After installing OpenOffice and pinning a few of the apps to the top of the start menu I noticed there is an arrow next to each of the applications which shows recent documents opened by the program. But after creating many documents, only one or two of these documents were shown.  While they were available [...]

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  A legend for the following table. Free Options: Whether or not at least some of the conference calling features are free to use. Max Conference size: From five active callers to a thousand.  What are your needs like? Too free cost per minute, per attendee:  The providers that allow you the option of having [...]

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How do you know if a domain name is really available? When you want to reserve a domain name, just typing it into the browser isn’t a good enough check to see if it is available.  Someone might have registered but didn’t set up any DNS or hosting for the domain. To find out for [...]

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An overview of DNS (short for Domain Name System) is a system for giving you different types of information on request about a domain name. A request made to a DNS server about a domain name is called a DNS Query.  These requests happen any time someone sends an email or tries to load a [...]

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The 960 Grid System I started using the 960 Grid System a few months back and it really is a fun framework. There are only a couple of tricks to learning the format. Be sure you keep a link handy to the 960 grid demo (and using firebug to check out the classes of each [...]

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I’ve made the switch.  Unfortunately due to a possible configuration issue with the server (or with blogger) I’m not able to automatically import the old posts.  This means the old comments will be gone as well.  I’m not that bummed about it, but my apologies to anyone who posted a comment that won’t be appearing [...]

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