Archive for the 'General' Category

Monday, August 23rd, 2010

Form2Mail – Father’s Day Special

Between now and 5th September (Father’s Day in Australia) I am offering my advanced form2mail script at half price. All you need to do in order to get the price reduction is enter the word father in the discount field when making your purchase.

Sunday, July 11th, 2010

Computer Brain Transplant

My computer has been misbehaving a lot the last couple of weeks. The power supply fan was making horrible noises requiring a few hard thumps on the back of the case to get it to behave. Sometimes it would even shut down the computer again rather quickly if I didn’t thump it hard enough soon [...]

Monday, June 21st, 2010

Hackers – Heroes of the Computer Revolution

This book took me much longer to review than any book I have reviewed before simply because it took me several times as long to read as any of the others. This wasn’t because the book was harder to read, it was because the book captured my interest so much that I kept stopping and [...]

Thursday, June 3rd, 2010

In the Classroom

The start dates for my “in the classroom” computer classes have now been updated to show when the term three classes start. If you live in Sydney please check out the list of classes that I run through the Community College. In the Classroom

Wednesday, March 24th, 2010

Form2Mail Script

Between now and the end of April, I am offering the opportunity to purchase my advanced form2mail script at a greatly reduced price. Instead of the regular price of USD14.45 you can buy it for just USD9.95 (or if you are in Australia the price is $11.95 including GST instead of $17.00). To get the [...]

Tuesday, March 9th, 2010

In the Classroom

The courses that I offer at the local community college now have their term two dates finalised so I have updated the page on my site where I list the courses to show the new dates. The college will presumably update their site to display the information soon. In the Classroom

Tuesday, January 5th, 2010

Kaspersky Internet Security

I am a bit happier about the poor choice that I made back in October in selecting Kaspersky Internet Security Suite to run on two of my computers. While I am still not 100% certain as to how many files that the suite corrupted prior to my uninstalling it at least the place I purchased [...]

Tuesday, December 1st, 2009

Computer Classes

The community college has finalised the times for my classes in term one next year. For those of you living in the west of Sydney please consider signing up for one or more of my classes and come along and learn way more in person than I can cover in web pages. Computer Classes

Monday, November 2nd, 2009

Web Creation Packages

The falling value of the US dollar means that the international proce on my basic web site creation packages has been getting to be a rather high figure compared to what it used to be. I have therefore been trying to think of ways to provide more value to go with the increased price (even [...]

Friday, October 30th, 2009

Column Headings

Having placed the basic HTML tags for our table into the (X)HTML in yesterday’s tutorial, this second tutorial looks at how we can start to add the content into the table. We start by placing the headings for the columns. Column Headings

Monday, October 26th, 2009

Windows 7

Windows 7 was released last week. I haven’t seen it yet and don’t expect to for some time. Unless your current computer is already running Vista you can’t actually upgrade to Windows 7 but instead have to do a full reinstall of everything (something a typical computer user isn’t going to do). I expect most [...]

Tuesday, October 20th, 2009

Google Tools

Sometimes with reviews of online products it becomes necessary to update a review because the product has changed significantly. Thios is very much the case with Google Analytics which used to rely on Flash for all the displays and therefore provided no information whatsoever to the 25%+ of people without Flash installed. Google Tools