Category Archives: Technology

The Most Dangerous Thing You Can Do While “Multitasking”

So true. Please enable “DND while driving” on your phone! Both the iPhone and Android have the feature. I’ve been using it since I updated to iOS 11, and it works well. Just getting the notifications I found was a distraction, and since I can still get calls from my “favorites” it’s been a huge help.

OPTIMIZE with Brian Johnson | More Wisdom in Less Time: +1 #52: The Most Dangerous Thing You Can Do While “Multitasking”

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Billionaire ex-Facebook president Sean Parker unloads on Mark Zuckerberg and admits he helped build a monster

Yes, I realize the irony of posting this to FB, but it will also be on my blog which is where I’d like to see a lot of what goes on SM now distributed to.
Billionaire ex-Facebook president Sean Parker unloads on Mark Zuckerberg and admits he helped build a monster

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This Week in Tech 639 Anywhere but Albany

Good discussion on Facebook and Twitter in This Week in Tech (TWiT 639: Anywhere but Albany):
This Week in Tech 639 Anywhere but Albany | TWiT.TV

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How to Stop Your iPhone From Autocorrecting “i” to “A”

Yes, I️ am seeing this happen…
How to Stop Your iPhone From Autocorrecting “i” to “A”

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What intelligent machines can learn from a school of fish

Wow!

What intelligent machines can learn from a school of fish

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Addicted to Your iPhone? You’re Not Alone – The Atlantic

Addicted to Your iPhone? You’re Not Alone – The Atlantic

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10 Unusual Things I Learned From Mr. X – Altucher Confidential

Ep. 265 – 10 Unusual Things I Learned From Mr. X – Altucher Confidential

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Linux Startup Email

Want to receive an email any time your linux server reboots? Just create this script…

sudo nano /usr/local/sbin/startupemail.sh

Here’s the code for the script…

#!/bin/sh

# Lets things startup
sleep 60

# Get info
IP="$(ifconfig | grep -A 1 'eth0' | tail -1 | cut -d ':' -f 2 | cut -d ' ' -f 1)"
HOSTNAME=`hostname`

#Send email
echo "IP: $IP, Host: $HOSTNAME" | mail -s "Server Started" me@there.com

Make sure to make it executable…

sudo chmod u+x /usr/local/sbin/startupemail.sh

Then add it to your /etc/rc.local file

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Find the Members of an Active Directory Group

The simplest way to get the list of users in an Active Directory group is to use the following command right from the command line:

NET GROUP "my_group" /DOMAIN

And yes, that is the work “DOMAIN”, not the domain you are in. The only value to change in the command is my_group

Ref: Is there a way to view the members of an Active Directory group if you aren’t a domain admin and can’t log into a domain controller?

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Toodledo: Rekindling an old flame

Many moons ago there weren’t a lot of options for good web based task management systems. Being the nerd I am I tried a few and fell fast for Toodledo. Not because of it’s pretty face, or exotic sounding name, but because it does just about everything and more.

But, time moved on and I couldn’t get my wife to understand and appreciate this fling (that, and the collaboration functionality is a paid feature). So, to make peace we decided to use Wunderlist (i.e. it was the only one I could get her to use) which was great for a time, but then it was bought out by Microsoft, the site started getting slow, and the announcement was made that they would pull the plug and force everyone over to their new todo app (which to date doesn’t have a fraction of the features of Wunderlist).

So, lost in the woods and dragging my tail between my legs I logged back into my Toodledo account after being gone for too long. There was the fast, no-nonsense, easy to use task system I loved from the beginning. And new features had been added since I ran off in the night like lists and habit tracking.

Now, I’m back in love with the features that are sorely lacking or overly burdensome in most of the task management systems available. Things like start dates, start and due times (yes, imagine that – things need to be started or completed at specific times), duration planning, timers, priorities, status, and so much more! Add in the ability to create custom saved searches and it’s the engineers dream.

In addition, with the new habit tracking feature there’s one less app that I need on my phone, and because Toodledo “gets it”, the functionality is also available on the web and in the app.

In the end, if you’re tired of feeling like a sad sack with your trailer trash task management system that only lets you track tasks, and due date, and maybe a description I would strongly suggest you check out Toodledo and start up a new flame!

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