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I’m a hobbyist web developer and nothing annoys me more than web sites that have obviously paid for someone to build their sites but whoever has built it has done a half arsed job. My main gripe at the moment is sites that require you to have cookies enabled but have terrible code [...] March 30th,2009 |  Chrome,Firefox,IE,web browsers,Web Development |  Internet,Rants,Web Development |  Leave a comment OK having recently installed Internet Explorer 8 (IE8) and had problems with it I was determined to find what was causing the problems and how to fix it. Before trying any of the below first try resetting IE8 to it’s defaults. Open your Control Panel (you will find it in your start menu) and [...] For years now I have used the Spamihilator email spam filter program for checking the POP mail I use. In my experience it’s about 99% accurate. Anyway I decided to write a review of it and you can find my review here. Freeware Genius is a site that reviews freeware programs and is [...] Have you recently installed the newly released Internet Explorer 8? Realised what a piece of crap it is? Yesterday I installed IE8 on this Vista desktop just to give it a whirl. For a start it takes it about 10 –20 seconds to even open and load the first page. Also when I [...] Just found out that Microsoft has finally released Internet Explorer 8 for public consumption. Now whilst IE 8 is a step in the right direction it is far from perfect. A good example of a typical Microsoft cock up can be seen here. So do you update? The decision is yours but just remember there [...] OK thanks to Google’s Chrome and Apple now making Safari a serious browser for Windows the browser war is getting ridiculous. They all seem obsessed with how fast their Javascript engines run with Google now saying the V8 engine in Chrome 2 is 25% faster than in Chrome 1. Who cares? The speed of the [...] March 18th,2009 | Computers,Firefox,Google,Javascript,Opera,Safari | Computers,Internet,Javascript,Rants | One comment A few days ago I installed the Bad Behavior plugin for Word Press just as an extra way of combatting spam comments etc. In 2 days it’s blocked 49 attempts by malicious scripts to access this blog. I just looked at the log and most of them are attempts to run a remote PHP script [...] There is an annoying bug/oversight in Googles Gmail that is starting to get on my tits. It does not honour the reply-to header in emails. Bascially an email has a From header which shows which address it has been sent from and this would usually be where the email is sent to when you hit [...] Ok I’ve just switched from using Serendipity to WordPress as I feel WordPress is better supported although it’s anti spam features are no where near as comprehensive as Serendipity’s. | |||||
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