Venice.AI Platform – Deserves Your Consideration

Venice.AI Platform – Deserves Your Consideration

As someone who’s explored the world of AI assistants, I’m excited to share my thoughts on Venice.AI. This platform stands out from the rest with its unique combination of privacy, model flexibility, cost-effectiveness, and user-centric features. I’ll dive into the key advantages of Venice.ai, including its model flexibility and cost-effectiveness, and explain why I highly…

Setting Up a PHP Development Environment on Windows Using Docker
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Setting Up a PHP Development Environment on Windows Using Docker

Introduction Setting up a PHP development environment can be a daunting task, especially when you want to ensure consistency across different setups. Docker simplifies this process by providing a containerized environment that can be easily replicated. In this guide, we’ll walk you through the steps to set up a PHP development environment on Windows using…

New Company Reporting Requirement BOI
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New Company Reporting Requirement BOI

Beneficial Ownership Information Report (BOIR) Congress passed the Corporate Transparency Act (“CTA”) on January 1, 2024 to prevent bad actors to hide funds through complex ownership structures. Part of the CTA requirement existing companies to disclose their Beneficial Ownership Information (BOI) to the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (“FinCEN”). and it applies to most LLCs, closely…

The Rising Cost of WordPress Plugins: A Call for Transparency
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The Rising Cost of WordPress Plugins: A Call for Transparency

The WordPress ecosystem is facing a significant challenge that affects both website owners and developers alike: the escalating costs and complexity of plugin subscriptions. As someone who has navigated this landscape, I can personally attest to the frustration of seeing my initial investment in essential plugins skyrocket after just one year. For instance, a popular…

Moved the Site

Moved the Site

Over the weekend I moved my site to a new hosting provider. Although things are much easier than years ago, it is not a trivial task/project. My website platform is WordPress and I have been using it for many (15+) years. It is an amazing content management system (CMS) tool. Over the years, I have…

Deductible Business Expenses Categories for Small Businesses

Deductible Business Expenses Categories for Small Businesses

One of the benefits of small businesses ( sole proprietor or LLC) is that certain expenses can be deducted before taxes. The IRS has defined business expenses as “the cost of carrying on a trade or business,” going on to say that these expenses are usually deductible if the business operates to make a profit….

Windows 365 Cloud PC
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Windows 365 Cloud PC

On June 24, 2021 Microsoft announced WIndows 11. Last week during their Partner conference, Ignite, Microsoft announced Windows 365. It will be launched on August 2, 2021. Securely stream your Windows experience—including your personalized apps, content, and settings—from the Microsoft cloud to any device with your Windows 365 Cloud PC. Windows 365 is a cloud…

My first NFTs

My first NFTs

My First NFTs: About two weeks ago I posted a blog called What are NFTs, in which I attempted to explain the background associated with non-fungile tokens (NFTs). By now you may be asking where is my first NFTs, how did I get it and how much did it cost me? Disclaimer: As you probably…

My Current Desk Setup (Geared toward Virtual Presentations)

My Current Desk Setup (Geared toward Virtual Presentations)

Virtual presentations are my life right now. So many customers calls right now. This is my current desk setup — It is geared toward customer presentations… PHOTO HERE VIDEO HERE SOON. The tools I use: (some links are affiliate links) Hardware: Windows 10 Laptop: Primary: Dell Latitude 7400 2-in-1 Core i5=8365U @ 1.60 Ghz, 4…

Photo Organization – 2021 update

Photo Organization – 2021 update

have to admit I am still astonished at the fact that there is no good reasonably priced and friendly multi-user cloud-based system to manage a large photo collections. I have tried a lot of them and none has really hit the mark of what is needed. This is a big problem as we “the common people” continue to collect thousands of digital photos which remain unsorted/un-cataloged on disk drives!

Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas

A quick note to wish all of you a very good and safe holiday season. What a year 2020 was! – For me personally, my family kept me safe and grounded, but doodling and doodlingjorge.com kept me sane and helped me relaxed through so much this year. I am thankful for my hobby, and I…

A Busy June

A Busy June

Wow July 1, 2019. Is it only me, or the year is just flying by… Still very much adjusting to my Mom not being around. The weekly FaceTime calls, the laughs, the new suggestions on Netflix. Aside from her voice, I specially miss her likes on social media — Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and even the…

A week in my Life as an EUC Solutions Principal

A week in my Life as an EUC Solutions Principal

As we detailed in the previous article, “The Solutions Principal Role” within Dell Technology Services involves: “… customer facing activities acting as a subject matter expert (SME) in their respective field.    Their key responsibility is to assist services sales and account teams drive professional services through technical expertise, thought leadership, customer interaction and solution development….

