Jimiz.net – Jim Becher on the web

I thought this was a pretty good list. I am a user of linkedin. It is interesting to see that search is a item on the list you would think between google and yahoo it would be a dead end. Also, the technology around mobile is just starting to pick up. Advertising, search, useablity are all items that are being used on mobile devices

http://www.wired.com/techbiz/startups/news/2007/12/YE_10_startups

I have been a little behind on my releases of iisreporter. I had a commander edition ready to go before some technical issues and source control issues slowed it down.
Currently a alpha build is in works for a IIS7 version of iisreporter. I want to roll in the commander features into this release.

What will those features be.
1. Multiple server monitoring (non free version)
2. Remote server monitoring (non free version)
3. IIS 7 and II6 support (free)
4. Widget / Sidbar integration (from a client)
5. Web based version.

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I love technology. I have a smartphone, outlook email, gmail and paper to keep my tasks and meetings. I use a calendar all the time. I use my work calendar as the primary and the rest on and off. I have often thought of syncing my calender with my google calendar. I have not found a good solution. I just read an article on how to send your outlook calendar as an .isc file. So now I can send a message to myself and then import my events.

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I am not sure how I feel about our economy. I understand that jobless rates in Michigan are bad. I understand that consumer spending is lower than normal. I can also reason that we have a housing issue, in my eyes a correction. The main thought I have is that we did this to ourselves. Sub-prime lending has been blaimed for a lot. However, if you stop to think about it the banks allowed this to happen (they allowed Joe purchaser to get a $400,000 home when only making 35 grand). They got greedy thinking that when rates went up they would make some $$. But the banks are not the only ones to blame. Joe purchaser is also to blame, why would people go out and make decisions like that. We live in a society where bigger is better, more expensive is better, and the more you have the better off you are.

So where am I going with all this banter. Well, Morgan Stanley decided that we needed to be informed that there should be a “recession alert” they issued one for the US yesterday. What does that mean, are we in a recession, is one coming. Should people start stuffing money into their matress.

As I read the article . They make it sound like they are informing the country of things we are unaware of. I can’t help but think that the News outlets are going to have a field day. In a time where banks are already tight with giving money to deserving companies and small business, now this will even hurt lending more.
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Are we going to be in a new era type of recession (one that has not been defined yet) or are we going into the 80′s type recession where interest rates were high. This is what the question is? What is a recession in today’s world, a word where money means less (think of our US debt) and where consumers treat money as virtual?

I just saw this labeled as “The least used page on Microsoft.com”
(LINK) http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314458

How to uninstall Linux and install XP.

I love watching videos on my computer. However I hate the fact that a simple avi file may not play because of some codec issue. I found this link from digg.com regarding a codec finder. I gave it a try on a file that I could not play. It worked great. If you ever have issues with some hard to find codec, give this a try.

CodecInstaller - http://www.jockersoft.com/english/codecinstaller.php

A tool I use often is called Microsoft SyncToy. They recently came out with a new beta version

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SyncToy

One of my friends has just got his name mentioned on techcrunch.com (one of the blogs I read daily). Joe has developed an application called the AIR iphone. It allows you run an iphone emulator from your desktop.
The techcrunch.com (URL)

If you are interested you can just jump on over to joe’s blog (merhl.com)