Internet Explorer is probably the worst browser out there among commonly used browsers. By commonly used browser I mean the following :

Internet Explorer 7
Internet Explorer 6
Firefox 2
Safari

Of course there are other rogue browsers that are rarely used, like Camino, Netscape, and some other nameless ones that most people do not know about, but the above 4 are the most frequently used browsers in the world right now.
Among all of them, Internet Explorer has, perhaps, the worst parsing and display system. It has problems with displaying PNGs (alpha layers will show …

Section Two for the Pro-Gear series will cover the software I use in order to get my work done.
Since my new computer is a Macbook Pro as I discussed on Pro Gear – Hardware, many of my software are now Mac-Based software. It was quite a transition coming over here since my hard drive on my HP Pavilion blew up and I was forced to switch computers fast. I will categorize my software mainly into three categories – backbone, administration, and design & development.
Backbone
Backbone software would mean what I run …

I have finally settled on a new CRM (Customer Relationship Management) system for my new company, Synchronous Design & Marketing, providing design and marketing solutions for small and medium enterprises in Vancouver, BC. This new system allows me to track clients, projects, new leads, marketing, sales, and task/scheduling online, through my web based CRM solution, Sugar CRM.
I’ve observed many, and tested some, CRMs over the last month or so trying to determine which one to use, and I settled for SugarCRM as my solution. Sugar CRM is a completely …

The emerging (or already emerged) trend of software is to be web-based, as a seasoned web developer who can read the trends, I cannot emphasize enough how important web-based software is. I am already in the market for a web-based recruitment management software, in which I compared PC Recruiter and Taleo(and I chose Taleo), and I am currently in the middle of developing a realtor’s website management platform.
And along comes Wild Apricot’s online membership and payment management system, geared towards organizations and other groups with memberships and recurring payments/donations. The …

I got absolutely schooled and destroyed today by viruses, it’s not even funny. Here’s how it worked :
One of my close associates that I help out often needed a favour – he got a new laptop for his daughter and needed it set up and all. So I went ahead to install some software, including the Norton Antivirus 2007 Suite, downloaded from a torrent source. The keygen.exe file which is used to crack the software was infected with a virus. Of course, the irony is that an anti-virus software downloads …

For the last 3 days I have not been able to send emails out of my Outlook 2007 on my computer. I could only write emails through my Blackberry (thankfully). I contacted my hosting company Bluefur Hosting, and started troubleshooting. The error I got was that my SMTP server cut off or did not respond.
First it was determined that it was a network issue of some sort, as the problem was consistent with whether I was at home, or at an internet hotspot at the coffee shop. It was not …

ActiveX controls – a method of an embedded controlling system that gets deployed on your computer from a website so that certain websites can perform more robust functions – that’s what it is basically. It was a Microsoft creation, and when the internet was young and not as powerful, it was a goldmine for web-based software. Some major websites that use ActiveX controls is MLSLINK for realtors (Multiple Listing Service which provides real-time online listing data). Also, Quickbooks online (an accounting management system that tracks income and expenses) uses ActiveX …