Amazon.com published a press release yesterday that announced the arrival of an app for Amazon Instant Video on Nintendo's Wii and Wii U console. Since my previous articles on how to install the Netflix app on the Nintendo Wii and on the Sony PlayStation 3 continue to be popular articles, I presumed that an article on installing the Amazon Instant App might also prove … [Read more...]
Massaging data to have usable information and save a few keystrokes
I needed to create and populate a security group in active directory so I could limit a group policy to only the relevant users. Those relevant users each had a folder under the server share with the folder name being their username. Given that there were several dozen users already in the directory, I was hoping to be able to get that data in the format I needed so I could do … [Read more...]
First Patch Tuesday of 2013 brings updates from Microsoft, Adobe, and Mozilla
Now with Adobe onboard to push updates the second Tuesday of the month, Patch Tuesdays have become even more fun. Microsoft deployed seven security bulletins while Adobe released updates yesterday to Adobe Flash Player, Acrobat and Reader, and Adobe AIR. The Adobe Acrobat and Reader updates released included support for versions 9, 10, and 11. On top of that, Mozilla released … [Read more...]
DRM strikes again as “Free Adobe CS2” makes pirates of the best of us
People love a good deal and even more so when it is free. The Internet, as a collection of connected people, jumps on the bandwagon even more so when word of something valuable becoming free gets out there. That situation is exactly what happened for Adobe when word that their CS2 products (Acrobat 7 and 8, Audition, GoLive, Illustrator, InCopy, InDesign, Photoshop CS2, … [Read more...]
New WordPress plugins for a new year
Did you make a New Year's resolution to finally fix something on your WordPress site or to add a cool feature that you have seen on other sites? Perhaps this has nothing to do with the new year but you're interested in adding new features to your WordPress site. Here is a list of plugins that are not exactly brand new but they could be new to your site. The added functionality … [Read more...]