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Google Introduces Page Speed Tool to Improve Site Performance

Tuesday, June 9th, 2009

For years people have tried to figure out how Google manages to produce lightning fast search results from the huge amount of data that they have to work with. They are still not giving away all of their secrets, but they have a released a free tool and a set of web site develoment "best practices" to help web site owners improve the performance of their web sites.
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LCD HDTVs May Dominate as Plasma Manufacturers Drop Out

Thursday, February 12th, 2009

February 12, 2009. This week two major manufacturers of plasma HDTVs announced that they are dropping out of the business.
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DTV Day Delayed

Tuesday, February 10th, 2009

Most Americans should be aware that DTV Day, or the day almost all USA television broadcasters turn off their old analog transmissions and switch to the new digital signals, has been delayed until June 12. But about a third of the approximately 1,800 television stations have already made the switch to digital.
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Norton Internet Security May Be Disabling E-Mail

Friday, October 17th, 2008

For months people have been reporting strange problems with Mozilla’s Thunderbird e-mail client. I have maintained that the problem is not likely to be Thunderbird, but is more likely to be related to a user’s ISP or a Windows issue or a firewall blocking access. I think I have found and verified at least one potential source for the ongoing issue with either inbound or outbound mail becoming disabled.
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Mozilla Thunderbird Update Released

Tuesday, September 30th, 2008

Several potentially serious new exploits have been patched with Mozilla Thunderbird. Make sure that you update to version 2.0.0.17 as soon as possible. The new fixes cover both PC and Mac versions.
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Version 1.1 of MySQL Database Cheat Sheet Released

Monday, September 1st, 2008

We just released an updated version of our popular free MySQL Cheat Sheet, which is a very useful reference resource for any programmer who works with the MySQL database or PHP.
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