Are You a Slave to Technology or It's Master
From Triond:
Years ago, technology promised to make our lives better, and lessen our work week. Of course, this never happened. There is an expression "Work Smarter, Not Harder.." In this podlet I dicuss what is our life like, when we follow this motto, and become the masters of the technology we use everyday.
How Use Outlook and Sharepoint Meeting Workspaces Together
Often times, Microsoft gives multiple ways of accomplishing a task. In the early days of computing this was quite an “innovative” idea. Old DOS (TTY) software was plain text with a menu, and to accomplish a process required a certain precise set of steps.
Today, we no longer live in a "menu driven" world, this has it’s benefits and it’s liabilities and Microsoft Office / Sharepoint integration is no exception to this rule.
This tutorial is designed for people who use Microsoft Office and Microsoft Sharepoint and who want to make the most of a "Meeting Workspace"
Tagged as: | learning | elarning | tutorials | business | computer | computers | technology | tech | outlook | sharepoint | microsoft
Daylight Savings Time Argument
Some thoughts on "Daylight Savings Time"
You know that wierd thing that many of us have to do to set our clocks forward (or backwards)
Spring Ahead - Fall Back
Why do we do this - it doesn't really "save" time, so why do we call it that?
Tagged as: | DST | Daylight Savings Time | savings | time--savings | self-improvement | technology
Google and Salesforce Join to Fight Microsoft
I've had the oppertuninty to use both Salesforce.com and Google Apps. In this new york times article, you can read more about google and salesforce joining forces to implement customer relationship managment software linked to existing google applications.
From a programmers perspective, Both Google apps and salesforce, have nice, easy to use API's, so I see a lot of promise here. No word that this will be *free* though, but someday maybe. Salesforce.com licenses can be a bit pricey.
Tagged as: | google | business | salesforce | microsoft | computer
Protect Your Wi-Fi Connection
Many people don’t know how easy it is for people to connect to their wifi and steal their internet and bandwidth. Why sharing your home internet with everyone that is near your house if you don’t want them to?
Now, don't get me wrong, it is nice to want to be able to share your Wifi, or perhaps you and a few of your neighbours want to get together and share your high speed bill. Wifi can be an excellent way to makes this happen.
But even in this case, it might not be advisible to just let anyone come in, snoop your traffic, steal your information and move on. This is the risk you present yourself with if you are not using proper Wifi security.
Well it is quite easy to prevent this from happening and this article from TheComputerMaster walks you through the necessary steps.
The basic idea is you define a wirless key using a security known as WPA-PSK. Then only give the key to those you trust to access your machine.
Choose a long key to prevent brute force attacks. Don't think you are safe using the old, outdated WAP security, or trying to configure mac address filtering. Neither of these give you any real security. Always go WPA-PSK as a minimum for your WiFi needs.
Tagged as: | computer | wifi | security | business | tech | technology
