Searles Construction LLC - A local concrete, roofing, and remodeling business

Searles Construction LLC does concrete in Portland, roofing in Portland, and remodeling in Portland.

They are a well known local company who does the highest quality work.

We had them over to pour our new concrete patio, and they did a great job!

So if you need construction in Portland contact Searles Construction. They are my recommendation!

For updates and more information check their Searles Construction Blog

Thanks for reading!

HireJandJ.us

So I just wanted to take a minute and lost about this company that has recently started up http://www.hirejandj.us  JandJ All Trades service's the Portland Metro and Vancouver Washington areas. They mainly do Lawn care services, but do things such as small home repairs, Remodels, Pressure Washing, and Gutter Cleaning and Guarding.

You can contact them by visiting http://hirejandj.us/contact.php which provides a contact for, as well as a phone number and email address you may contact them at.

So if you are looking to hire someone for your lawn maintenance in Portland or Vancouver, Or need pressure washing done. Contact JandJ to get a free bid!

The Magic Fiddle on the Ipad

Want to play the fiddle? But only own a iPad?

Fix your eyes on the ipad application called "Magic Fiddle". From the creators of "Magic Piano" Smule brings you an annoying to learn, but highly reactive and colorful fiddle playing. The sound is supreme and houses a clever design.

Although there is a steep learning curve, beginners can pull together some fiddle melody in no time! Magic Fiddle has a built in guide that will walk you through the correct way to hold your iPad. Once you have mastered the setup of this ipad fiddle app, you can challenge people from around the world!

You can pickup an Apple iPad MB292LL/A Tablet (16GB, Wifi) from amazon.com for $553 + shipping.

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Microsoft Tag - Your information is just one scan away

Microsoft has actually put out a decently cool product called Microsoft Tag. This has created an all new way of providing information to people. You can create these bar code style squares, and use them anywhere on any media. A user merely scans this box with their phones camera and an application, and the user automatically gets all the information contained in the boxes data.

The image to the left was generated using Microsoft's tag creation system at http://tag.microsoft.com scanning this image will attempt to open a browser link on your phone pointing you to the main page of thejonestheory.blogspot.com

 Using an image such as the one above, a user can use a down-loadable application on their cell phone to scan the image and get the data. head over to http://gettag.mobi for the latest details on the scanning application.

Toy story 3 on DVD/Blu-ray

Toy Story 3 is the latest release to the trilogy "Toy Story".  Toy Story is a 1995 American computer-animated family film, the first Disney/Pixar film to be made, as well as the first feature film to be made entirely with CGI.

I saw this movie in theaters and it absolutely blew my mind. The animation in this movie is ultra realistic, and the characters facial expressions are dead on. I am planning on picking up the DVD just so I can check out all the special features on the DVD.

For all you High Performance TV watchers, you can pick up Toy Story 3 (Four-Disc Blu-ray/DVD Combo + Digital Copy) have the Blu-ray for the big screen, and the DVD for the kids!

If you don't have any of the previous movies, you might as well pick up the entire stack! It comes out to be cheaper to just buy the Toy Story Trilogy (10-Disc Blu-ray/DVD Combo + Digital Copy).

Here is a full list of what you get:

