Houston Clubs web design and life

What is the best lawn Fertalizer

Mar 13, 2008 by Paul White

Plus Equals
So spring is here ( at least it is in south Texas ).  My lawn is dormant and it is making my house the eye sore of the neighborhood.  Thankfully I know just the product to green up my lawn, and ensure the grass is greener on my side of the fence. Checkout the full size images within

How to stop Real Player from downloading your videos with ASP.NET

Mar 11, 2008 by Paul White

Coming soon!!  Even though you can never block computer savy people from downloading your videos. The latest Real Player makes it so easy that even a computer handicaped person could download videos from your members sites.  After some hacking I figured out how to bock Real Player from stealing your videos.  All I am going to say is it involves an Http Handler, and an ISAPI entry to manage your .MPG extensions.  I should have a full write up on how to do this within a few days.

Google Toolbar is slowing your browser down

Mar 4, 2008 by Paul White


I finally couldn't take it anymore.  I have uninstalled google toolbar from my computer.  I don't know what it is about google toolbar but firefox ran like a dog with it installed.  I suspect google is doing more than just collecting some info about the page your are on for pagerank display.   I now consider google toolbar to be spyware. If you have it on your computer remove it! 

What Webmasters know about Goog that investors don't

Mar 3, 2008 by Paul White

The last few months have been interesting for Google's Stock.  Investors who make their plays based on earnings estimates, and hype see a very narrow view of what Google is really up to.  If you really want to know what google is up to, ask Webmasters.  Any Webmaster that runs a large website will tell you that google is changing the way it is doing Search.  Here are my predictions on Goog

Stop Hackers and Spam Bots in IIS

Mar 1, 2008 by Paul White


If you get a ton of server errors in your event logs in IIS. You might be under attack from hackers and spam bots attempting to inject comments and links in your submit forms.  The notorious Viewstate Failed Error seems to be the result of their attempts.  I have found an awesome resource to take care of this, and block these rejects for good. 

Google Page Rank Explained

Feb 24, 2008 by Paul White


If you build websites for a living, or you just want to increase your rank on google, its important to have a good understanding of how the google page rank system works.  PageRank is nothing more than a numeric number that represents your importance on the internet.  The value goes from NA ( meaning not indexed ) from 0 - 10 ( the only 10 is google ).  I have included some nice pictures to help better explain how it all works.

O&O Defrag 10 Professional will make your computer faster

Feb 24, 2008 by Paul White


I recently did a little cleaning of my workstation.  Typical stuff like deleting old files, data backups, and of course defrag.  Afterwards however my computer just didn't seem as fast as usual.  I was using the built in Windows XP defrag program.  Which is ok, but unless your system is heavily defraged you really won't notice a difference in performace.  I had used another after market program before, but I wanted to see if I could find something even better. I heard about O&O Defrag.  So I gave it a try and wow what a difference!

BMW Brings the Internet to your car

Feb 23, 2008 by Paul White


It seems that BMW has a new features available for its European Drivers called ConnectedDrive.  This will bring the internet directly into your car via your Cell phone's SIM card by the way of GSM EDGE data.  This might spell the end for XM and SIRI.

Olive Oil key to long life

Feb 20, 2008 by Paul White


A women Israeli Arab Mariam Amash, is now claiming to be the oldest person in existance.  Claiming an age of 120 Years.  I read about this on a news story on MSNBC.com If she is really the world's oldest person, I would want to ask her how she did it.  Once thing she did mention was she drinks a glass of olive oil every day. Olive Oil which is thought to have health benefits from the Essential Oils, but also would have a extremely high amount of calories.  They say that Good fats don't matter, I guess maybe she could be living proof.  The next questions is which brand of Olive oil did she drink?  Was it organic, homemade, or regular?  I am sure there are some endorsement opportunites coming her way.  I have to say at 120 years old she looks better than most 80 year olds I have met.  she also maintains an ative lifestyle taking walks everyday. 

Awesome Chinese Hunan Cuisine in Pearland Texas

Feb 19, 2008 by Paul White


If you want some excellent Chinese food in Pearland Texas with friendly service I highly recommend you checkout Pearl Dynasty. The food is excellent!