A simple way of hiding folders on your computer by changing their name.
Hiding Folders

Is there any way to unselect what has previously been selected in a drop down list?
Unselecting a Selection

Why report all your program crashes to Microsoft? It isn’t like they are going to provide you with an immediate fix for the crash. The best you can hope for is that your crash report is similar to a huge number of other reports that they receive and that they will therefore consider a fix [...]

Wondering how many words there are in that article that you wrote? Before computers the word count on articles used to be estimated by counting the number of characters in an average line, dividing that by an expected number of letters in a typical word, and then multiplying that by the number of lines. That [...]

Having multiple computers on your network doesn’t mean that you necessarily need to have a separate monitor, keyboard, and mouse for each computer. If you don’t expect to have a different person actually working at each computer all at the same time then it is perfectly feasible to share the same monitor, keyboard, and mouse [...]

Continuing on with the same theme from yesterday, here is an article covering the different types of internet connection that you may be able to choose from (depending on where you live).

Next year I will be adding a new one day class to those that I teach at the local college on “How to get the best value from the internet”. Even if you can’t get to Sydney to attend my class you will still get part of the benefit of my decision to run this [...]

Computer keyboards only contain a small subset of the characters that you might want to enter into a program on your computer. That doesn’t mean that you can’t enter any of the other “special” characters that don’t appear on your keyboard, it just means that you can’t enter them by pressing one key. Right from [...]

If you have a static web site and decide to change web hosting providers then it is possible to transfer your site from one host to the other with no down time whatsoever and with the move being completely transparent to your visitors. Here’s how to do it.
Moving Your Domain

The part of a domain name after the last dot is the top level domain that a given domain belongs to. There are two types of top level domain – those intended for international use and those that belong to a specific country. With the exception of a few of the top level domains created [...]

A firewall is one of the ways in which you can protect your computer from unauthorised access from other people. Ideally you want a firewall that both blocks incoming access except as responses to outgoing requests and which also blocks outgoing requests except from those programs you specifically authorise to make such requests. This latter [...]

This tutorial shows one way that you can control whether certain fields appear in your form based on the selections in other fields. Of course now that no one uses IE4 or Netscape 4 any more you can simplify the code somewhat to get rid of the code that is specific to those two browsers.
Dynamic [...]