When sending an email from Outlook 2010, I received the error “The Operation Failed“.
For me, this ended up simply being an issue with the email address autocomplete feature.
Solution:
I typed the first few letters of the recipient’s email address, pressed the down arrow on my keyboard, then pressed the Delete key. Then, I manually re-typed the recipient’s full email address, and my email sent without any problems.
After I upgraded to Windows 8, I began receiving this lovely vague little error message when navigating to any of my Documents, Pictures, or Videos libraries through the left navigation panel in Windows Explorer.
Here’s the fix:
When attempting to reformat a Lenovo ultrabook via USB external hard drive, I received the following error:
No device drivers were found. Make sure that the installation media contains the correct drivers, and then click OK
The solution was as simple as switching the external hard drive from a USB 3.0 port to a USB 2.0 port, rebooting, and restarting the installation.
If that doesn’t work, some other suggestions I found were to try and enter your particular PC’s recovery mode to see if there is an option to reinstall Windows from there, or to try re-copying the Windows installation files to your USB drive/external HDD. Read more »
I got to thinking again. Don’t worry – I didn’t pull a brain muscle this time.
I’m not sure if you’ve ever used/seen/experimented with Prezi… but I’ve got to say that I think, along with wireless video signage/AirPlay in general, this has to be one of the most under-utilized multimedia tools out there. It’s seriously incredible (and dead simple). Imagine something like this running on the various displays. For free/cheap. And with content editable by everyday users. Granted, it’s not what people are used to…
…and therefore would certainly require some level of training. But even if introduced as something curated by someone familiar with it, for “static” signage, some very very cool animation loops could be put together on an auto rotation. And wouldn’t necessarily take a sum of tens of thousands of dollars to an external graphic designer to produce.
When I first used it, I had no idea how to work it. So I sat down and put together this presentation for class. Took me about 2 hours (including figuring out how to use it and topical research for the actual project). It isn’t much, but shows what might be done within a relatively short time by a novice-ish user.
By the way, I dare you to download Prezi for iOS on your iPad or iPhone, open this blog post, and click any of the hyperlinks. Looks and works pretty killer on those devices.
Pressing that idea even further, think about how AirPlay from your cell phone or tablet might be interesting when paired with one of these presentations. Think about having a presentation saved on the web, walking into a conference room, opening it through the Prezi app on your phone, enabling on AirPlay on your tablet/phone, and being presentation-ready within 30 seconds of walking in the room. No flash drives, awkward silences, driver installations, or icon-filled Windows desktops.
Just some thoughts.
I use PowerShell for as much of my job as possible. One of the most common things I’m asked to do is to provide some sort of report, and in some cases these reports need to be updated periodically.
Instead of emailing these reports out, I decided to string together a bit of JavaScript, static HTML, and an indexing job from PowerShell to create a semi-dynamic reporting interface for the reports my scripts create.
First, the site needs to know what reports are available to load. This is accomplished by exporting the list of files available to a JSON formatted file.
The reports are all basic HTML, created by the Exportto-HTML cmdlet.
The static site loads JavaScript that queries the JSON file containing the available reports. It uses this list to populate a sidebar. The sidebar links call another JavaScript function that loads the main content pane with the HTML from the report.
Finally, I threw in Data Tables (a jQuery plugin) to make the reports searchable and sortable.
The results? A site generated by PowerShell, served by Apache, and best viewed in Chrome.
This script uses WMI to assign a range of IPs to a network adapter.
Function chooseAdapter{
$adapters = get-wmiobject win32_networkadapterconfiguration -filter "IPEnabled='True'"
$menu = ""
$adapters | % {$menu += "["+$_.Index+"]"+$_.Description+"`r`n"}
$adapterIndex = Read-Host -Prompt ("Choose an adapter by typing the number next to the name of the adapter you'd like to change" + "`r`n" + $menu)
$chosenAdapter = $adapters | ? {$_.Index -eq $adapterIndex}
if ($chosenAdapter){
return $chosenAdapter
}
else{
chooseAdapter
}
}
Function setStatic($adapter,$ipArray,$subnet){
$subnetArray = @()
ForEach ($ip in $ipArray){
$subnetArray += $subnet
}
$adapter.EnableStatic($ipArray, $subnetArray)
$adapter.SetGateways($adapter.DefaultIPGateway)
$adapter.SetDNSServerSearchOrder($adapter.DNSServerSearchOrder)
$adapter.SetDynamicDNSRegistration(“FALSE”)
}
$adapter = chooseAdapter
$subnet = Read-Host -Prompt "Enter the subnet mask"
$first3 = Read-Host -Prompt "Enter the first three octets, ie: 192.168.1"
$ipMin = Read-Host -Prompt "Enter the minimum of the forth octet"
$ipMax = Read-Host -Prompt "Enter the maximum of the forth octet"
$ips = @()
While ($ipMin -lt $ipMax){
Write-Host Adding $first3 . $ipmin to array
$ips += ($first3+"."+[string]$ipMin)
[int]$ipMin += 1
}
setStatic $adapter $ips $subnet
I had this happen to me, making it extremely ridiculously difficult to find out how to add a feed. The solution?
Head to your Reader Settings and select “Always start with the navigation pane visible”. There may be a better solution, but I’m all set now.
Another option is to add an extension to Chrome that adds feeds which are displayed in your browser. Google makes one you can check out.
“The current input timing is not supported by the monitor display. Please change your input timing to 1920×1080@60hz or any other monitor listed timing as per the monitor specifications.”
For me this occurred when I swapped my larger, older monitor that had gone bad with a newer, smaller Dell monitor.
This error appears to be Dell monitor specific. From what I’ve read, which matches my scenario, it seems to happen when you’re outputting a certain resolution from your PC, then switch to a monitor that only supports a maximum resolution lower than your previous monitor.
The fix is relatively simple… Read more »
Details have been surfacing today regarding Apple’s new release: OSX Mountain Lion, slated for a summer 2012 release. Included in this update are iMessage and Airplay Mirroring functionality. Woohoo!
For those of you with iPads and iPhones, you’ll likely be familiar with iMessage. It’s the same iMessage used on your other mobile iDevices. Consequently, you’ll now be able to have synchronized messages between your iPhone, iPad, AND Macbook/iMac when sending to iMessage-enabled users.
So far, the public beta is only available for those of us running the latest Apple operating system, OSX Lion (full patched). So everyone else with older versions will likely have to wait a while to get their hands on iMessage.
It looks like Apple may be running into some trouble, as their link to download the iMessage for Lion beta appears to be down. However, feel free to grab iMessage from my mirror here:
Download: iMessage for OSX Lion [Beta]
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