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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.
About
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.
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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,… 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… 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… 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… 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… 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… 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… 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…32bit or 64bit compiled application
iPhone and iPod sync multiple calendars – google apps
Command Line tips
64 bit has become the norm…
Google vs Bing vs Yahoo – Seconds in a year
High Resolution Laptop
Zoom it – Presentation Zoom
Cell phones – of the past