Today's Google Doodle celebrates Les Paul's 96th birthday. Les Paul is a well-known guitar maker and musician. His solid-body electric guitar was the foundation for rock and roll. Google's Doodle today is strummable. By putting your cursor over a string, a tone will play. Comments on the Hacker News story have also mapped the keyboard to the strings, which might help you play … [Read more...]
Netflix Redesigns Site To Focus On Instant Streaming; Users Split But Mostly Dislike
Netflix just announced and activated a redesign to some of their pages that focuses on Instant Streaming content. The movie covers are larger and it's more visually appealing, especially on a large monitor or TV. While the comments that follow any post to the Netflix blog are usually incredibly negative, this change seems to be met with a lot of people disliking the change. … [Read more...]
MiniTool Power Data Recovery Free Edition: Recover Files From Broken Drives
I've written another guest article over at FreewareGenius. This one details Minitool Power Data Recovery Free Edition, a tool that allows you to unerase files and recover them from malfunctioning drives. Read the full article at FreewareGenius. … [Read more...]
Google Search Results Redirecting You To Ads? Receiving Popups? You May Have A Rootkit
Yesterday, a client got infected with some malware after visiting what should have been a safe website. I ran through the usual routine of deleting the malicious files in the Temporary Internet Files folder and scanning with MalwareBytes. The scan found and cleaned up about 8 objects and the annoying scareware was gone upon restarting. Unfortunately, pop-unders were showing up … [Read more...]
World IPv6 Day Starts… Now!
For the next 24 hours, it is World IPv6 Day. IPv6 is the latest version of the Internet Protocol, which allows computers to communicate on a network or the Internet, the largest network. World IPv6 Day is an event where some of the largest organizations on the Internet are participating in an 24-hour test flight to turn IPv6 on their main servers. The reasoning behind this is … [Read more...]