Thursday, April 30th, 2009
Making bulk changes throughout your web site can be a big job if you have hundreds or thousands of pages that need to be changed. Making the changes need not be such a big job though if you can make the changes using find and replace and have PHP available to automate the running of [...]
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Wednesday, April 29th, 2009
One of the most basic of security measures for your computer and one that many people overlook is that of making backup copies of their data. Regardless of what other security options you do or do not have installed, if you have a backup copy of all your data then you can get it back [...]
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Tuesday, April 28th, 2009
This is a quite nice idea for allowing people to set up one single login that can then be used to log in to any site that follows the appropriate protocol. Unfortunately it makes use of third party cookies which means that when you have those cookies disabled to prevent ad tracking and protect your [...]
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Monday, April 27th, 2009
Switching from one ISP to another when you have a broadband connection does not necessarily mean that you will have a period of time in between without internet access. You just have to requerst the move the right way.
Moving ISPs
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Sunday, April 26th, 2009
The most common type of attack that people secure their computers against are of course viruses. Viruses have been around for almost as long as computers have but it has only been since widespread use of the internet that they have become common.
Antivirus
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Saturday, April 25th, 2009
Almost everyone these days runs an antivirus program and most run at least half a firewall but there are a lot more aspects to system vulnerability than that. In this article we look at one of the other areas you need to protect against – spyware.
AntiSpyware
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Friday, April 24th, 2009
Moving on from text the fourth of my CSS reference pages covers the whitespace around your content and how to define how big it should be using padding and margins.
Margin and Padding Controls
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Thursday, April 23rd, 2009
The third of my reference pages on CSS covers all the text controls not covered in the prior two pages.
Text Controls
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Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009
One question that constantly recurrs is “how can I protect the source of my web page from being viewed?” The answer every time is exactly the same but many people do not seem to like the answer that they get and seem to think that if they ask the question enough times that they migfht [...]
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Tuesday, April 21st, 2009
Not all wireless networking is the same. In this short tutorial I cover the various different speed and frequency ranges that different networks can use. When setting up a wireless network you need to make sure that all of your components are compatible.
Wireless Options
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Monday, April 20th, 2009
There are a number of steps you need to follow in adding a wireless router to your network. While the specifics of each step are usually clearly outlined in the user guide you get with the router, knowing which of the many steps that the guide lists that you need to carry out is not [...]
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Sunday, April 19th, 2009
One way of increasing your chances of being able to print web pages properly from Internet Explorer is to use Print Preview to see what the printed copy will look like before you print it.
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