Jon Henshaw

My dad finally has a website. After working for all of the major military defense and space firms, including Lockheed Martin, Harris, and Cobham, he’s officially doing consulting. While most people his age are well into retirement, he still loves working on top secret projects and helping large corporations strategize and win billion dollar government …

Sending large files over the Internet has always been difficult. Before it was even possible, most people had to copy files to Zip disks or burn documents to a CD or DVD. Other solutions – ones that don’t require media – include sending files via FTP or attaching files to an email message. However, there are …

I’m not a big affiliate person, but I do like to occasionally use affiliate links. This is especially true when I’m giving an honest, positive reference to a service I really like. Realizing that what I write might have some degree of influence over a person’s decision making process, I’m certainly not against making a little extra …

In my earlier entry, Deactivation Contemplation, I was seriously questioning whether or not I was going to deactivate my Facebook account or not. I ultimately decided not to, for one main reason: Facebook Connect. Like OpenID, Facebook Connect makes registering and logging into websites much easier. I realized that I had created many accounts using …

I’ve been contemplating deactivating my Facebook account…at least until I feel Facebook gets their privacy controls under control. The only thing that is keeping me from doing it is that I actually find Facebook useful (or at least pleasantly distracting), and I don’t share too much of my life on it. If anything, it’s a …

I was able to start using Google Chrome for Mac exclusively once they started supporting Chrome extensions (aka plugins). One thing that puzzled me at first was how to update the extensions. There’s really no way–as of the time of this writing–to see if updates are available for your extensions. Firefox has a built in …