It’s amazing the amount of stuff on a hard drive that can be overlooked, until you run out of space. The Disk Cleanup tool that is built into Windows can help keep your machine extra tidy, but can also be a powerful tool when you’re in a space crunch. Think […]
Upgrading a Dell Venue 8 Pro to Windows 10
If you’re unable to get the automatic upgrade for Windows 10 to work with your Dell Venue 8 Pro, try using the Microsoft media creation tool to get there. Depending on how much free space you have, an SD card may be required for the download to be stored. The media creation […]
Life with Azure: the realization
Background As part of being a technologist in real life, I’ve always felt that one of the important things that I did was that I brought my work home with me, and actually enjoyed it. What I mean by that is, the long days that I spent with Windows Server, Exchange, […]
Useful Excel Functions: YEARFRAC
I was looking for a way to compare the total years between two dates in decimal format. My brain immediately goes to the process of how I would do that calculation if I am were writing it in a programming language, but Excel VBA and Excel formulas are a different […]
What to do when SkyDrive takes a faceplant
I have a number of machines that synchronize with SkyDrive. Last week, things went sideways and one of my machines was reporting errors and quit synchronizing. After the next reboot (which naturally fixes most issues), the SkyDrive application would initialize, trying to start processing the changes, and then do a […]
About
Justin Braun has been a technologist for over 20 years, first getting his start in IT with a large international retailer in the 1990’s. He has a passion for new technology, mobile devices, software development, photography, and the weather. In his spare time, he is a managing editor at techbrieftoday.com, co-host of The Tech Five Podcast, and has blogged about his various technology interests right here since 2006.