ServiceNow What Is It and Why You Should Use it
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ServiceNow What Is It and Why You Should Use it

This is a follow-up to the blog post I wrote back in 2023: ServiceNow and Its Growing Significance What Is ServiceNow? ServiceNow (commonly referred as SNOW) is a powerful cloud-based platform that offers a wide range of services and solutions to streamline and automate various business processes. It is primarily known for its robust IT…

VMware ends support for free ESXi
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VMware ends support for free ESXi

Broadcom STRIKES again!   A couple of days ago, VMware announced that the free version of VMware’s vSphere Hypervisor, also known as ESXi, is being discontinued.    This product was not really used many organizations, but it will be a significant impact to hobbyist and tech tinkers, and folks with home labs who were not already migrated to…

GenAI Services Where is the beef?
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GenAI Services Where is the beef?

If you still wondering “Where is the beef?” for Services take a look at these articles on the potential Take a look at the Accenture GenAI associated revenue  up 17% from $300M  in 4Q  ( Services no hardware: Accenture CEO Julie Sweet: 2023 ‘Was A Year Of Generative AI Experimentation’ (crn.com) Accenture in fiscal 2023…

Build Specialized ChatGPT apps using ChatGPT
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Build Specialized ChatGPT apps using ChatGPT

This past week the first OpenAI Dev Days happened, and it was, groundbreaking at many levels. From the number of monthly users, developers using their APIs, GPT-4 turbo, ChatGPT store, lower pricing and many others. I will link below several articles for details. The one that caught my eye the most – mostly because it…

SureCART – A Simple Friendly eCommerce Cart Alternative
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SureCART – A Simple Friendly eCommerce Cart Alternative

Recently one of my customers had his Etsy store suspended (it’s been going around) and he asked me to create a store in his existing WordPress site. I used SureCart free version, which I have been testing on my own site, and had 10 of his items fully enabled within 30 minutes, after receiving their…

Keeping up with AI

Keeping up with AI

A list of resources I use to keep up with AI on a daily / weekly basis – It changes so much from week to week: AI Breakdown: (Daily) Last Week in AI AI Today Podcast Practical AI Podcast jorgep.com AI Newsfeed SuperHuman Newsletter Hugging Face.co This is the LLM “GitHub” f the world. —

Good Tweet From Test

Good Tweet From Test

This tweet from PaulCouvert is a great example of how AI can simplify workflows I've just created an ecommerce business using Dall-E 3. Almost everything is generated by AI and the website is created with a simple no-code tool. It took me less than 15 minutes and I'll show you how: pic.twitter.com/GlCzQMBVlw — Paul Couvert…

OneDrive v3.0
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OneDrive v3.0

Last week Microsoft announced OneDrive 3.0 Lots of excellent updated to an already great product. they are calling it The Future of File Management and it includes AI capabilities! ( OneDrive with Copilot ) to help quickly search, organize and extract information from your files.  Although not every featured mentioned is there, some are already…

The difference between LLM and a Foundational Model

The difference between LLM and a Foundational Model

A Large Language Model (LLM) and a Foundational model are related but distinct concepts in the field of natural language processing. The main difference lies in their specialization and use cases. A foundational model is a general-purpose language model, while an LLM is a language model fine-tuned for specific conversational applications. The LLC builds upon…

Top 100 WordPress Plugins – September 2023
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Top 100 WordPress Plugins – September 2023

The WordPress plugin directory is the most authoritative source of information about WordPress plugins. It is maintained by the WordPress team, and it is the place where users can go to find and install plugins for their WordPress sites. This directory contains over 60,000 plugins, and each plugin’s page includes the number of active installations….

ServiceNow and Its Growing Significance
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ServiceNow and Its Growing Significance

For other ServiceNow posts here The ServiceNow platform has long held a prominent position in the IT service management domain, often associated with terms like “ticketing tool” or “support tool.” However, a significant shift occurred several years ago when ServiceNow recognized the potential to extend its platform beyond IT service management, adapting it for diverse…

Alternatives to ChatGPT

Alternatives to ChatGPT

ChatGPT is a language model developed by OpenAI that allows you to have human-like conversations with a chatbot. you can access the web-based app chatbot visiting chat.openai.com and creating an OpenAI account. The website is powered by a large language model called Generative Pre-trained Transformer (GPT). GPT is powered by a deep neural network (DNN)…

List of AI Tools

List of AI Tools

Disclaimer: There is absolutely no way anyone can keep up with the new daily releases (and closures) of AI tools and experiments – This is a list as of a certain point in time, and plan to update from time to time. It is by no means complete or fully accurate. It is placed here…

Top WordPress LMS Plugins

Top WordPress LMS Plugins

An LMS (Learning Management System) is a software application designed for the administration, documentation, tracking, reporting, automation, and delivery of educational courses, training programs, materials, or learning and development programs. Generally speaking, the purpose of an LMS is to serves as a centralized platform for managing various aspects of the learning process for your audience….

