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
New Laptop for the family
My wife’s laptop decided to be unreliable. I took the opportunity to upgrade her to a new computer. As with many items I am attempting to keep things portable. So we are upgrading her from a 15 inch Toshiba laptop that I purchased in 2007 for ($400) to a 13…
Comcast – Digital – windows Media Center
I use windows media center on my home theater / basement Projector. Thanks to the wonderful message I got from Comcast that my area is going all digital, I won’t be able to use my system much longer. 1st on my Media center / TiVo I lost the channel data…
Things that I have been doing
I decided that I should do a post on what I have been doing. First and foremost I have been spending more time with my family. Three girls make life fun. I have also been training more and running more often. Running gives me time to think and if I…
NBCUniversal/Comcast – Al Franken – Bandwidth Caps
Here is an interesting article from Mark Cuban. He is discussing the NBCUniversal/Comcast deal and Al Franken. I was reading my RSS feeds and came across this post from Mark. It got me thinking on 1. the future of media (cost) 2. how legislation could inadvertently change how and what…
Compress vdi file (virtualbox)
I mainly develop inside of a virtual server / application. In the last year I have been using Virtualbox instead of Virtual PC. I have a base image that I use as a testing machine. It is a base Windows XP image. I recently discovered that I could save some…
Backup your iPhone Photos – XP
I have been asked a few times to share the steps that I used to get all my photos off my iphone. Here are the basic steps to download all the photos on your iphone using Windows XP or Windows 7: Windows XP: 1. Attach your iphone via usb cable…
Windows Media Center 7 Must have Plugins
I have posted before the Media center plug-ins that I have used with my media center. After upgrading my Mediacenter PC to Windows 7, some of my favorite ones no longer work. My absolute favorite : Web Guide (WebGuide) will not work with 7. I hope they come up with…