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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.
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
Copying a business model or just design
Here is an interesting discussion / article on copying someones business model or even their design. Is it right to take a working site or design and re-use it or make your business around it. Reading through this the idea behind it is that the company that is riding the…
contacts, contacts, contacts
Google announced sync. I like this move, the ability to sync info into the cloud. Those of us who have used Exchange for a while have had the great feature to have instant sync from a server to your device. http://www.google.com/mobile/default/sync.html (sync) Now people with out an exchange server can…
New Project (DIY)
I’m starting a new project to store my DVD’s Wii games and stuff in my basement and wanted to try something new. After a little looking I found an article on lifehacker.com that had a pretty good idea for me. So I’m looking for some large old school Hi-Fi speakers…
Tools of the trade
Since I finally got a new phone (iPhone) my old blue tooth head-set a jabra BT250 (Info) did not seem to have that great of quality with the phone. I’m not sure if it was because it is 5 years old or that technology has changed. The BT250, as ugly…
Gmail updated tool bar
This may not be new, or I did not notice it. But my gmail toolbar now has a different look. I like the delete vs trash and the simple layout of how it works.
Windows 7 Backup
I had the chance to try out the built in backup from windows 7. Not bad, I may have to start using that instead of the scripts and tools I currently use. I was impressed with what I saw, so I setup the backup and will try it for a…
What Sites Do you visit?
I realized after a discussion at work today that I don’t view news and information sites in a browser that often. I find that I use an RSS reader more than actually going to the sites. I did not think about this too much until a co-worker was discussing Twitter…
IIS 7 – Web application installer
I love the new version of IIS. One of the great elements of Server 2008 is that it has IIS7 installed. A great aspect of the new IIS is that you can now run very common applications (wordpress, and photo gallery) on Windows. These applications are PHP based and typically…
Great new Twitter app
I was directed to this program by one of my co-workers http://twitter.com/macfowler OutTwit: a way to monitor and post to twitter through outlook http://www.techhit.com/OutTwit/ Great application, you can check twitter when you want and then respond. It stores the tweets in a folder.