August 2009 Archives

WordPerfect X3 Freezes

August 20, 2009 8:37 PM
I'm currently in North Carolina on vacation. I just recently installed a server at a clients office before I left. Everything was fine for two days but then I get a phone call, they are unable to start Wordperfect X3. Blurg! I'll save you my troubleshooting but I will say that it just starts, then doesn't do anything and anything you try and do just causes a white screen - typical no response. 

What I had to do was  Click the Start button and then click Run. When the Run window appears, type REGEDIT and then click OK. This opens your Registry Editor (see warning above). Double-click the HKEY_CURRENT_USER folder and then double-click SOFTWARE. Right-click the COREL folder and then select Rename from the pop-up menu. Rename the folder CorelOld. Close the Registry Editor window.

I want to thank Smartcomputing.com for showing me the way. Luckily thats all I had to do! Hope this helps someone else out and saves some vacation time!

Questions Round Up - August 12th

August 12, 2009 11:45 PM
Every now and then I like to link to some recently asked questions from our Ask A Question section. I tried to keep the page very simple where people could ask questions fast - no registration necessary. Of course we also have our tech support forums if you have a more in depth question.

Have a question of your own? Ask it.

JSON to Map

August 11, 2009 11:30 AM

Today we are going to load JSON data thats being served from our Ruby on Rails scaffold. For this lesson I'll just concentrate on reading from JSON and display it on the map. In another lesson we'll show how to setup the scaffold. Then we'll go over how to make the markers and client list clickable. For an example on what this will look like, visit http://www.ccexperts.com/dev/json-map.html or view the image below.

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Make your computer faster - Video

August 9, 2009 11:19 PM
YouTube video I made on how to clean up your computer. This will:

  • Make your computer faster
  • Remove Virus / Spyware programs

Can't see anything? Here is the direct link http://www.youtube.com/v/Z0TDku0Bjyw.

Google Chrome Browser has new beta

August 5, 2009 8:41 PM
Hey everyone if you are still using Internet Explorer please do me a favor and upgrade. No, not to version 8, upgrade to Google Chrome. To those of you that do use Google Chrome you may be interested to know a new beta was recently released.
Download Google Chrome
Awesome new features include:

  • It's faster - yes! This is worth it right here.
  • Customize the tag page - you can move around tabs, pin tabs, etc.
  • Omnibox give you more info - Type and see suggestions and you can easily see if they are bookmarks, history items, etc
  • Tweak with themes - Yes you can add really good backgrounds!
  • HTML 5 Improvements - Yes! Now if only Internet Explorer 6 would die so the world would start to use HTML 5 

Google Weather API

August 2, 2009 11:18 AM

Every web designer has at one point or another been asked, "How can I get weather on my site?" The old answer was to have a giant ugly weather channel gadget. Something that looked very nasty and you couldn't un-brand it no matter what. Some used an iframe to display external data and have it appear to be on their site. Lastly you could always just have a link that says 'click here for weather'. My goal was to get weather data from an external source and be able to customize how it looks. Fortunately now there are some great resources out there. I'm going with one that is my favorite, something extremely easy to use and customize - Google's Weather API.

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