YouTube announced their new option for watching the popular video streaming service ad-free will be available on October 28th to viewers in the US. YouTube Red lets you enjoy videos across all of YouTube without ads, while also letting you save videos to watch offline on your phone or tablet and play videos in the background, all for $9.99 a month. Your membership extends … [Read more...]
Installing open source status page software Cachet on CentOS 7
Maintaining uptime of your core IT services is an important part of internal customer service. Even with heavy investments into infrastructure, there will inevitably be downtime. Communicating that outage, planned or not, is also important to customer service. A status page can provide a consistent location for your users to check. Informed users will find if an issue is … [Read more...]
Introducing our new forums – 404 Tech Support Talk
Over two years ago, I made 404 Tech Support comment-free. Since then, I have been able to focus on writing, improving the site functionality, and getting the PageRank up again after a Google algorithm had our traffic down to unsustainable numbers. Since then, our numbers are up. Comments on articles are great as a writer because it allows me to clarify points based on reader … [Read more...]
Microsoft adapter allows wireless Xbox One controller to work on Windows 10
Microsoft's adapter to enable Windows 10 PCs to use the Xbox One wireless controller is available for pre-order. You may pre-order the Microsoft Xbox Wireless Adapter for Windows for $24.99 from Amazon.com. The adapter is a USB adapter that you plug into a Windows 10 desktop, laptop, or tablet in order to allow the Xbox One controller to be used wirelessly. This enables you to … [Read more...]
15 forum software options in 2015
At this point in time, online forums may have their work cut out for them. There are plenty of established communities around specific topics across the web but there is now more competition with social media and higher expectations like a mobile app or other features. That being said, many of those forums are still successful. Part of that success comes from finding their … [Read more...]