Given the high profile nature of identity theft and security breaches, there are many laws, policies, and guidelines that companies are using to classify and manage the information technology systems in a secure manner. What exactly is secure data and how should it be handled?

E3 Retail had some good looking products including Point of Sale, Enterprise promotions, Returns, and 4690 hardware migration. Which used Microsoft’s Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), to provide a visually rich user experience. However, E3 Retail didn’t have a comparable website to show them off.

IIS7 can support pages without extensions without administrator configuration settings. IIS6 can also support URLs without extensions, but it requires an administrator setting. Here's a tip on how to configure IIS6 to support URLs without extensions.

One side effect of using Pretty URLs in IIS7 is that IIS7 it doesn’t authenticate because the referenced URLs don’t have the .aspx file extension. Here is a quick tip on how to fix it.

Here are some tips for naming physical device machine names so that they can easily be identified down the road. It may seem a bit obsessive compulsive at first, but there is logic behind the naming guidelines.

Before you spend nearly $2000 for a fantastic lens, you may want to rent it to see if it’s really worth it. If you rent this for a week, you can rent this Nikon 70-200mm f2.8 for almost $10 / day. If you can’t afford to own all the Best High End Nikon Lenses, you can still borrow them for a few days for those special occasions when you need the perfect lens.

Cnet has an article comparing 15 online photo editors. The best part is most of them are free.

There are several hawks that hunt near the house.

Which remote works with which Nikon? Most new Nikon cameras don't come with a remote control. Some camera bodies will work with multiple remotes (wired and wireless), but unlike the legendary Nikon interchangeable lenses, the remotes don't switch between camera bodies so easily. Here's a quick guide on which remotes work with which cameras and what's the best Nikon remote for your camera.

Windows Live Writer provides a handful of helpful image enhancement features. It's not PhotoShop by any means, but it's quick.