Windows Vista, despite it’s SP1 really sucks in terms of network compatibility … read the simple trick to make Microsoft applications find “localhost” (commonly used for spam filters) again

Tidy is a PHP extension for the Tidy HTML clean and repair utility which allows you to not only clean and otherwise manipulate HTML documents, but also traverse the document tree. It’s performance is great and you have a ton of features to make your html code or smarty output html compliant.

Read how to install it in 5 minutes – regardless if you have a Linux or Windows box…

Has anybody noticed a big difference in the loading time for the Acrobat Reader 6 compared to older versions – not to mention the sluggish startup performance of version 7… A friend put it right yesterday: If I'd need to…

just in case you didn't find it – FPDF allows you to generate PDFs without buying a 600$+ license for the PDF_LIB :-) and it rocks…

Windows Vienna

OutBack plus was created for backing up Outlook including everything it you create in it… It's a pity, that it can take you hours to setup a new outlook installation – and having done so several times before, I think…

Do you think you're protected against spyware that sends private information on your computer to others, adware that determines what ads you see on web sites based on visits to other sites, and other malware that, among other things, may…

Microsoft Windows XP SP2 changes for IE

Daniel, an MCSE wrote this nice article: Why You Should Dump Internet Explorer with simple arguments – the benefits of using IE are too few – and the faults too great – to put off the adoption of an alternative…

Microsoft Corp. this week released its Windows Template Library (WTL) technology under an open-source license, marking the second time the company has turned one of its projects over to the SourceForge.net site. Microsoft WTL as open-source…

ONJava.com has the next part 4 of "Java vs. .NET Security" for User Authentication and Authorization up. The article compares the issues and techniques you can utilize in the respective technology. I like this article series….

Microsoft is considering updating Windows XP before it releases Longhorn, the code name for a major overhaul of the industry's dominant operating system that is not expected for about two years. via CNET News.com…

Longhorn SDK Annotations explains the new feature MS will release with the SDK for Longhorn. A new experimental facility to the MSDN library: the Longhorn SDK. Working closely with Microsoft, O'Reilly has seized upon this new feature that allows third…

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