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Random Tech Thoughts

Random Tech Thoughts

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In my daily life of web designer, IT manager, database developer, Excel specialist, application programmer, server administrator, person with a modern phone, and internet user I come across some puzzling situations. Here you can hear me work through them.

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Rack Studs Series 2

Published: Jan. 8, 2021, 2:32 a.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 1 second

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EnableLinkedConnections

Published: Oct. 14, 2020, 8:11 p.m.
Duration: 3 minutes 5 seconds

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Humble Book Bundle: Learn to Code the Fun Way by No Starch Press

Published: Oct. 13, 2020, 9:11 p.m.
Duration: 3 minutes 25 seconds

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Can't Remote In, Black Screen When Logging On

Published: Oct. 12, 2020, 5:34 p.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 28 seconds

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Pixel 3 XL not working with Windows Explorer

Published: Oct. 7, 2020, 7:15 p.m.
Duration: 3 minutes 43 seconds

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Nextcloud Web Installer

Published: Oct. 5, 2020, 3:51 p.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 13 seconds

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Free Computer Science Textbooks

Published: Oct. 2, 2020, 5:24 p.m.
Duration: 2 minutes 57 seconds

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Windows Server 2019, Change Product Key Does Nothing

Published: July 9, 2020, 3:58 p.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 44 seconds

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Mounting Attached Volumes In Amazon Web Services

Published: June 29, 2020, 4:35 p.m.
Duration: 2 minutes 7 seconds

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New-to-Me Server

Published: June 14, 2020, 12:36 a.m.
Duration: 2 minutes 8 seconds

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Setting The Background Color Of A Image Block In WordPress

Published: Dec. 5, 2019, 5:44 p.m.
Duration: 2 minutes 52 seconds

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AWS Oil & Gas Day 2019 - Machine Learning Field Development Optimization

Published: Nov. 4, 2019, 1:21 p.m.
Duration: 2 minutes 27 seconds

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AWS Oil & Gas Day 2019 - Afternoon Sessions Roundup

Published: Nov. 4, 2019, 1:11 p.m.
Duration: 2 minutes 36 seconds

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AWS Oil & Gas Day 2019 - Startup Central: Emerging Technologies In Oil & Gas

Published: Nov. 4, 2019, 1:02 p.m.
Duration: 1 minute 33 seconds

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AWS Oil & Gas Day 2019 - Customer Journey: Hilcorp

Published: Nov. 4, 2019, 1 p.m.
Duration: 2 minutes 53 seconds

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AWS Oil & Gas Day 2019 - Morning Session Roundup

Published: Nov. 4, 2019, 12:57 p.m.
Duration: 1 minute 33 seconds

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AWS Oil & Gas Day 2019 - Keynote

Published: Nov. 4, 2019, 12:53 p.m.
Duration: 1 minute 48 seconds

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AWS Oil & Gas Day 2019 - Getting Started

Published: Oct. 22, 2019, 11:20 a.m.
Duration: 1 minute 49 seconds

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Humble Book Bundle: Linux & Unix By O'Reilly

Published: Oct. 18, 2019, 11:29 a.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 30 seconds

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Test Your Sorting Options

Published: Oct. 9, 2019, 11:51 a.m.
Duration: 2 minutes 49 seconds

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Website Speed Follow-up

Published: Sept. 15, 2019, 6:15 p.m.
Duration: 2 minutes 19 seconds

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Page Speed Insights

Published: Sept. 14, 2019, 1:40 p.m.
Duration: 25 minutes 49 seconds

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Don't Distribute Sample Content

Published: Sept. 12, 2019, 10:02 a.m.
Duration: 2 minutes 20 seconds

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Grooper Giveaway

Published: Sept. 8, 2019, 10:57 p.m.
Duration: 3 minutes 58 seconds

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Unhelpful Help Docs

Published: Aug. 12, 2019, 12:12 p.m.
Duration: 3 minutes 9 seconds

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You're Unsubscribing Has To Work

