In languages like PHP, or Ruby, you can spend a lot of time writing a really effective and useful membership system. It can takes days - even weeks sometimes. Not in ASP.NET 2.0 and 3.5 though. Click "more" to find out more about .NET and why developing a user system is a very quick and painless task.

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Digital Cameras, Printers, Laptops, MP3 Players, and mobile phones all have one thing in common, a memory card. The flash-based technology allows the user to hot swap the card between many different devices. These cards are nonvolatile therefore retaining there memory/data when removed from a source of electricity.  Memory cards can easily be replaced, formatted, and re-used.

What does this mean to you as a consumer? You have to consider various factors before purchasing. Some of these factors are: price, compatability, and capacity. Depending on your device your choices may be limited as some devices only allow certain types of memory card, and sometimes even a limit on the capacity.

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Notepad. Ever lasting and ever useful. What can't you do in notepad? Well here's 2 things you might not have known you could do.

Use notepad as a diary!

There are 2 ways to use notepad as a diary. You can do it the automated way - or the manual way.

Manual way

Open notepad and save the text file to somewhere. Now that you've got the text file saved, we can start making a diary. On a new line press "F5" to insert the time and date - you can easily delete parts of this as it comes out as text. Press enter and type in your diary entry. Do it every day, every other day, once a week or any other interval of time you fancy

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Today’s article comes from a guest publisher. In this article he will be talking about the, relatively, newly released SDK for the game Crysis.

On the 21^st February, Crytek released the Software Development Kit (SDK) for the Cryengine2 (Game engine for Crysis) and a month after its release, many of the Crysis total game conversions (modifications) have grown into beautiful and extremely anticipated projects.More...

Dual-monitors are all the rage these days. In this how-to I'd like to show you how to setup your dual-monitor configuration.

What you will need:

• 2 PC monitors. Make sure at least 1 of them as a DVI input as you don't always get a DVI to VGA converter with it.
• A graphics card with 2 outputs (Usually VGA and DVI). Most new graphics cards have this capability

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Want to show your friends and family a slide show of photos of your holiday? Don't want to get them developed? Want a quick and easy way to show the pictures? Well in this article I'm going to show you how to quickly and easily show the pictures from your digital camera on your TV directly through the camera, without any troublesome burning to CD and using a DVD player.

What you will need:

• A TV with a composite connection. This means 3 little red, white and yellow phono ports like the ones highlighted in the picture.

• Your camera, providing you bought it new from a shop, should come with a lead that connects to your camera and ends in a yellow phono plug.

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