Archive for the ‘Computers & Internet’ Category

You get an interesting insight into what people do on the Web by the Alexa "Top Sites" feature.

The first HDD was released in 1956 and was known as the RAMAC. It was a monster.

There is an abundance of these flowering trees in West Coast Park, Singapore. Can anyone tell me what kind of the plant it is?

Finding the SMART Board interactive whiteboard distibutor in Singapore proved a challenge. There are lessons in search engine optimisation here.

Who invented the WWW? How did the son of 2 mathematics teachers change the world?

The Practice of Simplicity by Jakob Nielsen. I have read a lot of Nielsen's "Alert Box" usability articles and I like most of what I read there. I was interested to read further.

Oops - seems like Netscape v7.2's and v8's style rendering is a bit off - and the error shows up on their portal. On the right of their homepage, the divs containing orange <h2> headings are floating left (even though the class is "clearfix") and there is a blue <h3> tag "News" that messes up: […]

In the comparison review below: PageBreeze Front Page Express PSPad Nvu Before using any of these editors, check them carefully for viruses and spyware. PageBreeze HTML Editor The free version of PageBreeze HTML Editor is a simple WYSIWYG editor. It has the usual icons for bold, italic, underline, numbered lists, bullet lists and so on. […]

I just wasted a night trying to install that IE7 Beta 3 rubbish on my home PC. I want to tweak my sites so they work okay in this CSS non-compliant browser. I got: Internet Explorer 7 could not be installed. You must restart your system to confirm that any changes to your system are […]

I recently got a companion card for The Wife. It is linked to my main OCBC (Oversea Chinese Banking Corporation) credit card. I have my card set up so that it is paid automatically in full each month through GIRO (a system allowing for electronic interbank payments to various billing companies like utilities, traffic fines […]