Published: Aug. 9, 2019, 9:32 a.m.
Duration: 2 minutes 17 seconds

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netwrix SysAdmin-Avenger QUIZ

Published: July 25, 2019, 2:45 p.m.
Duration: 3 minutes 29 seconds

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Resetting A Windows Password Using A Linux Boot Disk

Published: June 19, 2019, 2:37 p.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 30 seconds

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Setting Up One Email Address That Goes To Multiple People In G Suite

Published: April 16, 2019, 12:55 p.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 20 seconds

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Humble Book Bundle: Microsoft & .Net by Apress

Published: April 3, 2019, 10:31 a.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 18 seconds

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Disk Inventory X

Published: April 1, 2019, 10:50 a.m.
Duration: 3 minutes 47 seconds

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A Couple Excel Issues

Published: March 30, 2019, 10:27 a.m.
Duration: 2 minutes 32 seconds

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Humble Book Bundle: Programming By O'Reilly

Published: March 29, 2019, 10:39 a.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 12 seconds

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Humble Book Bundle: Coders Bookshelf By No Starch Press

Published: March 28, 2019, 2:39 p.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 20 seconds

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SSMTP on Ubuntu Issue

Published: March 27, 2019, 12:17 p.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 39 seconds

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Share Permissions Are Different Than Regular Folder Permissions

Published: March 26, 2019, 10:19 a.m.
Duration: 2 minutes 35 seconds

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WordPress Malicious Script Recap

Published: March 25, 2019, 9:15 a.m.
Duration: 3 minutes 40 seconds

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WordPress Site Infected By A Malicious Script

Published: March 24, 2019, 9:42 a.m.
Duration: 41 minutes 38 seconds

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WinDirStat

Published: March 23, 2019, 5:46 p.m.
Duration: 2 minutes 16 seconds

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Download Your Google+ Data Before It's Too Late!

Published: March 22, 2019, 4:53 p.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 40 seconds

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Humble Book Bundle: Linux By Wiley

Published: March 12, 2019, 8:48 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 27 seconds

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Humble (Software) Bundle: Intro To Code

Published: Feb. 20, 2019, 8:32 a.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 45 seconds

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Humble Book Bundle: Python 2019 By Packt

Published: Jan. 13, 2019, 1:23 p.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 38 seconds

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Humble Book Bundle: Hacking For The Holidays By No Starch Press

Published: Dec. 20, 2018, 2:19 p.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 5 seconds

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Humble Software Bundle: Best Of Stardock

Published: Dec. 5, 2018, 12:41 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 13 seconds

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Microsoft Is Getting Rid Of The Edge Browser

Published: Dec. 4, 2018, 12:28 p.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 1 second

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Humble Book Bundle: CyberSecurity By Packt

Published: Nov. 27, 2018, 2:37 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 23 seconds

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Counting Things

Published: Nov. 26, 2018, 10:06 a.m.
Duration: 2 minutes 57 seconds

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Bundle: Big Data & Infographics, By Wiley

Published: Nov. 21, 2018, 12:25 p.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 17 seconds

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Humble Book Bundle: Java By Packt

Published: Nov. 12, 2018, 11:08 a.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 42 seconds

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Renaming A Bunch Of Files At The Same Time

Published: Nov. 7, 2018, 6:04 p.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 53 seconds

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Humble Book Bundle: Head First Series By O'Reilly

Published: Oct. 3, 2018, 1:11 p.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 13 seconds

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Humble Book Bundle: Learn You Some Code By No Starch Press

Published: Sept. 28, 2018, 11:37 a.m.
Duration: 3 minutes 23 seconds

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Humble Book Bundle: Game Development By Packt

Published: Sept. 27, 2018, 3:59 p.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 58 seconds

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Strike Through Text In Outlook

Published: Sept. 17, 2018, 11:06 a.m.
Duration: 1 minute 59 seconds

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Taping Down The ESC Key

Published: Sept. 12, 2018, 12:41 p.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 15 seconds

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"IF AND" Formula In Excel

Published: Sept. 11, 2018, 6:45 a.m.
Duration: 3 minutes 3 seconds

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Humble Book Bundle: UI / UX By Wiley

Published: Sept. 6, 2018, 3:09 p.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 21 seconds

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Humble Book Bundle: Machine Learning By O'Reilly

Published: Sept. 5, 2018, 11:14 a.m.
Duration: 3 minutes 20 seconds

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Check Out The Google Titan Security Key!

