Ask Felgall

Cross Platform Programming

Object Oriented Programming languages make developing programs to run on multiple operating systems much easier. All you need is a class library of common functions that has a separate version you can link in for each of the operating systems you want to support where the public interface to the multiple copies of those classes [...]

Ask Felgall

Reading Your Mail Offline

For anyone still using a dialup connection to connect to the internet, it may not always be convenient to read all your emails during the one session online and it may not be worth dialing back in just to see the rest of your emails. Fortunately most email clients download all your emails while you [...]

Ask Felgall

Sharing an Internet Connection

In this article on dial up internet connections we look at how we can use internet connection sharing to provide access to the internet from multiple computers on a network while only requiring one of them to have a modem attached. Sharing an Internet Connection Ask Felgall

Ask Felgall

Why Doesn’t My Site Do What I Say You Should Do With HTML And CSS?

This isn’t just a matter of “do what I say and not what I do”. Any web sites I create now will be written exactly the way that I say that the HTML and CSS should be written. The sites where the code in the pages doesn’t match what the content says you should do [...]

Ask Felgall

Web Page Width

A common question I see asked by web newbies is what screen resolution that they should design their web pages for. You can tell that they are newbies because anyone with any experience of the web knows that screen resolution is irrelevant and that it is the area in the browser that the page displays [...]

Ask Felgall

Text in Images

When is text not text? When it is a part of an image. As far as most computer programs are concerned text and images are two completely different things and any text that you have placed inside an image is just a part of that image and can’t be read by the program. There are [...]

Ask Felgall

Backups

Do you backup your computer? You should. Here are a number of reasons why you need to backup as well as information on what to backup. Backups Ask Felgall

Ask Felgall

The Admin Login

To ensure your computer remains secure you should have one login per user with just the access that is required for day to day use and one login with admin access to use for those one off tasks that actually require full access. Most of the time you will not even need to log in [...]

Ask Felgall

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. Ask Felgall

Ask Felgall

Hidden Files

Hidden files are much easier to reference in Linux than in other operating systems. It all comes down to a single character on the front of the name. Hidden Files Ask Felgall

Ask Felgall