The charting in Flex is a pretty good tool, but there are a few small features that it would be really nice if it had. One of these would be the ability to have a chart series that changed colors depending on it’s value. Conditionally colored charts are something that a lot of us (and [...]

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Getting started Creating graphs with Adobe’s Flex 2 is a pretty simple task, just throw together some short XML and you’re done. But like most “easy” technologies things get a little more difficult when you want to do more advanced things like making sections of the graphs stand out or keeping multiple graphs in sync [...]

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Customize Gmail Gmail Super Clean is a Greasemonkey script that renders a cleaner Gmail experience. Aside from the snazzy white interface, it removes the Gmail bookmark links, AdSense ads, tweaks the fonts, and slaps a groovy icon up top. Gmail Super Clean Options What’s more, under Tools->Greasemonkey->UserScript Commands, there are options to enable and disable [...]

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Windows ships with Notepad, a bare bones text editor that manages to be both handy and next to useless. So if you do any regular text editing you need something more, an editor that can reformat text, record macros, do syntax highlighting, that supports regular expressions in its search/replace dialog, or knows about ftp. Perhaps [...]

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We get so much feedback in our comments (I mean sometimes hundreds of comments per day) that I’m just going to reply here. Sorry but I have to clip and edit some of the comments. peto4o said Best site I see. Thanks. drugs celebrate | nokia 6230 camera phone … No, thank you peto40. I’m [...]

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Not exactly an Excel-killer yet, but here comes Google Spreadsheet. It is interesting; sharing spreadsheets, import/export, lots of functions, and so on. If you’ve been losing sleep waiting for it, well, now you can rest easy. Otherwise, okay, another Google labs thingy. You have to sign up for an invitation at this point. Via Google [...]

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IBM has an article for developers about developing cross platform applications useing .NET. Well, using Mono. As someone who has (poorly) written a cross platform application using Mono I can say that it is definitely easy. As long as you keep portability in mind when programming the cross platform bit should fall into place without [...]

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The Hula Project is an open source calendar and email server that might one day make your life as an IT person very comfortable. It scales well and it has the necessary components for a small/medium sized business, but is it ready to replace your old Exchange box? v407 Note: We originally tested with version [...]

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With the new Firefox beta that has come out we get a first look at the technology that is making its way into Firefox for the mainstream users. We take a look at the changes you can expect and outline a few changes you probably will not notice. New Features you will enjoy Clear Private [...]

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Mozilla will be release the 1.5 Beta of Firefox next week on September 8th.

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