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John McAfee explains how to uninstall McAfee Antivirus

Jason Hamilton — Wed, 19 Jun 2013 12:54:45 +0000

John McAfee seems to be a little off his rocker these days and that might be putting it lightly. Between being wanted for murder and his manhunt across Guatemala, the founder of McAfee antivirus has been in the news lately. John McAfee resigned from the company in 1994 and sold his shares in the company [...]

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Unburying the Delete button in the Gmail Android app

Jason Hamilton — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 03:39:41 +0000

The Android app for Gmail recently received an update. It adds a bit more color than the previous version by using avatars (or generic substitutes) of the sender to take up some of the app’s limited real estate. Also part of the update, the developers decided to hide the Delete button by default. My frustration at [...]

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IT Pros Evolution [infographic]

Jason Hamilton — Sun, 16 Jun 2013 13:00:50 +0000

Microsoft created this Evolution of the IT Pro infographic. It covers the history and personalities involved in personal computing since 1974. The point of the graphic seems to be to allay fears that jobs are going away. Does the cloud mean the end of the road for the IT Pro? There has been plenty of change in [...]

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3 different types of hackers [infographic]

Jason Hamilton — Sun, 16 Jun 2013 11:30:22 +0000

Sun Tzu said in The Art of War “Know your enemy and know yourself, find naught in fear for 100 battles. Know yourself but not your enemy, find level of loss and victory. Know thy enemy but not yourself, wallow in defeat every time.” WatchGuard profiled the motives, personalities, and methods of several different hackers in [...]

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404TS technology news summary – 2013/06/15

Jason Hamilton — Sat, 15 Jun 2013 19:12:13 +0000

Technology changes very quickly and the industry changes right alongside it. There is more written about new products, security concerns, coming-soon hardware, and other technology news than can be covered sufficiently and in-depth. These technology news wrap ups hope to provide a one-stop resource to make sure you did not miss any of the big [...]

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The Cloud – A marketing success for technology

Jason Hamilton — Fri, 14 Jun 2013 12:18:12 +0000

In a conversation with a coworker the other day, we got onto the topic of “the cloud”. To summarize, it seemed the marketing genius behind ‘the cloud’ knew exactly what they were doing. From an IT Pro perspective, the sentiment seemed to swing drastically with just the change of terminology. Outsourcing: “Booo!” The Cloud: “Yay!” [...]

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Twitter API deprecation disables widgets across the Web

Jason Hamilton — Thu, 13 Jun 2013 18:58:30 +0000

On Tuesday, Twitter retired v1 of their API and completed the transition to v1.1. As a result, you may see numerous areas of websites that are supposed to pull a Twitter feed but are actually blank. Twitter is hardly known for its stability or high-availability. You may have thought like I did that Twitter was just [...]

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Set the default wallpaper for new users in Windows 7

Jason Hamilton — Wed, 12 Jun 2013 16:53:25 +0000

I am using Microsoft Deployment Toolkit to install Windows 7 on computers quickly and consistently. I was interested in adding a little polish and branding the finished product. The only real stumbling block I ran into was setting a default wallpaper on Windows 7. The usual tricks of editing the Default user profile or that [...]

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Made in America gets a look inside the Lenovo North Carolina factory

Jason Hamilton — Tue, 11 Jun 2013 12:15:45 +0000

Lenovo just opened their new factory in Whitsman, North Carolina. ABC News has one of the first inside looks at the factory in their series ‘Made in America‘. The Lenovo line is producing a variety of models currently with more models to be made stateside by the end of the year. You can watch the [...]

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Watch the Apple WWDC 2013 Livestream

Jason Hamilton — Mon, 10 Jun 2013 16:29:47 +0000

Apple will live stream the WWDC 2013 keynote speech today. It begins at 10AM PDT and will stream on their website and to Apple TV. According to the fine print, the live stream does have some requirements: Live Streaming video requires Safari 4 or later on Mac OS X v10.6 or later; Safari on iOS [...]

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