POSH PERSONALIZATION

 For all my frugal folks who enjoy the benefits of sleek personalization when providing others your electronic messaging contact or branding information, without breaking the bank, look no further! 

 

There are a few ways to procure both personalized telephone numbers along with signature electronic messaging accounts that provide all the pizzazz and professionalism of most high priced service providers for a fraction of the cost.   

 

Securing Personalized Telephone Numbers

Nowadays, most business and communication is done on the fly, as the ever increasing demands of most of our daily tasks can take us anywhere and at anytime. Hence, folks are ditching the high priced office space for more efficient means of managing both personal or professional projects and goals. 

 

Likewise, just as some of the major VOIP (Voice Over IP - Or Internet Phones For My Curious Readers) providers use internet protocols, such as SKYPE or VONAGE in making telephony available at fairly decent prices, there are also free ones that work just as well. One of them being TEXTNOW. 

 

For the on-the-go enthusiast looking for a way to communicate, you can do so at a fraction of the cost of other providers. 

 

TEXTNOW is a free telephony provider that works with wireless networks. With the provider, you receive a free telephone phone number, and depending on your network provider, free access to make and receive phone calls anywhere in the U.S. Just as with a few of the BIG GUYS, there might be a miniscule provider  equipment fee for consumers to purchase.

 

Securing Personalized Electronic Messaging Accounts

Customization is key! So what better way to wow your personal and professional dealings than with a personalized electronic messaging source that speaks volumes to what you or your brand represents.

 

Adding specificity to your messaging account domains, gives the polished professionalism of your signature style and also allows others a glimpse of your identifying product, trade or industry. 

 

Likewise, you can personalize your electronic communication for almost no cost. HERE’S HOW

 

Most domain providers include packaged message forwarding bundles when you purchase domain names. Well noted ones are HostGator, GoDaddy, BlueHost, Google Domains, and Network Solutions to name a few 

 

You can purchase a domain name that represents your brand for around $20 a year and use your free electronic messaging applications, like GMAIL, YAHOO, or OUTLOOK to forward your branded electronic messages to. 

 

Simply choose the e-mail name of your liking and the provider can forward the messages to either of your free email accounts.

 

You can use names like 

info@mydomain.com

help@mydomain.com

Etc…

And have them all sent to your free electronic messaging accounts.

 

And Viola...Personalized Electronic Messages Served!

 

**Be sure to ask the stated providers if they forward emails before purchasing a domain name. Most do, so there shouldn’t be a problem. We just want to verify things before we get started.

 

And that’s it folks - A few sure ways to minimize expenditures while maximizing the posh-ness of personalized telephony and electronic messaging accounts.

 

Your’re Welcome! 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

MAKING FACES

We’ve all seen those unsightly long web links or URL’s (Uniform Resource Locators...For My Curious Readers), that are terribly hard to copy and use or read.

 

Why not use a link that is descriptive enough and also maintains a simplistic look and feel, while protecting your internal infrastructure from prying eyes, or those with malicious motives.

 

With a URL mask, you can do just that!

 

ASP.NET MVC Page Routing, allows you to create branded or vanity URL’s that are simplistic and customizable.

 

Page Routing can also serve to instantiate link uniformity, shorten link lengths, and likewise add a layer of obfuscation to your page link file extensions.

 

For instance, if your Web Code Page is “MYPAGE.ASPX”, you can use MVC routing to display just “MYPAGE”, ditching the file extension, or even “MYNEWPAGENAME” in creating a new page resource name in its place to manufacture user-friendly URL’s that are also useful in securing web search optimizations with your website page names.

An Example Of Page Routing Can Be Found Here.

And Viola...Page Name Routing Served!...We’re Making Faces.

 

 

Picture Perfect

 

Did you know…..

 

As much of an enthusiast as some of us would like to be, most of us aren’t designers by nature, and that’s ok. To enjoy the robustness of most of your application design needs, especially when it comes to designing or creating icons, you don’t have to be.

 

If you’re looking for a way to access and use a plethora of familiar ICONS without having to design them yourself, then look no further. There are tons of them at your disposal.

 

If you have a Windows machine and Visual Studio, you can access the Windows Shell 32 ICON set.

 

Here’s How:

Open Visual Studio

Click On The File , Open menu selection.

Navigate To C://Windows//System32/Shell32.dll

Click On The Icons link in the menu section

Right Click, and select export to export the icons to your desired location.

 

And Viola...ICONS Served!

 

*Note - The icons are in numerical format and you have to meander around a bit to find the icons you want to use.

You can also find free icon packs here

 

You’re welcome.

 

 

 

 

Reflections

Marketing in all it's clever glory has attracted consumers both wide and far in purchasing software applications that mightn't have been necessary to accomplish many of your programming tasks. 

Amongst them are the plethora of installer applications that profess to have all the bells whistles, frills and added functionality  within them that allow programmers to create sophisticated installer applications with ease and simplicity.

However, if you have a Windows based machine and use any version of VISUAL STUDIO, you have at your disposal all the arsenal of tools you'll need to create your very own installer application, even without having to install the Visual Studio Installer or third party Installer Plugins.

How so you ask? By using .NET REFLECTION. Yep, that's right... Utilizing .NET REFLECTION techniques in implementing your application installer programming tasks allows programmers to create installer applications as creative and sophisticated as your depth of conceptualization and artistic license can take you. And best of all, you can do so, without having to deal with the hassles involved in working with foreign applications or plugin interfaces.

.Net Reflection methods allow programmers to access classes, interfaces, files and assembly information to utilize data points within them at application runtime.

Let's say you have installer application or cabinet  files to copy on the target client machine you are installing your application on. All you'd have to do is save those files within your application project and viola....file copy method served!

SQL, POWERSHELL and COM file types can also be saved inside an application project and invoked and rendered within the application at runtime, making way for a few interesting application implementations to be created.

So give it a try by copying files from one location to another on your machine from within your visual studio project... and for my developer enthusiast's - give it a go at rendering or invoking application functionality from the files within the application.

You'll find some useful information on Reflection here.