Personal Blog of Mike Bowden

Mac Organization – Introduction

Mike Bowden — Sat, 09 Jul 2011 12:00:54 +0000

I’m currently writing a series on mac automation and I figured this would also be a good time to go into more details about how I keep things organized on my mac. But I want to take it a step further and go into detail about how I keep pretty much everything I deal with [...]

Mac Automation – Introduction

Mike Bowden — Fri, 08 Jul 2011 22:23:31 +0000

Most of you know that I’m a big Mac guy. If I could have it my way and afford it, I’d have every mac product I could and as many as I could, but we all know that’s not possible. Especially with the way mac products are priced. You get what you pay for with [...]

Welcome Back

Mike Bowden — Fri, 08 Jul 2011 01:48:52 +0000

Well as you can see I have gotten my blog back live and operational. It’s been a long time coming and I finally made time to do it. I’ve never been a big blogger and probably never really will. But I do have things I like to discuss from time to time, so I felt [...]

Unexpected life changes!

Mike Bowden — Sun, 04 Apr 2010 03:04:58 +0000

Life always changes right when you think you have it figured out. Everything seems to get turned upside down and then in a blink of an eye it’s back to normal. Some of you may know that my life recently changed and for the better. My daughter was born on March 10th at 9:40pm, we [...]

Quick Tip: Line Up Dashboard Widgets

Mike Bowden — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 13:02:07 +0000

Ever have widgets that you want to line up? Maybe you’re tracking weather for multiple locations or you have world clocks for different areas? Whatever it may be, from time to time we need to be able to align widgets so they are centered, or grouped together properly. Since the window for the dashboard is [...]

Life Changes. When, Where & How

Mike Bowden — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 10:00:59 +0000

Life changes at a rapid pace. We never know when, where or how it will happen. Some of us go through life and are simply there. We are like the “sheep” you see on a daily basis, driving to work, working and then driving home. The same mundane tasks on a daily basis, over and [...]

General Updates, Rants and Rambles

Mike Bowden — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 12:35:36 +0000

Recently I have been extremely swamped with my day job and haven’t had much time to get anything else done that I’d like. I have however started a new schedule that I hope will allow for more “spare” time to work on other passions in life. My current job is one that I’ve recently acquired, [...]

10/GUI Demonstration

Mike Bowden — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 18:43:01 +0000

The title of this entry is probably vague for most of you, unless you’ve heard of 10/GUI. Don’t feel bad if you haven’t, I just recently found out about it myself. But I must share it with my readers as I believe this to be the next level of computer interaction. We’ve already seen a [...]

Household Budgeting (The Total Money Makeover)

Mike Bowden — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 13:11:11 +0000

In the near future I'll be releasing an iWork Numbers document that can be used as a household budget. I'm creating and modeling it after the Dave Ramsey book "The Total Money Makeover".

Getting Close, Due Early March

Mike Bowden — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 11:30:21 +0000

I hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving, I know we did. It was pretty tiring however, we went to a few different places to eat and see family on both sides. When we got home we decided to decorate for Christmas. We’re keeping things simple this year and being minimal on our decorating as well [...]

AlternativeTo Releases Mobile Version

Mike Bowden — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 15:52:57 +0000

Seems one of my favorite websites has released a mobile version. Not the kind of mobile version that allows you to view it on your iPhone or smart phone. AlternativeTo is a website that is dedicated to pairing applications to other applications.

Synchronize Your Life, Work and Computers… Backups Too?

Mike Bowden — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 12:05:26 +0000

When I initially decided to write an article on how I've organized my life, it started out simple and straightforward. Touching on the basics of organizing personal, freelance and work life. From this I've branched out into multiple articles and in the end decided it would be best to write a series on the entire process I've gone through and frankly still going through. I'm going to start off with the most important aspect in my opinion and that's synchronization and backups. I'm adding backups into the mix simply because it goes hand and hand with syncing files. I've tried to explain as much as possibly and in detail how everything is setup, while not getting to long winded. Simply because I will be going into more detail about each application and/or service that I'll touch on below.

Update – New Job, New Life, New Everything?

Mike Bowden — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 12:39:22 +0000

It has been a very long time since I’ve written a blog entry. For that I apologize, I do have a small reader base and I haven’t been taking blogging seriously. That will be changing however, as I plan on putting a great deal of time into this blog. Which will include my portfolio and [...]

WordPress as a Portfolio. Good Idea or Bad Idea?

Mike Bowden — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 07:16:03 +0000

WordPress, we know what it is, we know what it does. But have we stopped to think of its use as a portfolio? That’s what I’ll answer in this piece; the perks, the faults, useful plugins and portfolio themes. Most of us look at WordPress and immediately think… blogging! And that’s correct, that is what [...]

Google Adsense eCPM?

Mike Bowden — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 20:30:19 +0000

I’ve been noticing the eCPM of my Google Adsense account going up and down in drastic amounts. I’m not sure if this is a good thing or a bad thing. From my understanding, this would be a good thing, meaning that are more people advertising than there were before. But there are still a lot [...]

Safari changing graphic colors on you? – Find out how to change the way Safari handles web graphics

Mike Bowden — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 19:18:31 +0000

I’ve been doing web graphics for quite awhile now and throughout my years as a graphic designer I’ve always had a problem with how Safari handles web graphics. Safari is the only browser on the market today that honors ICC profiles within graphics, which seems a bit odd to me but I can understand how [...]

Have you done your backups today? – My Backup System Explained

Mike Bowden — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 02:09:24 +0000

We’ve recently been having quite a few clients that have been interested in getting their files backed up and secure. This is a topic that has always interested me and I’ve done a lot of research in the past in order to get my backups setup, secure, automated and fail-safe. I’m going to go over [...]

It’s Gonna Be a Girl! – You Heard It Here First

Mike Bowden — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 03:15:23 +0000

So as the title implies, my wife just gave me the news that I’m going to be a daddy, again! We’ve been trying for almost a year now, since Haden turned 2. There has been a lot going on over the past year, which brought on a lot of stress and this is most likely [...]

Busy Day – Things never seem to go as planned!

Mike Bowden — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 04:58:13 +0000

photo credit: lepiaf.geo I had plenty of plans today, I wanted to research more on some of the articles I’ve lined up for this week. We’ve been working really hard on trying to get our new company web site out the door. I’m working with my business partner on a few new ideas, products and [...]

Weekly Coverage – Studio Management Reviews – Password Security, Management and Protection – VMWare Fusion Beta Notes and Thoughts

Mike Bowden — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 04:30:11 +0000

This week I’m going to cover four different applications; Streamtime, Studiometry, 1Password and KeePassX and a few different topics on password security, management and protection. The two studio management applications have gone through a number of tests with us in our studio. I’ll be sharing our results with both applications this week. The other two [...]