Martin Scorsese provides the voiceover to this ad from a commencement speech he gave for the NYU Tisch School of the Arts in 2014. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3eHn5z03l4 iPad is the ultimate tool for independent filmmakers. It lets them chase their ambitions and dive deeper into the work they’re so passionate about. Learn how students at Los Angeles County High School for … [Read more...]
Archives for February 2015
Windows logs to help troubleshoot Group Policy
Troubleshooting Group Policy can be anything but straight-forward. You can double-check everything on the server side - settings, OU, security filtering - and come to the conclusion that things should work but still not get the desired results on the client. A previous article explains Resultant Set of Policies (RSoP) and GPResult to use in troubleshooting Group Policy but … [Read more...]
YouTube Kids app brings safe videos to little ones
YouTube introduced a new app for Android and iOS devices specifically built from the ground up for kids. The app provides safe video content for kids in a layout that is easy to navigate and browse. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OUmMAAPX6E8 YouTube's approach for the new app included a new design with large images and icons. It also offers built-in voice search to even help … [Read more...]
Pinterest on how they fight spam
Pinterest recently posted to their Engineering blog about fighting spam at Pinterest. Given the high amount of referral traffic that Pinterest sends out, it makes sense for spammers to target the collection-based social network. I ran into some malware-spam on Pinterest a couple of years ago. I reported the pins that led to malicious webpages but they were still out there for … [Read more...]
Testing and removing Lenovo Superfish adware
PC manufacturer Lenovo sold out its customers in the fourth quarter of 2014. Bloatware is hardly a new phenomenon (and is universally despised) as it allows manufacturers to increase their profit margins by cutting deals to preload their computers with specified software, toolbars, and trials. Antivirus trials are common and get in the way while decreasing the customer's actual … [Read more...]