Ramblings, ideas, problems, and solutions

Category: How To

  • Outlook: Not all folders are synced

    Shared email boxes are a useful tool for departments needing to have a single point of contact, but whose needs do not extend so far as to need a CRM or ticket management tool. I’ve talked before about how to add them to Outlook, in which I noted that I usually uncheck the box for…

  • Netflix: Remove movies and shows from your recently watched list

    The age of streamed media is upon us, and has been for a long time. I have been a user of Netflix ever since they came to Norway, and have watched a lot of shows. In the early days, everything was watched in one profile, and for one reason or another, shows were added to…

  • Workflow for video editing – the workflow

    This is the fourth and final entry in this series. We’ve been through the sorting system, the software, and the hardware; the topic for today is the workflow itself: Whenever I go to edit videos, I have a plan for what I want to edit. Be it a series of match videos, videos showing a day at…

  • Workflow for video editing – the software

    This is the second entry in my series on my workflow for video editing. Last time, I discussed my organisation system; this time I’ll talk about software: Where editing video used to be a manual, physical, process, those days are long since gone, and computers have replaced the cutting and splicing equipment of old. Video editing has…

  • Adding a shared mailbox in Outlook

    A not infrequent question at work, is how to add a second mailbox in Outlook. Here’s how: Open Outlook Click File Go to Account settings, then account settings again Double click your current account Click “More settings” in the Server settings tab Go to the “Advanced” tab, and click add Add the mailboxes you want to…

  • MacOS: Unable to remove application

    I’ve been using an iPad as a second monitor for my Macbook for some time now, and tried out a number of applications to achieve that. One of the ones that didn’t make the grade was Desktop Streamer. When I wanted to delete it, I got the following error message:  This error persisted, regardless of reboots…

  • Managing startup applications in Windows 10

    In earlier versions of Windows, I – and I would assume many with me – used the Startup folder in the Start menu to manage startup applications. In Windows 10, however, this folder is no more, and so we must find other ways of dealing with them. There are three ways to do so, all…

  • Limit login to specific computers

    As much as we might want to prevent them by policies, odds are that a shared user account will be created at some point. In order to mitigate the potential issues with such accounts (lack of accountability, lack of control, account available to just about anyone to mention a few), there are a number of steps we…

  • BitLocker hangs during encryption of drive

    There is an encryption policy in effect, limiting writing to flash drives to those drives that are encrypted with BitLocker. From time to time, a user will call in, reporting that the encryption process has stalled, and does not seem to want to continue. Invariably, this occurs on drives that already contain data, and the encryption…

  • Countering a YouTube copyright claim

    When I edit videos, I keep meticulous notes on where any third party content comes from, and note it in the description of my video. Even so, I have had copyright claims made against my videos, mostly regarding the music I use. These claims can be obnoxious, though I don’t necessarily agree that there’s any…