IT conferences and consulting businesses

April 17, 2012 Leave a Comment

I found some more articles I wrote! These were on behalf of a CCIE training company.

First, 5 Great Conferences for IT Professionals in 2012:

There’s no better place to network and get a taste of the cutting edge than at an industry conference. Whether you’re looking for new contacts, searching out the next technology that can streamline your business, or just need to keep up with the lingo, these five conferences are terrific choices.

Read the complete article at Online Computer Tips.

As if that weren’t enough, how about 5 Things to Consider When Starting Your Own IT Consulting Business:

So you’re making the leap from employee to entrepreneur. As you marshal your skills to begin a new life as an IT consultant, keep in mind some basic advice from small business experts.

Read the complete article at Tech Fume. Complete except for outgoing reference links, oddly, so they are listed below:

The Guerrilla Consultant
Steve Friedl
Karl Wiegers
Randy Thomas and Susan Berry

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Top Mobile Fitness Apps

April 16, 2012 Leave a Comment

When you go out for a run, do you take your phone? It has your tunes, after all, and it’s a good idea to be able to call for help just in case you twist your ankle on some backwoods trail. So why not put that phone to more use with apps that help motivate you and track your progress?

No matter what type of smartphone you own, there are apps for you. Best of all, the selection of free apps is surprisingly large.

Read the full article at Resurrecting the Champ.

You may notice that my bio at the end of that article links not to this site or my Twitter account, but to a mobile app development company. Since they’re the ones paying me to write the guest post, they get the link. You’ll start seeing more stuff like that soon. Reeeeeeal soon.

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Growing up geeky

April 13, 2012 1 Comment

On March 26, a piece called “Dear Fake Geek Girls: Please Go Away” appeared on the Forbes Web site. It excoriates those who adopt the “geek” mantle frivolously or as a positive descriptor to get attention.

Over the next couple days, The Internet at large (and other columnists at Forbes itself) came down hard on the sentiment, proclaiming geek culture to be open, welcoming, and delighted to be moving ever more into the mainstream. We’re the cool kids now! Everyone wants to be like us! How could that be bad? Read more of this post

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New Hippo Techie: 5 free Mac antivirus programs

April 12, 2012 1 Comment

Get a Mac, they said. Macs don’t get viruses, they said.

What they meant was, “Apple Macintosh computers are much less likely than Windows computers to be affected by malicious programs, partly because the operating system is generally more secure and partly because its market share is so much lower and therefore not as appealing a target.” They absolutely didn’t mean, “Macs are not capable of being infected by a virus.” Because they absolutely are.

Read the full column at The Hippo.

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New Hippo Techie: Future past

April 5, 2012 Leave a Comment

I’ve spent the last couple weeks addicted to Words With Friends and Lexulous, Scrabble clones that I play online. Both have Android (and iOS) apps, so even stepping away from my computer provides no relief from the addiction.

It’s sort of weird that I can get so wrapped up in a digital version of a game I have in an armoire in my house that’s been taken out maybe once or twice. But the online version, and especially its mobile app extension, offers a fundamentally different experience. Most of my opponents are distant friends I haven’t seen in person for years. Moves can be made hours or days apart, so we don’t even have to be free at the same time. I also have a dozen games going at any given time.

That same-but-better feeling drives a lot of apps and gadgets. Developers have taken a few different tacks in the quest to replicate one of the most ancient and useful inventions ever: paper.

Read the full column at The Hippo.

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