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How to Scrape the Google Play Store: Search, Top Charts and App Details

How to Scrape the Google Play Store: Search, Top Charts and App Details Play Store listings are the public record of the Android app market: what ranks in a category, how many times an app has been installed, when it was last updated, and how to reach the developer. If you do ASO, competitor research or publisher outreach, you eventually want that data in a table. This guide shows how to scrape…

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Checking Office activation from the command line with ospp.vbs

Everyone knows slmgr for Windows activation, but fewer people know Office has its own equivalent. It's called ospp.vbs and it's been sitting in the Office folder this whole time.

  • ospp.vbs is a command line utility for detailed Office license management
  • Navigate to Office folder and run cscript to view installed licenses
  • Use /inpkey and /act to activate a licensed version of Office

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I Was the Only IT Person for 3 Years: The Documentation I Wish I'd Written

The Call I Didn't Want to Get Three weeks after leaving my job as the only IT person at a mid-sized company, my phone rang. It was Mike, the guy they hired to replace me.

  • The narrator was sole IT person for three years
  • Received 47 calls in one month about undocumented knowledge
  • Proposed documentation template to prevent knowledge loss

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