Posts Tagged ‘Technology’

Yesterday heralded the much anticipated public release of iOS 4.2 (giving the iPad it’s first dose of iOS 4 and all the goodies contained therein) and the update was downloaded by quite a few people – myself included.   Unfortunately, it would appear at first glance as though the update completely wiped out all of [...]

Making Vulnerability Management Easier: HoneyApps

Posted: 14th September 2010 by John in Personal
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Every now and then in my line of work I come across a tool / service that I find to be interesting or just plain useful.  These are tools that either allow me to do some really cool things or have the potential to save me a ton of time, or both. A few weeks [...]

I think sometimes that we, as a society, work too much.  There’s a feeling that in order to get ahead at the office we have to put in inordinate amounts of time in the office, or even work while we’re at home as well.  I am not immune to this ridiculous idea – I often [...]

Making Technology Easy and Intuitive

Posted: 23rd August 2010 by John in Personal
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As I wrote yesterday – I use technology when it’s faster and easier than the alternative.  In the same vein, I’ve found that technology must be easy and intuitive or I won’t want to continue using it.  This isn’t a new concept – it’s common sense. If you look at technology that’s been wildly successful [...]

Just the essentials

Posted: 20th April 2010 by John in Personal
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Earlier this week at work I had the good fortune of having a solid state drive loaned to me to test and play around with in my Macbook Pro.  Figuring that the only PROPER way to test a drive like that is to make it my system drive I had the occasion of doing a [...]