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I'm much more inclined to use software that works. For anti-virus and internet security I recommend AVG. It doesn't slow down your computer like Norton or McAffee, and there is a free version. The free version works and provides basic computer security for surfing the internet and opening files. The Anti-Virus edition provides more protection, preferential updates compared to the free edition, and an email scanner. AVG Internet Security provides Anti-Virus, Anti-Spyware, Anti-Spam, Firewall and new web protection. It identifies and stops threats before they become a problem. Buy a two year subscription for the price of one year of Norton or McAffee.

I had a customer having a heck of a time trying to get GRID from Codemasters to work on his Windows Vista installation. Even after upgrading from Basic to Home Premium he couldn't get the drivers for the game to work. Enter: http://www.star-force.com/support/users/group3.php

Driver installations on Vista are (obviously, to us technicians) best done using Administrator privileges. Right click the installation icon and select "Run As Administrator" and continue the installation as you normally would.

I've recently had the pleasure of overhauling an eCommerce website using an open source content management system called the Zen Cart. This handy package is an entire website solution with product management and control any webmaster or store owner could ask for. Upgrades, plug-ins and modules are available for extra and special functionality. There is a team behind the Zen Cart and an open source community growing in size. This ensures you will always be able to find a pro to maintain, upgrade or make major changes to your Zen-Cart website. Even if you don't find someone familiar with the Zen-Cart specifically - but who is a PHP developer, reviewing and creating code in Zen Cart is structured and based on a clever override system. The developer can seperate all of his work from the Zen-Cart core, for easy management and testing and using on other Zen-Cart websites.

May 8th and 9th I will be attending a conference about a specific CMS called Drupal. It is the biggest and baddest CMS and can do the most stuff. Being as large of a package as Drupal is, topics at the conference are the core and how things were put together. Focus will be on module development, and they'll probably cover the popular modules and new ones. Modules are like programs you install on a computer, except you install them on a Drupal website. Upon my return I will be a CMS Gladiator and declare the worlds businesses content databases - my opponent.