Amazon has refreshed its Fire Family with updated tablets and a new Fire TV and Fire TV Stick. Amazon's tablet line was updated with four new configurations. The Fire tablet is the lowest costing tablet at $49.99, competing with features from a higher tier competing with the budget tablets from other companies. The new Fire tablet includes a quad-core processor, 7” IPS … [Read more...]
Archives for September 2015
Excel 2013 hangs at ‘Starting…’ but runs with Excel Safe Mode
I ran into an issue with Excel 2013 on a relatively new install. Excel would successfully launch under the Administrator account but not as any other user. It just hung at the Starting... splash screen, even after promoting the standard user to a local Administrator. Only launching Excel with the command, excel.exe /safe would allow the program to finish loading for the … [Read more...]
Hide the taskbar and Start button at Startup
I have been working recently with a client using specialized software that stretches across 4 monitors in a 2x2 grid. The operating system is Windows 7 and the primary monitor needs to be the top-left. The problem is that the Windows Start button and Taskbar floats on top of this software. The 'always on top' nature of the Taskbar was undermining the main software. Taskbar … [Read more...]
Mark Zuckerberg says a Dislike button is in the works for Facebook
From the Facebook Newsroom, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg shared at an in-person townhall that Facebook is working on something like a 'Dislike' button to allow showing empathy. In the nearly hour event, there were many other topics discussed but the 'Dislike' button was the big announcement. Zuckerberg stated that they have been working on it and will be ready to roll out a … [Read more...]
Let’s Encrypt is making progress
The free certificate authority sponsored by EFF, Mozilla, and others are continuing to make progress. I first shared about the group Let's Encrypt in November of last year: Through the Internet Security Research Group, Mozilla Corporation, Cisco Systems, Inc., Akamai Technologies, Electronic Frontier Foundation, IdenTrust, Inc., and University of Michigan researchers are … [Read more...]