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  • Logitech Music Anywhere Headphones

    Logitech released a behind-the-neck wireless headphone set that had a couple problems: the back would snap, the batteries would "crap out" (yes, that's the technical term), you…

  • Developing for PayPal Payment Processing

    When developing an application that uses PayPal for payment processing, here are a few things that you might like to know about their test (or sandbox) environment that isn't…

  • Sponsored Reviews: How much should you charge?

    Sponsored Reviews is concept where advertisers are matched with content providers; people who want to sell stuff find people who like to write stuff, and pay them to write about…

  • Man with a gun kills 3, wounds 5… in a church, during worship service

    In response to the Neosho, Mo. story as reported by the AP and The New York Times regarding a man who killed 3 and wounded 5 more in a church, during their worship service... I…

  • Another reason to switch to VoIP

    According to an msnbc story a Malaysian man paid off his deceased father's outstanding bills, including a phone bill for around US$23 (80-ringgit, in his currency). Later…

  • On a Personal Note…

    While I try not to personalize this 'blog all that much, this is one of those times that I'm making an exception to that rule. Allison (Earl) Goodworth, a good friend of mine…

  • Merchant Account Tools and Services

    (some postings on this site may be sponsored ) In my last article I wrote about points to consider when choosing a web host (someone to host your web site and provide you with…

  • Web Hosting

    (Some postings on this site may be sponsored ) Whether you are an experienced, novice, professional, or hobbyist web developer we all have one thread in common: web hosting. Even…

  • Don't Run With Sharp Objects

    Remember when your mom told you not to run with sharp objects, looks like she was right! via flickr

  • Exercise your Rights: Open Carry a Firearm

    In Utah it is legal to carry an "unloaded" firearm so long as it is not concealed (for that you need a Concealed Firearm Permit issued by the Utah Department of Public Safety, or…

  • Wind Power

    Popular Science ran an article on cheap, efficient wind turbines in their August 2007 issue. In the article they detail a variation on two types of vertical axis wind turbines…

  • T-Mobile Internet Access Spotty via GPRS in Western US

    A s of approximately 1am Mountain Time T-Mobile's Data has been spotty, particularly over GPRS. Symptoms include inability to sync via Exchange ("Synchronization could not be…

  • Updates to JoeLevi.com

    Every blog undergoes an evolution from when it's conceived and initially published to and through its life span. I've tried to keep the topics of my blog relatively consistent…

  • Interesting Links

    I develop web solutions for a living, and often in my research and travels I come across tidbits that I find interesting and may want to refer back to later. I've considered…

  • ASP.NET 1.1 Error: System.Xml.XmlReader is inaccessible due to its protection level

    While recompiling an ASP.NET 1.1 (legacy) application recently I was met with a series of errors that "System.Xml.XmlReader is inaccessible due to its protection level" (along…

  • Silverlight 1.0 RC1 Released

    For those of you following Silverlight news, Microsoft has released the next pre-final version of Silverlight 1.0. According to the source: "we're homing in on the launch of…

  • Rear-ended in my Prius

    I've had a 2006 Prius since August 2006 and completely love the car. Since then I've added some "features" that the original car doesn't have: Mud Flaps Automatic Door Lock…

  • How to Get out of a Speeding Ticket

    Steve Mermelstein recently wrote an article on How To Get Out Of A Speeding Ticket (featuring a video from VideoJug ) which lists some pretty good ways to avoid paying a speeding…

  • Prostate Cancer

    (The following is a sponsored review ) The other day I heard a bit from a comedian... I was going to catch a plane and was delayed with all the new security screenings they put…

  • Making Money on your Blog

    There's a hard decision that many most bloggers have to make at some point in their writing: should I try and make money from my blog, or keep it "free"? Really, it's a business…

  • Mrs. Clinton is not President and doesn’t reside here

    I got this in an email the other day... thought it was worth repeating... One sunny day in 2008, an old man approached the White House from across Pennsylvania Avenue, where he’d…

  • Guns are the problem

    That's why you can now declare your own "Gun Free Zone." See the video for details. Isn't it time to stop the madness?

  • BREAKING NEWS: San Fran Hosted Sites Down

    Due to a reportedly persistent power outage, the majority of web sites hosted in the Financial District of San Francisco are most notably down. Web sites such as…

  • Domain Name for Sale: CrazyNutJob.com

    You read it right, folks! I'm offering up CrazyNutJob.com for sale. Price negotiable + transfer costs.

