Firefox 3.5 released – No sign of Yslow or Google Gears
2 July 2009 – Category: Development
Firefox 3.5 is now available for download and a highly used addon by most developers hasn’t been updated.
Yslow has yet to be updated, neither has CSSViewer. The Web Developer Toolbar and Firebug are both up to date though.
Google Gears is also not available yet, but Google has released another addon for Firefox called Page [...]
AVG and OpenDNS bring up some bad suggestions on searches
25 October 2008 – Category: Other
On a computer with IE7 and the AVG toolbar I tried to go to mail.google.co.uk, which it turns out doesn’t exist. So as no DNS record is found, the address is sent off to Yahoo. AVGs partner, then it gives some suggested results of what I may be looking for, but the results [...]
[FPSS] Front Page Slideshow for Drupal Update
24 October 2008 – Category: Development
I have updated my Front Page Slideshow for Drupal module with some new features and some fixes.
New Features:
Change language text within DrupalWithin the admin screen of FPSS you can now add the language text for the slideshow within Drupal which is stored in variables. By default the module has the English text in. [...]
Frontpage Slideshow for Drupal
16 October 2008 – Category: Other
I have begun coding a module to allow the Frontpage Slideshow to be displayed within a block or a panel.
Frontpage slideshow is a script by Joomlaworks.
The module requires that the script is purchased from Joomlaworks as it contains important files for it to work.
The module which is currently in development can be found at http://code.google.com/p/fpss-drupal/.
The [...]
Google Chrome annoyances
9 October 2008 – Category: Other
It has been over a month now since Google released Chrome to the world and quite a few annoyances have appeared over that time.
Closing multiple tabs
The huge flaw that is extremely irritating is no warning of closing multiple tabs.
If you have 10 tabs open and accidentally close the main window at the top right rather [...]
Google Chrome really Safari in disguise?
2 September 2008 – Category: PCs
While enabling Google Gears from within the newly released Google Chrome, I noticed something odd about the wording.
In Firefox and IE, you get the same text:
Make note of the first paragraph. Now if you open up the same javascript window within Google Chrome, you get this:
Once again, note the first paragraph again. Within Google Chrome [...]
Google doesn’t know best
5 March 2008 – Category: Other
It appears Google isn’t flawless. On their Google Analytics page they seemed to have mixed up their languages.
When settings the language to English (UK) on the Google Analytics website, it seems to think that the British speak Russian.
A simple mistake but it is a mistake and Google should be ashamed of themselves….dear o [...]
