Archive for June, 2008

Sunday, June 22nd, 2008

Electronic Products and Theft

Since I started selling PHP scripts from my site I have had three copies of one or other of my scripts stolen. I know this because right from when I first started selling the scripts I have had code in place to at least track when a copy of one of the scripts I have [...]

Saturday, June 21st, 2008

Some HTTP Codes

here are lots of different error codes defined to cover the various possible problems hat can occur with displaying web pages in a web browser. Some of these occur fairly often (such as page not found) while there are others you will probably never see. Web sites may have a custom page defined to display [...]

Friday, June 20th, 2008

Your Software Toolbox

If your job may involve helping others to get their computer working properly again or if you just want to make sure that you can fix your own computer if it has problems then you will need a number of utility programs available that you can use o attempt o fix a computer setup when [...]

Thursday, June 19th, 2008

Replacing Text in a Graphic

When you have an image that contains text, the text may or may not be all that readable - especially if you have resized the image from its original size. Provided that he text doesn’t overlap anything too complex in the image you should be able to remove hat current text and replace it with [...]

Wednesday, June 18th, 2008

Using Wildcards with Find and Replace in Word

Sometimes what you are trying to find in your Word document may not be always exactly the same thing. Sometimes the content you are looking to find and replace has minor variations but all follows a similar pattern. Fortunately, Word allows us to enter wildcard values into our find and replace strings that allow us [...]

Tuesday, June 17th, 2008

CMOS

There is a lot of complicated terminology associated with computers that most beginners (and many who are not beginners) do not understand. Someone recently asked me what CMOS is.
CMOS

Monday, June 16th, 2008

ThreatFire

One useful idea for helping to prevent viruses causing problems on your computer is o examine program behaviour and o block or at least query those behaviours which appear suspicious. ThreatFire is supposed to complement your existing anti-virus software by performing this behaviour check for you so as to hopefully block those viruses that your [...]

Sunday, June 15th, 2008

In the Classroom

As well as all the tutorials that I put online to teach people over the web, I also teach several classes fact to face in the classroom. For anyone who lives in Sydney, my classes for term three are now organised including my new JavaScript course.
In the Classroom