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We just pre-ordered the family pack of Leopard (that’s “Mac OS X version 10.5″ to non Mac geeks out there) from Amazon, which seems to have the best deal on it at the moment. Now all that we need is three more Macs to get the best value-for-money from that five-user license…..
Apple has made available a public beta of Safari 3 for Windows systems. ‘Bout damn time.
Google Image Search is one of the most useful tools around, but for some reason Google recently elected to over-simplify it’s search results by hiding information such as resolution and filesize unless you specifically hover over each image, which makes the process of selecting the most suitable image from a page of thumbnails unnecessarily time-consuming.
However, […]
I’ve written about UnixKit before, but now it seems that the UnixKit website has been offline for a while. After careful consideration of licensing issues (UnixKit is simply a handy compilation of other people’s free software), I’ve decided to offer UnixKit for download from my server. It will stay up until I’m contacted and […]
Firefox’s Nglayout.initialpaint.delay setting (found in about:config) controls the delay between receiving data from a website and displaying it in the browser. On faster connections this delay can leave you feeling like you’re taking a nostalgic trip down dial-up lane.
In about:config, right click and select new -> Integer. Call it Nglayout.initialpaint.delay and give it a value […]
Thomas Baekdal has compiled a report entitled Actual Browser Sizes, an investigation that focuses on the visible browser window as opposed to screen resolution:
“The report finds, among other things, that the majority of people browse maximized or very close to it. … And, in order to support 95% of your visitors, you need to […]
Lifehacker has a guide to editing Firefox’s userChrome.css to free up some valuable screen real-estate - Consolidate Firefox’s chrome.
Evolt.org’s Browser Archive is, unsurprisingly, an archive of old versions of pretty much every web browser that ever existed, and seems like it could be a very useful place for web developers who need testing tools.
Trying to explain the benefits of RSS to someone who may not be as tech-savvy as you are can be royal pain in the arse. The key is to Keep It Super Simple without being patronising.
Thankfully, Back In Skinny Jeans has taken the time and effort to write a human-friendly explanation that serves as […]
For all of those people who are coming to this site trying to find out how to download That Mitchell and Webb Look, I heartily suggest that you start by downloading the awesome Bittorrent client µTorrent, then try searching around the always dependable tracker site Demonoid.
If you are able to do so, you might […]