When the Adobe CS4 products came out, I spent a lot of time looking into how to deploy titles like Photoshop and Dreamweaver. Even using the CS4 Deployment Toolkit, nothing would allow me to create a .msi installer that would work with Group Policy, only for Microsoft Systems Management Server and Apple Remote Desktop. While I'm hoping to get my organization to invest in the … [Read more...]
Hands-on With The Firefox 4 Beta 2
Firefox 4 is under development with the first beta available and the second beta just hit the wire. The new version is, of course, getting faster and improving security but let's check out some of the new features to see some of what's coming next with Firefox. The features differ a little bit depending on your operating system with Windows Vista/7 leading the way in having the … [Read more...]
Move on with Ex-blocker, Hide Your Exes on the Internet
Ex-blocker is an add-on for Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome that allows you to move on with your life by blocking you from visiting your Ex-girlfriend/boyfriend's Twitter, Facebook page, and blog URL. It also whites out any references to the individual on webpages you visit. And if you're quite the pimp, you can block up to five exes with each add-on. To use Ex-blocker, you … [Read more...]
A Rant on Cyber-Bullying or ‘They’re 11. You, the Parent, Take Responsibility!’
This is partially a rant and partially a list of resources to help protect your children safe online. I was "inspired" to write this post for two reasons, I was already accumulating the list of resources for keeping kids safe online and secondly, Good Morning America had an interview with a family that was victimized by cyber bullying where they got it all wrong. Here's my two … [Read more...]
Resolve Internet Explorer Slowly Opening New Tabs
Internet Explorer introduced tabs with version 7 but one of the many reasons I prefer Firefox and increasingly Chrome is that they handle tabs better. To open a new tab, you can hit the key combo Ctrl+T or click the button near the current tab in any of those browsers. The problem with Internet Explorer, both version 7 and 8, is that it takes a noticeable amount of time for the … [Read more...]