Jon Westfall

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Name: Jon Westfall
Date registered: April 7, 2009
URL: http://jonwestfall.com

Biography

Jon Westfall is the owner of JonWestfall.Com, a professor, author, technologist, and researcher living in Shreveport, Louisiana! You can always find him at his blog. He also likes to share interesting and funny material at Shared By Jon.Did you find this page useful? Say Thanks!

Latest posts

  1. So I Just Watched ‘Star Wars’ For The First Time — May 7, 2013
  2. Summer Shock! — May 7, 2013
  3. Summer in Shreveport — May 6, 2013
  4. How do you blog from a tablet? — May 2, 2013
  5. What Happens on The Internet Stays On The Internet — April 26, 2013

Most commented posts

  1. Migrate A Google Sites to a Google Apps Installation — 37 comments
  2. Backup & Restore Android Apps Using ADB — 18 comments
  3. Geek Thrills: My DD-WRT Router Kicks Your Linksys’ Butt! — 13 comments
  4. Download IMapPusherService Unofficial 0.6 Release! — 10 comments
  5. Rolling a Google Reader Replacement with Yahoo! Pipes, Readability, & IFTTT — 9 comments

Author's posts listings

Jan 27

Coming Up This Week At Shared By Jon

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Shared By Jon Masthead

Sometimes others contribute awesome things to the Internet (I’m coming to grips with this…). When I find these interesting gems, I throw them on the little sister of JonWestfall.Com – Shared By Jon. Haven’t been there before? Well last week you missed some Useful Life Hacks, The Enigma machine’s cousin, a deep thought I had …

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Jan 24

Use Your Free Cloud Storage – Options & Suggestions

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Technology

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Cloud Storage Matrix

Many companies today are quite happy to let you store some of your stuff in their cloud – free as long as you don’t have much. About 10 months ago I decided to ditch paid cloud storage and figure out how to do it all for free. Here are the options I found, the ones …

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Jan 16

Ladies, If Your Man Doesn’t Want Sex, Just Drug and/or Rape Him

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Observations

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A few months ago I posted about finding a forum post (Which I’ll link to if you want to read the entire thread) which majorly creeped me out. Long story short: Woman’s husband doesn’t have a very active sex drive (or maybe just motivation to have sex with her). She asks for advice. Amid some …

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Jan 12

Batman’s USB Drive

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Technology

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YUMI-Boot-Menu

While fixing computers isn’t my regular gig these days, I still like to be ready if someone asks me to look at their system. In my bag I keep 4 USB drives. 2 contain portable apps if I find myself needing to use a “Guest” computer (i.e. a friend’s). One has Windows apps, the other …

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Jan 11

Jon Rants About eBay Feedback

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Other Things

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I’ve been on eBay for over 10 years, so forgive me if I rant like an old man here… I received an email today from the seller of an item I recently won on eBay. It read… Hey I saw the stylus was delivered today so I thought I’d see if you wanted to exchange …

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Jan 09

A Victory for Paper

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Other Things

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Just as I change bags often (i.e. the bag I just posted on last month is now on break for another bag), I also alternate between note taking methods ranging from full paper (Moleskine notebooks that I then scan into Evernote – and these are pre-Evernote-version Moleskines, although I have one of the new Evernote …

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Dec 18

Jon’s Gadget Bag – Updated!

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Technology

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Pacsafe MetroSafe 300

While posting a status earlier today I did a search of JonWestfall.com and came across this post from December 2005 (The date on the post is incorrect). I figured if anyone cares, I’ll update you on what I carry on a regular basis now (Amazing how it’s changed in 7 years only in brands, not …

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Oct 23

Create Your Own Magazine With IFTTT, Pocket, And Yahoo! Pipes

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Technology

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A few months ago I realized that I had a number of blogs that I liked reading, but rarely had the time to read them while scrolling around Google Reader. So a plethora of stars ensued, to keep things for “later reading”.  This wasn’t ideal. I also found that I really liked viewing daily “picdumps” from …

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Oct 17

Why Wait In Line For Starbucks?

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Psychology

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This morning I stopped at an extremely busy Starbucks. Eight people awaited drinks as I entered, 4 people in line, and about 10 cars in the drive-thru. I calmly walked to the end of the line, and was out the door with my drink in about 8 minutes. On the way out, I held the …

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Aug 28

Today Show Torture

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Articles

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This morning I got to our fitness center and realized that I’d forgotten my headphones on my desk. This prompted me to think “Hmm… for 30 minutes, I guess I can watch Today”. It was easily the worst decision of my day.

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