In quest to rid myself of unnecessary material belongings, I recently researched out photo scanning services to scan my thousands of print photos. I compared similar services then finally decided that FotoBridge offered the best rates for the quality. As instructed, I packed up my photos, all 32 lbs of them, and shipped them to [...]
The latest version of WordPress came out a couple weeks ago but I was stalling on upgrading due to a warning my hosting company posted. After doing two different types of backups, one through the hosting service and one through a shell script Rob wrote, I decided to take the plunge and do the WordPress [...]
The SXSW conference rocked on right through the weekend, so Saturday morn I was up and at the Austin Convention Center. The first session I attended was The Contextual Web. I went into it thinking it would be around the web semantically defining relationships through blog post context and user behavior (think Sphere), but instead [...]
I am currently taking some introductory computer science classes on the side of work in hopes of understanding more of the technical jargon and background when looking at start-ups. My classes include Intro to Unix, Intro to Computer Science and Computer Science I (java programming). I am thoroughly enjoying everything I am learning, though it [...]
The other day I read the ZDNet blog “Apple should start offering Windows-based Macs”. Interesting read, but I disagree. Apple has established a reputation for an integrated hardware and software resulting in high quality machine with few operating errors. Its performance and reliability are what make the computers so great… and (I believe) have increased [...]
Once again my little Macbook has succeeded in surprising me with its functionality. A couple months ago LifeHacker had posted about the downloadable Mac tool Combine PDF, a freeware that emulates Adobe Acrobat. I used the application and was happy with the product, but did feel the layout could have been a little more user [...]
I recently read the Business 2.0 article “What’s Next: The Top 10 Products, Ideas and Trends.” I love these types of article and, sure enough, was not let down by this one. There were two ideas that really excited me. First is Powercast, a startup based in Pennsylvania and founded in 2003 that is using [...]
