I had an interesting case come across my desk earlier this week involving PowerPoint. It seemed this person wanted to print out the slides along with the notes that they had made. Actually, it gets a little more complicated than that. High-ranking administrator had originally created the PowerPoint and put notes along with each of the slides. After that, the slides were handed … [Read more...]
ComicRack – An eComic Reader
To commemorate tomorrow being Free Comic Book Day I've reviewed ComicRack, software that manages your library of and lets you read eComics. eComics are digitial forms of traditional comics, typically scanned in by dedicated groups of fans or offered by creators who believe the Internet is the future of comic delivery, maybe even Marvel and DC will jump on-board someday. eComics … [Read more...]
Download the Latest Adobe Flash for Firefox and IE Without Any Extras
Previously I've provided a (fairly obvious) method of how to download the installers for the latest version of Adobe Flash for Internet Explorer and for Mozilla Firefox without having to install the Adobe Download Manager, GetPlus, GetPlus+, or whatever other name they're calling that junk. Since then Adobe's updated their site and the work-around is no longer an option. … [Read more...]
Earth Day 2010
After last year's compilations of green IT suggestions, this year I wanted to report one of the recent Green changes I've been able to make to my organization that's saving us over $3000 a year in electricity costs and 113 KWH per night. Also read until the end of the article for a cool announcement about Legos and going green. This year, between hardware updates and getting … [Read more...]
McAfee Nukes Windows XP Computers World-Wide
McAfee's definitions for today, 5958 dated April 21st, has a false positive that is detrimentally affecting computers around the world. The definitions are detecting C:WindowsSystem32svchost.exe as W32/Wecorl.a virus. Svchost.exe, as you may be aware is a critical Windows files that is required for network/Internet communication to work. More info as the story breaks and I … [Read more...]