Converging Paradigms: Still trudging along

Monday, August 27, 2012

Still trudging along

Hey everyone,

Blessings to all this week, I'm currently still been working on more video tutorials to give people some visuals to follow along with. I'm trying to decide if it is better to capture multiple tutorials at the same time or start and finish one tutorial. Either way, progress is still being made. I updated this weeks Tips, and hope that they are put to great use, I know they've helped me abundantly. This week, I plan to start adding some information to the forums about applications I use, technologies I plan to cover, etc. I hope to get some feedback on things needing to be covered and if there are other products that people find useful that I haven't listed. Well, I guess that's it for now.

Be Blessed!

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Tech Tip Of The Week

This week's tech tip is about charging your laptop or other battery relying devices like cell phones.

Some people may be surprised by the price of laptop and mobile device batteries. Typically, I purchase batteries for around $120+ for the laptops in my office. The tech tip is about making your battery life last as long as it can.

Batteries on average are only built to last 3-5 years depending on type and situation, and most batteries only come with a 1-year warranty because of how majority of users improperly charge and use battery powered devices.

It is extremely important in the life of a battery to let it lose it's charge completely before recharging the battery, and it's best practice to charge it fully. In essence, a battery has a type of memory that if you start charging while you still have half a battery left then it starts to thing that that time period is all the battery can sustain. Keep in mind this is about frequent usage not, a one time or here and there occurances. On top of properly charging the battery, a big key to battery life is to never leave the device plugged into power if it has a full charge. I can't tell you the number of devices that I've come into contact with that because it was constantly left plugged into power it no longer functions away from it. You see this a lot with GPS systems, cordless home phones, handheld games, as well as laptops and mobile phones.

Tech Tool Of The Week

This weeks tool is a program called PDQ Deploy, created by AdminArsenal. This tool allows users, and professionals automatically deploy software to systems as desired. While a videop tutorial would be best, check out their info at http://www.adminarsenal.com/home.

I can't be more pleased with this software and it's support. I was able to deploy a software patch to every computer in our organization (about 450+) over wired and wireless networks as well as deploy office in under 20 minutes to hundreds of systems. The possibilites are endless with this software and has truly been a blessing to make me more efficient in my work.