Many ISP’s offer a number of different internet access plans that offer different connection speeds. Usually the faster the connection the higher the price. Not everyone needs the fastest plan though. Depending on what use you intend making of your internet connection you may be able to save money by selecting a slower plan.
How Fast [...]

The main way that people use to locate information on the web is to use a search engine. Many however do not use them properly. By typing your search query the right way you can more easily obtain the results you really want.
Search Engines

This software adds a layer of security to shared computers by allowing you to hide files and folders making them completely invisible to other users of the computer so that they do not know that the files and folders are there. An effective way of preventing others from seeing your files from their account.
My review [...]

My advanced form2mail script makes it easy to set up forms to generate emails that have files attached or even embedded into the email itself. This short tutorial shows how you can set it up to allow the person filling out the form to select files from their computer to attach or embed.
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The web page that loads in your browser when you first open the browser is called the home page. Each browser allows you to select which page you want it to use for this purpose (and you can even create your own with links to all your favourite sites if you want – as I [...]

Boxing day is of course the day on which all the stores hold their after Christmas sales and expect to take in more money than on any other day of the year. What better computer related topic to cover than one dealing with what an IPN script for Paypal is and hoe to use it [...]

If you celebrate Christmas (whether as a religious holy day or as a secular work break) I wish you and your family all the best for the day. For those of other religions or who for other reasons do not celebrate Christmas my wishes for you are the same.

Some testing just requires that you have a file of a specific size to test with and doesn’t require that file to contain any specific content. Here’s how to create a file of a specific size on Windows XP (presumably it will also work on Vista).
Creating a Dummy File

Adobe AIR allows you to create applications using Flash, Flex, or JavaScript that do not require a web browser to run. This book provides step by step instructions on how to do it.
Adobe AIR 1.5 Cookbook

There are lots of free (and paid) security products around for you to choose from. Since security is such an important part of using a computer (with several security products of different types normally being required to keep your computer safe) I have decided to review a number of the free products to help you [...]

Back in the early days before the developers of PHP thought about the security issues and values passed to PHP via the GET and POST arrays could be referenced directly using a variable with the appropriate field name. When the associated security issues were recognised a new mode called safe mode was introduced to [...]

Finding and fixing a problem with your computer can be looked at as three separate steps.

Identify what is happening.
Identify why it is happening
Apply a fix to stop it happening

You can’t really resolve any of these steps without first having resolved the preceding steps. A systematic approach to identifying exactly what is wrong and why it [...]