Majic Jack Phone

Is the Majic Jack phone legitimate? Do people have problems with it?

If you've been seeing the Majic Jack $19.95 a year phone offer and wondering if it is something you should consider, you might want to read this blog here.

In short, the bulk of the work occurs on your computer, it must be on all the time, there is advertisements you must endure and the software sniffs your Internet activity.

That said, if you have a spare PC that you don't use and don't mind leaving it on all the time, it sure is a good price for a free phone number.

Digital TV Antenna

My digital TV antenna sucks. I have to keep changing it around for every station. I spent all that money for nothing.

Here is an antenna that you can build for next to nothing that works great.

Scrum in Under 10 Minutes

My software developers want to use Scrum and I need to learn about Scrum really quickly.

Hamid Shojaee has created a really nice video that will take you through Scrum in about 10 minutes.

It is a really well done video. I highly recommend it.

Creating a CD/DVD from an ISO File

I want to create a CD / DVD from an ISO image file but the burning software that came with my computer (e.g. Roxio, etc.) doesn't do it unless I "upgrade" and pay money to do it. How can I burn these ISO files for free?

Download the Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Resource Kit Tools and run the command line tool CDBURN.EXE or DVDBURN.exe.

You'll need to make the files are in your file path.

Creating ISO Files From CDs and DVDs

I want to create an ISO image file from my CD or DVD but the burning software that came with my computer (e.g. Roxio, etc.) doesn't do it unless I "upgrade" and pay money to do it. How can I do this without upgrading?

There is a wonderful shell extension for XP and Vista created by Alex Feinman. You can find the application here:

http://isorecorder.alexfeinman.com/isorecorder.htm

Just download the version for you computer, install it, put a CD or DVD in the drive, right click the drive and choose "Create image from CD". He has instructions here.

You can also right click on an ISO image and write it to a CD/DVD. It can't get any easier (and cheaper . . . it's free) than this.

Oh, and don't forget to donate some cash. This is a slick tool and he deserves a few bucks. I donated a few.