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Phil Johnson
Member since: October 2008
Phil Johnson is a writer and editor for ITworld.com, after having survived 17 years in the corporate wild as a software/web developer, technical lead and project manager.
In his spare time these days, when he's not chauffeuring his daughters to and from school, lessons and Justin Bieber movies (ugh), he enjoys drawing cartoons, tweeting about his life and taking pictures of cranes.
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The government shutdown has forced the NSA to furlough a lot of people. What’s an unemployed spook to do?
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Using the GitHub Archive to see what cities commit the most code
5 days 5 hours ago
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CERN launches a line mode browser emulator to recreate the experience of the first cross-platform browser
6 days 6 hours ago
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Not everybody at Oracle enjoyed the America’s Cup
1 week 2 days ago
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Firebug, the popular web development debugging tool, was inspired by these utilities that came before it
1 week 4 days ago
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The GitHub Archive reveals which languages seem to baffle developers the most
1 week 4 days ago
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The birthplace of the web wants to preserve the first website, and the experience of surfing it
1 week 6 days ago
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With so much cool stuff coming out all the time, you never know what people are waiting in line for
2 weeks 3 hours ago
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Make sure you and your spouse are on the same page when it comes to fall activities
2 weeks 2 days ago
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Ronald Wayne missed out on a $35 billion fortune and has a surprisingly good attitude about it that we can all learn from
2 weeks 5 days ago
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AbleGamers opens a lab dedicated to helping disabled gamers find the assistive technology they need
2 weeks 6 days ago
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Fingerprint scanning is about to go mainstream; here's one potential upside (or downside)
3 weeks 3 days ago
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The new king of RSS readers provides shortcuts for keyboard-only navigation
3 weeks 4 days ago
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Flickr’s keyboard shortcuts are one way it differentiates itself from Instagram
3 weeks 4 days ago
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These shortcuts can make it easier for you to peruse indie music on the popular audio sharing site
3 weeks 4 days ago
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Learn how to skip ahead to your favorite part of that video using the keyboard
3 weeks 4 days ago
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Google+ offers some standard keyboard shortcuts for navigating its web site, plus one very secret one.
3 weeks 4 days ago
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Here’s one thing Facebook has managed keep simple
3 weeks 4 days ago
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A cheat sheet for navigating your Tumblr dashboard with the keyboard
3 weeks 4 days ago
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Everything you need to know for quick tweeting
3 weeks 4 days ago
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Two-factor authentication is great security when it works. Here's what to do when it doesn't
3 weeks 6 days ago
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Bill Gates has an answer for Android KitKat
4 weeks 3 days ago
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The city enacts an open data plan showing a strong commitment to making public data accessible
4 weeks 5 days ago
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Microsoft’s soon-to-be ex-CEO follows Miley Cyrus’s lead and gives twerking a try
5 weeks 2 days ago
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The unfortunate story of a Wall Street programmer who went to jail for code theft also demonstrates how one man became a million dollar developer
5 weeks 5 days ago
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The CISSP is a valuable certification, but it takes a lot more than just your many years of experience to prepare for it. You will likely have to learn about a lot of technology and processes that you’ve never worked with, some of it not especially current and all of it a lot less vendor-specific than you’ve ever imagined.
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Melanie Pinola shared Microsoft's Security Essentials isn't the best antivirus program, according to Microsoft on Reddit Microsoft advises Windows users to use something else1 day 19 hours ago
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Melanie Pinola shared Microsoft's Security Essentials isn't the best antivirus program, according to Microsoft on StumbleUpon Microsoft advises Windows users to use something else2 days 2 hours ago
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Melanie Pinola wrote Microsoft's Security Essentials isn't the best antivirus program, according to Microsoft Microsoft advises Windows users to use something else2 days 3 hours ago
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If you've got a small or medium-sized network and you need to manage it yourself, you're not alone. I've rounded up size great free network tools that make it much easier to handle and troubleshoot your network.
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If you've got a small or medium-sized network and you need to manage it yourself, you're not alone. I've rounded up size great free network tools that make it much easier to handle and troubleshoot your network.
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If you've got a small or medium-sized network and you need to manage it yourself, you're not alone. I've rounded up size great free network tools that make it much easier to handle and troubleshoot your network.
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If you've got a small or medium-sized network and you need to manage it yourself, you're not alone. I've rounded up size great free network tools that make it much easier to handle and troubleshoot your network.
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If you've got a small or medium-sized network and you need to manage it yourself, you're not alone. I've rounded up size great free network tools that make it much easier to handle and troubleshoot your network.
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All Internet traffic flows through the U.S. since that's where the Internet originated. That's what allowed the rampant NSA spying. Some of the emerging economies want to do away with that.
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Know that your coworker Bob and your father Bob will not receive your confusingly misaligned sentiments for each.
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From Wikipedia:
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Here is what I tell people who want to know what to do next, after their email has been opened up and sorted through.
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Push aside your Roku, Apple TV and Google TV and make room for the Amazon FireTube.
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LIke it or not, iOS 7 is here and it’s not going anywhere. The next time you open a pre iOS 7 app in the new Xcode 5, you’re going to be prompted to upgrade the project for iOS 7. The major difference is obviously the new UI style, and chances are some components of your app are not going to transition smoothly between iOS 6 (or less) and iOS 7. Here is a quick tip to help you on your journey.
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Verizon is launching compute and storage cloud offerings that will let users sign up online
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Are you an open sharer or a proactive protector? Do you simply interact or do you shop til you drop? How you surf the Net says a lot about how much you care about privacy.
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Are you an open sharer or a proactive protector? Do you simply interact or do you shop til you drop? How you surf the Net says a lot about how much you care about privacy.
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Are you an open sharer or a proactive protector? Do you simply interact or do you shop til you drop? How you surf the Net says a lot about how much you care about privacy.
3 days 22 hours ago
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Are you an open sharer or a proactive protector? Do you simply interact or do you shop til you drop? How you surf the Net says a lot about how much you care about privacy.
3 days 23 hours ago
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They were once busy, bustling sites with lots of traffic and personal interaction. Then the users went away. What happened?
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Many cloud providers have touted their abilities to serve federal agencies. But federal contracts might not seem like such a good deal during the shutdown.
4 days 1 hour ago
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This isn't an official product yet, but signs point to a near-future release.
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The Chromecast model of "summoning" web video to your television may replace the "Attachment Box" model we have now.
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Melanie Pinola shared Keep your old Facebook posts out of search with this one settings change on StumbleUpon This is what to do now that Facebook is making everything you've ever shared on it searchable to everyone4 days 3 hours ago
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