Blackberry Hacks: Easy way to restart your Blackberry
I've only confirmed that this works on my 8900 so YMMV, but to reboot your blackberry without removing the battery simply press ALT + Right Shift + DEL. ...
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The Basics of SEO
I recently got an email from an individual who has had a website for quite awhile. They knew they wanted/needed some Search Engine Optimization (SEO) but really didn't know what all that meant or entailed. I knew gave their website a quick scan and pointed...
WriteMonkey: A Simple but Effective Text Editor & Writing Tool
Do you need to concentrate just on "the writing." Need a text editor that allows you to create blog posts without a connection to the web. Want to keep track of the total words in your document or set a time limit on your writing?...
EqualLogic’s 10 Gig Series
PS6010 and PS6510 Series Arrays After what seems like a long wait, Dell EqualLogic finally released the 10Gb controllers for the PS Series arrays. The new PS6010 and PS6510 arrays offer two ten gig ports per controller, allowing you to have 20Gb/s of bandwidth to each...
Virtualization and the SMB – Part 1
Virtualization is a big buzz word in technology. New for some, old hat for others, it is always changing and evolving. A lingering question for many people, though, is...
Upgrading ColdFusion Java on Windows
I made the attempt to upgrade the Java Runtime used on one of our ColdFusion servers to the latest Java 1.6 Runtime. I thought it would be a simple, download the latest JRE, install, update the jvm.config java.home variable to point at the new JRE,...
ASP.NET Active Directory Membership Provider – Connection String Tomfoolery
Ran into an "interesting" problem this week with the ASPNetActiveDirectoryMembershipProvider configuration. In the connection string you'll usually see: LDAP://server:portThe important thing to note is that the "LDAP" MUST BE CAPITALIZED. A transmission protocol that is case sensitive? Way to go, Microsoft. Hountowa okashii ne. ...
Now You Can See Your Congressman’s Spending
HouseSpendDataSmallUSCongressExpensesV3As part of our Federal government’s commitment to greater transparency, The US House of Representatives released its Statement of Disbursements (SOD) in electronic format, late November, covering July 1, 2009 through September 20, 2009. The government has been required by law to publish this...
Web Development Services for Agencies
Those of you working with InterWorks already know this secret: We do a great deal of web development services for advertising, branding and marketing agencies. It isn't necessarily a market that we targeted in our early days, so how did we earn the honor of...
SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services install option is greyed out
A client recently requested that we add Reporting Services to his existing install of SQL Server 2005. I didn't think much of this task until I ran the setup and found that the checkbox for Reporting Services was greyed out. After some amount of digging...
Wave Extension for Chrome Gets An Upgrade
Google Chrome and the associated workflows are really getting better everyday. I fired up Chrome this morning, saw my Wave notification icon and clicked as I normally would. Look what magically appeared: Now when Chrome detects an update, you can single click on the W notifier...
Microsoft Exchange 2007 Information Store may fail to start after reboot
I found the following article while trying to figure out why a new SBS 2008 server install would not automatically start the Exhange information store after a reboot. The steps resolved the issue for anyone who has experienced this problem, Microsoft seems to have a...
