Ctrl+Alt+Del has thankfully become less prevalent in the Windows world. It certainly still has its uses though. Back in its hay day, the keyboard command even received a nickname like the 'three-finger salute'. Developer of various Mac utilities Two Canoes has created an open source counterpart for Mac OS X with 'Salute'. It allows you to press Ctrl-Command-Delete in order to … [Read more...]
Sync and send large files and folders across devices without the cloud with BitTorrent Sync
Being able to send large files from one computer to another has been a problem without a perfect solution for a while. The prevalence of broadband did not solve the problem but only made it more noticeable. For smaller files, you can send them as an attachment. For larger files, you can involve a third party like Dropbox or a file sharing locker to upload the file and send your … [Read more...]
Netflix discusses a future with HTML 5
While the majority of the world chose Adobe Flash, Microsoft's own hosted videos use Silverlight. Besides smaller, one-off sites, the only other big user of Silverlight that I am aware of is Netflix. Since Microsoft has announced an end-of-life for Silverlight 5 (of 2021) and have not announced a release for Silverlight 6, Netflix is forced to make plans to find an alternative … [Read more...]
Malwarebytes false positive detects thousands of entries and renders computers unbootable
A bad definition file affected Malwarebytes Anti-Malware yesterday. It detected scores of files as false positives and labeled them as Trojan.Downloader.ED. Processes, memory modules, files, and registry entries were all affected. If an unsuspecting user of the program chose to 'clean' the files, it would render the computer unbootable as key Windows system files were missing … [Read more...]
PSA: Windows XP and Office 2003 updates and support ends a year from today
Here's your public service announcement: Microsoft will be dropping extended support to Windows XP and Office 2003 April 8th, 2014. April 8th, 2014 will be the last Patch Tuesday for both of those products. After that date, there will be "no new security updates, non-security hotfixes, free or paid assisted support options or online technical content updates." … [Read more...]