Ed Tittel

3 days ago | edtittel.com | Ed Tittel

I’ll admit it: I’m a cynic when it comes to emails that ask me to follow a link to verify something. If somebody asks for verification unsolicited, I believe by default that request is malign. So when an email showed up asking me to verify my account to keep my email server going, my first instinct was “Heck NO!” And, as the NordVPN link-checker immediately confirmed , my instincts are good. It pops up instantly as a phishing site.

6 days ago | edtittel.com | Ed Tittel

Hurry is the enemy of proper problem solving. I had that thought only later yesterday, after initially struggling to get logged into Slack to chat and huddle with a client. Now, I understand I’m learning a new way of collaborating. At the time, I was frantic because I couldn’t initially get myself logged in for a meeting NOW. Alas, I  should’ve started climbing Slack’s login learning curve sooner than a minute prior to meeting kickoff.

1 week ago | edtittel.com | Ed Tittel

We knew it was coming. 15 months ago (January 2024) I blogged about how Incase was taking over the old Microsoft desktop products for ongoing resale. That line is named “Designed by Microsoft” (DBM, get it?) and is now for sale in the marketplace. Featured on the incase.com home page, you can get a good taste of that stuff from the lead-in graphic.

1 week ago | edtittel.com | Ed Tittel

Windows certainly has its weird and wonderful ways. I was forcibly reminded just now, when looking on a Canary test PC to see if the next Text Extractor tool was on my Snipping Tool toolbar. While you can see it in the lead-in graphic for this story, I couldn’t see it on my PC right away. At first, understanding that MS is conducting a new Snipping Tool Text Extractor rollout, I thought I might be on the outside, looking in.

1 week ago | edtittel.com | Ed Tittel

The question in the blog post title — namely: “Why run NVIDIA Studio driver?” — means considering the alternative. That’s the Game Ready Driver, which gets updates 2 or more times every month. Look at what new Game Ready Drivers bring to the party. New games (and game versions) keep coming out, and GPU drivers need matching tweaks. Thus, the answer is “To play (new or updated) games.”I just saw news that NVIDIA had released new cards (and drivers, presumably).