Why your laptop overheats
Lets face it, you hear a lot of people say that brand x made a crappy laptop that overheats. But the truth of it is that Dell, Toshiba, and others aren’t so crappy that they have mass produced overheating laptops. They test them a lot in their labs and heat is a major concern to laptop designers. Truth is that we cause our laptop [...]
What you Should Buy for your Next Computer 2010-2011
I’ve been promoting this setup to a lot of my friends that ask what should I get for my next computer. My answer might shock you. You should get a netbook and a 20″+ LCD monitor with a wireless keyboard set. The truth of the matter is that the average user doesn’t need half the power they buy and this setup is so [...]
Install Vista, 7 or Windows 2008 without a DVD drive
My latest trouble came when I was trying to install Windows 2008 Server to an older development server that only has a CD-ROM drive. Its a micro form factor and there is no good way to get a DVD drive in it. Even hanging one off the side has hiccups with this system. So how do you do it? Or what if you server doesn’t even have an [...]
Bugs & Missing Features in Adobe Dreamweaver CS4 that they should fix
After buying a “professional” program like Adobe Dreamweaver for hundreds if not thousands, you would think they would care in the least about productive workflows. Yet Adobe hasn’t fixed any of these issues that go all the way back to the good old days of Macromedia Studio. 1. SCP Support Who still wants to use FTP [...]
Why you should or shouldn’t use www. infront of your domain name
I always thought this was a stupid topic that people would fight about. For a period of time I would make my sites not even care if its www.example.com or example.com. The short conclusion of this topic is simply this. Either work great, but you need to pick one or the other. SEO The big reason you find people telling you to do this is [...]
Best Practice – Unstandard Naming
So again today my webserver has been hit by another person using a vulnerability scanner trying to find something to hack into. Harmless as it may seem this could be the start of a serious server takeover. Once a vulnerable application like an old version of PHPmyAdmin is found, it could be only a matter of time before your [...]
WebAssist Plugins Spyware? – How to remove WebAssist
If you ever got the error : Unable to find WA_memento.htm Or if you have strange errors that occur every time you save or open files. Or if your pages don’t load include files. Or anything else strange and you have installed a WebAssist plugin, you may be surprised to find that uninstalling the plugin does nothing to help your [...]