Archive for May, 2008

Colour Modes

Friday, May 23rd, 2008

Graphics programs use many different formats for actually storing the images that you are working with but there are only about half a dozen different colour modes that they work with while you are actually editing the images. The colour mode basically determines the number of different colours that you have available to work with and whether the colours are recorded in a way that is more suited to display on the screen or when printed.

Colour Modes

Managing Image Folders

Thursday, May 22nd, 2008

If you have a copy of Paint Shop Pro then keeping all of the image folders on your computer properly organised will be a lot easier.

Managing Image Folders

Testing Server Side Processing Before you Upload

Wednesday, May 21st, 2008

You don’t want to display all your errors for the world to see so when you create web page you will want to check that they actually display correctly before you upload them to the web.

Testing Server Side Processing Before you Upload

Function Libraries

Tuesday, May 20th, 2008

In the seventh and last tutorial on JavaScript functions we look at an alternative way of being able to add sophisticated JavaScript functionality into web pages without having to write much code yourself by using a pre-written library that includes most of the functionality that you require.

Function Libraries

Returning a Value

Monday, May 19th, 2008

In this sixth introductory JavaScript tutorial on how to use functions we look at how you can return a value from the function that will be substituted into the calling code in place of the call.

Returning a Value

Security Update Problems

Sunday, May 18th, 2008

I have been using the free antivirus from AVG on my computers for a while now. Just recently they started displaying nag screens about buying their new version 8 security suite. A couple of days ago I found out that the paid version 8 wasn’t the only new release and decided to download the free version 8 to take a look.

All I can say is what a terrible job that they have done as I ended up wasting about 10 hours attempting to install this new program only to end up having trouble finding a copy of the old program (the one that actually works) to reinstall in place of the new mess.

I guess part of the problem is the range of operating systems that I run with some older versions as well as newer ones.

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Creating and Destroying Objects

Saturday, May 17th, 2008

In most object oriented programs the objects that the program have a limited life span. They get created at the time when they are first needed and are removed once they are no longer required. In this C++ article we look at the two special methods that are defined for each object which handle these two tasks.

Creating and Destroying Objects

Working Offline

Friday, May 16th, 2008

For those people still using a dial up internet connection, the amount of time that you can actually spend connected to the internet will be somewhat more limited than you would get with a broadband connection. By planning out what you are going to do in advance you can arrange things so as to make the best use of the time that you spend online by leaving many of the tasks that can be done without requiring the internet to be connected right this minute to those times when you are able to work on your computer and are not connected to the internet. This is useful for example if you have two separate times each day when you can use the computer but want to avoid having to connect to the internet on both occasions.

Working Offline