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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.

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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,…

Old tube

I don’t often head over to youtube and just watch shows.  I typcically find a podcast or something that leads me to youtube.  But today, I was thinking of a song and just typed in the only few words I could remember and got it on youtube.  So, today I’m…

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…

High Resolution Laptop

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…

Zoom it – Presentation Zoom

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…

Cell phones – of the past

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…