Archive for November, 2007

I’ll Take One MiniMac, Fries And A Coke

Thursday, November 29th, 2007

Ever wanted a cheap, powerful little machine that basically fits into your pocket?

The brand new Mac Mini is a brilliant piece of technology, and is suited for practically anyone. “Small but powerful,” says Apple CEO Steve Jobs, “the Mac Mini is the first compact personal computer slightly larger than a CD to be priced at […]

Getting PNG Graphics to Display Correctly in IE

Tuesday, November 27th, 2007

GRRR, Getting PNG graphics to display correctly in IE!

This article is for those HTML/CSS guru’s out there who are frustrated with IE. Particularly the minor problem of displaying PNG’s correctly. PNG is an image format that combines the best features of GIF and JPG/JPEG, the traditional and most common image formats used on the World […]

Trim The WindowsXP Fat

Sunday, November 25th, 2007

After every fresh installation of Windows, there’s a usual suite off applications I load on to get the computer ready for use.

In almost every case, the first application I load is an application to trim the fat, so to speak, from Windows. That application is XPLite. There are both free and professional variants, and while […]

Cause A Ruckus

Friday, November 23rd, 2007

Because of the availability of high-bandwidth networks at so many colleges and universities, and because college students are a notoriously poor and thrifty group of people, the number of college students charged with illegally downloading music is high.

More importantly, the RIAA has been serving schools with John Doe requests to force them to reveal the […]

Flex Your Adobe

Wednesday, November 21st, 2007

I am convinced that Adobe Flex is probably the best framework available for building “ajaxy” websites today.

There are a couple of reasons why I feel this way after building several Ajax applications. The support for localization, debugging, browser-independence, slightly less restrictive security model, rich component framework, modular coding standards are all the plus points for […]

Driver Detective 6.2

Monday, November 19th, 2007

Driver Detective 6.2 is a powerful tool to scan your computers hardware and find drivers with minimal input from the user.

Whether finding a driver for a piece of obscure hardware or updating your new graphics card, Driver Detective utilizes on of the most comprehensive databases ever compiled. You can also backup your drivers to a […]