The absolute most common thing I do with my daily-use computer is file management, but a close second is taking screenshots of just about anything. This is such a common occurrence that the demand for a great screen grab tool has led me to expect a great deal from whatever tool I use. Previously, I’ve […]
It’s not a regular occurrence for me to test an app these days. Things are far too chaotic and the time isn’t always there to try out things. Journelly itself is quite simple and easy; this is what appealed to me about it. All of the text-based features you expect are there including spell-check and whatever else you invoke from the keyboard interface. Yes, even the Apple A.I. stuff is available too…
The most important advice I’ve ever ignored is that of book outlining. The idea is, before writing that book, build a solid outline of each chapter and the ultimate flow of your book. It’s great idea in practice. But…
Remote access is something of an occasional tool for most people. They might use it to help mom find that website, but for us in I.T., this is a fundamental tool, nearly as important as a web browser or a file manager. I’ve written about other tools, such as Logmein, that abandoned it’s free users, […]
The problem being solved: Some pesky tools have changed locations and even file names over the years through different versions of Windows. To account for these changes, runlist allows you to create a template for all these different locations and run the tool consistently across machines.
For those who act on the need to dump words into something resembling a book, they’ll be pen-to-paper purists or the type that I am: write it all out on a computer. Certainly, there are other options, but why in the hell would anyone type out a book using Dropbox and a smartphone? What I […]
I have some new, free, software for you. It’s been a while since I’ve released anything new – years in fact. This time around, I’ve made something to help with the laborious task of calculating taxes on a final amount. This comes up in situations where the receipt a company gives you doesn’t include a […]
It’s been a whirlwind year working with InvoiceNinja 5, a web-based accounting package you can run in the cloud, or on your own server (self-hosting). Think of it as Freshbooks, but running on your own servers. I’ve run through self-hosting every version available, testing with dummy data, pulling out my hair, migrating from Quickbooks and […]
The UNVR-4 appears to be designed to evade any sense that it was built for business. Let me take you into the issues I encountered while setting up. Given a robust product, these issues would have been uncovered and I’d have moved on to the next thing. But, because of Unifi’s extremely minimalist design, getting at details was difficult.
Passwords aren’t going anywhere. Even though we’ve seen a rise in a new type of authentication including two-factor and even Yubico-style log-in options; passwords still seem to persist in our lives. If you’re online and use passwords (I know you do), you want to be as sure as possible when storing them. This means, no […]