Microsoft Silverlight may not work in recent versions of Google Chrome

When you use Google Chrome (version 42.0 or later) to access a website that runs Microsoft Silverlight, you see that some content is missing or that the Install Microsoft Silverlight badge is displayed. When you reinstall Silverlight, the issue still occurs.

Note This issue does not occur in Microsoft Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, or Apple Safari. These applications still support Silverlight content.

This issue occurs because these versions of Chrome block Netscape Plugin API (NPAPI) plugins from being displayed in the browser. Silverlight is an NPAPI plugin.

To work around this issue, follow these steps: 

1. On the address bar in Chrome, type chrome://flags/#enable-npapi.
2. In the Enable NPAPI Mac, Windows box, click Enable.
3. Exit and then restart Chrome.
4. Reopen the Silverlight page.
5. Right-click the broken puzzle piece image, and then select Run this Plugin.

https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/kb/3058254

Problem connecting my Google Nexus 4 to Windows 8.1

My Google Nexus 4 has been playing up lately: taking ages to connect to WiFi and burning up battery extra quickly. Time for another factory reset, I thought, so plugged it into my PC to backup my ebooks, music files and photographs only to discover that it no longer showed up in Windows Explorer.

It turns out that a recent Windows 8.1 update has prevented many Android users from connecting their devices.

I found the solution on this post on Stack Overflow: Windows 8.1 Device Manager now showing ACER Device rather than Android Device for Google Nexus 7.

As far as I recall, this is roughly what I did:

1. In Windows Device Manager click on View > Show hidden devices.
2. Locate the ACER Composite ADB Interface uninstall all instances of it.
3. Reboot PC.
4. Plug in Android phone.
5. Return to Device Manager and open ‘ACER Composite ADB Interface and select ‘Update Driver…‘.
6. Select ‘Browse my computer for driver software‘.
7. Select ‘Let me pick from a list of device drivers on my computer‘.
8. From the list select ‘MTP USB Device‘.
9. Click Next.
10. Unplug Android phone.
11. Reboot PC.
12. Plug in Android phone.
13. Windows 8.1 showed the phone in Windows Explorer.

Nexus 4 listed as a device in Windows Explorer.

For some reason I had to do this twice. It may have been because I had ‘USB Debugging’ activated in Settings > Developer Options, and I unticked it the second time.

Anyway, I can now connect my Nexus 4 to my PC. Panic over.

http://blog.garethjmsaunders.co.uk/2014/08/23/problem-connecting-my-google-nexus-4-to-windows-8-1/