Random Technology Ramblings

I love to have music going when I am heads down into my computer but I really don’t like iTunes… So the Media key on the keyboard of my Mac has been all but useless to me until I finally did some searching and found some articles on LifeHacker. On the first post I like the first […]

I have enjoyed for some time now using a Mac as my primary computer, I have a MacBook pro 13 inch with a Retina display. I actually have two, I purchased one for myself a while back and work issued me one. I of course I need Windows so I use VMware to run Windows […]

In IE by default the address bar and the status bar is turned off for windows opened by JavaScript and that is fin for users but I want to see it when developing. The issue is that this is really a security thing so I always for get where to go to turn it on […]

I heard an interesting story yesterday on KPBS about password strength and ways to make passwords easy to remember but still quite hard to crack. The concept is simple use a short easy to remember password and then add a number of the same charter or a pattern of charters. Any example would be “Do!t……………………” […]

Tags: Password, Security

Today I was introduced to a feature of Outlook that has been around since Outlook 2007 but some how I missed it. The feature (as the title says) is called Quick Parts and it allows you to bring in blocks of predefined text in to a email quickly. So if you are adding the same […]

Tags: Outlook