Microsoft had previously announced an upgrade offer for purchasers of new PCs. They will be able to upgrade to Window 8 for $15 if their purchase is between June 2nd, 2012 and January 31st, 2013. Yesterday, Microsoft announced a broader upgrade program for everybody else. … [Read more...]
News from Google IO 2012 – Android 4.1, Nexus 7, and Nexus Q
The opening day and keynote of Google IO 2012 seemed to go pretty well for Google. They made some big reveals and then bam! right when the Google+ talk started to get boring they hit you with skydiving. Things introduced include: Android 4.1, Nexus 7 tablet, Nexus Q media player, Google+ new features, and more on Google Glass. … [Read more...]
Using Microsoft Templates to perform Pareto Analysis easily in Excel
A Pareto chart combines a bar chart with a line graph. It is used to help show the cumulative percentage across data. With your data, you might see that you could solve 80% of problems encountered by addressing the 3 or 4 most frequent sources. The effort and investment to correct those problems would be very effective in reducing the total number of errors encountered. This … [Read more...]
Firefox doesn’t clean up after itself since version 11
While in Add/Remove Programs of the Control Panel, I noticed I had 3 versions of Firefox installed supposedly. Versions 11, 12, and 13.0.1 along with the Mozilla Maintenance Service were listed as installed. We know in the version 12 update a new silent updater was included and I am wondering if the multiple versions and that update are related. … [Read more...]
Avast auto-sandbox disregards settings
Both Avast! antivirus and CPUsage updated recently and I was hoping the updates would resolve the problem the two were causing each other. Unfortunately, that wasn't the case and I finally got around to look into it more. CPUsage runs in the background with a virtual machine processing data that it is sent. A new process called Shelby.exe was getting caught by Avast's … [Read more...]