I find myself in a command prompt in windows a lot. I enjoy using it. From simple items like getting an ip address or copying files (robocopy) I use it a lot. More recently I have been in powershell a lot more. Powershell uses most of the same tricks as the command prompt. I have used these tips and tricks …
It seems like just yesterday I upgraded to Vista x64. It was a pain in the rear, display drivers did not work, things were a little difficult to get intalled (sharepoint development environment). Some of the main software I used did not work, like screen (screen capture app), pdfprinter, and even simple things like Cisco VPN. It took some time …
I was doing some quick calculations in an excel spreadsheet and wanted to multiple a value around the number of seconds in a year. I did not know the number off the top of my head. So the simple way to solve that issue was to do a fast google search. I love the type ahead answers and google just …
I am very pleased with my newer T410 laptop. The only complaint I have found is the resolution. It is set to 1280 x 800, which is not bad. It is a wide screen but not too high of a resolution. I was used to a T61 with a 1680×1050 resolution WSXGA+. It is amazing how you can miss that real …
I was at teched 2011 and almost every presenter at the conference did a quick zoom in on a section of code or area of their screen. I thought it was on of the simplest and best things I had seen in a while. I know that Win7 has a zoom feature, but this was different. An example I give is …
As I was looking at an old cell phone that my kids use a a toy, I have realized that I’ve owned a lot of mobile phones. Here is a quick look in my phone history: OKI 1300 series (Circa 1995) : This was my first phone and my first cell phone. I took my first job interview on this …
I have been looking at new a new laptops and have been watching how people use them. My reasons for this are simple. I am a firm believer in the trackpoint, the little joystick thing in the middle of a laptop keyboard. Particularly on the IBM thinkpad laptops. The new laptop I will be using is a Dell and may or …
I use Filezilla as my main FTP client. It is a wonderful tool for ftp, ftps, scp (sftp) and other transfer protocols. I am getting a new laptop and needed to transfer / backup my settings. I have a lot of sites stored and did not want to go looking for all the username and password information. Filezilla allows you to …
I love technology. I love how the process of doing tedious tasks can be simplified. I can remember when creating an favicon was a true task. You had to download some type of app that would transform your image to a PNG then do some maniuplation to make it the right size. Today there are some great sites that take your …
So today I updated my iPhone to 4.3.2 and Jailbroke it again. I always get asked why I jailbreak. The simple answer is because I like to hack devices. The more to the point reasons are the cool customizations. The business reason is simple, MyWi it allows me to make the device a wifi hotspot and always have internet where ever …
I went to a coffee shop today to do some work. Update a few documents and get some random things I have been putting off. As always I log onto the coffee shop wireless and connect to my VPN. (read other articles here and here). After completing the items I had set out to do. I took some time to …
To follow up on my first post regarding Vibram 5 fingers, I’ve got a lot of feedback. People asking how long it took to get used to the shoes. How do they feel on my feet, do they hurt toes. Someone even asked about the press that barefoot running is bad for you. (runningbarefootisbad). I’ll try to give feed back …
I’m a network abuser. I use my internet connection for everything. VPN access when at any public wifi location (VPN ddwrt). I also use it for Streaming movies on netflix, backup for my data (mozy, dropbox, rsync for business data) and just general browsing. So overall I am using a lot of data. When comcast put their 250GB limit in place …
I’ve mentioned before that I recently got another Thinkpad (t410). After receiving the laptop I’ve had wireless issues / performance problems with it. At first I just thought it was due to my wireless network. I use a combination of DDWRT and Airport Extreme to provide wireless to my house. The airport provides the wireless as a dedicated AP and I …
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 …