Monthly Archives April 2016

1617 Farming the Cloud and Win 10: To Upgrade or Not To Upgrade

1617 Farming the Cloud and Win 10: To Upgrade or Not To Upgrade

April 29, 2016 | Comments Off on 1617 Farming the Cloud and Win 10: To Upgrade or Not To Upgrade

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Helping America’s Farmers With Immediate, Unbiased Data

[/vc_column_text][vc_single_image image=”12339″ img_size=”full”][vc_column_text]Jesse Vollmar w LogoJesse Vollmar graduated from Saginaw Valley University with two passions: continue the 5th generation of family farming and creating a set of tools that could help other farmers win the battle with the elements and the markets. In 2012 Jesse and Brad Koch founded Farmlogs with offices in Ann Arbor, MI and outreach across the fields of North America. During our interview, we were joined by Chad Kulman, a satisfied Farmlogs customer from Nebraska and Ben Carpenter, family farmer from Adrian, MI.  BTW if you thought that farming was all about a dying breed of aging American farmers, check out the mugshots of the nearly five dozen 20-30 something members who make up Farmlogs team. (There are a FEW gray hairs ;-))

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1616 Automation Alley and SBDC Firing Up New Business In Michigan

1616 Automation Alley and SBDC Firing Up New Business In Michigan

April 24, 2016 | Comments Off on 1616 Automation Alley and SBDC Firing Up New Business In Michigan

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Hour 1

Stirring up new tech business in Michigan from east to west!

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Southeast Michigan

Tom Kelly is the COO and director of entrepreneurship for Automation Alley, Michigan’s leading technology business association, connecting companies and organizations with talent, resources and funding to accelerate innovation and fuel Southeast Michigan’s economy.

Q1 Highlights:

  •      Wrapping up an IT training program that helped to address Southeast Michigan’s IT skills gap by training more than 1,300 local employees
  • Investments in six local tech startups
  • Helping to attract Chinese plastics company Kingfa to Canton, Mich., creating 50 high-tech jobs

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Southwest Michigan

Sandra Cochrane is a full-time Technology Business Consultant for the MI-SBDC. In this position she assists start-up and early-stage high-tech companies. Services she provides to clients …


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How to Disable Windows 10 upgrade notifications

How to Disable Windows 10 upgrade notifications

April 22, 2016 | Comments Off on How to Disable Windows 10 upgrade notifications

How to Disable Windows 10 upgrade notifications

Microsoft has several KB articles that describe how to manually disable Windows 10 update notifications.  Unfortunately, the process is cumbersome and shame on Microsoft for not providing a Mr.Fixit utility that could disable the notification, automatically.

But, Steve Gibson has also provided a utility, Never10, which will perform these task for you.  Just select the proper OS version you are currently running, download, and run the utility.

https://www.grc.com/never10.htm

 

If you are curious about Microsoft answers to “How to disable Windows 10 upgrade notification, check out the articles below.
This answers directly from Microsoft (KB – Knowledge Base articles)

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_10-other_settings/stop-windows-10-upgrade-notification-on-windows-7/adda31a7-ebbe-44b7-bcb4-f3da1563688c
or
http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_10-update/stop-windows-10-upgrade-notifications/38fbaca2-9511-445d-9baa-5b74bb9ab1e2?auth=1 …


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1615 Panama Papers and Diva Tech Talk

1615 Panama Papers and Diva Tech Talk

April 16, 2016 | Comments Off on 1615 Panama Papers and Diva Tech Talk

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“The Bloody Truth about Living and Working in Panama”

[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image=”12263″ img_size=”medium”][vc_column_text]EJ Rolfstad has lived and worked in Panama for the past 10 years.  He has been an eye witness to the money laundering process that has been revealed to the world as The Panama Papers.  11.5 million pieces of information were stolen from a law firm in Panama that allegedly specialized in, among other things, laundering vast amounts of money for world leaders and underworld figures.  EJ is writing a book entitled “The Bloody Truth about Living and Working in Panama” about the inner workings of the process.  Visit EJ’s Homepage to follow the serialized unfolding of this story.

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1614 The Pope’s Astronomer and the Farmer and His Dell

1614 The Pope’s Astronomer and the Farmer and His Dell

April 8, 2016 | Comments Off on 1614 The Pope’s Astronomer and the Farmer and His Dell

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Resources Mentioned:

Br. Bruce will visit Our Lady Queen of Martyrs in Berkely, MI on Monday, April 11.  In the morning he will talk with the students in the same classrooms where he attended grade school in the early ’60s.  Later that night at 7:30 he will speak with the parents in an gathering …


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Podcast 1648 When Pigs Fly at Netflix and Learning to Give Well

Podcast 1648 When Pigs Fly at Netflix and Learning to Give Well

April 5, 2016 | Comments Off on Podcast 1648 When Pigs Fly at Netflix and Learning to Give Well

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GiveWell Staff Portraits Photos Copyright Noah Berger / 2015

Josh Rosenberg,is a senior research analyst at GiveWell.  He will explain how giving can be a sadly disappointing experience if we do not take the time to check out the groups to whom we are giving.

Here are some of the tips that Give Well offers to make sure that our charity gets to the people.

 

 

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Charlie Hopper stopped by to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the first pastiespasty deliveries online.  The joy is tempered by the loss, this spring, of his wonderful wife Edie.  She was a life …


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1613 Happy 40th Birthday Apple!

1613 Happy 40th Birthday Apple!

April 2, 2016 | Comments Off on 1613 Happy 40th Birthday Apple!

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Dr. Dean KrauskopfDr. Dean Krauskopf, host of the WJR Gardening Show visited the program to kick off spring/summer 2016 on Saturday afternoons.  The weather may not have seemed like it but we are all now on our regular Saturday afternoon expert schedules.  Start with Dr. Dean from 3-4 PM and then stick around for the Internet Advisor from 4-6 PM each week.

Visit Dr. Dean’s Gardening website for more information and to ask your specific gardening questions.

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terry_white_mediumTerry White is the founding member of Mac Group Detroit and currently is Principal Worldwide Design & Photography Evangelist for Adobe Systems, Inc..  Along with Cal Carson, our resident Apple expert, we talk about the history of Apple, how they got involved with the company from Cupertino and where they see the most successful business in …


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