Tag Archives: iPad
iPad for Engineers – Generating strong passwords
Creating passwords is not something that any of us really enjoys doing. To keep the wolfs at the door, we all need to do a better job with creating strong passwords. Sometimes you get into a rut and cant come … Continue reading
iPad for Engineers – NTP
One thing that should be at the top of everyone’s list is making sure all their network gear is in timesync with a central time source. Especially when you are dealing with things such as SSL certs and logging access, … Continue reading
iPad for Engineers – SoftTokens
Keeping online transactions safe is something that we must all strive to do. I am trying to do better with using strong passwords, that will doesn’t keep someone from repeatedly trying to guess your password. The downside to this is … Continue reading
iPad for Engineers – CiscoPassword
Periodically you may run across a Cisco router or switch with has a local password on it. Problem is that you don’t know what the password is. You can do a password recovery and change the password but changing may … Continue reading
iPad for Engineers – Ghostwriter
One of the main reasons I migrated to using the iPad is that I ended up having multiple notepads lying around, never had the right one with me or the one I had with me was full I needed to … Continue reading
iPad for Engineers – Cisco Technical Support App
This is an app that I use frequently. It allows me to watch for replies to questions I have posted in various Cisco Support Community forums. For forums that match the various technologies that I work on, I can “subscribe” … Continue reading
iPad for Engineers – FileApp
What brought FileApp to my attention was when I starting storing files in Evernote but needed a way to view Word and Excel files on my iPad/iPhone while in Evernote. The integration is very seamless. When I tap on a … Continue reading
iPad for Engineers – Dropbox
Dropbox is the evolution to the process that us old-timers called the floppy swappy. When I first got started with computers, like a lot of us, I had several wallets of different, sometimes labeled floppy disks, containing a collection of … Continue reading
iPad for Engineers – Get Console
I have been using this app more than I would have expected. While there are several apps available that you can Telnet or SSH to your Cisco devices with, this one is the first I have found that lets you … Continue reading
iPad for Engineers – GoodReader
This is probably the first App that I found for the iPad that I use. While I use it for reading my growing library of PDF’s, it can also be used to handle TXT files such as the pile of … Continue reading
