Prior to having an iPhone I had a windows mobile device. That was a long time ago, and I don’t miss it at all. There is one aspect that I do miss. That is the ability to customize the home page / lock page. Over the weekend I set out to customize my iPhone / iPad lock screen. If you have …
I always think about work life balance. I’m what you would call a workaholic. I don’t go to extremes as the definition says, but I do enjoy to work and feel that it is something that is part of me. In my readings I came across this presentation by Nigel Marsh at TED Find a Balance Between Work and Life Through …
I have been creating more and more sites with WordPress. I have found it is a great tool and easy to configure. Since I enjoy working with PHP, WordPress makes customization easy. One of the many features that allow WordPress to be a very robust tool is the ability to use plug-ins. A plugin I recommend to everyone is a caching …
I am frequently creating Visio diagrams to use for software development or web applications. I typically use the built in elements and icons. Recently I have found it difficult to find some items that I would like to have in my designs. The great team and group over at OSA (www.opensecurityarchitecture.org) have many tools to both help with designs but …
I just updated my online accounts thanks to Gawker’s recent news regarding their user database being compromised. I did have a gawker account, I’m a reader and subscriber to lifehacker.com. You can check to see if you need to change passwords by looking if your account was compromised here (http://www.slate.com/id/2277768) the widget looks up your email or username. At the time …
I love broadband internet. I signed up for excite @home back in 1999. @home eventually became Comcast and my love hate relationship with them continues. In-fact, I still use the original Motorola surfboard that I got in 1999 (it has a date on it from 1998) as my cable modem. I have been relatively happy with Comcast for all these years in terms of internet …
I’ve been doing some research on QR codes (the funny looking squares you see in magazines and Sunday advertisements). QR codes are “Quick Reference” barcodes that can contain a lot of information. They started to become popular in Japan and have recently been showing up more and more in media and at stores. There are a few great QR code generators …
I recently launched a new application that generates an image. In the app I created a custom image handler that returns a 2D barcode. The Handler used the System.Drawing class to generate the image. This all worked great locally on both Visual Studios Cassini and my local IIS box. However when I published the application to my server (win 2008) I …
I’ve posted before regarding browsing the web on a public wifi network like your local coffee shop or restaurant. I will repeat my message, this type of browsing is not secure, you don’t know who else is on the same network you are using. It is not hard for someone to view your sessions or info. (take for example firesheep) It …
There was an interesting article on lifehacker regarding offline file shareing. Kind of like the old “sneaker net”. Where you would put files on a disk and walk the over to someone. The concept of this offline peer-to-peer is to place a flashdrive or similar item into a permanent fixture and people go to that location and either leave info or …
I love the new firefox plug-in that allows you to view user sessions. It is a simple plug-in called firesheep that uses winpcap to capture packets and hijack web sessions. If you have not heard of this head on over to firesheep and read more What I find funny is the fact that people are all worked up about their security …
I use DDWRT as my home router / firewall. It has some of the best features that can be found on a router. Visit DDWRT for more information. I use the VPN when I am not in a trusted location. I have setup my iPhone, iPad, and computers to use this as my connection to the internet any time I am …
I have used Evernote for quite a while, I ran into this blog post from a re-tweet on twitter. It is a post from the EverNote team about re-writing their application in C++ from WPF http://blog.evernote.com/2010/10/26/evernote-4-for-windows-is-here/ I find this interesting that a development team is moving away from WFP. I am not surprised that there are WPF performance issues, however I …
I just read about adobe rome. So I headed over to the site and started testing the app. Adobe Rome (Site) What an interesting online / desktop tool. It has some great built-in templates (brochures, business cards, letter head, and web sites) I am interested to get some input from designers. The idea that the Adobe tools are very powerful and …
I recently purchased the new Motorola s10 bluetooth headphones. What a great headphone set. I have been using my stock Iphone ear buds for most of my music listening. What I have found as I do a lot of running / biking is that the cord is a pain. The s10 is both sweat proof and wireless. I have paired it …