Technology and the tools that make life easier, if not more complicated.
This falls under the heading of great ideas. How many times have you opened a tube of caulk only to make a very minor repair and have the remaining product languish in the tube?
GE Caulk Singles are 1.25oz of patch and seal goodness. Currently available in Silicone White and Clear, and a paintable grade acrylic white at Lowes.
The only downside is the pricing. This would be ideal at $1, but the reality is $2.48.
Jude
This video is of a hands-on demonstration of the RIGID Random Orbital Sander. I picked this one up for under $70 and the Home Depot. You can also pick one up at Amazon for $20 less, Factory-Reconditioned RIDGID ZRR2600 5-inch Random Orbit Sander
Basically all of the sanders are very similar in quality and price. The best part about the RIGID brand is the lifetime waranty. Just be sure to register to be eligible!
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Jude
One word, Bondo.
I couldn’t believe it either but the same product that you used as a teenager to patch dings and fenders, works wonders on wood damage. The package states it’ll repair,
“drywall, concrete, stucco, fiberglass and rotted wood.”
Who knew?
I’m using it during the prep work for repainting my home and it’s working great!
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Jude
Here’s a fine explanation of twitter from Wikipedia,
“Twitter is a free social networking and micro-blogging service that allows users to send “updates” (or “tweets”; text-based posts, up to 140 characters long) to the Twitter website, via short message service (SMS), instant messaging, or a third-party application such as Twitterrific or Facebook.
Updates are displayed on the user’s profile page and instantly delivered to other users who have signed up to receive them.
Southwest airlines has established a presence on Twitter to answer customer service questions. The Los Angeles fire department used twitter to communicate information during the 2007 wildfires. I believe the real power is for personalities and organizations to engage their audience in a very personal way.
Are you interested following Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton?
Do you need to know the latest breaking news from CNN?
Is celebrity news more your speed?
Maybe you prefer to know when your favorite tech personality is streaming live?
You can also keep in touch with friends and family. This is similar to instant messaging but posts are not necessarily meant to result in a response. Post topics are limited to 140 characters so they need to be succinct and direct. You could send a post (tweet) that you’ll be at the OC Fairgrounds at 1pm. Maybe one of your friends (followers) would like to meet you?
Still confused? Check out the Twitter FAQ.
Prefer to use a desktop PC application? I use twhirl. If you have a Mac try Twitterrific.
So now that you have signed up and followed me, check out who’s in the Top 100.
Late last year I built a new pc. I also installed a retail version of Windows XP Home. After rebooting multiple times and 3 hours, I finally had the operating system installed. Then I spent the next few nights installing all of my favorite applications, restoring my data and tweaking the settings until everything was just right.
At this point I installed Drive Snapshot from www.drivesnapshot.de. This program creates a byte for byte backup so the next time I have a computer issue, I can just restore the backup to this same point and time. Well that time came sooner than later.
I tried a tip from www.Lifehacker.com to find out if my computer was secretly connecting to the web. Sure enough, I found two entries that programs were trying to call out. So time to put Drive Snapshot to the test!
First off I had to dig out an old 3.5″ floppy drive. Yes this turned my stomach too. Good thing I didn’t have time this past weekend to venture to the hazardous waste recycling center!
Drive Snapshot will create a bootable floppy based on FreeDOS. Once you reboot the computer and boot into FreeDOS you’re ready to restore your Drive Snapshot backup. You can’t run the restore from Windows, hence the necessity for the floppy.
SNAPSHOT RESTORE HD1 AUTO C:\DRIVES~1\DRIVEI~1SNA -Y -V
…and I was on my way! You’ll want to run a SNAPSHOT SHOW HD1 to be sure you have the right drive. If you have multiple drives you’d run SNAPSHOT SHOW HD2, etc. I didn’t have to repartition the drive since I was maintaining the same partitions.
The restore ran for about an hour for 23MB of data. That’s a lot less than the hours of installing and tweaking. Now for the big test, reboot!
Wow, it works! That’s scary awesome.
Drive Snapshot has a new customer, hope you are one too.
Jude
The Palm IIIx was my first personal digital assistant. I used it to download news thru my PC using AvantGo, maintain my calendar and contacts by syncing with Outlook, securely store my passwords and keep a running inventory of my McFarlane Hockey Figure collection. After reading this article on Lifehacker about what people carry around in their Go Bag, I was surprised to find out that PDA’s are still very popular. The reason Palm and other PDA’s are so popular is they are a very simple and sturdy device that do a few simple tasks well.
Today I use a Palm Treo 650. Even though this is not the most current PDA, it does what I ask. Which are pretty much the same duties I asked my Palm IIIx to perform; maintain my contacts, store passwords, lists for shopping and tasks with the added features of a camera and playing media. I don’t even use the phone functionality anymore since the Verizon data plan is too expensive.
I’m excited about the relaunch of Palm and if I weren’t tied into a contract I’d give the Palm Centro a run. As long as the new devices do everything that the old versions did with the same reliability and maybe a few new features, I’ll be a happy camper.
Here is a list of my “must-have” Palm applications.
Enjoy!
Jude
Hello WordPress.
WordPress is just too cool not to have my own website to tweak and try new things. So thank you Vox but it is time to graduate to the majors, ok maybe Triple-A. Vox has a great albeit small community and tools for the beginner to post content on the web. Hopefully I’ll be able to customize my site and possibly move into some audiocasts in the near future. Well, enough of that, time to post some content.
See you there!
Jude
