Business Strategy, Personal Development, Marketing
If you installed Cloudflare and Outlook stopped working, you are not alone. I had the same problem with Outlook breaking sending emails after I installed Cloudflare. There are a ton of threads out there about this, but so many of them go nowhere that I decided to write about the solution to fix Outlook after … Read more
When Windows updated my computer to Windows 11, I just let it work. When I came back, I needed to work, so I blindly charged ahead, finding Explorer and the Start menu, and kind of ignored everything else. Turns out my icons are there on the bottom and I can do the old Pin to … Read more
Learn to program with the Mimo app While purusing the App Store, I came across an interesting app called Mimo. Mimo is a learn to program app. I couldn’t resist, so here is a Mimo app review. Mimo Coding App Review Mimo is a learn to code app available on both the iOS App Store, … Read more
I’ve been working on various types of web development for years now. In that time, I’ve used several text editors, code editors, integrated development environments (IDE), or other software coding tools. Some of them I used by choice after hearing great things, others I was forced to use by clients who “use this tool.” My … Read more
Ninite is my favorite service on the entire internet. Essentially, it is a software installation service, but in reality, it is so much more. For some reason, the auto-update feature of many software programs fails from time to time. On my computer, the number one culprit is the Thunderbird email client. I don’t think it … Read more
One of the things that makes Mozilla’s Firefox browser so versatile is the wide array of add-ons and plugins users can use to customize exactly how the browser looks, works and feels. Plenty of addons, like Firebug, add functionality that goes above and beyond what is necessary in a standard web browser. However, all of … Read more
Yeah! Google Chrome is finally getting with the program. Well, part of it anyway. A blog post announced that Google Chrome beta is getting a built-in PDF reader. That means that I will no longer have to have a temporary directory to download PDF files into manually just so that I can click on the … Read more
Although I am, among other things, a freelance technology writer today, I was once a Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer, aka MCSE and a pretty high-level systems administrator. As such, computers have always been pretty easy for me. For most software, I don’t read the instruction manual or any of the program’s help files. If I … Read more
Sometimes a good idea is so obvious you can’t help but wonder why no one had bothered doing it before. Webmonkey reports that Google Chrome has released a new beta version of the Chrome browser that runs ALONGSIDE of the regular full-release version of the Google Chrome browser. The idea is that instead of having … Read more
I was going to just leave Internet Explorer alone. Everyone knows that it is the bottom of the pile when it comes to browsers. The only people who use IE are those who are either not computer savvy enough to know that there are options and how to get them, and those who do know … Read more
When installing a new theme, you probably look at the pretty background images, the colors, and maybe how it does or does not support Aero. But, don’t forget that different themes can also come with different sounds. After weeks of being annoyed by a banjo sound as my windows default beep, I finally went into … Read more
When you spend a lot of time in the world of technology it is easy to get jaded. New features that are promoted (self-promoted, and then echoed by lazy writers) are almost never as useful as they are supposed to be, and half the time, they are not even new. I almost ruined my eyes … Read more