Author: Jim Collison

People Who Lose Weight Successfully…

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Exercise regularly Set realistic goals. When they don’t meet their goals, they learn from their experiences instead of giving up. Have social support from family, friends, coworkers, or support groups. People who complete a weight-loss program with friends or family lose more weight and are more likely to keep it off. Work on liking themselves (or already do). Are motivated to lose weight for internal reasons rather than external reasons. For example, Star used to lose weight to fit into her old size-six jeans. Now she is losing weight to improve her health. Concentrate not on the bathroom scale, but

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Home Server Show #113

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It’s lucky #13, well…sort of!  Tons of news, Add-ins, Drobo and anything else WHS related we could fine to talk about.  Make sure you listen all the way through.  Dave loaded some funny stuff at the end. If you didn’t join us live (and you should try it sometime @ http://homeservershow.com/live), you missed some very good chat!  We broadcast live every Wednesday night at 8:00pm CST.  You can get a reminder each week by following my at Twitter.com/theaverageguytv The podcast and all the show notes at http://homeservershow.com/the-home-server-show-113.html

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The Fitness Tech Podcast #1 Hints on Starting a Workout!

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Jamie Eikmeier and Jim Collison talk in the first ever Fitness Tech Podcast on the Average Guy Network.  We talk about a recent article from the Gallup Management Journal on exercise, sleep and physical wellbeing.  Jamie gives some good tips on starting and maintaining a fitness program and what to eat to stay in top… Click for more / Podcast Player>

Windows Multipoint Server 2011 beta

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November 13,2010 I’ve been having a look at Windows Multipoint Server 2010 this week. Sean Daniel released a slide deck for SMBNation Presentations on Windows Small Business Server 2011 Essentials and 2011 Standard. I noticed on slide 24, there is a reference to a product called Windows MulitPoint Server. So I downloaded the 2010 version and installed that on a 1TB drive on my Shuttle SG33G5M with a 880GT. Looks like you need to have a USB hub for each keyboard and mouse for each workstation and a video connection on your server for each monitor. All was going well,

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YourName@Facebook .com? Take that Gmail!

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If the battle between Facebook and Google for employees wasn’t enough (http://tcrn.ch/bDBOVg), they seem to be set to go head to head on email this Monday.  Many web sources are now saying that Facebook will begin to offer @Facebook.com email to it’s customers to compete with Gmail,and to make the deal sweeter, they are throwing in Office web apps integration to go up against Google’s Apps offering.   So watch for the battle to begin on Monday!  Will you switch to Facebook for email? Sources: http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/facebook_email_coming_monday_with_office_web_apps.php?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter http://techcrunch.com/2010/11/11/facebook-gmail-titan/ http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/not-so-crazy-microsoft-rumors-facebooks-new-e-mail-to-feature-office-web-apps-integration/7949

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Adding the Facebook “Like” Button to Your Blog Posts!

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Ever wonder how people get that Facebook “like” button on their blog posts or anything for that matter?  It super simple and easy to do.  First, go to the helpful developers page at Facebook.  Click Here: http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/plugins/like Second, copy the web address to your blog (in the case of this post here, it would be http://theaverageguy.tv/name-of-blog-post-here) to the “URL to Like” box on the page above. Third, look through the options for the layout.  They are easy to understand and you can hover over the (?) for each section to get help. Forth, click the button that says “Get Code”

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