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I’m a great fan of new tools that increase productivity. I used key shortcuts in pre-windows DOS and have used them ever since. I’ve been watching some YouTube videos on being productive and found a few useful shortcuts, add-ins and apps, all free, that I will be trying out to see which ones work for

While at Wellington City Council working on Strategic Assets, one of the exercises of the Building Asset Team Leader, Tane Dunne,  was to work out what the top major cost items were for the assets over a period of time, in this case 50 years. The assets were captured by the SPM  survey team of

Something I used in one of my earlier exercises was layers on maps,  on this post How to use Maps to find Data on Assets. It allows for using an online map such as Google Maps and putting information on that map with specific overlays. Follow the link for example (Note, if you click on

What is Https? HTTP Secure is an extension of the Hypertext Transfer Protocol for secure communication over a computer network, and is widely used on the Internet. In HTTPS, the communication protocol is encrypted using Transport Layer Security, or formerly, its predecessor, Secure Sockets Layer. The protocol is therefore also often referred to as HTTP

When watching a video on how to move from HTTP to secure HTTPS the presenter mentioned that he used a CDN service. Yet another acronym. I am working on fixing my DataIKnoW site and they recommended “Optimole” for images (although when I tried to install this plugin I got a blank screen). So I thought

A journal of my efforts to update 6 web sites on my Windows Virtual Private Server (VPS) to secure HTTPS with free HTTPS Certificates from LetsEncrypt. Also updating sites to WordPress 5.0 & their themes. Also reviewing Google Analytics & Search Console Setups required for these changes

Tsheets is powerful and robust and delivers the basics that I need. Coda.io Timesheet Template, powerful but has bugs. I recommend Tsheets. At the end of my previous post on Free online time sheet programme Toggl (rubbish) and Tsheets (good) with the title indicating my views. I had spent about 4 days using Toggl and when

I hang my head in shame! I watched SEO For Beginners: 3 Powerful SEO Tips  by Neil Patel and he makes three points in his video: Make your content thorough, Keywords in Title & Meta description, Use Google Search Console, So for the first time after about 3 years of  posting articles I finally did

At the end of the last post I put a few steps for my process: Part 1.Initially broad targeting. Harvesting personal emails with searches which include gmail.com etc. Part 2. I need to find some Facility Management Directories and do a web crawl on some of those. To do that I could use the Firefox

Well, its never as simple as what is shown in the videos.  This post follows on from my earlier post part 1. This time I try running through the process and getting a workflow going. 1. Google Trends I did play with this a bit an terms that started popping up were “Computer-aided facility management”