I can remember when every computer came with a copy of the BASIC programming language. Heck, my first computers (a VIC-20 then a C-64 then an Apple IIe) booted into BASIC. DOS and Windows 3.1 computers came with a powerful BASIC even though they, fortunately, did not boot into BASIC. Unfortunately, programming for all versions [...]
Like most browsers, Firefox displays a somewhat useless error page when it cannot connect to a web site for some reason. Usually, it has nothing to do with your system as suggested by the error page and hitting the reload button is unlikely to fix problems on the server end. ErrorZilla replaces this error [...]
I first discovered Taskbar Shuffle — and wrote about it in this blog entry — in May. This program lets you “drag and drop the programs on your Windows taskbar by simply… well, dragging and dropping them!” I downloaded version 1.0 and it worked so well that I never thought to check for updates. Therefore, [...]
Chances are you have thousands of folders on your computer. Most of their icons look exactly alike. If you are visually oriented, this visual sameness can make it hard to see the folders you consider important in large collection of folders in Explorer. While there have always been ways to fiddle around in Windows and [...]
IE 6 has a way to view and delete cookies, but it is very primitive compared to what can be done in current versions of Firefox and Opera. With any luck IE 7 will bring some much needed improvement to this area. However, even if it does, I doubt it will be as nice as [...]