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    Get Your CustomerID From G Suite

    There are a few ways to grab your CustomerID from G Suite. This is important when configuring SSO or when interfacing with G Suite programmatically (through their lovely API). The first and easiest way is to look at the web interface. This isn’t the most intuitive. To find the key, open Google Admin and then browse to Security in the menu in the upper left-hand corner, clicking on Dashboard. Click on Single Sign On and then scroll down until you see EntityID. The EntityID is going to be everything after the = such as C034minsz9330 as follows You can also find it by visiting the GooglePlay at https://play.google.com/work/adminsettings?pli=1 where it’s…

  • cloud

    Factory Reset (Powerwash) Chromebooks

    If you ever loose track of the password on your Chromebook, find that the Chromebook is running oddly or want to sell a Chromebook, you can remove your Google account and readd it. The easiest way to do this is a feature called Powerwash. To pull it up, open Settings and then click on Advanced Settings. There, you’ll see the Powerwash button. Click it and then you will remove all of the user accounts installed on the device, basically performing a factory reset. Powerwash can also be run by clicking Restart while holding down Control-Alt-Shift-R at the login screen. This brings up a Powerwash prompt where you simply need to…

  • iPhone

    Change Your Default Search Engine Back on iOS

    Recently, Safari on my iPhone started finding things I searched for using Yahoo! rather than the previously default Google search engine. Now, I’m not gonna’ hate on Yahoo! here. I actually left it for weeks so I could see the differences and nuances here and there. From the different way it displays movie times to image handling, I just didn’t exactly love Yahoo! (although it gets better all the time). So I decided to switch it back. If you decide to switch back, you do so by first opening the Settings App and then scrolling down to and tapping on Safari.   From the list of available options, select Google,…

  • personal

    Google Maps 8-bit Edition

    Google Maps has now released the amazing 8-bit edition. It comes complete with pictures of the country in 8-bit and a Slime who draws near! While Tantegel Castle does not appear on the map and you don’t seem to be able to find any Internet connectivity arising from King Lorik’s toilet, it is possible to find cute propeller headed icons where Google offices are as well as a number of landmarks that have been converted into 8-bit highlights showing people why they should visit your area. In fact, the landmarks themselves have been converted to 8-bit in order for you to be able to fully enjoy the country as it would have…

  • cloud,  Mass Deployment,  Ubuntu,  Unix

    Scripting in Google ChromeOS

    I recently got my hands on one of those Google ChromeBooks (Cr-48). Interesting to have an operating system that is just a web browser. But, as anyone likely reading this article already knows, the graphical interface is the web browser and the operating system is still Linux. But what version? Well, let’s go on a journey together. First, you need ChromeOS. If you’ve got a ChromeBook this is a pretty easy thing to get. If not, check http://getchrome.eu/download.php for a USB or optical download that can be run live (or even in a virtual machine). Or, if you know that you’re going to be using a virtual machine, consider a pre-built…

  • Business

    Facebook Acquires FriendFeed

    Let’s over-simplify this: Twitter is a very popular site.  FriendFeed is kinda’ similar.  Facebook is a very popular social network site that happens to have the features of FriendFeed built in.  Now Facebook owns FriendFeed.  Some acquisitions are about technology, some about user base/customers and others about the talent that a company has.  I would assume that almost every person with an account on FriendFeed already had an account on Facebook.  Facebook can easily integrate the same technology that is present in FriendFeed (and already has for the most part).  So I’m gonna’ go out on a limb and say this one likely had more to do with the talent (mostly…

  • Ubuntu,  Unix

    Looking at Google Android's Internals

    Google’s Android is a very small Linux distribution. Recently I needed to test some applications that were developed by a couple of friends of mine. Rather than run out to T-Mobile I figured I’d just install the new LiveAndroid disk and thought I would write up how to get setup using VMware Fusion and then go about doing some tasks with Android. To get started make sure you’re running the latest Fusion (or Parallels or Q or VirtualBox). Then download two ISO files from http://code.google.com/p/live-android/ liveandroidv0.2.iso.001 and liveandroidv0.2.iso.002. Once you have downloaded the two ISO files we’re going to need to join them.  To do so cat liveandroidv0.2.iso.001 liveandroidv0.2.iso.002 >…

  • sites

    Boobies on Facebook

    Today I found a game/app in my Facebook feed called Vrais ou faux seins ? The application has blatantly exposed breasts.  I can’t speak French so I can’t tell what it is about, but the pictures sure seem to tell a pretty compelling story.  I’m sure that the good people at Facebook will end up finding the application and removing it soon enough.  But it brings up, again, the changes that the increasing globalization that the Internet has brought about. And in my standard Facebook feed… It’s not that I care.  I don’t.   It’s more just watching culture classes as they continue to emerge.  Much like Google’s Schmidt leveraging…