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HTC One (M9), Samsung Galaxy S6 and other announcements from MWC 2015

By Jason Hamilton on March 2, 2015 in Hardware and Gadgets

With Mobile World Congress 2015, this week is already filled with announcements in the mobile realm.

FCC passes Net Neutrality, reclassifies ISPs as Title II

By Jason Hamilton on February 26, 2015 in Network, News

The FCC voted on the topic of Net Neutrality today and passed strong rules to pass the open Internet.

Converting VMware View GPO adm templates to .admx files

By Jason Hamilton on February 26, 2015 in System Administration

VMware provides Group Policy administrative templates to configure the settings of the View agent and other related components. Unfortunately, the provided templates are in the old Server 2003 .adm format.

Stardock releases Start10, an alternative Windows 10 Start Menu, to beta

By Jason Hamilton on February 25, 2015 in Operating Systems, Software

Windows 10 hasn’t even been released yet but an alternative Start Menu has already been released.

Windows logs to help troubleshoot Group Policy

By Jason Hamilton on February 24, 2015 in System Administration

A previous article explains Resultant Set of Policies (RSoP) and GPResult to use in troubleshooting Group Policy but there may be an easier, more direct way to catch the problems in your GPO.

YouTube Kids app brings safe videos to little ones

By Jason Hamilton on February 23, 2015 in Entertainment, Software, Web

YouTube introduced a new app for Android and iOS devices specifically built from the ground up for kids.

Testing and removing Lenovo Superfish adware

By Jason Hamilton on February 21, 2015 in Security

PC manufacturer Lenovo sold out its customers in the fourth quarter of 2014.

Create a bootable USB drive

By Jason Hamilton on February 20, 2015 in Software

Normally, I recommend YUMI for building a USB drive into a powerful utility with a variety of live CDs at your fingertips but in this case I just wanted a simple conversion from a .iso to a bootable USB drive.

Microsoft: Windows 10 supports FIDO 2.0 to replace the password

By Jason Hamilton on February 19, 2015 in Operating Systems, Security

FIDO 2.0 is being incorporated into Windows 10 and is already available in the Windows 10 Technical Preview.

Looking at four free firewalls

By Jason Hamilton on February 18, 2015 in Security, Software

I had a little side project come up for a client that meant I got to spend a little time exploring new software to see what could be accomplished with near-zero budget.