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I used to use a Palm Pilot (a long time ago) as my PDA and I really liked it.  But I really didn’t want to carry a PDA and a cell phone.  I’ve always wanted to be able to use my cell phone’s calendar applicaiton to keep track of my appointments, but I didn’t want to go the Blackberry route and since I use Thunderbird for my home email my options were limited.  At least they were until I found SyncCell.  SynCell works great with my Verizon LG ENV3 and Thunderbird 2.  I am using the Lightning 0.9 extension to add calendaring functions to Thunderbird and this combination is perfect for me.  I can add my appointments on my PC or on my phone and SyncCell keeps them synchronized for me with just the click of a button.  I just connect my phone to the PC with the USB cable, click on the One Sync shortcut in the quick launch bar and away it goes.  I had tried to do this previously with my Razor and Motorola Phone Tools (MPT), but that never worked out since MPT didn’t support Thunderbird.  I don’t have all the bells and whistles of a full PDA or a Blackberry, but that works for me since I don’t really need all those things and I didn’t want to have the platform dictate which email system I had to use.  Check SyncCell out it might work for you as well.

I worked with a friend of mine to get his website and image galleries online. Since he is a Lightroom user and wanted to run his own website (as opposed to using something like SmugMug) I researched what his options were. I ran across a series of tools that fit his needs perfectly. The tools can be found here and all operate within Lightroom.  My friend has Lightroom 2.4 and used the TTG LR Pages module to create his static pages such as Home, About and Contact.  Then we setup TTG Highslide Gallery Pro and TTG Auto Index for the image galleries.  Theses addons to Lightroom are great for a photographer who isn’t also a webmaster and just wants to publish pages and galleries from a tool he or she is already familiar with.  TTG Highslide Gallery also allows a gallery to operate in “proofing/selection” mode to allow online client proofing and print selection.  Check these tools out, the price is very good and it just might be what you were looking for.  The site I helped my friend put together can be found here.

Just a quick entry to note that I did pass the CISSP exam! I still have to get endorsed by an existing CISSP (done) and get my years of experience proven (paperwork submitted). Now I am just waiting for ISC2 to complete the process so I can officially say I am a CISSP!

Update:  I got confirmation today (April 9th, 2009) that my endorsement and certification were approved.  So, I am now officially a CISSP!

I have been studying to take the CISSP examination. You can read about the CISSP exam here. Since this has kept me pretty busy, but I did not want to fall behind on my Fifty Two project I combined the two and ended up with the shot below. I think it turned out pretty well