How2NotFail

This problem was agonizing! My internet explorer would open, fail to display webpages, and then refuse to close. I had to shut it down using the Task Manager each time! Yuck. After a bit of research, and toying with different settings I came upon the following solution.
How to Fix Internet Explorer
1. Open up your Control [...]

If you’re like me, and you like testing all of your web development stuffs on your own computer before pushing it onto your live environment you have something like XAMPP installed on your system. For me, I use Windows Vista, so I have the win32 version of XAMPP. For the past few days I’ve been [...]

1. Firebug
My absolute favorite tool. Ever. Firebug is a Firefox Extension that lets you view and manipulate html and stylesheets straight from your browser, in real time. And, while you cannot save you changes straight from Firebug, it remains an excellent tool for debugging CSS issues! This is a must have.
( Firebug Homepage )
2. Xenu
And [...]

Remember when computers had handly little flip switches in the back, or on the side, that you could toggle to power your computer on and off? Most desktops today just have those push-buttons on the front. If you’ve been wondering how to get your computer to forcefully power down, here’s how:
- Simply push and hold [...]

If you ever need to find something on a site that doesn’t have it’s own search function, Google has a feature that allows you to specifically target a single site for search results.
All you need to do to use this search feature is type site:example.com before your search string and your results will only show [...]

If you’ve ever had to close many instances of a program at once and task manager just isn’t cutting it, there’s a simple command you can use to close them all at once, even if they are not responding.
If for example you have multiple instances of Notepad.exe running:

Open your Start Menu and click “Run” or [...]

If you ever need to register an account somewhere and you don’t entirely trust that the site you are registering at wont send you spam, there’s a simple trick you can use if you have a Gmail account (and some other email providers) to help you organize and weed out any spam you receive down [...]

Most websites and programs have hidden features in them for users to find called easter eggs.  Often these will not be documented and are there for users to discover on their own. Sometimes people will purposeful go out looking for these easter eggs on popular sites for fun. Here’s one you can use on any [...]

We all know that commenting code is a good practice, especially when working in a larger development environment. Unfortunately HTML is rendered client side, so any comments you leave, may be visible to any onlookers that glance at your source. An easy way to cover your tracks is by leaving the comments inside server side [...]

If you are ever in a bind and need to access an FTP server but don’t have any FTP programs installed, here is a quick and easy way you can use almost any browser as a basic FTP client. First make sure you know the connection details of the server you want to connect too, [...]