How to fix Microsoft Mobile Mouse Wheel Scrolling problems

Table of Contents

• Pre-solution
  • What didn't work
  • Root of the problem
• Solution
• Comments

Pre-solution

What didn't work

Dealing with the scrolling issues with the Microsoft Mobile 3500 Mouse turned out to be fairly simple, but

• After plenty of messy registry hacks
  • (changing HCKU\Control Panel\Desktop\WheelScrollLines, HCKU\Control Panel\Mouse keys didn't work)
• After plenty of time spent messing around with Control Panel
  • The basic "tutorials" only show you how to change the amount of lines scrolled at a time, but does not deal with the problem regarding the mouse scroll wheel sensitivity
    
• After restarting/logging off a few times (logging off is apparently supposed to apply the registry changes that you've made)
• And even after re-plugging the nano-transceiver device,

Nothing seemed to work to fix the delayed/slow scrolling with the Microsoft Mouse...

iOS 9 Feature Rip-Offs

If you've watched the Apple WWDC Keynote for 2015, then you'll notice some of the new features that Apple introduced for iOS 9. If you're also a Windows Phone user, then you'll notice some blatantly obvious ripped-off features from WP8.1 in iOS 9.

So let's start.

The Notes App Rip-Offs

Link to the Notes section in the keynote
The iOS 9 notes app is mimicking the Windows Phone "OneNote" app as much as possible. But that's just an opinion - the recently introduced features reinforces this, but what's the point of complaining. Here's some actual content.

Mapping Sydney Universities

As a current university student, I've always had second thoughts about the university that I'm in. Of course, this is all natural for a first year indecisive undergrad, however even if I do decide to stay, it wouldn't hurt to go exploring other university campuses.

But where are all the universities hidden away in Sydney?

The University of Sydney (USyd)

Strategy Guide: Beating Agar.io

Table of Contents

• Strategy
• Conclusion
• Comments

Agar.io is an amateur clone of the popular game "Spore", featuring an online, real-time multi-player gameplay, where instead of facing off against the computer, you face off with real competitors from across the world.

Like with Spore, Agar.io is a dog eat dog world, yet with Agar.io - even the usernames of other players will be disgusting, containing the occasional cuss, self-promotion, and obnoxious Internet memes (such as a single Swastika). There will be players constantly and opportunistically stalking you, and players that will attempt to destroy you even if it means that they will be destroyed themselves.

In Agar.io, you start off as a small cell, collecting pickups and eating smaller creatures with a goal of growing larger and larger until you make it to the leaderboards. From the leaderboards, it's matter of trying to survive for as long as possible.

So how do you beat this game and get to the top of the leaderboard of your current "room"?

Strategy

Fixing Proxy/Loading Issues with the Windows 8 App Store

This is the Windows Store app. Or, at least it would be if it worked. For now, it's just a splash screen...

Well, if would still be a splash screen if it wasn't for the fact that after a long wait, an error message appears.

The one I got first was:

We weren't able to connect to the Store. This might have happened because of a server problem or the network connection might have timed out. Please wait a few minutes and try again. (0x80072ee2)

The next attempt in opening the store app resulted in another error:

We weren't able to connect to the Store. This might have happened because of a server problem or the network connection might have timed out. Please wait a few minutes and try again. (0x80190190)

Note how, in both cases, the error code was different...

So if you're currently encountering an error message with the same error codes, then you're in luck, since there is a fix! If the error code and problem is similar (but not exactly the same) then in any case just have a read through and see if your problem gets fixed.

University of Sydney Timetable Exporter (Sync with iPhone, Google Calendar)

Link to Web App: https://www.extramaster.net/USyd/timetableExporter/

If you're ever lost and don't know when your next lecture, practical, lab, or tutorial will be in, or in fact where it even is, then this web application will help simply the process of managing your time at the University of Sydney.

iOS supports this web application natively through Safari, and so you can add your timetable automatically with two taps of a finger after you've submitted your credentials to login.

The instructions for iOS assume that you're using iOS Safari, however, if you're on a PC/Mac, and want to sync your timetable with your iPhone, then you can send the generated ics file via email to your iPhone, and you're all set!

With Google Calendar, you can sync this calendar with your Android device. So, by extension, this web application supports Android devices as well (although it hasn't been tested)!

Outlook (tested with Outlook 2013) works, but to a degree. Your timetable will be imported but your times will be off by an hour, due to timezone/daylight savings issues. iOS and Google Calendar do not have this daylight savings issue.

Link to Web App: https://www.extramaster.net/USyd/timetableExporter/

North Korea's Red Star OS Mega.co.nz Download

If you're a little cautious about peer-to-peer downloading, even if it's legal, or dislike the reliance on other slow peers, then here's a download straight off mega.co.nz!

Red Star OS is North Korea's attempt in replicating Apple's Mac OS X operating system, acting as a artificial façade on top of Linux. There's a few security-conscious details that have been added in a delusional attempt to thwart outside security "threats".

So, without further adieu:
redstar_desktop3.0_sign.iso - https://mega.co.nz/#!0dUiAYjC!lils17twxjFjsDBCyPC95OK_Kev_G_8FrZMCDIwislM
MD5: ACF53D2B50ECB1391044B343502BECF5
SHA256: 895AD0E01AE0D35A65E9AC42DD34D0A1D685D6DFA331CE5B4F24BBC753439BE3

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