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In life, you never have a clue on why your go down certain paths. With the encouragement of Ameilia Boodoosingh and my family supporting me, Aishwarya, Darrel - Viron Mangray - Devin Sayroo - Razax A Ali - Horace Foster - Mark Layne and Michael Dabydeen they said AL you have our full support - YOU CAN DO THIS, TAKE THE CHANCE AND DO YOUR OWN. I said not my own but WE OWN - ITS WE TING! And it was born. 1 year has flown by so quickly and our family, thats right not team - FAMILY! - has grown to over 25 members who push for success of my vision to make a difference for our culture. More importantly ITS YOU who help keep us going and on our 1 Year Anniversary WE THANK YOU! Thank you for the love n support for this and the many more to come. #radio #music Remember ITS NOT MY TING, ITS NOT YOUR TING, IT’S WE TING! #culture #family #anniversary #tunein

Tech Talk with Mike : October Edition

Bad Advice

Just a few days ago someone approached me to help them fix their phone. The person said to me that they consulted with an “expert” about the situation about why their phone isn’t working, and they were told that the “bandwidth” wasn’t working. Now I am not sure how technical you may be, but this is just complete moronic advice. It sounds like someone who has no idea about what they were talking about, just shooting out some keywords or buzzwords that they may have heard, just to sound like they know what they are talking about.

Early on in my career as a technology person, I work in Customer Support for a while. Customer Support of any kind is a really important job, the reason for this is because it’s one where you need to interface with people and possibly advise them. This usually require you to be really great at listening. When it comes to Customer Support in tech, this listening ability needs to be even greater.

I am sure you who are reading this may have had your encounters with bad tech support. Think back about it, did the customer support representative really listened to you and try to understand what your issue is? If the answer is in the negative, then your experience would probably suck, because you wouldn’t be able to get your issue resolved. I’ve found that a lot of people in tech support often don’t listen to their customers, and think every problem has the same solution, or that there’s a generic go to solution for all problems. And this is where they are wrong. I am not saying that being a customer support rep. is the greatest job in the world, and most of the people who do this kind of job probably hate themselves, but it doesn’t mean they should make you feel like the same.

So here’s my point that i am trying to get it. First, whenever you are seeking out tech advice, don’t listen to the first person that tells you what to do, since these days everyone feel like they are an expert or know what to do. Instead, seek out someone who is qualified to give you educated advice. Second, seek multiple opinions. In techology, as in most things in life, there’s never one way to solve a problem. Always seek a second (and even third and fourth) opinon before proceeding to take action. Third, if the person giving you advice sounds like their solution is made up or is too good to be true, then it probably is. Don’t settle for terrible advice.

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Mike is full time Software Developer who loves working on various software and tech projects. When he’s not busy making the world a better place, you can find him entertaining Toronto with Tropic Flava Entertainment

Tech Talk With Mike : September Edition

September is usually the signal of the downturn of the year. As we get ready to head towards the end of the year, a lot of people are going back to school. These days, almost everyone returning to school, at every level, is connected by some kind of technology. Whether it’s your smart phone, tablets, laptop or other devices, we can’t get enough of not being constantly connected to our friends and loved ones with our devices.

In this month’s tech talk, I’d like to recommend a few useful apps and websites that you can get to help you through the semester. Some of them might be useful for those who aren’t attending school as well. Here’s my list of apps

1. Todoist - whether you are working or in school, keeping track of all the things to do can be hard. I barely remember what i did 10 minutes ago and often times found myself doing 1 out of the 100 things i planned to do in a day. This is until i started using Todoist to keep track of all my tasks daily. I highly recommend this app.

2. Evernote - Every found yourself having an conversation with yourself? Those are probably when you have your best ideas. Or probably when you are in the shower? Either way, Evernote is a great tool for you to make or take notes, reminders or simply a note of your next billion dollar idea.

3. Khan Academy - Even as old as I am, I still am on the cycle of learning. Learning new things, even things that i should have learned many years ago, is never out of style. Khan Academy, whether online or by their app is a great resource to learn new things.

4. Wolfram Alpha - Wolfram Alpha is like the Google of Math. It’s a computational engine that will help you solve anything with a finite answer. This comes in really handy for those tricky math problems that you can’t seem to wrap your brain around.

5. Quizlet - Possibly the best app to help you get creative about studying and help you to pound those test score. I definitely recommend you check this app out.

These are just a few of my recommended apps. Of course, you can find many other useful and great apps in your favourite app store. Wishing you all the best for another great school year!

