tig.log - Part 17

MindManager feature request

February 17, 2005 by tig

Here’s a feature request for the team at MindJet responsible for the fantastic MindManager X5 product I wrote about last week; presented as a mind map of course!

Bluetake BT500 Bluetooth mouse and Windows XP SP2

February 16, 2005 by tig

I have a Dell Insipron 8600 laptop with built-in Bluetooth support. The touchpad is not bad, but when I’m doing heavy work in MindManager I am moving the cursor around a lot. I wanted a mouse I could take … Read more

Mapping your mind with MindManager X5

February 9, 2005 by tig

A few months ago a I happened to glance over at a co-worker’s laptop during a meeting. He had some app running that was showing a wild looking spider like diagram that I had never seen … Read more

Blobservations: Windows Server, Home Edition

February 5, 2020January 24, 2005 by tig

Rick Hallihan presents a really nice vision of what a Windows based home server would look like in Blobservations: Windows Server, Home Edition. At my house I use Windows Server 2003 to manage all of my … Read more

Shadow copies – a peek under the hood

December 15, 2004 by tig

Adi Oltean talks about one of my favorite Windows technologies: VSS in Shadow copies – a peek under the hood. Amazingly powerful stuff. He also talks about the command line interface for VSS and bunches of other really … Read more

Bluetooth GPS, Smartphone, Channel9, Oh My!

February 5, 2020December 13, 2004 by tig

Channel9 has posted a wicked-cool video of Alex Kipman demoning using Visual Studio to write slick SmartPhone app that talks to both the GPS and MapPoint via a web-service. Who says Microsoft can’t innovate? What other … Read more

The BEST Pacific Northwest Snow Report Website

February 5, 2020December 7, 2004 by tig

http://carismata.com/snowreports A great summary of Crystal, Stevens, Mt Baker, Whistler, and Alpental. Works very well from Windows Powered Smartphones and Pocket PCs. I’ve been using this since early last season and it’s just great. Below is … Read more

Best optical illusion yet?

December 6, 2004 by tig

Mike Hall posted probably the best optical illusion I’ve ever seen. Wow. In the same spirit of ridiculous humor he says I used to be one of his heros (although I think he was being serious).

Car Blogs

February 5, 2020December 3, 2004 by tig

I’m a car nut. For the last 7 years my passion has been about my ’88 Porsche 911 Carrera coupe and my ’95 BMW 540 M-Sport 6-Speed. It’s high time I started posting the occasional blog … Read more

My motherboard died

November 23, 2004 by tig

Nothing’s free. Ain’t it true. A while back I wrote that I had received a free Epox 8KDA3+ mobo and Athlon 3700+ CPU and that I was building a new workstation at home around it. Well … Read more

My team

February 5, 2020November 20, 2004 by tig

Chris Gray on my team is playing with IIS at home. He’s got a little moblog app that automatically takes pics from his PocketPC phone and uploads them. This pic was taken right before we had … Read more

Community Server Beta One

November 18, 2004 by tig

Community Server (formerly .Text) Beta One has finally been released. I’m downloading and installing it now at work to use as an internal team blog. I love .Text and can’t wait to see how Scott has … Read more

Crazy expensive home server

February 5, 2020November 18, 2004 by tig

Sheesh. I thought Linux devices were supposed to be cheaper… Engadget writes about the Niveus A/V Storage Server which is basically just a Linux based NAS box with 1TB of RAID 5 storage in it. I … Read more

Killer home server deal

February 5, 2020November 18, 2004 by tig

Slickdeals.com is showing that you can now get a DELL PowerEdge SC420 P4-2.8GHz, 80GB system for $289+tax w/free shipping. These SC series machines from DELL make great home servers. They are plenty powerful, expandable, and amazingly very … Read more