2011

Brain Waves, Sound Therapy and White Noise

WHITE NOISE RELOADED: “White noise” devices have progressed from their roots, that’s all I can say! I went to go buy one to help my wife sleep better, and they now have devices that play a whole bunch of different sounds, and then they will modulate those sounds in accordance with your brain waves. So […]

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Getting Google Voice working through Gmail (not Google Talk)

OK, bottom line is…I got some conflicting advice from Google about Google.  Ever since the death of Gizmo5 I’ve been left with a void in my IP soul…I WANT TO PLACE/ANSWER GOOGLE VOICE CALLS ON MY PC! I read a bunch of posts that said Google Talk cannot do this.  And I read some posts

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BlackBerry PlayBook Paperweight

Yeah, the title kinda sums up my experience trying out a BlackBerry PlayBook.  Maybe it is a bit unfair an assessment, but reality can be a harsh judge. FOSE 2010 I didn’t have time to attend the whole expo, but I made time to attend ONE of the free classes – I wanted to see

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Goodbye oBout, Hello DevExpress

Back in 2010, I was searching for ASP.NET controls for our team.  One member of our group had used oBout and said they were inexpensive and effective.  He was right… for an enterprise license, they are extremely inexpensive.  And, as long you didn’t try to do too much with them, they could be quite effective.

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Google and Bing Search Redirects… try ComboFix

SYMPTOMS You do a search via Google or Bing, you click a result…next thing you know, you are looking at some weird advertisement and the URL says “Fast-Find” or one of several other URLs including just freaky IP addresses.  If you go back and click your search link again, it takes you to the expected

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SQL Server Split Function Using Spaces as Delimiter

Hello – I know you can find free Split functions all over the web. But I wrote one anyway. I really like it. It is part of my search engine code which I might get around to sharing some day.   The main reason I wrote this Split? Because I wanted to be able to

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