Getting to Windows 10: Take the Blue Pill or the Red Pill

Getting to Windows 10: Take the Blue Pill or the Red Pill

I always start my Windows 10 conversations with the statement, there are two parts to any Windows 10 project: Getting to Windows 10. Maintaining Windows 10 This article is all about “Getting to Windows 10”. All of us have been to customers that have not yet officially started their Windows 10 projects or they are…

Strong and Different Passwords Protect your Digital Life

Strong and Different Passwords Protect your Digital Life

This week I did my annual corporate security training and I really liked this story to illustrate how important is not to use different and strong passwords  Don’t Let This Happen to You An online writer and journalist, suffered an identity theft that reads like a real-life horror story.   As he describes it: “In the…

Walter Mossberg Retires on Charlie Rose
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Walter Mossberg Retires on Charlie Rose

Walter Mossberg ,  THE GO-TO technology columnist for many years, is retiring.      He announced his retirement  in early June 2017 and Charlie Rose interviewed him not only on his life as a journalist but they got to talk about the future.  Excellent conversation.   A truly accomplished and down-to-earth person.      Impeccable journey,…

NAS for Home
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NAS for Home

In today’s digital age, managing data has become an essential aspect of daily life. From storing personal files to backing up business-critical information, having a reliable and secure storage solution is paramount. Two popular options for data management are Network Attached Storage (NAS) and cloud storage. What is Network Attached Storage (NAS)? A NAS device…

National Geographic Channel – Back to GOOD Programming
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National Geographic Channel – Back to GOOD Programming

I saw this article in the WSJ today, and I am so happy to see confirmation that National Geographic Channel is returning to educational and interesting programming rather than the terrible reality shows they have been for the past few years… There has been several programs so far, that have been great! Before the Flood …

Social Media Scheduling Tools Can Be Expensive

Social Media Scheduling Tools Can Be Expensive

While few business owners question whether or not the convenience and additional exposure granted by social media scheduling ( See blog post: Scheduling Social Media Content is Best Practice )is worth it, the cost of many of the “big name” scheduling services (e.g. Buffer, Meetedgar, Hootsuite) is beginning to become prohibitive. While it’s still possible…

Scheduling Social Media Content Is Best Practice
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Scheduling Social Media Content Is Best Practice

Today, having an established social media presence is no longer optional; if you want your business to survive and thrive, it’s absolutely necessary to be active on social media. Social media content must be of high quality, interesting, insightful, relevant, and above all else, updated regularly; with so many competing voices cluttering up the digital…

Google Is Closing Picasa – Google Photos Is Way Better
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Google Is Closing Picasa – Google Photos Is Way Better

It has been with me for as long as I can remember using the Internet, but it really has been with us for only 14 years..  ( According to Wikipedia: Picasa was an image organizer and image viewer for organizing and editing digital photos, plus an integrated photo-sharing website, originally created by a company named…

TimeSOW

TimeSOW

TimeSOW is a web-based project time entry and tracking system based on timesheets designed as a flexible and scalable solution to maximize user adoption, which they adopt and use it on a daily basis.. It can track, approve, and manage team members time incurred for projects and clients you define. You can pre-assign project time…

How to Engage Millennials
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How to Engage Millennials

Definitely a current topic! Finally emerging from the shadows of Gen Xers, most millennials are now in the workforce. But study after study has shown that millennials are different from Gen Xers and even from Baby Boomers, the generation that raised them. ” Develop long-term  niche relationships”   https://www.visioncritical.com/how-engage-millennials-customer-insight-and-marketing/ 2015-09-23T00:00:16-05:00

WaaS – Workspace-As-A-Service Market
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WaaS – Workspace-As-A-Service Market

According to a report by MarketsandMarkets, the Workspace-as-a-Service (WaaS) market, comprised of Virtual Desktop Infrastructure and Applications, Desktop as a Service, Hosted Applications,  is expected to grow at a a CAGR of 14.6% from $4.8 billion in 2014 to $9.4 billion in 2019.  The WaaS market could potentially be an $8.2 billion market by 2018….

Windows 10 Patch Information is Back
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Windows 10 Patch Information is Back

It is good to see that after listening to the feedback coming back from their enterprise customers, Microsoft is reconsidering the publishing of what is included in each of the patches.     In and early report Microsoft said that it would not provide detailed information about most Windows 10 patches.  That plan did not sit well with IT managers…

Do you really know about San Jose?
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Do you really know about San Jose?

After LA and San Diego, San Jose is the third largest city in California topping 1M residents, and it is the fastest growing? 20 things you did not know about San Jose, CA https://www.thrillist.com/entertainment/san-francisco/south-bay/things-you-don-t-understand-about-san-jose http://www.mercurynews.com/census/ci_25667294/san-jose-officially-tops-1-million-population-likely 2015-08-28T01:52:30-05:00

Microsoft:  Enterprise Mobility Suite – Thoughts so far
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Microsoft: Enterprise Mobility Suite – Thoughts so far

Disclaimer:  I am a technology consultant, and Microsoft products and technologies are my bread and butter. As I have noted in the past, I have been very pleased with the "new Microsoft" and the Mobile First / Could First messaging and direction.   It has been great to see Office 365 being adopted at so many places, and…