I’ve been fine tuning my backup strategy for years, so I thought I’d share to help any one out there who is just getting serious about it. I take backups seriously because many years of hard work woul
Scenario: You have a Windows 8 Phone and you want to sync media with a Windows 7 Desktop. It took me a bit to dig this up, but there is a Microsoft developed Windows 7 app here: http://www.windowsphon
Here are the Build 2012 speaker blogs, Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook and Google+ accounts. Enjoy! BLOG FEED FILE You can subscribe to the Build 2012 speaker blogs by importing this [OPML file](http://j
This is the second post in a two part series on integrating SMS functionality into an application. In the first post, “A high-level look into Clickatell’s new SMS Small Business API”, I focused on th
This is the first post in a two part series on integrating SMS functionality into an application. In this post, I focus on the analysis I did into Clickatell’s Small Business API. My second post in th
Here are the Web Unleashed 2012 speaker blogs, Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook and Google+ accounts. Enjoy! BLOG FEED FILE You can subscribe to the Web Unleashed 2012 speaker blogs by importing this [OPM
I use Windows+S ALL THE TIME. Wasn’t working this morning. I clicked around for 5 minutes trying all the different options. The only thing that re-enabled it was opening OneNote and manually selecting
Here are the Ladies Who Code 2012 speaker blogs, Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook and Google+ accounts. Enjoy! BLOG FEED FILE You can subscribe to the Ladies Who Code 2012 speaker blogs by importing this
I just found this utility called BrowserTraySwitch. I’ve never heard of the site, but it looked legit enough for me to give BrowserTraySwitch a try. BrowserTraySwitch is a system tray utility that lau
It took me way too long to figure out how to setup my outlook.com email address in Outlook 2013. It’s simple, but I couldn’t figure out what Mail Server to use it turned out to be m.hotmail.com, which
I used to put on open mics at back in 2006. We saw a lot of great talent come through, but one of the more memorable performances was from Kris Orlowski. Kris captured our attention because he has a n
I spent about two hours the other day trying to find a good jQuery ComboBox, so I thought I’d do a quick post to see if I can help you narrow down your choices. I ultimately decided to go with the Tel
I’ve spend a lot of time with Intel’s IvyBridge Ultrabook since I wrote my “First look at the Intel IvyBridge Ultrabook” post a couple of weeks ago. Intel wanted to get a pre-production Ultrabook in t
Like I mentioned in my post “Microsoftie Perk #9 – Access to product team devs”, it is awesome to be able to ping the people who build the tools we use every day. This post is a great example of that
Here are the IAB MIXX 2012 speaker blogs, Twitter and LinkedIn accounts. Enjoy! BLOG FEED FILE You can subscribe to the IAB MIXX 2012 speaker blogs by importing this [OPML file](http://jongallant.com/
Here are the MADExpo 2012 speaker blogs and Twitter accounts. Enjoy! BLOG FEED FILE You can subscribe to the MADExpo 2012 speaker blogs by importing this [OPML file](http://jongallant.com/MADExpo12Spe
Apple made is real easy to upgrade your Mac OS X with the introduction of the App Store in the Snow Leopard (10.6.6) update. If you go to the “Upgrade your Mac” page on Apple.com they tell you how to
You can find out what OS X version you are on by clicking on the Apple icon, then select the “About This Mac” menu item. The number under the Apple logo is the version you are on. 10.5.x is Leopard, 1
As you may have noticed Lion (10.7) is no longer available in the App Store. Apple intentionally pulled it from the App Store so people would go right to Mountain Lion (10.8) instead. As of today the
Apple didn’t introduce the App Store into Mac OS X until Snow Leopard 10.6.6. Here’s what you need to do to get the App Store. You can find out what OS X version you are on by clicking on the Apple ic