  • Hi, I'm a Geek, and I'm Overweight

    (The following is a sponsored review ) While watching TV recently I've noticed advertisements for a new show: Chuck, Saving the World at $11/hour . One of the teasers features a…

  • MSN Messenger + Pandora

    MSN Messenger has teamed up with Pandora to bring Internet Radio one step closer to the masses. Launch MSN Messenger and open the "MSN Radio" tab, from there you can provide the…

  • Plastic Surgery

    (The following is a sponsored review ) Until recently I've always considered plastic surgery a luxury of the rich -- and an unneeded one at that. I've changed my mind a bit, but…

  • Microsoft ASP.NET AJAX Control ToolKit: Accordion Panels in a Tab Container

    VJ, one of my readers, in response to another article , asked about being able to nest an Accordion Control within a Tab Container. In short, yes, it is possible: 1: <%@ Page…

  • PC World&#039;s Top Cell Phone-PDAs

    According to reviews and a nice write-up done by Narasu Rebbapragada, these are the top cell phone-PDAs today. Interestingly, 4 out of the top 7 phones are Windows Mobile…

  • Using LEDs in your Prius

    What LEDs can I use in my Prius? http://evnut.com/prius_bulbs.htm Where can I get LEDs for use in my Prius? http://stores.ebay.com/warden-jp2002…

  • It&#039;s Electric! An electric trike, that is

    KUTV 2 News recently ran a story about a local man who has invented a three wheeled, electric powered, rechargeable (yes, by plugging it in, and by pedal power -- that makes it a…

  • Prius Concept Car?

    Technorati Tags: Hybrid, car, vehicle, toyta, prius, auto show, concept car

  • Windows Home Server Released to Manufacturing

    Microsoft's Windows Home Server has hit a major milestone today, it's been released to Manufacturing. This means that OEMs can now start building final products around the…

  • Set your user's mouse cursor to 'busy' during an AJAX request using ASP.NET AJAX

    To bring us all up to the same level, when an AJAX request is made the browser's "loading" indicator (the ball, orb, "e," "N," globe, etc.) does NOT spin as it does when a full…

  • More PayFlowPro Oddities

    Let's go back for a moment and see why we ASP.NET developers have a hard time with the PayFlowPro SDK. First, we install the "Payflow SDK for .NET" and we see a message that we…

  • Rudy Giuliani: ineligible in the race for President

    Here's an interesting tidbit that disqualifies Rudy Giuliani from the presidential race... Rudy Giuliani received his honorary knighthood from Queen Elizabeth II in February of…

  • HOWTO: Make ASP.NET and PayFlowPro Play Together

    MikeDopp.net has put together a nice bit of pre-fab code to quickly and easily get Verisign's PayFlowPro connected to your ASP.NET application (code is in C#), no API or SDK…

  • Twitter Updates for 2007-07-10

    Reading: "Joe Levi: All that ‘blog are not lost…" (http://tinyurl.com/3amg9u) #

  • HOWTO: Get U.S. States into your SQL table

    If you should ever need to get a list of U.S. States and their USPS 2 letter abbreviation into a SQL database, here's some code that'll do it for you. Notes: This is tested to…

  • iPhone to get Exchange ActiveSync Connectivity

    Last week Apple licensed Activesync from Microsoft, according to a source very deep inside Microsoft's Exchange product team. While Apple's iPhone currently supports Exchange via…

  • WordPress Comment Spam

    It's been the bane of the 'blogger since almost the beginning of 'blogging. Lucky for us we've got Akismet to help us remove the worst offenders (over 7,500 to date on this site…

  • All Your WP Themes are Belong to Us

    Thanks to my buddy Mike Dopp , all us WordPress ers now have a source for about a bazillion themes, go look! UPDATE: It looks like some of these themes may have various Malware…

  • Pownce Invites

    Kevin Rose is at it again... Now he plans to combine ("mashup") twitter and instant messaging (or something like that). Right now it's by invite only, so if you wanna try it out…

  • ASP.NET Error: It is an error to use a section &#8230; beyond application level

    Today while trying to run a web application that a couple other developers and I are working on, I got the following error when trying to run the application. This error then…

  • Share your story and your picture online

    Share a picture of you at your finest and maybe win some green. Submit your story and picture to their website for the whole world to see... it's like MySpace -- but without the…

  • Russia Shuts Down AllofMP3.com

    The music download website whose activities threatened to scupper Russia's entry into the World Trade Organisation (WTO) has been shut down. Allofmp3.com, an VERY inexpensive…

  • So do I have new mail, or not?

    Leave it to Hotmail to screw up something simple... can you tell which of these says you have new mail?

  • iPhone Root Password Cracked

    What if there was an interface that used Unix as it's core OS? What if that company made a mobile version of its OS for its new cell phone? Would that cell phone have a root…

  • We met at career day at my school last year&#8230; gosh!

    Bill Gates Goes to College The Microsoft bigwig teamed up with Napoleon Dynamite in this spoof video from PDC 2005. The camera's a little shaky, but you get the idea.

  • Crazy

    I need to apologize for not having written sooner. It's a bit of a sad tale, actually. You see, I'm a Microsoft-technologies developer - no, I don't work for Microsoft, rather, I…