When you go to set up a web site, there are no shortage of options. You can use a CMS platform such as Joomla, Drupal or DotNetNuke, a blog platform such as WordPress or BlogEngine.Net and the list goes on. But if all you need is a very simple HTML site and don’t want to [...]
Use Your iPhone As A Wireless Mouse And Keyboard
October 12, 2010 by Leave a Comment
A really cool sounding application for using the iPhone which I stumbled across the other day was the ability to use it as a fully functioning wireless mouse and keyboard via the Touch Mouse application. Here is the full description: Touch Mouse by Logitech turns your iPhone or iPod touch into a wireless trackpad and [...]
Microsoft Security Essentials Is Now Free For Small Business Use
October 11, 2010 by Leave a Comment
Up until now, Microsoft Security Essentials was only licensed for personal and home office computers, but now Microsoft is loosening up the restrictions to allow commercial use for up to 10 small business machines. [W]e are extremely excited today to let you know that Microsoft is making its Microsoft Security Essentials available to small businesses [...]
Is Today The Answer To Everything?
October 10, 2010 by 3 Comments
Today is October 10, 2010 which abbreviated is 10/10/10. In binary 101010 is 42 (32+8+2) which many of you may recognize as the number “The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy” defines as “the answer to life the universe and everything”. What’s cool is if you run a search for this phrase on Google or Bing, [...]
“If It Isn’t Broken, Don’t Fix It” Is A Dangerous Computer Adage To Live By
October 9, 2010 by 10 Comments
You have probably heard the saying “if it isn’t broken, don’t fix it” more times than you can count. While the meaning behind this statement has a good foundation, I don’t really think it applies as a whole to computers. For a simple example, look at IE6. While this browser has a fair market share [...]
Why You Should Not Use The Same User Name And Password On All Sites
October 8, 2010 by 8 Comments
Are you guilty of using the same user name and password on all sites where you have an account? If so then you should really not be doing this. Consider the following scenario: You create a new account at SiteXYZ.com using your typical user name and password. SiteXYZ.com has implemented its user and password storage [...]
Current Browser Market Share Observations
October 7, 2010 by 3 Comments
If you take a look at the numbers regarding the browser market share over the past year, there are a few interesting observations: Firefox, Safari and Opera have neither gained nor lost any market share IE has gone down ~9.5% Chrome has gone up ~9.5% While IE is still clearly the leader by ~13% over [...]
Impressive Javascript Demo’s Which Are Under 1 KB
October 6, 2010 by Leave a Comment
As you probably know, a single kilobyte (KB) of data is 1,024 bytes. In a text file that is simply 1,024 characters. Needless to say this is tiny which is what makes the results of the JS1k demo contest so impressive. The rules were pretty simple: create an awesome piece of javascript code which is [...]
Edit MSI Files With InstEd
October 5, 2010 by Leave a Comment
When installing some applications, their setup files are distributed in MSI format which is simply an alternate form of a “setup.exe” file. Just like Exe files can be edited by by tools such as Resource Hacker, MSI files can be edited with the InstEd tool. Among other things, this free tool allows you to do [...]
Make Your Screensaver Useful Again With UsefulSaver
October 4, 2010 by Leave a Comment
Screensavers were originally created to, as their name suggests, save your screen from image burn-in which could happen on older monitors if the same image stayed on the screen for a long time. For probably the past 8 or so years they haven’t really served much of a purpose (assuming you upgraded your monitor) other [...]
Fine Tune Your Solid State Drives With SSD Tweaker
October 3, 2010 by Leave a Comment
For those of you who have taken the plunge on solid state drives and want to play a bit with the configurable options, take a look at the open source utility, SSD Tweaker. With all the advice online for SSD hard drives it can take hours of research and fiddling to properly setup your SSD [...]
Should ISPs Be Able To Sell Your Network Traffic Data?
October 2, 2010 by 1 Comment
A recent article in PC Pro points out that ISPs in the UK have been selling user traffic data to “pirate hunters”: ISPs are making a tidy profit from online piracy by charging up to the £120 to provide data on their customers, according to the Federation Against Software Theft (FAST). [...] Under UK law, [...]
The ‘Virtual Economy’ Currency Exchange: Is It Really That Strange?
October 1, 2010 by 3 Comments
I read an interesting article on NPR the other day titled “Are You Plunking Down Real Money For Virtual Fun?” and my first thought was along the lines of ‘who would actually pay real money for virtual money?’ After thinking about it a bit more, is there any real difference between doing this and paying [...]
ESPNU College Town: Farmville For The College Sports Fan
September 30, 2010 by 1 Comment
There is no denying that, Farmville is an incredibly popular game on Facebook. Although I have never played it, from what I have seen it appears to be a Sim City-esque game with a farm backdrop. If you like this style of game and are more interested in college sports as opposed to farming, take [...]
Enable Mouse Scrolling On Inactive Windows With WizMouse
September 29, 2010 by 3 Comments
A feature that some Windows users find annoying is that inactive windows cannot be scrolled until they are first activated. This functionality can be really handy if you are comparing two files side by side and want to scroll each one without having to jump from window to window. To add this functionality, simply install [...]
