Jun 16, 2016 | Azure, domains, mail, Microsoft, Office, Office 365, OneDrive, photos, Skype, web_services, Windows10
(2020/10/08 – click here for an updated, shorter, less snarky version of this article.) Microsoft has two different types of accounts. Many of you have credentials – an email address and password – for both of them. Years of marketing and branding blunders have...
Jun 8, 2016 | Android, Apple, Google, LastPass, Microsoft, security, web_services, Windows10
We’re drowning in passwords. Slowly – slowly! – we are moving out of the Age Of Passwords. Better alternatives exist. Apple has integrated fingerprints deeply into iOS and fingerprint readers are turning up on many Android phones. Microsoft has built Windows Hello...
Jun 5, 2016 | LastPass, remote, security, web_services
Don’t re-use the same password over and over. TeamViewer is in the news this week because of a nasty ongoing security problem. It might not be TeamViewer’s fault, and with luck it won’t affect any of you, my loyal and much-loved readers. But the story illustrates an...
May 18, 2016 | Android, Apple, Microsoft, mobile, Office 365, Outlook, phone, web_services
The Exchange mailboxes run by Office 365 are now standard in businesses of all sizes. They are supported on every device imaginable, from Windows and Mac computers to the native mail/contact/calendar apps on iOS and Android. Office 365 is one of the most commonly...
May 5, 2016 | Box, Microsoft, Office 365, OneDrive, web_services
Microsoft provided an update today on the latest updates and the future of OneDrive For Business. The service has basically been in disarray since its rollout and improvements have been promised for more than a year – never actually arriving but always just around the...
Apr 24, 2016 | Chrome, LastPass, security, web_services
Let’s set up a system that will help you track your credit cards. It will make life easier if a card has to be replaced – and these days, cards are being replaced all the time after they’re lost or stolen or hacked or just arbitrarily replaced by banks that hate us....
