I read today about Multiple IE Installer. It allows you to install all old versions of IE from 3.0 to 6.0 on your computer. I’ve been keeping an installation of IE 6 on my secondary computer, but this allows me to check web pages I create with all these different browsers without changing computers. I was actually pleased with the way my blog looked. All browsers seemed OK except for IE 4.0.1 which had some style issues. IE 3.0 doesn’t support CSS, so it just displays plain text with no formatting, but I’ve never had visitors who use IE 3.0 (or IE 4 or 5 for that matter) so I’m not too worried about it.

Anyway, I think it’s pretty cool.

I use Wamp Server together with NetBeans to develop PHP applications on my local machine. This works well because I can do debugging (thanks to xdebug) and can readily view and edit files. I usually don’t like to place projects in the c:\wamp\www folder, preferring instead to place them in more logical places in my personal directory.

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Having perhaps a little too much time on my hands today, I decided to make my Windows XP installation look like Ubuntu. Why bother with Windows XP at all? Well, I still need many windows applications for various classes I’m currently taking, but I like the Ubuntu interface better than the one provided with Windows XP, so making XP look like Ubuntu seemed like a good way to go. I’m actually quite pleased with what I was able to do, and I may stick with this configuration.

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Ever get annoyed by that language bar that comes back every time you log into your computer? I certainly have, but I recently found this article about how to keep it from automatically loading. Of course, if you actually need it for something, don’t remove it!

Paul Stubbs : Turn off the Language Bar.

Today was the day! We finally received our laptop computers. These babies have 4 gigs of memory (hehe, watch out blender!) and a 120 gig hard drive (not wonderful, but an improvement over my old laptop which had only 80 Gigs).

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