I have had Netgear’s ReadyNAS Ultra 4 network attached storage (NAS) for the last year and a half. I’ve enjoyed the simplicity of getting it running and its reliability to provide the files. With plugins, you can extend its functionality and with a bit more complicated configuration you can get it to be a device that complements you set top box, smartphone, computers, and other devices.
Thanks to Avast’s free for education Endpoint Protection, I was able to centrally manage and deploy Avast around the organization for a client. The problem was that once I had Avast on there, I also needed to be able to uninstall the previous security software, Panda Cloud Antivirus. Since it didn’t have a nice central console, it would entail running around to each computer and uninstalling it manually. After a brief search online, it appeared I was on my own for uninstalling the software.
Completing the task manually was nothing terribly complicated. It was just a matter of opening the Control Panel, going to Add/Remove Programs, scrolling down to find Panda Cloud Antivirus, and hitting the button to uninstall. The process of getting there was a little time consuming but the uninstaller took even longer. Fortunately, I was recently tasked with a similar need and had an idea of how I might script Panda’s uninstall after all.
There are not many of us who would be caught dead without our mobile phones, and for many our whole lives are contained within these devices. For better or worse, mobiles have taken over and they’re here to stay – and that includes in the gaming industry.
This infographic gets into some of the scary reality of Internet addiction. It lists some symptoms, research into, and consequences of Internet Addiction Disorder?
After reading the infographic, do you believe Internet Addiction Disorder is real? Do you think you might suffer from IAD?
See the full infographic after the jump.
Predecessors to the smartphone have been around for quite a while. Comparatively, the Blackberry, iPhone, and Android devices are still young pups.
These devices have an interesting past and a huge potential for the future. View this infographic after the jump that covers Smartphone – Past, Present, and Future.
There have been plenty of updates to popular software applications lately. Java, Flash, Firefox, and the others all make keeping systems up to date a living nightmare for IT and home users. Even keeping a local copy of the current installers for new computers can be a time-consuming task. To make that job easier, you can use Ketarin.
Ketarin is an open source program written in C# from the same developer behind the excellent CDBurnerXP application. Ketarin downloads the latest setup packages for applications that you specify. It is not meant to keep a system up to date, just the installers.
The Dell Optiplex 7010 is a nice piece of hardware. They come loaded with Windows 8 Professional which my organization isn’t ready to support yet, so we are reloading them with Windows 7 Enterprise. While we could have ordered them with the previous version of Windows, we went with the Windows 8 line because during configuration it allowed for a better video card and we plan on upgrading to Windows 8 down the road anyways.
However, to get by until our applications are updated to be compatible and employees are trained on Windows 8, we need to install Windows 7. Since the computers came pre-loaded with Windows 8, they take full advantage of UEFI and its Secure Boot instead of a traditional BIOS. In order to install any older operating system than Windows 8, we will need to configure the UEFI to use Legacy Mode, which emulates a traditional BIOS. If you’re in a similar situation or wish to install Windows 7 because you do not like Windows 8, here are the three steps you need to change in order to enable Legacy Mode.
In another round of Spring Cleaning, Google announced today that Google Reader will be retired on July 1st, 2013 and a number of other services will also be shuttered. Apps Script’s GUI Builder, and five UiApp widgets, CalDAV API, Google Building Maker, Google Cloud Connect, Google Voice App for Blackberry, Search API for Shopping, and Snapseed Desktop for Macintosh and Windows were all listed for closure in today’s announcement.
RSS feeds, as I covered in my RSS Feed Basics and Advanced RSS articles, allow a person a very simple format to keep up with a website and the content that is produced. Instead of having to remember to visit a website regularly to see if there is new content, you can rely on its RSS feed to be automatically updated to stay current. An RSS feed reader is just the interface to view and organize those feeds.
