Mitch Cohen

Space Shuttle Discovery and other Images from Washington DC

Mitch Cohen — Mon, 21 May 2012 12:46:53 +0000

I had the opportunity to spend a couple of days last week in Washington DC. Last time I was there was back in 2000, it was great to be back there again. For me the highlight of the trip was our first stop to see the Space Shuttle Discovery. Here are some images of Discovery and others form the trip.

Visit the set on Flickr to see the photo descriptions

Test Your Backups

Mitch Cohen — Wed, 16 May 2012 13:07:51 +0000

Hat tip to Andy Donaldson for pointing me at this, great reminder to not only take backups, but test them.

How Toy Story 2 Was Almost Lost Forever

Repeat After Me

Mitch Cohen — Thu, 03 May 2012 13:03:39 +0000

Yes I watched the whole game last night, though I was really fading at the end.

Bart Simpson Chalkboard Generator

Audio Manager for Android

Mitch Cohen — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 14:40:32 +0000

It’s been a while now since I used a Blackberry as my everyday phone, one of the features I miss most is the Profile manager and the ability to easily switch from one profile to another. I have looked at different solutions for Android and finally found AudioManager which suits my needs.

AudioManager lets you create different profiles, and set rules for when different profiles activate. So I now have my phone automatically switch from my daytime settings to my nighttime settings (Silent with Alarm only) automatically.

Farewell Old Friend

Mitch Cohen — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 14:10:27 +0000

This morning it was time to say farewell to my old car a 2002 Saturn SL2, I am amazed it made it this far, the transmission has been having issues for a while now, and recently it would no longer go in reverse which was the end of it. I thought about just dumping the car in the backyard but in the end decided to donate it to an organization that can hopefully make some good use of it.

Here is the car being towed away

Here is the rest of the set

Farewell old friend

No Surprise Here

Mitch Cohen — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 23:22:20 +0000

I wonder where I lost 7%

Created by Oatmeal

My Grandmother Would have Loved This

Mitch Cohen — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 12:07:09 +0000

Back in 1991 (yes 1991) my grandmother enrolled in a class titled “How to speak computers with your grandchildren”, unfortunately she was the only person to sign up for the class so it was cancelled. She passed away in 2004, she was obviously just a little ahead of her time, she would have loved this.

Can Fix Packs be installed over Upgrade Packs?

Mitch Cohen — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 18:25:29 +0000

I hear this question frequently with Domino 8.5.3 now having Upgrade Packs and Fix Packs available

Technote 1590268: Can Fix Packs be installed over Upgrade Packs?

Happy Fourth Birthday Abe & Jack

Mitch Cohen — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 11:54:11 +0000

Hard to believe it was four years ago today that Abe and Jack were born.

Here they are last night enjoying their Carvel* Birthday Cake

* no birthday is complete with out a Carvel Ice Cream cake

Managing your Files in the Cloud Made Simple with Otixo

Mitch Cohen — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 13:55:29 +0000

I find that I have files stored in a number of places these days, Google Docs, Dropbox, Amazon S3, box, and Picasa to name a few. A while back I came across Otixo which allows me to access all of them in one place, and move files between the services all from one dashboard. Here is how Otixo explains their service:

(wouldn’t it be nice to see IBM Connections Files, and IBM Smart Cloud on their list of supported services?)

Otixo also supports WebDAV access to your account, allowing you to see all your configured services as a mapped drive in Windows, great for uploading or moving files between services.

Otixo has free and paid plans the only difference between the two being monthly bandwidth limits.