PC building
Part of this weekend was spent assembling PCs. We decided to upgrade both sets of parents to newer systems for Christmas, since they are running years-old machines with Windows 98, which I consider to...
View ArticleGoogle’s new Firefox extensions
Google launched two new extensions for Firefox today. The first lets you see who has been blogging about the page you are currently looking at, and (if you are a Blogger user) to comment on the page...
View ArticleGoogle Pack
So Google have announced the Google Pack, a bundle of software that Google provides free-of-charge for Windows PCs. As a fan of Google, one the one hand I think this is a good thing – getting Firefox...
View ArticleThe seive-like qualities of Firefox 1.5
I’m sitting here on a train. No network connection. I pop open the Windows Task Manager and sort by memory usage. firefox.exe sits at the top of the list, using 433,312K of memory with a VM size of...
View ArticleSomeone persuade me to try Firefox 2.0
Should I upgrade? FFx 2.0 RC 2 was released a few days ago. Back in the olden days, when Firebird / Firefox was being developed pre-1.0, I was an enthusiastic follower of the alpha and beta releases....
View ArticleSettling in with OS X
It has been over a month since I got my MacBook Pro. I’d never really used OS X before, and apart from a lightning introduction in the store (backed up by some sound and invaluable advice from Adrian)...
View ArticleOn colo(u)r matching in Gecko on OS X
I’ve been merrily processing RAW files in Adobe Lightroom, and using jUploadr to get them onto my Flickr photostream. One thing I’ve noticed (and briefly commented on before) is the fact that the...
View ArticleSafari on Windows
I was initially excited about Apple’s release of Safari for Windows. I’ve been a long-term Phoenix Firebird Firefox user and I use it as my primary browser on both Windows and OS X. I love the fact...
View ArticleOn the Chrome bandwagon
Well Twitter and the interwebs sparked up with discussion of Google’s new browser, Chrome, late last night (UK time) and I thought I’d add some ill-formed thoughts of my own. Don’t expect reasoned,...
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