Category Archives: Tools

Useful tips and recommendations for development tools.

Keep is Short and Simple

By TechKnow | April 14, 2011

No one has time to read long rambling text. One of the great things about Twitter is that it has a 140 character limit, it forces people to be concise, precise, to the point. It is so much easier to follow someone twitter than someones blog. This is also true for corporate communication. Within a [...]

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Access Drives From Remote Windows Computers

By TechKnow | March 28, 2011

when you have to share documents between two different Windows machine, you can either use an FTP site, email documents around, or use a shared folder. I hate all of the above options, especially when I am the administrator to both machines and I am currently logged into both computers. In the case where you [...]

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My Favorite Feature on iOS Devices: Email Share

By TechKnow | February 8, 2011

My Favorite feature on iOS devices is the ability of sharing data, images, files, notes via email that’s built into many apps. I have a specific email account that I email myself tweets from Twitterrific, images from the Photos, links from Safari, sketches from SketchBook, etc. I treat this email account as my to do [...]

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Does Lenovo Use ThinkVantage Toolbox To Spam Users?

By TechKnow | February 7, 2011

Everybody hates pop ups with annoying ads to services you don’t need. But how to you block pop ups that are bundled as part of your computer? Recently I got this ominous looking warning that popped up from the task manager stating that one important issue with my computer had been discovered. When I clicked [...]

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HP Printer Driver Wants To Phone Home

By TechKnow | January 26, 2011

What is the job function of a printer driver? When you hit the print button what do you want to happen? Apparently if you are HP, you want users of your printers to get attractive offers on some of their other products. Apparently, HP is using their printer drivers to send system configuration of your [...]

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Missing Feature: The Mobile Device Self Destruct Button

By TechKnow | January 24, 2011

I use Apple’s Mobile Me service. I got the first year subscription as a gift a little over a year ago and I recently renewed the service for another year. I don’t use the email or calendar service in Mobile Me much but one feature that is worth its price is the Find My iPhone [...]

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