It looks like Microsoft did not proceed with the planned forced upgrade to IE 7 on 12th February as they had previously indicated was scheduled. As yet I have found no explanation for why this didn’t happen. Given that IE 7 is actually a major security patch to IE 6 is ought to have been [...]

My January newsletter dealing with backups is now available to be read on the site. This was of course sent to those on the mailing list about four weeks ago. The February newsletter should be sent to those on the mailing list within the next few days while those not on the mailing list will [...]

In this second article for the week on emails we look more closely at digitally signing and encrypting emails. In order to do either of those things you need to have a digital certificate installed into your email program. I therefore look at the step by step process of obtaining a free email certificate from [...]

After mentioning yesterday about people buying computers with Vista and then reformatting to install XP, the relative difficulty of installing operating systems was the next thing that occurred to me. The main reason why people run Windows rather than other operating systems is because Windows comes pre-installed on their new computer and so they do [...]

IBM 1981-1995 – 15 years Microsoft 1995-2009 – 15 years Google 2009- To me it seems like Microsoft is currently in approximately the same position that IBM was in 1994. Back then IBM was top dog on the PC and had been since releasing their micro-computer which they called the PC in 1981. We still [...]

Windows XP and more recent operating systems all use TCP/IP as the protocol for networking computers together. Back in the days of Windows 95/98 the protocol used was NETBEUI. Now it doesn’t really matter what each of these two protocols are and how they work. The important thing is that the two are incompatible and [...]

Early monitors supported graphics modes that allowed for far lower screen resolutions than the 640 by 480 of VGA mode. Some even allowed for fewer than the 16 colours that VGA mode is guaranteed to support as a bare minimum. By the time that Windows came into common use VGA mode was the accepted minimum [...]

My latest book review is of the New Rider’s book “Visual Design for the Modern Web”. Read my review and find out why I think that you should not buy this book.

One recent addition to the Member’s Area is a huge collection of marketing clipart that I obtained with master reseller rights (for those of you who don’t know what that means, it means that I have the right to sell both the clipart and also the right to sell the clipart and also the right [...]