Posts Tagged ‘versions’

Why You Should Use Internet Explorer 7

Wednesday, July 16th, 2008

Available for Windows Server 2003, Windows XP, and Windows Vista, Internet Explorer 7 is a vast improvement on earlier versions. In some areas such as tabbed browsing and enhanced RSS feeds, it appears as if IE has finally caught up to the rest of the browser pack.

Session Restore-Firefox

Wednesday, July 16th, 2008

Firefox, for the most part, is a stable browser. However, even the most stable browsers crash. Firefox 2.0 has a great feature built in called “Session Restore”. With older versions of Firefox you had to install the Session Restore extension to gain this functionality. In the event of a browser crash or accidental v, you are given the option to restore all the tabs and pages that you had open before the browser prematurely closed. This feature alone makes Firefox very attractive.

PHP:access $_GET, $_POST, $_SERVER in older versions of php

Monday, June 30th, 2008

if ( phpversion() < “4.1.0″) {
$_GET = &$HTTP_GET_VARS;
$_POST = &$HTTP_POST_VARS;
$_SERVER = &$HTTP_SERVER_VARS;
}

Office 2007 Converter

Saturday, June 28th, 2008

Microsoft released it’s much-anticipated 2007 version of its Office product in January 2007. Years in the making, Office 2007 contains a number of new features, the most notable of which is the entirely new graphical user interface called the Ribbon, replacing the menus and toolbars that have been the cornerstone of Office since its inception. Students and faculty purchasing new computers since January have been purchasing this new version. Although there are many improvements to Word, PowerPoint, Excel and Access, one thing that you should be aware of is that the default file formats are not only different from all past versions, they are not readable by past versions. This means that if a student creates a document in Word 2007 it will automatically be saved in a format called .docx. Since this file type is not recognized in Word 2003 or XP, you will not be able to open it. Some of you may have already run into this problem with student submissions.