Technical Support - Articles Archive
from March 11, 2005 to October 10, 2004

Microsoft's Internet Explorer (IE) browser, as predicted at the end of December last year, continues on its downtrack in relation to its upstart competitors. In a recent ZDNet News article entitled "Growth rate slips for Firefox usage", it's revealed that two recent tracking surveys, one from OneStat ... read more

I am sincerely dismayed. Speechless. This Microsoft thing is just a nightmare. Not that I didn't know before...but when you hit your nose head into a thick glass wall you tend to realize with greater depth that what looks transparent maybe just as hard as steel. What happened? ... read more

I often find myself copying contents from one Movable Type article to another, for example from Robin Good Latest News to MasterViews, or from Sharewood Tidings back to Latest News. Photo credit: Laura kennedy I knew that it was possible to do this real fast, but I ... read more

When in January 2005 Adobe released version 7 of Acrobat Standard, Professional and Reader, most journalists were struck by the newly added feature that allows users of the Acrobat Reader version to edit and annotate PDF files if the original PDF publisher has enabled this function ... read more

If you need to send a large file to someone without using email, you may want to know what services and tools are available without needing tech knowledge or using file transfer protocol (FTP). Using the email attachment approach for files that are larger than one megabyte ... read more

SMS to Skype is a free service from Connectotel allowing GSM mobile phone users to send Skype instant messages to any Skype user. SMS to Skype uses the standard Skype software and you do not need to install anything else to start using it now. Phot credit: ... read more

"After you get past the beginner stage with Firefox, try this "power-user" trick to make it download pages faster by allowing multiple connections so it can download more than one file at a time. Photo credit: Thomas Bush It's only useful for broadband users, so if ... read more

Whether vision-impaired or just 'weary-eyed', computer users in need of a full-featured, flexible screen magnification tool will appreciate reading the full review of ZoomText, a specialized screen reader and enlargement tool that not only improves screen readability, but also provides speech support. It echoes audially what ... read more

By December 2005 or before, as I have previously anticipated, Internet Explorer will not be anymore the browser of choice for the majority of Internet users. IE and Outlook free fall Today, according to my own traffic statistics based on a sample of over 600,000 visitors from ... read more

One of my favourite asynchronous discussion services, QuickTopic, has just added RSS to its already extremely useful set of functions. RSS feed generation allows you to follow QuickTopic comments and input from other contributors directly into your RSS reader/aggregator while allowing much greater exposure surface and the ... read more

Where are the automatic HTML to RSS conversion services? I can’t believe it. I’m writing a book on RSS feeds, and as a result, I’m doing a lot of research on RSS. The book will be called Syndicating Web Sites with RSS Feeds For Dummies and it’s for ... read more

Several months ago I changed from Internet Explorer to Mozilla Firefox as my default browser. I asked around a bit before making my choice and really felt attracted to the open design of the program and the huge, though somewhat geeky community that is so vigorously ... read more