If you’re in the industry or just one who is asked to help people with their computer woes in any capacity you’ll appreciate this YouTube spoof on the Help Desk as it might have played out in Medieval times.

Since Mozilla released Firefox version 2.0.0.7 for PC and Mac, I and my colleagues have noticed that the browser hangs often on switching between tabs and even in interacting with elements on a page already active. Firefox has been a great browser and still is, I just hope the trend does not hang on this [...]

Much of my time lately, in terms of blogging on Nielsen Digital, is spent planning and writing the PHP Tutorial. As the material pertains to broader readership, I’ll duplicate those aspects in the main blog as I have with this bit on Web Hosts.
The best web hosting out there is Slicehost. It does [...]

Try this:
<?php echo “Hello world!”; ?>
This will output the following:
Hello world!

There are a few skills or proficiencies I am assuming you have in this tutorial. First, you have PHP and MYSQL set up on an operating web server. Second, you have a basic understanding of HTML. Finally, I am assuming you have some sort of text editor in which you’ll be writing your PHP scripts [...]

As far as Amazon’s S3 web service’s performance, all I have to say is “Wow.” But how does one manage files, get public links for files, and manage permissions without writing your own web app? Answer: Bucket Explorer.
My system
I am running Windows XP Pro SP 2 (current with updates as of today). [...]

Many of my clients are moving to podcasting or at least want the ability to put audio on their websites. I had used MediaMax as the audio server I would get them set up with. The problem is MediaMax has a habit of not working acceptably for … MONTHS (true even for clients [...]

Total Commander
Free to try, $34 to buy
I have used a licensed copy of Total Commander from the days when it was Windows Commander.  It has appearances of Norton Commander and does just about anything you can imagine.  It is the best file manager and FTP client I have ever used.  This last year brought with [...]