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 on Thursday 7th July 2005 in Blog tagged Computers, internet, mac OS X, software, with no comments.
After having tried numerous times to export all my contacts from Outlook XP on my windows computer to Address Book on my new iMac, and this process failing every time, i thought i was in for a slow process of exporting each one individually to a vCard (outlook doesn’t let you export to multiple vCards [...]
Posted on Sunday 19th June 2005 in Blog tagged Computers, email, mac OS X, software, Windows, with no comments.
Ignoring the recent news about apple switching to intel processors, I decided to make the switch. So I’ve gone from the world of the grey PC with Windows 2k—to having a shiny new iMac G5 sitting on my desk.
To be fair, the Windows computer is still there, and I will still use it… it has [...]
Posted on Friday 17th June 2005 in Blog tagged Computers, mac OS X, Windows, with one comment.
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 on Tuesday 17th May 2005 in Blog tagged adverts, Computers, hack, internet, Links, mac OS X, spam, Windows, with no comments.
