Far Away Trains Passing By

Picked up a new Laser mouse by Logitech for $19.99 from Newegg.com to use at work, and so far I love it. Highly recommended for general use. It works great on the two surfaces with which I tested, on which my previous optical mouse was screwing up.

We know that using CSS and DIV elements is the most versatile way to layout a web page. But when you drop tables you lose the browser’s native ability to resize elements properly when the user changes the window size, views on a mobile device, or changes the font size.  Eli details some of the [...]

I’m trying out Google Speadsheets (GS) to track my monthly utility usage (I’ve also started using Mint.com to track my monthly expenditures after my brother’s recommendation). GS allows you to post your charts as an img anywhere on the web. I’m not sure yet if the image reflects the latest version of the data or [...]

One of the most widely used (and oldest) javascript popup calendars on the web is Matt Kruse’s CalendarPopup, posted at http://www.mattkruse.com/javascript/calendarpopup/. Matt provides plenty of examples and different ways to use this handy script, which provides the user with a visual way to input a date into a form control. However, the script hasn’t been [...]

By MICHAEL BUTLER Tips & Tricks for making your computer go faster It seems that whenever I listen to complaints from family and friends relating to their computers, they describe it as being “as slow as molasses” or “slower than a glacier melting”. Yet, when the computer was new, it seemed to perform more quickly. [...]

Cool gadgets for the 2008 holiday season The economy troubles may be slowing consumer spending, but that won’t stop electronics lovers from wishing for the latest gadgets this holiday season. Here is a list of some high tech electronics in demand this season.

For a while I didn’t understand why some printers would print over remote desktop and others wouldn’t. After some troubleshooting with an HP LaserJet 1022 (a host-based USB printer) I discovered these helpful tips: If the printer supports Postscript or PCL, it should work over remote desktop without any additionally configuration, as long as it [...]

I’m now considered a Microsoft Certified Professional, since I’ve passed the “Installing, Configuring, and Administering Microsoft Windows XP Professional” Exam at a local testing center. I had already been working with installing and configuring Windows XP for a couple of years now, so I knew a lot of the material already. It wasn’t easy though, [...]

I’ve been struggling for a while to get PDFs to print correctly using Adobe Reader from the command line, so here’s how to do it from a batch file: :: This is a DOS-Style path to the AcroRd32.exe, in this case Adobe Reader 7.0 SET PATHTOADOBE=C:\PROGRA~1\ADOBE\ACROBA~2.0\Reader\AcroRd32.exe :: This adds /h to tell Adobe Reader to [...]