Published: Aug. 30, 2018, 4:56 p.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 52 seconds

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WordPress "Category" Pages Are Blank

Published: Aug. 27, 2018, 12:31 p.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 9 seconds

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Scam Email (not from) Amazon

Published: Aug. 26, 2018, 9:06 p.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 2 seconds

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Malformed RSS Feed

Published: Aug. 23, 2018, 10:27 p.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 33 seconds

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Humble Book Bundle: Big Data By Packt

Published: Aug. 22, 2018, 6:35 p.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 37 seconds

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Preventing Automatic Windows Updates

Published: Aug. 15, 2018, 10:01 a.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 10 seconds

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Keep Your Site Info Accurate, Updated, & Consistent

Published: Aug. 14, 2018, 10:43 a.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 50 seconds

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Humble Book Bundle: Cybersecurity 2.0 By Wiley

Published: Aug. 3, 2018, 12:06 p.m.
Duration: 29 minutes 8 seconds

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Humble Software Bundle: Up Your Game!

Published: Aug. 1, 2018, 9:07 a.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 49 seconds

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Another (Halfway Decent) Fake PayPal Email

Published: July 31, 2018, 1:14 p.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 7 seconds

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Humble Book Bundle: Virtual Reality By Springer Nature

Published: July 6, 2018, 4:24 p.m.
Duration: 3 minutes 47 seconds

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Stop Error At The Airport (Take 2)

Published: July 3, 2018, 11:02 a.m.
Duration: 3 minutes 52 seconds

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Use "Files Go" By Google To Free-up Space On Your Android Device

Published: July 2, 2018, 11:57 a.m.
Duration: 2 minutes 28 seconds

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Humble Software Bundle: Cybersecurity

Published: June 21, 2018, 8:54 a.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 55 seconds

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Who Is Satoshi Nakamoto

Published: June 20, 2018, 11:17 a.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 48 seconds

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The Debut Of The Google Podcast App

Published: June 19, 2018, 2:58 p.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 33 seconds

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The Humble Book Bundle: Programmable Boards By Make:

Published: June 19, 2018, 9:01 a.m.
Duration: 3 minutes 55 seconds

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What I Check When I Do A Disk Cleanup

Published: June 17, 2018, 9:48 p.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 55 seconds

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Connecting To An NFS Share For A Visual FoxPro Application

Published: June 11, 2018, 1:29 p.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 11 seconds

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Creating A "Virtual NAS" Using An AWS File Share

Published: June 10, 2018, 11:09 p.m.
Duration: 25 minutes 22 seconds

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LANBench

Published: June 9, 2018, 3:08 p.m.
Duration: 2 minutes 50 seconds

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Logging Level Of "Alfresco"

Published: June 8, 2018, 10:40 a.m.
Duration: 13 minutes 18 seconds

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A Bit About Microsoft Buying GitHub

Published: June 7, 2018, 10:12 a.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 25 seconds

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Project Natick!

Published: June 6, 2018, 9:02 a.m.
Duration: 2 minutes 19 seconds

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Humble Bundle Books: Pocket Primer

Published: June 5, 2018, 8:35 a.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 41 seconds

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YouTube Videos Show Up Black, Though Audio Plays

Published: June 4, 2018, 12:55 p.m.
Duration: 1 minute 28 seconds

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Adding A Pivot Table In Excel

Published: June 1, 2018, 10:36 a.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 2 seconds

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Humble Book Bundle: Web Design & Development By O'Reilly

Published: May 30, 2018, 10:17 a.m.
Duration: 3 minutes 42 seconds

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Multiple "IFERROR" & "VLOOKUP" Formula In Excel

