Is the data on your phone worth $400?

I have a Samsung S3 that decided it wouldn’t boot on Wednesday.  After talking to the very helpful people at Samsung they decided that they can replace my phone for me but I need to send them my broken phone. Awesome! But… All my data is on my phone. All my email. All my passwords. … Read more

Activate “GodMode” in Windows

GodMode is a control panel In (Windows 7 and Windows 8) that brings together all of the customization settings to one place. To activate “GodMode” do the following: Step 1: Right click on the desktop Step 2: Click create folder. Step 3: Name the new folder: GodMode.{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C}  and press enter. Step 4: The folder changes … Read more

How to protect your social media accounts.

Earlier today I was asked to come up with the best way to keep your social media accounts secure.  Here are 5 easy ways to protect your social media accounts: Update accounts with unique, complex passwords.Complex passwords will contain a combination of upper and lower case letters, symbols and numbers, and have at least ten … Read more

The Alton Brown Skirt Steak

I made the Alton Brown Skirt Steak on coals tonight. It was really good but next time I make it I will leave it on another minute to get it medium-rare instead of rare.  Here are a couple of pictures:

The No No Rule

In two weeks I am on a career panel for a group of high school kids interested in technology careers. They sent a list of discussion questions they were going to use to get the conversation started and one of them was: What does it take to be successful in information technology? The answer to … Read more