Blog
Blog posts and ramblings to chronicle my adventures in life. This may contain technology, family, business or products that I enjoy.
About
Hi, I’m Jim. A father, husband, business owner, entrepreneur, and a person who loves technology. I semi-often update this blog.
Contact
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
US Soccer (world cup)
The us women’s soccer team is doing great. Tonight they beat France to head to the world cup finals. It was a great match to watch 3-1. I love to see the US do well in soccer. The prior game against Brazil was just amazing. Being a player down and…
Secure your home network – Block sites – OpenDNS
I get all types of security questions from home users. How do I secure my wireless so people can’t use it? How can I make sure people can’t steal files on my computer? How can I keep the kids from going to sites they are not suppose to be on?…
iPad Tips and Tricks
I love it when I come across a new thing on the iPad that I did not know. I was reading a tip’s and tricks blog post on the ipad and I learned about how to pause an app from being installed. http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/14529/the-complete-list-of-ipad-tips-tricks-and-tutorials/ You basically hit the icon of the…
32bit or 64bit compiled application
How do you tell if an app has been compiled in 32bit, 64bit or any cpu. There is a great little tools called corflags. Corflags is built into visual studio. You can open a visual studio command prompt to run this tools. I created a vs2010 solution with 3 projects,…
iPhone and iPod sync multiple calendars – google apps
If you use google apps and an iPhone or iPad you have probably tried to add other calendars to your in app calendar application. A very simple way to do this is to use iphoneselect. Iphone select allows you to select the calendars from a webpage and then configure…
Command Line tips
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…
64 bit has become the norm…
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…
Google vs Bing vs Yahoo – Seconds in a year
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…