Oldie but goodie

Office365 is rock solid

So far, Office365 is rock solid and quite powerful. For my Apple/Mac friends out there, I’m running all Office365 apps on Win8 using Parallels 8 Coherence. Experience is entirely seamless to the point where I’ll likely uninstall the native Office suite (which is WAY behind the windows 2013 apps feature-wise and in terms of ease […]

Photo to drawing

Playing around a bit with Adobe Photoshop. Learned a cool technique for turning any photo into something that looks like a charcoal line drawing in just a few clicks of the mouse. Here’s one of my bike shot in the Northern CA redwoods.

2-factor (ok 1.5)

Continuing the trend of getting my crap together in terms of online security, I finally enabled 2-factor authentication across all my online email (e.g. Yahoo, Google) and cloud storage providers (e.g. Dropbox, Evernote). Not naive enough to think that I’m perfectly secure now, but at least these type of measures will slow these nefarious SOBs […]