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HTTPS, Again – Should We Be Screaming About This?
This whole HTTPS and Google’s push to encrypt (or weaponize depending on your perspective) is back on people’s lips again. I’m a little late to the party of course, since I have been out of the...
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Strangely, The Leef iBridge Destroys Your Files [And a Fix]
The one thing a product that stores data should never do is destroy it. Sure, there may be other smaller issues, but I was surprised to learn that a Leef iBridge 64GB device I tested actively...
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Helping Other I.T. Consulting Companies
The most amazing side effect of being in the technology business is working with all sorts of technical people. Most often, they work for manufacturers or vendors; but they sometimes branch out and...
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A Chat With the Mayor of Oshawa
This morning has started randomly. While sitting down to drink a coffee and read the tech news, I ran into Oshawa’s Mayor John Henry. As a homeowner, small business owner, and an electric vehicle...
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Making a Super Basic KeeWeb Installation Work [How-To]
The amazing web-based tool KeeWeb is perhaps one of the better ways to make Keepass databases work for you in a cross-platform environment. The challenge with using this tool, however, is that it’s...
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How To Spot a Fake or Scam Website
Often I hear this: “How am I supposed to know when I see a fake? They’re all so perfect!”. This familiar refrain is often followed by the person explaining how “computer illiterate” they are or some...
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TD Bank Seems Set on Becoming Canada’s Worst Bank
I don’t often blog about banking in Canada; Because, let’s face it, I don’t want to put you to sleep. But, as I was reading today’s news, I came across an interesting turnaround by one of Canada’s...
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Reviewing the Apex Computer Stand From Sano Creative
Dubbed “The World’s Best Laptop Stand”, the Apex Stand arrived as a Kickstarter project. The stand was wildly successful, gaining $417,515 in pledges. I liked the idea immediately. Laptops are quite...
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CWL’s What to Read – A Different, Yet Simple Mailing List
Blogs, sites, social networks, and news sites are all vying or your time. With all that noise, it can be difficult to ingest the most compelling and useful information out there. In the past, I’ve...
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Teatro Colón [Photo]
This is Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires. A enormous and beautiful building in its own right. But, it’s what’s inside that counts. This building is currently ranked as the third best opera house in the...
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Integrating KeeWeb With Dropbox for Data Access [How-To]
By now, if you’re new to using KeeWeb, you should probably have read my really basic intro to getting KeeWeb working from a place you host. You may have decided to host it on your own server or...
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This is strange and confounding, but seemingly something that clearly makes sense when put up to basic scrutiny. The pitch, as Karl Palachuk puts it, is that Windows users who are not locally...
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Reviewing the PeakDesign Messenger Bag
As someone who works in I.T. on a daily basis, but is also into photography, I rely on bags for more than I like. Most cheap bags (hasn’t everyone had a APC bag in I.T.?) are great for storing...
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Highlighting the Good: Teksavvy
One familiar refrain amongst all Canadian Internet users when talking about service levels is “There’s nothing we can do”. We’re resigned to bad connections, routing devices that appear untested,...
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Exchange 2016 and Reducing Disk Usage on the Server’s Boot Drive
Every new version of Exchange Server seems to need more space on a server’s boot drive. Given that, you may be faced with building an Exchange Server and wish you had made the boot partition larger....
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I Struggle With How Badly Technology People are Represented Online
What has this all come to? Regularly, I read articles and blog posts, but I also see a good deal from people who represent my industry, namely the Computer Technical Service or MSP folks. What I’ve...
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Apple’s September 7, 2016 iPhone 7 Event
I’m a big Apple product user. Currently, I regularly use a Macbook Pro for administration duties, a Magic Mouse v2, an Apple Wireless Keyboard, Apple Watch 1, and an iPhone 6s Plus. For the most...
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The New Macbook Pros (and Old Apple Problem)
By now you may have heard the Apple has announced new iterations of the Macbook Pro laptop line. These new models are causing a bit of a shitstorm for Apple on a number of fronts. The new laptop models...
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Let’s Encrypt Just Did A Reddit AMA
If you’re following trends on the Internet, you’ll know that Google (and others) are really pushing web encryption. To this end, Let’s Encrypt has really aided in getting sites easier, and quicker...
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We’re Doing it Wrong: Creating an Active Directory Domain
Wrong, wrong, wrong. It can be hard to admit that.We’re naming the fully qualified domain name (FQDN) of an Active Directory domain either a valid name, or using .local TLD and these are both...
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