I find people’s reaction to various technological tools somewhat baffling. If your child is about to use a hammer, you’ll likely give her some pointers. There’s a learning curve. If it’s a power tool, the instruction may be more careful. When the tool is technological, we tend to fear it and decline to spend the time actually learning to use it.
Computers users have gotten used to using user names, passwords, and pins to secure their data. They may not be thinking of it in terms like “securing my data,” but they don’t want snoopy people in their phones, tablets, or computers. Unfortunately, many people have passwords or pins that may be easily guessed.
From opensource.com, 4 opensource alternatives to Microsoft Access. Some may be easier to use as well.
Very soon now, WordPress will have a new editor, called Gutenberg. It has been in production for some time. I want to update my IT clients and authors about this change. There are many lengthy reviews of Gutenberg, and many debates about its functionality. I’m going to keep this brief. Gutenberg is the technically oriented,…
Note to self: Always remember that your Adobe Creative Suite apps work together. Don’t do it all in Photoshop when you like InDesign better for layout and can then edit graphics with Photoshop in the layout. Or overlays for video in Premiere Pro. (This is an observation and neither a paid promo nor an affiliate…
If you’re having problems loading some secure sites using Firefox (for me it’s gmail.com, which is secure!), you might need to check the notes on this page.
Wordfence Lists Top Security Analysis Tools, and it is generally worthwhile to read their material.
We’re transferring our retail operations at Energion Publications (which includes Neufeld Computer Services) to the Aer.io platform. As part of this process, I wanted to import these products into a WooCommerce store as affiliate links. An Aside Why do I want to gather affiliate links to my own store in WooCommerce? Well, there are several…
“I really don’t pay much attention to security,” the potential client told me. “I don’t have anything on my computer that anyone would want to steal.” There was a time when that would have been an almost valid idea. If you didn’t do your finances on your computer and you didn’t keep personal information there,…
I heard a couple of guys talking the other day about how the big box stores are dying one by one. Somewhere in the discussion they indicated that they thought this would be a wonderful thing and that small local stores would replace them. That’s not the direction things are going. Yes, there are many…
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