MightyText

Posted on May 15, 2018May 15, 2018 by jrblack Leave a comment

A co-worker recently enlightened me to a fantastic app that lets you receive and send TXT messages from you PC or Android tablet using your existing mobile phone number. WOW… is this great and clearly my life has gotten busy and hectic, preventing me from keeping up with cool tech and apps like this. MightyText […]... Read More

GemBox for Excel

Posted on March 21, 2018April 17, 2018 by jrblack Leave a comment

A few weeks back I had a requirement to have a web page link that when clicked, the server side postback would open an excel file (as a template with formulas and such), populate a few fields in the worksheet and copy row 37 and for each record in result set, insert/past that copied row […]... Read More

Fun with Bitmoji

Posted on March 9, 2018April 17, 2018 by jrblack Leave a comment

Emoji icons have been around for quite some time now. We have all used them in messages, emails, Facebook, etc. You know, the smile face, wink face, frown face, red angry face and a slew of others. As the saying goes, THAT is so yesterday. Back in February, my sister (and my daughter) introduced me […]... Read More

Move to WordPress

Posted on March 7, 2018March 7, 2018 by jrblack Leave a comment

I’ve had a personal blog since 2006. I started with a free account with WordPress, but soon after that registered a domain and wanted to host my own blog. As a developer in Microsoft technologies, I wanted to use something in .net and found BlogEngine.Net. Using BlogEngine.net was fun, maybe because it was free and […]... Read More

A Better Way to Share Your Google Photos Videos

Posted on November 8, 2017March 2, 2018 by Jim 3 Comments

If your phone (iPhone or Android) uses Google Photos (if NOT, you SHOULD) to backup your pictures and video, there is a MUCH easier and better way to share your videos in your blog post, then my previous post. In the post I just referenced, importing your videos into YouTube, works, but it is painfully […]... Read More

Open Live Writer

Posted on November 25, 2016March 2, 2018 by Jim Leave a comment

So, I am testing out Open Live Writer to create and publish posts to my blog. I used to use Windows Live Writer, but they dropped development and support on that. A group of interested developers took over the code and open sourced it as Open Live Writer. Setup Open Live Writer to work […]... Read More

Eagles Nest and Wintertime

Posted on March 6, 2015March 2, 2018 by Jim Leave a comment

Near Hanover, PA, the PA Game Commission has set up a live video stream of an Bald Eagles nest. The eagles are taking care of 2 eggs. It is amazing and fun to take a look and watch for a while. The Bald Eagles sure are beautiful. Recently a winter storm went through the area […]... Read More

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