Issue: How can I restore my login to the Snapchat app on a rooted Android device using the Bluestacks application? There is quite some confusion about the Snapchat app and it’s login on a rooted Android device. A lot of the time people online claim the Xposed framework is the culprit – after deinstalling this … [Read more…]
Issue: How can I add basic authentication / password to my OpenVPN connection featuring certificates? There are quite a lot of tutorials on how to set up your own VPN server. An excellent tutorial has been published by DigitalOcean. However this (and nearly every other) tutorial feature a secure connection by either certificates or user … [Read more…]
Issue: How can I fix the appearing python error while renewing a Let’s Encrypt certificate? As you may have noticed, this blog features a Let’s Encrypt certificate. Let’s Encrypt only allows certificates to be authorized for up to 3 months. While this isn’t that big of a problem for most users (you can renew the … [Read more…]
Issue: How can I use JavaScript to click the Load More button on a YouTube channel automatically? As stated in the comments YouTube switched it’s approach to loading videos, so this script is deprecated. This issue is rather a proof-of-concept and result of my curiosity than a real useful hint. As I was watching a … [Read more…]
Issue: How can I send a webservice request over SSL in SoapUI with basic proxy authentication? A few days ago I was confronted with a rather simple challenge: sending a request to an HTTPS webservice with SoapUI by SmartBear. But as you might have guessed, there’s a catch. While I’m inside the company network, my … [Read more…]
Issue: How can I display the rating of songs in the search results of foobar2000? The popular music player foobar2000 (or foobar, as I like to call it) offers a great solution to work through a collection of songs. Foobar also offers the option to rate songs with 1 to 5 stars. However the program … [Read more…]
Issue: How can I establish a noise gate (or activation threshold) for Skype, so my microphone won’t transmit any static? Everytime I use Teamspeak or similar VoIP software, I value the possibility to set a volume level for the activation of my microphone. I find it rather fascinating Skype is not offering a similar option … [Read more…]
Issue: How can I dynamically fill variables from a textfile into a soap request and run those automatically using SoapUI? While working a client project I got the request to call a webservice method a couple of hundred times. Each iteration needed a specific id to be sent to the server. For an easy solution … [Read more…]