Password security is one of the hottest security issues and one of the most difficult to manage, regardless if you are a Fortune 100 company or an independent consultant, such as myself. Password managers make it a lot easier to manage your side of password security, and if you are not using one, you should. […]
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Xampp WordPress: Install WordPress Locally on Windows
This is a fantastic post from acclaimed blogger Siobhan McKeown , explaining how to install WordPress on your local PC workstation: Xampp WordPress: Install WordPress Locally on Windows. For those of you who are not familiar with XAMPP, it is a collection, or ‘stack’, of tools which essentially provides you with all of the functionality […]
Tech Support XKCD Style
This post is just for fun. Anyone who knows me well knows that my favorite web-comic is XKCD (note: not always safe for work and not always for the sensitive). One of my favorite strips is the Tech Support Cheat Sheet, which I will guess is one of the more popular ones. XKCD explains how […]
Top Thirteen Desktop Apps
About four years ago, I wrote an article on my top ten MS Windows applications, plus one. In 2008, these were my top ten (plus one): Firefox Notepad++ Directory Opus 9 SnagIt v.7 AusLogics Disk Defrag CCleaner TrueCrypt Microsoft Excel Nuance Paperport AI Roboform Evernote (honorable mention) In 2012, I give you a baker’s dozen […]