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Firefox 3

There was a short delay, due to the inevitable server overload, when more than a million people (I’m sure) tried to get a copy all at the same time.
A couple of hours later, and I downloaded a copy, installed on a Windows machine here in a couple of minutes. It certainly seems to run a [...]

Microsoft Does It Again

Now, I make no secret that I’m not a Microsoft fan. Not any kind of anti-corporate stance particularly, just that by and large I think their software sucks.
I had to smile a few days ago though. I know it’s a beta version, but I installed a copy of IE8 on a winbox here. I NEVER [...]

Strange Firefox Error

Recently Firefox started acting up when attempting to display some images.
It would work fine with thumbnails for example but clicking on them to get the full picture gave me a message saying that the image couldn’t be displayed as it contain errors. After checking numerous sites and getting the same image, I tried a [...]

Get The Picture?

I didn’t. Well Wordpress didn’t. The new image uploader wouldn’t work when I tried to upload images from my hard drive.
Don’t worry, I posted a fix over at the Tech blog.
It works now for me. At least it does in Firefox. I try to avoid Internet Explorer where possible, but I’ll check it out next [...]

I’m Listening

On the Windows machine, I use Windows Live Messenger, and also Skype. Now, I prefer Winamp to play my audio, rather than Windows Media Player.

However, I like the little listening to function in Messenger, but it only works for WiMP. Well, not now! I installed Messenger Plus! which gives a lot of [...]