3D movies have recently seen a resurgence in the movie theater. Due to new 3D theater technologies, several 3D version of movies have hit the theaters and a few of those have made it to home theater formats in both … Continue reading
After winning the war for the dominant high definition format against Toshiba’s HD DVD format in February of 2008, many pundits expected Blu-ray players to take off like a rocket. After all, many had said that the main reasons for … Continue reading
The robots.txt file, also called the robots exclusion file, is used to provide useful information to search engine spiders. The file can serve a number of purposes, but it is primarily used to tell a spider which files and directories … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
One of the first questions that comes up when someone starts using PHP and the very powerful MySQL database is: How do I page through the results of a query like I see with search results on many web sites? … Continue reading
When selecting the right HDTV for your home theater, it is important to understand the relationship between film frame rates and screen refresh rates. There is an interaction between the two that plays an important role in the quality of … Continue reading
I normally would not cover an issue this basic, but I receive requests almost every week for answers from aspiring (OK, call them newbie) web developers who cannot see the images on their web pages after using FileZilla or another … Continue reading
Blu-ray technology clearly won the battle for high definition DVD movie dominance. But Blu-ray technology continues to evolve, and as it does, new issues pop up. Once recent problem is the “incompatible disc” error that is becoming more common with … Continue reading
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.
There are times when you want the printed output from a web page to look different that the way the page is displayed on a computer screen. This is particularly useful with blogs and web sites that provide information that … Continue reading
