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IE Collection Puts All Versions of IE on Your PC

Posted by Rich On August - 21 - 2009

As a web developer, it is important for me to test my websites in different browsers. As much as I don’t like to support older browsers, many people use them, and I need to ensure that compatibility is at its highest. If you are a web developer, or if you recently upgraded to IE8, you may notice that you cannot have multiple versions of IE on your computer at the same time. A solution to this problem is to use IE Collection. This program installs all of the main builds of IE 8 on your PC.

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8 Reasons Why You Should Download IE8

Posted by Rich On May - 30 - 2009

If you know me, or if you’ve read this site enough, you’ll know I’m not a fan of Internet Explorer. I’ve used Firefox since version 1 and I much prefer it. However, Microsoft have a lot of things right with IE8, and in this article, I want to share why you should consider IE8.

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Install Apache, MySQL, and PHP in Windows [How To]

Posted by Rich On May - 18 - 2009

If you would like to build your own website, you can do it on your own computer without putting it online. This can be useful for a number of reasons:

  1. You don’t have your own web hosting to test with
  2. You want to test a website before you put it online
  3. You want to start a website that helps you organize your life, for example, but you don’t always have access to the internet

In this guide, you’ll learn how to set up Apache, MySQL, and PHP on your computer. This will be the base for your website and will create an environment for you to develop in.

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Winstep Extreme Changes Your Desktop Experience

Posted by Rich On February - 20 - 2009

Winstep Xtreme from Winstep Software Technologies, is a single, easy to install package featuring the following desktop enhnacements:

NextSTART

The world’s first easy to use, skinnable Start Menu/Task bar replacement.

WorkShelf

A powerful, multi-paged desktop replacement, program launcher and document organizer that can be used as an alternative or supplement to the normal Windows desktop. Also features handy modules such as a talking clock that can synchronize your system time with the atomic time servers on the Internet, an Email Checker, Weather monitor, CPU, RAM and Net Meters and more!

NeXuS

A super fast program launcher, allows you to organize your most frequently used applications and put them into docks.

Start Menu Organizer

The Winstep Start Menu Organizer is an application designed to help you organize and clean your Windows Start Menu. The Organizer allows you to quickly group your Start Menu shortcuts into a specific set of categories (e.g. Utilities, Internet, Office, etc…) thus making finding what you are looking for a lot easier and much, much, faster!

FontBrowser

A simple font browser with an easy to use interface. You’ll wonder how you ever lived without it!

Download Winstep Extreme (Link removed after complaints of not being free)

Seven Competition Winners Announced

Posted by Rich On January - 11 - 2009

Last week’s competition winners are announced as follows:

Prize

Description

Winner(s)

Tidy Favorites
Pro
($19.95)

Organize your favorites and create a custom browser homepage [Review] Bob

NetStat Agent 2.1
($29.95)

Monitor you incoming and outgoing packets, analyze your network and more [Review] Abhishek

SafeBit (x3)
($39.95)

Create a password protected container on your PC for sensitive files [Review] Konraden, Peter & abitMintywhite

Invisible Secrets (x3)
($39.95)

Hide files within files on your PC, so only you know about them [Review] Craig, Sherman & Susan

YouTube Music
Downloader
($29.95)

Download music & videos from YouTube [Review] Angad

[Expired] Five Competitions. Nine Prizes. Comment to Win

Posted by Rich On December - 29 - 2008

This week I’m giving away lots of prizes; thank you to the respective software vendors.

Prize

Description

How Can I Win it?

Tidy Favorites Pro
($19.99)

Organize your favorites and create a custom browser homepage [Review] Comment to this post with the word FAVORITES and why you want to win this

program

NetStat Agent 2.1
($29.95)

Monitor you incoming and outgoing packets, analyze your network and more [Review] Comment to this post with the word NETSTAT and why you want to win this program

SafeBit (x3)
($39.95)

Create a password protected container on your PC for sensitive files [Review] 3 Copies up for grabs! Comment to this post with the word SAFEBIT and why you want to win this program

Invisible Secrets (x3)
($39.95)

Hide files within files on your PC, so only you know about them [Review] 3 Copies up for grabs! Comment to this post with the word SECRETS and why you want to win this program

YouTube Music Downloader
($29.95)

Download music & videos from YouTube [Review] Comment to this post with the word YOUTUBE and why you want to win this program

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