Webpack-dev-server enables you to serve web applications during development. To work around the restrictions imposed by CORS, webpack-dev-server ships with a proxy feature that enables the transparent forwarding of requests made to the webpack-dev-server to remote servers. For example, in order to forward everything under /api to http://myserver.com/api, you can […]
A couple of days after reinstalling Windows 10 on my Surface Pro using a Windows 10 DVD created with Microsoft’s Media Creation Tool, I realized that BitLocker was not working properly. When looking into this, I found out that this was caused by the fact that the setup program of […]
TexStudio is a flexible Latex editor that can integrate with different tex distributions. In the past, I have used TexStudio with the Texlive distribution from Cygwin. Since Windows 10 is now providing native support for Linux through WSL, it seems only natural to try to use Ubuntu’s Texlive distribution instead. […]
I am frequently using a Microsoft Sculpt Mobile Keyboard when working at home or on the go. Similar to other Microsoft keyboards, this keyboard features a number of Windows-specific media keys that are assigned to the function keys. Unlike other keyboards, however, the Sculpt Mobile Keyboard gives priority to the […]
Yesterday, I tried to restore a Windows system image using Windows 8.1 recovery mode on one of my machines but instead of getting the usual completion message, the restoration process terminated prematurely with “The parameter is incorrect. (0x80070057)”. Looking for possible remedies, I stumbled across this blog entry on Technet […]
Over Christmas I have spent some time extending NARF Tablet Radio – one of my free applications on the Android market. Since some of its new features are not really easy to discover, I thought I spend time over the weekend to create a demonstration video. As I do not […]
If you are using Windows Media Center to record television shows, you have probably already developed the habit of deleting every episode that you watched immediately. Although this is probably the best book keeping strategy possible, sometimes you might accidentally delete the beginning of another show that was located at […]
Cygwin for Windows provides binary ports of many well known Linux tools including grep, ssh, tetex, svn, bash, or find. After installation, most of the tools work just fine. Unfortunately, git – the popular distributed version control system – is not one of them. When running your first git clone […]
Once you updated your Xperia X10 Mini Pro to Android Gingerbread, you will soon find out that the underlying Cyanogen Mod 7 is not able to pair automatically with this device. Every time the LiveView is disconnected you will have to turn on your mobile phone and press ok to […]
Sony Ericsson’s Xperia X10 Mini Pro is one of the smallest Android phones that is out there. In contrast to its smaller brother, the Xperia X10 Mini, it features a replaceable battery and a hardware keyboard which makes it both, more durable and easier to use for information management. Despite […]
