Weird problem with shdocvw.dll

I had added a reference to shdocvw.dll in my project. Everything was working fine till day before yesterday. After I left office on Monday night, shdocvw.dll got unregistered somehow. So, when I returned back to work on Tuesday morning, I found that all applications referencing shdocvw.dll were broken and wouldn’t compile. The applications kept popping [...]

A cool feature in Mozilla Firefox

I discovered this one by accident. Well, I needed to refer to RFC 1939. So, I started Firefox to do a Google search. But, instead of typing “rfc 1939″ in the Google search bar of Firefox, I typed the same into Firefox’s address bar and pressed enter as below:

Much to my surprise, Firefox actually [...]

Minesweeper for Firefox

YAAAHOOOOO!!! Firefox has an extension for minesweeper. It’s the best version of minesweeper I’ve come across till now.

This one has got a lot of cool features. I can have hexagonal tiles instead of square ones. I can make the game tougher by having multiple mines under some tiles. The initial guessing can be eliminated [...]

IE Tab

I was facing a problem at Aztecsoft. I can access the Aztec mail from Internet Explorer (IE) but it was inaccessible from Firefox. Some setting needed to be tweaked and I didn’t really know what it was. Google as always came to my rescue. I found that Firefox has a cool extension called IE Tab. [...]