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Tech Talk With Mike : August Edition

In this month's tech talk, I want to focus on something closer to home. Today, August 1st 2015, will mark 6 months since we've launched We Ting Radio. When Allan approached me with the idea of building an online radio station, I wanted to make something different. Something that would engage our community while encompassing all that's going on within the community. In short, we didn't just want to make another online radio station, but we wanted to make a community platform, one that can become an information centre that you can engage with to keep up with all that's happening.

This is a huge task for us as it sets the bar very high. Since we've launched 6 months ago, we are able to bring you 24 hours streaming content that varies across all genres of music, as well as adding talk shows where we can get others with different interests to enlighten and inform us of the pressing issues that we are faced with.

We Ting Radio is available to listen online via the website - www.wetingradio.com - as well as on TuneIn Radio and iTunes Radio. You can also get the apps from Apple's App Store, Google Play Store or BlackBerry App World.

I am also please to announce that this month, we have upped the bar once more, by adding a little more engagement to our platform. Starting this August, you can be able to connect with us via text messages. If you are listening, you can send a SMS (text) message to (954) 507 9646 and our DJs will receive it on their platform. You can also engage with the website, by using your Facebook to securely login and send your shoutouts that way.

In the future, we will be adding more engagement features, like Events, Chat, and much more as we get even more ideas. We are also always open to hearing from you, so if you have an idea or something you would like to see on our platform, feel free to drop me an email at [email protected] and we would be more than happy to look into it. Remember our mantra is, It's not your ting, It's not my ting, It's We Ting. And we look forward to building something that all of us can engage with.

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Tech Talk With Mike : July Edition

Let’s talk about Privacy on the Internet. Many of us live almost “always connected”. It’s just the way things are these days. We are always connected to the internet, whether it’s on our phones, computers or other devices. One of the things that we may not stop to think about often is our privacy online. Do we know what information is being exposed about us on the internet. A lot of times, we’re aren’t aware that data is being collected about us, our behaviour and usage. This is because companies may not explicitly tell you that they do, and if they did, it’s probably hidden in some huge legal file somewhere that we may never read. You know, we all click “Accept Terms & Conditions”. Often times this information is being sold to corporate companies, so that they can better understand and know you, how you think, what you buy etc. so that they can be able to market to you so that you can buy more of their stuff.

While this may not sound like a bad thing to many, it leaves you to wonder what information is being exposed about you without your knowledge, and is it the kind of information that you would like to be out in public about you?

Luckily it’s not all doom & gloom, there are steps that you can take to reduce and almost eliminate information collected about you online. Recently, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), an organization whose goal is to try to protect you and your data online, has launched a tool called “Privacy Badger” (https://www.eff.org/privacybadger) that is an extension you can install on your Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox browser. This addon will look at suspicious code in various websites that is set to track you back to certain websites (e.g Facebook) and block such tracking. You can set the level of blocking that you would like.

Another great tool, and personal favorite of mine for years now, is Adblock Plus (https://adblockplus.org/). This is another cool extension that works will all major browser and phones, and will block annoying ads and pops from being displayed on webpages that you visit or in apps that you use on your phones. Ads are also one of the primary ways websites use to track your behaviour even when you are not using their official website.

You may have seen it in the news and elsewhere, but understanding and controlling your privacy online should be something you are aware of, and you should certainly take action to be in charge of it

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Tech Talk With Mike : June Edition

This past month, I’ve received a number of requests about what is the best way to share files online. The question I seem to get posed with a lot is how do i email a large file to someone? While email is great for sending attachments, most email clients would only allow for a certain file size to be sent. Most common services like Yahoo & Outlook would only allow for a 10 Megabytes (MBs) limit on the total email size, GMail usually allows for a 25MBs limit. If you try to send a file that’s beyond that limit, you may have a very wonky experience.

This is where file sharing services come in very handy. You can use services like Dropbox, Box.com, MediaFire etc. to upload your large files then providing a download link to the person you wish to share the files. You may then just email that link to the person. Gmail, allows for you to use their Google Drive to upload files that are up to 250 MBs, Yahoo has an integration that lets you upload files to Dropbox, and Outlook has their own service called SkyDrive that would let you do the same. But what if you have an extremely large file?

For extremely large file, - those that are in the gigabytes - services like Mega allows you to securely share up to 50 Gigabytes (GBs) for free. Here are a few other notable mentions for file sharing:

YouSendIt

WeTransfer

SendSpace

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May Edition: Tech Talk with Mike

Online messaging has taken a new wave with apps and services like Facebook’s Messenger, WhatsApp and other programs. While using these apps offer great usage on your mobile phones, you can still resort to using them on the web whenever you are on your computer or at your desk. Facebook recently launched a web version of their messenger platform at http://www.messenger.com & WhatsApp at http://web.whatsapp.com. Look out for the We Ting Radio messaging platform that’s coming soon.

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