The software behind 2D animated projects like Futurama and Studio Ghibli's amazing works has been open-sourced and released free of charge. The software is called OpenToonz and is based on the "Toonz" software that was used professionally by these big studios. The license allows for the software to be used free of charge even for commercial productions. OpenToonz includes … [Read more...]
Office 365 embraces APIs with Connectors
Microsoft announced a new feature for Office 365 called Connectors. It looks like a great way to hook into APIs of other services such as GitHub, Trello, Twitter, MailChimp, Wunderlist, SalesForce, and others. Interestingly, the feature is part of the Groups feature in Office 365. This allows you to pull Twitter feeds or other content from these third party services into … [Read more...]
Watch the Microsoft Build 2016 keynote live
Microsoft's Build Developer Conference 2016 is happening later this week. From the Moscone Center in San Francisco, Microsoft will discuss their operating systems, applications, and, of course, the tools and platforms for developers. You can tune into the keynote and watch it live at news.microsoft.com/build2016/ The conference goes from March 30th - April 1st. The keynote … [Read more...]
Command line to take ownership and change permissions
Taking ownership of files can be a very tedious task. If you select more than one file, the Security tab is not available. This means that you have to right-click on each individual file, go to Properties, select Security, select Advanced, and take ownership of the file. If you're working with any significant number of files, that is far too time consuming. Once you take … [Read more...]
Change the WDS PXE timeout from the default 30 seconds
I am using Windows Deployment Services on Windows Server 2012 R2 for PXE boot and wanted to change the timeout from the default 30 seconds when choosing which boot image to use. I actually wanted to disable the timeout count down but that does not appear to be an option. You can use bcdedit to modify the timeout of the PXE boot responses. Valid options are 0-9999 seconds, … [Read more...]