Published: May 25, 2018, 10:53 p.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 13 seconds

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Removing OCR And Other Hidden Information From PDFs Using Adobe Acrobat

Published: May 24, 2018, 10:11 a.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 28 seconds

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Keyboard Won't Type

Published: May 23, 2018, 10:16 a.m.
Duration: 1 minute 49 seconds

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Terrible Website Security

Published: May 22, 2018, 11:08 a.m.
Duration: 14 minutes 33 seconds

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Save Your Work

Published: May 21, 2018, 2:46 p.m.
Duration: 1 minute 29 seconds

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How To Download The Applications And View The Licenses For Your Microsoft Applications Through The Microsoft Partner Network

Published: May 20, 2018, 3:36 p.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 6 seconds

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Don't Get Fooled By Fake PayPal Emails

Published: May 19, 2018, 8:18 a.m.
Duration: 5 minutes

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Some Browser Market Share Statistics

Published: May 18, 2018, 2:29 p.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 30 seconds

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Google Io 2018: Get Started With Tensorflow's High-level Apis [Recap]

Published: May 16, 2018, 11:26 a.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 19 seconds

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Google I/O '18 - Design For Inclusion: Insights From John Maeda And Hannah Beachler [Recap]

Published: May 15, 2018, 7:37 p.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 45 seconds

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Google io18: Developer Keynote [Recap]

Published: May 15, 2018, 5:42 p.m.
Duration: 14 minutes 55 seconds

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Google IO 2018: Introducing .App Domain Names And How To Secure Them [Recap]

Published: May 15, 2018, 1:51 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 22 seconds

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Google IO 18: Build With Google Pay [Recap]

Published: May 14, 2018, 5:11 p.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 48 seconds

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GoogleIO'18 - The Web: The State Of The Union [Recap]

Published: May 14, 2018, 12:20 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 55 seconds

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Google I/O 2018: Build Great Material Design Products Across Platforms [Recap]

Published: May 14, 2018, 11:09 a.m.
Duration: 1 minute 57 seconds

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Keep Learning & Progressing

Published: May 13, 2018, 12:44 p.m.
Duration: 3 minutes 28 seconds

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Changing The RSS Feed For Your Podcast On iTunes, Google, And Stitcher

Published: May 12, 2018, 3:42 p.m.
Duration: 2 minutes 58 seconds

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Humble Book Bundle: DEVOPS by PACKT

Published: May 11, 2018, 2:58 p.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 55 seconds

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IO18: Grow And Optimize Your Subscriptions With New Google Play Features [Recap]

Published: May 10, 2018, 5:07 p.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 9 seconds

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Googleio2018: Progressive Web Apps [Recap]

Published: May 10, 2018, 2:46 p.m.
Duration: 19 minutes 2 seconds

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Google io18: Building A Seamless Web [Recap]

Published: May 10, 2018, 1:09 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes

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Google I/O 2018: 10 Tips For Building Better Actions [Recap]

Published: May 10, 2018, 11:24 a.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 29 seconds

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GoogleIO18: An Introduction To Developing Actions For The Google Assistant

Published: May 9, 2018, 7:23 p.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 13 seconds

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Google I/O '18 "What's New With Android TV?" Recap

Published: May 9, 2018, 4:41 p.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 45 seconds

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Google IO 2018 Keynote Recap

Published: May 8, 2018, 6:26 p.m.
Duration: 22 minutes 3 seconds

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Google I/O 2018 Is About To Start!

