bprasanna

After a day's effort i have developed a outlook add-in. when i went into Microsoft Partner Center i didn't find an option for `Microsoft Marketplace offers` which is supposed to be the place to publish office add-ins. Then when i went through the documentation, i realized only companies can publish add-ins to Microsoft 365 apps! Is that the case? Any workaround for this? I actually went to Stackoverflow and searched, but couldn't find any info on this. ChatGPT or Claude referred the documentation and summarized what was there in the document. Any help on this will help me decide whether to develop the add-on further or stop at this point.

Recently i tried creating a whatsapp developer account, which essentially means i have to create a Facebook account to login.

As i was trying to register for the first time Facebook showed a message "We've reviewed your account and found that it still doesn't follow our Community Standards on account integrity. You cannot request another review of this decision. To learn more about the reasons why we disable accounts, visit the Community Standards."

When i clicked on link "Read more about account integrity" it took me to a page, where it showed error "This page isn't available at the moment".

In overall it blocked me for a reason which i will never know!

QuickOWL (https://quickowl.app) is a custom contextmenu extension/add-on, for browsers & Thunderbird Email client, to quickly open user defined web links (URLs) with selected text from a browser/email as input.

Inspiration: The inspiration behind developing this extension was: work related bugs or tickets which come in plain text format in emails or internal work portal reports. In order to open the bugs/tickets which are plain text, the usual steps followed are:

1) copy the bug/ticket number

2) open the respective internal bugs/tickets portal

3) paste the copied bug/ticket number and hit a button to do the search or to open it directly

Above scenario is only for bugs/tickets, if our work or day-to-day life demands such copying and pasting of text across websites we will be wasting significant amount of time on this process. The QuickOWL extension/add-on aims to remove the steps 1 & 2, and directly sends the selected text (bug/ticket number) to respective bug/tickets portal as input.

Last week i got 2020 Macbook Pro (intel) 32G RAM version from office. To my surprise i experienced the following issues, which i never imagined given the hype i had received when i was using Windows.

1. Slack is still hogging CPU (through Slack renderer helper) - Found old thread from 2017, which seemed still relevant: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14087899 - One more from reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/Slack/comments/jvxx0m/anyone_else_experience_high_cpu_usage_on_mac/

2. Zoom call with all videos ON made the MacBook Pro's fans go crazy! Literally i was hearing the sound of fan in full volume! (this i never seen in Windows with 16G RAM)

3. McAfee Endpoint Security in kext mode is draining battery at a faster pace! its like 1% drop in every 1/2 minutes! Found a link on switching to kext-less mode: https://docs.mcafee.com/bundle/endpoint-security-10.6.0-installation-guide-macOS/page/GUID-74D9510B-A542-4811-AF36-78EA5949128A.html

These are some sample issues from 2 days of usage for my first time into Mac world. Given the user friendliness focus from Apple, shouldn't they take care of such issues which makes the user feel bad? Because, user can't run around each app developer to optimize the app not to drain the resource/memory of Mac OS.

Given the fact the MacBook Pro is premium segment, these kind of issues are not supposed to be faced/handled by user.