I gave the Windows 8 beta a pretty thorough try but I did not find myself a big fan of the changes to the desktop experience. One of the problems was that the Metro style Start Menu was horizontally oriented. If I were on a tablet or touch screen, I could grab the screen anywhere and slide it around. On a standard keyboard and mouse, you have to aim for a small scroll bar at … [Read more...]
Configure Flash as click-to-play in Chrome while whitelisting your favorite, trusted sites
I consider Google Chrome's background auto-update feature one of its best capabilities. The fact that the updates include Adobe Flash is just icing on the cake. Even with Flash up-to-date, you might not always want Flash object to run by default. Either for security reasons, page load performance, or you just find them annoying most of the time. Using Chrome's built-in … [Read more...]
Happy SysAdmin Day 2012!
The last Friday in July is reserved to be SysAdmin Appreciation Day. So to all IT professionals out there, Happy SysAdmin Day for 2012! With Black Hat/DEFCON conferences going on this week and all SysAdmins nervously watching for patches along with the Olympics starting today, the event almost slid by without notice. Of course, the SysAdmin Day website was working to keep the … [Read more...]
“Bandwidth flows like water” in Kansas City with Google Fiber
Are you ready for Google the cable company? Kansas City was the chosen community to work with Google to integrate gigabit speed broadband access by running fiber throughout the city. Today, the company announced their residential plans for both gigabit internet and TV service. … [Read more...]
Windows 8 reimagines printing
Microsoft's printing team shed some light on their reimagined vision of printing in Windows 8. The printer driver architecture has been updated to version 4 while Windows 8 retains compatibility with version 3, the architecture used from Windows 2000 to Windows 7. Of course, part of the update has to be to support printing from Metro style apps and printing from Windows RT. … [Read more...]