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Make BYOD easier with the help of these five apps

It is very annoying to keep clicking through for tiny bits of information.

but TR makes money on all those ads you see on the right hand side. Each time you reload the slideshow, new ads are exposed. I doubt they will be changing this feature.

Click Blogs at top of screen and select (for example) "Five apps for an easy BOYD transition"
Articles are much more viewable.

Don't care how much fun you have creating these things, most of us hate 'em.

About the only chance of making them acceptable would to do a striptease and we'd only click on the last one anyway...

Which is not fun for me at all. Despite what you like on a personal level, more people view the gallery than the blog post, so as long as they do, we have to produce two versions.

I wonder what factors drive that preference. I dislike them because of all the repeated clicking. But if you've got the numbers, I can't argue. I do wonder how many actually complete the articles.

This is not the first article I've seen on how to "deal" with BYOD. If there are enough issues with BYOD that people need to have guides or apps to help them make BYOD "easier", then that's a pretty clear signal that BYOD is just a bad (and stupid) practice. We don't allow BYOD in my company and there's no problem with that.

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Slide shows are a stupid total waste of time!

WE ALL HATE SLIDE SHOWS - IF YOU WANT TO TELL US SOMETHING - WE DO KNOW HOW TO READ.
(CAPS are on purpose to try to get it home to these THICK writers)

Ads? There are ads? If it's slideshow, I don't even open it. I move on--no time for it.

Attention TR: Write the article with an option to download the screen shots for each app.

Slide shows are a nightmare especially on a mobile device or limited bandwidth. I hope you'll pack this practice in, if not then there's plenty of other sites where I can get my tech info. Awful...

I agree with PeterM42, PLEASE no more slide shows! Except the last line.

http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/five-apps/five-apps-to-make-the-byod-transition-easier/1689?tag=content;siu-container

When I realized the link to an article (not the gallery) was absent I almost set out to find it for myself but decided to read if anyone else was as ticked off as I was. Then I found your comment and the article link. Hats Off!

Bring Out Your Dead!

Might be more appropriate than some people think for non-standard devices with non-authorized files mingled with work files and private files. Let the audit begin!

Slide shows are for people looking at hot bods, hoping the next will be naked.

No more slide shows.

"A writer for over 12 years, Jack's primary focus is on creating annoying slideshows with poor formatting which make articles difficult to read and annoys the cr@p out of his audience..."

Please don't put an article in gallery format. It's bad enough when one has to click and wait for a page reload when looking at a set of pictures. Amazing for a site on technology how the basics of web user interaction are ignored.

Is anyone from Techrepublic reading these comments?
If so, please let us know and tell us if you are going to STOP USING SLIDESHOWS WHICH NO-ONE WANTS!!!!!

It is absolutely astounding to me how anyone would let a business use their own personal device for business purposes and not have the business pay for it! Astounding! Yet ZDnet writers are "paving the way" with articles like this to get you, Mr./Ms. employee, ready and willing to pay for some billionaire's business! Absolutely astounding!

Like everyone else said...I didn't like the whole piece by piece. One page would have been sufficient, just like LifeHacker does for their information.

Bad link, on seeing this as a blog.

by linking FIRST to the blog article, and THEN inserting a link in the blog article to the gallery slideshow article.

#1 Most users are likely to suffer the gallery slideshow because that where they are initially directed. #2 Posting a broken link to the blog article will definitely skew the tally results disportionally towards the "popular" gallery slideshow.

I have used Spideroak in the past for their backup services but had to go with another service because their software wasn't ready for prime time. Updates to their software would break the software and then I would have to uninstall the new version and reinstall the older version. It would miss files in some folders, especially files that were added to a folder. It was also frustrating to do tech support via email with a long delay between submission of the email and a response. There was a lot to like about Spideroak but for my needs it just didn't work.

People keep telling you guys we can't stand the tidbit-at-a-time slideshows, but you insist on defaulting to them. Just the facts Jack!

We all know that "slide shows" are just a trick to artificially inflate the web site's click count.

Aware sponsors will divide the so-called click count by whatever factor (10? / 20? ) is used on average to inflate the promoted viewership.

Beyond that, it is annoying and and more than a little inconsiderate of the reader's time. From now on, slide shows mean "immediate exit" for me.

When I try to click to support either of the first two comments objecting to slideshows, and asking for proper blogs instead, I am directed to a "page not found" message: http://www.techrepublic.com/util/vote?tag=discussion-asset-thread

Is this a way of suppressing criticism ?

I don't understand why LibreOffice is listed under BYOD, since it is Windows machines (Desktops/Laptop) only. How does this help with phones and tablets?