As anyone following my Twitter will know, I’m a massive fan of Google Chrome. However, one imperative site for me doesn’t work with it – LogMeIn.
I’ve also become a massive fan of the new Mozilla Prism beta, which basically allows you to turn webpages (such as LogMeIn) into applications. Prism is built on the same framework as Firefox 3, and theoretically add-ons should work on both.
Thanks to HushedChernobyl
Nobody knows how you work better than you.
The basis of Firefox is that you can do anything with it.
Want your bookmarks permanantly on the right of your screen? OK. Want your downloads on a small bar a the bottom of the window? OK. Want the ability to render websites using the Internet Explorer engine inside a Firefox tab? OK.
The basis here is that the user knows best. The user knows how he or she wants things to work. Which makes sense, right?
Thanks to beckylikesben
Mr M ran a restaurant. The restaurant had a computer, a master till and two slave tills running on a wired and wireless network. On one of the busiest days of the year, Mr M’s master till froze and, on rebooting it, came up with:
Primary master hard disk fail
Which is never something you want to see. Mr M’s master till was knackered, and along with it any slave tills were useless.
Mr M managed to get a new hard disk, and had Windows XP reinstalled along with the till software, but Mr M had no backups and so had to completely reprogram the till, which took days. Mr M had no records of what he’d sold or taken for months, and no idea how many customers he’d even had. Mr M’s workload just quadrupled.
I made a startling discovery today. A client was fed up with Talk Talk’s lack of customer service (everyone is in the end) and was looking at moving back to BT.
I did the maths and discovered the following:
Thanks to drowning-slowly
Everyone’s aware of the importance of registering your company name as a domain – many people will decide on a company name based on what domains are available.
Unless you can prove you owned the copyright to a domain when it was registered by the low-life thieving scum that registered it first, there’s no recourse, as Richard X Thripp the creator of the brilliant Wordpress plugin Tweet This found when someone beat him to tweetthis.net, tweetthis.org, tweet-this.com, and tweet-this.net!
And now there’s hundreds of other web services that require an unique ID – a mini-domain if you like. Twitter and MySpace are the obvious ones (Facebook uses a random unique ID), but what’s next on the conveyor belt of Web 2.0 successes? Tweba? Ning? Hi5? And these are going to be even harder to claim your company name back on.
So get on the ball now. Get your Twitter name as a start, and then check out namechk.com to see what else there is out there.
Microsoft has a proven track record in building it’s Windows and Office software platforms and a proven track record in extracting all it can from a monopolised market.
It annoys me THIS much when I Google an error code, problem or question and do my usual open-the-first-ten-pages and end up with tab after tab of Experts Exchange pestering me for money. I was sure that a company that originally registered themselves as ExpertSexChange.com without realising couldn’t be that clever, so today I decided to beat them.
Thanks to bisiobisio
During a migration of domains, websites, databases and emails from one server to another, most things went as planned.
Once of those domains was this one, dgcomputers.co.uk, and one of these e-mail addresses was mine, and it did not go as planned.
I don’t know if anyone else uses 123 Reg for their domains, but I do. They’re cheap and you get free DNS and web forwarding, which is all I need.
However, their interface is awful. Not conducive to getting anything done, so I’ve designed (I use ‘designed’ loosely) my own interface, which at least has a menu system.
Any 123 Reg user is free to give it a whirl. It’s at www.dgcomputers.co.uk/123/
Thanks to -kol
Imagine you’re sat in London. Imagine you have a selection of large files to get to differing parts of the world. A 50MB file to get to Aberdeen, a 250MB file to get to Los Angeles and a 1GB file to get to Melbourne. How do you go about it?
Once you have the following:
You can follow the steps below to access your web server in Microsoft Windows XP.
Kaspersky will try and uninstall any existing security programs when you install their Internet Security or Anti Virus products.
Some of these are unnecessary – Spybot Search and Destroy finds things that Kaspersky doesn’t, as does Malwarebytes’ Anti-Malware.
Thanks to Speeeedy-stock
A common question as I whizz around a keyboard infront of clients is “how did you do that” when I select multiple items and edit that selection in Windows. So here’s how:
Thanks to TraceLegacy
Here’s the problem with iTunes:
It’s Apple’s way or the highway. But, if you have an iPhone or modern iPod, you need to use it.
Want to play WMVs in iTunes? Tough.
Want to easily burn an album to CD? Tough.
Want to automatically add music into iTunes that’s not from the store? Tou… actually, there is a way.
Running with what I’ve been saying for a while now, PC Pro has extrapolated Microsoft’s recent department-culling activity.
Microsoft started with Windows, and when it became cash rich threw money at many side projects, some of which worked (Office), some of which failed miserably (*cough* Vista *cough*) and some of which they were just too late with (MSN).
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Thanks to Djeric
a In 2000 Microsoft released Windows ME. It was buggy, slow, prone to massive crashes and was lauded as hideous by everyone. It soon turned into a joke in the IT world and was replaced with Windows 2000 the next year, based Microsoft’s NT 5.0 architecture, which is still looked back on fondly as being as-close-to-right as Microsoft have ever got it.
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It astounds me how many obvious cowboys there are in this industry.
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According to a client’s discussions with O2 this afternoon, they’re expecting the new iPhones to be available “in October”.
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Kaspersky make fantastic, unrivaled security software, but make it difficult to activate it. This stems from their history of making business-level software. Here I explain how to install, purchase and register their software.
