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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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I love watching videos

I love watching videos on my computer. However I hate the fact that a simple avi file may not play because of some codec issue. I found this link from digg.com regarding a codec finder. I gave it a try on a file that I could not play. It worked…

SyncToy

A tool I use often is called Microsoft SyncToy. They recently came out with a new beta version http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SyncToy

Adobe Air iPhone

One of my friends has just got his name mentioned on techcrunch.com (one of the blogs I read daily). Joe has developed an application called the AIR iphone. It allows you run an iphone emulator from your desktop. The techcrunch.com (URL) If you are interested you can just jump on…

Kinetic IG

Currently I am working at NuSoftsolutions and we are now building out a new practice called Kinetic IG (site coming soon). This practice is going to be focused on web presence and interactive applications. The main components will be graphic design, software development, and marketing fundamentals around web applications.

Where do you store your photos

After a few hard drive failures and some data loss. You really begin to think about your data. In particular I really am worried about my digital photos. I have told all my family members to make sure that they backup at least their photos. Unlike the old days of…

What OS do you run

For years you had a only one option for an OS on your computer, Windows. Well there have been some exceptions over the years (Unix, OS2, vax, etc..) but for your typical user it was just Windows. Machines ordered (dell, hp, etc…) all came with windows. This has changed in…

National Treasure – spout.com

I just watched national treasure again and realized how much I liked that movie – read about it on spout (National Treasure). While watching the film they were promoting the new National Treasure 2 (National treasure – Book of Secrets) I am actually excited to see this movie.

Input Devices

Since I have been using my Thinkpad more frequently at home for coding and any work while at home. I realized how much I love the Thinkpad trackpoint (red dot – eraser thing). What a great layout, I am much more efficient with that then the Dell version (Latitude D820)….

IISreporter on iis.net

It’s always great to see your software on other sites. Here is a link to download iisreporter from www.iis.net http://www.iis.net/downloads/default.aspx?tabid=34&g=6&i=1372 At one time it was a featured download