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Have you ever noticed how WINForms® Desktop and WINForms® Online automatically fill a field when you start typing? These fields are called lookup fields. WINForms® remembers every value entered in a lookup field so that it can help you complete the field faster next time.But, there is a catch. Yo...

I started posting on November 9, 2007, so Sunday was my one month birthday on ActiveRain.  This got me thinking about what I have learned after 14,428 points, 58 blog posts, 199 comments made, and 298 comments received.ActiveRain is a great resource for real estate information, ideas, and feedbac...

What browser are you using to read this post? Odds are good that you are still using Microsoft Internet Explorer 6. Internet Explorer has dominated browser market share for the past eight years, but to the dismay of Microsoft management, IE7 has yet to achieve widespread adoption despite being "p...

Have you ever seen a site that looked like this?I call sites like this "fugazi search engines", because they attract viewers by squatting on existing company names or mistypings of popular domain names. They then attempt to get the user to "search" for sponsored ads by clicking various links whic...

When I got started with blogging a couple of months ago, one of the first "tips" I read said that one sign of a dying blog was a lack of comments.  I've been wrestling with that notion ever since.  My public blog (aimed at real estate professionals in my local area) gets very few comments and som...

Last month I mentioned 4-1-9 or "Nigerian" scams (Info: Email Scams) that promised millions of dollars for my KINDLY intervention.  Well, today I received my first scam using ActiveRain's contact form.  If I'm getting them, odds are many of you reading this will be getting them, too.The great thi...

One need only look up at the right corner of ActiveRain and see 60,488 - 1,007 Online Now to start wondering if real estate blogging was just a fad, a benevolent MLM where the people at the top didn't get rich and the people at the bottom didn't lose their money and friends.I started blogging sev...

Have you ever noticed how WINForms® Desktop and WINForms® Online automatically fill a field when you start typing? These fields are called lookup fields. WINForms® remembers every value entered in a lookup field so that it can help you complete the field faster next time.But, there is a catch. Yo...

Monday was December 3rd. Did you tear off the top sheet of your paper calendar, fold it up, and file it in case you needed to see it again? Did it have phone numbers on it without names? Does your monitor still have sticky notes on it because they don't need to be changed at the beginning of each...

The end of the year is a popular time to reflect on where you are, where you want to be, and what you need to do to get there. With that in mind, here are my suggestions on what we all need to do to get what we want out of life!GET Inspired!Ideas and goals are the source of inspiration. Your goal...