I have had an Orange m1000 Pocket PC based PDA for the last year. Like all windows based devices, this one seemed to have reached the end of its useful life, and needed re-installing. A firmware upgrade has been released for the phone, that might fix some bugs and provide some increased functionality. I don’t [...]
Posted at 19:47 on Sunday 27th November 2005 in Computers tagged Computers, internet, technology, with no comments.
As reported at The Web Standards Project, Safari 2.02 is the first fully released browser to pass the Acid 2 test, to show that it renders CSS correctly.
What I want to know is, when are the acid 3 and 4 tests coming out to push browsers further into advanced CSS support, which should make for [...]
Posted at 22:26 on Tuesday 1st November 2005 in Blog tagged Computers, internet, mac OS X, software, with no comments.
Buying music from the iTunes store, or napster, or anywhere else for that matter is not ‘there’ yet, for me at least. I’m not sure where exactly ‘there’ is, but what online music stores don’t have is a tangible product, that can be unwrapped, the CD box taken out of it’s decorative sleeve, and the [...]
Posted at 20:21 on Wednesday 27th July 2005 in Blog tagged DRM, future, internet, ipod, Music, with no comments.
Since getting my mac, I have been mainly using Safari as my web browser.
The first main point that annoyed me, was it’s lack of advert blocking. Not popup-blocking—that works perfectly. I mean intrusive banner images. Under windows I had been using the excellent adblock for Firefox, and while this is available for the mac (and [...]
Posted at 22:08 on Thursday 7th July 2005 in Blog tagged Computers, internet, mac OS X, software, with no comments.
I just received an adblock update from Mike over at everythingisnt.com, that made me think that perhaps there are people who still don’t know about this easy, effective, and free technique to block adverts.
The method is simple, use the hosts file to trick your computer into thinking the advert servers linked in web-pages are actually [...]
Posted at 22:08 on Tuesday 17th May 2005 in Blog tagged adverts, Computers, hack, internet, Links, mac OS X, spam, Windows, with no comments.