Russell Smith

I’ve been using Bitwarden for the last couple of years and in this overview, I’ll look at why you might consider Bitwarden as an alternative to proprietary solutions like LastPass and 1Password. And I’ll give an outline of the pricing, architecture, and features for business and personal use. What is Bitwarden? Bitwarden is an open-source…

December was relatively quiet as Microsoft shuts down for the last two weeks of the year. But we did get some interesting information about updates coming to Windows 11 in 2023, OneNote for Windows will get support for vertical tabs, Microsoft Edge 110 will drop support for Windows 7 and Windows 8/8.1, and more! So,…

This Week in IT, I’m going to be looking back at the best and worst tech news of 2022! Including: The first major update to Windows 11 which brought File Explorer tabs and changes to the Start menu, iOS 16 with its new lockdown mode and customizable lockscreen, the rise of Mastodon after Elon Musk’s…

This Week in IT, I look at Mastodon, a popular open-source social network that is becoming a common alternative to Twitter. I look at how the decentralized service works, how to sign up, and how to find users and interesting content.

Notion is a cloud-based productivity and collaboration all in-one workspace tool. In this article, I’ll answer the question ‘what is Notion?’ and provide some examples of how it can be used for productivity, real-time collaboration, and project management in your organization. Notion allows small teams of people to work together in real-time on documents, tasks, notes,…

Could ChatGPT replace programmers and writers? In this article, I’ll take a look at the new technology and how it might affect programmers and content creators now and in the future. ChatGPT is a new tool that’s currently available in preview. It is an advanced chat bot based on artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning….

With talk of a recession just around the corner, IT departments need to find ways to do more with less as budgets get tightened. As we move more towards automated technologies, tools designed to lessen the burden on manual operations, and artificial intelligence (A.I.), tech often available to IT departments in large enterprises, the organization…

This Week in IT, Paul Thurrott and I discuss some alternatives for Microsoft Teams in the SME space, including Canva Docs, Notion, and ClickUp. We also talk about our experiences with Microsoft OneNote and the challenge Microsoft is laying down to Notion with Loop.

It’s been a relatively quiet month what with Thanksgiving in the U.S. and Microsoft slowly winding down for the holiday season. Nevertheless, Windows 11 officially got File Explorer tabs in the November Patch Tuesday update, Qualcomm announced new Arm technology for Windows on Arm PCs, and Microsoft released its last Windows Insider preview build of…

Today I’m going to tell you why you should sign up for Petri’s December Teams conference and how the knowledge you gain could help YOU supercharge Teams in your organization and even pass SC-400. I’ll be looking at the sessions delivered by MVPs and industry experts on backup and recovery, process automation, information protection, and…

This Week in IT, I look at how well the iPhone SE 2020 has stood up as my daily driver over the last year and some of the challenges. The new iPhone SE 2022 (3rd gen) is basically the same package with an upgraded processor, slightly better camera performance in low light, and 5G connectivity….

Power efficient but performant devices, like Apple’s M1 MacBook and Mac Mini range, are all the rage. But Microsoft has a performance issue on Arm. In this video, I look at the recently released Project Volterra hardware and ask whether it going to change the game for Microsoft on Arm?