Thank you for being one of our valued customers. We are writing to you today to make a very sad announcement. BeamItDown Software and the iFlow Reader will cease operations as of May 31, 2011. We absolutely do not want to do this, but Apple has made it completely impossible for anyone but Apple to [...]
I don’t know why but I’m quite proud of my very tiny, insignificant involvement with the Open Share Icon Project. I found it, wrote a post about it but really wanted to help in some way. I have a love for the SVG file format and I created a SVG version of the icon years [...]
The geniuses, Mark Russinovich and Bryce Cogswell of Sysinternals (formerly Winternals before bought by Microsoft in 2006) have release a new utility for their suite of fucking awesome utilties. If you are a sysadmin, then you know about them already. If not, suck it. Process Explorer and BGinfo are standard on all of my machine [...]
As loyal readers of The Minority Report know, I stea…uh…quote from Ghacks regularly enough and this morning when I read their tutorial on burning DVD’s using Imgburn I thought I would throw my two cents in. I use Imageburn almost weekly and it’s never let me down. It’s freaking awesome!! There isn’t too much that [...]
Everything is explained in the clip but just imagine how Castle Wolfenstein would look!! :P In all seriousness, Google Chrome is fucking awesome just because they are pushing the edge (beside Opera but people actually install Chrome…) and that is pushing all the other browsers. Even IE9. The new crop of HTML5 web browsers are [...]
Ok, I’ll admit that I’m not a huge fan of peanut butter…or Internet Explorer. One of my big complaints has been that IE doesn’t support SVG. I posted about Microsoft joining the SVG Working Group previously and this is a follow up post on the IE Blog update regarding their working with the group. In [...]
Holy freaking crap!! This is AWESOME news! Hopefully, SVG will become a first class technology in Internet Explorer 9!! No more work arounds, no more VML kludges! This is great news. As a part of Microsoft’s continued commitment to interoperability and standards support, yesterday we submitted our request to join the Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) [...]
Obviously, this blog uses WordPress but we also use WordPress as a “development” platform for other projects as well. Some of these features supplant plugins and other are just freaking awesome for ease of administration. The WordPress developers have released version 2.9 of their popular blogging script WordPress which can be downloaded from the official [...]
It’s only a matter of time before all this code we create becomes self aware… Thought that 2009 was the year that botnets died, well think again Batman, it was actually the year they bounced back. Compromised computers were responsible for distributing 83.4% of the 107 billion spam messages sent around the world, every single [...]
You know…it’s the little things in life. As a systems administrator, I’m in and out of the Services MMC snapin pretty frequently. It’s annoyed me almost every time because it opens at 640x480px and defaults to the Extended view. Well, I took a shot at it once and set the properties to “Open Maximized” but [...]
Earlier this month, Mr. Chen on his blog The Old New Thing wrote and interesting post on an award bestowed by some Internet association on the Best Web Authoring tool. Turns out that Notepad, the extremely simple text editor (mostly the edit control with a wrapper) included in Windows, won. Back in the late 1990s, [...]
October 2009 marked an important milestone in the history of computing. It was exactly 40 years since the first Multics computer system was used for information management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Multics (Multiplexed Information and Computing Service) is regarded as the foundation of modern time-sharing systems. Multics was the catalyst for the development [...]
Daniel Pataki over at gHacks posted this nice article about using the WordPress API, specifically the WordPress Template Tags, to do more with your blog. If you’ve been developing themes, or taking a go at modifying your own, chances are you’ve run into the WordPress Template Tags page. This part of the WordPress Codex lists [...]
I’ve blogged about the progress that the Remote Desktop Services (RDP) gang at Microsoft is making and some of their tutorials. I’m not sure what’s going on here but this is one hell of a graphic!! Traditionally, Remote Desktop Services (previously called Terminal Services) provided the ability to host multiple, simultaneous user sessions on a [...]
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