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The Bands: Battery Fail!
Had you asked me last night which device was winning, it was a pretty easy call… I am really loving the Microsoft Band 2. So when I went to bed and turned out the light, I was happy to click the appropriate buttons to set my Sleep cycle… which was really easy to learn on…
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The Bands: Compatible Systems
On Monday I published my first article in the “Battle of the Bands” series between the Microsoft Band (left hand) and the Fitbit Charge (right hand). Yesterday I spoke about my first impressions, and the Microsoft Band seemed to be ahead. Today’s piece – connected applications – weighs heavily in Fitbit’s favour. I have been…
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The Bands: First Impressions
On Monday I published my article announcing that I was going to spend a month wearing two fitness bands: The Fitbit Charge (on my right hand) and the Microsoft Band 2 (on my left hand). In truth I picked them both up and started wearing them on Saturday, so as I sit here (Monday evening)…
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Battle of the Bands
Are you looking forward to the show? Do you want to rock? Yeah? Well… then you’ve come to the wrong place. Battle of the Bands is not going to be about music… it is going to be about wearable fitness devices. Once upon a time, a long long time ago (say… 2010) I bought a…
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A Day In The Life? How about a cycle?
I recently performed an IT Infrastructure audit on behalf of a company in Canada. The client was basically satisfied with what I gave them, but wanted me to elaborate on something. “Mitch, what do you mean when you say we should fully document our processes? What processes? How do we even start? Now, as a…
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Hello? Nice… but is it worth the money
Microsoft has, over the last few versions of the client, made it much easier to log on to Windows. By introducing PINs, Picture Passwords, integrating logons with Microsoft Accounts they have given us a lot more freedom, while taking security quite seriously. I honestly think it is harder to hack into someone’s personal computer today…
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Panic at the Windows to Go Corral…
I really like my Ironkey Windows to Go (WTG) drives. In fact, I like them so much I carry two of them – a W300 (software encrypted with BitLocker) that is domain-joined to one of my clients’ domains, which I use full-time since my corporate laptop went for a swim, and a W500 (hardware encrypted)…
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Covering Your Tracks: Not so easy when walking in the Cloud!
I got a panicked phone call from a client a few weeks ago. Mitch, we fired one of our sales people last month, and we just discovered that she stole all of our client information, and covered their tracks by completely wiping their Outlook clean. We need that information back. Is there anything we can…
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2015 in review
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2015 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: The Louvre Museum has 8.5 million visitors per year. This blog was viewed about 210,000 times in 2015. If it were an exhibit at the Louvre Museum, it would take about 9 days for that many people to see…
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I’m Back… and not a single step to show for it!
By the time our plane landed at Holguin, we cleared Passport Control, Security, and had retrieved our luggage, waited for everyone else, and then endured the two hour drive to the resort it was going on 2:00am. To use one of my favourite British slang terms, we were knackered. Still and all, after we checked…
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If It’s Serious Do Not Facebook Me!
I was standing outside in the cold filling my gas tank recently when my cell phone rang. A friend of mine called, but because he was calling with an international calling card his number was not displayed. He had just moved to a different country so his phone number changed, and I knew I wouldn’t…
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Greetings from Cuba!
I will be honest folks… I was going to say that we are loving it and I wish you were all here, but it would be a lie. Stephanie and I are having the most wonderful time here, and we are enjoying the quiet and calm. I look forward to seeing you all next week! …
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Not Now… When?
You sent someone an e-mail and you get an Out of Office Reply that reads something like this: I am on vacation for a fortnight and upon returning I will be deleting all of my e-mail. Please resend on January 10. Now wait a minute… your e-mail to them was important, but are you going to…
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Windows 10: Where are my files?
I have gotten three calls in the past month from friends asking for help. They updated their computer to Windows 10, and all of their files are gone, just like that. It seems that there are a couple of questions that are either misleading, hard to read, or easy to overlook… One of them says…
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Seven
Sometime in the last few hours… probably around lunchtime on the East Coast, TWAM welcomed its 700,000th visitor. Thank you!
The World According to Mitch
The day to day ramblings of an IT Professional (and so much more…)
The World According to Mitch 