Archive for the ‘Technology’ Category
Today I had a student call me on my google voice number and tell me that his laptop would not start up with video. Nothing on the screen. He even tried to hook it to a TV and there was nothing coming out. Video card seemed to be toast.
No big deal?
Normally this would be [...]
Tags: dropbox, online storage, security
A cool tool I started to use in late January is Prezi..
Just a PPT replacement, but think about the uses. Record yourself presenting in front of class then share the prezi and the video. Two for one. You can drill as deep as you want, so share concepts and as you go deeper perhaps [...]
I found something like 1400 folders that had no content. I ran the vanity remover yesterday and haven’t missed anything yet.
Does it really matter that you remove empty folders from your HDD? I cannot imagine why, but I am sure someone somewhere will tell you. Check Google. The funny thing about this app is the [...]
I work for Sage Software as well as DeVry. Both use exchange for their email and I initially thought I could get both Exchange accounts on my iPhone.
As most of yo know you can only have one exchange account on your iPhone at a time however. DeVry was a wash since I could not [...]
I use KeePass to keep track of the various usernames and passwords I use. I generally use the same password on a majority of sites and change it regularly — I know bad idea.
I like KeePass because it can also generate good passwords for you. Things like !)(*)@LLLJDLKSJDIIijsladksjiiisdjsldasjLKJl##33 if you like. Then you do not [...]
I started using Google Public DNS the day I found out about it from DLS here. I have used open dsn in the past and I use that as my default at home. Why use both? How?
Why use both
Open DNS does a lot of protection stuff. It protects my 8.75 year old from going to [...]
Man can .vhd or Virtual Hard Drive files get big! At my day job we use a lot of Virtual Machines that run on Virtual PC. This is mainly my doing. The rest of the company mainly uses vmware, but I start with Virtual PC years ago at Business Integration Group and it just stuck.
Anyway [...]
Wolfram Alpha is a pretty cool information engine created by the guy who wrote Mathmatica. Mathmatica is an application used by anyone doing any sort of mathmatics computations or calculations. You can express complex calculations using the application. He made lots of money selling the app.
So if you type in Jason you will get information [...]
Getting back on track. Jason has been away from a while and he explains what he means to get back on track and working on the site again.
Tags: Back on track, track, websites
Stealing from customers? Who would do that?
If you really want to alienate your customer base you could try stealing from them… It is not a new idea mind you:
Look at the names on that report. Buy.com, 1800 flowers.com etc.
You have visited these sites and they have tried to steal from you by offering coupons [...]
Best April fools joke and obscure at that. Saurik, the developer of Cydia has rickrolled everyone who is silly enough to click the cydia announcement that he has sold to MS. Now we all know that is a joke, but the rickroll from 2007 is just worth it.
While I really like the iPhone spell check and suggestions, it does have it’s drawbacks. Today I sent a text to my wife: “Can we eat fat Chinese for lunch”? I obviously meant to say THAT Chinese and not fat. How in appropriate.
I still do not turn it off. It saves me more key [...]
Tags: iPhone
In the WEB 460 class I am teaching at DeVry we are changing the rules a bit. We are working on a collaborative ecommerce site and in doing so we needed to have some sort of central repository. So we went with Git. Well Git has no central repo, so how does that work? Really [...]