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New iDevice Favicon Added

Pinwire — Sun, 25 Dec 2011 18:22:38 +0000

It really is the little things that make Pinwire so great. While the addition of a custom icon which shows on the plethora of iPhone / iPad / iDevices may seem trivial, it is one more step to the overall branding and promotion of Pinwire. Also, if you do have a ...

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Link Dump 12-17-2011

Tom McGuire — Sat, 17 Dec 2011 15:03:20 +0000

Here comes another link dump. Browsing the web and saving endless links to various sites can be tedious and not to mention difficult to manage. So, we are dumping links we like on a per-week basis. Everything from culture to computers. Everything from art to automotive. You never know what’s behind these ...

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Pinwire Roll’s Version 6

Pinwire — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 22:56:21 +0000

While it has only been a short time since we released our last overhaul back in March 2010, this version is a true rewrite from the ground up. We had a lot of legacy code laying around and spread across several of the other sites in our network. All of ...

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Pinwire Upgrade Completed

Pinwire — Mon, 24 May 2010 20:16:47 +0000

We’ve finally upgraded Pinwire.com to a new system with the goal of providing faster delivery of media and downloadable’s. We hope you will take the time to join our Facebook Fan page and follow us on Twitter. If you find Pinwire useful to you please take the time to make a ...

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IPB Portal as Forum home page

Tom McGuire — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 16:11:58 +0000

If you ever find yourself in dire need of a commercial forum or bulletin board system you choices may be limited. If you need an open source or Free forum script you can always head over to OpenSourceCMS.com and browse the one’s listed there. The best thing is ...

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NHXS Report on Denied Health Care Claims

Tom McGuire — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 03:04:01 +0000

This email about the percentage of rejected claims from health insurance companies found its way into my inbox yesterday and I felt it revealed some interesting data related to the hot-button topic of government run healthcare. I’m not going to comment either way about this now but wanted to add ...

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HOT 93.3 Goes Quiet in Austin TX

Tom McGuire — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 19:29:40 +0000

HOT 93.3 FM went dark today in Austin Texas. I estimate their outage lasted 2+ hours. They went back on the air at precisely 2:45 PM 7/16/2009. Every so often you would hear a man with a Scottish accent chant a series of numbers. It was just like a scene out ...

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U.S. says NO to world currency. Russia turns off Internet

Tom McGuire — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 19:54:49 +0000

I’m finally getting around to expressing my concern with Russia pushing for a new World Currency. And how it relates to Russia disabeling huge portions of the World Wide Web. If you don’t know what I’m talking about visit this link at Bloomberg.com to get up to speed. In the ...

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The Obama Deception

Tom McGuire — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 18:31:25 +0000

Again, I post a link to this video with hesitation for fear of inciting a backlash from Obama worshipers. However I think that this video covers some VERY important topics related to where our country is headed and how the leaders of our once great nation are actually acting as ...

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Jacked up light post at BB&B.

Tom McGuire — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 15:12:31 +0000

On our last excursion to Bed Bath & Beyond in Cedar Park, just north of Austin Texas, we saw something very disturbing. As I pulled my car into a parking spot taking care not to hit the concrete pillar in front of me I saw something. This light post in the ...

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Celebrity Money Makeover

Tom McGuire — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 17:07:17 +0000

Every day I visit so many websites that are boring and sometimes I find something that I think is novel. Celebrity money makeovers! Read more about Celebrity Money Makeover at Pinwire.com

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Ready to write a recommendation letter?

Pinwire — Sat, 25 Aug 2007 03:35:03 +0000

Here are some simple easy to follow rules for writing a letter of recommendation. Just follow these steps and you’ll have it completed in no time. Explain how you know the applicant. How long have you known the person and in what relationship or circumstance? State your qualifications for writing the recommendation ...

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Cousin Christine published AGAIN!

Tom McGuire — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 14:10:38 +0000

My cousin Christine is published again! Check out the magazine article READ MORE Christine Saunders, owner of The Spiraled Stem Floral Design, a wedding and event design business in Anaheim Hills, Calif., changed her business’s focus in mid-April to promote more environmentally friendly flowers and practices as part of ...

