Technically Speaking

TechSmith corporation has released an update to Jing, the free screen capture/video capture tool. I ranted in January about a code change in that release that really bugged me. TechSmith responded here on my blog, and via e-mail, and today’s update addresses that issue (thank you TechSmith!) but introduces a couple more issues for me. [...]

I can’t believe its been over a month since I blogged. Did you hear we had a baby? My post-frequency is a direct result of that blessed event. I assume, at least, that you heard that we had a baby. I mean, if you are reading this entry, I assume that you are a regular [...]

I’ve written about this a couple of times already, but I discovered some new functionality in Internet Explorer 7 (IE 7) today that I thought I’d share. Currently I’ve got a development box at work that I’ve upgraded (if you can call it that) to IE 7 while I keep my main box in IE [...]

In a previous post I complained about how hard it was to use FTP in Internet Explorer’s newest browser version, 7.0. The problem is that in keeping with the Windows Vista-type theme, IE 7.0 hides the File menu by default. That means that when you hit your FTP site, you can’t go to “File | [...]

Microsoft recently released a second beta version of their ubiquitous Internet Explorer web browser. MS is playing catch-up to Mozilla’s Firefox browser by offering tabbed browsing and “Add-ons” (which Firefox calls “extensions”). I thought I’d try to install IE 7 and see if the “improved” browser lives up to the hype. Download and install should [...]