What’s on my desk when I’m away from my desk? I don’t really have a home office; it’s too easy for me to get distracted when I work at home. Personally, I prefer to get outside of the house. But…
Nowadays, you need to have your own online space. Social media is great, but it’s even better to have a space that you own and control. It’s all a part of creating your brand – or to put it in…
For most people today, streaming video over the Internet is easy. There are dozens of apps and websites where you can watch anything from college courses to music videos. You can watch your favorite movie on your smartphone, pause it,…
Watch as teenagers interact with a 21-year-old OS for the first time. <iframe width=”640″ height=”360″ src=”https://www.youtube.com/embed/8ucCxtgN6sc” frameborder=”0″ allowfullscreen></iframe> The teenagers are working on what looks like an early 1990s desktop with a Dell CRT monitor. The poor kids don’t even…
These are the best reads of 2015. The articles listed below come from a wide variety of sources. Some are from mainstream media outlets, others from independent outlets. Some are opinion pieces, some are news articles. But they all have…
The late ’90s, when floppy disks were still in common use. Of course, the average formatted floppy disk only held 1.44MB of data. How would you store massive amounts of data in a portable format? Enter Iomega’s Zip disk. The…
In my post Why I Call Myself a Digital Hygienist, I promised to show you how to keep your electronic devices safe from harm. Today, I will write about the greatest enemies of electronic devices. These three things will drastically shorten…
The year was 1999. Online commerce was hitting its stride and the dot com bubble was still growing. Amazon was beginning its ascent to the top of the food chain. As Americans began to embrace the idea of doing all…
The recent terrorist attack in France has once again reignited debate over encrypted communications. Many people in law enforcement and government have come out in favor of building a “backdoor” accessible only to authorities. This recent controversy over cryptography and the…
Many articles about interviewing for a job will tell you that one of the oldest clichés is to describe yourself as a “detail-oriented perfectionist.” This is to be avoided because the use of this phrase makes the interviewer think that…
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