Tag: Jappler Recommends

Food/Drink

Best Taco Seasoning…Ever!

Last year for my birthday – some friends bought me spices from: The Spice House. The seasoning was not like any other I had ever had – but I instantly thought “I want to eat this every day.” I love just about everything hot and spicy, but this taco seasoning – even though it was […]

Stuff

Great T-Shirts

If you could not find a t-shirt at Despair Wear, take a look at these: http://www.lookhuman.com/. Time to throw some non-Penn State t-shirts in the mix for me.

Hosting Web Development

Install Varnish in Under 5 Minutes With Bitnami

If you have been following my posts for the last month (or talked to me about what I have been up to recently) you will not be surprised I have another post about the ease of use/awesome documentation when using Bitnami. I still am 100% impressed with the documentation – as each example I have […]

Web Development

Bitnami Applications: Test Drive Applications

Ever curious how something like Redmine, DreamFactory, or a number of other tools, content management systems, etc looked like/worked? If you did – but did not have the time to download the code, configure your server, etc – Bitnami to the rescue (again!). Within minutes, you can have a server up and running with everything […]

Food/Drink

New Favorite Pizza Recipe

I love pizza, tomatillos, goat cheese, and bacon. This recipe has all – and it is absolutely fantastic. Looking for an awesome new pizza recipe that you will love? One bite in and I already had it in my mind this would be the next recipe my friends/family would expect me/want me to have at […]

Hosting

Hello Bitnami!

After needing to get Redmine up and running and having nothing but problems with installing gems, I decided to take a look at Bitnami where they advertise “Deploy your favorite apps in the cloud and anywhere else.” I decided to give that a shot as well as to use Bitnami Cloud Hosting for some of […]

CSS

CSS Font Families Made Easy

If you are looking for font family code – check out CSS Font Stack. You can chose your font, and with a click of your mouse – copy the entire family for your use.

Software

Jappler Recommends: 1Password

After spending too much time and effort trying to remember passwords, save them securely, share them between computers and devices, I decided to ask a few people what they had used and tried some of their suggestions. In the end I started using 1Password. The application is available for Macs, PCs, iPhones, iPads, and Android […]

HOWTOs

Have a Humidifier? Make Sure You Clean It!

Holy cow. Last night we decided to put the humidifier on for the boys since it is getting to be that time of year when the air is dry and the colds/sinus problems begin. A few years back I purchased a really cute Winnie the Pooh humidifier for Evan and we ran it most winter […]

Software

Jappler Recommends: Google Drive

I back up all my files locally and then on to Amazon S3. I am not sure what made me give Google Drive a test but I did and I have been very happy with it ever since. What is it that I like better than everything else I have tried? Since I am always […]

Stuff

Nike Support For Fuel Band is Fantastic

I have to say – I have had my Nike Fuel Band for just short of 100 days and have had to call sport two times. Both times I called the 1-800 number and with one menu selection and one single ring – I spoke to someone friendly from their US support center. Not only […]

Games

A Great Look At Mario Through the Years

While I did not play all the Mario games in the article: EVolution of Mario – I played most, and still enjoy some Mario 2 or Mario 3 weekly. Makes me even more excited for the upcoming Mario game: