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barnabyjeans.ca goes IPv6

UPDATE: As I have changed hosting providers, the following information no longer applies, however, is left as a reference for others who may be trying to get IPv6 up and running.

A couple of months ago I got IPv6 up and running at home,  now that I have that working, the next logical step was to [...]

Life, Death, and Technology

The past few weeks have been a roller coaster of emotion as my Mother-in-law (Bernice) was flown home from her winter RV’ing in the US southwest and in Mexico only to find out that the health problem she was having was lung cancer and she only had months to live.  Unfortunately the timing wasn’t nearly [...]

Sharing information visually

I have just found a very cool new application on the Microsoft site called Microsoft Tags (http://www.microsoft.com/tags).  Basically what this does is allow you to encode either a vCard, a URL, or a phone number into a 2D image that can then be read and decoded with a camera phone.

If [...]

What’s eating up my disk?

I’ve just finished catching up on my RSS reader and came across the following post from Sarah on the Channel 10 site.

WPF Disk Space Finder | Sarah In Tampa | Channel 10

In summary this application gives you a quick and easy way to see what is using the disk space on your machine.  What makes [...]

[Video] CP24 Popfly interviews posted

Over the last few months I have had the chance to visit the good folks at CP24 and appear on their Homepage show to talk about Microsoft Popfly.

For the first show I talked with host Ann Rohmer about Popfly and what you could do with it.

Barnaby Jeans on CP24 Homepage talking about Popfly

For the second [...]

Gizmodo: Slingplayer Gets Windows Mobile 6 Support

I just came across the following post over on Gizmodo about the new version of Slingplayer with better Vista support and Windows Mobile 6 support.  Although I don't have a Windows Mobile 6 device yet, the updated Vista support will be nice.  With all the traveling I have been doing, I love being able to access my TV [...]

[How to] Create a Windows Home Server photo album in minutes

I can't believe that I hadn't found this website earlier.  This is a very cool way to use Windows Home Server to share your photos with your family.

How to create a Windows Home Server photo album in minutes » Andrew Grant – Live!

Writer Zone: Windows Live Writer Beta 2 Now Available

I've spent the last couple of days at MESH and listened to some great sessions and conversations on a variety of topics.  One of the recurring themes that came up from some of the audience who were new to blogging was the question of a WYSIWYG editor to post to your blog.  Well yesterday the Windows [...]