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DIY-IT Project Guide
The DIY-IT Project Guide is the comprehensive guide to all our DIY-IT projects, from the DIY video studio to super-slick Google Voice hacks to small business tips, plus a lot more. If you’re working on a DIY project of your own, this is a good place to start.
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David Gewirtz
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David Gewirtz
David is a member of FBI InfraGard, the Cyberwarfare Advisor for the International Association for Counterterrorism & Security Professionals, a columnist for The Journal of Counterterrorism and Homeland Security, and has been a regular CNN contributor, and a guest commentator for the Nieman Watchdog of the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University. He is the author of Where Have All the Emails Gone?, the definitive study of email in the White House, as well as How To Save Jobs and The Flexible Enterprise, the classic book that served as a foundation for today's agile business movement.
About DIY-IT
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The curse of free cloud services: a cautionary tale
Cloud services have their failings, and I’m not talking about the usual crashes and cyberattacks. No, sometimes the service just goes away.
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Feeding green screen chroma key into Skype
I wanted the remote Skype viewer to see whatever image I wanted behind me: a brick wall, a rack of computers, a bookshelf, a logo, a moving pattern…whatever.
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Choosing the right computer to power the Skype Studio
In later articles, when I tell you what obscenities I’m making this little machine do in the name of broadcasting, you’ll understand why this is so very important.
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Quickbooks or Sithbooks? Bookkeeping on the dark side
Do you really want to trust your bookkeeping to the dark side? That’s what went through my mind as I logged into Quickbooks this morning.
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Did you know you can use Palm Desktop with your Android phone?
This $49 piece of software provides a sync conduit (remember conduits?) from your copy of Palm Desktop to your Android phone.
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Taking Google Voice to the extreme with Ooma
After a year with Google Voice and about three months with the Ooma solution working smoothly, I’ve finally stopped hearing complaints about our phones.
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The HDMI cable ripoff and why retail is really dying
Would you spend $100 for something when you can get it for $10? Of course not. What about $500, when you can get it for $2.50? No way. But chain retailers think you will.
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8 things Microsoft needs to do to save Windows 8
The real world runs on real computers doing real work and those computers run Windows. Microsoft needs to remember that as they introduce Windows 8 to the real world.
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A quick-and-dirty way to speed up Firefox (a lot)
Browsing speed will improve from intolerable to moderately tolerable. And that’s about all you can ask from Firefox these days.
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Five ways companies use social media and look like jerks
Let’s take a look at five ways companies use social media and end up making themselves look like complete and utter fools.
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