Toy Story:
•Toy Story 3 Sneak Peek: The Story
•Buzz Lightyear Mission Logs Blast off
•Paths to Pixar Artists
•Studio Stories: John's Car, Baby AJ, Scooter Races
•Buzz Takes Manhattan
•Black Friday The Toy Story You Never Saw
Toy Story 2:
•Director commentary
•BD Live-portal (BD only)
•Toy Story 3 sneak peek: "The Characters"
•Buzz Lightyear Mission Logs: International Space Station
•Paths to Pixar: Technical Artists
•Studio Stories: Toy Story 2 Sleep Deprivation Lab
•Studio Stories: Pinocchio
•Studio Storyies: The Movie Vanishes
•Pixar's Zoetrop
•Celebrating our friend Joe Ranft
Toy Story 3:
•Day And Night Theatrical Short Filmmakers Commentary With Commentary By Director Lee Unkrich and Producer Darla Anderson
•Bonus: The Gang's All Here - A look at the returning voice talent for Toy Story 3.
•Toys! - A look at all the toys from updating classic characters to developing the Sunnyside Daycare and Bonnie's Room toys.
•Buzz Lightyear Mission Logs: The Science of Adventure (conj with NASA)
•Paths to Pixar: Pixar Editors, past and future, share anecdotes about their career path.
•Studio Stories: Where's Gordon? There's a hidden room at Pixar that we call the Where's Gordon?, and this is its story.
•Studio Stories: Cereal Bar The majestic and expansive Pixar cereal bar is explored.
•Studio Stories: Clean Start The Pixar animation team shaves their heads to mark the start of TS3 animation.
•A Toy's Eye View: Creating a Whole New Land
•Toys! A look at all the toys from updating classic characters to developing the Sunnyside Daycare and Bonnie's Room toys
•Interactive Game: Toy Story Trivia Dash
•Cine-Explore by Dir. Lee Unkrich and Prod. Darla Anderson
•Beyond the Toybox -commentary track
•Beginnings with Michael Arndt - Screenwriter Michael Arndt analyzes successful opening scenes from ToyStory, Nemo and the Incredibles.
•Bonnie's Playtime - A roundtable discussion with the Lee Unkrich and the story artists who brought the "Bonnie's Playtime" scene to life.
•Roundin' Up a Western Opening - Development process and scene analysis of "Western Opening" in its various iterations through the story process.
•Goodbye Andy - An exploration of character design, acting and animation in the scene "Andy's Goodbye".
•The Accidental Toymakers of Pixar - Meet the makers of the original Buzz Lightyear and watch how the newest version of Buzz - the Ultimate Buzz is constructed.
•Life of a Shot - Overview of artist contribution to each step of the production pipeline on a select group of shots from the Western Opening of Toy Story 3.
•Making of Day and Night
•Epilogue - Stand-alone 1.33 version of the Epilogue.
•Ken's Dating Tips, Lotso Commercials, "Dancing with the Stars" at Pixar
•Trailers and More

Dark Horse Deluxe Dexter Color Changing Mug

So I just found this on amazon, and just had to make a post. If you don't know one thing about me, let it be known that I am highly fond of the Dexter series. The TV series, books, short stories, online comics. I present to you one of the cooliest Dexter merchandise products around. The Dexter Color Changing Mug.

Feeling murderous in the morning? Get out your Dexter blood-splattered mug and let the caffeine from a hot cup of coffee warm you up and restore your civilized side. This diabolical mug shows the two sides of Dexter: when cold, it is covered with blood, just like a newly discovered Florida crime scene; when hot, the blood disappears, leaving a grinning Dexter, who's in on all your secrets.

I plan on picking up this cup soon just to see how great the changes are. If you have this cup let me know how cool it is. If your going to buy one, let me know what thoughts you had when deciding to buy it.

Call of Duty: Black Ops

 Activision has put out yet another epic first person shooter called Call of Duty: Black Ops. Set in the era of the cold war, black ops brings you authentic weapons and vehicles of the times. Providing new playing styles in single player mode, Call of Duty: Black Ops houses a large array of maps providing hours of fun on your own.



Throwing your self right into the heat of the battle is the online match making. Call of Duty: Black Ops follows the familiar feel of COD:MW2 with an improved physics engine. Online you can choose to play against other online players in head to head combat, or tag up with your friends and play Co-op missions.

Call of Duty: Black Ops is both available for the XBox 360 as well as the PS3. Both systems provide new and improved graphics, also available in 3D!

If you have not yet played any of the Call of Duty series, your not only behind the times, you are missing out on some of the most intense, heart pounding combat action. So pick up a copy of Call of Duty: Black Ops, grab your mountain dew, and crank your headphones to max. It's now time to step in the the cold war and unless your inner commando.

Also, if you are into "Special Edition" sets, you can pick up the Call of Duty: Black Ops Hardened Edition for Xbox 360, or the Call of Duty: Black Ops Prestige Edition.

Let me know how your experiences go with this game, It is my hopes to pick up a copy soon and bring back some even better details about the game. If you have this game, or have done your research, what are the features you like most about this latest release?

Thanks for stopping by!

Transcend 16GB Class 10 SDHC Card (TS16GSDHC10)

For the last month or so I have been looking for a good 16GB SDHC memory card. After doing my research I found the Transcend 16gb SDHC card SD 3.0 SPD class 10. This thing is working perfectly and has great response to transferring files.
Although I have not seen Transcend much in the market, the performance this little guy has is amazing. I have bought many high end memory cards that compare in performance, but ended up failing far to quickly for the price I paid.

Transcend has really done a great job in the mini memory world, and this 16GB SDHC card is top notch.