Published: May 8, 2018, 5:01 p.m.
Duration: 1 minute 19 seconds

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A Few Things To Consider When Adding A New Page To WordPress

Published: May 7, 2018, 11:22 a.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 38 seconds

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WPMU Dev Tools Shows A Lot Of Deleted Files On My WordPress Site

Published: May 7, 2018, 12:59 a.m.
Duration: 2 minutes 20 seconds

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OwnCloud OCC file:scan

Published: May 5, 2018, 3:27 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 56 seconds

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Visual FoxPro Database Restore

Published: May 4, 2018, 4:52 p.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 29 seconds

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Barracuda VPN Issues, In Real Time

Published: May 3, 2018, 2:58 p.m.
Duration: 36 minutes 18 seconds

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Python Dev Kit On Humble Bundle

Published: May 3, 2018, 12:13 a.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 57 seconds

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GoDaddy And Fake Apps In Google Play

Published: May 1, 2018, 8:11 p.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 59 seconds

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SEO, Google Broad Core Updates, And Your SERP Rankings

Published: April 30, 2018, 7:28 p.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 43 seconds

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Updating An Ubuntu Webserver Using SSH

Published: April 30, 2018, 4:31 a.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 31 seconds

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File Transfer From Android To Windows Fails

Published: April 29, 2018, 2:41 a.m.
Duration: 2 minutes 43 seconds

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Pokemon Go Glitch That Changes My Avatar

Published: April 27, 2018, 4:42 p.m.
Duration: 1 minute 59 seconds

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Double-check Your Work

Published: April 26, 2018, 1:36 p.m.
Duration: 1 minute 48 seconds

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A Quick Thing About Power Banks

Published: April 25, 2018, 3:12 p.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 14 seconds

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Comparing Two Spreadsheets In Excel

Published: April 24, 2018, 6:36 p.m.
Duration: 12 minutes 23 seconds

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Expanding Hard Drive Storage Of A Virtual Server

Published: April 23, 2018, 6:19 p.m.
Duration: 3 minutes 51 seconds

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Did The Chinese Hack The IRS Website?!

Published: April 18, 2018, 5:32 p.m.
Duration: 3 minutes 38 seconds

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If Youre Going To Use A Paywall, Then Use One That Works.

Published: April 17, 2018, 7:26 p.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 5 seconds

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I Upgraded To Android 8 And I Regret It

Published: April 13, 2018, 4:04 a.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 40 seconds

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Quick Video & Podcast SEO Tip

Published: April 4, 2018, 7:22 p.m.
Duration: 18 minutes 58 seconds

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When iPhones Don't Connect To The WiFi But Android Devices Do

Published: April 3, 2018, 3:40 p.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 10 seconds

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Western Digital My Cloud Utilities

Published: March 30, 2018, 10:15 p.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 18 seconds

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Setting Up An Amazon Workspace With .Net 2.0 Features

Published: March 29, 2018, 8 p.m.
Duration: 17 minutes 45 seconds

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Mac Hard Drive First Aid

Published: March 26, 2018, 5:22 a.m.
Duration: 5 minutes

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Check Out Humble Bundle Books For An Awesome Deal On Programming Books

Published: March 16, 2018, 5:48 a.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 53 seconds

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How To Format An Excel Formula With A Line Break In It

Published: March 12, 2018, 9:18 p.m.
Duration: 3 minutes 9 seconds

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How To Upload A Podcast To Spreaker

Published: March 10, 2018, 6:39 p.m.
Duration: 3 minutes 57 seconds

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Trying A Pen Mouse

Published: March 9, 2018, 6:58 p.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 51 seconds

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Quest Rapid Recovery Issue

Published: March 7, 2018, 6:56 p.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 50 seconds

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Wierd Problem On Server, F1 & Overheating

Published: March 6, 2018, 12:24 a.m.
Duration: 7 minutes

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Driver Update Broke My Friend's Microphone

Published: March 2, 2018, 11:34 p.m.
Duration: 1 minute 36 seconds

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Fixing Your Computer's Clock By Switching Out A Tiny Battery

Published: March 1, 2018, 12:14 a.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 23 seconds

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OwnCloud "Conflict" Files Will Not Sync

Published: Feb. 26, 2018, 11:09 p.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 11 seconds

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You Can't Shut Down Your DNS Server And Then Keep Remoting Into Things On The Network

Published: Feb. 26, 2018, 4:19 a.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 12 seconds

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Hyperlink Not Wotking

Published: Feb. 6, 2018, 4:01 a.m.
Duration: 3 minutes 7 seconds

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