Jim Becher - Surfing the Web

I finally did it. I now own a MAC. I recently purchased a new to me MacBook. I won’t bore everyone with the specs, but it has 2 gig of ram and the Intel Duo processor. I want to create an Iphone app and realized that you really do need…

If you are like me you use your camera on your iphone. I have to admit it is not the best camera, but I always have it on me. So I have found over the last year that I have taken a lot of photos. I wanted to re-stage my…

Since my hard drive was failing on my laptop I purchased a new drive. To migrate from the failing drive to a new drive was very easy with Macrium Reflecthttp://www.macrium.com/. This is not an ad for them, but the software works great. You just run the image creation while in…

My laptop hard drive decided to start acting up yesterday. Before it formally crashed (I’m not counting the 6 times where it just clicked and stopped working) I decided to make an image of it. After I validated the image I went out and purchased a new internal SATA laptop…

I am a huge fan of Mozy (Mozy.com). They offer free and paid backup solutions online. I use their services on every computer I have. Recently they announced that they have over 15 petabytes worth of data. What is a petabyte you say? Well, it is a lot of data….

I am always amazed how sites can launch and draw traffic. Then add a feature that just takes off. The facebook chat feature that lets you have an IM / Chat session with another facebook friend has over 1 billion messages a day. 1 billion is a huge number. In…

So are you one of the people who want a new Iphone. I am. The main reason (SPEED) I like my phone, use it a lot. But the speed could be better. Am I willing to pay 500 bucks for speed. Well, not right now. Here is an interesting article…

I have been neglecting my blog for a while. I moved jobs and have been busy outside of work with the kids. To catch up I will have to figure out some type of series to blog about. For now, consider this a “I’m back” post. From plane crashes, The…

I have been running windows 7 for a while now. It has gone so well that I have converted all but one windows machine over. My windows media center I have kept with Vista so I did not have to change anything. My everyday development machine is now Win7 x64….