On another note I also recently purchased a new Android phone. The problem I was having was finding a suitable flash memory card for it. Check out my next review to see how the SandDisk 16gb class 2 microSDHC card held up.


If you own this particular product please let me know how it worked out for you. If you have had better luck with another device please share your information so we can do a review on it!

Thanks for stopping by!

Future Weapons: Season 1

A long time back I had purchased the Future Weapons: Season 1 DVD pack online. I received it quickly and watched the entire season in one night. This inspired a post of mine on this website http://thejonestheory.blogspot.com/2007/02/future-weapons.html So far this has been my highest producing post on this website.
The reason that post is getting so much attention is because of how awesome the show is. If you have seen this show before, you know some of the cool toys Richard "Mack" Machowicz gets to demonstrate for us.


There have since been a few more seasons put out. But today I watched the entire season again and remembered why it was so freaking cool. If you haven't bought it, pick up Future Weapons: Season 1 on DVD and be prepared to wipe a grin off your face.

If you have bought or are buying this DVD, let me know what you thought about it. Did you enjoy watching things get blown up as much as I did?

Future Weapons

Aspire AS5251-1805

If you are shopping around for a new laptop or netbook, this post should lead you too a great find. I have used Acer products for a while now, all have been laptops. I have had no issues with any of them, and still have all 3 to this day.

We bought our daughter one of these Aspire netbooks and have not regretted it one day. This nice computers comes Pre-installed with the Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium operating system (64-bit version) which makes it run smooth.

 The picture on this screen is really crips as well. It runs a ATI Radeon HD 4250 graphics (with 256 MB of discrete video memory) and has a 250 GB hard drive. This computer works great for playing music, watching movies, and even more so doing home work. Out daughter uses her's for school, and types up all of her reports.

If you are looking for a light weight, power packed (not to mention affordable) netbook, Aspire AS521-1805 is a perfect choice for you.

 

Please take a minute and let me know what you think about this netbook. Have you owned one? Did you enjoy it?

A andriod for a pennie

Well I am not sure what this is all about, but it says the price is a Pennie! So go on and buy a new android phone!

 OK, So that price is probably wrong, we all know that! But lets admit it, the android is the hottest thing on the market right now.

This is a Samsung Captivate. It has a built in 16GB memory running a 1GHz processor. With a beautiful AMOLED screen, this Android 2.1 device runs amazingly.

This is been the best Android phone put out yet for the carrier AT&T. If you have your service through them, and would like to go to the light side, pick your self up a new android phone.

Android market is loaded with tons of games and applications. The system runs smooth, and you will never be disappointed.

30 Minutes to a better blog - 02: Introduction To Blogs

What's A Blog's?


For those of you who have never used a blog, or even have no clue what a blog is this section is for you. A blog is usually a piece of software used to manage Html/PHP and MySQL pages and databases. Or put much simpler, Used to manage posts of information such as what you eat for the day, or even something like a news article you wrote. Blog software is usually ran from the server side not the user's side. You as a “Blogger” login and manage your blog software from any connection to the internet. The software it's self is responsible for storing, and managing the media you produce.


Why Do We Blog?


Why would someone invest time into blogging? I have found that most people who blog can be broken down into 4 main groups. There could be many sub categorizes but I feel these 4 are a good representation of general bloggers.

• Diary's
• Informative
• Advertisement
• Link Building/Rank Building

Deciding your reason for starting a blog most likely falls into one of these 4 places. Lets walk through each one and decided which best fits you.


Diary's: These are the people who use their blogs to record their information such as important events, things they are proud of, or even for displaying their photography or other artistic media. This type of blogger's focus is on displaying content that is usually original and from that person personal experiences.


Although the information on these sites can drive some traffic, they often times do not have popular search terms used to drive traffic. In some cases (Lets say A Real Estate Agent) using your day's events, like showing a house, can provide a good opportunity to provide a blog post with some pictures, address, features and other things about the property you are showing. This post could potentially drive some traffic and make it possible for a sale to be made on that house.


Informative: This group is usually dedicated to a focused area of specialty. They use their blog for providing information such as Tutorials on achieving a task, Documentation on experiments or studies, or things like historical or educational facts. I have found this group to be the most use out of any others. The majority of internet traffic seems to come from this group, and often indicates a searcher who is seeking a solution to a problem, doing research on a topic, or other things such as reviews on products they look to buy.


