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Continue reading →: What can a startup or small business do to stay alive in the Covid catastrophe
Ok hat tip to Tom, Rick, Will and Keith for inspiring this post. But if you are a small business what can you do. FWIW I’ve never run a small business so I don’t know much about that, but I have worked with startups (and even been in one), but…
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Continue reading →: Running Secure Zoom Meetings 1, 2 and 3
Everyone is now worried about Zoom security and how to make sure that you are really running end-to-end encrypted and there is no possibility for anyone to see what you are talking about. Zoom included. First of all, Zoom is inherently secure if used well, you just make sure that…
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Continue reading →: Zoom video backgrounds are back!
They removed it for a while. You can access this on a Mac or PC by going to Preferences > Video > Background. But where do you get footage that looks good? Well, Pexel to the rescue. While Unsplash does photos only, Pexel also does royalty-free video, so that’s a…
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Continue reading →: Zoom Security and Privacy Problems, Fixes and Response and a Lesson in PR
Well, Zoom has exploded in usage and has just been hammered in the last week culminating in bans. There have been countless stories about Zoombombing where kids and conferences have been inundated. Not to mention privacy problems and security holes. And most importantly, it’s not been if Zoom is a…
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Continue reading →: The ultimate Covid-19 Home Office
OK, I’ve gone from spending an hour in my home working to nine Zoom calls on Friday and then working until 10PM on various projects (Covid response, helping companies survive, investment funds, etc.). So suddenly having the right home office setup has become really important. So help the economy and…
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Continue reading →: Gaming and Gaming Builds in Covid-19 Era of 2020
Well there is so much to write about here. In this Covid crisis, gaming at home is on the rise. Most sites are reporting a 50% increase in traffic. Certainly it does seem like virtual reality might very well finally find its niche as people look for escape from their…
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Continue reading →: Tips for Aliases in GSuite
Ok, this is a confusing topic because there are two distinct things you could mean by this. The first is if you want rich@foo.com to actually go to rich.tong@foo.com. And the second is if you want hr@foo.com to actually go to a group of people in the company like rich@foo.com…
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Continue reading →: Docusign Billing Strangeness You need to Call them
For such a cool and modern company, you can sure run into some strange troubles. For instance, we just started a new account and tied it to a Paypal account (and even got a nice first year discount thanks to Silicon Valley Bank), but then the troubles began. The bill…
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Continue reading →: Monitor advice for photography
Well, I’m no expert on this, I have many expert friends: 1. If you want the very highest quality, then NEC really makes the best monitors. So there are specific monitors like the BenQ PhotoVue. Because they are much more managed in terms of colors so $1K to $5k are not…
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Continue reading →: Using Asana (and Trello) for a Startup
Well if you are working in a startup, it feel like things start to get out of control, there are a bunch of decent free choices. I’ve used Trello for years and it is a good way to have Kanban cards and is a nice overview of the projects. Also…