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Resources

Government Contractors: Research US Federal Government Contract Awards

If you’re interested in knowing which contracts were awarded to US federal government contractors, there’s an app for that. Actually, there are several. Here’s the first one: https://www.fpds.gov/fpdsng_cms/index.php/en. Once you get there, just type the vendor name into the “ezSearch” box. …

SSD Installation Problem: Windows 10 and Samsung 850 EVO

Recently I purchased a Samsung SSD and ran into an SSD installation problem. What’s SSD, you may ask? SSD stands for “solid state drive,” a faster version of a standard hard drive that has no moving parts to break.  As …

Geographical / Spatially-related Data

Google Earth Pro allows us to generate high-resolution aerial / satellite imagery for use in proposals, websites, and project design and construction. The video export features have been used to mimic project flyovers, create flyovers that orient clients geographically, and …

Visual Studio 2013 Perform a Switch User Operation

Recently I was trying to activate a Visual Studio 2013 installation that had been installed on a machine for a different user. When entering the new user’s credentials, I got an error message directing me to “perform a switch user …

Solution for MS Access Form Error Message “The OLE Object is Empty”

I have an OLE object field in a MS Access linked table (linked, meaning the table itself actually resides in a different database file). This field is represented by a Bound Object Frame in a subform that’s nested inside a …

GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP)

Equivalent to: Adobe Photoshop. Website: https://www.gimp.org/. Uses: Photo retouching, image composition, image authoring. My experience: Sometime in 2003 I needed to edit some images and no one would give me a Photoshop license. A little Googling led me to GIMP. …