Advice Attending IT Pro Meetups Is Well Worth Your Time It has been way too long since I've last written an article so I figured it's about time to do so! I need to make a habit of posting something
Administrative Tools A Must Have Tool, Notepad++ Notepad in Windows is a necessary tool. It is a quick text editor that opens fast, and does Instead, I use . It is a free Notepad replacement that can handle hundreds of different types of files and is an excellent HTTP, XML, CSS, and
Community A New Creation from Joe – The IT Dashboard! In most every IT job that I have ever had, there has always been some type of website or ‘dashboard’ specifically for the team that I was currently working with. That home page would have embedded web links to the common or uncommon websites
Advise Does your internet connection drop out from time to time? Here is an explanation of why it happens… I was sitting at my desk last night doing my college homework and listening to streaming music (yay for Spotify I connected my desktop PC directly to the modem and reset it. After doing an ipconfig /renew from the command line, I had Internet
Advise Difficult to find Information about the Windows 8 Developer Preview It has taken me a while to find bits and pieces of information about the Windows 8 Dev Preview that was released last week. Some info such as removing the Metro UI and how long the Developer Preview will remain activated is not easy
Advise A great Office Suite to enjoy for free, LibreOffice One of the most important pieces of software on a computer is some type of office suite. Some of the most popular office suites are Microsoft Office, Apple iWork, Corel Office, and maybe even IBM Lotus. The downside to all of these office suites
Advise Professional Associations and People Networking As an IT professional, you should make it a practice of attempting to increase your people network. Having a LinkedIn profile and joining virtual associations helps a little bit, but you need to do more. You need to meet people face to face. One
Advise Career Paths for IT Professionals Lets face it. It isn’t easy trying to earn an IT professional job. It doesn’t matter if you have just a certification or two, or just a college degree. Nowadays you need to have at least a few certifications and a degree
