Minecraft server crashes - [Server Watchdog/FATAL]: A single server tick...

Issue

Minecraft server crashes when computer is resuming from sleep mode.

Minecraft Logs:

[05:11:26] [Server thread/WARN]: Can't keep up! Did the system time change, or is the server overloaded? Running 23352870ms behind, skipping 467057 tick(s)
[05:11:35] [Server Watchdog/FATAL]: A single server tick took 23361.66 seconds (should be max 0.05)
[05:11:38] [Server Watchdog/FATAL]: Considering it to be crashed, server will forcibly shutdown.
[05:11:39] [Server Watchdog/ERROR]: This crash report has been saved to: C:\DATA\minecraft_server\.\crash-reports\crash-2014-11-24_05.11.39-server.txt
[05:11:39] [Server Shutdown Thread/INFO]: Stopping server

Windows Media Player - Cannot change rip location

Issue

Cannot change Music Rip location in Windows Media Player 12 on Windows 7 
Tools > Options > Rip Music > Rip music to this location

Windows Store in-app purchase error - your purchase couldn't be completed

Issue

Can't complete an in-app purchase in Windows Store on a Windows 8.1 tablet. The in-app purchase was for Island Tribe game (to upgrade it to the full version).

After clicking buy and entering the password, following error would show up:

Your purchase couldn't be completed
Please try again later.

Trying again later didn't really help... The whole thing was making a certain 6 year old quite upset, so a swift resolution was required!

Automatically split and straighten scanned photos

I recently had a task to scan large number of old photos using a flatbed scanner. Scanning photos one by one would be terribly inefficient as I could normally fit 4 - 5 photos on the scanner. Scanning multiple photos on one page was obviously much faster, but it left me with another task of cropping and straightening photos afterwards. Again, doing this manually would consume too much time so I looked for some sort of automated solution.