Back in June, the Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) announced the specification for Bluetooth 5, the next generation for the Personal Area Network technology. This week, that specification was officially adopted according to the announcement made yesterday on Bluetooth.com. The Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) officially adopted Bluetooth 5 as the latest version of … [Read more...]
Microsoft releases Solitaire collection for iOS
Microsoft has released their Solitaire Collection to iOS. The games have been popular on Windows and are now ported to the iOS platform for iPhone and iPad users to enjoy. The collection includes five games: Klondike, Spider, FreeCell, Pyramid, and TriPeaks. The Microsoft Solitaire Collection offers FIVE of the best Solitaire card games in one app! KLONDIKE Timeless & … [Read more...]
Google Chrome will default to HTML5 this month, push Flash to the back seat
Back in August, Google announced that they would be "de-emphasizing" Adobe Flash Player in Google Chrome. HTML 5 will be loaded in place of Flash except for sites that only support Flash. For those sites, you will be prompted to enable the browser plug-in. In September and with Chrome 42, Chrome disabled Flash content that was loading behind the scenes, typically related to … [Read more...]
Setup your DFS namespace with DNS for compatibility in a mixed environment
I recently created a DFS namespace for tying multiple file servers into the same path structure with the hope that this would make it easier for people to remember where to find files and to give flexibility on the back-end to change out servers or spread out files across multiple servers as needed. Once in place, I tested accessibility from Windows and Mac which worked fine. … [Read more...]
How to crash Explorer on Windows 10 Anniversary Update from the new UAC prompt
I had an end-user demonstrate this problem in Windows 10 v1607 to me. It was pretty odd that they stumbled upon it but testing software really requires "infinite monkeys on infinite typewriters" to debug and test of all possibilities (or write Shakespeare). We know that the Windows 10 Anniversary Update brought a redesign to the User Account Control window, adopting the UWP … [Read more...]