GTD with Google's New Calendar

See my Productivity & GTD page for other great ideas like a free Blackberry GTD solution!

Lifehack posted a link to a list of 15 GTD applications. This motivated me to write about something that I have been putting off for a while. Read more

Blackberry Instant Messaging

Blackberry Instant Messaging

BlackBerry now supports the following instant messaging platforms: Read more

Apple iPhone - Blackberry, Cingular and all my other toys?

Okay I bought my first iPod spring '07, so I am not a huge adopter of Apple's toys (6 months later the 8gb video iPod came out!!!). But I am really loving some of the features of Apple's new iPhone. The email looks great with inline images viewable, the browser is Safari and auto sync to your desktop browser sounds great! Read more

Cingular 3G Globetrotter GT MAX wireless card

I have been using this Cingular 3G Globetrotter GT MAX wireless card for one year now. I am pulling 1.6mb/280kb from my house!!!!! Antenna retracts into device for easy laptop storage. I have been using this card for some time and I still find it near perfect. The retractable antenna does have a draw back... it snaps out rather then break but if you loose it, as happened to me, it will cost you $75 to replace. I travel a lot and I would say that I can get a good reception about 95% of the time. Read more

Turning off register_globals for Drupal on 1and1 Host

I have several sites running on Drupal and occasionally I come across this issue - usually after I upgrade and I forgot to copy all of the custom commands into the new directory. How do you disable register_globals when running on 1and1 hosting?

There are two options for turning off register_globals: you can create a new php.ini file or you can add it to your htaccess file. Here are the directions. Read more

GTD with Google's New Calendar

See my Productivity & GTD page for other great ideas like a free Blackberry GTD solution! Read more

Time Management, GTD and Life Hacking

As a society we spend so much time and energy getting information into and from emails, notes, websites, lectures, chats, blogs and news feeds. But what is all of that worth if we forget what to do next (task management) or we can't find something we had previously found?

Content Management, Knowledge Management and Information Management are all becoming huge 'industry' buzz words but that means nothing if we fail to teach and provide solutions for the 'individual' user/employee. I went to school and received a B.S. in Management in Information Systems, but not one class discussed a micro-system for the user/student. Do any highschools, colleges or corporations seriously teach this critical problem solving issue? Read more

My Bookmarks

My Mobile Bookmarks
Rather than bore you with my day to day favorite desktop websites I thought I would list the best mobile sites that I have found. The sites below are used on my Blackberry Bold through Cingular (oops I mean the new AT&T). Read more

Bio

Isaac Bowman (Resume/C.V.) is the editor, admin and pretty much the sole contributor for the website www.isaacbowman.com.

Some people say I over analyze things. I say they criticize too much, but their reply is that I like to debate everything. Now I cannot argue that.

So far I have visited 92 cities in 7 countries. You can see a map of my travels. Read more

Backing Up and Restoring 1and1 SQL Database for Drupal

I am sure there are tons of you out there that know exactly how this works but I had to figure it out and unfortunately there wasn't one single article on how this would work with Drupal, SQL and 1and1.

As a subplot the reason I had to do this, other then needing to have database backups, was because I wanted to upgrade to the lastest version of Drupal and it requires MySQl 5.0 and higher. So that means exporting/backingup the original MySQl 4 database and then importing it into the newly created 5.0 database. Read more