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Did you know? How to stop cellphone speaker buzz.

March 25, 2010 No Comments

Do your computer or car speakers buzz when your cellphone is nearby? Today I found a great way to stop this and it won’t cost you a dime. Do you know those silvery-looking anti-static bags computer parts come in? Save them. If you set your phone down on one it disrupts the electromagnetic field the ...

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Search Stored Procedures in MS SQL 2005

February 9, 2010 No Comments

Sometimes when looking for a bug in web software, you need to find everything that touches a particular database table. In Visual Studio, this is as simple as a global search. But in SQL, you might also want to find every stored procedure that references that table. A quick search online found a great little ...

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Assign Applications to “Spaces” in OSX Lion

I was a happy user of Spaces in OSX 10.6 Snow Leopard. You could assign certain applications to certain...

Make a Div Stick to the Bottom

It’s possible. CSS only. No javascript. No funny-business. Most of the time I do this for a footer on...

Parallels files corrupted? A quick fix (maybe).

Today I copied a parallels image (Windows Server 2008) from my imac to my macbook. For some reason, I...

Parallels Quick Tip: Drag Modifier Keys

The default setting in Parallels makes one annoyance that is easily fixed, once you can find how to set...

Clear DNS Cache in OSX

Mac OSX caches DNS data to enhance performance, which is nice, however sometimes when you’re moving a website or...

SMTP Configuration on Rackspace Cloud Servers, Windows

As it turns out, configuring SMTP for asp.net applications to send simple email messages in Windows Server 2008 is...

Visual Studio 2010 Attach Warning – w3wp.exe

We often debug against w3wp.exe (the IIS worker process) when building web apps. Visual studio 2010 adds an annoying...

SQL: Joins that limit results from one of the tables

I’ve been grappling with this one for a while now, and I finally came up with a solution, so...

Add a Google map to your website

Google maps has made it incredibly easy to add an interactive map to your website. The video below shows...

Scam Warning! Bogus support email

A new SPAM/Scam trend is hitting users all over the internet. Beware of email messages like the following: From:...