Tips and tricks for web developers, bloggers, and WordPress users by Brian Shim
Management tools and tips for freelancers and web developers.
If you’re a global admin of a Microsoft 365 account with multiple users, you may get in a situation where a user has lost their two-factor device or accidentally deleted their Microsoft Authenticator App, rendering them unable to log into their Microsoft account. There are two ways to reset a user’s two-factor auth and let … Read more
One of my clients discovered that any email he sent that contained a Vimeo link was flagged as spam by Gmail recipients. All other email passed through fine. In the recipient’s junk box, the email had this ominous warning attached to it: Researching this further, I found he wasn’t the only one: Many others have … Read more
Enabling DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM) for an email account is one of the ways to combat email spoofing, and has other security benefits such as improving deliverability of your email and preventing it from getting blocked as spam. Spoofing is when someone sends an email that looks like it came from you, but it didn’t. … Read more
I needed to increase my microphone input gain after folks complained that I was hard to hear on a Google Meet meeting. That setting isn’t easy to find in Windows 10 because there are so many other possible places where this setting could be. So, I’ve included the directions here, mainly so I don’t have … Read more
There may be legitimate cases where an admin might need to access another Microsoft 365 user’s email. For example, when an employee has left the company. In this article, I’ll explain how to do that Step One: Getting Permissions The first part of this requires granting yourself permission to access the user’s email account. As … Read more
Evernote and OneNote are the two most popular cross-platform note-taking apps. In this article, I’ll compare features and tell why I switched from Evernote to OneNote. If you’re ready to migrate from Evernote to OneNote now, jump to this section on how to migrate. 2023 Evernote Update As of November 29th, 2023, Evernote has limited … Read more
Occasionally, the database of my eM Client Windows email app will get corrupted, usually after the power goes out unexpectedly. It’s easy to panic in this situation because it won’t let you view your email until the problem is fixed. But, it’s often not disastrous since you usually have a copy of your email in … Read more
Being a freelancer can mean periods of feast or famine with extreme business at times, followed by crickets… But your business’ downtime is actually a golden opportunity to catch up on important things you might have neglected while you were working those twelve-hour days. Here are some important things to do when you have downtime … Read more
In mid 2016, Microsoft announced that they were no longer going to support Windows Live Mail. This was bad news for me, because I had been a long-time user of Windows Live Mail, dating back to when it was called Outlook Express. I used it not only for email, but for my calendar and contacts. … Read more
When I transitioned from being a career corporate cubicle-dweller to being a freelancer working from home, I wasn’t sure if I could pull it off. Would I be on Facebook and YouTube all day? Could I really get any work done? Well, after doing it for some time now, I can say that I love … Read more
I finally decided that it was time to move from my primitive accounting “system” based on Word and Excel to a modern cloud-based solution for my freelance business. I wanted invoicing, time tracking, and expense tracking. After doing some research online, I narrowed my choices to two popular solutions: FreshBooks and Harvest. I signed up … Read more