Boogie Jack is Back
Boogie Jack is a site that offers help to everyone who writes websites. I have been reading his work for many years now. I haven’t seen anything new from Dennis for quite some time now and I thought Boogie Jack had gone away. Today I got a new newsletter and it turns out that he […]
Happy New Year
Wishing you and your family all the best in the new year. Have a Happy, Healthy and Prosperous 2007. Jim
Software Recommendation – Scribus
In the past I have used OpenOffice.org Impress for page layout, but I downloaded Scribus today. Scribus is Open Source Desktop Publishing like Pagemaker or Quark. It’s for Linux, Mac OS X and Windows First of all it comes from Sourceforge so I trust it right away. It’s not very big, about 18MB. and at […]
Quick MySQL Backup
Backing up your data can be a hassle, but there is nothing worse than having something go wrong and losing all of it completely. Here’s a very good for an easy way to backup your MySQL database from zmanda.com. It uses all open source software so it is readily available and free. More
Free Web Conferencing Application
I’m always on the lookout for good, useful and preferably free applications to help people and business. I have written about how much I like Free and why I think giving the right thing away can benefit any business on the web. Here’s another good example called Yugma, which is a free web conferencing service […]
Check Out The New ajaxPresents
Now you can create, edit and save most any MS Office document right in your web browser with the introduction of ajaxPresents. This presentation editor lets your read, create and save Microsoft PowerPoint and OpenOffice presentation files. In addition to a familiar web-based interface that allows you to easily handle presentation files, ajaxPresents also provides […]
Help For Small Businesses
When I’m looking for help for my business the first place I usually go is to the Small Business Administration Website. They have so much help for free including, taxes, advertising and many other resources. You could spend days just poking around their site. I have found that you can usually trust the US government’s […]
Free Office Templates
Here’s a post from a blog called dumb little man. This blog provides tips and tools to make things a little easier for you. This post is called “250 Free Office Templates and Documents”. They has categorized many templates from the Microsoft website to make them easier to find. I have tried several and can […]
Why Pittsburgh Is Not Silicon Valley
Paul Graham published this essay back in May. It’s called “How to Be Silicon Valley”. In it he talks about how smart people tend to go where other smart people are. It turns out he is also from here in Pittsburgh and he thinks we have the smart people to do the job, but because […]
