Category Archives: Misc

May 9, 2010

IE and underscores in domain names– also posted in ColdFusion

Ok, a short warning to those who use underscores in their domain names. Underscores you say? Aren’t they illegal characters in domain names? Why yes they are (but I think they’re valid in sub-domains…not sure), but you may find yourself using them in development environments, particularly if you’re doing a re-design. Think something like http://mysite_v2.local/ [...]

October 30, 2009

BrowserLab live on adobe.com– also posted in Tools

I’m probably a bit behind the times with this one, but Adobe have added “BrowserLab” functionality to “preview and test your web pages on leading browsers and operating systems – on demand“.
Seems to work like other paid services, but is free
https://browserlab.adobe.com/
Available browser options (across mac and windows) include:

IE 6/7/8
Firefox 2/3
Safari 3/4

August 15, 2009

Firefox changing default download location?

Hmm it seems firefox (Windows) 3.5.2 has decided to change the default location for downloading files. Used to be the desktop, but if you suddenly discover that you can’t find things you’ve download you might want to head to Tools->Options in firefox.
If you see “Downloads” as the chosen folder (as below), you can change it [...]

November 12, 2008

Google releases video chat– also posted in Tools

For those that use gtalk/gmail, google have finally caught up and released voice and video chat.
They even help you buy a webcam!

September 2, 2008

Google Chrome – Google entering the browser market

Yep, Google have entered the browser market with Google Chrome.
Although the press release was sent a little early, you can read an interesting comic book (PDF) here with some quite technical details on the ins and outs of Google’s newest plan for world domination philanthropic effort.
Webkit is the rendering engine, and the V8 team have [...]