Calendars have their own quirks so Outlook, part of Microsoft Office, sometimes bears the brunt of the frustration at calendars because it is a calendaring program. One behavior that can be difficult to master are meetings or appointments that recur with the day of the month rather than the date. From easiest to more difficult to predict, and therefore program, I would … [Read more...]
Unboxing and reviewing Amplifi HD mesh networking
Home networking has been a frequent topic that I pursued for personal reasons to get the best coverage in my house. My last house was a ranch style with the cable Internet coming in the center of the house. With cheap routers, this meant the signal dropped off at either end of the house. I first used powerline adapters to distribute the Internet to the ends of the house and … [Read more...]
How to enable fingerprint gestures on the Nexus 6P with Android Beta
If you are running the Android beta on your Nexus 6P, the latest update brings the OS up to Android Nougat 7.1.2. One of the new features for the Nexus 6P includes fingerprint gestures, a feature previously available on the Pixel. With the feature, you can swipe from top-to-bottom of the fingerprint reader to bring the notification tray down or swipe up to close the … [Read more...]
Adobe Acrobat and Reader DC will receive new version numbers
Windows 10 is the latest Microsoft operating system despite all of the updates to it. No more X.1 or SP2 or X.1 Update. Just Windows 10. Adobe seemed to be following this pattern with Adobe Acrobat DC and Adobe Acrobat Reader DC. Version numbers don't matter, DC is just the latest version of the software available thanks to the subscription method. That's why it was a little … [Read more...]
Pwn2Own 2017 results
As the second year under Trend Micro's ownership, the popular hacking event Pwn2Own is celebrating its 10 year anniversary. The targets this year include VMware Workstation, Microsoft Hyper-V, Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, Mozilla Firefox, Adobe Flash in Microsoft Edge, and Apple Safari. There are also demonstrations of local Escalation of Privilege bugs against Windows, … [Read more...]