Gmail Now Lets You Add and Send Attachments Offline
Writing emails while offline can help keep you on top of things, especially while on the go. As of today, Offline Gmail allows you to add attachments to an email while you’re offline, bringing essentially the full offline experience to Gmail.
No one likes sending out the “Oops! I forgot my attachment!” email following an incomplete [...]
JavaScript, graphics performance improvements on tap for IE9
The first information about the next version of Microsoft’s Web browser was revealed at PDC on Wednesday. The announcement described three main areas of improvement: JavaScript, Web standards, and graphics technology.
IE9 will contain a new, significantly faster JavaScript engine, it will have richer support for Web standards like CSS 3, and it will use the [...]
Google Chrome OS available as free VMWare download
Seriously, how awesome have the past few hours been? Engadget turns the design stakes up to 11, Google finally dishes the dirt on Chrome OS, and now you can even download the forthcoming software to have a fiddle with yourself.
It’s completely free, though you’ll need VMWare running atop a Windows, Linux or OS X [...]
Teach Yourself How to Code
You’ve always wanted to learn how to build software yourself—or just whip up an occasional script—but never knew where to start. Luckily, the web is full of free resources that can turn you into a programmer in no time.
Since the invention of the internet, programmers have been using it to discuss software development techniques, publish [...]
Taking the black art out of SQL tuning
As any database admin knows, mastering the subtler nuances of SQL can be likened to the black arts. For me, tuning the efficiency of SQL queries on large, heavily used databases is a perfect example.
Sure, I know how to use the query analysis tools built into SQL Server and Oracle — but even with them, [...]