• Running,  Wearable Technology

    Setup Fitbit Aria

    August 23, 2013

    The Fitbit Aria Scale tracks weight, body fat and BMI. It’s also pretty cool how it smiles at you too. As a gadget head, there’s really no way I could go through life without one of these. If you use a One, Ultra or Flex, this data gets synchronized to the same Fitbit account you use for other things as well. The scale can also be used by multiple people in a household, with each persons weight getting synchronized to their own account at Fitbit. The Aria comes with batteries. But don’t put them in before installing the app. To set the device up, first install the Fitbit Wi-Fi Scale…

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  • Mac OS X Server

    Customizing Teamserver (Blogs, Wikis, Collabd) in Lion Server

    September 27, 2011

    I’ve done a few articles over the years on customizing the team server in OS X Server. This is one of those places where Lion really changes things. Once upon a time you could just swap out the graphics and have a fairly custom-looking wiki or implementation. In Lion, Apple has really simplified and stripped down the Lion elements in the interface for the server. There is less Apple branding and more functionality than ever. Gone is the time Apple spent building templates, but in the place of all those templates is a much more integrated and functional collaboration server. Added are features dedicated to navigation (e.g. the ribbon was…

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  • Mac OS X,  Microsoft Exchange Server

    Using Microsoft Document Connection on a Mac

    July 21, 2009

    Microsoft released Service Pack 2 to Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac earlier this week.  Once you have installed Service Pack 2 you may notice the new Open from Document Connection File menu item for office applications, or you may notice the new application called Microsoft Document Connection located in your /Applications/Microsoft Office 2008 folder.  These are all part of Microsoft’s overall Software+Services strategy: provide a cloud type of environment that is able to sustain the software that you purchase from them.  In this case it could be a private document storage “cloud” running on a SharePoint server or it could be a more public environment running in the Office Live…

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