Category: Employee Thoughts

Over the past week, I have been in Kansas City, Missouri, competing at the National SkillsUSA competition. SkillsUSA is a worldwide organization that both high school students and post-secondary students compete in at their particular trade. Skills is a very large organization with around 350,000 members in the United States alone. At the national level,…

Like most computer specialists, we throw around backup suggestions frequently. Many employees give anecdotal advice in addition to the standard general suggestions. What we haven’t done is show how diverse even our own backup solutions are. Below are some of our methods and habits in preserving our personal data. David: 2TB Time Capsule for Time…

Throughout history, Apple hasn’t been known to appeal to the video gamer market. However, in recent years, Apple has slowly been gaining steam (no pun intended) in this market. I would have to say that their launch of the App Store for iOS devices was a notable push into the hearts of gamers. Doing so…

If you asked most people what the difference between iOS and OS X is, most people would provide answers to the effect of “What’s iOS?” or “One uses a touch screen and the other, a keyboard and mouse.” A third, less obvious answer to this question is important to helping a user gain proficiency with…

I have a growing media library and a GoPro camera that I use to record my sailboat racing, so my storage needs keep growing, and will eventually exceed the capacity of the drives I have right now. I need a system that will aggregate multiple drives for lots of storage and some redundancy. If I…

The Super Bowl kicks off this Sunday, and we’re all placing our (friendly) bets. With a couple of native Marylanders (guilty) and a Mid-Atlantic-based employee in the house, we naturally have to root for the Ravens.* Of course, Hapy’s California upbringing has made him a Niners fan all the way, and his San Francisco teams…

My crystal ball is in the shop, so this year, I will polish up my glass hippo on the windowsill and find a polished surface to activate Cycloramic (clearly the iPhone 5 App of the year) for a 360° view of 2013. Ahh, here we go… Apple stock will hit a low of $425 but…

The world didn’t end at the end of the Mayan calendar, but how did I do on my guesses for 2012? WEATHER “A mild winter with record snowfall in March but an early spring.” I’ll give myself a 50% on this one. It was a mild winter and early spring but no record snowfall “Dry…

Chris was adopted from Ciudad Quesada, Costa Rica at birth. He lived in New Canaan, CT with his parents until they decided to move to Waitsfield, VT in 1998. Here, after cycling through boyish interests like being an astronaut, discovering Atlantis, video gaming, and sports, he got into music — most seriously at the age of…

Yesterday was both Dawn and Art’s 20-year wedding anniversary, as well as Barack and Michelle Obama’s 20th (congrats, you crazy kids!). Today, however, marks a decidedly sadder anniversary: it’s one year from Steve Jobs’ untimely death. Tim Cook, Apple’s current CEO, wrote about it on Apple’s homepage, and Apple has posted a video highlighting his…