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New to the site

deckem — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 03:42:21 GMT

I just wanted to introduce my self. My name is Jeff and I have been designing & building home improvement projects in the Chicago market for over 27 years. I hope I can add as much as I can learn from this site. God bless !

Anti-Virus Software?

Bodger — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 03:35:50 GMT

I've been using Norton for a long time. They want a renewal at $69.00.

Is Norton worth it? Is there a cheaper alternative? Need recommendations.

DropBox Is Awesome!

y.painting — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 18:44:59 GMT

In the past, GeorgeZ and a few members here on RC had mentioned that they use DropBox. So I gave it a try and have been using Dropbox for the past few months both for personal and business needs and find it absolutely amazing. It automatically syncs up anything you want across your computers, smart phones, and online.

The way it works is you get a Dropbox folder on your computer (mac and pc both work). Anything you drop into this folder becomes instantly available on any other computers where you placed a DropBox folder, or on your smart phone, and also online. Essentially, the folders are mirrors of each others and act as such.

I can be sitting on my laptop and need to quickly look up an estimate I've sent in the past from my desktop - it's right there in my laptop Dropbox folder. Or say I make a change to an estimate on my laptop - that change is instantly reflected on my desktop. Many of my estimate photos also live in DropBox. If I quickly need to refer to a picture from an estimate and all I have with me is my phone, the pictures are all right there - automatically without any extra work. It's pretty useful.

For free, you get 2GB.

I am including a referral link below and if you sign up using this link, you will get 250MB extra (in addition to the 2GB) for free and so will I. There are also paid accounts with 50GB/100GB/1TB available.

You can sign up here to get your free 2GB AND an extra 250MB with this link - http://db.tt/gSR2EI2. Without going through the link, you won't get the extra free 250MB.

Are you becoming more focused?

kornerking — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 01:27:59 GMT

Now that there seems to be a modest rebound happening, are you becoming more focused on the type of work you are taking on?

Or did the broadening of your offerings (if you did it) give you confidence to stay branched out?

Super Bowl Frenzie Arrives in Indianapolis

ChrWright — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 16:02:10 GMT

Very proud of our city.

http://www.skysports.com/opinion/sto...467354,00.html

Quote:

The city hasn't just embraced the event, the city IS the event. Everything is so compactly set out that the whole landscape of XLVI is walkable - nothing is more than five or six blocks away, and the stadium itself sits at the head of it all like a temple of sporting nirvana.

Admittedly, at first view, the Lucas Oil complex looks like a big shed. A very big shed. But then you get a bit closer and realise it is to sheds what the Graf Zeppelin is to your average party balloon. It is a 272-foot high edifice that sits next to the Perry K Steam plant and gives the impression of Battersea Power Station on steroids, a modern construction rooted in an industrial past but boasting every mod con.

And that just sets the scene for a city centre bursting at the seams with Super Bowl festivities, activities and atmosphere, with people falling over themselves to be hospitable and enthusiastic and a genuine effervescence we haven't seen from a host city since Alka Seltzer first went plink, plink fizz.

Consider this. Every media member received a hand-written welcome message in their hotel room, not from the host committee but from a member of a local elementary school, revealing what they like most about their home, and accompanied by "the state cookie of Indiana," the snickerdoodle.

Talk about a wake-up call. My message was from Daltom, 9, of Plainfield, whose "thing I love most about Indiana" is the Children's Museum, "because it has everything." Unexpected? Undoubtedly. Charming? You bet. While Jerry Jones thought he had to dazzle the world with his cathedral to bad taste in Dallas, Indiana asked a bunch of kids tell us what they like most about living here.

Advantage, Indy.

Like pulling teeth

kornerking — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 03:04:21 GMT

............................

So Dennis

kornerking — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 02:46:47 GMT

Is that new shop working out well?

Would you change anything if you were doing it over?

Whathaveyou built so far?

Hey Dusty

kornerking — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 02:40:28 GMT

I see you hanging out. What have you been up to?

How is your online store doing?

Is the young un having a good winter?

Whatcha wanna talk about?

kornerking — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 01:43:06 GMT

Getting ready to plant tomato seeds.

Tablet Apps for Your Business

orson — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 23:02:49 GMT

What apps are you guys running on your tablets that you can't do without now that you've got them?

I'm using an iPad and I tested about 20 note-taking apps before deciding on Noteshelf, although Notability was neck in neck and has a few features I wish Noteshelf had. (Both iPad only apps I think)

I'm using a stylus to enter handwriting which also had a major effect on my app decision, though both of these apps are decent using your finger too.

Plan is to take all client meeting notes in this app where I can also take photos straight into it and mark them up. I'm only a tad bit slower writing on this than on paper so I think it's feasible.

Also really liking "Calendars" which is a Google Calendar client (iPad/iPhone only)

Diet soda daily might contribute to heart attack, stroke‎ Read more: http://www.970w

Eieio — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 17:36:37 GMT

Drinking diet soft drinks on a daily basis might increase the risk stroke, heart attack and vascular death, U.S. researchers said.

Hannah Gardener and colleagues from the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine and at Columbia University Medical Center in New York also found regular soft drink consumption and a more moderate intake of diet soft drinks do not appear to be linked to a higher risk of vascular events.

Gardener and her research team analyzed data from 2,564 participants in the National Institute of Health funded Northern Manhattan Study, which was designed to determine stroke incidence, risk factors and prognosis in a multi-ethnic urban population.

Read more: http://www.970wfla.com/cc-common/new...#ixzz1l9YGqqck

Is this code now?

kornerking — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 14:31:52 GMT

Good Quality Recessed Ironing Board?

ChrWright — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 14:26:45 GMT

Anyone have one they've used that they really liked?

Driftwood distressed vanity

Leo G — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 03:10:36 GMT

Got a single vanity to build. She wants it to look similar to driftwood. I am using white oak mostly because it has a very open grain. I take a very coarse wire brush on a cordless drill and scrape down the grain so that it is much more pronounced. Trying for the wind and sand beaten look.

Made the FF today and side panels, one is a recessed panel and the other is just a plain plywood end which goes against a wall. I got most of the cabinet made today, glue'n it up tomorrow. Then on to the drawer fronts and doors.

Here you can see the grain that I roughed up with the wire brush.
You can also see the bleach marks on the top of the red oak leg.
Since this will be a white stain I didn't want the red of the red oak
bleeding though. The brown of the white oak is what the samples
were done on

Still testing clean.

kornerking — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 23:43:15 GMT

It is spooky as hell at times but I am still nicotine free. The body is pissed as heck, but I guess after 28 years of chewing it will probably bitch for a while.

Not sure why but I sure hope I can continue. Only negative effect is I suffer from mytro valve prolapse and it is flaring up from it. Surprisingly the nicotine does control it.