Although this groups style is providing end user's with accurate and helpful information, they often use their advice and information to provide the opportunity for the end user to acquire a product or service. Often this product or service is provided on the same site, or with the same company. Informational blogs are a great way to acquire search traffic focused on those looking to either buy a product, or have the product already and are good targets for “Addon's” to the items of discussion in the blog.


Advertisement: This group seems to be highly comprised of automated software. For the ones who do things “By Hand” often incorporate most of the techniques used by Informative blogs. In most cases providing information or reviews to drive traffic to provide an opportunity to purchase a product or service. Which again would either be provided by the site, or through an affiliate service.


This groups main content is based on products or a service they sale or refer. Traffic is driven through the use of keywords for those items for sale. The down side to these types of blogs, if Advertisement is their main goal and source of content, is the fact that there are so many of them out there. With such a large amount of content online already it is vital for a blogger using their blog for Advertisement to follow strict protocols to ensure their content is accurate and readable by search engines.


For bloggers who are just starting for the first time, I would highly recommend your first blog be from one of the free service providers, such as www.blogspot.com, Or www.wordpress.org

The reason for this is so that you can be assured that your content is kept to strict markup rules and that your links will have a smaller chance to cause problems. Although these Free Hosted blogs can be slightly more limiting, it provides a very safe environment for someone who does not wish to spend a lot of time on ensuring SEO(Search Engine Optimization) standards are followed. SEO will be a topic discussed in a later chapter.


Link Building/Rank Building: This type of blog is almost a mix of Informative and Advertisement. Although it has it's own category because it's purpose can be largely different. For now we will not get into a lot about why Link Building/Rank Building is important, but bloggers often use this style to market their products and services much like the advertisers. The difference is often in the writing style of the content. Link building's content is not as important as the amount of content and it's age.


Another large factor for this group is the amount of inbound links. Meaning links that are on other websites pointing to their website. This is a large factor in Ranking on search engines and can directly effect traffic flow. This group often does not rely on return visitors for business, but rather look for the one time customers from search traffic.

30 Minutes to a better blog - 01: Introduction

Welcome to The Jones Theory. Your source to everything you will need to know about blogging. This book will provide the information you will need to start, design, and market your blog, and will direct and advise you through each and every step.


One thing that I believe is most important and should be said ahead of time. I promise to do my best and to provide the most accurate and effective information. While I take this promise on, one thing I can not change is your ATTITUDE.


Your ATTITUDE and how much EFFORT you put into things will dictate how much results you will get from working through each step. The fact is, you can read every book in the world on how to make money with your blog and still lack the needed Effort. If you take the tools given to you, and take them and try them out, I Guarantee you will receive the benefits you are expecting.



With those thoughts out on the table, and if you are still reading, then I assume you either have a good attitude, or are at least willing to work on making a higher effort. It has always been true, that to get things done on a large scale, often takes a large amount of smaller steps. I would like to now explain a little bit about making small steps, and how you should work on them while you read this book.


This book has been set up in a order which should allow you to literally follow along. Although doing so would not be very effective, or practical for that matter. You will receive the most benefit by doing a few things while reading this book.


The first and most important thing to do when working on something new, is to Take Notes. Grab some blank white paper, or find your self a notepad. This WILL save you time, and frustration over the long run. The next tip to getting the most effect from this book is to Read, Research, and Implement. Read a section, Research it's methods, code, and the amount of time and resources it will take to finally, Implement. Take this newly gathered information and put it to work.


My last tip, to each and every person who reads this book. Do Not Give Up. Along the road to perfection you will often come along times when you feel that there is nothing more to do then give up. Nothing is Ever going to go the way that you hope it to. This is something I hope you can admit now, and put out of your mind. Over the course of this book you will eventually find your self frustrated and ready to give up. Find your self a few spare moments. Find your self a satisfying flash game, and take a break. Breath for a minute, sip that coffee, perhaps even reply to a few of those spam emails. Once you have collected your thoughts, start back from the beginning, and make it work. Because if you do your best. It WILL happen.


From here you on out I will work along with you side by side. Spelling out the steps to take you blog from just and idea, to a money maker. If you have any problems with the content of this book, or have questions, comments, or suggestions. Please feel free to stop by my website http://www.thejonestheory.com and send us an email.





If you feel like you would rather contact me directly, Please do not hesitate to send me and email directly to my personal inbox. My email is jjonesdesign@gmail.com

New Post - Server FTPD - Security for ftp daemons

TheJonesTheory has just posted a new blog post on securing FTP on linux servers.

