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Who makes the rules? Hackers love them. Security auditors like to engineer them. The average person hates them. IT support teams use them for jokes. Our computer passwords have an identity crisis! Do passwords protect us or are they just a nuisance to our everyday lives? I find weekly articles Read More …
I solved a problem with a Roku 3 update this past weekend. The Roku box was a freebie from my internet provider when I signed-up for their streaming service package. The initial setup worked fine, but after a few weeks the system froze. I had to power cycle the unit Read More …
How will I pass-down all my digital content? Last January, I penned my thoughts about how I could shape my personal digital legacy. The topic came up again this week during a holiday gathering and I referenced my previous blog post during the discussion. (Doesn’t it sound so geek to Read More …
Most of the time when I browse and consume content on internet pages I’m trying to scan and read. Ads and videos that automatically start playing are more of a nuisance. They produce noise, delay the page from loading, and require I scroll through the page to stop them. Last Read More …
Ack! This story about Eugene Kaspersky complaining about Microsoft including antivirus software with Windows 10 touched a nerve. I had flashbacks to the litigation against Microsoft and Internet Explorer bundling in the late 1990s. Fast forward 16 years later from the browser showdown and we see that Internet Explorer is Read More …
Happy Wi-Fi happy life. When the Wi-Fi in my house is working well then life is good! When the Wi-Fi isn’t working so well then there is discontentment and restless natives. The quickest way to call a family meeting is to turn off the Wi-Fi and then walk to the Read More …
BlackBerry Chief Operating Officer Ralph Pini announced in a blog this week the decision to stop making the BlackBerry Classic. Pini writes that “sometimes it can be very tough to let go” but that “we will no longer manufacture BlackBerry classic.” It’s been so long since I’ve seen a BlackBerry Read More …
Does your GPS have a name? Years ago when I bought the first GPS unit for our family we gave it a name within a week. There was a human voice. That voice gave us instructions and told us when we made mistakes and needed to correct our route. It Read More …
How would you rule in this case? An employee is provided a smartphone and cellular service by their employer. The employee leaves the company and returns the device. Then the employee is brought under investigation for by the SEC for insider trading activities. The SEC requests the password for the Read More …
I’ve been using Windows 10 for about seven months for both home and office computing. Here’s a quick list of some useful productivity tricks I like to use: Print to PDF The ability to transform any document to PDF format is built in to Windows 10. Just select the print Read More …
Do you cover your webcam with a piece of tape? Over the past several years I’ve noticed that many colleagues in the office cover their webcams with a piece of tape. Maybe they’ve read about incidents of camfecting or maybe they are just paranoid of any intrusion to their privacy. Read More …
The error message. Lately, when I am on my home wifi I’ve been randomly receiving the message “Err_Network_Changed” from within Chrome. As you can see from the screenshot, when this displays there is no page content. Sometimes was able to refresh the page with the F5 key and it cleared. Read More …
My family bought me an android watch for Christmas. This gift is giving me a mental workout because I haven’t worn a watch since October 2009. I stopped wearing a watch then because I was getting time from other places, most often my cell phone. Now, six years later, I’m Read More …
What exactly is a technologist? I see the term technologist often and asked myself this morning what it really means. Is this one of those terms that means different things to different people? Is it a good or bad term or does it just provide a descriptive title? It seems Read More …
What will happen to all your photos and videos when you pass on? A few years ago I asked a friend and former co-worker what he thought about leaving behind information to his family. He replied, “The family cares about your values and stories. The stories are usually a part Read More …
How much data do you use each month from your mobile and home internet providers? Is it just me or do you find data caps both annoying and confusing? How much is a gigabyte of data? How do I know how much data I’m using when I check email, when Read More …
It’s not your Amex card, but you don’t want to leave home/work without it. For many of us, losing an email archive ranks as one of the most disruptive events to our daily routine at work. I don’t use email as my main information storage for documents, tasks, and workflows. Read More …
Ease of use wins the day. Attaching documents to email is perhaps the most-used business workflow invention in the last 20 years. I don’t think this feature of email was intended to become so intertwined in business workflows. But it’s so easy to click, attach, and send that the procedure Read More …
Are you there yet? Does news of the latest corporate data breach resulting in thousands of stolen identity records no longer shock or distress you? Today when I looked my news feed I found not one, not two, but three reports of hackers breaking through corporate firewalls to steal data. Read More …
A few months ago I cut the cord on cable TV. I still use the cable company for internet, but I traded the cable television for subscriptions to Netflix, Sling, and Hulu. For local TV stations I recently installed a HD antenna in the attic and I have the signal Read More …