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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.
Recent Posts
I use DDWRT as my home router / firewall. It has some of the best features that can be found on a router. Visit DDWRT for more information. I use the VPN when I am not in a trusted location. I have setup my iPhone, iPad, and computers to use… I have used Evernote for quite a while, I ran into this blog post from a re-tweet on twitter. It is a post from the EverNote team about re-writing their application in C++ from WPF http://blog.evernote.com/2010/10/26/evernote-4-for-windows-is-here/ I find this interesting that a development team is moving away from WFP. I… I just read about adobe rome. So I headed over to the site and started testing the app. Adobe Rome (Site) What an interesting online / desktop tool. It has some great built-in templates (brochures, business cards, letter head, and web sites) I am interested to get some input from… I recently purchased the new Motorola s10 bluetooth headphones. What a great headphone set. I have been using my stock Iphone ear buds for most of my music listening. What I have found as I do a lot of running / biking is that the cord is a pain. The… Here is a great application to help quickly convert any video to another format ipad / iphone. http://videoconverter.hamstersoft.com/ This simple application makes converting video easy enough my mother could do it. You drag a video into the main window and then start the video transformation process. I love that you… I could not help but read this article. I am a TiVo user so this does not apply. However, for loyal comcast users this may be an eye opener. The team over at comcast created a feature called auto correction fast forward. It basically tries to interpret your clicks (fast… Here is a great video to instruct people on how to create a easy to remember strong password Look out Christmas. Here is a new item I am purchasing for some friends (and myself). Medea Vodka – it has a 250 character LED banner on it that you can program. http://www.medeaspirits.com/how-to-tick/ Here is a great new feature for iis 7.5. A new Module called Application Warm-up. It allows you to specify a url to be launched after an iis-refresh or the application pool recycles. It basically launches the site prior to the first request hitting the server. This is great for…Setup VPN on DDWRT
Evernote – WPF to C++
Adobe Rome – content publishing
Headphones – Motorola s10 Bluetooth review
Convert any Video Quickly to iPad
DVR hurting Football
strong passwords – how to
Christmas Gifts
IIS 7.5 Application Warm-up