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I use Two-Factor Authentication for my Google Apps account and I use the Google Authenticator application on my iPhone to generate the second factor. Microsoft Accounts (formerly Live Accounts) just launched Two-Factor Auth and you should set it up now...
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My buddy Damian and I both recently bought the Lenovo X1 Carbon Touch. It's got Intel SpeedStep technology so it changes the CPU speed dynamically based on load. These two laptops of ours are identical . However, here's Damian's Task Manager...
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In the past few months we’ve really been fleshing out our cli and surfacing more and more Azure services to your fingertips, literally! In this release there is a lot of goodness, I think you are going to like what you see! Here’s a quick...
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At home I use a Synology 1511+ NAS (Network Attached Storage) server for all my family's digital things. The Synology gives me virtually all the features I had when I was in love with the Windows Home Server . I can add a drive of any size and get...
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I mentioned the Electric Plum Mobile Simulator as a nice way to check your site on an iPhone while using a Windows machine in my post called " Create a great mobile experience for your website today. Please. " Microsoft WebMatrix 2 RC is out...
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I have long sung the praises of Console2, an alternative Windows Command Prompt . In fact, I declared in 2004 that Windows was (and is) missing the boat when it comes to Text Mode . A kick ass terminal is exactly what Windows needs. I'm not talking...
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I'm still using my iPhone 4s mostly but a Nokia Lumia 800 showed up in the mail last week. Turns out that Nokia was giving away new Lumias to folks that had written Windows Phone 7 applications in the month of January as a part of their "WPNewYear"...
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In August I purchased and reviewed the Microsoft Touch Mouse . I still use my Microsoft Arc Mouse more than the touch, initially due to what I felt was dodgy scrolling performance on the Touch Mouse, as I mentioned in my review. Still, I've kept it...
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Sure, I work for The Man in my day job, but I have an iPhone, a few iPod Touches, and two iPads in my personal mobile life. I have great respect for the Windows Phone 7 UX and I have a Samsung Focus that runs Mango that I swap my SIM into every few months...
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My buddy Jeff Handley tweeted this nugget of brilliance recently. Every year I give the grandparents DVDs with all of our digital pictures from the year. To them it's a gift. To me it's off-site backup. — Jeff Handley (@JeffHandley) December...
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It's probably not unfair to call me a Twitter Power User. I use it a lot, it's my favorite Social Networking site and I've written a number of reasonably popular articles on the topic. How To Twitter - First Steps and a Twitter Glossary Twitter...
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Sometimes good UX is about being clever. Sometimes it's to make the user happy or smile. However, when the success of your product depends on new, possibly inexperienced users successfully downloading and installing it, good UX is the difference between...
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Everyone collects utilities, and most folks have a list of a few that they feel are indispensable. Here's mine. Each has a distinct purpose, and I probably touch each at least a few times a week. For me, "util" means utilitarian...
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This is an " updated for Windows 7 " version of my popular original article Guide to Freeing up Disk Space under Windows Vista . I've got a 256 gig C: drive, but noticed that in the last week or so I'd had only 20 gigs free. Not cool...
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My C:\Users\Scott\AppData\Roaming\Apple Computer\MobileSync was almost 25 gigs and on a 256 gig hard drive, that's 10% and that's tight. I wanted to move it but there's no officially support way. Here's a way. It's totally not supported...
