Don’t Expose the full web site menu to the world

Posted on July 16, 2019July 16, 2019 by jrblack Leave a comment

Here I am with another story given to me by a recent contractor software developer that worked for me. Unfortunately he was no longer with us by the time I discovered this, so I couldn’t share it with him. We were converting VB desktop apps to ASP.Net MVC C# applications, converting VB classic web apps […]... Read More

Mobile blogging.

Posted on June 17, 2019June 27, 2019 by jrblack Leave a comment

Hey, it’s been a while since I’ve posted something to my blog. Caitlin has just begun her time at Governor’s School at High Point University and topics have been how to take pictures and share what she’s doing and learning while she’s there. Which made me think of blogging. And I wondered what easy tools […]... Read More

The code compiles… testing complete

Posted on June 12, 2019July 15, 2019 by jrblack Leave a comment

I recently had a contract developer brought in to help out for a while. Pickings were slim at the time so when we found someone with good breadth of experience we made a choice. He certainly knew code, C#, ASP.Net and MVC, most of the complete Microsoft Development stack. He tended to ask questions, too […]... Read More

Sharing videos from Google Photos on YouTube

Posted on July 13, 2018January 16, 2019 by jrblack Leave a comment

In a previous post I had documented how to share your videos from Google Photos to YouTube, but as I discovered a few days ago, the method there (using Google Drive website, to get you videos on Google Photos to YouTube no longer works. I found that you can easily share them right from Google […]... Read More

Windows Notepad app finally gets an update

Posted on July 12, 2018July 14, 2018 by jrblack Leave a comment

The Verge – Microsoft is updating the Windows Notepad app for the first time in years. Today, this news headline appeared in my news feed on my phone…Wait… What… Why? Why update notepad for windows now? I mean, who even used it any more with so many other notepad alternatives… In 2014 Online-Tech-Tips.com posted an […]... Read More

uBlock Origin

Posted on June 26, 2018July 10, 2018 by jrblack Leave a comment

AdBlock… what ever happened to that Extension? It just stopped working, Chrome kept reporting it was disabled, but after clicking the Enable this Extension link, it still would not enable. I complained to a co-worker and he said, “AdBlock is no longer the goto extension for blocking adds in Chrome browser… but uBlock Origin is […]... Read More

Android Messages for web

Posted on June 26, 2018June 28, 2018 by jrblack Leave a comment

Though I recently started using MightyText and posted about it recently, the FREE version limits you to 150 messages… Well, when you have 3 kids, work, sports, dance, and busy family, 150 messages a month is not enough. The good news… Google recently released Android Messages for web. This new Messages Web App allows you […]... Read More

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