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Blog posts and ramblings to chronicle my adventures in life. This may contain technology, family, business or products that I enjoy.
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Hi, I’m Jim. A father, husband, business owner, entrepreneur, and a person who loves technology. I semi-often update this blog.
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Feel free to reach out to me with questions, contact, business ideas, projects or just a random Hello. Located in the Mitten state.
Recent Posts
Magento Debug and Modifications
I have been using Magento more frequently. One of the great benefits of this system is the ablity to customize the application and change it’s behavior. One of the downsides is because of the ability to customize the overall folder structure can be a bit challenging if you are not…
RSS in Safari iOS 6
Apple released the new iOS6 in September. The new OS has some great features and new enhancements. The one item I am baffled about and have not read much about is the removal of native RSS viewing from Safari. This may not sound like much but prior to iOS6 on…
Wireless fun – MDK3 on ubuntu 12
I decided to have some fun with the wireless network this weekend. I have a lot of neighbors and when you look at wireless you see a ton of SSID’s. A nifty little program called MDK3 allows you to broadcast a lot of SSID’s. I was watching one of the podcasts…
Windows 8 Media Center – Free till January
In my last post I walked through the install of windows 8 Media Center. During the process I purchased the feature. After looking at the news (google) it appears that Microsoft is offering the feature key for Windows 8 Media Center Pack for free. Head to this site to redeem…
Windows 8 – Media Center
I upgraded my media center PC last week to Windows 8. Since that day, I have been missing media center. The Media PC in our basement was running windows 7 and that was the way we watched TV. It is hooked to a projector and has a great media center…
Screenshot software – Jing Alternative
I have been a longtime user of Jing from Techsmith. Until recently this was my go-to software for screen captures or video. I have watched people be amazed when I just take a screen capture circle an area make a comment and upload to screen share. Recently, I have noticed…
Magento – Google Analytics
Magento is a great opensource eCommerce package. If you have not heard of it, you should head to their site and check it out. In a recent project I was working through a transition from ASPdotnetstorefront over to Magento. During the process I wanted to move the Google Analytics over….
Airport extreme export key – equivalent network password
Dear apple, please make any text in your applications available to be copied in windows. In particular the text from the “equivalent network password” section on your airport extreme wireless base station. If there is one thing I hate, it is not being able to copy text. The Control+C keyboard…
Mobile Web Testing
I have been doing more mobile web sites recently. My preference has been to use responsive design that allows for any display size. The display size can range from Desktop, TV, tablet or phone. However, I have found it is important to know your target audience and also do testing….