I realized after a discussion at work today that I don’t view news and information sites in a browser that often. I find that I use an RSS reader more than actually going to the sites. I did not think about this too much until a co-worker was discussing Twitter as a service does not get that much direct traffic (people …
I love the new version of IIS. One of the great elements of Server 2008 is that it has IIS7 installed. A great aspect of the new IIS is that you can now run very common applications (wordpress, and photo gallery) on Windows. These applications are PHP based and typically are hosted on Linux Servers. IIS 7 allows for you to …
I was directed to this program by one of my co-workers http://twitter.com/macfowler OutTwit: a way to monitor and post to twitter through outlook http://www.techhit.com/OutTwit/ Great application, you can check twitter when you want and then respond. It stores the tweets in a folder.
I am not a big fan of ring tones. My cell phone is normally the old fashion ring of the 50’s and on vibrate. I was reading some blogs this morning and came across this url http://www.makeownringtone.com/ and gave it a try. I’m not sure I’ll use the ring tone I made but, it was fun and would be a better …
I think that microsoft is finally doing something right with their Beta system. Even though there were issues the Windows 7 Beta seems to be a success. People who wanted to test it could download and install (maybe not the first 2 days due to capacity of the servers) . I am currently in the Azure beta (limited beta) and that …
I finally made the full migration over to windows 7. It is fast and uses less memory than Vista. I now am running it on my primary machine. I was on Vista x64 and I have found Windows 7 x64 to be more responsive. To make the migration work I used a drive image software and a spare hard drive. I …
I rarely post on things such as MAC vs PC vs Linux. This is because I’m kind of in the middle. As far as I am concerned, they are just an OS. I use Linux at home (typing this out on Ubuntu) and Windows at work. When I read this article I had to include it for reference. In this case …
I just saw today that there is an app that you can get to allow for Copy and Paste. It appears that it does not work in Safari. I can live with that. The ability to copy and paste is huge. One example is for a wireless network key that is 32 characters, get it in an email and paste into …
It is tax time again. I love doing taxes and I don’t know why. My favorite store is closing so I picked up my copy of taxcut on sale and got 10% going out of business discount. I still like taxcut instead of turbo tax
I found this interesting. A new worm is spreading on a non fixed Microsoft security issue. http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9125941
I have been thinking of getting a NetBook for a while. I have many reasons to get one, most of all is the portable size of the unit. It will also make it easier for me to not break out “my work” as my wife calls the laptop at the moment. So if you were to get a NetBook what would …
Since I have an Iphone and I have loaded JailBreak. Here is a good little article on why to do it. http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/why_you_have_to_jailbreak_the_iphone.php My reason was simple. I wanted the Modem application (to use my iphone as a modem)
I finally got around to upgrading my blog last night. Please ignore any left over things that have to be fixed. WordPress 2.7 is now in place.
I love lists of free software. I came to this one from reading an article about Windows 7. This is a good list of items: http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/28435
After reading this I was a bit angry. I have had AT&T for a long time. My last 3 phones I have been able to either use a usb cable or just Bluetooth to connect my computer through the phone to the internet. Most recently with the 3g network I got close to 1.5 megabits of transfer. Now, with my Iphone …