I would have thought that everyone would have upgraded from Windows 98 to Windows XP by now given that it is now several years since Microsoft dropped support for that old DOS antique. Not so as I still get the occasional question about that old operating system. Some of those are looking to make the [...]

This particular golden oldie is particularly relevant today as today marks the end of daylight savings time in Western Australia for this year. I had to pay particular attention to the end of DST this year because the Eastern states where I live have decided to extend DST by an extra week and so I [...]

With dozens of free FTP programs available for download you’d have to wonder why someone would want to use their web browser to do the job but it can be done. In this article I look at how you can use Internet Explorer to transfer files if you can’t spare the two minutes needed to [...]

Even though PHP 6 is still a long way from being released there are already books appearing (such as this one) that cover what that version is intended to include. In this book you get information on using PHP 5 (and 6) with mySQL 5 to create applications that will be very usable on current [...]

This book is a recent release by “New Riders”. Unlike most other books on search engine optimisation, this book is aimed primarily at web developers rather than internet marketers. Read my review to find out more of what I think of this book. “Building Findable Websites”

I am making every effort to upload at lest two or three new products to the Member’s Area each month. Some of these are products that I have acquired the necessary rights to be able to make available from there and which I consider to be good enough to make them worth getting. My preference [...]

When reviewing books on security is always interesting to see both where the author claims to stand with regards to the ethics of white hat / black hat techniques as well as whether or not the information presented in the book reflects that stance. This book provides a lot of practical information that will definitely [...]

With Easter now not all that far away it seems appropriate that the latest addition to my site be a new unobtrusive version of my Easter Calculator script. This version not only uses unobtrusive techniques to keep the JavaScript completely out of the HTML but it also includes a corresponding PHP Easter calculator that will, [...]

Microsoft have finally release the first beta version of Internet Explorer 8. Download Links

I needed to reinstall one of my printers a few days ago. The reason I needed to do this was that I wanted to shift the printer from being connected to a specific computer to using a print server to connect it directly to the network. This would allow the printer to be available to [...]

I just came across an absolutely horrible blog. I don’t know exactly what wwas on the page because I gave up on waiting for the page to load after waiting several minutes. I had scrolled down around four or five times while waiting and the scrollbar was still nearly at the very top. Obviously the [...]