Pins on a Map
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Pins on a Map

I volunteer for a non-profit that runs an event every year — Artists invite the public into their house studios and they need to create a map of the artists home. They were doing it manually with a lot of hard work over several session at one of the collaborators ( wine and cheese wants…

Windows Autopilot Deployment Scenarios
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Windows Autopilot Deployment Scenarios

Windows Autopilot is a collection of technologies used to set up and pre-configure new devices, getting them ready for productive use. It is designed to simplify the process of deploying Windows devices for organizations of all sizes. Windows Autopilot supports a growing list of scenarios that organizations commonly need. These needs vary based on organization…

Microsoft Launches Security Experts
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Microsoft Launches Security Experts

In early May 2022, Microsoft announced the launch of their Microsoft Security Experts Services  Security Experts is a new managed service category that combines expert-trained technology and product innovation with human-led services. Right now Microsoft is doing a lot of the work directly, but soon they will have multiple certified security expert partners  Video  introducing the…

Windows Autopatch
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Windows Autopatch

A a few weeks ago Microsoft announced a new service called Windows Autopatch for business customers that provides the ability to keep Windows, Office, Teams and Microsoft Edge software on devices enrolled and managed by Microsoft Intune up to date automatically. The service is now on public beta and scheduled to be GA sometime at…

Cybersecurity Podcasts News
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Cybersecurity Podcasts News

I need to stay up to date with the cybersecurity topics and aside from several news sources i check on a daily / weekly bases I also listen to the following podcasts: I found a lot more at this site Other News Resources / Sites: https://cybersecuritynews.com/ https://thehackernews.com/ https://cisoseries.com/ https://www.cnbc.com/cybersecurity/ https://www.wired.com/tag/cybersecurity/

Microsoft Modern Work Webinars
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Microsoft Modern Work Webinars

The Microsoft Cloud Acquisitions Team of Technical Specialists have has a new YouTube channel around the Modern Work stack and their first set of webinars is a  high-level overview of the Security Features available with M365. I particularly liked the Advanced Identity Concepts AD Premium Plan 2 one — very well presented and good content! Loved this Worth…

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…

Windows 11 is here
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Windows 11 is here

Update 7/10/2021 Minimum hardware requirements further explained – A challenge for many! To run Windows 11, devices must have an Intel Core processor from at least 2017, or AMD Zen 2 processors from 2019 onward. Video of installation on a Hyper-V virtual Machine (my own test) Microsoft releases second public review – with ONLY minor…

Today: Largest Password Leak of All Time
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Today: Largest Password Leak of All Time

Today, cybercriminals have released over 8.4 billion passwords on the dark web. The largest collection of stolen passwords of all time. The 100GB text file includes usernames, email addresses and passwords. #cybersecurity #passwords #leaks #securitynews More info at: https://cybernews.com/security/rockyou2021-alltime-largest-password-compilation-leaked/

Windows Autopilot Security Risks
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Windows Autopilot Security Risks

Enabling Windows Autopilot allows devices to be pre-registered to your organization in Microsoft servers. As of this writing, there is very little risk in enabling Windows Autopilot within an organization. The most recommended security concept to fight against malware for years has been to remove admin rights from end users. When Microsoft introduced Windows 10…

What are NFTs

What are NFTs

With so much hype on using Non-fungible tokens (NFTs) for selling digital art – $65M for the ownership of a digital art and the famous: Elon Musk Tweet sells for $1.1M – I had to look into it, so I can understand it. Fungible means that the “contracted good” can be replaced or exchanged with…

New Microsoft Stream
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New Microsoft Stream

Launched in 2016, Microsoft Stream is a web app for creating, editing, managing, and discovering videos and playback videos. It was loosely connected to other Microsoft 365 apps and service, and videos were stored separately from it. Back in September 22, 2020, Microsoft published a blog post titled New Vision for Microsoft Stream. In it…