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ASP.NET MultiLine TextBox, Wrap Doesn’t Work

Richard Curry — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 19:18:48 +0000

So a short post on something I came across today at work. The title of this post is ASP.NET MultiLine TextBox, Wrap Doesn’t Work because that’s what I searched for and it took me forever to find the answer. Everyone wants to tell me to add the property of multiline, well I had that.. What was [...]

SweetCron and LifeStreaming

Richard Curry — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 18:34:01 +0000

I’ve been playing around with SweetCron and LifeStreaming, trying to connect all my online activities together. SweetCron is a little tougher than wordpress since it’s still very much in beta and may things you have to edit config files yourself, but it’s starting to look good. When I’m finished, I’ll add a link here.

Old School ASP

Richard Curry — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 18:52:27 +0000

Taking a break from my .net. A company that we worked with decided to give up an old ASP site that we had been using on their domains, problem is that some of it wasn’t working correctly, so it was up to me to fix it. I’ve never messed with ASP before but it’s pretty [...]

Why is Your Site Slow?

Richard Curry — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 03:41:31 +0000

Image via CrunchBase My wife and I have had a blog site for awhile but just recently we’ve started actually blogging on it. So quickly one night I added a new theme, updated the old version of wordpress that was on the site and added a few plugins for lightbox images and flickr images. Tested it, [...]

I blog with a little help from my Zemanta

Richard Curry — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 04:57:35 +0000

Image via CrunchBase This week I started using Zemanta, a firefox plugin that boast: Simple point & click enrichment of your blog posts (and emails). In real-time, while you type. We suggest tags, links, photos, and related articles. You save time and aspirin At first glance, my thoughts were that this was just another way for a company [...]

Bringing Traffic to Your Site

Richard Curry — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 03:23:56 +0000

I have friends that ask me how I end up with hundreds of hits even when my site hasn’t been updated in months (Which I’m changing lately!) They think that someone needs to buy traffic through Google or have some secret, the truth is, you can find traffic, it takes your time but doesn’t cost [...]

You can Almost get rid of Cable

Richard Curry — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 05:58:06 +0000

Image via CrunchBase For a couple months now I’ve been testing new software called Boxee. Boxee allows me to watch many of the online video sites on my television. As of now there are different versions for different OS’s, some allow Netflix while orhers have ABC, still lacking behind is the Apple TV setup, but they [...]

Sharing Your Bookmarks / Favorites

Richard Curry — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 02:51:11 +0000

Image via CrunchBase First off, if you’re not using firefox for internet browsing, get your butt over to firefox.com and download it. Firefox allows you to have addons or plugins that help you with daily task, One of my favorite is Diigo. Diigo allows me to share bookmarks with others or just myself. While I don’t [...]

Fixing TurboTax BootStrapper Setup Failed

Richard Curry — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 08:48:58 +0000

Image via Wikipedia Last night some friends called and told me they were having problems installing Intuit’s TurboTax, every time they tried to install it Turbo Tax would have an error that BootStrapper Setup Failed and asked if i’d come check it out. On Intuit’s web site the make it clear that if you get this error [...]

The things Spammers ruin

Richard Curry — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 05:13:15 +0000

Image by Getty Images via Daylife On another one of my sites, celebrating the coming soon of my first son, I wanted to add a twitter update on the side bar, not unlike the one I use here on Tek-Works.com, but since it’s mostly family and they’d have no idea how to use Twitter. I wanted [...]