Wooohooo, my fast internet access just got faster, and for less money too. I'm with F2S and had a 512Kb unlimited connection, but only ever tipped over the 10Gb/month mark once in the 2 years I've had it. So I've change to a 2Mb link with 10Gb/month cap (with uncapped between 1am and 6am). The new speed is fantastic!!!
Why O why do soooo many web developers have a problem with spaces? Why do more and more websites insist that you put in your credit card details without any spaces? The spaces are there on the card for easy verification, so why can't web site designers write one more line of code (if that) to strip the damn spaces. …
I've got several Gmail accounts that I actively use for general email, backup and formal uses. Now due to some legal wranglings in the UK, Gmail has had to stop using the name Gmail in the UK and has changed to be called GoogleMail for all new UK users. It still remains Gmail for the rest of the world (except …
Chrome Cleaner has got to be the best Firefox Plugin I've installed. It speeds up Firefox's launch time by about a factor of 5 by removing duplicate entries from the installed-chrome.txt and references to non-existant jar files, and it works on Windows, *NIX and Mac. Now my Mac Mini launches Firefox after only one icon bounce instead of 5 or …
Firefox 1.5 is out now, with a load of bug fixes, improvements and support for some of the latest web technologies (CSS3, SVG and JavaScript 1.6). These compliment the features it's already got like tabbed browsing, pop-up blocking and the ability to add new functionality via extensions. The release also brings a nice cool new website design too.
Things have been busy busy busy on the Falbum front. 0.5.6 has just been released to iron out a .htaccess problem and it now uses Flickr's new URL structure.
Well, after stumbling across two bugs yesterday, one of which was quite major, I helped out a couple of people on the forums lastnight to resolve these and fed back the changes. Falbum 0.5.5 is now out to resolve those issues.
Falbum 0.5.4 is out now, and it's got all my recent changes. Go grab it now and update. It fixes a lot of problems with 0.5.3, integrates with K2 better and now reports more meaningful errors if things go wrong.
Word of warning to all people upgrading from previous versions…. to make the upgrade go smoothly, make sure you deactivate your…
