Using LinkedIn
LinkedIn is a powerful tool for enhancing and maintaining your professional people network. An article about the service was recently published in USA Today. I was first introduced to LinkedIn several...
View ArticleKeePass
Once upon a time I frequently reused passwords. So if you knew my dogs name, or what kind of car I drove, you could easily have pretended to be me with just a little extra work. This is obviously a...
View ArticleHigh Speed Personal Scanner
I prefer to store documents digitally, rather than with paper in drawers. I have long sought a way to quickly convert paper documents into digital form for archival and search/retrieval purposes. I...
View ArticleEmail – Finder or Filer?
I just read a great blog post here that speaks to a transition I recently made myself. I have been an Exchange/Outlook user since 1996, before Outlook was even a product. During those years I...
View ArticleDual-Monitor Display
Many computers support a dual-monitor display, and I would bet that many people don’t even realize it. For instance, most laptops allow you to use the internal display and a monitor plugged into the...
View ArticleMicrosoft OneNote
I like to avoid paper whenever I can. Why? Because it is heavy to carry around, it is time consuming to make backups, and most importantly I am always misplacing it. Certainly paper has its place...
View ArticleWindows Cleanup
One downside to using Windows regularly is how performance seems to degrade over weeks and months of normal system usage. In my experience, the root cause is typically sloppy and/or malicious...
View ArticleLastPass
Once upon a time I frequently reused passwords. So if you knew my dogs name, or what kind of car I drove, you could easily have pretended to be me with just a little extra work. This is obviously a...
View ArticleCloud File Storage
Do you frequently use more than one PC? If so, you should consider using either Google Drive or Microsoft SkyDrive to share files among your different computers. Both of these services operate in a...
View ArticleMy Public Key
—–BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK—– Version: Mailvelope v0.8.2 Comment: Email security by Mailvelope – http://www.mailvelope.com xsBNBFODtJEBCACM/tNpTJH19MvadDWTO83kXmcWSCjxPORbI5Mx/6wWVtdH...
View ArticleProtect Your Online World
As our everyday world becomes more dependent on Information Technology (IT) everyone must take steps to protect themselves from malicious threats. Government agencies and large corporations have large...
View ArticleScars & Grief
I’m old. What that means is that I’ve survived (so far) and a lot of people I’ve known and loved did not. I’ve lost friends, best friends, acquaintances, co-workers, grandparents, mom, relatives,...
View ArticleMy Public Key
—–BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK—– mQINBFpx69YBEACkJpUPTcIfDesoaiFhC1DAfrdatWbJnWvhfb/1YwkLQnFjq7At GTkyIG53Cb0kT2ImM0IWo573gzP4t/n3zIvV/r4+7Ycrf+wEpTIV6WhSD0bPHEfv...
View Article