You can see the blog post HERE .

This post covers information on steps to securing you FTP daemons to prevent unauthorized access to your file system. Securing FTP daemons ensures that you files are safe, and will not be harmed.

Introduction To Blogging - New post on www.thejonestheory.com

Introduction To Blogging Has now been posted at www.thejonestheory.com/blog

This is the first informative post from the blog series/book "The Jones Theory: 30 minutes to a better blog" A book on creating better blogs. If you are new to blogging or even for a experienced blogger, 30 minutes to a better blog can provide you with information that can improve your blogs popularity, increase traffic, or even just walk you through getting started.

Enjoy.

New page: The Jones Theory: 30 minutes to a better blog - Table of contents

The Table Of Contents page has been added to the blog series on TheJonesTheory

Table of contents to the book I am writing. The Jones Theory: 30 minutes to a better blog. I blog series and book in the making. This is a series about making a better blog, increasing blog traffic, making money with blogs, starting a blog, running your own blog, starting a web server for a blog, and much much more information on blogging.

New Headphone Sound Test

Today I am wearing a new set of headphones. A gift for my birthday!

I am testing a new pair of Ge Stereo Headset With Detachable Mic with some various music files. The audio is absolutely amazing. I have had a few pairs of name brand headphones that did not compare to the quality of sound. A cool little feature to this set is the removable mic. The mic plugs right into the side of the headphone, and sounds sharp as well.

If you are in the market for new headphones, I would recommend you give this set a shot. It's been only a few hours of testing, but I am already loving this new setup. I grabbed a few links to "Test surround sound" I found these two videos to sound the best, and provide a good test.

Things That Make You Go Hmmmmm.

So I have to admit. For the amount of time in one day that I spend doing research, and wasting time on the internet. There is always somthing that comes out of no where and makes you says "Hmmmmm. I'm a ignoramus".

For a while, I thought that I was up one times, and thought I knew all there was about having the latest and greatest software. I thought I was taking advantage of every chunk of technology. So be it the forces of wifi shunned my soul.

So yes, let there be IGOOGLE. Which is now my new homepage, which is a change from http://www.google.com Guess theirs not much of a change.

Just a reminder to my self, that sometimes clicking on buttons you have never clicked before CAN make you smarter.

30 minutes to a better blog - Introduction - book started!

As some of you might know, I have been working on my website for a blog/book that I am going to be writing. The website http://www.thejonestheory.com is the home of "The Jones Theory: 30 minutes to a better blog". A blog series/book that takes you through the step's of creating a better blog.

This book, who's contents can be found at http://www.thejonestheory.com/blog.php walks reads through the steps that are needed to create a productive and Goal breaking blog.

Although the length of this blog series/blog will be unknown until it's completion, You can find the first section online now! http://www.thejonestheory.com/blogposts/introduction.php

The "Introduction" section of The Jones Theory: 30 Minutes To A Better Blog, covers my thoughts and information contained within the book. This section's focus is on ATTITUDE and EFFORT.

Stop by TheJonesTheory and read about how you can make your blog better, 30 minutes at a time.s

New Server: Update

Today's post is not a huge change from yesterday, But I have made some success today and wanted to prove my night wasn't a waste.

Updates:
- Fixed Public_html's directory permissions
- Fixed /home/* Permissions

- Fixed domain Vhosts for thejonestheory.com and www.thejonestheory.com
- Fixed domain Vhosts for Go-Green-Or-Go-Home.com and www.Go-Green-Or-Go-Home.com
- Aligned domain www.lokalwear.com to IP of server, Still need to fix Vhosts config

- Fixed welcome page for www.thejonestheory.com
- Rebooted Apache after permissions issue's were completely resolved

Security:
- Created a user logging system to record local logged in users
- Stopped FTP dameon until a use of it is needed
- Protected some public root files

All while never restarting the computer. I love linux. Centos is starting to make me happy. It's been a great choice so far.

When you break things down into lists, it makes them seem like more of an accomplishment. While it does not sound like a lot for an hours and a half work. I feel like I at least did something productive.

Remember, I am still looking for some new bloggers who want to do daily/weekly posts, either reviews or even now blogging about blogs them self's, such as SEO and Marketing tips.

www.thejonestheory.com will now be the home of "The Jones Theory: 30 minutes to a better blog" Which is a book Ill be writing based off of my website.

Thanks for stopping by!