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 refer to PCs [...]

Use of that major security hole of the internet more commonly known as Internet Explorer 6 has fallen since IE7 was released until now where the number of people using it is just below that of IE7 users (at least on my site where Firefox users make up about 35% with IE6 and 7 making [...]

I recently had a reason for looking up how to get to a particular location in order to be able to attend a course. I decided that the easiest way to find out how to get there was to use one of the online map services that covers my local area to get the directions [...]

There are thousands of different web editors available for you to use on your own computer to create your web pages. The following is a small selection (including some that are free downloads) and most of these are available for both Windows and Mac (and in some cases Linux as well).

The new version of the phpBB forum has been a long time coming but was finally released just a couple of days ago. I decided to update the one forum that I still have set up (my Railway Community forum) to use the new version.
So far I have seen several things I was impressed with [...]

I have just ended up wasting several hours just at a time when I am already a lot further behind than normal. The mistake that I made was after I had upgraded Firefox to the latest version. What I then did and shouldn’t have done was to look for upgrades to any of the extensions [...]

A few weeks ago I attempted to install XAMPP and when I couldn’t get that to work I tried WAMP5 which didn’t work either.
In both cases the install ran with few problems and it was only when I went to create the databases I needed using phpmyadmin that I struck problems. More recently I did [...]

I will be teaching computer classes at the local Community College again next year. For anyone who lives in Sydney, Australia who might be interested in attending one of my classes, the list has now been updated to include those classes that I will be running at the Macarthur College in term one next year.
In [...]