Personal Blog of Mike Bowden

Unexpected life changes!

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

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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

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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

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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 [...]

URL Redirections? Why and for how long?

Mike Bowden — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 14:31:34 +0000

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Some of you may have typed in a specific URL and reached this website. Some of those URL’s may be the following:

General Updates, Rants and Rambles

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

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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

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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

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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.