Microsoft has finally released the next version of their web browser, Internet Explorer, version 7 (IE 7). The CNet review sums it up nicely…
IE 7 was Microsoft’s one chance to leapfrog ahead of the competition, but the company has only barely caught sight of the current front-runners. For more features and greater security, switch [...]
Posted on Thursday 19th October 2006 in Computers tagged Computers, internet, microsoft, Windows, with no comments.
Daniel Eran has posted an interesting insight into the real reasons behind the plague of viruses and other malware for the Microsoft Windows OS, Five Architectural Flaws in Windows Solved In Mac OS X. These flaws are also “solved” in other linux/unix operating systems, although these tend to be used by more security conscious users [...]
Posted on Sunday 14th May 2006 in Blog, Computers tagged Computers, internet, mac OS X, MS Windows, Windows, with no comments.
This post is as much for my own reference as anything else, but if it is useful to you, than that is an added bonus.
I downloaded the most up-to-date version of MySQL 4.0 as a dmg from the MySQL website, and ran the installer.
But it doesn’t work quite yet. Since OS X 10.4.4 there is [...]
Posted on Saturday 29th April 2006 in Blog tagged Computers, geekery, internet, mac OS X, with no comments.
Most of my browsing is still done with the default OS X browser, Safari, for the following reasons:
Built in spellcheck as you type in textboxes. This is almost a necessity, once you have used it, going back is difficult.
No other browser (that I am aware of) has implemented a History menu item. This [...]
Posted on Sunday 23rd April 2006 in Blog tagged Computers, geekery, internet, mac OS X, with no comments.
There may be a few bugs with older posts, which I am just trying to fix.
Tech Alert!
I have just applied a minor upgrade, or should that technically be transgrade, to my site from Markdown to Textile. Both are plugins that let you write HTML code in plain text using symbols like * and _ [...]
Posted on Sunday 9th April 2006 in Blog tagged geekery, internet, website, WordPress, with no comments.
