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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
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. 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… 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… 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… 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. I am not a big fan of ring tones. My cell phone is normally the old fashion ring of the 50’s and on vibrate. I was reading some blogs this morning and came across this url http://www.makeownringtone.com/ and gave it a try. I’m not sure I’ll use the ring tone… I think that microsoft is finally doing something right with their Beta system. Even though there were issues the Windows 7 Beta seems to be a success. People who wanted to test it could download and install (maybe not the first 2 days due to capacity of the servers) …. I finally made the full migration over to windows 7. It is fast and uses less memory than Vista. I now am running it on my primary machine. I was on Vista x64 and I have found Windows 7 x64 to be more responsive. To make the migration work I… I rarely post on things such as MAC vs PC vs Linux. This is because I’m kind of in the middle. As far as I am concerned, they are just an OS. I use Linux at home (typing this out on Ubuntu) and Windows at work. When I read this…Gmail updated tool bar
Windows 7 Backup
What Sites Do you visit?
IIS 7 – Web application installer
Great new Twitter app
Ring Tones
Beta testing (Microsoft)
Windows 7 – Migration
Windows 7 vs MAC