I follow and read a number of other blogs, but this recent article from A List Apart is really cool. I do some web design, mostly as a volunteer for non profits. Most of my testing (I wont use the word designing) is done by the make a change and view in a couple browsers method.
This article was a real eye opener for me in ways to effectively manage what style sheets different browsers actually see.
I have been wanting to take a number of our pictures and put them together as a nice slideshow for DVD. This tool looks great and is easy to use, yet lets you do some really nice stuff that Windows Photo Story doesnt allow.
Check it out here DVDslideshowGUI
Very interesting tool for possible recovery of laptops that are stolen with almost no cost.
I will have to install and test it out, but it looks pretty interesting.
Adeona: A Free, Open Source System for Helping Track and Recover Lost and Stolen Laptops
If you have lots of applications on your computer and dont have enough room for all of them on your quick launch bar this is the application for you. With a quick alt + spacebar you can simply type the name your application and you are ready to go. No more hunting through a huge list of programs two, three, or four columns long trying to remember the name of the software development company.
Check it out: Launchy: The Open Source Keystroke Launcher
Last night my brother in law called asking some questions about Palms, calendars, and trying to keep schedules coordinated when he and his wife work in separate counties.
They have an older palm and were looking at the options for coordinating calendars. I recommended Google calendars due to the ease in which you can share calendars between different people.
So i did some quick research and found a couple of good articles/blogs on how to sync your palm with gcal.
How to sync Google calendar and Palm « Not Nurse Ratched
A Google Calendar Palm Pilot Solution
End result, if you are trying to sync via the cradle seems to be go with CompainLink for Google (free trial available) or if you can access the internet with your phone/palm directly use www.goosync.com.
When the California Supreme Court ruled that non competes were not legal (see here) in California it made me start thinking.
If California home to Silicon Valley, the big boy of technology innovation can get by without non competes do we really need them in other places?
I understand the laws that prevent theft of property, patents, secret company plans, customer and similar items. In the end how enforceable are the non competes anyways. In Indiana were I live the courts have generally required the company enforcing the noncompete agreement to provide an equivalent salary to the person until the non compete expires.
I regulary read Coding Horror a blog about programming and related business topics. On the most recent blog entry On Our Project, We’re Always 90% Done a number of great ideas about project management, software books, etc were mentioned.
However, a very interesting article on team compensation was mentioned written by Mary Poppendieck, it can be found here.
Not sure exactly how this applies to my current job immdeatly, but learning to be a manager compensation is always an item for discussion.
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Just recently purchased a new Blackberry 8830 from Sprint, it wasn’t a pleasant experience, but I really enjoy the phone. Besides the applications and themes that came with the phone there are a number of nice addons that I have found to be helpful. Links to them are below.
Google Talk for Blackberry
http://www.blackberry.com/GoogleTalk
Google Maps
http://www.google.com/gmm
IPhone Theme
http://www.eveek.com/Themes_88/iPhone-Zen-88-OTA/com_plazmic_theme_iPhone_Zen_88.jad
Black/White Theme
http://www.eveek.com/Themes_88/Bubble-Black-88-Zen-OTA/com_plazmic_theme_Bubble_Black_Zen.jad
The above applications are free, but I also purchased Texas Holdem 2 from Magmic software. It is a great way to relax/pass sometime when you are stuck at the airport or in a taxi cab.
I will add software as a find it, but also feel free to post some links if you find good stuff to share.
I have been using a variety of open source and Linux tools for several years now. Created at least a dozen php/mysql/apache type applications. Currently use IPCop for my firewall, along with the Cop+ and CopFilter addons. Utilize FreeNas as my storage server and Ubuntu with rsnapshot running to backup my personnel information along with that of a couple of small businesses/non profits. I am writing this blog entry with another open source tool. We utilize Audacity to help record the sermons at church and manage the directory/membership with a piece of software called ChurchInfo.
Linux has always been advertised, or maybe more accurately stated “promoted” as the perfect tool for small business and in a number of instances it is. However, there are a few spots where Linux is a little weak. Maybe users can point out the areas where some other options are available or possibly even alternate commercial software can be used. The two areas that are a challenge are Domain Authentication/Profiles/User Management (aka MSFT Small Business Server) and RADIUS/WPA2 support.
I have been interested in using rsync and hard links to backup my computer system for a long time. Something very similar to Mike Rubel’s idea. I dabbled here and there for a long time, but never finished putting something together. Well I finally got it done. I used a number of different sites for help and even a couple posts to the Rsnapshot website.
The backup was for both my personal storage sites and for my church. The requirements were such:
A number of open source/very inexpensive software exists, but I ran into a few issues. All of the solutions that I looked at had one major issue, inability to operate over a remote network or they didn’t have a client for windows. If someone has a suggestion of something that might work please let me know.
I broke the solution down into 3 parts.
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