Tables are great for communicating and organizing data in a meaningful way. They’re also efficient. You can substitute several lists with a single table and your viewers will spend less time pursuing a table than several single column lists. In Microsoft PowerPoint, tables can be a bit Read more on this article ...

I received a call recently from someone wanting to know how to create an image mask using Sony Vegas. Since I am a huge proponent of Sony Vegas, I embraced this opportunity. The question was actually a very good one because the creators of Sony Vegas decided not to call it a masking tool like Read more on this article ...

For most IT professionals, there is no such thing as too much technical knowledge; to keep ahead in information technology one has to continually train, learn, and grow. The podcast can be an efficient delivery method for such technical information, especially if that information arrives in Read more on this article ...

List controls in Microsoft Access, such as the combo box and list box, offer choices to the user. From their point of view, they don’t have to enter anything — they simply select an item. From the application developer’s perspective, the database is protected from typos and Read more on this article ...

Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) allows you to use background graphics in a wide number of tasteful and versatile ways. Not only can graphics exist as backgrounds to entire pages, but you can also employ CSS to assign a background image to any CSS rule. Here are just three of many popular ways that Read more on this article ...

For many, one of the biggest obstacles in Linux is installing applications. Because the computing world has grown so accustomed to click and install, the idea of having to manually install something is very foreign. And that is one of the reasons Firefox and Linux sometimes make for a deadly Read more on this article ...

Most people use Adobe Photoshop or Macromedia Flash to create buttons for the Web, but I decided to create one in Adobe Illustrator. The best part of Illustrator is that it is vector based not pixel based like Photoshop. The subject of pixels versus vectors will be addressed in a future Read more on this article ...

Enforcing your data’s integrity is probably the single most important issue you face when designing a database. Validating user input is one way of keeping bad data from making its way into your analyses and reports. It takes only one piece of bad data to throw everything off. It’s Read more on this article ...

Threading is commonly used by developers to increase the performance of applications. However, if used incorrectly threading can have the exact opposite effect. Bad threading logic can actually slow down an application, or worse, cause an application to have inconsistent exceptions. There Read more on this article ...

The title’s a mouthful, but don’t get too hung up on the terminology. The technique is simple, although not commonly implemented. You can populate a Microsoft Access list control with an explicit list of values and generally that list consists of one column, although you can display Read more on this article ...