Tuesday, November 25th, 2008

Connections

Continuing on with the same theme from yesterday, here is an article covering the different types of internet connection that you may be able to choose from (depending on where you live).

Monday, November 24th, 2008

Bandwidth

Next year I will be adding a new one day class to those that I teach at the local college on “How to get the best value from the internet”. Even if you can’t get to Sydney to attend my class you will still get part of the benefit of my decision to run this [...]

Tuesday, May 27th, 2008

Netspace

Sometimes it is only after you switch to a different provider that you realise some of the many excellent features you prior provider made available to you. Having recently switched Internet Service Providers I am already disappointed in the service provided by the new ISP.
Netspace

Monday, May 26th, 2008

Exetel

Even when all you are looking for from an ISP is a way to connect to the internet, different ISPs have different features quite apart from the price of the access. Having used this particular ISP for several years before recently switching I decided to write up a review.
Exetel

Sunday, May 25th, 2008

Interactive Web

The interactive web section of the site was becoming a little messy with pages on web hosting, server side scripting and plugins all jumbled together. This has now been rectified as I have split the plugins and server side scripting page into three.

ISPs and Hosting
PHP and mySQL
Plugins and Other Server Side Scripting

Monday, May 5th, 2008

Form2Mail Script Version 4.0

Not a new web page but a brand new version of my advanced form2mail script is now available. The new version adds the ability to wrap error messages inside of your regular page header and footer so that it still looks like it is a part of your site. It also provides for a blacklist [...]

Saturday, April 26th, 2008

ISP System Glitch - I Hope

Yesterday my ISP blocked my internet access for a couple of hours when their automated spam blocker somehow misidentified my connection as having been sending spam. The ISP did not of course accuse me of sending spam, their block page suggested that it would have actually been caused by a virus or spyware having got [...]

Friday, April 18th, 2008

Good Web Sites Gone Bad

A couple of months ago my ISP did something really strange. They took a perfectly good working home page for their site and replaced it with Flash. Fortunately they left one ordinary web link on their page that takes you to a copy of their old home page or I would have been forced to [...]