Happy New Year from Gears of Geek
It’s a new year , and we’re putting together a whole new look, exciting new content, and new tools for our readys. These will be rolled out over this year to make this site...
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Streamlining Your Life: How to Simplify Your Accounts
Management Overhead Last year, I noticed that I spent a lot of my time on managing my finances. I moved and changed jobs twice. I created Gears of Geek domain and changed my primary...
Use Trello to Take Control of Your Scrum Based Projects
Introduction I’ll show you how to use Trello to take control of your scrum-based projects. Trello is a popular online project management tool with a number of extensions that enhance its capabilities. What is...
Do You Use Apple Stock Apps or 3rd Party Apps?
The App Struggle Is Real I’ve been going back and forth between using Apple apps for what I call “Core” functionality – Calendar , Email, Web Browsing, Task management, Notes , Photo Management ,...
How to Fix Blinking Blue Light on ScanSnap
The Issue Yesterday, I turned on my ScanSnap 1300i to scan some documents in. The blue ready light blinked like it normally does when warming up, but it usually stops after a few minutes....
Scrum: The Art of Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time
Scrum: The Art of Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time by Jeff Sutherland. You’ll get an overview of how the Agile methodology called Scrum works and examples of how it can be applied...
Essential Mac Apps
A new Mac user can easily become overwhelmed be the sheet number of applications that they need to sift through while looking for the best Mac apps for each task that they wish to...
Getting Rid of Gremlins in your Mac – SMC and PRAM
Have you ever noticed strange behavior in you Apple Mac computer? It may be the system not sleeping when you close the lid, bluetooth devices not pairing , bluetooth turning itself off , or...
‘The Phoenix Project’ Book Review
I’ve decided to start this blog by introducing you to books that greatly influenced my career and I think that you will find useful in developing your career as well. Methodology books have taught...
Using PIA – Prevent Network Access Without VPN
Private Internet Access(PIA) is a great Virtual Private Network(VPN) service , but it does have some shortcomings that necessitate workarounds. One of those is where a Windows 10 PC/VM may connect to the Internet...