The Australian ISP landscape just gotten a bit smaller; pictures arrive of the $25 computer that could; and now we can have VNC in a browser, thanks to Node.js.

Jack Wallen explains why you'd want to enable the Common Gateway Interface on an Apache server and then shows how to do it.

Forum marketing can lead to valuable insights into aspects of your app that you might not have considered. Get the basics about this guerrilla marketing tactic.

Ryan Boudreaux presents 20 more online tools for web designers. They include tools for font selection, px to em conversion, type tuning, CSS snippets, and more.

Don't struggle to pass strings. Instead, apply these five simple rules when working with embedded strings in VBA.

Ruby and Python's standard implementations make use of a Global Interpreter Lock. Justin James explains the major advantages and downsides of the GIL mechanism.

Figuring out what's wrong with DNS will go faster if you have a set of troubleshooting steps to follow. Brien Posey shares his approach to isolating the cause of DNS problems.

There's lots of press about how to conserve battery power, but not much about how to take care of your batteries. Here are a few things you can do to increase battery longevity.

You can't really count on a smartphone if it's constantly running out of juice. These simple measures will help prolong your Android's battery life.

Configuration issues are frequently identified to DNS settings. Rick Vanover shows how to centrally manage DNS suffix configuration with Group Policy.

The DNS CNAME is one of the most versatile tools in an IT administrator’s arsenal. One caveat to reaching the full potential of a CNAME is default TTL. IT pro Rick Vanover explains situations to lower the default TTL.

Vincent Danen explains how to get more out of the search history features in the zsh shell.

Some users may make unrealistic demands, but most of the time, they just want software that's easy to use and that works the way it's supposed to. Justin James itemizes several basic user expectations and ways to address them.

JDK 5.0 and JDK 6.0 include the Java Monitoring & Management Console tool, also known as JConsole. Read about JConsole's usage options, and find out how JConsole changed from JDK 5 to JDK 6.

Without DNS, computers would have a very tough time communicating with each other. However, most Windows administrators still rely on WINS for name resolution on local area networks and some have little or no experience with DNS. Steven Warren explains how to install, configure, and troubleshoot a Windows Server 2008 DNS server.