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Lucky number 76?

January 29, 2008 at 4:49 pm with 0 comments

It takes exactly 76 emails, 1k a piece, to kill ClamAV when running in stand-alone configuration. Anyone thinking about using ClamAV, without configuring it as a daemon or a Windows service, think again because you will regret it.

Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard

October 31, 2007 at 2:19 pm with 0 comments

Order from Amazon (free shipping) Mac OS X 10.5: $109 (Save $20) 5-License Family Pack: $189 (Save $10)

The FTP client Visual Studio 2005 never came with

May 8, 2007 at 1:43 pm with comments off

Dispatch is a deploy utility built exclusively for ASP.NET 2.0 and Visual Studio 2005. With Dispatch, you can quickly and easily upload your web application to your FTP server without ever leaving Visual Studio. Dispatch sports multiple features to help keep your local web projects and web application in sync. Simple is good.

Running exe’s (not saving) after download from Firefox

December 28, 2006 at 11:30 am with 1 comment

One of the funniest posts I've read in a while: QUOTE (Sebastian Mares @ Feb 24 2006, 06:51 PM) Whats so hard about downloading a file to your desktop, running it, then deleting it? Are people that lazy? QUOTE (LilJames @ Feb 24 2006, 07:52 PM) You waste at least 10 seconds when doing that. If you download 6 files a day, that makes one minute wasted per day. 365 minutes per year (~6 hours). If we assume that one lives 75 years, that makes almost 19 days wasted just for having to manually open and delete an EXE.

Dispatch for VS2005 (formerly titled Web Deployer)

September 26, 2006 at 2:55 pm with 0 comments

Bobby DeRosa of C# Shiznit wrote, Visual Studio 2005 is a significant improvement over 2003. Visual Studio 2003 lacked the ability to move an ASP.NET web application up to an FTP server from within the IDE. One of the new attributes in 2005 is the built-in Copy Web Site feature that gives you a side-by-side comparison of your local site & your FTP server. It's OK at best. It's slow to...

Adobe Photoshop CS2 Bigger Tiles Plug-In

September 26, 2006 at 2:50 pm with 0 comments

Page 22 of the DG #124 had a write-up about a "Bigger Tiles Plug-In" for Photoshop that I was not aware of. After I got off the toilet and sat down at my computer, I checked out it's validity and here's what Adobe has to say: The Bigger Tiles plug-in causes Photoshop to process image data in larger chunks. This will reduce the overall time to complete many operations, especially on computers with more than 1...

Never trust a computer that looks like a handbag.

July 6, 2006 at 11:43 am with comments off

...long-term PC user trials Mac for work-related tasks, with an open mind about possibly making "the switch" Ouch! Check out the whole story by Matthew Magain. That satisfies my craving for a new Mac Mini — I've been poking at the idea for a good month or two, but this post is very disheartening.

A font for Visual Studio 2005?

June 30, 2006 at 2:44 pm with 0 comments

I've found a great .NET blog that I think I will be visiting quite frequently from now on. Bobby DeRosa is the guy behind C# Shiznit, a .NET blog that has a plethora of rants, raves, downloads, and news about .NET related topics. In one of his recent blog posts he talks about finding a font called Consolas that is optimized for the Visual Studio 2005 development gui. After downloading the font and...

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I am Jeremy Helms, 29 year old graphic designer, web designer, site architect, programmer, copywriter and ambitious entrepreneur. I was born and live in Fort Walton Beach, Florida. This site is my personal periodical for design, code, business and other topics. When I'm not glued to the computer, I enjoy music, movies, late-night television and sometimes a good night out on the town with friends.

I began professional work in the IT industry 14 years ago in September, 1995. I started my first business in 1998, incorporated my second business in 2001, my third in 2002 and my fourth and most recent in 2006. I am a sponge — I am constantly exploring and learning — about business, design, programming, history, society, and whatever pops up on blogs across the web.

  • I have been happily married for 6 years; together for a total of 11 years
  • I am a father of two boys; Junior (born 02-06-07 @ 6:17PM — 8lbs 13oz.) and Jedi (born 05-06-08 @ 12:39PM — 8lbs 4oz.)
  • I am a free and accepted Master Mason, belonging to Florida Alpha Lodge No. 172
  • I have two prize Labrador Retrievers (Buck & Brody)
  • I graduated from Choctawhatchee Senior High School
  • Some of my favorite movies include Snatch, L4yer Cake, Blade Runner, The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy, THX 1138, Lock, Stock And Two Smoking Barrels, the Star Wars hexology and Ronin

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