AVG Tip
Posted by on Friday, October 3, 2003 in
I switched from Nortons to AVG Anti-virus about a year ago and the biggest problem I had with it was the advertisements. Better late then never but I was just showed that if I turn off "check out going mail" it will not stamp all my emails with an AVG certified signature. (It will still stamp …
Font Management
Posted by on Wednesday, September 10, 2003 in
Time to do some late spring cleaning and get rid of more then half the fonts I have installed. Over the past year I have managed to gather 1,022 fonts from installing software, buying font packages, from the web etc. Way too many and Windows still does not provide an easy way to manage them …
Upgrading Miranda IM
Posted by on Wednesday, September 3, 2003 in
Comparing Individual colors XP 1.0 • to amicons 2.4.1. • Time to update once again with some important bug fixes. Especially the bug in 0.3 that sucks up 100% of your CPU during certain operations and stays that way. • Some key updates. • Removed some memory leaks • Many bug fixes …
I Hate This Key
Posted by on Monday, September 1, 2003 in
How many times are you playing games and you hit the Windows key instead of Ctrl or Shift? One is more then enough, especially with games like Counter-strike that make you restart the game. • I hate this Key will allow you to disable this key during full screen gaming. • “The only right …
ISO Recorder for Win XP
Posted by on Monday, June 30, 2003 in
ISO Recorder Power Toy is a UI component that allows you to use CD-Recording capabilities of Windows XP to record ISO images. • Right-click on an ISO file and select “Copy Image to CD” • Right-click on an CD drive icon in My Computer and select “Copy CD to Image File”. • Right-click on a CD …
Instant Messaging with Miranda
Posted by on Friday, June 6, 2003 in
I could never get use to using Trillian (on 2 attempts) and have never tried gaim but this week I started using Miranda as a primary IM client to replace both MSN and ICQ. There are advantages on keeping MSN and ICQ separate but MSN Spam has been increasing daily and I've been trying to avoid the …
Cross-Platform Testing
Posted by on Friday, May 2, 2003 in
Jeffrey Zeldman posted yesterday about a new service that will test designs over multiple platforms. • BrowserCam is designed to simulate what a site will look like on multiple system combinations without you being required to setup a new computer and do the testing yourself. So far, I have …
iTunes: An Alternative to File Swapping
Posted by on Wednesday, April 30, 2003 in
The media has been all over the music piracy problem recently after the release of iTunes now allowing the purchase of singles at $.99 US and then another attempt to discourage P2P file swapping but giving instant message warnings to Grokster and Kazaa users. I briefly posted about computer theft …
WYSIWYG is evil
Posted by on Thursday, January 2, 2003 in
Despite what I have been told in the past I have always used a text editor over a useless WYSIWYG editor for development. From my first site in notepad and homesite 1.0 at College to my more recent with a later version of HomeSite • I started reading a new book I got for Christmas and the first …