25 Dec, 2006
This guy either works for Microsoft, or he’s just an idiot.
“what bugs have you seen in ie7?
FF, for me, is very poor in usability - things I want to do, I need to install plugins or use the silly config:about thing.
I have no problems making sites and using ie7, once again what problems have you had with ie7 and making websites?”
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25 Dec, 2006
The Wii Shop Channel has been updated. Super Mario Brothers is now available, along with all of the other Dec 25 titles from Nintendo!!
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25 Dec, 2006
Over the weekend, a Silicon Valley computer security firm said it had notified Microsoft that it had found the same flaw, as well as five other vulnerabilities, including one serious error in the software code underlying the company’s new Internet Explorer 7 browser.
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25 Dec, 2006
This is a great list of PC games that are being released next year (with screenshots). A PC may be the most expensive console, but its hard to argue that it isn’t still the best hardcore gaming platform. Some great looking ones: Huxley, Crysis, Warhammer Online, Alan Wake, Spore, Unreal Tournament 2007, Supreme Commander, Command and Conquer 3
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25 Dec, 2006
Stupidity reaches new heights - seriously, is anyone even reading auction descriptions anymore?
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25 Dec, 2006
A step-by-step tutorial on installation of FreeGlobes, a free PHP/mySQL links manager/directory/digg-like social bookmarking and voting script.
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25 Dec, 2006
Blogger has a new way of syndicating your blog’s RSS feed. Every single time a post gets edited, it gets to be the “newest” thing on your feed, whether its from a year ago or a few days back. Just another way to make things more confusing.
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25 Dec, 2006
While Microsoft keeps saying that activation is easy and that it works without a hitch, quite a few people still face difficulties. Here is a post by one such person from Pakistan outlining the problems he faced when he tried to use licensed Microsoft software. The piracy situation in Pakistan is also discussed with links to informative articles.
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25 Dec, 2006
The individual pixels are just 1.75 micrometers wide. “According to market research firm iSuppli, camera phones are expected to account for 777million units, which is 74 percent of total mobile phones in 2007. 3M-pixel and higher resolution phones are expected to take up 13 percent of total camera phones.”
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25 Dec, 2006
As it geared up to promote its new Wii video game console, Nintendo of America Inc. looked to a group better known for nagging kids to stop playing video games: moms.
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25 Dec, 2006
After a short while debugging and restarting IE6 on Ubuntu, Internet Explorer gave me the option to upgrade to IE7. I know that you have to have a genuine copy of Windows, however I gave it a try, because Linux might just be better than a genuine copy of windows ;). The results was rather surprising……
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25 Dec, 2006
Let’s be honest here. When most of us think of open source and free software, we really aren
’t thinking of something flashed to a BIOS ROM chip. And yet when it comes to the Linux BIOS project - that’s exactly what’s happening here.
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