The C-Loop was my introduction to the Kickstarter [http://www.kickstarter.com/]
service. If you don’t know, Kickstarter is a way for potential inventors /
service providers to crowdfund their ideas. It provides
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Today marks another milestone in my professional career. I’m going to begin
writing blog posts about a great new Information Technology Service Management
(ITSM) tool called ServiceNow [http://www.servicenow.com]. We
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Over the last 6 years, IGG Software [http://www.iggsoftware.com]has continued to
lengthen their lead in the Macintosh Personal Finance space, becoming the
dominant player assisting you with all aspects of
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On March 27th, I was listening to the Security Now podcast (Security Now #397 –
“Listener Feedback #164” [https://www.grc.com/sn/sn-397.htm]), when Steve Gibson
mentioned a Kickstarter [http://kickstarter.com]
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On Monday morning, I got a call from one of our Executives telling me that his
home computer was displaying a strange message and asking for some assistance.
I asked what was displaying
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A friend of mine (he has a blog over here [http://aucontrary.com]) gave me an
idea for a program. He wanted to know when his kids got home (and when they
left)
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For reasons beyond anyone’s understanding, Apple sets OS X’s bluetooth audio
quality quite low, this is probably to allow for better bandwidth, but still.
When I first read the bluetooth quality
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I’ve been on a bit of a Personal Productivity exploration for quite a while. I
can’t imagine how I got anything done in the past without my Daily Actions
workflow. One
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See my other article here [https://robpickering.com/?p=1025] for instructions on how to
root the Nexus 7 under OSX in the first place. Some of those instructions are
repeated in this
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I got a Nexus 7 last year and have been playing with it on and off since then.
Recently I upgraded to JellyBean 4.2.2 and it toasted my Root. I went
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I got into a discussion the other day around the merits of Evernote versus
Dropbox. Just about everyone has heard of these two services and I wanted to
explore why you’d use
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I’ve been on a bit of a productivity kick recently. My newfound passion with
productivity was a direct result of a guy I work with (thanks @DigitalPeterson)
hassling me about dusting off
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Keeping your system up to date is the single most important way to prevent
security and malware issues. Ubuntu provides nice tools for maintaining your
system, but if you manage it via a
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I run an Astaro Security Gateway (ASG) from Sophos (now called Sophos Unified
Threat Management [http://www.sophos.com/en-us/products/unified/utm.aspx] (UTM))
for the bulk of my firewall needs at
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