In the tech career, there eventually comes a fork in the road where you have to decide if becoming management or specializing in your technology skills is the path you want to continue on. If you head into management, titles like CIO or CTO might be what you end up striving for. Nowadays, you also have companies listing job openings for 'ninjas', 'rock stars', 'badass' or … [Read more...]
Archives for 2012
Disable Firefox’s new ‘SpeedDial’ New Tab Page
The Firefox 'New Tab' page received a new change-over in the Firefox 13.0 release. Its new tab page imitates the "speed dial" page of Opera and Chrome's new tab page. It shows 9 thumbnails of websites you frequently visit in a 3 x 3 grid. While clearly meant to be a feature of convenience, many feel like it puts their history on display for anybody that just sits down at their … [Read more...]
Google Apps adds Active Directory integration
Google Apps has added the ability to synchronize and manage passwords between Microsoft Active Directory and Google Apps. This allows an organization's password policy to be used for Google Apps accounts. The new method moves away from additional user attributes in an LDAP environment to use something called Google Apps Password Sync (GAPS). … [Read more...]
Use your own photos to custom theme Gmail
Gmail received an updated look to match the rest of Google's products adopting the Google+ styling theme. It is now introducing custom themes. You can choose to use any of your photos on Google+, a variety of featured photos from Picasa, an image from a URL, or to upload your own image. It's nice to add a splash of color to your email but finding something just right can take a … [Read more...]
Using Group Policy to add or replace local group membership with Restricted Groups
The magic of Group Policy in an Active Directory environment is that it can reach out and touch so many computers that it can automate many tasks for you while being flexible enough to target only the computers you want. Adding Active Directory users or groups to local groups with the Restricted Groups setting is only another example of that. However, it is one of the more … [Read more...]