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The Spiraled Stem Blog

Tom McGuire — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 14:07:12 +0000

My cousin Chrsitine Saunders has a blog for her flower business at http://blog.thespiraledstem.com. She posts about what’s happening in the floral design industry and her website is www.thespiraledstem.com Pop on over and see what she has going on. Read more about The Spiraled Stem Blog at Pinwire.com

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Paving Paradise

Tom McGuire — Tue, 22 May 2007 23:48:40 +0000

This project originally started out as a white balance test for our Canon camera. There were fires during the previous fall, in October 2003, which ripped through the hills of Moorpark Ca. These photos have had NO retouching or color corrections. They are as they were shot. The following spring the ...

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Compact Fluorescent May Be Dangerous To Environment!

Tom McGuire — Mon, 14 May 2007 23:39:59 +0000

Compact fluorescent light bulbs are the latest invention. They are much different than the old light bulb in appearance and energy use. More than 100 years later, something similar to Thomas Edison’s bulb is still used every day, but that may change very soon because of the new ...

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VMWare – OSX – CentOS – WinXP Mashup!

Tom McGuire — Sat, 05 May 2007 00:04:30 +0000

For those of you who don’t already know this, VMWare is a program that will make a virtual computer, or virtual machine. Meaning it will allow you to install an operating system onto your computer which is separate from your current operating system. I’ve been playing around with different OS’s for ...

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Hard Drives and Servers oh my!

Pinwire — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 13:06:07 +0000

After a long wait new parts are starting to arrive for my new project. Today my hard drives arrived via UPS. Sweet. My first batch of server’s have arrived. There are a few more parts on the way. This is what AMD processors look like when they come directly from the manufacturer. I will ...

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Your time was changed when you weren’t looking!

Pinwire — Sun, 04 Mar 2007 22:55:49 +0000

GAH! In August 2005, the United States Congress passed the Energy Policy Act, which changes the start and end of DST as observed in the United States. Some additional countries/regions are following the U.S. change. As a result, DST will start three weeks earlier on March 11, 2007, and end one ...

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Going sideways for a few

Pinwire — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 04:33:37 +0000

Taking some quick time off to tend to some visiting family and bang out this website real quick for the Canejo Valley Bonsai Society of which I am a member! Work on the hosting stuff and Pinwire as well as other websites will be in a low-maintainence ...

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Security Exploit and Vulnerability Matrix

Tom McGuire — Tue, 05 Dec 2006 15:03:07 +0000

Worried about a Security Breach in your system? Check out this “Tripwire Common Security Exploit and Vulnerability Matrix” that shows you the holes in some of the most common apps and services. This PDF is out of control with info. Download PDF Read more about Security Exploit and ...

A General Non Disclosure Agreement

Pinwire — Sun, 03 Dec 2006 22:53:52 +0000

What is a Non-Disclosure Agreement? A non-disclosure agreement or confidentiality agreement is used when you have an unpatented idea that you need to show to a third party and you want that party to not reveal any information about your idea. Grab our generic NDA in MS Word format. The inventor ...

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Stop the presses!

Pinwire — Sun, 03 Dec 2006 14:12:58 +0000

Ok.. As I have been migrating these articles from the older Pinwire I am realizing that any articles with downloads are basically out in the open for anyone to link to. Now as a downloader that is a great! But as the person running the site that’s no ...

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NVIDIA Melody

Pinwire — Sat, 02 Dec 2006 22:28:45 +0000

NVIDIA Melody creates high quality normal maps that make a low-poly model look like a high-poly model. Simply load your low poly working model, then load your high-poly reference model, click the “Generate Normal Map” button and watch Melody go to town. You can also can use Melody to generate LODs ...

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Gnomon School of Visual Effects

Pinwire — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 20:41:02 +0000

Gnomon Inc. School of Visual Effects is a digital training center that specializes in 3D computer graphics and animation for individuals, professionals and production studios. With a staff of instructors who all have experience in production or working as application engineers for Alias|Wavefront, Gnomon is able to offer courses from ...

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Full Sail Real World Education

Pinwire — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 20:34:07 +0000

Established in 1979, Full Sail Real World Education is a nationally accredited, private, co-educational college offering extensive training and education in entertainment media production and entertainment technology. Bachelor of Science degrees are offered in Computer Animation, Digital Art & Design, Game Development, Film, and Entertainment Business. Associate of Science degrees ...

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The Long Road v4.0

Tom McGuire — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 00:07:39 +0000

Most of you aren’t aware of the changes that I’ve made to Pinwire over the years. I’ve tried to keep the modifications fairly transparent. This is the 4th version of the site I’ve made and I hope it will last for a few years. A few years ago I added the ...

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