Archive for November, 2006
Who’s a Happy Developer?
I don’t know what my hosting company has done recently but my access to phpMyAdmin has been a lot, lot quicker. Which is good. I use the MySQL Query Browser wherever possible, but as that’s dependant on the table having a unique key before you can edit it, it’s restrictive. And I can’t use it at work. Oh, and [...]
Uninstalling Tab Mix Plus
Tab Mix Plus is a fine add-on for Firefox but a bit of overkill for what I wanted. So I uninstalled it. Unfortunately, after that, Firefox’s built in session restore no longer worked. It seems the TMP turns it off during the install (as TMP has its own session restore feature) but doesn’t restore it [...]
Grrr. Move… move… go on… go on…
As much as I love some of the new features of Firefox 2, is it me or is it slow? Or rather, it seems to hang when pages are loading. Ordinarily, I’d blame the slow network at work, but it does the same at home as well. Pre version 2, if a page was loading [...]
Firefox Extensions
Firefox is damn handy, I have to say, if only for the plethora of handy extensions (or add-ons as they prefer to call them these days). So, taking my web development cap off for a minute, here are details of the non-techy extensions I use. Bear in mind that I use Firefox 2. Bookmark Duplicate Detector If you have a [...]
Minus Net
After numerous years as a customer I’m finally moving away from PlusNet for my broadband. As a small company they used to offer a superb quality service, backed with equally good support. Now they’ve got big and everything has gone, well, to pot. After numerous resets of my router in the last week to correct broadband [...]
Sorry IE readers
Oh. Having tried my Blog through IE today (although I can’t remember what prompted me to do so) I realised it was, erm, broken. Well, it was bust on my work copy of IE 6 (which is via a proxy and probably isn’t up-to-date with MS updates).. haven’t tried it at home on IE 7. [...]
Sell, sell, sell
The Copy+ software which I host for a friend has been updated. And, on the back of my PCW magazine success, I’ve decided to try and push it further. So, one quick Google later and I found a template for creating press releases for software. Already I’ve submitted the results to VNU, Dennis and Future publishing, as [...]
Thumbnail Views
Just had a problem with my PC that I knew I’d experienced before – a quick check on a discussion board I float around, and the answer was found. So here it is, before it happens again (it’s bound to)… Problem In Windows XP, displaying thumbnails, the filename is not shown. Solution If you enter [...]
Amberjack
I’ve recently come across a rather excellent service named Amberjack . Amberjack is a lightweight Open Source library for webmasters to create cool and customizable site tours. Basically, through a simple bit of JavaScript code you can run a rather funky tour of your site. I’ve already implemented one on the Copy+ website (including creating my [...]
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Easy PC
I think it’s about time I introduced you to a friend. A bloody frustrating friend, I’ll admit. Yes, it’s my PC. Built by my own fair hands (or rather assembled). Within an Alpine EZ-Cool case , the PC was designed for quietness. The aluminium case is vented (and filtered) on all sides. Two case fans are installed – [...]
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