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Bluetooth Plantronics 906 Backbeat Headphones Review
Like many people that work in front of their PC’s and Macs, I spend a bit of time on different types of calls; mobile, landline, Skype, and Conference Calls. I am my Skype and my iPhone a lot, but never seem to find a happy place for what devices I use to listen to or speak on.
My solution so far has been to use a Logitech headset on my Mac when I am Skype calls or conference calls (where audio is done through the Mac), and I use the iPhone headset that is provided in the box. But I have issues...
Posted by Rob James on February 3rd, 2010
Design to HTML Services, a...
I finally got a UI designer to complete the mockups for my site. And when it was time to get the HTML markup, he suggested I use a “Design to HTML” service. There is lots of them out there. You pretty much give them the Photoshop PSD file, and in return they provide you with XHTML/CSS markup.
So I gave it a try….my verdict? Won’t do it again….
Now this is no criticism...
Posted by Rob James on January 27th, 2010
Configure Apache to run To...
I have decided to blog about this, as I have had never ending problems in the past to try and get this configured. Here is the scenario; you have a project that requires hosting a single website in a single web domain, but you have a mix of PHP applications and Java (or in my instance, GRAILS) applications that you need to run. The way you do this, is configure both PHP and Java applications to run...
Posted by Rob James on January 27th, 2010
I’ve got the next Ki...
So you wake up in a cold sweat one night as you are in a ‘half sleep”. While you were in this delirious moment, you conjure up the most amazing idea that is going to make you a bazillion dollars and no one has done it before!!!!!
ho hum…………………..BORING!!!!
This is one of those urban myths that seems to never go away. People are always trying to stumble...
Posted by Rob James on January 19th, 2010
The 24 Hour Startup...
This morning I came across the most inspiring web site – http://www.24hour-startup.com/. (watch the 3 minute video presentation here)
Basically the idea was a bunch of developers, business guys and designers got together and delivered a startup, from start to finish in 24 hours. And I mean START to FINISH! They get together and don’t even have an idea, take it through to the point that...