The University of Illinois is looking to redesign the 404 error page of their website. A “404 Page Not Found” is the webpage that displays when a user follows a dead or broken link. The 404 page’s purpose is to notify the user that they’ve landed on the wrong page, and to help direct them to the right one by either using a search bar or going back to the homepage. To find their … [Read more...]
YouTube Kids app brings safe videos to little ones
YouTube introduced a new app for Android and iOS devices specifically built from the ground up for kids. The app provides safe video content for kids in a layout that is easy to navigate and browse. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OUmMAAPX6E8 YouTube's approach for the new app included a new design with large images and icons. It also offers built-in voice search to even help … [Read more...]
404TS Tech Events Calendar
Keep up with the latest events in the technology sector using the 404 Tech Support Tech Events Calendar. We track the top upcoming tech events like updates, conferences, and announcements so you can always be on top of what's happening. You can see the next 3 upcoming events in the sidebar of the home page or any article. You can see the full calendar of events and scroll … [Read more...]
YouTube introducing multi-view videos
YouTube is introducing videos with multiple angles. The new experience is being dubbed Choose Your View and is available as a separate tab on a YouTube channel. During playback of a video with Choose Your View capability, you can click on the thumbnail to switch to that camera angle. Alternatively, you can use the left and right arrow keys on your keyboard or the number 1-4 to … [Read more...]
Microsoft KB Support articles are blank
For the past few days, you may have run into a brick wall while searching for Support articles from Microsoft. Their Knowledge Base articles have been rendering blank pages and jumping straight to the survey to ask if you found the information useful. Even better, you might have experienced the pages timing out or returning IIS errors. After enough refreshes, the page might … [Read more...]