co.uk/* A couple of years ago, I took a .co.uk domain simply because I wanted to try out my own self hosted WordPress site. The .co.uk domain came free, and I did not have many second thoughts. After this, I had enough of the constant updates to WordPress. So I thought I would take a look at an easier solution that was also free.  For the base site, I made it on sites.google.com, and for the blog, I transferred and put it onto Blogger.com. Unfortunately,  Blogger only supports one base domain so I could not have dwthacker.co.uk and .com pointing to the same blog.  In this guide, I will quickly show you how to keep your old .co.uk links working with the new .com domain.  Purchase a new domain for this one I purchased it via google domains.  Change your blogger domain to the new one so from me it was from dwthacker.co.uk to dwthacker.com but you could change the domain to anything.  Go into Cloudflare and create the following rules  T...

This is just a quick post as there is no information on how to fix a K13 Nissan Micra indicator stalk, so model years 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015 & 2016. If the indicator, still works but the lights do not flash, you could also try this for your wipers or headlights as the contacts are similar.  (This is considering you have already checked the bulbs and flasher relay. If the hazards work fine then, this is probably what you want to be looking into.  So the indicator on a K13 Micra would not work on the right turn the left worked fine, so did the soft-touch indicator for turning in both directions. After looking for a replacement and discovering that they are not easily obtainable - I noticed that you would not need to remove the steering wheel to fix it. It takes about 20 mins in total to remove and fix. It was well known with the MK1 smart that the hot temperatures, usually of the headlight switch, can cause the hot grease to run and cause a bit of havoc with the ...

So this is just a quick personal post - about the product NerdVision. So in May 2020, I shifted my focus from the general focus of Intergral onto the product NerdVision ; while I have had input from the inception of NerdVision, it hadn’t been my sole focus.  Since May the Team has done a fantastic job, we have brought out support for several new technologies, and we have experimented with different approaches to things; some have been a great success and some a little more complicated. These last 3 months have, in many ways, been made more difficult by COVID-19. But in other ways, it has made things easier, especially from a meeting perspective.  So what is some of the progress has the team made so far?  Launched the new website and a new UI with support for lite and dark themes https://www.nerd.vision/ Support for Dynamic logging https://www.nerd.vision/post/change-log-messages-without-restart Support For Adobe ColdFusion https://www.nerd.vision/post/nerd-vision-now-supp...

Today I have been pulling my hair trying to generate a simple report in either excel or google sheets. I was getting the same issue in both. The issue was the date was being recognized in some cells. but not others in the same column.  First I thought this was an export issue but opening the file in a text editor quickly but the breaks on blaming the system I was exporting from.  So I tried different date and time formats, using the format function and it was changing some cells and not others. In the end it turned out to be the language from my applications are set to English UK, I switched it to English USA and everything works perfectly. The strange thing is that the dates it was recognizing it was outputting in the correct USA format like the other dates on the sheet and not interpreting them as UK dates.  Anyway maybe this will help somebody in the future.