Microsoft has announced that it will no longer make the Office for Mac 2011 installer available through Office 365 after September 22nd. If you would like to get a copy of the installer before that date, you can head to the My Software page of the Office 365 Portal. Office for Mac 2011 has been succeeded by Office 2016 for Mac. It is vastly superior, in my opinion, and … [Read more...]
Google Chrome goes back and forth on Backspace as back button
Almost universally through all of the different web browsers, the backspace key on your keyboard can serve as the Back button to navigate to the previous page. It has been this way for a long time and perhaps it made more sense in the prior days with less content creation in the browser. Now, I am sure almost every person has experienced it at least once, the painful moment … [Read more...]
Open Google Now cards in full browser
Like many articles, this one stems from something that annoyed me. Android, at some point, changed how their Google Now cards in a light version of Chrome. They claim it is faster but I would gladly trade the speed for the familiar, full-featured Chrome browser. Fortunately, there is a setting to disable this light "Powered by Chrome" browser and use your full, preferred … [Read more...]
Internet Explorer Enterprise Mode Site List schema 2 improves readability
Microsoft released a new version of the Internet Explorer Enterprise Mode Site List tool within the past few months. It finally came time to update my list, so I installed the latest tool and updated the list. The big change is that you can specify which browser a URL should open in. For example, if you need a site to open in IE but the end-user opened it in Edge, the … [Read more...]
VMware Remote Console on Windows 10 gives ‘Failed to install the hcmon driver’
Trying to install the VMware Remote Console software on a new Windows 10 computer consistently resulted in the error message 'Failed to install the hcmon driver.' After several attempts with minor troubleshooting changes (fresh reboot, background processes killed), I still could not install the software. Searching for the error message, resulted in a knowledge base … [Read more...]