This past weekend, my family and I took a small mini-vacation to North Conway New Hampshire. We drove up on Friday afternoon and back on Sunday evening. We booked a 2-night package at the Fox Ridge resort that included a visit to Santa’s Village, a children’s theme park.
I recently received an email from TimeHop letting me know they had decided to sunset their Daily Email feature and will be focusing on their mobile app. The Daily Email feature was a simple email sent each day with your social media posts from a year ago. It’s a simple enough feature but I enjoyed seeing my posts from a year ago that day and didn’t want to stop receiving them.
I started to think about writing my own simple application that would remind me to check the TimeHop page each day when I remembered about the amazingly useful site called IFTTT. Read More
Over the weekend I saw this post about some recent attacks on WordPress sites and verifying WordPress security is enabled. I thought for a moment about adding a password limit plugin when I remembered that I had installed WordFence which actually includes an incorrect password limiting feature. There are a ton of other options to go through with WordFence but here are some of the basic features included in the free version. Read More
Python comes automatically on Linux and Mac systems but with Windows you have to install it. Getting Python on Windows is pretty easy. Here’s some instruction.
Please note, these instructions are on a Windows 7 system and installing Python version 2.7.x. Read More
For a while I was using an Excel template to send out invoices whenever I did some tech consulting. That worked ok for one-off invoices but it was definitely a pain when trying to keep everything organized and looking back at past invoices.
Want to add another layer of security to your Google account – try enabling “2-step verification”.
Some things to understand before enabling 2-step verification for your Google account:
So your Facebook account got hijacked. Your account is sending all your family and friends strange messages about buying an iPad for $0.40. Now what do you do?
I get a ton of questions about working with .iso files so I figured I’d do a quick write up to refer people.
I learned recently that a friend may have lost a ton of images she had on her Android phone. Someone commented later how easy it is for important items to get lost in technology. While this can be true, there are proactive measures we can take to ensure there’s a “backup” just in case. Read More
I was asked about Facebook’s security settings from a friend the other day and after giving out some advice it got me thinking. I looked at Facebook’s available security settings and wondered what would be good to enable and also what other people might have theirs set to. Read More