Owalog is a weblog focussing on php, mysql, windows,open source software, programming and related technology. http://www.owalog.com en-us The Mozilla Foundation has now released Firefox 4.0 http://www.owalog.com/blog.php?myess1=116 Sun, 27 Mar 2011 23:17:00 +1100 http://www.owalog.com/blog.php?myess1=116 I have always used Open Office here and there but I have now seen that its a very good tool for editing pdfs http://www.owalog.com/blog.php?myess1=115 Tue, 22 Feb 2011 23:49:00 +1100 http://www.owalog.com/blog.php?myess1=115 There are writable pdf forms that I have to fill up from time to time and save them before sending them and recently after upgrading to Adobe Reader 9.1 I found that I could not save them anymore http://www.owalog.com/blog.php?myess1=114 Sat, 31 Jul 2010 23:05:00 +1000 http://www.owalog.com/blog.php?myess1=114 Facebook has announced that it is shutting down Facebook Lite after a trial period of just over seven months http://www.owalog.com/blog.php?myess1=113 Wed, 21 Apr 2010 22:48:00 +1000 http://www.owalog.com/blog.php?myess1=113 Last week there was an Adobe Shockwave update and during the update download I missed the bit where you untick the selection for Norton Scan and so the Nssstub.exe came with the update download http://www.owalog.com/blog.php?myess1=112 Sun, 21 Feb 2010 00:04:00 +1100 http://www.owalog.com/blog.php?myess1=112 Firefox 3.6 has now been released and promises to be faster and more responsive than the previous versions http://www.owalog.com/blog.php?myess1=111 Sun, 24 Jan 2010 05:46:00 +1100 http://www.owalog.com/blog.php?myess1=111 There has been recent warnings in France and Germany over the use of Microsoft Internet Explorer browser http://www.owalog.com/blog.php?myess1=110 Wed, 20 Jan 2010 06:13:00 +1100 http://www.owalog.com/blog.php?myess1=110 Over the weekend I had to look for a simple open source invoicing system which I could run on my own server and I managed to get a chance to look at four http://www.owalog.com/blog.php?myess1=109 Thu, 10 Dec 2009 07:11:00 +1100 http://www.owalog.com/blog.php?myess1=109 There are times when its necessary to change Program Files from the default C folder to some other location on Vista. http://www.owalog.com/blog.php?myess1=108 Wed, 2 Dec 2009 07:55:00 +1100 http://www.owalog.com/blog.php?myess1=108 Google has released a new open source programming language called Go which attempts to combine the development speed of a dynamic language like Python with the performance and safety of a compiled language like C or C++ http://www.owalog.com/blog.php?myess1=107 Wed, 11 Nov 2009 22:27:00 +1100 http://www.owalog.com/blog.php?myess1=107 Its fairly common that I need to sort a list in C# with a second sort parameter when the first sort parameter is equal http://www.owalog.com/blog.php?myess1=106 Wed, 11 Nov 2009 14:25:00 +1100 http://www.owalog.com/blog.php?myess1=106 Sometimes there is a need to count the occurrence of a substring in SQL and mostly in comma separated fields and here is one way of doing it. http://www.owalog.com/blog.php?myess1=105 Sat, 17 Oct 2009 00:44:00 +1100 http://www.owalog.com/blog.php?myess1=105 Microsoft is going to launch its free anti-malware software Microsoft Security Essentials today according to a statement on its website. http://www.owalog.com/blog.php?myess1=104 Tue, 29 Sep 2009 20:22:00 +1000 http://www.owalog.com/blog.php?myess1=104 Sometime last year I wrote about a post about graphing and charting with Php but since then I have since found another useful charting tool. http://www.owalog.com/blog.php?myess1=103 Fri, 18 Sep 2009 23:04:00 +1000 http://www.owalog.com/blog.php?myess1=103 This week Firefox 3.5 was released and I was happy to see that all my add-ons worked well without a hitch http://www.owalog.com/blog.php?myess1=102 Sat, 4 Jul 2009 07:19:00 +1000 http://www.owalog.com/blog.php?myess1=102