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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.

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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.

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Ring Tones

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…

Beta testing (Microsoft)

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) ….

Windows 7 – Migration

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…

Windows 7 vs MAC

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…

Iphone – copy and paste

I just saw today that there is an app that you can get to allow for Copy and Paste. It appears that it does not work in Safari. I can live with that. The ability to copy and paste is huge. One example is for a wireless network key that…

Tax time

It is tax time again. I love doing taxes and I don’t know why. My favorite store is closing so I picked up my copy of taxcut on sale and got 10% going out of business discount. I still like taxcut instead of turbo tax

New worm (Windows)

I found this interesting. A new worm is spreading on a non fixed Microsoft security issue. http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9125941

Would you use a NetBook

I have been thinking of getting a NetBook for a while. I have many reasons to get one, most of all is the portable size of the unit. It will also make it easier for me to not break out “my work” as my wife calls the laptop at the…

Why JailBreak

Since I have an Iphone and I have loaded JailBreak. Here is a good little article on why to do it. http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/why_you_have_to_jailbreak_the_iphone.php My reason was simple. I wanted the Modem application (to use my iphone as a modem)