Domain Names = Real Estate

weakest-linkLike your office or your house; Your domain name is the address where people can find you. Like real estate, not all addresses are available, and some addresses are more expensive than others.

It used to be easy: You registered a .com for international business, .org for organisations, or .nl if you only operate in the Netherlands, plus Continue reading Domain Names = Real Estate

Self-Elevating App

Say What?aaaaaaa

Yes: My Brain wrote a Self-Elevating App.

I have been writing a Windows Application (32-bit x86 executable) in Visual Studio 2010, that uses the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/Software/AppName registry key to save some basic settings. After some strange accesss errors I figured out that you need administrative access to actually be able to do this. Continue reading Self-Elevating App

SEO = Marketing

ctrl-ZVXCOPY – PASTE (Source: SPROUT):

Voor ondernemers die met hun bedrijf op internet gevonden willen worden, is er geen ontkomen aan: zoekmachine-optimalisatie. In de praktijk komt dat neer op zorgen dat je hoog scoort in Google. Maar hoe?
Dé Nederlandse expert op het gebied van zoekmachine-optimalisatie is Eduard Blacquière. Op uitnodiging van de Nuon Academy gaf hij daar onlangs een webinar over. Continue reading SEO = Marketing

Websites and Fonts

Domainname –  check
Logo – check
Colorscheme – check
Fonts – check
Businesscards – check
Letterhead – check
Website – ehm? …working on it… just can’t get the correct font to work on the website…

One option is to hire My Brain, another is to keep trying yourself. Colors and style may be easy, but to get the correct font on your website is another story. For this you may want to try:

http://www.fontsquirrel.com/tools/webfont-generator

Good luck!

Fixing DNS_PROBE_FINISHED_NXDOMAIN Error

Sometimes when using Google Chrome, you get an error DNS_PROBE_FINISHED_NXDOMAIN instead of the website. Nothing seems wrong with the internet connection, the website might even work in other browsers. Below are two methods that might help you to get rid of this error. Follow the below mentioned steps and you will be good to go:  Continue reading Fixing DNS_PROBE_FINISHED_NXDOMAIN Error