Category: General

Welcome to newill.dev. This is my blog about dev in general, from the books I read to the code I write and the side-projects I am building. My life is pretty full of adventure and responsibilities, such as being married, having five children, ages 14 and under, and responsibilities in my church life. This blog… Continue reading Welcome

With my home gaining more and more wireless devices as time goes on, I decided today to order the Amazon Eero to test and see how it performs around my house. I currently use the Virgin Media Super Hub 3 and although it performs better than the previous model I had, it’s becoming more apparent… Continue reading Amazon Eero Ordered

The New Year Begins Today is the first workday of the year for me. Over the Christmas period I thought about what I want to achieve in business and life over this year. I also looked at what was achieved in 2016 to see where I might have gone wrong and what I could have… Continue reading 2017

If you run your own website/blog and use Google Analytics to track the data, you should now be seeing in your organic keyword list a label of (not provided) which will likely be at the top of the list accounting for a large percentage of traffic. If you watch your analytics account regularly you might… Continue reading What Not Provided in Google Analytics Search Data Means

It’s that time of year when Apple will likely be launching a new iPhone. Traditionally, Apple released iPhones in June/July although after the launch of the iPad 2, they moved the launch date in to October (iPhone 4S launch that is). This year, it seems that Apple might be opting for a launch in September… Continue reading A look at the iPhone 5 and iPad mini

I was reminded recently about the importance of keeping good backups of data due to someone not having backups and losing next to everything he ever owned digitally. It was a costly mistake and one that cost a few thousand dollars to recover some of the photos off of the hard drive. Storing everything digitally… Continue reading A look at Backup Options

Having a computer stolen sucks to put it simply. Other than the annoyance of someone breaking in, you also have the worry of data being stolen and potentially being looked at by the thief. This is where full disk encryption comes in to play. Full disk encryption is a means by where the data on… Continue reading Full disk encryption and why its a good idea