ReDim

I always wondered why the ReDim command existed in certain versions of BASIC. Now I've finally found out why in the final post in this thread on the old QBASIC Forum. I originally found that thread in this one.

Echo Basic

I found this site a few years ago when I was looking for a password program & found this.

It features a lot of BBS postings from the early nineties regarding QBASIC.

Comic Book Format

If you need a Comic Book Viewer or you need to store some images in the .CBR Format. Then I recommend that you take a look at some of the links on this Wikipedia page.

WorldWide Telescope

Microsoft WorldWide Telescope is a bit like Google Earth but for the Universe.

Techfest : World Wide Telescope Demo
Uploaded by giiks

NASA World Wind

NASA World Wind is a lot like Google Earth & can be downloaded from here.

Make an Electric Motor

Computing is just one of the things that I'm interested in. I'm also going to deal with Science & Technology in this Blog. Here is a Video that I found on the Science Forum, it shows you how to make an 'Electric' motor from a magnet, battery & a piece of wire.

C++ FAQ

Here is a link to the C++ FAQ Pages where you'll find a lot of C++ questions answered & here is a link to the C++ FQA where you'll find a critique of the C++ programming language.

Both sites are very interesting & should help any new programmers out.

Basic4GL v2.5.5

You can download & read more about the new version of Basic4GL here.

Notepad++

Out of all the notepad replacements I've tried, Notepad++ has to be the best.

Buzzcocks: Preston walks out

Slightly off-topic for a Computer related Blog but here are some highlights of the Edition of 'Never mind the Buzzcocks' where Preston walks out.

Win32 API Helpfile

The Win32 API Helpfile is a must for any serious Windows programmer. It can be downloaded from here.

There's also a direct link to the file here. (12.8 MB (13,471,059 bytes)

Deciding on a Forum

Recently I decided to start a Forum, not because I'm interested in persuading lots of people to join but because I want a place to store links to useful information.

I remembered that exodus on the Basic4GL Forum had created a forum sometime ago & he used Forums Vibe, so I created a Forum here. I was soon disappointed however when I found that I couldn't embed YouTube videos. So I typed 'Free Forums' into Google & I came across a link to these people, their Forums are a lot like the ones at 'Forums Vibe' but you can embed videos in your posts but I had a problem creating new forum categories & found it unnecessarily complicated, I also discovered that I couldn't embed more than one video in a post, you can see the forum I created here. I finally created a ProBoards Forum, which I should be able to do a lot more with & you can see that here.

K-Meleon Browser

After using Firefox 3 for some time I've gone back to using the K-Meleon Browser, I've also removed a lot of programming software that I felt was cluttering-up my computer.