The gradient effect in Instagram’s new logo is interesting… I’ve tried to recreate the logo in HTML and CSS, here is the result:

See the Pen Instagram’s new logo in CSS by Monir Abu Hilal (@monir) on CodePen.

Original Reference:

Close enough!

If you have python installed on your system, you can create a static http server on any folder by executing the following command on terminal:

This will start a server on port 8000:

http://localhost:8000/

Note: If you are using a mac, python is already pre-installed on your system.

Get it from the Visual Studio Extensions gallery: http://bit.ly/VSColorOutput

Open a Command Prompt Window (CMD) and execute the following command:

shutdown -t 0 -r -f

This command is really handy when you manage your Windows Server or PC through remote desktop and you need to reboot it.

Note:

In Windows, the shutdown button/menu is contextual by design, which means if you are in remote desktop mode, the menu will hide all of the (Restart, Log off, Sleep, Shutdown…) options and will only show a “Disconnect” option.

I personally think that it was designed this way to eliminate the human error of restarting or shutting down an important server…

I’ve been trying to use Spotify since I moved to Ireland (in Jan 2013) with no luck…

Once I launch the app on my windows 8, it freezes after ~20 seconds and enters a “Not Responding” state, not only that, also the “spotify.exe” process in the windows task manager could not be killed, it keeps showing an "access denied" error message.

I did a quick search online for a solution with no luck, so I left it for a later time.

Today I wanted to listen to some new songs while working so I remembered this issue and traced it out to fix it.

I tried to reinstall the app twice, and the sound card driver… also a lot of things with no luck.

I have a Virtual Machine running windows 8 too so I installed it on the VM and it worked perfectly, so it seems that this issue is happening because of a change that I’ve made to my windows environment, anyway, after hours of the investigation, I believe that I finally found the solution! :)

The Solution:

Disable the Internet Sharing feature on your Network Adapters.

How to Disable Internet Sharing?

1. Go to the “Network Connections” section in your control panel
   • Quick Tip: simply copy ncpa.cpl hit the “Windows Key” and press “CTRL+V” to paste it in the search box then hit the “Enter” key.
2. Select a network connection and Right click on it > Properties
3. In the properties windows find the “Sharing” tab and uncheck the option “Allow other network users to connect through this computer’s internet connection” then hit the “OK” button to save your changes.
4. Repeat from Step #2 for all of your network connections if needed.
5. Run Spotify and Enjoy! :)