Lift those PDF print restrictions
PDF, or portable document format, is ubiquitous on the Internet – every platform has an appropriate PDF viewer. The file format is an excellent way to ensure your colleague views the document in the style and fonts you designed it with – something a .doc file doesn’t cope well with, and that’s assuming they have [...]
Protect your Word, Excel, and PowerPoint history
Microsoft Office has a feature that maintains a list of recently viewed documents within the applications of the suite. From a usability perspective this is quite handy as the odds of you needing access to a recent document is quite high – and they are just a few clicks away now. However from a security [...]
Eradicate non present storage device information
Windows keeps track of every device that is connected to the system, even when the device hasn’t been seen in months. Every USB thumbdrive is uniquely identified and recorded in the bowels of Windows – the Windows registry. To the user, this is what allows Windows to always assign the same drive letter to an [...]
Running software with parameters easily
The necessity to launch an application by any manner other than a simple double click on it’s icon, or traversal of the Start Menu has diminished rapidly. So much in fact, you might not even be aware of why you would in any other way. The reason why this may be of interest to you [...]
Prevent UAC from dimming the screen
User Access Control, or UAC, is a security feature introduced by Microsoft in Windows Vista and exists today in Windows 7. By now you’ve probably heard all about it, but if you haven’t, you can think of it as your watchful mother looking over your every move – only this time on the computer. Simply, [...]
Bits & Bytes
- Brendon Wilson has a fantastic write-up concerning the ramifications of Bill C-61, which has been tabled in the Canadian Parliament. This a topic that I hope will be hotly contested and all Canadians are encouraged to write their MPs to present their feelings. Brendon provides a rational fact based argument against the bill, which should [...] More
- Fresh off my participation in the 72h Podcast record set by KATG this past weekend, I’ll also be doing my part tomorrow for Firefox’s attempt at the Guiness Book entry for most downloads in a 24h period. More
- Caveat, I’m a huge fan of Metallica – even after getting booted from Napster by their representatives (ironically I own all their albums). Metallica held a listening party for a few journalists in London but was then taken back when they wrote about what they heard. As a result, management had the reviews yanked from [...] More
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